 good morning everybody here we are in the backyard again another day are you excited it's a little colder out today than the past few days i'm glad i got what christmas lights i wanted to get done done we have so many left over from the old house i could light up this whole tree there we could string up both of these trees there all i need is a really tall ladder or if i could borrow an elf or two from santa i could get it done i don't know maybe we'll put like a string of lights around on the fence so let's be honest and get this question out of the way right off the bat where's the truck well if you've been following me daily you know that right now manitoba is in lockdown because we are in critical red which means that we are the uh it pretty much means we're the hottest of the hot spots for covid in canada right now so there's a lot of people getting sick all over it's spreading really fast at the moment so they locked down everything it may be a little heavy handed to some people but i totally understand why they did it i'm just glad i'm not in charge of making these decisions because i don't know what's going on and i wouldn't know what to do so we're in lockdown for four weeks which doesn't sound as bad as it sounds we're not in prison i can still drive around i can still go places it's just limited occupancy and a lot of unnecessary or unessential businesses had to close and uh can't buy unessential non-essential items i know it's kind of it sounds kind of crazy but when you go to the hospital and you hear what they're dealing with over there okay they're trying to slow the spread right now and then they'll open back up once we get it back under control but back to the question where's the truck oh get him oh just about body slammed him get him there he comes get him they take it seriously when i say that guys don't get carried away i'm gonna have to step in there won't i no they're good they're good boys being boys all right boys come on hey hey hey hey hey hey hey diesel enough enough hey hey hey hey don't take it easy take it easy diesel i know what you're planning i know what you're planning i see your plans there it goes guys quiet quiet mom's still sleeping in the house over there don't want to wake her up the short answer is the lockdowns here in manitoba myself as a truck driver we're not in that same lockdown we are essential workers they are still trucking they are still working however we have a few uh circumstances at home that require me to be at home right now and are a little bit personal i've shared them a little bit with you guys but for the remainder of this lockdown i've decided to be at home uh that's for the next two and a half weeks i think it's two weeks from this thursday and that's the short the short answer is that it's just a lockdown the virus is spreading like wildfire here right now so they're just trying to get a handle on it and trying to uh bring the patient number down to the hospital so they don't uh continue to be overflowing short answer the long answer is a little bit more complicated you see i've been struggling with a few things personally uh related to being on the road the friends i do have i never get to see my family i never get to see my my parents are going to be retiring soon and as they're getting older as well i'm always gone i'm home for maybe what a couple of days a month maybe a little bit more than that usually and it's been weighing really heavy on my heart and uh the problem is that i really love what i do i really love my job i love trucking as you can tell you've probably been following me for a few few years and i want to keep trucking but i want to be home so i'm in a dilemma and this lockdown has really given me an opportunity to think things through clear my head determine what's important to me in life focus a little bit more spend time with my family with brett anyways she's the only one i'm allowed to spend time with right now but you know helping out my family bringing groceries to my mom and my cousin enjoying life what you might call a normal life where you're home every night so where's the truck all the truck is parked back at work but where am i where am i at maybe that's a better question i'm gonna be honest with you guys i want to be at home i want to be with my family and i want to be with my wife i want to start a family i want to have babies i want to have a little kid and it's very tough to do that being on the road so not only do i do i really want to have a family do i really want to have my own children i want to watch them grow up i want to be there for their first hockey game or their soccer game or their football game or whatever sport they decide to choose or whatever thing in life that is important to them i want their dad to be there for it do i want to keep trucking absolutely am i going to absolutely but you know i'm going through options in my head of how i can still do what i love trucking and making daily videos and also being present with my family now we haven't made any decisions yet we haven't decided anything yet right now we're just on the lockdown and we're gonna see how this lockdown goes we're gonna take these next two weeks to just figure things out short answer lockdown long answer i want to start trying to find ways where i can be home and lead a little bit more of a normal life so we can get a family going so i'm not too sure my truck might go to another driver i might have to go there and clean it out this week maybe i'll get a different truck when i go back uh that's more local more regional maybe a day cab i don't know what they have available for me diesel what happened what happened he's got an owie which one was it was it this one was it this one was it this one one of these can i can i just pick your paw up like that no some of that one so it's on his right front side oh yeah there it is there it is okay so so you guys can see this it's right in here oh there it is it's right in there i don't know if it's an ingrown hair or what but could have just been poked with a stick as well poor weasel we'll fix it we'll fix it we got a bucket we're gonna fix it with a bucket so this is hebitane soap that we've gotten from the doctor for a past injury that diesel had right an ingrown hair so he had an ingrown hair uh very similar to what he's got going on right now and the vet prescribed us this at that time so we're gonna use this again and soak his foot in this uh diluted in water right warm water warm water and hopefully that'll help him he doesn't seem to be in a lot of pain or anything he's just very curious what's your bucket for man he's bucket right here man okay so we're gonna set a little timer here for five minutes five minutes weasel you're gonna soak your paw for five minutes timer not five hours five five minutes okay so let's put your paw in the water this should be fun okay weasel here we go doctor dad on duty okay you know how this works right i'm just gonna move you a little bit like this okay just gonna lift this paw up this is the one right right be sure there it is that's the one okay okay put it down put it in the water you know maybe you better if you were standing can you stand up diesel up okay now come here hey come here diesel diesel no mom can't save you shabby can you stay there come come here it's okay up up come okay good boy put it down it's okay it's okay it's okay put it down and then lift up your other paw so that you have to diesel come on i'm doctor dad don't you trust me don't you trust me it's okay okay hold the bucket up to it okay there we go there we go we got it soaking five minutes five minutes let's do this you can do it weasel you can do it boys let it soak let it soak see it doesn't hurt does it nice and warm you're a good boy good boy man you're falling apart though you gotta stop doing this we're stepping on things so this will soak in and uh i don't know what it does it it'll soak in and i think it just prevents infection it just cleans out the wound as far as i know then we're gonna put on that cream that we got that time here ah then he's gotta wear his socks got wet sock again mom's got some fancy socks for you he wore these last time i think i've never actually worn them they are my favorite christmas socks but i don't think i've ever worn them he's only worn before in them less than a minute left buddy you're doing good you're doing good he hasn't stopped staring that way this whole time you're doing good almost done diesel hates anything medical he doesn't like having his foot soaked any creams applied any pills he just he hates it fights it now you're getting all of it get your foot soaked get the cream put on there and you get aware of fancy sock no it's impressed man hashtag not impressed stop stopping on things outside then look eight seconds okay buddy give mom your pocket all right there you go you're okay don't be a brat what are you doing to me can't lick the soap off good boy diesel i see a little tail wag back there i did so good i did so good right i don't even need to suck right i did so good well we'll let it dry and then we'll put the cream on and then the sock timmy's you're back open chevy chevy look tims is back open we were getting concerned they were shut down for like two days good things time back has an abundance of tim hortons for the population we have we have one over by canadian tire we got this one over here we got uh the one over at esso across from low and windows there well we got the timmy's and walmart but i can just get a a large coffee with one cream place large one cream yep that's all that'll be super duper word has not traveled far enough yet we'll get there we had this great idea i was gonna share it with you okay we're gonna share share it in a couple of vlogs coming up as well because we want to start a thing a drive-through thing to cheer people up put smiles on people's faces and maybe confuse a few people we want uh if you want to and you're going through a drive-through for a coffee doesn't matter if it's tim hortons starbucks dunkin donuts uh mcdonald's wherever you get your coffee you're going you get a coffee and you say super duper i want you to if you want to have someone film or film it and we want to include it in our vlogs i'll have more on that later okay i'll have more on that later so stay tuned i got my go-go juice the truck's got its own go-go juice we're good to go let's go for a cruise shall we got those tires humming may not be 18 wheels humming but we got four humming i'll take it i'll take what i can get how good are your eyes can you see bambi can you see her got pretty good camouflage she's looking at you looking at you looking at her she's there there's a deer oh oh oh i wanted oh there's another one there's another one i didn't see that one i only saw the one there's two of them there did you spot them before i did i spotted the one on the left first which one did you see first we are here welcome to our future home right now it's just a little getaway spot but one day there's going to be a magnificent house here you ready buddy you're ready you want to do some running you want to do some running give her butt not quite as crazy of an energetic exit as diesel would have done shevi's a little bit more cautious i didn't have the time to put the tarp on her this here good thing she's made for the outdoors but i don't i don't like i'm not gonna make a habit of this i don't like it really we need to put covers on those wheels too follow the tracks and you will find a shevi so a lot of people think that we're crazy to live in manitoba while i was born here so i don't really have a choice but maybe they think i'm crazy for loving manitoba so much i love it here this is home to me this is all i know as home it's a beautiful place and property values are really cheap compared to other places around the country believe me this setup that we have here with our little house in town and this piece of land out here this would never happen in most other places in canada because it would be far too expensive thank god we live in manitoba where no one else wants to live because it gets too cold which keeps the property values down great for buying not as great for selling but hey can't have everything if you want to make a lot of money off property you buy property and you have to be rich by the way if you're rich and you want to make money off land and property buying and selling you do that in the lower mainland of british columbia or like around the gta the toronto area because the property values there like a house like ours no joke the little house like ours right in toronto would probably be pushing close to a million dollars you asked me is that american or is that canadian doesn't matter both land and houses are expensive there vancouver's pretty expensive too just just about as expensive i think so many people live there but way out here it gets down to minus 60 here in the winter time with the wind show minus 50 i can't stand out here in the middle of winter this looks like winter to you no no no no no no no no no no this is not winter this is fall this is fall and this is why land is cheaper out here because nobody wants to live here because you literally will freeze your face off and if you're okay with that then you're a true manitoban come on come come on hey let's go home you did so good chevy you did so good such a good boy off we go another adventure done right back at home and brit's got the classics on his Walt Disney mickey mouse is christmas little classics this is what we grew up on it i think this was well before our time brit's nice and cozy on the couch there it's a lay on the couch and do nothing kind of saturday i think chevy had fun didn't you chevy chevy cleaning myself it's bath time yeah well it doesn't take long for the sun to go down feels like it's 10 o'clock at night it's five to six but my vlog's already at like half an hour and i cut out like half of it this would have been an hour long feature presentation from trucker josh if i had left it all in there i had so much more to share with you but we'll have to save some for tomorrow brit is very vulnerable to the specific virus and my grandpa's got covid more people we know i found out today more people close to us have gotten covid positive it's uh we're a very big hot spot right now and i'm very wary going out and then bringing stuff home to brit because she wouldn't do so well with it me if i got it i'm assuming i would probably be down for a couple of days you know heal up and be better i'm a young healthy guy other people around me aren't as fortunate as that so i have to be very careful all right and i'm taking this time to really reevaluate where i'm at in life and what i want for my future but thanks for joining we're gonna talk about this more throughout the next week or so tune in 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