 All right boys, come on, let's start the day. Starting to warm up slowly, I think. Should I be ready for some breakfast? Best part of the day? Other than supper? Are you the most hungry in here? All right, it's hungry? You're gonna be mom, right away. I know, right? I know. Every night when I read my book, it goes. And then it goes down, and then it goes on. See, he doesn't want, he doesn't want it on his bowl. We ordering pizza or something? We are. Yeah? We are. Introducing the vlog to, well, you guys know. Grandpa and Nana. Yeah. Oh, okay, that makes sense. No, no, no, it's all good. So who's the lucky winner of our business today? I think Rocco's in town. Because they rob you, but they don't rob you blind, like some of the pizza places. At least I didn't even rob you. Diesel, what do you think? I think we're gonna do it. What do you think? I see a little tail wag back there. Won't you, pizza? Hey, pizza, we'd be a great idea. I love it. I've been excited about this for a while already. Oh, you think? Big time. It's been a while since you've had a grand kid. Yep. For those of you who don't know, this is Britt's dad and stepmom. Jerry and Cynthia. If you don't know who this is. I am the wife. You're the birth and vessel. Yeah. I'm the housing for the little guy. Pizza has arrived. What do we got here? What do we got here? Oh, and Britt got herself a veggie pizza. Oh, you're gonna share? I'll share. Wow. Yeah, where are you gonna put it? It's that much room, so at least a piece or two maybe. I'm gonna shoot it really well. Get some plates out. Oh yeah. Send me a picture of what they called. What you looking at? Organizers over the door. Oh, okay. Thank you, darling. You're welcome. Enjoy. Not sure if I can stomach it all, but I'm gonna do my darndest. Let's see if I can get you one of these tables freed up here. Thank goodness for those kids eggs. They have served me well so far on the nog slushie case. Kids eggs, that's what it was. Yeah. Do they make men's? Yeah. Yeah. Get her a day? They're in the shoe thingy there. They're the light gray ones. Slip on the shoe. Nope, light gray. The back doesn't break down. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's those fancy ones. They're amazing. They just slip right on. They're so cozy. And you can get them on Amazon? No, just on their website. Kids eggs, yeah. See you guys. They're crazy, but you do get points so you can add up points and put them towards shoes. Next time they see us, they're gonna be grandparents. Again. Again. Yeah, they're already grandparents, but grandparents again. Yes. All right. Very excited. All right guys, they gave my fur brothers some love for my snowman here. So top should be up. There you go. There's the bottom that was left. Say bye, Chevy. Bye. I love you guys. Okay, love you. Bye. See you later, guys. Careful for the ice. See you Friday. Yup, we'll be there. I won't be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but I'll be there. Okay, you'll be there. So, love you. Love you. I feel like I was saying that's Britt's dad and stepmom. Last visit before baby arrives. Five more days. Five more days. Five more days. You keep popping more and more. Oh, my stomach. I looked at it in the mirror this morning. It's like shiny. It's just stretched to the max at this point. Can't get any bigger. Little baby in there. Little baby. Actually, I guess he's not that anybody. He's pretty average size. He's in the 50th percentile, so. Ready for him to be out, though, eh? Oh, I was ready a couple of weeks ago, but now I'm really ready. Or are you sad? Don't be sad. Well, Chevy, just us at home again. It's exciting having visitors, right? In this small space, it's, we're gonna have about two at a time. And then it starts getting really full. Diesel, where'd they go? You weren't ready? Did you say bye? I like to keep eyeing, man. Oh, no. Did they get us something? They got us lots of somethings. You saw the Oscar the Grouch toy already. Oh my. Everybody is very interested. Nana is a very good shopper, you see. Eating a suit. Nice. Chevy. Some burping claws. Nice. Never have too many of those. Just in case a Chevy needs to burp. That's right. Burping Chevy. A puppy dog outfit. Oh, and there's pants, too. Some very sporty sweats. Nice. For his track of field days. That's right. We already have this, but in a different size. Oh, nice. It's my favorite pattern. It's from Old Navy. Nice. I bought everything in this pattern in at least one size. So cute. I love cats. Well, with smiley faces. This one makes perfect sense. Bananas for Nana. Just some plain onesies. That's all? That's all. That's awesome. It's quite a bit. That connector thing. I don't know if you've shown the blog that. Oh, I didn't. Where is that? Is that in the nursery? I'm sitting on this crib mattress. Let's go see. Multi-use stroller hook. You hook that right onto the stroller, hook all your grocery bags or something onto it. Good to go. So many neat little inventions and things that have been manufactured already to make life easier. I always say we live in a day and age where anything's possible. If you can think of an invention inside your head, chances are someone's already invented it, patented it and manufactured it in China. And you can buy it on Amazon. Come on, buddy. Let's go. Is that everybody? Who are we missing? Weiner, hurry up. Come on. Come on. Today, Junior. Come on. Did you forget what we do outside? Yeah. I don't know what for, I was just having a nap and then all of a sudden I was out here. Where's Deweyzo? There's Deweyzo. Where'd he go, chef? Where'd he go? Who's this little guy? Yeah? Who's this little guy? Prairie sunset. Now to us out here on the prairies, isn't really that special. But I can understand for those of you who live in the mountains or in more hilly areas other than on the flood plain here in the Red River Pemba Valley, it might be something a little more special for you. It's almost like watching the sunset over the ocean, right? Everything is so flat. Growing up here just seems like another evening, right? I just took a drive, gotta go to the shop, pick up a few things and brought the camera with me. I was like, you know what? I gotta capture this. As a truck driver, I go through all kinds of terrain, right? I go out to the Rocky Mountains. I've been through the Appalachian Mountains. I've been through the hills of Quebec out to Newfoundland and up to Yukon Territory. Haven't quite made it into Alaska. I'd love to go there one day, but in every place you go is so different. And then you come back home and you sort of have a new appreciation for what, you know, you once thought was completely boring and dull and which honestly most people probably still do think Manitoba is boring and dull. I love this place. Now I was born here. I've lived my whole life here and taken a little bit of a break from the truck like I am right now. I just get to sort of pause and just take in everything around me. You don't really appreciate what you have all the time and I'm just as guilty. You know, I am really glad to live where I live. It's quiet, it's peaceful, it's safe. It's a good place to raise a family, to raise a kid. Yeah, it gets cold. Minus 50, minus 60 doesn't feel so good, but we don't have earthquakes. We don't have many tornadoes, a few, but we're sort of like the top end of tornado valley or whatever they call it. Tornado Alley, sort of extends up here. We have a few, but not too much. We don't have hurricanes, we don't have tsunamis. And for the most part, we don't have a lot of crime. Sure, some people think of Manitoba and they think of Winnipeg. Winnipeg's got a little bit of a higher crime rate compared to some areas of Canada. But when you compare Winnipeg to anywhere else on the planet, it's like an oasis, a paradise. Like compare it to obviously the go-to comparison would be like Chicago or maybe San Antonio, Texas or Trinidad and Tobago. I met a couple of guys, you're probably watching right now. I met you guys in Waterloo. They're from Trinidad and Tobago and they came here and they were sort of telling me about the lifestyle back where they were from in their home country and sort of the fear people live in there. You know, they said when they came here to Canada and North America, they were amazed that people just built their houses out in the open. And you know, anybody can just walk up to your front door. We think that's normal. He says back where they're from, they have to build big fences with barbed wire around their houses because no matter where you build your house, if you're not on one of these fancy resorts that have all this security and everything but in the actual countryside, if you don't protect your house with bars on the windows, barbed wire around your place, people just walk in. They'll just be walking past and be like, hey, what have they got in there? And they'll just like break in and take your TV or take whatever you have in your house and leave. He says, and it's so common that people have to build that around their houses. And when they first got here into Canada and they saw everybody just, you know, had their houses built out on the street, nothing between them. Some people have front fences but most people, we just have backyard fences, right? We see your neighbors outside, you smile and wave or maybe you just ignore them. But either way, for the most part, we're not worried about people just walking into our house. We still lock our doors, absolutely. And there still is crime. Nothing's perfect. But compared to a lot of parts of the world on this planet, we live in a great, great place. And sometimes when I'm working and working and traveling all over the place and trucking and trucking, you sort of forget what you have. And now I sort of have the opportunity just to, you know, come on to one of these back roads in Steinback here and just enjoy what we have. The last little sliver of sunlight's about to go down below the horizon. The last little bit always sets so fast. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just thinking way too deep right now. Maybe I've had too much time off work already. I will disagree with you on that one. It is nice to just sit back, relax and think, let your mind wander and be thankful. You don't need Thanksgiving to be thankful. And thankful for what our ancestors did before us to give us everything we have today. And me becoming a father in the next five days. I want to make sure that I carry that on as well and leave the world around me a better place for my child. And for one day, my grandchildren. Because what I'm building here today is not just for me, it's for them. Just like the world I'm living in right now is for me. That was built by my grandparents before me. My great grandparents, my great, great, great grandparents. They put all of this in motion. And it's my job to keep that motion going, making things better for the next generation. What a world we live in. Let's go to the shop. Sitting here pondering life for way too long. So I just quickly stopped by the shop here just to pick up a few things and feel so empty in here without old blue, doesn't it? It shouldn't be long, it should be just a couple of days. I did tell them that there's no rush because I'm home for a little while. But at the same time, I wanna get them back here as quickly as I can. It feels lonely in here. I guess tomorrow I can come and clean the floor again. Remember we cleaned the floor in here not too long ago? It's time to do it again. I just got a message from Britt back at home. Let me put you down here. She was saying that diesel has been very anxious since I left. I think they're getting used to being there all the time quite quickly. Tough for them once they get back on the highway again. So I'm gonna go home and it's kind of late already. It's already 8.30. I can come here tomorrow. We have most of the day tomorrow that I can be here. There's always something to do. There's always some kind of work to get done here. Always, but I'm also needed at home. So let's go back. So the last couple of nights, Britt has started doing something that she's never done before. She started snoring very loudly. She's never done that before. And the first couple of nights, I was just happy to hear that she was getting some sleep. She's having trouble sleeping and I didn't wanna wake her up. And I was actually sleeping and I waited. I would eventually, it goes away, right? Last night it didn't go away. It started to get so loud. So today I came prepared earplugs. Usually I'm the one snoring. Frank? Frank, what do you have for supper? Good yet? Tell you once he's on mom's side. Chevy. Oh boy. Frank, are you gonna tell me? What did you have? What do you have for supper? Good old fashioned Myer confit. Down home. What was it? Chafing. Was it good? Did you do chickies? Oh, I bet they just gobbled it down. Oh yeah. Was it good Chevy? Is everyone mad at me? Weiner? Well, you're always mad at me. He's mad at the world right now. He hasn't been acting the same in the last couple weeks. He's kind of bitter. He has been a little bit, a little bit off, eh? A little less clingy with me, have you noticed? Mm-hmm. Yeah. What's going on Weiner? Mayesville just gives us up, it's a losing fight. I'll always be number two now. No more room on mom's lap. Not for both of them anyways. Once the belly's gone, I'll be able to have them both on my lap when the baby's not in my lap. Terrence, you know this. Hey Chevy. Chevy's going to daycare time. Daycare? Chevy. We're gonna go make more friends. You excited? So in a small house, you make do with the space you got. That's my little workstation there. But work's all done for today and it's time to sit down. The wife, the baby, the dogs who are definitely not trying to suck up to get some chips. They would never do that. Especially not diesel. Never, right Diesel? And watch some Mr. Ballin. Have you guys heard of this guy on YouTube? I'm gonna give him a plug here even though it probably won't make a difference because he's a way bigger channel than me. Just Mr. Ballin, if you guys like the strange, dark and mysterious, is that his line, right? Yeah. The strange, dark and mysterious in story format. Mr. Ballin. We are addicted. E-A-L-L-E-N. What was that? E-A-L-L-E-N. E-A-L-L-E-N. Mr. Ballin. You'll find him. He's a big channel and a great storyteller. But I do warn you. Yeah, so stories are, he has some disclaimers on some of them. They're stories for adults. They're not like those kind of stories. They're just really scary. Disturbing. Disturbing stories and they're true stories. So beware, but you're gonna love it. It's very addicting. Brits watched every single video he has already and there's lots. Watching horror movies and I listen, most of you don't know this, I listen to metal and like all that dark stuff. I loved it. Nothing ever phased me. And then I started watching this guy when I was home alone in the last couple weeks before Josh was off the road. And I started freaking myself out so bad that I would run to the bathroom to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and run back to bed as fast as I could. And like, I didn't like going outside. I had to have diesel by my side. It just, ah, ah. Some of his stories are pretty creepy. I have a thick skin when it comes to this kind of stuff, but some of his stories, nope, nope, nope. Pretty story-teller though.