 What's happening y'all? Good day to you. When I left you last time, I was in a bad way. Just give you a quick health update. The whole family got sick. We got a bad stomach virus and basically it was four to eight hours for me and Stephanie. It was a week for Emi, and it was just nothing but toilet time and fevers, and it was just not good. And I spent all day yesterday resting up, taking all my medications, doing everything I could to get ready for today because today's meetup up at Fun and Sun, me and my buddy Rob are going up there to meet a bunch of y'all. They have a big meetup once a year where they do like tackle show. It's like a tackle show. They have pros come in and give seminars. They show off the new boats, tech that's coming out. It's like a big angler meetup. I'll be there today for a few hours and taking you along for the ride if you can't make it. Now while we're waiting to do that, we are going to do some work on the chicken run. We've got to start building some panels so that we can fully enclose the run. I found a place local that's selling chickens that are already ready to lay. We've got a plan for three species that we're going to be putting in here. And when I was looking for the best design and best size and everything, I came across these ones on Facebook Marketplace and it just turns out that the guy happens to be a watcher of the channel. So I would rather just pay a fishing freak to make a coop. The problem is it's going to be fairly good size and it's going to have to be lifted over this and be put in there. It's not going to fit through the door. That means we're going to have to prep the panels, get everything ready. I need a beam that's going to run across here. We've got some math to do but I think I've got it covered. We're going to get all that ready and then when the coop is done, we'll be able to put that in there and then assemble everything together. It's going to be locked up tight, a hint of tentry, if you will. So after doing a little math here, I think I've decided the first thing we got to do is actually build the beam. After just getting the boards and looking at it, a lot is going to be determined by this angle right here. So I really need to know how high the beam is going to sit. The problem is this enclosure is about 26 feet long and there's not, you know, your standard treated lumber just isn't that long. So I'm going to go get the wood and then figure out the joinery situation that we've got to solve. Yeah, but I'm talking the whole, so what's the whole length? 27 feet you said? Yeah, 26 feet. Okay, 26 feet. So if you got, you basically got three 10 footers and then you're going to overlap the seams and laminate them together like in the end. So in the glue and the screws is going to, so now you're going to have, instead of having a two by eight, you're actually going to have a four by eight. And then the piece that goes next to that is a 12 footer. I'm going to draw it out. Yeah, so you're going to, yeah, so yeah, that would work. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, so effectively you'd buy one, two, three, four, five, you'd buy six 12 footers. Wow. You're going to lay a 12 footer and a 12 footer out and you're going to, you're going to overlap it six feet, six feet. Yeah. And you're going to put glue and screw, okay? This drawing might work. I'm going to send you this picture and then look at it and call me back. Buddy Lance is so dulled. I mean, I'm glad I called him because he's thinking about every angle to the nth degree. Things that I wouldn't think about. I'm going like, what's the simplest way? He's thinking, what is the strongest way? Shout out to Buddy Lance. He is the low key wood master. I got the plan figured out for the wood, but I'm going to just share a raw moment with you. Sorry. I went into the Home Depot, but I was clenching on the back end and blowed in a bunch of 12 foot, two by eights. Just, it was not going to help the situation. I am feeling better now and me and Rob are actually heading up to the meetup at Fun and Sun. I'm going to be doing fist bumps today for everybody. Don't be offended when I give you the fist bump. I just don't want you to get sick. So I'm feeling just good enough to go up there. So I'm going to hang out with Alford a little bit and then we're going to go build this bane, but I'm going to need some help carrying this wood home after realizing how long it actually is this truck. No rack. We're going to need another truck. Coming fresh off the meetup. Yeah. Energizing it is. I just feel better after seeing so many of y'all and talking to y'all. You know, a couple of people really, they said basically the same thing, showing a lot of the things that besides fishing, things about our lives, the little things that make us, us is helpful to a lot. It just makes us more relatable. Sometimes I turn this camera on and I'm like, and I really want to talk to this camera right now when I'm in this situation or this and that, but you know, I should and I do because of you. So I just want to thank you for your support and the opportunity to be on your screen. All right, picking up LFD's adventure truck. This is his. It's Ford. He's got the cap on it, got the rack. The bed is carpeted. He does a lot of kayak fishing. So it's really simple with the carpeted bed, slide things in and out. And this is probably going to be the truck that he takes up to Canada this year. So this is going to be loaded down with a yak or two. Maybe the crispy collector. We don't know. Yeah, I got it rigged up so we can go on adventures. You can be right there with me. Colorado maybe this year? Yes, you can sleep in that thing. Yeah, I got it. It's padded too. Wow. Well, I like it. Well, hey, I need to borrow your, your rack system because we got 16 foot boards and my truck bed's a little too small. It's going to be sticking out too far. I don't want it teetering. So we're just going to stick them on top and ratchet them down. Also, while I was at fun and sun, went ahead and just picked up some dangle poles, literally dangle poles. You know, they have, have a lot of bass tackle up there. They carry all the Guggen Squad stuff, but I've been in need of some new crappie poles. Actually, I didn't even have any jigging rods for crappie. So I got an eight foot, I got a 12 foot, then I got your standard six and a half. But these are, these are nice rods. I'm going to test them out and see, see how I like them. I literally don't have any, any jigging rods. So that's the new one. Pull a 1000 style spinning reel on there. A little eight pound test. Flare O carbon. Get down there on those little crappie piles and then dangle. Leaving the Dapot 16 foot board on top. That's why you get the racks right there. Ladies and gentlemen, so you can put large loads. Dad, you could put a 16 foot kayak on there if you wanted to. Think so. You have to be a real man to get it up there though. It's the only part. That's why I have you. So thanks dad. Beautiful sunset, saw some deer moving this evening. Just a good end to a, a good day. I'm just in a much better mood. I feel better now. After all the sickness, got re-energized by the fishing freaks. Yes. And these are the ridiculously long boards, y'all. Look at these suckers right here. 16 foot. These are still a little wet. They're kind of heavy, but I think I'm going to go ahead and get started with a project in the morning and get this beam built. Got our whole dug, 10 foot post in there. I'm going to trim it up. I thought it'd be better to just go with a, a bigger board and I can cut it down. My buddies outside are working on the yard. I'm just, I'm just here and here doing wood. Ladies and gentlemen, this is where things get very interesting and start to come together a little bit. So I'm done sawing on that piece. Definitely not perfect, but you get the idea. There's a, there's a notch in there and that's going to go up right there and that will be cut down to height to make the beam level. Going across to a post right here. We don't need to put an additional post up here, a little supplemental post, but I'm going to cut right into the wood with a chainsaw. I never cut into treated wood with a chainsaw. Chain saw? I just said pain saw. That's scaring me now. Hopefully that's not a precursor. You can see where I've drawn up where I need to cut. It's just going to be rough in there. I just want it to sit and then I'm going to bolt it through on the side or screw it in. Our department looks like a dirty bag of pine cones. We're going to have to clean that up with just regular saw. Good news is I've pretty much got all the meat. She's coming to check on my work. You mean the inspector? You're going to have some chickens in here very soon, my dear. We're going to have some pet chickens. It's going to be a roof above their heads. They're going to be safe. Boy, I've had to use a multitude of saws to get a semi decent looking notch. I got this saw a while back just for backpacking, hunting, bait in the woods. I keep it in the truck in the adventure wagon. Breach down like this and then you put it in your backpack or your truck or your boat. Done. How cool is that? This thing is made by Agawa Canyon, the Boreal 21. Got it mostly for processing firewood out in the woods, but super handy. A little outdoor tool. Actually, don't put it in there. Put it on the main rail. A little posty right up there to the top. I'm using pocket hole screws to attach this, but later on I'm going to take some metal brackets and I'm going to put these on here. But just for now, this is going to attach it. Wow. It's actually really solid just the way it is. Really happy with that. The last thing we're going to do today, and this is the key to the whole shebang on the chicken run, we're going to add these chicken wire panels to the top. We're going to start building those. I'm going to have to build I think eight of them, possibly 10 of them, but eight good sized ones. So we're going to make some wooden frames. Then I'm going to take chicken wire, wrap it over there, stretch it, and then staple it. And then I'm going to just be able to stack those frames on top of that beam. And then voila. It looks like an open roof for a hawk, but he's going to come down and get a face full of chicken wire. That's the idea. Where Bobcat's going to get on top of it, slip his leg through, freak out, maybe lose a leg. I don't know. We're going to see what happens. Take me a big old pair of skizzers, staple the rest tight, panel done. The panels are not too hard to make. I mean, it's a lot of staples, but instead of doing the electric fence, I think it's a good move in that regard. It's going to keep everything out. It's pretty cheap. You know, if something does happen to break it, you know, it'd be easy to repair. So what I'm going to do now is we're just going to clean up the edges. So I'm going to wrap these around, staple them on the other side, so it'll be clean. The panels will go together nicely. And then I'm going to stain them later, but I just want to see how they're going to fit on the coupe and see how my cuts went. Been working all day. Been working all day on it. Still going to let this concrete dry before we create the beam that goes across. But this is what these panels look like. You know, these are going to go up like this. We're going to sit right up there on that beam. I'm going to have a nice little angle downward. When leaves get on the sucker, I'm just going to take the leaf blower, just blow them off. No big deal. And that is going to be the protection right there. I'm going to have to fill in a little bit on the sides. But as you can see, these panels take up a lot of room. Now, what you're also probably wondering is, hey man, you've got these big trees in here. What are you going to do? I'm going to have to really calculate that and then custom cut that so there's a couple of those that I'm going to need to do. This one's probably going to be the hardest because it's like right in the middle where the panel is going to go. I'm going to keep the foxes at bay and just have a nice, wrackly roost. Coming up on the channel, we still got to plant these brush piles, y'all. So I think I'm going to go do that tomorrow. Stay tuned if you want to see it. God bless every single one of you and I'll see you on the next episode.