 for some good trucking. Got an assignment for today. They gave it to us yesterday already. I gotta go pick up a rental trailer, roll tight, and pull it on up to two long and load it up with stuff. I don't know where that stuff is going yet. Actually I do. It's in my computer here. I just gotta look. So my truck knows where it's going. I don't know where it's going. I just know where it is. That's all I need to know right now. I don't really care where it's going. I just care where it is. Where is it right now? I gotta go get it. It's in too long. We're going to too long. So I gotta bob tail to the other side of Winnipeg for noon. I'm gonna be early. I'll just park out of the way somewhere if they're not ready for me. I'd rather be early than late. If you're on time, you're late, right? You know what that means? Smooth rolling. Rolling tarps, that's what they call them. Smooth rolling tarps. Because it's a rental, they maintain it and make sure it's good to go before we pick it up. Seems we're running low on roll tight trailers again. Got a lot of stuff moving. We're very busy. We gotta keep up. Lights are all working as they should be. Lessons plate light, working. No holes in the tarps. Whenever I pick up a rental trailer, I go around and I look for damage. That's there. It's nothing big. Make sure that I mark down any damage that they could pin on me or on us. Because I'm not gonna be the only one pulling this trailer. I'm taking this thing up the too long to load up and a highway driver's gonna take it to wherever it's going. Who knows where. I'm aware of the shortages at the fuel stations in some parts of the US right now. So hopefully it's not going in that direction for a little while You know, it's one crisis after another out there. This is the world we live in and we just gotta figure things out. We gotta figure it out. Got a sort of a chuckle and shake my head at people who seem to think that life will be easy. That life is always going to be easy. You know, we have a lot of infrastructure built. We're standing on the shoulders of everyone who came before us. All the bridges that have already been built before there was bridges. You know, you had to take a ferry across these big rivers or go all the way around or just not cross the river. That all of this infrastructure built and not just bridges, but everything else. We're standing on the shoulders of all those that came before us. And some people think it's just always going to be running smoothly that there's never going to be problems. It's never gonna be easy. All right. The only time it's easy is when we're in between crises. Right, crisis is crisis, crises. My point is never expect life to just go as planned. There's always things that pop up, especially in trucking. You learn that pretty quick in trucking. It never goes as planned and it's never as easy as you hope it'll be. And there's always unexpected challenges that you just gotta figure out. You just gotta figure it out and do the best you can and still make something good out of it. Because as soon as we're done with one crisis, it's just a waiting game until the next one. Will it be next week? Will it be next year? I don't know, but it's gonna come. I know that sounds kind of pessimistic, but you have to be prepared. Be optimistically prepared. Okay, let's hope for the best, but let's prepare for the worst. Anyways, there's my little motivational tidbit for you guys this morning. I don't know if it helps or not. I'm probably just preaching to the choir here. That's what I'm thinking about. Let's go pick up some freight. Let's hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Be ready for anything. Always check to make sure you're not gonna lose your trailer. Spike it. She's connected. See, now we're gonna have a good day because we've prepared for the worst. Now we can be optimistic and say it's gonna be a good day because at least the trailer's not gonna fall off. I admit, if you lose your trailer, that's a bad day. That would be a little more difficult to turn into a good day. Maybe you'd meet a very nice tow truck driver and make a new friend. That's something good. I don't know what to do with that situation, but I'm gonna make sure it doesn't happen to me. Well, we've got a little bit of an issue. A little bit of a problem. You know that AC we just installed? Well, the guys came in and charged it up or what do they call it again? They got it ready for summer. They were there yesterday while I was at work. Brett was at home and they did a really good job obviously installing it. We really liked them and they have really good customer service. I'm getting to that. I'm talking about Brown's plumbing and the heating. They installed the AC and for some reason, after they charged up the AC, got it ready for summer yesterday and just I guess did a check to make sure it was all good to go. They tested it and it was working fine. But for some reason, when I got home, it didn't wanna turn on for me. It wasn't working. No AC. The compressor wouldn't even start. Like the outside part of the AC. So we had no air conditioning. Which wasn't that big of a deal. But the nights still get pretty cool but today's a really hot day. It's 24 degrees Celsius outside and it's only gonna get warmer as summer gets closer, right? We need our AC. And I checked the thermostat to make sure that it wasn't the problem there. I went outside and the compressor for the air conditioner, it wouldn't start. It wouldn't even run. It's like it had no power. So I checked the disconnect switch. That was on. I went and checked the circuit breaker. That was on and that was all good but it just didn't wanna turn on the AC. So we had no air conditioning last night which is fine because it still gets pretty cool at night but it's hot right now. It's 24 degrees Celsius and it's gonna be a warmer week and we're moving into summer when it's gonna get really hot. Like talking 35 Celsius or a hundred Fahrenheit or so. But we need our air conditioning. We're coming into our season where the sun doesn't leave us alone. Always there, burning everything up. So I got home, I couldn't get the AC to dry. So I got frustrated. What's going on now? So something must have happened. It's probably something really simple but Brown's plumbing and heating is always, like I said, when they installed it, they're great people that give us great service. I called them this morning and said, hey, something happened. You guys were here yesterday and the AC worked before you were here and now I'm here after you're gone and the AC's not working. Something happened. So they right away frantically tried to figure out a time when we could meet to get this thing fixed. ASAP, right? It's gonna be a warm week. And they're available to come out this afternoon but I have to meet them there to let them in the house and stuff and make sure the dogs don't go nuts because if no one's home and someone's walking around the backyard and walking around the house, the dogs are gonna go nuts and I don't blame them but I'd like to be there to make sure it goes well and I have to open the door for them because they're gonna have to check the circuit breaker too I guess. I don't know what's going on. I've been talking for a little while here. We're gonna go home and figure it out. But yeah, they're on the ball again. Like first thing this morning I called them and boom, this afternoon they're there to fix it. So once again, hitting a home run with us we're definitely gonna go through them for all of our heating and cooling for our new house on our build. And we also recommend them to everyone we know because you know, I like to do that because it's a lot of places you go you get bad service and it's always a bad experience but when you find a place that gives you like 150% I like to let people know so they know where to go as well because a good attitude goes a long way. I don't care if you do a good job if you have a bad attitude, I'm not calling you back. I'm not gonna go like that but if you have a good attitude and you do a good job well, you just got a lifelong customer. Anyways, enough about that. Let's go home and figure out what's wrong with this thing. It better not be, well, I hope that it's not gonna start working just as they get there because then I'm gonna look like a moron. Okay, so I sort of hope it's still not working but I kind of hope that it's fixed. I kind of hope that it's not working and then they show up and fix it and find the problem so it doesn't happen again. Let's say it that way. Spend a pretty penny on that air conditioner. I'd like to use it. There's no good just sitting back there. I mean, it looks nice. All right, so it's a hot day, like I said. So we got all the shades closed in the house to keep the heat out. We got the air conditioning running right now where it says it's running. It's 22 degrees in here. It moves up to 17. It's not cooling down. So just to prove that I'm not crazy, we'll go back around here and check on this thing. This thing should be running. You should hear the compressor running, moving the freon, right? I'm no expert, but this thing usually makes some kind of sound and then this fan comes on and off intermittently depending on how hot it is, nothing. So I'm not crazy. Thank God because it would have been pretty embarrassing if they went through all this trouble to quickly rush over here to help us and then the thing worked just fine. So I'm kind of glad it's not working. He's gonna be here any minute and he's gonna fix it up for us. Is fixed. Thank you very much to Browns who came out here immediately. They were here yesterday and they figured out what was wrong with it, fixed it up and now we have a properly, fully functioning AC here again. Apparently he was telling me about this Linux. Apparently it's like the top of the line. This was the first one of this model. It's brand new that they, this first one of this model that they installed for a customer, right here for us. See, it's all properly charged up and running good. Thank God because it's hot outside. And now that that's taken care of. Brits at work right now. The sun is shining. It's really warm out. It's a perfect day to go for a ride. I actually shined this thing all up using a bolt knot. Worked really well. All the bugs on the front here, now there's a few new ones already, but this thing was covered in bugs. I didn't wash it properly when I stored it. It's covered in bugs on the front here on the glass. And I used the visible glass cleaner from Bullsnaught and the detailed polisher on the rest of it. And the bugs just melted right off. I was very happy with that. I actually got the glass cleaner right here. I used this on the headlights and on this glass display there. Worked really well. I'm gonna go for a ride. I'll talk to you in a bit. Well, we came here down memory lane. I don't know if you can see through the bushes. They're probably not, but that's our old place. I'll miss it. But, you know, I'm happy with the point we're at in life as well. So it was a good thing. We had to move on and we're gonna build an even better property. I miss these pines though. Those are something that we don't have at our new land. For those of you who are new, we used to live here. And in September, we sold. This is the first time I've been back since then. Just to see if anything changed. And it's all exactly the same. My flag is still flying there. Obviously I'm not gonna go. It's not my property anymore. I can't go in there. Yeah, a lot of memories here. A lot of good memories. I love these pines. But like I said, we're gonna make the new property even better. There we have a lot of poplar instead of these jackpines. Doesn't give quite the same feel. We had 17 and a half acres here. So all of this to the end of the road over there, all the way out that way. There's a lot of land out that way. It's a big, big, big piece of land in here. It's really too bad that we had to move on. But we're, can't live in the past. We're living in the present and we're planning for the future. It's just hard waiting. Cause I know our new house is gonna be even better. I know our new property is gonna be even better. But it's the waiting game, right? I gotta wait. That's why we moved into the small house in Steinback. We're saving up money so that we can pretty much pay for that house, at least half of it or so. So that our mortgage payments are really small. We'll go from there. So enough living in the past. Let's get out of here and go back home. Diesel. People are getting upset at me cause I'm not showing you in the vlogs enough, man. Diesel, you. Hey guys, thanks for sticking up for me. I've been feeling kind of left out. I know we got a little tail wag. Chevy, how about you? I don't know. I don't really like the camera foot. Hi guys. Look at my tail. Very fluffy. Diesel. You've been a very good boy. Brett snuck in. Didn't even hear her coming in the driveway. The dogs didn't even hear you. Frank, you're not gonna come say hi? Frank, hers. He's mad at me right now. Frank. He was barking a little bit and I had a stern talking to him. Face to face, man to man. He's still upset that he found out on the boss and that he's not actually the boss, so he doesn't like being talked down to. Doesn't like being told what to do. Are we friends now? Are we friends? Are we friends? Can I honk your nose again? No? Only cause mom's holding you. He was mad. I made him sit. And stay sitting for like a full minute. Oh my goodness. Which, he's old, that's probably pretty uncomfortable for him, so that was his punishment, to just sit for like a full minute and not move. He looked very uncomfortable. What a mean dad. Oh my goodness. He looks at me. Thank you for the nose nibble. I work here the next morning and just to continue that conversation from yesterday, Britt had just gotten home and we had a nice evening together there, but to continue the conversation about our old property, the reason we sold was a mixture of reasons. One was finances. We wanted, well it was like I said, a mixture. It was finances. It was also, the house needed a little bit of work or it actually needed a lot of work and we were already living near the top of our budget where we wanted to be spending money and in order to get all the work done on the house, we would have to go way above that and spend a whole ton of money into a house that was very old. And you have to understand, we want to be in a house that we can retire in and have paid off and can trust and rely on. This house was very old. It still had wood chips in the attic. That's how old it was. That's how they used to insulate the attics. And that needed to be replaced with something newer. There's a whole bunch of other stuff. The property was so huge that I couldn't keep up with it, especially when I was on the road long haul. It was impossible to keep up with everything. The garage needed work. The house needed work. Our little guest cab in there needed a lot of work and all of that takes a lot of money. And we could probably invest well over $100,000 into that property, not even be done. And we're sitting there and thinking to ourselves, okay, we can invest all this money into this house and still have an old house. That's been helped along a little bit and has been renovated and it's good to go. But the bones are still old. It's an old house and now we have our mortgage, plus on top of that another 100,000 plus into renovations. And we're stuck here paying it off. We're sort of like paying for two houses and in the end we only get one. So we had to come to a tough decision. We loved that property. I really loved it. It was perfect. It was amazing. I had a little creek running through it, 18 acres, just about, just all the privacy in the world. But I don't wanna pay for two houses in my lifetime and only be left with one. And I don't wanna be living at the very top of my budget the rest of my life and be spending my entire paycheck into just maintaining this old house and not being able to go out and do anything with my life. I only get one life or so one life here. This body only lasts so long and then I gotta move on, right? And so while I'm here in this body, I wanna be able to enjoy life a little bit. I wanna have some extra spending money and I wanna have some extra saving money. And I gotta retire one day. It doesn't matter if I have a nice big fancy house when I retire. Well, what am I gonna do? I got nothing to retire on because I didn't have any money for savings. I'm gonna have to sell the nice big house to get all my investment back. Now I got a big chunk of money that I can retire on but I don't have that house that I wanted to retire in. See what I'm saying here? It just goes in circles and goes in circles and we had to come to the tough decision and we were watching the housing market and the housing market right now is crazy especially for country properties. Anyone who lives in a city right now and has money is trying to get out and we had a big, beautiful property. Anyone with a little bit of money to invest into it, it would be perfect for them, right? So we knew we could sell it pretty quick. The market was good, it's a seller's market and we said, okay, if we're gonna do this, we have to do this now before the market goes back to a buyer's market because then it's not good to sell, it's good to buy. But at the same time, when it's a seller's market, it's easy to sell the house. You can make a big profit on it but then you gotta find a house. Then you're a buyer, you have to find a new house, right? And we found a great deal on the house we're in right now. The owners really needed to get out. They were moving out of province and it was small. So not a lot of people were interested in it because it's not good for a big family. There's only two bedrooms, there's no basement. It's like, it's a very small house. So it has a limited market. So with that in mind, we were able to get them down a lot because the house wasn't as desirable as other houses which means when we sell it, it's also going to be a problem for that. But that's why we're probably going to keep it and maybe sell it to one of our family members or I don't know, maybe keep it as a rental property, keep it as an investment property. We'll see what happens, that's in the future. But for now, we got a good deal on that house and we were able to sell our house the first day it was on the market. Like pretty much everything else right now and we made a really good profit on it. So with that profit, we were able to pay off our vehicles, pay off a bunch of debt, get into our new house. We bought new land in another part close by which is just as good, it just needs to be developed. So that's the story behind that house though. I love the property but the house needed some work and a whole bunch of things all piled together to make us decide, you know what we need to sell now. Now's the time and we'll build our dream home because now when we build our home on our new land, we got a nice big piece of property again out in the country right now, it's all treed. You guys have seen it. And once we build the house there, that house will be built, brand new obviously and the bones will be brand new. So we'll be able to spend the rest of our lives in there not worrying about the big things, right? Everything goes wrong with houses. Like even a brand new house has problems, I realize that. But all the bones and structural components of it and all the insides will be brand new. We can just live in there the rest of our lives and not have to worry so much. And it'll be paid off when we retire and I'll have only paid for one house, not two. So I'll have paid for one house and have one house unless we keep the other one for a rental property. But that's an asset then, doesn't matter. Then I have two houses. If I pay for two houses, I want two houses. But if I pay for two houses, I only have one house. My brain starts like, that doesn't make sense. Why are you paying for two houses, you only got one. So anyway, that's sort of the long story short. I could probably babble on a long time with that. But that was the first time I went back to look at that property since we moved in. Yeah, a little sad. We'll never have that exact property again. It'll never be the same, but we gotta move forward. I believe we made a good decision and that one day, when it's our turn to retire, that we'll be able to enjoy those years and know that we made some good decisions and live a little bit more comfortably financially. But we'll see. You always gotta keep retirement in mind, right? Cause eventually this body gets old. I don't get old inside it, but this body gets old and, you know, it's an amazing machine, isn't it? Like, it has the ability to heal itself to a certain extent. And I gotta sit inside it and just, the only problem with it is that it ages and dies. But yeah, then you get a new one, right? And you start all over or you go somewhere else. Anyways, thanks for watching everybody. I appreciate you. Please don't forget to hit the thumbs up. It does help me with the channel, with the algorithms. And if you don't mind, if you could subscribe, if you haven't already too, that also helps me. And if you wanna share it with your friends, go ahead. We can all hang out together. I've been doing this almost 10 years. I don't plan on stopping. So we hang out another 10 years. You can watch us grow up and see if this decision and how this goes with this house build and see how my life progresses towards retirement. Anyways, see you tomorrow.