 Manitoba. We've got these reels on our trailer. We're going to bring them into the city now to deliver. I'm going to have to tackle rush hour with these things. It's going to be fun. A lot of fun. Let's see what happens. Been of choice here. Been, he flies, decide to invade my truck. Got my defenses right here. Always be prepared. Always. Okay. Lights are on. Double check our trailer again. I do it every day. Trailer brakes work. Trailer is connected. It's not going to fall off. And we're rolling forward trailer brakes release. Just part of my daily checklist. I know some people say, well, you only got to do that when you hook up the first time. Yeah, but I slept here all night and I don't know if anybody mastered it. You know, you never know. I checked it with my own eyes when I was outside and it was connected, but he just never know. It's out and off. You'll better just check it on it. This guy's low day. Quiet, Karen. Very nice. Interesting that they would load it all like crooked like that. We'll deliver some reels. My appointment's at 9am and I believe I will get there at about 8.45. Okay. I got my weapon of choice here. If any flies decide to invade my truck. Got my defenses right here. Always be prepared. Always. Okay. Lights are on. Double check our trailer again. I do it every day. Pull on that. Trailer brakes work. Trailer is connected. It's not going to fall off. And we're rolling forward. Trailer brakes release. Just part of my daily checklist. I know some people say, why are you only going to do that when you hook up the first time? Yeah, but I slept here all night and I don't know if anybody mastered it. You know, you never know. I checked it with my own eyes when I was outside and it was connected, but he just never know. It's out and off. You'll better just check it on it. This guy's low day. Quiet, Karen. Cat man to road and end. Turn right into hundred and seventy meters. Interesting that they would load it all like crooked like that. Let's go deliver some reels. My appointment's at 9am and I believe I will get there at about 8.45. 8.56. Cut your close, eh? Stick a little bit longer than I thought. But we're still on time. Gonna walk inside there and figure out who I gotta talk to. We're gonna get these reels off my trailer. I'm thinking I'm probably gonna have to drop this trailer back off in Brunk Hill. That's where I picked it up earlier this week. It'll be reloaded with another load that'll go out next week probably. That's where we usually bring these rental trailers. I'm just assuming, but you know what they say, never assume. Never assume. We'll get finished here first and then we'll figure out what's going on. And that's Henry over there. He's getting unloaded now. I am headed this way. Fun fact, that big building right in front of us is the National Microbiology Lab, I believe. That's where all the worst viruses in the world are kept under lock and key. If that building gets destroyed, we got a big problem. We got like a Wuhan problem right there. That's like a virology lab. The national one for the whole country. If there's a leak from that building, there's another pandemic. And we're right beside it. Good thing we have more safety protocols here than other places, right? It goes right through the city to the south end where I can hit the south perimeter and then head back. I got to go switch this flatbed tri-axle that I have behind me for a tandem flatbed. Those of you who aren't in trucking, that just means two axles instead of three. I'm taking that empty flatbed down to Thief River Falls in Minnesota today. Switching it for a loaded flatbed and bringing it back home and then we're done for the week. This weekend, we have a family gathering coming up at our house with Britside. And on Tuesday, we got a whole bunch. First things first though, on Tuesday is Brits birthday, July 25th. I know you're probably watching this after that, but if you want to wish her a belated happy birthday, don't forget. She's turning 25 again here. See, this is where the regret begins. Construction ahead. This is lovely. Why did I come this way? Why did I come this way? I don't know. I just wanted some adventure. Ah, see, I could have gone a little further north up Route 90 from where I was. I was at Logan, if you're familiar with Winnipeg. I could have gone north from Logan and then taken the Canada way or the Canada Port, whatever it's called. Center Portway. And taken that to the West perimeter and taken the perimeter all the way around the city. It's a lot further to go that way, but a lot faster sometimes. I figured I'd go this way because maybe it would be faster and shorter. Nay nay. I was wrong. Oh, I got to get out of this lane too. Is my lane that's ending? Of course it is. Of course it is. Now I got to get over into that lane. And how do you convince a bunch of city people to let a big truck in front of them? Let's see what we can do. Let's see. As soon as I get through this intersection, I'll turn on my signal and see if anybody knows what that means. Can't change lanes here anyway. And they're going to block the whole lane here so that we can't get through. Oh, come on gravel truck. Keep moving forward. Keep moving forward. Keep going forward. And now we turn on the signal. This will be interesting. Place your bets. Who's going to let me in? Is anyone going to let me in? Or am I going to have to get a little aggressive and make a spot? I don't like getting aggressive. I don't have to, but hey, nobody lets me in. Eventually this big long nose, it just sticks in. You know what I mean? Oh, that guy was making room for me. And then that little Honda took my spot. This Honda here, that guy behind me was making space for me. And this Honda jumped in there and took my spot. It's always a Honda. It's always a Honda. Usually it's a Honda Civic. But today it's a Honda CR-V. It's always a Honda though. Honda drivers are not all of them. Let's not generalize too much. Not all of them. Look at this guy. He thinks that he's going to get in front of the truck because I'm big and slow. He's probably right. But usually when someone like makes an aggressive move and cuts me off or like just goes flying past me or something, like I'm going to say like seven to eight times out of 10, it's a Honda Civic. You ever noticed this? Is it just me? Does Honda Civics have something out for me? I'm going to let this guy in front of me because he's a truck driver. And we got to look out for our own sometimes, right? Hey, Mr. Custom. I'm making a hole for you. Don't go too fast. There you go. Wait for it. There you go. All you, bud. All you. Flash them in. Okay, so that wasn't so bad. Wasn't so bad, right? Important that they had to mess up everyone's day. If my day is so much more important than their day, this turns into the center lane. I'm just going to stay in the center lane because both side lanes are going to have turning vehicles. This will be the through lane. Oh, what's going on over here? Bunch of flags and people. Oh, is this one of those strikes that's going on? Oh, look at this. They're on strike, aren't they? But I can't honk for you if I don't know what you're fighting for. Sorry. I don't support causes I don't understand. You know what I mean? If they're asking me to support with a honk, first I have to know what you're standing for. What are you protesting? Figure if I'm on your side first. If I'm on your side, I'll lay on the air horn all the way past. I've got standards. I don't just support nothing. But it's different if it's a kid. If there's a little kid on the side of the road giving me the arm pump, I'll give them the horn regardless. They get, they get the horns. 507. But I see here I need a coffee. I need coffee. I had a small one this morning, but... Nice little truck stuff. This town is called Lake Bronson, Minnesota. It's way up on Highway 59 near the Canadian border. It's a popular stop if you're coming through here. But if you're going south, you have to be empty. Because I crossed through from Tolstoy, Manitoba to Lancaster, Minnesota. That's a non-commercial crossing. So I can only cross there when I'm empty. So I can go like south. But when I'm loaded coming north, I've got to go back around and it's about an hour further or so. And I've got to cross from Pemboda, North Dakota into Emerson, Manitoba because that's a commercial crossing. I've been asked before why I don't cross at different crossing. That's a good question. And the answer is that not every crossing is a commercial crossing. You can't cross with goods on a commercial truck through every single border crossing. The ones I use the most are from Fort Francis, Ontario to International Falls on Minnesota. There's one there. In Manitoba here, we've got Emerson, Manitoba and Pemboda, North Dakota. And then there's, what's the town called again? There's another one in Manitoba. There's another one a little further west, Boisevane, Manitoba. And what's the American side called? Boisevane, Manitoba and Kelvin, North Dakota. Something like that. And then it goes further south and Saskatchewan, another popular one I cross at is Portal, Saskatchewan down, sorry, North Portal, Saskatchewan down into Portal, North Dakota. But there's lots of other crossings in between. You can cross during your personal vehicle or whatnot. But you've got to pick and choose. You've got to be at the right one. They don't like it if you show up to the border and you're at the wrong border crossing. They don't like that at all. They like us to have our ducks in a row. They don't want to put our ducks in a row for us. That's not their job and they will let you know that. Okay, let's quickly grab a coffee, maybe a little bite to eat here. Let's head down to Thief River, switch trailers and get back home. I'm going home tonight. Got all my paperwork in order here. Got my new trailer behind me, trailer 118D. That's a drop deck. Got the empty flatbed right beside me here. They're going to load that one up some other time. I'm going to pull this one back home. Like I said, we've got to go through Emerson, Manitoba from Pembroke, North Dakota. So it's a little bit around, about an hour further. They're just coming straight down 59. So we should be back. What is it? Is that quarter after three now? Three. Oh, it's actually only like two and a half hours back. Not three. Four, fifteen, six, thirty. Three hours, yeah. Two and a half to three hours. Six, six, thirty. We'll be back at the yard. Drop this in our yard on a terp to my catwalk and head to my shop. Put my babies up too. Like I said, we've got some family stuff going on this weekend. It's Brits' birthday in a couple of days. And we also have some doctor's appointments. Theo's got another doctor's appointment. There's always something. Always something. All you kids, you think your life is hectic and busy now. You wait to become an adult. One day you'll really get to know what busy really means. Unless if you're lazy, well, you can be lazy if you want to be, but you can either have money or you can be lazy. That's usually how it goes. It is more a stampede this weekend. That's right. Manitoba's version of the Calgary Stampede. It's a Manitoba Stampede. It's actually pretty big. I mean, it's like a mini Calgary Stampede. They've got all kinds of rides and rodeos, all the fun stuff. I really want to go one year, but I've never actually been there. But as you can see, cars all over the place here. It's going to be busy here this this weekend. Maybe we'll come check it out. I don't know. I don't know what we have. We have a whole bunch of stuff planned this weekend. Of course, it's always busy. Maybe we can swing out here. We don't live too far away. What is Steinbeck? An hour from here? Not even half hour? 45 minutes on lap? And 600 meters. Go straight on. Lord Selkirk Highway. Highway 75. Lord Selkirk. We need to get a highway named after diesel. Lord Weasel Highway. Wonder what we've got to do to make that happen? Do we got to sign a petition or like show up at legislature one day and make her a westerner? Go straight on. Lord Selkirk Highway. Highway 75. Lord Weasel Highway. He is a Lord. He owns land. He owns a square foot of land in Scotland. My dog owns more land than some people. Staying your lane there, bud. Staying your lane. I know it's a little narrow, but there's enough room for you. Carrying stuff, he happened. I'm talking. I know it's Friday, but calm down. We're at the party too early. All right, you thought it was a mess before. We're reorganizing everything still. This is going to be old blue spot off to the side here because we've got to make room for the camper. We've been storing the camper outside since we bought it in 2016. And it deteriorates fast when it's outside 24, 7, 365 days a year. And we want to use it. We want it to be preserved. We won't use it for a while yet. So all of this stuff that's along here yet, all has to go. I moved along. I moved everything on this side out of the way already. See? It's the truck can be only here and I have room to walk along the side here. I have room in the front here to open the hood. There's just so much stuff because all of this stuff over here is what needs to go to our house once we get a bigger house. But we live in Canada and buying houses right now in Canada is next to impossible. Thanks to our, you know, wonderful, wonderful people running the show. Who knows? Who knows? There's a whole bunch of reasons that all piled up and houses are so expensive in Canada right now that, you know, we're just taking our time. We'll be able to get a bigger house. It's not impossible. It's not like it's never going to happen as long as things kind of level out. But we're just waiting right now. I'm a little bit nervous. Interest rates have been going up and up. So we're waiting. We're saving our money, sitting on our little nest egg. We're going to wait to see what the market does. Because the last thing I want to do is buy a house at the height of the bubble, right? I kind of want the bubble to break and everything to come down, though I know that that would be terrible for some people. I want to wait till it levels out and comes down a bit because I don't want to buy it at the peak because then in five years, it's going to be worth less than what I paid for it. I'm just trying to be smart because we only want to buy one more house rest. I'm only moving one more time in my life and this is going to be a forever home after this. Forever, ever, ever, forever, ever, ever. I know we've said that the last two houses is ready, but this one's for real. This one's forever, ever real. So all of this stuff, once we get a bigger house, that's all going to go into storage under the stairs or in a storage room or garage or shed, something once we have more space to store stuff in. So that's not always going to be there, which is good because this wheelbase is going to get extended eventually and I'm going to need about another 24 to 30 inches of space just to fit my truck in here. But for now, this will work, right? So all of this stuff I've got to find spots. I might have to build a second level up there yet. We might. We might have to get creative and figure something out. But some of this stuff can go into our shed at home. Like this is our treadmill. Like that doesn't matter if it's cold. It can freeze. We've got to go through all this stuff and figure out what can get cold. Because we have a big shed on our yard in our backyard, right? But it's not insulated. So in wintertime it gets really cold in there. So we've got to be careful what we put in there. I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. We're not going to put the camper in here just yet, but we are getting ready for it. And I've already measured it out. It's going to fit in here just fine. We'll have two feet of space between the camper and the wall there. And we'll have four feet of space between the camper and the truck. So it'll work. We can keep all of our assets that are depreciating very quickly out of the depreciating elements of the sun and the cold winters. Hopefully make them last a little longer. We have the space. I'm paying for this whole shop. Like I've said before, I'm paying for every square foot in this shop. I'm going to use every square foot of this shop. And I might even build a second level. I might have to. We'll see what happens. I've got a lot of stuff apparently. Anyways, I'm going to get all my stuff out of the truck here. Britt is running around town doing errands. I'd like to be at the house when she gets back. So I better hurry. I'm going to get everything out of old blue here and I'm going to go home.