Snowy Cabin In The Woods. No electricity.

up Thank you guys for joining me for another vlog. It's a little adventure at the cabin. It's finally starting to warm up in here. Fire's been on for about a good 30 minutes. It is pretty quick. It's a solid minus 20 outside with the wind. It's about minus 15 and minus 20 to minus 22 Celsius with the wind. So it's a nice little temperature outside. I have a few layers on. I don't have a jacket. I only have my anorak. So I'm trying to keep warm. But yeah, nice day again. Not super sunny. I have the dog with me. I know some people were worried about last time that she might be cold. She's fine. She has the jacket. I'm going to let her in soon enough. She just doesn't want to. And if she needs to come in, she'll knock and she'll just open the door so she comes right in. But as you guys can see, she's having a blast outside. So I'm not worried about her at all. But yeah, I thought I'd bring you guys along for another little adventure at the cabin. Like I said, it's freezing. I wanted to see how everything was going here. I haven't been here in at least two weeks. So yeah, happy holidays to everybody. I'm a little bit late, but happy holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. And yeah, hopefully everything went well. Everybody got some good gifts from Santa. I still have my tree up. I'm a little bit late, but I like Christmas. I like the holidays, so I'll keep it up for maybe another week. I surely don't want to open the chest and start messing around in here today. I just want to stay warm and cozy. I did in fact start splitting some firewood and some kindling. That's what you guys are seeing outside. It's so cold that it just splits right away. And especially the dry stuff, I'm really digging in under my woodpile to get some stuff that's been there for three or four years. I just want the driest stuff possible to start the fire when I get here. When I got here today, my hands were just frozen. What you guys saw is what happened. It was super humid and super cold in here. Now it's about five degrees, so it's a lot colder than outside. It's a lot warmer, I should say. And I also started my little lanterns, so there is no electricity here today. I usually have my little power bank, but I really didn't want to drag it until minus 20 with the heavy winds and everything. Since I do walk here, no snowmobile yet, so yeah. It is, like I say, an adventure, but it's all part of the process, really. I just like to come here and relax a little bit. The dog loves it. She just has a blast every time, so a bunch of random noises. Stuff is just freezing and I'm thawing, so yeah, I'll keep adding logs to the fire. Hopefully you guys are relaxing also. Had some good holiday spirit going on and yeah, hopefully everything is going well and it's going to keep going well. I'll keep making it hotter in here because it's still pretty nippy. Look who decided to show up. Probably heard me talking and came knocking, so yeah. She was just laying down on my little bed there. I get comments about, where's the bed? The bed's right there, you guys just don't see it, but yeah, she was just laying down on it. Let me know what you guys are thinking of the video so far. Kind of trying new stuff. So far, everything's been just completely 100% filmed on my phone. When it's cold like this, the camera has some serious trouble. The focus freezes up, the lenses just actually has ice in them and the mirrors freeze up in the DSLR cameras, so it's really not that great for cold weather, so I thought I'd just check it out on my phone. So let me know what you guys think and how the video quality looks. I'm pretty sure I'm filming in 4K or 2K. I'll have to take a look, but yeah, phones these days are pretty nice. The video quality is awesome. Yeah, I noticed that a lot of people just use their phone to film and from what I can see, it looks pretty good, so I'm giving it a shot. And today, I didn't bring a meal or anything, I just kind of brought some little granola bars. I even have some little donuts, cinnamon sugar donuts. Nothing crazy. Little carbs and calories, so yeah. I can finally start feeling the heat coming off of the fireplace. It's pretty nice. I have a second pair of gloves also hanging above it, just so that if I'm really wet and my hands get cold, I have no idea what I did with my gloves. I think they're on the front porch, but yeah, if I lose them or they get wet, I have a nice warm pair ready to go. Water is freezing. Oh yeah, very cold. As soon as she hears food, she's not far off somewhere. Yeah, they're just standard good old sugar donuts. We'll relax and calm down. Yep, always close. Eye on the prize. Probably one of the reasons why she loves coming here. Two donuts left. We'll do half and half again. Now that she had a little snack, I have a bit of water that I'll pour her outside, but she doesn't really want to drink when she's here. I'm guessing it's because she just gets mouthfuls of snow. Couldn't care less about water. She's doing better than me because of some dry donuts. She just wants to go party outside like always. I actually bought these. They are, I'm pretty sure you guys can't really see much, but they're just metal pots. They're just like cheap, thin pots. It was like six bucks for three. Yeah, there's three. But these things are great when you're at the cabin or anywhere that there's rodents. It's because they're different colors. But yeah, there's just some flowers and stuff on them. They were in the Christmas section, but I think they look pretty cool. So I got them for the cabin. Pretty sweet. This one, the medium one is brownish. The other ones are green, so pretty cool. I'll be able to store some stuff in here so the mice and the damn squirrels can't get into them. It's pretty hard, so I'm guessing for now, unless they mutate, I'll be good with this. For the people that don't know, with these fireplaces, they are super hungry. They eat all the wood that you can throw at them. They'll take some big logs. They get super hot, but see those embers? They are yellow. They are extremely hot. That's why it gets so hot in here. But I can throw in as many big logs as I want. And it'll just eat it up right away. Come back and that's pine, so probably, I don't know, 10 minutes, no more. Surprisingly enough, this thing is still up. And the tin didn't even rip off the roof. Which is insane, because we've been getting some wicked winds lately. Insane, like 60 kilometers an hour yesterday. Yeah, it's actually still holding up. Hopefully, everything else holds up as good as the tin on the roof. The maple is strong and healthy, but hopefully my lag bolts won't break if I decide to get in the little tree house. But it's still a sweet storage spot though. Like every year, there's just some loose tracks. It snowed last night, but yeah. They just go all the way until the neighboring land. There's also piles of poop everywhere, so yeah. The dog's getting pretty excited, but decent-sized moose. I've been getting some comments about people mentioning my hat. Like, oh, I like the hat. It's just a... it's all hand-knitted. I believe my girlfriend got it on the internet. Maybe Etsy, no idea. But like three years ago. And yeah, it's just a Voyager cap or a toque. Very common in Canada in like the 18th and 19th century for hunters and trappers to have. It's just a nice little flag on top of your head, you know, so you don't get shot. Yeah, also the Voyagers, you know, it's in the name. They kind of mapped out maps and stuff, you know, traders. So yeah, pretty cool. And I also have a barking dog and an anorak that I think it's okay. It's like a 6.5 out of 10. Pretty cool. I modified it with just some... I put bear claws on it. Real bear claws with like a leather strap and copper ornaments and deer antlers. Beads and stuff. Yeah, that's just me. You know, under it I just have a wool dial, not wool. But a decent sweater and a t-shirt. And some military, Canadian Army military pants. I'm not sure, they're like some type of dress pants. But they're cotton, so they're kind of warm. I wear them and they also look cool, the anorak. So, you know, that's pretty neat. And I have my massive, rocky... I'm not sure if you guys can see this. But my rocky bear claw boots. These things are wicked. They look period correct. They're leather, they're actually very warm. And yeah, big fan. That's pretty much what I wear every time. You know, sometimes I'll change up the pants to like line jeans or whatever. But I always usually have my cap. And my jacket could also change, so... Yeah, that's usually what I wear for the people that are wondering. And in an hour or so, it's right about 30 degrees. Almost at 90 Fahrenheit. Very hot in the cabin. It's awesome with the lanterns also. They create a decent amount of heat. As I'm warming up again, I'd like to talk a little bit. But yeah, if you guys want to see any type of video, let me know. Talking about the cabin and stuff, I know I have older videos talking about it. But now I have better equipment and stuff. So I could make newer videos about the cabin or whatever you guys want to see. I know I have a few requests in my comments when I talk about it. To talk and do more videos like I used to do like 5 years ago. On all the firearms, all my rifles and my handguns and stuff. Which I would like to. And I would like to at least start making shorts. Those are pretty cool. And they get the channel out there for like 30 seconds. It's really not that complicated. I think it's a great idea. The dog is knocking, so give me a sec. I'm just scared her feet are going to get cold. Like I was saying, if you guys want to see anything, let me know. Or even about the quality. Like I said, this entire video was made on my phone. Now I'm using the front facing camera. Let me know if you guys see a difference on the front facing camera. The rear facing camera. Inside the cabin. I know some people said they want me to film more inside. So I'm trying. As you guys can see, I could touch this side. And I'm like 4 feet off the other side. I have about a 6 foot wingspan. So I have a good 4 feet and I could almost touch the other side. The cabin is a 10 by 10. But if you guys want to see more info and videos about the cabin, let me know. I know some people like to see building. And I really need to build an outhouse. But yeah. Hopefully everything keeps going well. And I think actually I'll end the video here. So thank you guys for watching. I'll try my best to produce more videos. It's just that I need to get here. And the weather is bad. In January the weather is pretty terrible. And it's freezing cold. It's like minus 30 these days. Tonight it's going to be above minus 30. It's freezing. I have to get here. I have to get here in one piece. Because it's dirt roads and far into the woods. Into the mountains. So yeah. It's about an hour and a half drive from my actual house. So it's a good drive. And yeah. I'll see what other videos I can do. Like I said. I mentioned it a bunch of times. Let me know in the comments. I love reading comments about what you guys have to say. What you guys want to see. What you guys want me to change. I love constructive criticism. I love that stuff. It's awesome. So yeah. Let me know if you have questions about the dog. She's relaxing now. She's had a whale of a time. But she's relaxing now. That's new for her. I think it's the first time that she ever lays down here. So yeah. Let me know what you guys want to see. And what you want. Even if you don't like anything. Let me know. If you enjoy, like the video. It helps out a lot. A comment helps out even more. And subscribe if you want to see more content.