I've Neglected you and I'm Sorry...

Hey guys, we're out at the fort for the first time in a hot minute. I came here maybe a month ago when the snow started to melt and noticed some damage so we're going to decide what we're going to do. As you can see most of the snow is gone but there's a good amount in pockets in the bush. Come on buddy. Oh boy. Significant damage this thing's been up for pushing five years four and a half five years now so it's not that big a deal but you have to address it. Wolf is here somewhere somewhere broken support log there. The main part is sound just the snow load broke that part It's all down. It's uh right off of here. I think I can hear wolf over there. He's chasing gross Got just a few tools today But I want to get my gloves out. Here we go. As long as he's around this will just start commotion or what? You hear the ruckus? El natural see what was bark for the back all broken up now, but it was smooth still a cover up the tarp back there At least that's just ugly as sin care who you're here Out of the way a bit. I said we'll use the bark to cover up anybody to see that you're using handmade materials It's like I did, I did mean to do it actually I did mean to do it, it was all intentional. That's the ticket, Joe. Okay, that's gone. What's up? Beautiful birch framed windows. We'll see Well, maybe maybe we got that piece on there still, you know, this can get tied back up I wouldn't mind having a frame just to drape a tarp over or something. What I'm thinking is it just stays open You know, honestly, I don't camp out here too much if ever anymore Yeah, it'd be nicer to have this place as a stationary place to come make a coffee tea cook up bacon whatever bring the kids bring, we'll bring the dogs run around and it's nicer if it's open with sunlight for filming too but regardless who cares I'm not gonna rip it all down with this, this part fell down so let's get get it all cleaned up and we'll leave the framework up and if I want I can throw a tarp up over it and have an extremely big open shelter to hang out in anyways we're gonna clean up that's my point, leave it, leave the frame and do some cleanup I'm gonna bring all this paracord out all this plastic out these nails out, brought a bigger backpack than I need to so I can bring a lot of stuff out with me, let's see if this can go in this crook up here that way a bit, we're getting a longer one and then that way could angle the roof too with the tarp opposed to having it square now we can come up here too okay like this held you know this held for years so no complaints but just thinking out loud you want to get a small fire going want to get a fire going and burn up some of the leaf litter and bark and stuff that's just kicking around instead of like scraping it out of the fire pit and there's other things I can burn a little twig fire going to make up a tea after too while I'm working stay working loosely good boy Wolfie couple a full log sir shake loose here, but that's happened every year you see, you know this up in here Hopefully it'll dry out nice and good with it nice and good with the sun coming in the snow here still long so not today a big hole here from a log I took out so I can just jam some debris down there and color color filled you know, I look good, so he's neutered now right he's just so full of piss and vinegar still like comes and checks in on me now at least which is nice as before he wouldn't but I could yell at him blue in the face he's dying to come back and it's It's just not the life that we live to have him on a leash all the time, or tied up all the time. Hey, big boy! Speak of the devil! There you go. See, he's just totally aloof. He doesn't care. Um, whereas every other dog I've had has either cared or cared too much. Anyway, it's all good. We're starting to figure each other out some more. We went camping with Tosh. If you saw that video, that went really well. We paddled down the river and he was running along the sides and coming back and did awesome. Yesterday Will and I took him and Beauty on like a seven kilometer hike through the bush I have pictures of that on my Instagram. I didn't film it. Did good then too But he loves to go just loves to go. But anyway, he always comes back with that orange vest on him We're not around roads. So it's like what would he rather do stay cooped up or stay on a vest? I mean sorry on a on a leash and be safe or Have the potential for whatever to happen and be running around and stuff I know what the latter is his option. So anyways, he's an outdoor dog through and through. We're gonna keep going here Nice fire going. It's a nice day. Happy to be out at the fort We gotta find something to do with all those logs still. Could rebuild the roof. Like I said on that angle It's kind of a nice angle. See what I mean? It's like the pitch of a roof should be probably. It could work I could get a longer one put it up there tie it up strong tie another one coming from over here to the back and then just line logs down it actually I could probably just do some ribs and a tarp it's high enough that if I leave this spot open this gap open over here the smoke should just escape and then this is the other thing he'll do he'll come back but he'll just lay like you know 20 feet away from me and watch me everybody's like oh it's a husky thing I know I get it so we had a stake in there a long stake in there before but I cut it out when I was taking the roof off but good news is we've got a plethora of nice logs here at her disposal it wasn't in the ground too far tie it off to all that though be pretty sturdy and then that'll be she's going nut side pound this steak in better over here yeah okay okay I see I remember now there that's better solid on there now just think on this side and that side right now before go any further I'll want to make these steaks substantial in length okay the bottom one won't roll back down further from where it is now I don't know how frozen the ground is underneath get this in as far as it'll go for now I should have really chamfered the edges there hey good boy I didn't bring a saw with me just because I thought I was going to tear this thing down for the most part and not build anything but anyways I'm chopping this log with an axe it's leaving me with uneven edges so I'm just going to make the chamfered end out of that. Once it's kind of chamfered, just flatten the end to see pretty much what's chamfered, pretty much flat. All right, let's try and get this in where I was going to put that other long one. Here, instead of tying that longer one up, I'm going to see if I can just put a stake here and have that be how this is held on. Well, that held up a lot better. It still rolls a little bit, but once it gets set where it needs to go, maybe I can put one on an angle too. I should put Another one over here, that's what I'll do. Big log to put as part of that wall slash ladder platform. It's kind of punky and a lot of pokies still left on it. The thing about it being punky is you can even take down pieces that aren't level on it with relative ease. It is punky, won't last long. I can get the saw out here next time and throw it all up better, but just rough it out for now. I'm kind of leaning in, so I will have to put a bunch of supports on the inside, probably going all Way across like four or five of them going across, but definitely doable quite long enough. So slide it this way Right. Oh my goodness. Certainly need some supports, but it's a supports big time right now right now Okay, like that. You're almost making the steak and it's the size you want all at once. That's basically steak there So if I put the thick side down there there double up this so for strength and length the old strength length combo okay tie that there how that do run one that way let's put that up and see how that looks don't worry it's almost all cleaned up i'd like some random wet scraps over here to keep adding on that's kind of why it keeps uh struggling but what's the point right and i'm not paying too much attention to it on on account of the work stuff. Okay, it's gonna be longer than that. We're gonna get one today. Not gonna do the roof today. Just trying to, like I said, I'm happy to be out here. I'm happy to be with the dog, even though he doesn't care about me. I neglected this place, you know what I mean? I neglected the fort in the woods for a while, and there's a bunch of reasons why, but I just didn't feel like coming out here. You know what I mean? This is a place that Tripper and I came. This is a place that I had a lot of good times and spent a lot of time and made some good videos supported my family with a lot of stuff from out here to be honest with you but there is some like I don't know man I've been gone from my family so long all the time that it's just like I see them growing up I see the kids growing up and it just it's hard for me to take so much time away from them anymore that's why like these past couple winters actually I've taken that time to more stick around the house still put out videos not as common not every month in this this year was even more I've missed maybe two months or something like that that um but we were doing stuff together as a family you know what i mean and like going to recitals and doing christmas things and taking my family on vacation for the very first time ever you know what i mean i've been doing youtube for 15 years and a big chunk of that lived down south in windsor and i had to drive so far away so like and it was my full life i was trying to grow my my channel you know what i mean and i was on the up and i saw only the channel but now it's like i see way more important things um channel slowed down quite a bit and that's for a few different reasons and it's to be expected and that's okay there's ebbs and flows and and who knows you know what i mean what's going to happen i have no no plan on stopping youtube but i don't have a lot of good plans for this year i don't want to do i did spend my time with my family over the course of like the winter and some of the spring now i'm going to be getting out again by myself and with the dog and some friends and filming and paying attention to filming more not so much family life and there may be some people say like why don't you just film around home and stuff because nobody want to see it you know what i mean like the the i've done family videos and like house videos and stuff like that just obvious that nobody cares about it right so why am i going to waste my time doing that filming editing putting it up there just like anger people and not have my content true to my brand right which is something i have somewhat struggled with in the past a few different times understanding why i couldn't do that but i get it it's just like people come for a certain thing. It's not my lifestyle. It's to be out here camping with me. And I get that. And I know that there's a core audience that will watch no matter what. And I really appreciate you guys. You guys are awesome. But I do have to cater to the bigger audience if I'm going to try to continue this as a career. Right? It only makes sense. But anyways, I've neglected the fort. I've neglected my channel. And for the first time in years, I haven't been neglecting my family. So, you know what I mean? Sue me if you have to. But, anyways, back on track. And Gonna be having some fun out here I'll even come out here with the bugs And introduce Wolf to Black Flies for the first time And have him have it real bad And build up a fire And have him understand That's how the bugs go away Because right now he doesn't like fires Life is good, kids are good Autumn's still having issues with her eye I think she has to get plastic surgery on it But that's okay If that's what has to happen Emerald's doing really well She has braces now Everything's good anyways thank you guys for watching this video just a short little one coming out to head to the fort and feeling it out seeing seeing what the damage is and seeing what I can do to improve it and stuff so I'm going to like I said we're gonna put those ribs up make make the make the roof on an angle put the ribs up and just have a tarp that we drape over when we want to if there's rain or inclement weather coming other than that maybe just probably leave it open and have the Sun hit all this stuff because as of now like they're standing here where it's has stayed dry underneath underneath this part of it this part solidly but everywhere else where it's been when it's it's pretty muddy like right and kind of dank oh hello little moth friend little moth friend in the fort foot got some good plans for this year I'm excited so we'll see you guys very very soon and have a good day. Off to find my dog now. Wolfenstein. Wolf here. Right under that tree like I'll cook for you. I'll cook you. I'll cook you. I'll cook you. I gotta give him a treat when he comes back before I put the leash on him so he doesn't think it's a punishment for coming back. Sausage. Will got me this carnivore club thing for Christmas. I get every couple months I thing it is you're in a box of meats cheeses and some like spicy mustards and all sorts of fun stuff maybe they're mating I've never really heard them in the daytime before like that go find up go find dog find dog find dog