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I think we're finished building, what are they called? Here we call a transcanada. They call it transchaco. Chocolate means a highway, Chaco highway. That's what the problem was called where we live. Chaco. Province. So we call it Tranchaco. That built. So, I mean, here and there, we are plane coming in, sometimes when they have heavy rain that the buses couldn't travel because it was not paved. was all dirt. And if they had heavy rains, they didn't let the buses go for up to a week. Well, the passengers won the transport, so they travelled by the plane with the DC tree. You know, the DC 3 is, you know? has these big propellers on each side, you know, loads of boat. All those different sizes. In general, they load 20 passengers. They used to use them in a war, you know? World War II. They built, I have books somewhere. They'll tell, they'll tell you. Every airplane words built and when it's built, and how many? And these, these are 3D built. I don't remember correct now. 4800 DC trees they built through that time. I mean, there are, and they also, also... They said exactly how many are there still... flying. They use, yeah, I said they used to use them in a war all the time. So that's what Paraguay had, uh, because it was all ruled by the military, you know, to those planes, but belonged all to the government, to the military, basically. So government or military, whatever, okay? So we would just, uh, or the, uh, those people would just hire the planes from the, uh, from the government or military or whatever it is. In those days, nobody has own. Now, now, lots of pains have these days, a lot of guys have their own planes, on planes. Where we lived up in that little town. They built an airport. Just before we came to Canada, they built an airport there. That was... It was just more for smaller planes, you know? But now, apparently, there's planes parked all the time now, and I know a guy from where he used to live here and he went and moved back there, and he bought himself a small plane, and Really? And same thing there, like, here, you, it's all all controlled by the government, you know, you, you have to be able to make transaction by radio, you know? Like here, let's say, wherever you flood, pick off, cello, like wherever you take off, you have to, cello don't have a tower. Uh, when you take off and cello, you have to let amateur no. that you're taken off, right, what plane and everything. Yeah, you have to make a flight plan, you know? I mean, you still make the flight plan where you're going. Yep. So that, um, Later on that they know what took for a few, if you, Go down somewhere, sure, yeah. We flew one time to Panticton, poor guys was to hired a plane. A friend of mine had license and this was before when I was married already. On a Saturday. We rented the plane in the morning, we flew to Kelowna, for lunch. Play big cuts. Because I had somebody living there. He was the builder I used to frame for him here in Abbotsford. So he picked us up at the airport, and we went out, had lunch, and he brought us back, and then what my friend did, I didn't like that. He went, like, totally against aviation rule. We had a, he had a plan made that we would fly, follow London, number 3 up to Princeton, from Princeton all the way to Karameas, and from there to Penticton, and once we were to Princeton, he made a decision to fly direct over to Cologne, to go like this, without notifying anybody. Wow. You know, now if we would have missed, been gone, gone. They don't know what to look for us. Yeah. That's, that's, that's enough. Every time what you're supposed to do, let's say, You take off here in Abbotsford. You're up to hope. You're supposed to notify Abbotsford where you are. Or if you want to make a little changes, every time you make changes, then you have to notify somebody. Right. Put in soon, one time, it came from me and... Turn of mine from actual IQ, the dairy pharma, He rented a plane. He was going to William stick for some parts, tractor parts when he asked me to come out. I went alone. We came up all the way to Spencer's Bridge, and I was getting very cloud, being dark, and so we decided to fly up to Meriden, follow the Cucahallas, so. Then you have to notify Kamloops right away. Well, regardless, you're supposed to notify cameras, even when you when spent this bridge. Right. That's one thing I don't do. I mean, I don't have to, but I supposed to make flight plans too, you know? It's all there, everything. It's amazing what you can do. They're already high. Yeah. I can make it so that. That's totally grain and lightning, thunder, you know, and dark. And it sounds real. Like, you hear the thunder and everything. how I can make it there. Yeah, yeah. I can make it scattered clouds, it can make it a few clouds, it can make it, set it on those high clouds or it's totally, totally covered as soon as you make it totally covered and you have a lot of turbulences. See, those turbulences come from... When you fly above heavy clouds, especially heavy rain clouds. The heat bounces off those clouds up and down. That's where the turbulence come from. Same thing when you fly to Calgary. When you come down from here on the outside, mother, when you fly and come from the south, just when you come over the hills, there are all this good turbulences. And that is because the hills go like this, and the heat goes up and down like that, where you got, we came about 4 years ago, we came from Hawaii. We were flying. For over 2 hours, I have above heavy rain clouds, you know, thunder clouds, I guess, and we have to have be on the seatbelts. Oh, the plane was shaking, the plane was shaking. And all of a sudden, notice, less, the stones, clothes are starting to get less or less, or less, and less the turbulence, all of a sudden, once clear, no more turbulences. Right. Yeah, I was, yeah. Hmm. Please, maybe have a healthy stack. Yeah, why don't you go ask Grandma. How are the swings? So you were on the swings, yeah? Did you hear us laughing? I did. It was so fun. We had to try and, like, catch each other's swings, it was so fun. Why don't you go ask Om if there's a snack you can have? Okay. Politely, okay? I came from Vancouver, Abbotsford. Guess what? I had the same problem with those guys that they couldn't get, uh, back in the manual. That why the planes went down. Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah, I listened, the last one I went down. I listened on YouTube there. How the pilots are, we're talking on a black tay on the black box. You can hear the talking back and forth, like what they couldn't get out of the computer. The computer didn't let it go back into manual.? Oh, bowling made big booboo there. Same thing with, but happened to me. I can't have it for. And somehow, I'm an autopilot. And it doesn't let me go out. couldn't control the band, so I crashed. Wow. Right away. Just like those guys. They... Just did actually happen... It went down. Yep. Wow. That has cost bowling billions of dollars. Yeah. Lot of, lot of... Suitcases, you know, are there, you know, so... Mm hmm, mm hmm. I, I fly that once in a while, but, uh... I have a, that problem. I can't find myself into the other pilot. The buttons are there. I somehow don't push the wrong button, the right button and can get it into autopilot. Hmm. But the 737, the Dreamliner, I fly now. No problem. We're getting into autopilot. Every plane is a little bit different, sure, with the whole system inside. Just like cars. Yep. Hmm, interesting. Well, grandma, I'm ready for my money. You have to do some work today? Oh, just a little bit. As everyone was sleeping, I decided to do some. Didn't have to, but I like what I do, yeah. I know what to do. Might as well. Yeah, it's um, it's fun to do a job that you love. It's a new thing for me, but I love what I do. Well, you know, Chris, that's why I'm doing what I'm doing. I have fun. Yeah. Like, doing my deck. I had absolutely fun. I wish I had ever did drops like that. Yeah. Yeah. And all the jobs that I do these days. I'm totally on my own. Nobody tells me what to do or how to do it. I go there, I know it. just have one look at it. I don't even have to think to do it. That's so it's fun. Have no competition. These days, got no competition. Right. Because the jobs that I do, nobody wants to do. Oh, interesting, okay. Well, like, contract. If I was a contractor, I want to be have time to do a deck like that. Sure, yeah, yeah. I have done this year. A lot of jobs. People can't get anybody, homeowners. They can't get anybody. So they phone me and I give them a price, this is the price ticket or leave it, this one, one can you start? When can you do it? So no competition. Wow. It is to my advantage. That's so much fun, you know? Yeah. You, you know, if you, you, though. You know, you make money. And for years, Chris, I have bought many jobs. You know, to keep my employees busy. Yeah. I have done houses quite a few houses. My employees made 24 bucks an hour, and I made 8 bucks an hour. Really? So just that you take care of your employees. You can do it only if for so long, that's just sure, yeah. Otherwise, then you don't survive. Yeah. Eight bucks an hour, there was nothing allowed for the truck yet. Fuel, you know, tear, you know, tear wear and tear and all that, nothing for a drop yet. I did for one contractor, he was... He was one of those contractors. He just said, this, that, uh, you don't know if, but, just do, do, dude. And seems like... He paid you what he wanted to pay and that's it. Yeah. I mean, as far as pay him, and... We barely had a house framed. Here, John, use your check already, you know? I mean, that part, he was, that part was good. That's really good, yeah. But he, he kind of thinks, he kind of figured, here, listen, I'm paying right away, and you're going to, you're going to have to do it for this price. But then I have done house, Chris. I made a lot of money. Yeah. Yeah. Did you have a, like what was your favourite house you ever built? Do you have one? Or your favourite job you've ever done? The most fun was the building is how these small houses, you know, what they call BC bug. That was fun, you know? Yeah. Once it comes to this, it's not... And what's this called? Engineered and uh, so... We did one also hope. That was the most complicated host I did ever did in my life. I was quite sure that I could do it, but, uh, he had a couple of contractors.ors He had to look at it. They hadn't even given enough price. or not interest. So, That was a good thing that he told me that. So now, basically, I was in driver's seat. Yeah, just whatever price you pick. So, I looked at that loop prefers and then, then I thought, no, wait, wait, wait. why take such a headache? Even Eric came and said, Yeah, well, why are you taking such a headache on like that? Yeah, is right. Oh, well, I mean, I looked at it. I think I could do it. If the price was right. Yeah. So, uh, gave him a price, yeah, I got it, so... And at the end, I ended up, uh, drawing him for the, set the fancy stairs inside. The way the draftsman had do it, didn't work. It was like a old house for an open area, and then, like, big, wide open trial, patrol open in the middle, then railing around, and you could look down at the lower level, okay? Yeah. And the way he had done that set of stairs didn't work. So I said to the own owner. Yeah, this is his name, he said, this doesn't work. So he must actually go back to the drawing, to the drawing, and I said, I think I have to draw you something near your like. So what we did is, in the middle, I came down to the stairs like this, and on the bottom, I floated them out like this, you know? Look very nice. And he was very happy with that. Yeah. And then we did one. One, they call it an addition, only, uh, 25 on a square feet addition to your house. That took me and my fellow, 2 months to frame it. We had the 1st floor on. And it had only a, it was a big house, and only one set of stairs to go up to the, to the upper level, and the lady said, John, we have one half to stop. We have to send us, we're looking back to Calgary and after the redraw, we really need another set of stairs. I said, How much does it going cost you? Couple of grand.. I said, You don't have to send it anywhere. So you tell me what you want. What? Just tell me what you want. I'll rob it. make up. So I say, every day, you come up with the list in the morning. Show me what you want, you'll do it. Cool. So you pay me the $10,000 and win up which, we get it. So I did exactly what she wanted. I had no problem with that. Wow. But, you know, those graphs people, they are not perfect either, you know, they share, of course. I guess. Maybe they didn't think it was necessary. I had a set of stairs. I mean, I mean, they could have done it. But I mean, it was nice having the 2 steps stairs. So it was a 2500 square foot addition to the house. So the house was huge. Must have been a huge mess. Yeah, the house before, yeah. It was about, they had already before about 12 in a square feet, have a house. Okay. And we added on like, I thought it was 25 on square feet. We added on, that was an addition. Okay. Wow. Yeah, that's a big house. You would need 2 sets. 2 people, yeah. Well, later on. They were still a younger couple and they later on, they apparently they adopted a couple of kids. Okay. But I've been told that they've been Separate and divorce long time already. He was a realtor. We were nice people, you know? Very nice people. We got everyday served coffee and served. They had a lot of fun. Realized people get along with them. And where was this house? Was this one in Hope? Chillo, I think this one's Chillo. Yeah, until like... Cold Fairfield Island. It's a different, east part of Chillowic, you know? I framed in total, 210 houses. But I have framed... plus two... duplexes. And one condo, 13 unit condo. And one 10 unit condo, one 6 unit condo, one 3 plex, one commercial building, one metal unit. And what was the last one? Motel unit. Oh, a motel unit. Yeah, and hope. That you framed? Cool. Yeah. It was an addition to an old motel, you know. Okay. What was the commercial building? What was the commercial building that you framed? It's like a store. Okay. It's also, hopefully, it's also where people live in there, but also like on the bottom big street. Oh, sure, yeah. And the bottom was all big store on top they lived. Yeah cool. And you framed the whole thing. Yeah. Wow. The whole thing, yeah. Okay, so were you were you mainly a framer? Was that like your main thing? Because you also had the back filling company for a while. That was just a frame. I had a crew all the time. Okay, yeah. Normally I have 2 guys working for me. Okay. That's where you make, where, as soon as you start having more guys, you don't make money anymore. Start losing money, yeah. If you could have a experience carpenter and then helper, you know? Well, sure, if he knew the stuff, too, it was nice. That was the most efficient. Making money. Yeah. Once you have started having three, four guys, there's so much running around, you know, things are not looked after, you know, that I didn't like it. I had up to four people working with. I didn't like it. I stayed for two. And for the last two years, a year and a half, I had only one, one guy working through. He was a retired policeman. Mm, it was good, good, good carpenter. And would you only, like, would you do one job at a time, or would you have a couple jobs going? Well, I mean, what we would do is do one house and sometimes we have to put a foundation for somebody, they could get ready for framing, you know? I would always do put foundations in between. Okay. that the framing would get ready. Yeah, the contract that could get it ready, yeah? We have put up to 3 basements in a row, you know? This year I did mostly everything myself. I did the foundation, I just hired a helper for the foundation. And then the framing up to the floor, and they're all everything on myself up to the floor. Put the floor on. Then after that run, of course, dad came and helped me with the rest. Okay. Basic, yeah. How should I say, I was his helper here. When we lived here, we had upset our trailer here. Yeah. I don't know. Actually, for 2 weeks when he was here, he lived in the trailer, and we lived in Shellowik, because we had to build the holster, and we lived in the new holster, but then when we had a framing done, but he went back home and we stayed here, a trailer. Yeah. I am, I don't think I've known dad. I was when he was framing, because when I met Courtney, he was already working for Grant, I think. So I don't know that part of his life. A number of years for me, he's a helper, yeah. Yeah. He was a good worker. He was a very good Finnish carpenter. He has done a lot of finishing for me. Cool. He was a good, very good finish, Harpenter. The only thing that he wasn't good is, he wasn't organized. He was young. Oh, he's still not organized though. He's still not organized. A couple of times, very frustrated about him. And he had also this. Never cleaning up. Mm. By his table saw by you, with Mitre saw that, it was so full, I drunk, he could be financed around. Do me a favour, clean up first. You're working in an unsafe environment. Mm. Cleaning. We had the rules on our framing job. We are not leaving the job till it's all cleaned up. Next morning you want to come and start at the clean job. I got twice an A from WCB. But they came to my job site. I said. Your job site is a very safe environment. Yeah. That's great. I am a person. I have fed everything. I have all this believe we're clean. Yeah. Organized. I didn't like it to be a lot of places. You run over two before, then you trip home. No. My upside had to be... nice and tidy. Yeah. That's good. Well, I think Grandma's good for me. Time?