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Got up extra early this morning to make my deliveries and enjoy a little coffee time with Natasha before she had to head off to work on what was supposed to be a day off. Speaking of day off… today is my day off so I decided to make a nice dinner. That being bbq boneless chicken thighs and scalloped potatoes. Tenley, Byla and I also hit the beach to enjoy a little time in the lake. Tomorrow is another day off and we’re hitting the open road for a little fun and adventure. Join us! Shall you? VLOGDATE 844 - July 31/2023 #swimming #cooking #firewood

Hello folks, I finally got my hands on an electric chainsaw. I’ve been wanting one for quite sometime. As many of you know I enjoy getting outdoors and camping. In most cases I only ever get out for one night so relax time is low. Adding this Saker Mini Electric Chainsaw to my pack was an easy choice for two reasons. It’s lightweight weighing in at 5.125lbs and it saves me a ton of time prepping firewood. What used to take me hours I can prepare now in literally minutes. After only one use I’m very happy with this acquisition but time will tell. You’ll be seeing it in future wild camping videos. VLOGDATE 843 - July 24/2023 #outdoors #campinggear #chainsaws

VLOGDATE 842 - July 17/2023 Started off the day delivering bread, pepperoni cheese sticks & egg salad bunwiches to the station. I then returned home to enjoy a coffee and chat with Natasha before she had to go to work. It was supposed to be her day off today. Picked a bunch of raspberries. The raspberry bush is booming this year. I should be able to get another bucket full in a day or two. Hopped onto my motorcycle and hit the grocery store. I wanted to make Natasha a nice feast. She’s been working lots and working hard so I feel it’s the least I can do for her. After loading up the Dutch Oven I finally got down to the shop. I needed to replace a signal light and I’ve been wanting to put fenders on my bike for over a year now. So that’s what I did. #garage #diy #dutchoven

VLOGDATE 841 - July 11/2023 Hello and welcome to my (almost) daily vlog. If you enjoy my videos please consider subscribing. I came up with the Cajun Chicken Deco Burger over 20 years ago. Back when I was a line cook. It started out as a lunch special but it quickly became a regular item on the menu. It remained on their menu for many many years even after I no longer worked there. Back in 2019 when Natasha & I leased the clubhouse restaurant at the golf course I revived the Deco where it dominated our sales. It truly is a fantastic chicken sandwich. #cooking #chickenburger #chickensandwich

VLOGDATE 840 - July 10/2023 Tough waking up this morning. Only because I stayed up so late last night prepping food to sell at the station and editing vlog 839. Once I returned home I joined Natasha for a couple of cups of coffee and headed outdoors to do my daily light watering in the gardens. After receiving the firewood we purchased I decided to catchup on a few 💤 with a quick 40 winks. Natasha, Tenley and I then jumped into the car to go see if the Boreal Toads had started their migration but we only saw a couple frogs and a couple tadpoles. We’re going back in a few week. Splurged and bought a couple beautiful steaks for dinner. Baked potato, asparagus, yellow & red bell peppers, mushrooms and broccoli. Oh so good….just like today with my family…. OH SO GOOD #outdoors #mountainlife #cookingsteak

VLOGDATE 839 - July 9/2023 Hello friends. I started my day drinking a coffee with Natasha before she had to go to work. After that I jumped on my motorcycle and rode to the grocery store to buy buns, eggs, and green onions. I have an order for 12 egg salad sandwiches on Monday. Speaking of Monday, it’s my day off, WHOOP WHOOP! Played a little ROBLOX with Tenley today. That’s always fun and if you’re on ROBLOX feel free to look me up under CarlTheMadman311 and add me as a friend. Had a 6 hour shift at the station. It was busy and hot. Well I guess it’s the humidity more so then the actual heat. After work I finished making my egg salad sandwiches and sliced up tomorrows bread. #eggsalad #playingroblox #gardentour

VLOGDATE 838 - July 7/2023 Oh the glories of riding motorcycles, although I wouldn’t trade it for anything. 49 years I’ve been riding now! WOW! Anyways, we needed supplies today so I made 3 trips to the store to pick it all up. It’s not that far, 2 kilometres maybe. #bikerlifestyle #rider #backandforth

VLOGDATE 837 - July 6/2023 Well I think I’ve finally figured it out. I’ll do shorts vlogs and regular vlogs all depending on the day and what comes my way. Either way I thank you all for following along. I’ve just recently joined the #tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@carlthemadman33 #shorts #chorizos

VLOGDATE 836 - July 5/2022 My mini holiday is over. Back to work I go. Kaitlynn took off on an adventure for a week or so this morning. The Mighty Mooshka had a run in with Byla The Berzerker today. Good thing that panel of glass was there to impede the senseless behaviour of that non-disciplined cat lol. #catsanddogs #catshorts #dogshorts

VLOGDATE 835 - July 4/2023 I don’t think calling me a backyard boy would be accurate lol. I spent nearly the entire day lounging about in the backyard today. Relaxing and enjoying the view. Playing with Byla the Berzerker and chatting with Natasha. One of the most relaxed, kicked back, do nothing days I’ve had in a long long time. It was nice! #relaxation #lounging #backyard

VLOGDATE 833 - July 2/2023 To kickoff my first day off I went to work lol, just to check in with Daryl and enjoy a fresh, hot, delicious, and aromatic cup off Kootenay Coffee. Raced back home and got to work baking bread and pepperoni cheese sticks. After completing those I rode my motorcycle down to the market to get the ingredients I needed to make a lasagna. I wanted to make a nice dinner for Natasha & Kaitlynn because they had a big and busy days work. I spent quite a bit of time today trying to capture various shots of scenery and wildlife. Continued the ​⁠ garden in a bucket series. Kept an eye on my beautiful wife as she watered her plants as well. Sliced up the bread for morning delivery and played a game of Yahtzee with Kaitlynn. She defeated me only because of beginners luck. Next time I’ll crush her! #vlogsvideo #scenery #wildlifevideography

VLOGDATE 732: July 1/22, Can’t beat a good cup of coffee to start the day. Can’t beat messing with Natasha’s head to start the day. Can’t beat checking out the baby cucumbers, dill and nasturtiums. Can’t beat being given a beautiful picture of your mother from many many years back. You just can’t beat it. #vloggers #canadaday #cantbeatit

VLOGDATE 831 - June 30/2023 Only because I’m the best husband in the world I jumped into the car this morning and took Natasha’s car to the station for petroleum so she didn’t have too 🤪 Baked bread, pepperoni cheese sticks but more importantly I made myself breakfast. Possibly the best breakfast I’ve ever had. I was gifted a pound of morels yesterday so today I fried them up in my cast iron frying pan with butter and added them to my steak & eggs. Oh my gosh…. So tasty, so good. Absolutely golden. What a treat. Put in a 7 hour shift at the station today and wrapped up my evening watching episode 3 ‘People Are a Resource’ of TWD DEAD CITY! I’m absolutely loving this spinoff series of The Walking Dead #morelmushrooms #deadcity #vloggers

VLOGDATE 830 - June 28/2023 In typical fashion Byla started my day by waking up and wanting to play play play…. while I’m still trying to sleep of course. My little monster 🐕‍🦺 When Tenley got out of bed today she came downstairs and played the Happy Birthday Song with her whistles. I heated up the cast iron frying pan and cooked Byla her very own cheeseburger. No birthday cake, just birthday burger lol. The station has switched to summer hours now meaning I have to work an additional hour. Not my favourite thing to do right now as I’m feeling burnt out and looking forward to all the days off I can get. I was given a great gift tonight at work. A customer came in and gave me a little box full of morels. Oh I can’t wait to gobble this down. If you enjoy my vlogs please consider subscribing, see ya next time #castironcooking #morels #birthdaydog

VLOGDATE 829: June 27, 2023 Hello and welcome to…. AS THE WORLD SPINS with Carl the Madman and family. Kicked off the morning drinking coffee and eating gruel…. Okay, it was oatmeal! Blaa Blaa Blaa! Tenley and I made a run to the transfer station with 3 bags of garbage. Who knew going to the dump could be so much fun lol, we scored a kick board out of the free stuff. WINNING! Hung out in the backyard and practiced pitching the golf ball. Damn Byla 🐕‍🦺 steals all my golf balls. One of my favourite things about having a day off is that I get to cook dinner. Tonight we had some steaks that I had marinating (for a few hours), baked potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots. Natasha made a great cheese sauce. Sautéed some mushrooms. Oh man, so damn good. Steak is a treat now that it’s become outrageously expensive. A tear it was. More driving lessons with Kaitlynn. Only because I wanted a Full Throttle Energy Drink. Looks like a storm might roll in tonight. Thanks for watching and if you enjoy these videos please consider subscribing. #cookingsteak #golfdrills #freestuff

It might be Sunday but for me it’s my Friday. Two whole days off and I’m a ever ready for them. So, I’ve got a question for those of you that follow along and watch my vlogs. QUESTION? Do you prefer my videos recorded in the traditional horizontal or the vertical format? Please take a second and answer me either in the comments or shoot me an email at ctmadman @ zohomail . com (no spaces in the email address, I’m just trying to avoid the email bots) Had two beautiful old cars show up at the station today. I was to busy to ask them the manufacturing date. That Buick Special was something special, well at least to me. I loved it. #classiccars #antiques #vlogger

VLOGDATE 828: June 26/2023 After enjoying a coffee and chat with Natasha this morning I jumped on the motorcycle and headed for the hardware stores. Ended up needing to go to both ACE Hardware and Home Hardware to get the things I needed to fix the hose and to fix the deck. After lunch Tenley and I decided to have a water fight. It wasn’t much of a fight though as I dominated the match. I absolutely destroyed her! 🙂 Went for a ride on the motorbike. It was a gorgeous day for a motorcycle ride. My 1982 Honda 500cc single is running fantastic. When I got back home I enjoyed a Pepsi but I made the error of littering in Natasha’s garden 🤪 Cooked some dinner. We had pork cooked in a cast iron frying pan as well as onions and mushrooms. Made time for driving lessons and a quick play with Byla in the back yard. Now I’m editing 👍🏻 #castironcooking #ridetolive #livetoride

Had a full day today plus a lot of fun. Started off baking goods to sell at the station. Byla harassed Tenley for awhile and then I taught her (Byla the dog) how to forage for gooseberries. She loves them as much as I do 🙂 After playing with Byla and heading inside I heard the water running and went to investigate. Seems our water hose had a blowout. Easy enough to fix when I get the parts. Before I knew it the time had come for me to get to work so I jumped on my 1982 Honda 500cc single and bopped down to work. Made the most of a busy day by having a little fun with Ethan (Lenny). Well fun for me at least lol. Called it a day by petting The Mighty Mooshka Cat before heading downstairs to see Byla. Thoughts: Even on the most redundant of days, most uncomfortable days, and days you don’t want to go to work its important to seek goodness, seek a little fun and put smiles on people’s faces. You’re only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🙂 #funtime #goodtimes #immature

Vlogdate: Thursday, June 22/2023 I enjoyed a full day today. Got up at 5:50 to have a coffee with Natasha before she headed off to work. Gave my dog Byla her daily combing and made myself some oatmeal. After that I washed my dishes while waiting for Tenley to wake up. Once Tenley got out of bed I fired up the cast iron frying pan and made her a ham & cheese omelette. Watched some of the PGA before heading outside to play fetch with Byla. Then it’s off to work. I guy had a couple antique chainsaws in the back of his truck today. Super cool to see. Don’t know the years but he had a Pioneer 620 & Pioneer 750. The pioneer chainsaws were made in Canada. After work Kaitlynn took me out driving. I also caught s1-e2 of TWD Dead City. So far I’m really enjoying this spinoff from The Walking Dead. I was never much of a Maggy fan but Negan is my favourite character in the entire Walking Dead universe so he carries the show for me. #antiques #twddeadcity #castironcooking

Wishing my big brother (Moose) a happy birthday today. I hope this special day brings you all the joy and happiness you can fathom. Thanks for all the great memories and I hope we’ll be fortunate enough to create some new ones someday. Just beware of being in a cow pasture with me because I owe you one… lololololol I’ve looked up to you my entire life. I love you and thank you for being my brother. #brothersforever #familylove #skol

Only one day off this week and I surely wasn’t going to waste it. Pre-vlog: Natasha and I started off the day like normal drinking coffee, chatting and combing Byla. Then we ordered her a brand new iPhone 14 Pro. I’m excruciating jealous lol, my old iPhone 11 does the job but her new phone would be a vlogging powerhouse… anyways. Then we jumped into the car and hit the local grocery store to take advantage of the sales. When we got back home we made a little breakfast for everyone. Vlog: The family and I loaded into the car had left for the city. We picked up more groceries at the MalWart, checked out a couple thrift stores, grabbed a snack and hit the aquatic centre for a little fun.. and fun it was. We stopped at Starbucks on the way home for some special treats. Post-vlog: When we got home Natasha & I rushed downstairs to see Byla. It was a long day alone for her. Probably the longest day alone she’s had. Much to our surprise she managed to not have any accidents on the floor. She’s such a good little critter. Natasha gave her a new dog toy and she absolutely loves it. Then we put away the groceries, I fired up the mixer and made bread and pepperoni cheese sticks. Epilogue: It was a great family day today. I had a wonderful and fun time with Natasha and our daughters. One day I’ll look back on this day with a huge smile on my face. It was a perfect day… well, other then Natasha getting that kick ass new phone lol. Life is short my friends, don’t waste it. Live, love and laugh. Don’t hold onto grudges and anger. It’s not worth it. Try to be happy everyday, try to make someone smile….. EVERYDAY! #aquaticfun #familylove #growth

Well, I made it. I completed the 28 day shorts vlog challenge. I feel as though I learned a lot as a content creator. The art of quick edits and time management. I definitely had moments where I found it tough to stay motivated. That was only because of the redundancy of many of my days. That’s the one thing about YouTube shorts. They’re short lol. I had some days where I had to cut out content and others where I struggled to have enough. Initially I had a tough time getting used to recording in the upright position with my phone. I’d prefer to record these vlogs horizontally but that’s not an option YouTube gives us at this time. I’ve decided to continue doing daily shorts vlogs, I’ll still create more traditional content when I’m doing something special like camping, cookouts, and time in the moto garage. GO CHECK OUT THESE 28 DAY SHORTS VLOG PARTICIPANTS FLINT AND STEEL SURVIVAL SCUMDOG FISHING SKADI VLOGS #vlogchallenge #shortsvlog #contentcreators See you tomorrow!

Happy Fathers Day to all. I consider myself the luckiest man in the world to have these two wonderful daughters in my life. I’ve always strived to be a great father. I know I’m not perfect, I’ve made/make mistakes but overall I think I’ve done a pretty good job to this point. My father ment the world to me. He wasn’t prefect either but he loved, cared and provided for us as best he could and that’s what I try to do myself. #fatherlove #vlogchallenge #shortsvlog

Timelines Todays intro segment was recorded while I was doing my bread delivery to the gas station. After returning home I played with my dog Byla for a little bit while waiting for the grocery store to open. Rode my motorcycle down, grabbed a few things and ripped back home. Made breakfast for my daughter Tenley. She schooled me about jumping spiders. Then I remembered that it was Saturday CATURDAY so I gave the Mighty Mooshka a good little patting and snuggles. Off to work I go, Saturdays are a longer day for me at the station. Nothing exciting happened there today. Cruised home afterwards and started the daily process of editing these shorts vlogs. #vlogchallenge #dailyvlog #catsanddogs If you enjoy my videos please consider subscribing

I’ve been baking bread for over 20 years, I’ve baked literally thousands of loaves. Today something special happened…. THE PERFECT LOAF! #bakingbread #bumblebee #slowmotion