Guess What Day It Is? It's Coming TODAY!!

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Well, good morning.

[00:00:02]Sitting over here in a shop today man.

[00:00:08]So, this project that I'm working on Oh, welcome back to another Scuttlebutt with Iivey's Family Factotem. I am Anson.

[00:00:17]Today is what? Wetness day. Hump day.

[00:00:21]What? What? Guess what day it is.

[00:00:26]Uh yeah, that that's how you know you're old, right?

[00:00:30]So, working on this project, this new project, and this one's going to take me a bit. It is something very, very repetitious.

[00:00:41]And well, I I don't want to show you like a whole lot, but I am. Look at this.

[00:00:48]See all that?

[00:00:52]Yeah.

[00:00:55]So, all that wood that was in the back of my truck, uh, that I had posted, right, that a new video is coming soon or a new project is coming soon. But I've been trying to finish up old projects first before starting. Well, I mean, obviously, I've already started this, but video-wise, I I'm trying to finish up projects that were already started on the Ivy's family factoum page. you know, that way we can kind of be said and done, clear slate, uh, with the new channel. Uh, which I mean, we're hitting some some pretty good milestones and we couldn't do it without y'all. So, we definitely thank you. Um, so far this channel, like we we've been stuck in a rut since January, like haven't been able to get out of the the 1130s, right, of subscribers.

[00:01:48]And we finally did that.

[00:01:51]We finally did that. We We got to 11 I think this morning whenever I checked.

[00:01:55]We're at 11:43.

[00:01:58]So, finally got out of that rut and it Yeah, it's been there for a little bit and I thank y'all, right? Cuz we definitely could not do that without you. So, if you're new here and you like to stick around on this journey of just behind the scenes oneonone talking head type stuff, uh shows you some sneak peeks of what's to come and just a few other stuff just, you know, life, right?

[00:02:25]Uh then go ahead, hit that subscribe.

[00:02:26]It's greatly appreciated. And then our our legacy DIY channel. Obviously, that's all of our we're building a legacy here on our property for our family, for us, for hopefully our future generation of grandkids once they come.

[00:02:41]We're still young. We don't have any grandkids yet. So, um, with that being said, my kiddo that's up in college, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama. Not with her, technically with her mother. So, uh, yeah, it's drama, drama, drama, drama, drama.

[00:03:05]There there's a reason why I got out of that toxic relationship, cuz she's nothing but drama.

[00:03:14]Oh, man. Wednesday, Wednesday. It's actually a little bit rainy today.

[00:03:18]That's why I'm actually inside the shop.

[00:03:20]Uh, I wouldn't be in the house, but the kiddo, our youngest autistic, u, but she is the type that loves to talk. Um, cuz, well, a few different things, right? Cuz she also has, um, Williamson's syndrome.

[00:03:39]So, it's it's cuz she has a a partial missing chromosome, right?

[00:03:46]Uh, along with, you know, being autistic. So, um, and like heart deformities and hence the reason why, if you didn't know, um, she was gifted a playhouse shed, right, that we're turning into a playhouse from Makea-Wish Foundation. Well, for Makea-Wish Foundation uh to be approved, right, your child actually has to have some type of disability that could be life-threatening, right, at some point in her life. Uh so that should tell you something, right? That yes, that stuff that I mean, she's doing good, don't get me wrong. Um but yeah, there there's always that chance of something not going good, right? But with with the things that she's got, she loves to talk talk talk talk, right? And even, you know, a lot of autistic kids will talk to themselves, right? And it is a form of stmming, right? What's called stmming that, you know, they just constantly want to do stuff.

[00:04:55]Not only will she talk to herself, but she's also talking cuz it's it almost sounds, you know, like someone that has like multiple personal multiple personality disorder.

[00:05:08]Um but it's it's not. Um to me sometimes I think it is cuz I mean she'll use a totally different voice and everything and go back and forth. Uh but no, it's it's uh definitely, you know, the the autistic side, but then whenever you're trying to do video work or trying to do stuff like that, right, it's not very ideal. Uh so this eventually is going to be my YouTube studio. Right now is still sitting up. So where this sits, if you didn't know, uh it's sitting on top of a concrete slab. This is where the old house used to sit. And right here in this spot of this concrete is actually was the master bedroom of that house.

[00:05:59]Um, which is kind of creepy a little bit, right? It is a little creepy. Um, there's actually a spot on the concrete back here in the corner. I think it's on this corner where it actually has like the the initials and and all that stuff carved into it.

[00:06:15]handprints, like all that stuff, names, dates, and stuff of like the folks that used to live here. And um there's actually that the their kid, right, is who sold us this property. I mean, she's not a kid now. She's an adult. I mean, she's like around my age, maybe uh a little bit older.

[00:06:36]So, yeah. you know, on once her cuz her dad was here by himself had lung cancer, which I can see why because he smoked a lot of Marble Reds because this house was filled thousands thousands of empty packs of Marble Reds.

[00:06:53]And if you'd like to see that, right, you'd have to go back to the Ivy's Family Factotem page and go look at some of those videos because we have, you know, some older like cuz we've been here for about going on three years, right? So, it's December when when did we actually get onto the property? So, cuz we had closed on this property, but we were still living at my buddy's place. That's just a couple towns over, right? Or townships, I guess you should say, because they're still part of the town that we live in. Um, but it's township cuz technically we don't live in town either. We live in a township that's part of the big town, right?

[00:07:45]And but I mean for him it's it's still an actual because they have their own post post office, right? But that's really all that's there. Post office and a church. I think there's no other businesses. Um well, there's a gas station that's further. It's a truck stop gas station. But anyway, I digress.

[00:08:07]Sometimes I'd be like u but we were still living there whenever we own the property and we had to clean it obviously get rid of the house. I mean this place hasoo for folks that have been with us for a while you know that it's night and day.

[00:08:24]So I do have videos up of like when we first came to the property before we even owned it of you know we were still going through all the paperwork and stuff. We hadn't closed on it yet, but we came and did like a tour of the the property and looked at everything, ended up having to come through. So, we we got permission because the gate where the gate was like where our gate is now, the wood gate um used to be just a regular cattle gate and like a metal gate and it had a chain on it with a lock to keep folks out. But yet, folks were still coming on here because the barbed wire fence on the front of the property was cut down.

[00:09:05]Right. So, people were still coming through anyway. And obviously, the house had already been broken into. A lot of stuff was taken out of it. Uh yeah, you know, that that's stuff that happens around here. So, um we we got, you know, permission to cut the lock and come on and and check out the property and everything. But yeah, this house that was here was it was like a single wide trailer in the front portion of it. And that's kind of like where this slab is was an addition.

[00:09:36]So it had the trailer on the front, but then in the very front it had like rock built structures from all the rocks on the property. That's why a lot of these rocks that I've been using on like the gabian wall project and a lot of other stuff, you know, has come obviously from this house. Uh it had a lot of rocks all the way around the perimeter of the house, you know, so obviously we've dug dug up a lot of new rocks. Uh, but I would say, you know, so far 50 to 60% of the rocks that we've been using came from the h the old house that was on this property. So, it's pretty crazy. But the thing is, this concrete is elevated like almost 3 feet off the ground of where you know the the other ground goes. And I built kind of like a little dirt ramp. So as I sit right cuz the the door is here, right? That's the door. So this is lengthways and then right behind y'all is where it kind of goes down. Well, the thing is that the skids of this building go this way. But I need the building to go that way. So, I'm going to have to put I'm going to have to jack this building up, put other temporary skids underneath this thing, screw it down, that way I can pull the building off the concrete down, and then I have to jack it back up, take those temporary skids off, which this was one of those kits from Home Depot that you build yourselves, right? Well, the skids that are on this don't even go the entire length, right?

[00:11:19]Because this is a 16. It's a 12 x 16, but the skids they give you are two-piece, right? So, and then they just butt joint together right here in the middle. So, it's not even a full skid.

[00:11:31]So, more than likely I am going to end up, you know, putting another set of skids, at least two, underneath probably the the whole length of this. That way, it's just one solid piece to be able to move this. So, originally we had talked about as well, which I I'm I'll go ahead and talk about it because we're not going to do it anymore. Um, we had originally talked about taking this building over on top of like where the gabian wall project is and pouring a concrete slab and then taking this building over there, disconnecting the walls and everything from the floor, right? Cuz this this just has a wood floor, right? Typical shed with skids on the bottom of it. has four four skids and they're just 4x4s um that are 8 foot and 8 foot, right? And then they cuz they they have kind of like that that little wedge cut on the the ends, but where they join right here in the middle is just butt jointed. And then everything is screwed down. And I don't know if I can kind of show you um if you see like like this, right?

[00:12:49]So, I put in like timber locks, right?

[00:12:54]Same thing over here, right? It's not just a a little screw like I actually put in. I mean, it has regular screws and nails. Um, but areas like I don't know, there should be more going through. Um, but yeah, I I did put timber locks in a few spots. I was just trying to see right now. They're probably filled with dirt and I just don't see them. Um, or covered with other stuff. So, I do know that if I was to skid this thing uh on its own skids that they're not going to go anywhere, but I I still just feel better in knowing that uh putting new skids. But the thing is with this, originally I was going to put it onto a concrete slab, jack up the building, take this wood floor out, and then I wanted to set it down cuz most sheds the wall is not like standard wall height of like a home, right? So, I was going to build a little pony wall to where this is jacked up. build a pony wall and then set this down onto the pony wall to give it a standard stud height, right, of what you would normally have in a house.

[00:14:19]And I'm no longer going to do that. Uh, for one, concrete concrete in our area right now, especially with, you know, the diesel prices and just all the other stuff, right? Delivery and u concrete is stupid expensive. I don't have any experience really with concrete. So, for me, you know, I would need to hire it out if if I want it to be a decent, you know, concrete slab that I can use as a floor cuz I didn't want to put any other type of flooring, right? I wanted it to be a a polished finished floor, something that I can use, right?

[00:14:59]Well, in hiring somebody out, it it was going to be Oh, what was it? I mean, a a couple couple thousand dollars, right? And I just don't have it. So, here coming up very, very soon. Uh more than likely next month is what I'm looking at cuz right now the schedule that I'm on the schedule that of projects and things along with a few other things that I'm doing. U cuz this this project here that I just showed the sneak peek of wasn't even on our projects list, right? I'm still kind of going through that as well and then have other things to do. Today is actually a very special day cuz I I'm actually receiving uh the last thing that we had talked about over by the pond that's coming in today. That's so fast. That's like 5 days in shipping. Crazy. And then I have another something coming today.

[00:16:04]So I actually have two things coming today. And then I got something coming tomorrow.

[00:16:10]Uh, thanks to Uncle Billy.

[00:16:14]Yeah, thank you, Uncle Billy. That should be coming tomorrow, too.

[00:16:23]Uncle Billy and Aunt Rhonda down in Louisiana. Yeah, that that's a a brother from another mother and another mister.

[00:16:33]We're not blood related, but we are brothers.

[00:16:36]Um, yeah, you you should understand that. Uh so yeah, super exciting today, which it's a little rainy today, so that's that's kind of h not ideal, but it's okay. So I've I've already talked to the not the delivery driver. I actually talked to their dispatch and that they are coming today uh from Fort Smith. So that's an hour drive. uh he'll give me a 30 minutes head up, like a 30 minute uh heads up whenever he gets here or whenever he's getting here. Um just to kind of help, you know, come in the back cuz obviously it's a coming on semi.

[00:17:22]Yeah. Something big. Something big. And I'm so excited.

[00:17:29]All right.

[00:17:31]See, I'm not good at at keeping secrets.

[00:17:33]I don't like keeping secrets from y'all.

[00:17:35]I don't I'm not that type. There's so many people out there that do that that they're like, "Oh, we've been keeping a secret from you." Or, "Oh, we've been doing this." Or, "Oh, we've had this for months and months and months and we've been keeping this a secret from y'all."

[00:17:49]Right? That they do that to get the views to get the views.

[00:17:55]But I don't like keeping secrets.

[00:17:58]But I I'm still not going to share what it is. A lot of folks have already guessed and uh then y'all right. So if you know, you know. Uh but you can't tell nobody.

[00:18:14]Can't tell nobody. All right. So yeah, with that being said, I'm going to go Joe Boo needs re refill. My coffee is just about empty, so I'm going to go in.

[00:18:24]It's just about breakfast time. Breaking that fast.

[00:18:28]Um yeah.

[00:18:31]exciting times coming. I'm going to be very very busy. Very, very busy. There's so much stuff to do. Uh once uh this is going, so much stuff to do, man. I I just like giving myself more work. That's what it is.

[00:18:50]All right, y'all. Get out there. Thank a veteran with every chance you get. Not only on Veterans Day. You never know when it's going to be their last day.

[00:18:56]And if you'd like to stick around a little bit further on this journey we call life, check out this video right here that YouTube suggests. And we will see you on our next one. Later, friends.