From Ranch to Residence: Finding Home Again

e [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey there guys welcome back to Beyond The Ranch my name is Mike and look at that I've got a tree got another little tree over there and I've got a tree right there welcome to my new home I'm going to give you a little bit little bit of a tour coming up um but first let's head inside and have a little chat and talk about uh how the last couple weeks went down and uh and what we've been doing so this is the very first time by the way that I've got to mow my lawn obviously it's a little bit different than hang but uh very very rewarding uh the lawn mower I actually borrowed from a friend of mine until I can buy it uh from him and uh yeah I'm still looking for a weed whacker but other than that we're good to [Music] go all righty guys welcome to my living room I got to tell you it seems like it's taken a ridiculous amount of time to get to this point but here we are uh in the house um I have now been in here for a little bit over a week the kids stayed with me all last week they've got their own bedrooms I'm going to show you there uh what we've got going on there and uh they have some new friends that I'm going to introduce you to as well we're going to take a little tour of the house uh but first I wanted to uh just kind of sit down talk to you guys about uh um the last couple weeks and and how it's been going so uh obviously I've been a little bit absent here on YouTube we posted a few shorts we've done some stuff on patreon and thank you very much for being patreon supporters if you are uh but uh it's kind of been a week of moving um little bit of an emotional couple weeks um getting everything out of the Airbnb and getting everything moved in here trying to clean up the Airbnb as much as possible after I left and uh you know I've had a lot of time to think and and self-reflect and one of the things that I really thought about a lot was um YouTube itself and how things can obviously obviously with the the news of eron and I getting divorce you guys can see how things can look on YouTube it can be completely different um in real life and it really got me thinking about this YouTube channel and how I wanted to do things and how I wanted to move forward and um I can tell you like um you know not everything is true that you see on YouTube uh and whether it's uh a flat out livee or it's just something that's alluded to or or cut around because obviously editing can make a huge difference on everything so um I thought that I would start uh today off uh well obviously Mowing and all that kind of good stuff but I thought I'd start out today with a with a truth and my truth today is that I haven't had a cigarette in a week a lot of you guys never even knew I smoked um in fact I didn't I quit smoking originally in I want to say right around 2017 somewhere in there um didn't have a cigarette uh you know maybe snuck one here and there um but didn't have any cigarettes uh on a regular basis until uh here recently once the divorce started going um I did I did pick up smoking again ended up smoking uh for the last few months and uh one of the promises that I made to myself and I made to the kids was that when we moved into the new house I would quit smoking and so now it has been a week since I have had a cigarette so there you go I have completely quit smoking let's go take a look around the house a little bit guys talk some [Music] more so this house actually worked out perfectly it's the same house that I showed you guys in a video uh a few months ago months ago two months ago whatever it was um obviously I'm lacking a little bit as far as window or not window but wall decor um that kind of stuff not really up my alley but um I do have this over here uh this is a picture of me and one of our Senators and uh this is kind of falling apart here but this is my badge and um challenge coin collection a lot of these actually given to me by subscribers a few of them are my own I was a a cop in the military so there's my badge from when I was a a police officer in the Air Force um and a bunch of coins from when I was in and of course a lot of other ones from friends and everything else so kind of a cool thing one of the first things I actually got up in the house but the very first thing that I put up in the house when I got the place um actually ended up moving in before uh we closed on the place and that's uh got a little bit thing called an early occupancy deal which was totally fine but the very first thing that I put in this house when I came up here was this this is uh something that Grace made for me a couple years ago it actually sat next to my bed and now it is actually followed me from each house that I've lived in so um that's something that's pretty important to me uh this is my little kitchen it's not much it's small um but you know I do have a a coffee maker over there I've got a toaster and a cutting board and even an air fryer uh which uh comes in handy so does the microwave single guy things uh the hallway which is not one of the most interesting rooms in the place including the the bathroom over there and then what we have here is an interesting situation because I don't want the bathroom as my background interesting situation because we have three bedrooms upstairs and one bedroom downstairs in the unfinished basement and uh I went to the kids and I said okay where are we going to do our bedrooms and I said somebody's going to have to have a bedroom in the basement so McKenzie and Grace chose to take these two rooms but that's not originally how it was Mackenzie wanted the master bedroom which I was fine with it didn't really bother me I was going to stay down in the basement but that would have put Lincoln in this room and Grace our 10-year-old looked right at me and said I am not sharing a bathroom with Lincoln so McKenzie agreed to share a bathroom with Grace which is this bathroom and MacKenzie's room and Grace's room and Lincoln ended up with the master bed bedroom uh with his little bed and some candy you guys remember these I can't believe they found these are the little wax um whatever they are wax Li wax sodas or I can't remember what they're called but the kids found them apparently they like them so anyway this is uh Lincoln's little bedroom a big bedroom actually master bedroom and he's got his own little bathroom in here also so you know he's kind of living the high life um actually I have to share that bathroom with him cuz I don't have a bathroom downstairs yet and this right here behind me is the very first uh new addition to uh my little ranch a little what 9,000 ft ranch or whatever I've got here um including the the the yard and this is Sheldon Sheldon is a turtle Lincoln wanted a pet that he could have here and I have no idea where Sheldon is at I actually need to clean his water there he is let's see if I can get him out of here for you so you can meet him come here bud oh there he is so I know he's hard to see but that is Sheldon Sheldon the turtle hi Sheldon he's actually pretty friendly um he comes out strolls around occasionally um Lincoln always wanted a turtle so that's what he got his own little housewarming gift uh as we head across the hall here we're going to stop by Grace's room uh funny story about this when I came and looked at the house the very first time this desk was in here and uh I brought Grace and the kids to come and look at it with the realtor and Grace decided she loved this desk so they were not the the previous owners were not moved out yet at that point and um I went to the realtor and I said hey is there any chance we can buy that desk so that we can keep it in here and the uh the owners went ahead and and left it for us also Grace has her bongos which are super fun when Grace can't sleep and she decides to play the Bongos another new addition is over here in Grace's room now this is Fifi Fifi is a feret Grace decided she wanted a feret and you know what I was actually kind of uh back and forth on this one because I've always heard that ferrets stink they you know they're just nasty animals um but actually she's not bad I mean she does she has a little bit of an odor to her but it's not bad um we have deodorant for her she's actually been desentedents you can comment below and tell people but the they they steal everything anything you leave laying on the ground she's going to take doesn't matter what it is Keys uh a washcloth whatever else whatever hits the ground she's going to steal stuffed animals she's really good at stealing those okay now we're going to head into Kenzie's room Kenzie is my 13-year-old they are with their mom right now um but this is her little room she's got her little makeup area over there these are not Barbie dolls these are like goth Barbie dolls or something I can't remember what they're called nightmare high or something and uh she was really into that for a little while but now what she's really into is her newest friend and she's right over here [Music] oh there she [Music] is this is Casper Casper is a ball python um with a lot of white on her she's almost albino I think but she's actually pretty sweet as far as snakes go I know some of you guys AR snake people and you're probably turning off the video right now but I get [Music] it I know this is weird uh for a lot of people they're used to seeing me on the ranch or used to seeing me in a cowboy hat and now doing Ranch things and here I am mowing lawn and playing with animals and uh not even like farm animals or they're Turtles and snakes and ferrets it's weird for me too trust me but it's uh it's not a bad thing and I'm G to tell you why here's what I know so a couple days ago um you guys you guys know that I took a new job at cbh Co-op and and I'm their marketing director and doing all this kind of stuff and a couple days ago I'm actually uh on a conference call uh with the uh guy who whoever's in charge of parks and wreck in the city of spe fish and we're talking about a sponsorship uh that we're going to do for some of their softball fields we're going to give them some money we're going to do the concession stand whatever else and he stops the meeting somewhat kind of in the beginning of the meeting and he says hey don't you have a YouTube channel and I said yep I sure do and he said oh I've been watching quite a while and there he let it that was it let it go and uh we go through the whole meeting get the sponsorship stuff all lined up and then I get an email from this guy and uh if you're from Spearfish you probably know who he is but if uh um so anyway he says uh you know I just really wanted to thank you for your channel and what you've done um it inspired my wife and kids and I to move out of the city and move into the country and uh try our hand at ranching and we've now got some animals and some you know whatever else they've got going on and it really made me feel good cuz it was like you know you inspired us to do something the ironic part is that I went the other way and went from the ranch to town I guess that's the weird part of all of it I went from thousands of acres to 9,000 square ft um and uh it's a little different but it's not different in a bad way it's just different different doesn't always mean bad so this is my house this is a living room we've looked at the kids' rooms we're going to go downstairs now um where we're actually going to be able to do some work together and that is going to be in the basement um as I've mentioned before it's an unfinished basement so we're going to be doing a lot of work down here um getting this stuff fixed up and ready to go obviously um you know just be studs some drywall this is my bedroom and of course I've got my editing computer over here so I can make sure I get videos out to you guys excuse the mess by the way um I am still in the process of getting this computer set up that's part of the reason that I haven't had any videos going for a while is because I had this computer all torn apart so in the process of getting them put back together we got a little laundry room over there furnaces all that kind of stuff and that's what's um taking care of the house also so we are going to end up finishing this entire area we'll have a bathroom over in that side hopefully and I'm going to bring you along for that process hopefully throughout the summer I've got to save up some money uh so that I can do it and uh get it done right so uh we're going to end up having to hire a PL plumber for some of the uh Plumbing stuff just cuz I can't do that um mostly because the drain for the bathtub is actually underneath the concrete so we're going to have to come in and chip out concrete and move the drain because it's too close to where the commode would go there's all kinds of fun stuff going on over there so we're going to head out in the front yard um we're going to take a look at the house itself and I'm going to tell you what's coming up next here on Beyond The Ranch because this is not it uh we aren't always going to be inside the house we're going to be bouncing around we're going to do be doing a few things out and around in Campbell County and in Wyoming as well um there it is there's the house and uh I invite you to come along with me for that our very next video as long as I can pull it off is going to be from a Bitcoin mining facility here in Campbell County friend of mine Tai is actually one of the people that run it and he has offered although I haven't taken him up on that offer yet U but I will he has offered to give give us a tour of the Bitcoin mining facility so that's going to be a lot of fun um it's going to be fun working on this house getting it all ready to go making sure that it's safe and very livable which it already is I'm actually pretty dang comfortable here um the kids really seem to like it they got a chance to you know McKenzie walks to school we live so close um the little kids they can ride their bikes they can go to parks they can do stuff that they never got a chance to do on the ranch and well again it's different but that doesn't make it bad there is such thing is different good so thank you very much for hanging out with me once again I do appreciate it hope you enjoyed the little chat and a little tour um we're going to be like I said doing a lot more work in here we're also going to be taking a look around the community seeing where we can get our hands in there as well so feel free to send me an email if you would like it's explor life BTR at gmail.com you can always get a hold of me there um you can look us up on patreon as well and I am looking forward to hearing hearing from you um this is going to be you know the honest true to God life that I'm living it is what it is and uh I'm happy to bring you along for it so thanks for hanging out with me we'll see you next time as we explore life beyond 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Published: Sun May 05 2024