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  • JESSE HOLMES (VOICEOVER): Nothing's going to stop me.

  • Snow, wind, 40 below--

  • things like that don't stop me.

  • [music playing]

  • Couldn't be any better time to finish this up.

  • The dogs are all resting well.

  • Now it's time to keep after it.

  • I don't want to leave this undone and wait.

  • Because this is just going to accumulate. , Here, Rosie.

  • You play with your pig, and I'll take care of the window.

  • OK?

  • NARRATOR: Jesse Holmes has nearly

  • completed the new addition to his home in Brushkana.

  • But with winter already descending

  • on the landscape and his new bedroom still incomplete,

  • Jesse will need to work through the bitter cold night

  • if he's to be shielded from the coming storm.

  • JESSE HOLMES: All right, one more

  • step to make this a room here.

  • Get this window out, and looks like I can wiggle it out right

  • here and keep it from breaking.

  • There's a big sense of vulnerability

  • moving this window.

  • I've been able to do a lot in the last couple

  • of weeks since my surgery.

  • But I'm still really weak.

  • And having to move this window is the crux of this whole deal.

  • There it goes.

  • There it goes.

  • Nice and easy.

  • OK.

  • Now it's time for the big lift.

  • I've been struggling for five weeks to get strong again.

  • And I'm still 80%.

  • And this window is 100% job.

  • You get one chance.

  • You drop it, it breaks, I don't have

  • another window to put in here.

  • Oh, man.

  • I am having a hard time here.

  • [sighs]

  • Just ain't as strong as I was.

  • There it goes.

  • [banging]

  • [drilling]

  • All right.

  • That's the final screw locking it down, here.

  • Take a look at it and let it soak in.

  • I'm exhausted from a long day of work.

  • But I'm glad that I committed, cut the window out,

  • got it in there.

  • That's a big step.

  • Now everything is just making things aesthetic.

  • Rosie, come.

  • Get your limelight.

  • Come, come.

  • Hey, come and check it out.

  • Look, we got a new bedroom.

  • Yeah, look at all that new room for you to terrorize in.

  • Huh?

  • Yeah.

  • Do you like it?

  • To me, having this home here is a symbol of never giving up.

  • Through these last couple of years,

  • I've been to the breaking point to where I didn't

  • think I could take it anymore.

  • And then I keep going and block it out of my mind,

  • keep focused.

  • Eventually, you just become as hard as the surroundings.

  • It doesn't kill you.

  • And then it tempers you and makes you stronger.

  • I didn't just move out here to train dogs.

  • I moved out here to become a better man.

  • And every day this landscape molds you into that.

  • Anywhere around here, I feel a sense of satisfaction.

  • This is a place with a lot of future for me.

  • It's hard not to get emotional.

  • This is something that I have wanted for myself for so long.

  • And I don't even know what to do with it.

  • And I'm just going to let it play out from here.

  • But I see really good things happening in the future.

  • [music playing]

JESSE HOLMES (VOICEOVER): Nothing's going to stop me.

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