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.
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]