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Yeah. Yeah.

Suzie: 0:16

Hey guys, welcome to Gabbing in Grapevue, the podcast for appreciating the good and lighting up your day. We're your hosts, I'm Susie and I'm Claire

Claire: 0:28

and today we're going to talk a little bit about some Grapevue trivia so you can learn a little bit about where we are and the history behind it and then just kind of what we've been up to. Um, I went to Seattle to the big city To go forging, metal forging, and then I've gone to a, little fundraiser that we had locally, so we'll talk about that. And then Susie's gonna talk about, a little bit about her,

Suzie: 0:58

Grandchild. Yeah. New grandchild. Two. Two within the past four months. They're so cute. Oh, they're Yep. Tons of fun. What'd you learn about Grapevue? What's new?

Claire: 1:09

Ugh, man. I just was curious. about why Grapevue was called Grapevue, because this is David's favorite piece of trivia about Grapevue is that there are no other towns in the U. S. called Grapevue. Did you know that? No! So we are very unique. If you look up Grapevue, it One word. Washington, we are the only ones. Um, and so I wanted to know why we were called Grapevue. And when I looked it up, I found out that we actually started out as Detroit, Washington. And that name was chosen in 1889, um, by the Detroit Land Improvement Company. and that land improvement company was founded by brothers, Tom Elbert and John Mulaney. And they claimed the land, which I was curious about what that really mean. They claimed it. So they basically probably took it from the Native Americans that were living here at the time. Oh, so we do live on some sacred land, people. That's pretty cool. And we want to give thanks for the care and the tending that the natives did. Did take care of this land and now we get to enjoy it because of these Claimers these for any claimers. Yep, and they partnered with some bankers the lad and Tilton Banking company to form this Detroit land improvement company that basically platted The land opposite of Reach Island, so right where the marina is here in Great View. We have a marina called Fair Harbor

Suzie: 2:55

Marina. Really cute, small marina. Beautiful boats there. There's some larger ones. So if you have, maybe you live in eastern Washington, but you want a safe spot for your boat, you can't find any slips anywhere else, there are some people that drive pretty far. It's a cute little spot. It's

Claire: 3:18

beautiful. It should be called Gorgeous Harbor, not just Fair Harbor in my opinion. so this town, Detroit, it briefly flourished, um, it had a sawmill, two saloons and a hotel. And, basically in, uh, 1922, there was a guy named. Walter Eckert, and he was descendant of an early settler. They had a fruit, company called the Eckert Fruit Company. And they produced grapes and sold grape juice. Not wine, grape juice and grapes to Olympia, Shelton, Seattle, Tacoma, um, via these flotillas that would come in. It was a steamboat, a group of steamboats that would come back and forth and deliver goods and service, goods and people to this area and back. Um, and then he petitioned because the mail was sending all of the mail to Detroit, Michigan, which had basically blown up at this point in time. Um, So yeah, 1922 we became Grapevue, and that's our little bit of trivia for the day.

Suzie: 4:26

And there's some active community members in Grapevue. Yes. Alan is right next door. Alan is small, so sometimes they do combined. And did you know

Claire: 4:38

that we used to be called Alan Grapevue? It was a dash. We were included in the census as Alan and Grapevue, and then in 2010 we became our own census driving community.

Suzie: 4:52

I wish great. I wish Google would get that right. They cannot you could they they'll change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, but they cannot get great view in Google. So if you get packages through UPS or FedEx, They always say we can't deliver it. Non known address. You're like, it's not Allen. It's Grapeview. Ah, poor Susie. Yes.

Claire: 5:22

And her Allen Grapeview postal service issues. There's

Suzie: 5:25

been stories. We've been going back and forth on it, but it's okay. I made phone calls directly to the shipping companies and had talks with, you know, Eric is one and Allen is the other. They fixed it. So they know me now. I love it. They know you. Cool.

Claire: 5:41

I know, they know me because I, well my delivery drivers know me. I don't know about the guys at the, uh, distribution center or wherever you're calling. But yeah, so that's the, that's a little bit of trivia. So we're no longer Detroit. And I'm not sure why they called it the Detroit Land Improvement Company to begin with. I couldn't figure that out. Um, because their name was Mulaney. Maybe they came from Detroit. We'll check. We'll do some deep dive on that. We're going to deep dive. I might go to

Suzie: 6:09

the library and see if I can find out more info. And there's people, there are local people who are totally into historical knowledge in the area. So we'll try to bring some of them on. And it's just a little fun thing. Yeah. So when you drive by something, you'll know how it got its name. Now Wikipedia says

Claire: 6:29

that there is a Detroit town site sign on the On Grape View Loop Road that you can still see. Is that by the marina?

Suzie: 6:38

No, it's over by, uh, ooh. There is a sign, but I don't know the name of the road. It's still there. Okay. I drive by it all the time. Is it on, it's

Claire: 6:48

uh, it says it's on the Loop Road. Grape View. Loop Road. Yes. Okay. Well, I'm gonna go looking for it and maybe I'll take a snapshot of it and we can add it to like our Instagram or something so people can see it. Sure. Cool. Awesome. So there, there's my little bit of trivia, uh, but I'm curious, you've been grandmothering, but what else is going on?

Suzie: 7:08

Uh, well, I got to watch Orla the first time on Friday. So if you're a grandmother or grandfather, oh my, all day on that. That was fun. She's lovely. And then new grandchild, Finn, Finn's in New York. Far away from me, but it's amazing. Your kids do not put towels on the towel rack, but they can take care of this. I mean, they're doing such a great job. When they first said they were pregnant, I went, Oh, they have no idea that he cannot put a towel on the towel rack. How is he going to know, superb, amazing and

Claire: 7:43

tend to the baby's tending. I wonder if he's putting towels on the towel rack.

Suzie: 7:48

It just shows you what's really important. Yeah, no babies are more important. He's got the bundle down. He's got the poopy diaper down. He's got. Cutting of the umbilical cord with a big smile on his face. Oh, that's fantastic. Yes.

Claire: 8:04

Welcome to the world, baby Finn. We love you. We're so excited that you're here. And we hope that we

Suzie: 8:12

can make it a good world. Yes, yes, I think hopefully they'll change the world for us. Ah, what are these old people? So that'd be lovely. I have my friend, Julie. Yeah, who's listened to our first podcast Julie's my I like to call her my sister in law. I've known her for many many Years, and she's technically well, not technically your sister in law, but

Claire: 8:36

it's like real close people Oh, yes.

Suzie: 8:38

Yeah, because I'm not married, but she introduced me to Fred her brother in law So I gave her this first podcast. She said, Okay, I'll listen to it, Susie. So then get the get the feedback. Susie, Bob and I listen to it. You need to know it's really boring. Oh, no, we're boring. I don't really, but it was pretty fun. We laughed so hard. so hard, but do we care? I said, Julie, we're working. This is our first one. We laughed. She's just giving me great feedback. That's what I want. So anyway, we need to try to excite

Claire: 9:15

you stories about the Eckert company.

Suzie: 9:21

But so that one, that one was kind of hilarious. And then my sister

Claire: 9:26

That little story right there about grape view that goes out to Julie. Julie, this is dedicated to you. I hope you found it thrilling and Bob and Bob, Julia and Bob. Oh, thank you for listening. We appreciate it.

Suzie: 9:41

I love them. They're in Palm Springs. So she just thinks it's the best that I, you and I did all the research and as a team, we got to this point and now you got to talk on a podcast. Like, wow, we got to this point. I didn't know we could do it. So, we're going to try to make it great. But here's the thing, there's only so much I can say. I can't make it too explicit. I have, I have huge, a huge family. I can't give all the details of, you know, They're good details, too. She's got some tea, and she's not spilling it. Well, I don't want to embarrass anybody. Maybe I'll just Well, you kind of have to ask permission

Claire: 10:22

when you put stuff out there into the interwebs. I guess so. Yeah. So, we'll, we talked about me wanting to have permission to give a little check in on one of my friends, so I'm going to do that, but now, uh, I thought for today we might just check in and We'll talk about Ziggy, my cat, Ziggy, and how cute he is. Okay, go. But, there's a segue. Very good. How's Ziggy? So, Ziggy's great, people. Ziggy is almost one on March 1st, I think, or 3rd, I have to look at

Suzie: 10:58

his. May interrupt you there for a minute. Before Ziggy, you had another cat. I did. 17, 19 years old? Yes. It was like her child.

Claire: 11:09

Simon. It was Simon. He was my baby. I had him for almost 19 years. It was traumatic when Simon passed. And it was very traumatic when Simon passed. He passed one year ago tomorrow. So we have a little anniversary coming up and I have been feeling that energy, um, quite a lot lately and I just want to give a little energy hug to anybody out there who has lost a pet or is in the process of losing a pet, uh, or any loved one really, because it's just really hard. Oh, it is. Oh, it's, oh. Losses. It's very difficult, and my heart goes out to anyone, um, going through that, but,

Suzie: 11:59

so, You transitioned to Ziggy, oh, so we

Claire: 12:03

waited a little bit of time, but we have another kitty who's pretty young, and she was having some behavioral issues, because she just wasn't being social with anyone anymore, and she doesn't really like the dog, so, Is that Gracie? Gracie. Okay. It's our other one. She's our older kitty. There's four now. And we decided last May to start looking for a cat. So there's this great organization, that's linked to the Mason County Humane Society. I guess they're not really an organization, it's a company, a little small business called Ziggy's Cat Cafe and they're up in Bremerton, East Bremerton. And they, have kittens there that they get from the Mason County Humane Society that are fostered in families and then transitioned to Ziggy's to help, increase adoptions for these kittens. And so we went to Ziggy's and, we went there twice. The first time I met, Our kitty that we have now, his name was Mango at the time, and he was so cute, and I just loved him so much, but, we couldn't figure out if he was available for adoption or not, and honestly, I wasn't really ready to pull the trigger at that point. And then we waited another week, and we went back, and his whole litter, except for Mango, was gone. And Mango was still there, and he was hanging out with a little bit older kitty in the cat tree, and I just knew he was my kitty. And so I have a lot of gratitude for the Mason County Humane Society, and for Ziggy's Cat Cafe, who we eventually named Ziggy after. And, David and I went this, last week. Just yesterday on Sunday, we went to Bent Bein Brewery here in Belfair and, we went to a fundraiser that they were having for the Mason County Humane Society and the Shelton Kitten Rescue comboed up. So we were there and David auctioned off a puzzle partnership thing where he'll have the person that bid on this auction item, he will work with them to create a jumble that will go in the newspaper. That's pretty cool, right? Yeah, that's great. Yes. So that was Blyber there and then he was doing that auctioning that off and then auctioning off, you can make your own beer with Tim the brewer at Bentbine. And so that was the other thing that got auctioned off. And we did the math in the car on the way home and we think they probably made about like 3, 000. 3, 500, 4, 000. Wow. For the day, we're hoping, so. That's great. Yeah, so shout out to Mason County Humane Society, Ziggy's Cat Cafe, and the Shelton Kitten Rescue. You guys are doing awesome work and we're so proud that you're in our community. And to Bentbine for hosting them. We love Bentbine. If you're a beer, wine drinker, or cider, you could go there and hang out. It's family friendly. Uh, it's also. Dog friendly. So that's one of the reasons we love it because we take Daisy all the time.

Suzie: 15:13

Yes. Yeah, you can do that Cece, we met once but it was where do we meet? It wasn't Bentbine. It was with Daisy All four of us and the dogs But it was like, it wasn't Claim Jumper. What's that burger place? Oh, Burger Claim. Burger Claim. Yeah. Yeah, we, that

Claire: 15:32

was great. Yeah, we went there and you can go outside with your dogs there at Burger Claim. Yes. But, yeah. Oh, good. And then you can bring them right in, inside. Oh, I love that. Yeah. So, uh, That's part of what we did this weekend. What did you? Oh, I just kind of hanging out. What's going on with you? What'd you do? Well,

Suzie: 15:53

I did a couple things. My niece came from Colorado. My mom's passing right now so she came to Stay with my mom for the week and just kind of keep her company and just bring closure so while she was there, I I was at home, I was able to do some things, but I watched that Saturday Night Live. live concert. Ooh. Who was on that? It was two or three hours of performers that had originally been on. Crazy. It was good. I could go on and on, but there's two that stood out for me. Okay. That I was just amazed and uh, Bonnie Raitt. Bonnie Raitt. I love Bonnie Raitt. It was so good. You gave him something to talk about. I know. Is that her? Yes. Her voice was so strong. It was, it was. so good. She's in her 70s. I love it. And, uh, it was just so as a woman, just being able to still be active and engaged and sing so great. And it brought back memories. The other one that was crazy was Post Malone, uh, Posty saying the Kurt Cobain part. So you have the drummer, you have Nirvana with

Claire: 17:13

Post Malone as Kurt Cobain. What song did they play?

Suzie: 17:18

Teen Spirit. Okay. I, I, I think, I don't remember. Like the lead Nirvana song. Oh my God. I'm going to have to watch that or like listen to

Claire: 17:26

it.

Suzie: 17:26

Yes. Yeah. It was, uh, you could, it was on Peacock. I watched it live on Peacock and.

Claire: 17:33

So good. Oh

Suzie: 17:33

yeah. Jimmy Fallon did the Blues Brothers and it was, it was really good. Stars all over that were part of Saturday Night Live. So I'm prepping for that tonight. The show starts at 5, SNL.

Claire: 17:49

So good. 50 years. 50 years of SNL. That's amazing. Yes. That's amazing. I love it. So Post Malone, shout out to Post Malone for stepping in. Yeah. We miss you, Kurt Cobain.

Suzie: 18:05

So, a little bit of anxiety as well, because these federal employees, we have family that work for the federal government, and they work on behalf of Americans all around the world. And, uh, we have some friends that got notices, lost their job, they moved, like, from Joshua Tree to Kentucky. They moved their family, everything, and got the notice, you're fired. So, there's, there's about four of them, which is pretty, pretty awful. That's a lot. And these, for me, thinking about these government employees, they work for American citizens to protect American citizens. The FDA, the, uh, banking, banking protection. Yeah, the consumer business. Consumer, federal, yeah, oh my, so, uh, inspectors general were let go, IRS people were let go.

Claire: 19:04

A lot of people were let go, a lot of people have had their lives completely changed, and uh, that is anxiety inducing, whether you're on one side of it or the other, and I think that we all just need to give each other a little bit more grace, a little bit more love. Um, I worry about. Uh, oligarchy within our government, fascism, fascism within our government. And, uh, we were talking earlier about how history can repeat itself and how I have a lot more, um, what's the word I'm looking for, uh, appreciation for people who wanted to stick their heads in the sand. In other times in our history of this world, I think you can maybe infer what I'm talking about here, but, uh, I know a lot of people who would just, this is really bothering them in their internal peace and that is, uh, affecting everyone's quality of life and their mental health and their family situations. Their financial situations, their social circles are changing. Yeah, even

Suzie: 20:22

family dynamics. You cannot, in my family, we cannot talk about politics or religion. We just, we just can't. Yeah. And there is no, uh, there's no reconciling it. I don't want to change their minds, but I want them to understand. The Constitution, and the five freedoms, and the law, but if they, they don't understand. I think that there's

Claire: 20:55

a lot to be said for Not trying to educate people that aren't interested in being educated because it's a waste of your energy and your time and it also brings you down to their level sometimes, I think. Because you get frustrated by

Suzie: 21:19

it,

Claire: 21:19

right?

Suzie: 21:20

And part of that, even when you say that, because we have some friends who, uh, both sides, But the one side, the Democrat side, almost have the superior, superiority. Like you said, if they don't understand it, we have to go down to their level. We, we have to recognize that we are not superior. That's how we lost the vote. With this always talking about LGBTQ, which I don't think a lot of people. It affects them. So they were worried about the price of things and inflation. But when you're only talking about a small segment of the population, you're losing everybody else. And you've got this superior attitude. So I have to remember that when I talk to

Claire: 22:17

people. Yeah, I think that that's great. You have to lead with compassion. You have to lead with love. You have to lead with a sense of cooperation and compromise and being able to open your mind and see someone else's point of view. All of that being said, if you're going to attack my humanity or if you're going to attack other people's humanity, people I love and care for, or just strangers. I'm not going to be okay with that. I'm not gonna, I don't think that we should be letting go a lot of the things that we're letting go of. But here's the thing, people. We are in a time of upheaval. We are in a time of breaking down systems. This is all so that something else can be made from this. If you think about like, I don't know if we talked about this when we were trying to record another episode, but like, if we're, if you're thinking about like a compost pile, right? Like, you throw your egg in, you throw your orange peel in, you throw your crusty bread in there, whatever, right? We're all those different things, but eventually we all have to become the soil that nourishes what comes from this dirt. And I feel like right now we've got like a tin can in our compost pile. We've got some glass in there. Like stuff that's not really gonna work with everything else and we have to weed that out and get that out so that we can grow what needs to grow. And I can't say what needs to grow. Please don't do that either. Because we don't know. We don't know what Finn and Orla are going to need when they're 25. I mean, we do because we know they need love and support and a health, safe and healthy, safe environment to live in. You know, we know that part and hopefully they'll have that, but I don't, we don't know what lessons they need. I think

Suzie: 24:29

the law needs to be adhered to. And that gives. Yes. Everybody protections. The Constitution. Everybody gets to be protected by the law. That includes you, me, everybody. Yes. So follow the law. The law is good.

Claire: 24:48

I like to follow rules. To put it

Suzie: 24:49

simply, we all. That's what separates us from a lot of other nations. I follow the law and I, I

Claire: 24:57

think. I think it helps us to be, Remain civil with each other when you follow the law, because it takes emotion and needs and wants out of, maybe not needs, but like desires and wants and greed and all this other capitalistic shit. Yeah. Thank you. Um, so I think that that, that it weeds that out and so that's why I like the law. Because it's logical and it,

Suzie: 25:29

it's equal. The law is blind.

Claire: 25:31

The law is blind. Yes. So I think. But you can

Suzie: 25:34

change the law.

Claire: 25:36

So that's what they're doing. And here we are,

Suzie: 25:40

talking about it. In a trailer.

Claire: 25:42

Yes.

Suzie: 25:43

In the Claire stream.

Claire: 25:44

In the Claire stream. Yes. Well,

Suzie: 25:47

So more to come on that. More to come on that. Do you have any anything else? What about learnings? What'd you learn?

Claire: 25:54

I learned a lot this week. So I have been reading a book called the empath survival guide I'm in this book club. It's called the witchy grandma's Something book club. Yes. What are we called guys? They're gonna be like, you don't know our name. What? What is this? It's called the witchy grandma's magical book club We're reading the empath survival guide, so I've been learning how to survive as an empath And I was just learning about energy vampires people that suck the energy from you We have a Someone like that in our lives currently, which I'm dealing with. You are. Yes. We'll talk about that in the next podcast another time But I also went to Downtown Seattle this last week weekend on Friday night with some friends We went to the Lawless Forge, which is a metal forging Place where you Do it can make different things from metals. So we made knives from horseshoes. You can also make a knife from a rebar. They have a, um, like a prong, like a, something you'd like to cut. Cut your steak with the two pointed. Oh, yeah fork. Yeah thing. Mm hmm. Yeah, that's the word people fork and then A bottle opener and something else. I can't remember cool. It was very cool Karla, my friend Karla, her husband Tim, it was his birthday in January and he got sick so we rescheduled for Valentine's Day, which was last Friday. And the four of us went, David, Karla, Tim, and I, and David and Tim loved it. They're going to go back there. And do more of it. I think Fred. They loved it so much.

Suzie: 27:55

Fred would love that. Fred would also really love it. Well, he would love it if it wasn't in Seattle. Fred hates Seattle traffic. He was, had a huge construction project. It was Safeco Field. I don't know what it is now, T Mobile?

Claire: 28:09

Yeah, it's T Mobile Park. It's the, where the Mariners play. Yes,

Suzie: 28:13

that was his big, big project. So he did that for a couple years, a few years, so he's not going back. No, but it would be cool to have something local. We'll do something. We'll do something fun and then And then go I wouldn't mind going to a glassblowing.

Claire: 28:32

I used to do glassblowing in college. I took a few semesters or just two semesters of glassblowing and it was phenomenal. I have little glasses and stuff in the house that They're not really used other than like to put my Q tips in or to hold my Palo Santo or whatever. But um, yeah. So was that

Suzie: 28:57

your learning? What's the forging? I learned how to make a knife out of a horseshoe. Nice. Well, mine is a lot simpler than that. I have oatmeal in the morning, the little zip, the little, uh, Quaker oatmeal, the one in the package. Yes. There's a line on there. I didn't know what it was. I'm having breakfast with my mom and she said, what, what are you doing with a measuring cup? You just feel, fill the little packet with water to the line. I said, what? I did not know that. So sure enough. Fill it to the line. I think of all these, I taught first grade, all these little kids could have made their own oatmeal. Pop it in the microwave for a minute and a half. They would have been so independent. It would have been hot, though. But anyway, line on the Quaker oatmeal bag is for measuring. That's it. No dirty dishes. So that's it.

Claire: 29:56

So easy. All those years, Quaker oatmeal packets have been around, I feel like maybe since the mid 80s. I don't know. I remember them as a child. Oh, well, there you go. There you have it. Early 90s. We'll,

Suzie: 30:11

we'll, we'll Check the

Claire: 30:13

the Googles for that

Suzie: 30:15

the web. So we're gonna check out. I'm tonight Saturday night live for me starts at 5 And I've got witchy grandma's book club here

Claire: 30:23

coming up.

Suzie: 30:24

All right,

Claire: 30:24

that's what I'm doing. Okay, and then Yeah, we'll meet again And we'll have some more information about Grapevue. Maybe we'll have a guest next time. We'll see. Okay. We're gonna try to figure that one out. Sounds good. And yeah, so should we sign off? Yeah. Say buh bye. Bye bye.

30:47

Yeah. Yeah.