Episode 5 - Happy Shiny Faces

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Okay. Hey guys. Welcome to Gabbing in Great View, the podcast we're appreciating the good and lighting up your day. We're your hosts. I'm Suzy. And I'm Claire with a passion for heartwarming stories. Today we're going to chat about Great View and the Detroit town sites and a little bit about. Happy shiny faces, people happy, shiny people. Yes. Okay. Holding hands. Oh yeah. I love that. R-E-M-R-E-M. Great band. We'll get into it. Yes. Oh, so how are you doing, Susie? How? How? I'm good. You've better? Yeah. You've been having a kind of a big, big week. It was a big week. Yeah. I'm feeling great. There's been some closure. Working with my kid, Kevin. So getting his life a little straightened out, just not controlling it, but just he asked for some wisdom, so helped him out there and then he gets the final decision. He and his wife, beautiful wife, Kaylin and Baby Finn. And then Sean and Alex are just steady, Eddie. Working hard, doing the same thing with Little Orla. I got to meet Little Orla. Oh, yesterday. Yes. She is a doll. I know. Oh my goodness. It was funny, I was talking to Fred after I met her and he was commenting on like. Did you smell her head? And I said, no, because Alex mama was wearing little Orla. And so I felt weird like going up and like sniffing her head when she's like right there. But I did ask if I could touch her little Tootsie Toes and she said yes. And she said, yeah. She said, oh, sure. And I was like, and then I asked Orla and Orla gave me a look like. I guess so. I know she, she was so tired. I know. And I touched her little toes and they were just so cute. I love baby toes. They're the best. Oh, well, I asked if I could smell her head. No. Did I ask? But I went in Mm. I'm smelling her head and it smelled great. And then the whole time I was looking and I didn't get that. Don't do it. So she said, you probably got a pass. I did. And then I said, oh, she smells great. And she said, that's funny because she got into a bunch of peanut butter, but she didn't smell like peanut butter. She loves peanut butter. Oh, who doesn't? I mean, I'm sure there are people that don't, I know a couple of them, but peanut butter is my yep. My kryptonite. I don't know. Yes. I love it so much. I had to switch to nut butter and seed butter because peanut butter, I can't put it down, and I will grow like multiple butt cheeks and then they come down my leg and then like my first butt cheek and then my second butt cheek. That was peanut butter last year. That's peanut butter this year. Yep. I love peanut butter toast in a moment of weakness. That's my, that's so good. That's my go-to. It's. So good. I I'm gluten free. I don't know if people know that. You know that. Yeah. And there's this Hawaiian bread that Franz Yes. Makes Franz Bakery out of Oregon. Mm-hmm. Portland. Mm-hmm. I so good. It's the best thing about living up here in the PNW. I love them. But the, the Hawaiian bread with the peanut butter or the nut butter on Oh. Delicious. It's got a little sweet to it, doesn't it? The bread, the wine bread. Yeah. Yes. Ooh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you had that little salty sweet, but it's not too sweet. No, no, no. Just a hint. Just a hint. Mm. So good. Well, today, Detroit Town site, so where we live there's the mainland. And then we're on the mainland. Yes, there's two islands, stretch island, reach island, but in between them on the mainland is Detroit, or little Detroit. And it was a dream of these brothers that arrived in 1885, Tom Mullaney. And then shortly after that, his brother Albert and John arrived. They're from Canada and they had these grand ideas to make. To make it like Detroit. And That's funny. So they're from Canada. Mm-hmm. And they wanted to make it like Detroit. Had they been to Detroit? Didn't say in my research, it didn't say, but I'm sure if I dug deeper and I feel like there's some community members here that would know. But we're we're newbies. We are newbies. We're, we're learning. We are, we're d right in front of everyone. Yes. We're like totally putting it out there. And there's some experts here that I love. Oh, I'm sure. So, and we'll talk to them Yeah. In time. But we're, we're going back historically back to like 1872. Okay. But right now it's it's like 150 years, 1880s. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so they came and they, one of them married Ann Malaney, and so they have all these grand ideas and then instead of following the citizenship paper procedure for Homestead, they just followed an alternate route of settling on the land for six months and then buying it for like a dollar 25 and two 50 an acre, just depending on the location. Wow. Could you imagine? No. I mean, that was more money than it's now, but still it's like, I mean, it's like what, 50 bucks a candy bar costs more than a. Just an acre. Acre of land. Yes. Can you even, well, inflation. Yeah. Oh my God. But still, oh my God. Wow. That's crazy. So, so they, they went ahead and just started living on the land and they logged, they started logging. Okay. And they didn't have all these tools. They just have sharp axes and draft animals to pull the logs out. So they became known as local loggers. Okay. And they must have seen that was a really good way to get rich quick. So at this point, enters these bankers from Portland, LAD and Tilton. Yes. And the 18, we learned about this in the very beginning. Yes. Just the brief thing. So then they, and they were from where? Portland. Portland, Portland, Oregon. Okay. So then they formed the Detroit Land Improvement Company. Yeah, and that's probably where the name came from. And they tried to, or did, begin to start buying different and additional tracks of land with a flurry of trading and buying and selling as this whole dream that it would be like Detroit. Okay, so I have a quick insert here. Okay. I just got curious about, is Detroit like a. It kind of sounds like it might be French. It's French and it means straight. Because you say in French, you say to go straight. Oh. And so it's like, I don't know. It must have become dut. I don't know. But it says the word Detroit is French for straight. And the French called the river la de. Eerie. I'm gonna to get, get back to my so Wisconsin accent. So the Strait of Lake Erie. So maybe they thought because there was kind of that straight in on the case inlet, it felt a little bit. Like a straight shot. I like that. Thinking there's more to it. And this would explain it. So now they're trying to get people in here and how are they going to do that? They offered land for sale. Advertisements were placed in the paper. They were trying to get a group to settle in here with a railroad. How are they gonna do that? With a canal. Ah, yes. So straight a, straight a canal. So yes. So it, that canal shows how easy it would be. And I think it was a couple miles to add a canal from Puget Sound at Detroit La Canal or la. French straight. Yeah. To put canal, but they tried to, oh, so they tried to make it a That was dream true. Fair. Two Hood Canal, yes. But that straight shot, yes. It is only a couple miles. And that's why we are on an IFUs here in grape view. But the tricky part was the elevation. Elevation because it's a 300 feet elevation gain also. And that didn't make it possible. It would definitely mess with the. Natural habitat of many. Well, sure. They, they weren't concerned about that, but I'm glad they didn't do it. Wow. Yes. Could you imagine? Yeah. Yeah. Panama Canal. Suez Canal. Yeah. Detroit. Detroit Canal. So they all, so from that, they're trying to expand Detroit little Detroit, Detroit settlement. And it just wasn't possible. So then they started steamer. A steamer. Oh, so that's when the steam Flo, what do they call it? The float Flotilla, was that right? The Steamboat Flotilla? Well, that, I think that was part of it. Okay. But there, there were Steamboats, but there was they built, they did try their hand at building a boat, a 91 foot steamer named Detroit. Oh. To provide a regular connection to other cities around the sound. So. They had all these grand dreams. The Malaney said, come on here, we can take you to Detroit, Olympia Shelton, north Bay. We can get up to 90 passengers. Well, they must have been pretty persuasive. There was a small mill turning out lumber for construction. Two saloons came, popped up. Mm-hmm. So in that first year, right in like the Allen area, right? Yeah. It was just a hub of Activ activity and people moving here. But within a year, there was nothing here to call a city because people didn't believe'em. They were skeptical. Things were not working out. So within a year there were suits and countersuits by and against the principal, property owners, owners alleging perjury fraud. So. That was that. Oh, wow. So this is perjury fraud against this Detroit land investment group? Yes. With the bankers from Portland. Portland, yes. Got it. Unless I'm reading it wrong and I hope someone corrects us. I'm not doing this intentionally because I'm a newbie. Soon after that there was a report that Malaney got a contract. For a million feet of logs per month. And then he bought new logging equipment. So, eventually Al John and Albert, a million logs per month. I just wanna go back and did y all hear that. A million logs per month. The year of 1892 found newspaper notices of Malaney contract for a million feet of logs a month and new logging equipment purchased. That's. Very cool. Well, not cool, but like, yes. But then a mind blowing, I guess I should say. Then there was a year later, a short cryptic notice appeared in the personal section of the Shelton Journal. Oh. The report that John and Albert Mullaney have been arrested for smuggling is not verified. Oh, so they left. John and Albert Mullaney left. So they were up to no good. And they went, yep. They were reported to be in real estate in Salem, Oregon, and mining in Mexico. But Tom Mullaney, the large brother, decided to stay and just kind of logged, stayed and logged. He became the first postmaster oh, in 1894. And his wife, who was Native American, was served on the school board. Okay. Well I'm guessing that's probably why he stayed. It's'cause he fell in love with a Native American. Yep. So the Detroit town site appeared doom to disappear without a trace, but not quite. We still have signs down there. Detroit resident and land developer, Charles Summers bought 10 acres of the original site in the 1950s and developed it into house slots. And have you been over there? Yeah. The sign to the entrance claims at Detroit. Town site. I, I've been over there. David saved a dog that ran out onto the Great View Loop Road. Yes. From over there and then brought it back to the guy Oh. That was living over there. And he was happy. Oh yeah. The guy was very happy. The dog was very young and the man was not so young. Ooh. Tricky. So that's a hard Yeah. I don't know if I could chase a young CI know I wouldn't wanna chase a young dog right now, and I'm not a, as. How do I say this politely? This man was a little bit older than I was. I am. Oh, I thought you were talking about me. Well, they all know'cause you tell them that you're older. I don't feel older. You ask. Yes. You are older. You're just not old. We're that's you're 30 and I'm 20. Yes, I know it's the new 55. I know. So what have you been doing this week? I have been working a lot. I have a new client, so That's great. And we have been doing some travel planning also. You're doing consulting. What's the consulting for? Well, we talked about it last time in the last. Episode. So if you missed that one, go back and listen to it. It was really good. But I am doing consulting for people who are interested in turning their second home their vacation home into an Airbnb when they're not using it. And it could be somebody that already is doing this and just needs help or. If you're just wanting to get started or set up, or I can help you in other ways. If you're already doing your Airbnb Yeah. And you're local, just a little bump, they sometimes you just need a little, a little bump in. Yeah. Doing something different for sure. And you're in the top 1%. Top 1% of Airbnbs on Airbnb. That's huge. So I think there's like 770. Thousand something. Well, or a mil 7 million. Does that sound right? Sure. Something like that. So I'm like 77,000 all over the world, but that's still the top 1%. So very proud of that. And if you're interested in checking out my Airbnb, it's called the Hideaway Mason Lake, and I have a website. Or you can look at it on Airbnb and I think it's called like modern cabin, hot tub sauna trails and game room or something like that. It's beautiful. So your time is that, that's your passion? Mine, because I'm retired teaching. I am on South Puget Sound. Colleges in Olympia. I'm on their foundation board. Yes. So that keeps me real busy. That keeps you busy. Yeah. Just enough and doing this. Yes. Keeps you busy. Yes. And then I also have been working on I'm hosting, co-hosting a retreat. I might have mentioned this in May. With some ladies that I met on past retreats and we have two spots open. So if anybody wants to come and stay and go on a retreat, women's retreat only women. Sorry guys, you'll have to wait for the guide's retreat. But just send us message. We wanted to tell you guys last time we forgot to. Give you our email, but we'll do it now and then maybe at the end too. But it's hello at Gabby in grape view.com and you can send us a message there if you're interested in anything we talk about. If you wanna come on the show and be a guest, if you wanna correct our incorrect information that is possible. We might give you'cause we're human we'll try real hard not to do that. But yeah. Hello at gabbing in grape view.com and if you think somebody out there is really interesting and has a great story. Tell us and we'll reach out to them. We are so excited to do that. Yeah, we love it. Yes, we love it. So retreats, Airbnb stuff. New client. I'm also doing a bit of travel planning. April is my birthday month and I guess I've decided to go lots of places. Well, just two, but still it seems like a lot in one month. But we're headed to Portland, not. This weekend, but next weekend, the same day I am in Portland. Yes. Yes. Yeah. We can get drinks or something if you're I'm at the Portland airport. Oh, that's not where we're going. Right? It do, I don't know Portland at all. We'll keep in touch because it's really close. Yes, it's very close. Well, we'll, we'll maybe get together, but we're going to Portland to stay at this. A new hotel. It's a boutique hotel. It's called Cascade. And they have thermal springs that they've connected to and have made beautiful pools and spa relaxation. Really yummy, healthy food and just a nice, quiet weekend. It's amazing. It looks amazing. But you'll report back. I will report back. Pros. Pros and cons. Pro pros and cons. Yes, we're not doing all, probably just a lot of pros and maybe a con. Like, I didn't get to stay long enough. That's what we're hoping for. And then we're also headed to Palm Springs for a birthday, a little, little celebration with my friend Carla. Hey, shout out to Carla. Hey, Carla is, we call her the Gem of Washington. She was kind of our first friend that we made here. She's a, she was our realtor when we bought. The Hideaway and then also this home. And now she works for a developer and is selling homes over in port Orchard at McCormick Woods. Yeah, the McCormick Woods area. Yeah, it's golf course. It's beautiful, gorgeous. And I connect with Carla. Yes, because we went to the Halloween party. We sat around the fire, your fire down by the, the gazebo. Yeah. I had a witchy bonfire. It was awesome. On Halloween, it was, we show up with the same funky witch hat with orange and black feathers. Yes. And we looked at each other. Oh, I see you. Hers was a tiny one. Mine was way oversized, but, but it was the same one. It was like, yours got shrunk and Carla had that one on. Yes. Yeah, it was great. That was a great time. I love hosting things like that. And you'll be ha you'll have a great time. Yeah. It's her birthday on the 22nd, we kind of share a birthday a little bit. Oh. And then mine's on the 24th, so you're gonna have fun. It's gonna be a blast. We're staying at la. Which is another French thing. I'm, I'm just using my French accent all over town here today. But it's a boutique hotel also and looks beautiful and amazing. It does. And like we're gonna be pampered and spoiled and that is the goal for a birthday. And you have to relax. Yes. Everybody needs to chill out. Chill out. Oh my gosh. It's hard. There's a lot of things going on. The vibrations are really intense. Just looking at like the energy that we're receiving from the sun is a little bit crazy and overzealous, I would say. And seasonal transition. And now we're, now we're in spring, so we're transitioning to that. Something that is happening astrologically is that Neptune is moving into Aries after being a Pisces for a very long time. Neptune moves through the sky. Slower than the planets that are closer to us. So Neptune hasn't been in Aries since the American Revolution. No. War in Peace, crime and punishment were all published around that time. Maybe it was French Revolution. Wow. But yeah, it's been a long time since n So no one on this planet has ever experienced Neptune in Aries before. And so that's gonna bring a little bit of a different vibe to the, to the earth, to the planet. Okay. Ooh, okay. I will pay attention to that. Yes. Aries, it's Aries season too, so we're having a solar eclipse in Aries on Saturday. Oh wow. Ooh, okay. Yeah, Saturday. Well, we'll be together on Saturday. Right? Yes. Or are we gonna, yeah, we're gonna, we'll have, we're gonna hang out. Yeah. Yeah. We just hang out in our backyard. I gotta go to Pilates. Pelvic floor class. Hey, shout out to Kelly. Kelly another Kelly. Shout out. We love you. Kelly. Thank you for keeping us strong and healthy and upright. Okay. Well thank you. Because she's my friend. Well, you don't, do you know Kelly? No, but I always hear about her. Oh yeah. So she, your friend by proxy? Yes. We you like to give Kelly a shout out because she's a, a long time listener. Yep. Of our three, four episode podcasts. I'm gonna give a, I'm gonna give a shout out to Doug because Doug, oh. Let's give shout outs Doug and Sherry and Okay. Bye. I actually, speaking of shout outs. Do you wanna give me a Julie update now or should we say that till the end? Oh, I can give you a Julie update before, before I tell you about my week. Okay. Yes, Julie. Julie's great. I love my Julie. She's like a sister, really like a sister-in-law, but I have known her since maybe 20. 2001. 2002. Long time. Yeah. Our kids were friends. We already know all that. So she's in Palm Springs? Yes. You told us last time. Yes. So, she's doing great, but she flew back and took care of her two grand babies. Aw. Because, that's what she does. Yeah. They needed, they needed that and she needed the grand baby fix. But every time she comes back, and I have not talked to her since it's pouring. It is ridiculous. And then we had, she came on, the rain came, yes. In that whole. Cyclone or tornado and the whole thunder and lightning. I don't know if Quim got it. We did not. We were in some kind of weird weather bowl. Eye of the whatever. Yeah, it went all the way around us. It didn't wanna go to the Hood Canal for whatever reason. So because we're close to the Hood Canal, which it did, you know that the Hood Canal is the only fjord in the lower United States. No, thank you for that. Oh, that's a little learning lesson for us. Wow. But yeah, tell me about your week. So, okay. I'm gonna wrap it up with Julie. Oh yeah. So, I have not talked to her, but I'm sure she had a great time. But I just feel sad every time she comes, it either snows or pores. She has, has to come in. She will August, she, she comes back because they, they do, it'll be a heat wave then she does extreme weather for Julie. Only ever. And that happened too. But she's a boater, so they come back and boat. But I live vicariously because she does all these things. She loves sun and, and heat. A dry heat. Yes. So she's my friend and thanks for checking on her. Well. This past week it was kind of, anxiety just because a lot going on. Yeah. My mom passed away, so we had You had the funeral? Mm-hmm. That was yesterday and Wow. It was beautiful. It was at St. Mike's, St. Michael's Church and Father John Paul did it. He's also, they rotate St. Edwards in Shelton. Great young. Great young priest. Yeah. I have a hairbrush older than him. I am not kidding. I would, yeah. He must be what, like 30, 32? Maybe? Maybe something like that. Yes. I went to the funeral. It was lovely. Yes. Was a wonderful celebration and recognition of your mom's life. And Father John Paul looked like he should have. Than in school still. But I have to realize I'm a little bit older now. Well, that's what happens. And so that's what happens. But yes, I would definitely have been carting him if he was coming up to the bar. And part of it too is, is he's just young, but my mom loved him. I'm sweet. And he was so, you could tell his, you could feel his own dedication to his spirituality and to the. Teaching of that for others in a really loving, kind. And I feel like sometimes it was the Catholic service. So like I feel like sometimes when you go to a Catholic church, it's kind of all like doom and gloom and fear and like they kind of instill fear in you. Oh. And like it. I dunno, that's just been my experience at the Catholic Church. That's funny because I never got that. Oh, why do I have to be afraid of being myself? But apparently I do because I'm a sinner. So anyways, it's tangent. But I didn't get that from him. I got him as a more compassionate, loving kind. Yes. And that was really what the theme of the funeral was too. But I thought he did a great job and it was really lovely and I I loved. Being able to, yeah. To be there for you. It was, and he, he the ritual of the funeral is part of my culture. Yes. Brings closure. Yes. So the incense and the prayers. Can I tell you that the incense was kind of my favorite part? Oh, yes. Because all of a sudden I was like. Smelled something that I do in my own ritual. And so I just became more relaxed and calm and I was like, ah, yes, it was good. And yes, he placed it next to my mom's marble urn. Mm-hmm. And then it's as the, the smoke goes up, your prayers go up with it. So beautiful. Everything was lovely. I did see wonderful friends that I hadn't seen in years, and I was a lit. S, I don't think stressed out is the word anxious, but there were definitely high level bandwidth waves going like. High pitch. Ooh, yeah. And you kind of walk around in a zombie, but I saw you and Dave and I went, oh, my friends. Then you kind of calm down and then you see other family members. Okay. Okay. This is good. This is good. And then I think what struck me about all that are the people that show up for you. Hmm. It was amazing. I had people, I've known Vita since I was really young. I've known Doug and Bob Ddy since I was very, very young. Bobby must have been in first or second grade. I was in fourth grade. Doug and I were in fourth grade, and. Of the neighborhood. My mom was the last one to go. Mm. And at one point I'm looking at the group of people chatting and laughing and talking. It was the neighborhood kids that we all grew up with. Oh, that's so lovely. And my brother, two brothers, Frank and Brian were there chatting up, laughing, having a good time. And it wasn't sad. It wasn't, yeah, it was. They were happy to. Show up, get their love. But they showed up. Yeah. And then I had some surprises too. In the 1980s I started teaching. And I taught with Kay Moon in Central Kitsap School district, and I had put the obituary on Facebook. We're all done. We're walking out with my mom's favorite song, which was kind of emotional for me on Eagle's wings. And there's Kay. And I look at her, Kay Moon, what are you doing here? So I hadn't seen her in a, in a couple years. I've always kept in touch, but she showed up my friend Megan Cronk, who has. Humble cow ice cream. I look at her, there's her face, these shiny, smiley, happy people that show up for you. Yes, it was. It was an amazing moment. Part of it for me, reminded me the feeling of people showing up for you in these unexpected ways. But if you have a friend or an old acquaintance that you shared a period of your life with and they have a funeral or a memorial show up, yeah. You can't imagine how it makes them feel. But the respect toward your relationship is amazing. It is just I forget. Yeah. And that was a reminder. So thank you friend. You're welcome. Yes. Yeah. I don't know if I've shared this here on the podcast yet, but my mom her career was grief counselor, so that meant that we heard about these kinds of things all the time growing up. Oh, so you'd hear about. So and so died, and so the funeral is this, and I'm working with this family and their funeral is here, and all this sort of stuff, and it just, it always has been like ever present. That's right in my, in my growing up because it was my mom's career in her life and she thought about it and talked about it and wasn't like hiding that from us kids. So. Yeah. I just knew that, that I, I've always known that that's important. It's like, I, I think that one of the things I try to do is if there's a baby, you bring a casserole and if there's a funeral, you go that's, it's true. It's these cultural norms that maybe get lost. The other thing I noticed too, people's emotions are amped up. You can't right now. Yeah. In general, yes. But after this, everybody settles down, but. You really have to extend grace and say I, I'm going to let that go. Whatever was said and done, I'm going to let that go. Yes. And move on. I just get so tired of looking back. I am, I am so tired of it. I don't wanna rehash things. I don't want to, I don't want to try to re-litigate or see it in a different way. I'm just tired, so Yeah. I gotta move on. Done. You really have to let things go just for your own inner peace too, and like holding grudges and being cranky or upset or angry or maybe even sad about something that happened years and years and years ago. Like I get it. If it was maybe like two years ago or even five years ago, you still might have some hurt feelings and. Have to process through that still, but like if it's 10 years ago, 20 years ago, you gotta let that, let that go. And some things that I really understand is, I love you, but I just can't be around you. And I get that. Yes. I don't have it, do I, I don't even know. I don't have it with, I have it with contingency. So I love you, but I just can't be around you when There you go. Yes. That is a lot for, and it might be when I, or it might be when you, right. But it depends on the situation and the person and that's great. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Boundaries are good. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. If you're interested in learning more about boundaries, there's an excellent podcast out there called the Boundary Boss. I can't remember what the lady's name is, but she's known as the Boundary boss, and I have learned a lot from her. She's a wonderful speaking voice too. Oh, good. Yeah. Okay. So there, that's it. Good things I learned this week. Anything you learned new. I learned, I'm gonna talk about Pilates again. We don't have Pilates around here. You have to drive to Gig Harbor for I do. I go to Gig Harbor, but it's worth it and I learned that you should not go to the chiropractor before you go to Pilates. So I'll be changing my chiropractor appointments to after Pilates. Excellent. Yes. I learned keep your muscles nice and tight around your bones while you're exercising. You don't want'em to be all loose and then your bones move, move around and you can get injured and that's not good. That's a true learning. It sure is. Mine was learning that when you transfer money on Venmo, there's a, a, a platform out there called plaid. And I didn't know it. So Venmo transfer money on a platform plaid. You're giving this plaid authorization to, to check your balances to see if you have enough to transfer, but. Also within that they can check your data. They're constantly checking it and then they sell it. They may not be selling amounts, but they're keep keeping track of your data. So I don't like giving permission for them to do that. So I learned about that in the middle of a transaction. I said, I'm not doing this. I'm going to wire the money. There you go. So just a heads up, there is a way to use it to turn off. The plaid platform to manual. But I just think that there's too much of that going on. I'm not ready for that. I'll do Zelle, but I, I don't think Zelle uses the plaid platform. Anyway. There you go. I think that that is really interesting and that for someone who maybe has. A lot of money in their bank account, it could feel really scary that somebody is looking at your balances and making sure. I am someone that uses a Venmo account in my checking account, which I never have more than a thousand dollars in it. And so I feel safe and I'm gonna keep doing it, and so I appreciate the information. I'm sure our listeners appreciate the information. Check it out yourself and make a decision that works best for you. Excellent. I think that should be true for everything. Anything that we say here is like, check it out yourself. Get your own research done in life. This is a general, really good tip, especially if you're younger and listening to us. I don't know if we have any younger listeners, but research is really important, especially now with the internet and ai, and you just have to do the research part of it. Do your own research, make the decision that's good for you. Part of it is critical thinking. Put on your critical thinking hats. Especially now in the day and age where you just, some people just do what they're told. Oh. No. Think about it. Yeah. Find good sources of information. Yes. Yes. I had a client say to me recently that this new client talk about how she's a little bit nervous about doing Airbnb because there's been some. Talk about Airbnb being one of these businesses that you don't wanna engage with because of their policies or who's in charge like the DAI initiative being dropped and stuff like that for Target and other businesses that are struggling. And I just wanna say that Airbnb is not one of those businesses. They have very much. Yeah. Inclusive, they have very much aligned with their their original motto or value system, which is that anyone is welcome, right? Airbnb, anyone is welcome. They do their due diligence about checking out. Guess so that. It is the guest that's booking that is going, that sort of thing. But one of their founders got a little bit mixed up or is mixed up in all this tech oligarchy stuff. So we will won't talk about that. But he's no longer a. Part of Airbnb. He does sit on the board still, but I don't believe he has like a majority share or even like a bigger share of the company because it is a public company. So I just wanna put that out there. That's misinformation. So you're, I just do your research and that's Airbnb good. Airbnb is great. VRBO is great. Direct booking is great. All the things are good. Travel, go do your thing. Yes. Yes. I, I agree. I'm getting ready to book some. So yeah. Now that your life is settled, yes, you a little bit and maybe once Kevin gets here, you'll Yes. Be booking and yes, calendaring and all that sort of thing. Need, but I need some, I hope people travel this summer. I'm really looking forward to hosting some wonderful families and guests over at the air. At the Hideaway. Yep. And I'm looking forward to traveling. I'm heading to New York next week. Gone for a week, be back. But I could use some sun. So Yeah. Even if I have to go by myself, I may go to Hawaii. I don't know, but boy, you should by myself. Just do it. Yeah. Okay. More to come on that piece. Yes. More to come on that. Traveling by yourself is so much fun. I really recommend it. If it scares you, I even recommend it more. Be brave. Be brave. Don't do it. But use your head. Use your head too. Don't be that. Just be smart. Yeah. Plan accordingly. Do your research. So once again, if you have any ideas of people you think would be fun and enjoyable to listen to, hello at gabbing in grape view.com, let us know. And before we part just to shout out to my old neighborhood friends Bobby and Tracy Ddy. Doug Ddy. The Jenkins girls, but they're not, they're married now. Jamie and Jody. And then we got Kay, and then we got Megan, and we got you. And then we got, I mean, all these people. I love you. Thank you. We love you, Susie. Oh, thank you. You're just delight. Love you too. I'm just grateful that we get to get to know each other and learn about Grape view here on this podcast. And All right. Yeah, we'll leave it there. So we'll see you later. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.