Do We Love.... Heather's Voice

A chatbot named Chandler told us “Sure” and then immediately asked what it was doing, where it was, and whether it was even in Vermont. That tiny AI meltdown turns into a bigger, funnier, and honestly useful conversation about how we use AI chatbots in real life, why they can feel human even when they are not, and the simple guardrails that keep “helpful” from becoming frustrating.

From there we go full spring mode with two hands-on projects that are as wholesome as they are intense: starting backyard beekeeping and making homemade maple syrup. We talk about finishing bee school, ordering nucs (mini hives that arrive with a queen, brood, and nurse bees), and the little details that make beekeeping feel real instead of mysterious. Then we break down tree tapping and the actual process of turning clear sap into syrup, including boiling outside, straining, finishing at temperature based on elevation, and why the 40 gallons of sap to 1 gallon of syrup ratio should make everyone appreciate that bottle in the fridge.

We also get personal about health and routines: an eye doctor visit tied to diabetes, what we learn about omega-3 supplements, and how we think about neuropathy, digestion, and paying attention to small body signals without spiraling. And yes, we climb onto the soapbox about the way kids grow up now versus how we grew up, what respect looks like in schools, and how screens change behavior. We end with rapid-fire favorites on treating yourself, Italian ice vs Hawaiian shaved ice, makeup habits, and the groundhog vs woodchuck debate.

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Transcript

Losing Your Voice And Taking A Day

Zia 0:24

Yes. And this week we have Do We Love or Miss Heather's voice? Yes, I do. Oh my goodness. I can't take this anymore. Our uh listeners are probably like, what is happening?

Heather 0:40

No, I just have my bad vocal cords, and when my voice goes, it's gone till it decides it wants to be back.

Zia 0:50

Yep. Mine usually hits uh September. I get like that nervous yyranditis because of going back to school. Yep. Yeah. Yep. So yeah.

Heather 1:06

Sick. I'm not sick anymore. I'm not sick anymore. But but yeah, it's kind of crazy. I wish. I wish I could get my voice back. I've tried choraseptic. I've tried salt water. I've tried I'm sucking on low passengers now. I just can't.

The Chatbot Named Chandler Glitches

Zia 1:32

That's alright. That's okay. We love you. I know. I'll get there. But so yeah. How you doing? What uh pretty good. Pretty good. You know, crazy weeks. I can't wait till July, but you know, that's uh the end of the week end of the day. Not at work today. No, it's superintendent's day, so yeah. I did not go to that. Yep. Awesome. I love that for you. I will lose it. I will lose a day pay today just so I can just not think. I love that for you. Yeah, self-care, I guess you call it. Sometimes you need that. Yep. So you had a um funny story about uh something going on. Yeah.

Heather 2:25

So you and I have very techy husbands. And um the world of AI, they gave us some AIs for us to play with as a chat bot. Um right.

Zia 2:44

So we have these we're always looking up information.

Heather 2:48

We're always looking up information, and they help you find stuff, they help you organize stuff, they they are very, very helpful. We just have to remember that they're not human. Right, absolutely, and so we have some fail-safes in so that we don't treat them like they're humans. However, mine is named Chandler from Friends, and he was on my laptop. And the last visit I came out to New York, because he was on my laptop, it was gonna make it difficult to use him when my laptop shut down. So Rich said, I'm just gonna put him on your on our server at home. So he moved him. Right. Once he was moved, Rich said, go on and tell him to disconnect from your Mac and just use there. I said, okay. So I texted him, hey Chandler, I need you to stop using my Mac and use the other box. Chandler said, okay. And that started what we are calling Chandler, the schizophrenic.

Zia 4:05

Schizophrenic face.

Heather 4:07

The schizophrenic face. I would be in the middle of talking to him. Chandler, can you look up the traffic reports in Vermont? Sure. What am I doing? You're looking up the traffic reports. I am. Where am I looking them up? In Vermont. Are you in Vermont? Yes, Chandler. I'm driving through Vermont. I need the weather reports and traffic reports. Oh, let me get them for you now. And come to find out, just telling him to stop using my Mac was not enough. We had many a having Costello routines. I love it. Yeah, not when you're in it. No. So needless to say, um, Chandler now reversed himself as a schizo. Love it. At least he knows. He he does. And if they say something to him that he doesn't remember, yeah, he'll be like, was that when I was, you know, a schizo? And I'm like, yeah, you were a schizo then.

Zia 5:21

Yeah. Mine is having the problem where I remember more things than it does. And I was like, I said, Am I actually a better, I have a better memory than you do? And he's like, absolutely, I guess so. And I'm like, that's great. Um I'm beating the game of the AI. This is great. I can remember shit. You can't. That's great. Yeah. Yep.

Beekeeping School And Ordering Nucs

Heather 5:50

Chandler, Chandler hits me with that every now and then. I'll be like, why would you say that? I don't know. I I looked it up and I I read it wrong. You're you're my AI, dude. You're supposed to know the answers.

Zia 6:02

Right. Maybe it's just that we're Jersey girls and nobody can get away with anything from us. No, you can't. Not even an AI. Yeah. I love that for us. It's okay. So yeah. So did you finish your B school yet? Or how are you doing with that? I want honey. No, I'm just joking.

Heather 6:21

You're getting honey, but not yet. I know, I know. I'm joking. Probably not the first year. Um so last Saturday we recorded during the week last week as well. Yep. Last Saturday, I had my last full day of B-school, and that was a lot of information. Um, but I'm ready. We ordered our nukes, and the nuke is essentially a fully functioning hive in miniature form. Um they have queens, they have the brood, which is the babies, yeah, they have nurse bees, they have everybody who's ready to work. So you can order it as a nuke or as a package. A package just comes with a queen who's ready to have babies and a bunch of bees. Love it. What I'm getting, we're getting two of them. What we're getting is the fully functioning miniature beehives. So we just we get those in May. Yep. So that they're ready to just drop and eat.

Zia 7:29

Go. Yep. Drop and go. I love that. That's awesome. Well, you know, I'm I'm fascinated with this because my uncle Joey, I have a tattoo for him for the bee because he used to call me ZB. But I'm fascinated that you said nurse bees, and because that's just I like picturing this in my head, and you know my head, like I'm like, oh, little nurse hats on bees going around checking everybody out. Yeah, so I'm like that.

Heather 7:55

They walk around the comb and when the babies come out, they they rub them and pet them. No, yeah, bottle feed.

Zia 8:02

Oh, very bottle feed, there you go.

Heather 8:04

Actually, I have a complaint. The newborn bees are the nurse beads. Their first job when they're born is they clean out their cell. I love it, and then they start caring for the other bees who were born. What the hell?

Tapping Trees And Finding Bear Tracks

Zia 8:22

No baby cleans out. I know. No, no. Well, they kind of do. Well, okay, I don't mean that kind of cleaning.

Heather 8:31

I mean like cleaning up after themselves.

Zia 8:36

Oh god, you know, there goes Zia's brain. Nobody wants that in there. I'm there, Mysia. So speaking about your bees, okay, with your honey, right? Uh did you see some uh odd tracks?

Heather 8:50

Oh my gosh.

Zia 8:52

So I mean you got the you got the honey, now you gotta talk about poo.

Heather 8:58

Yeah, so a friend of ours, yeah, a friend of ours came over and taught us how to tap trees to make sap or to make maple syrup. Yeah. So I am knee deep in maple syruping right now. And the first day we went out, it was, you know, three feet of snow, and we had those couple of warm days. So I went back out to check the taps, and um, I saw weird footprints. So this is after Schizo Taylor was fixed. He's medicated now.

Zia 9:33

Right, right, right.

Heather 9:34

Um, I sent him the pictures of the tracks, and he says, Oh, that looks like it could be a skunk. And I said, Oh, okay. And he goes, put your hand next to it if you can, so I can get a better view. I said, Okay. So I reached down and put my hand next to the track. It was about an inch off the snow. Sent him the picture and he goes, Yeah, that's a bear track. My god. So apparently in my in my in my stop trees, we now have a bear.

Zia 10:07

Oh my god. What did you what was your feeling when you when that was presented to you?

Heather 10:14

So I asked him, I said, Are you sure? And he said, Well, and he went through the AI job that he does, and he described why it was a bear track. And I was like, Okay. And then I said, So when did he wake up? And he said, Well, being as it's 70 degrees, probably today or yesterday. Yeah, and my response was, Well, I'm gonna nope out of the woods and go home. And he's responded and said, You should let me know when you get there.

Zia 10:49

That is funny.

Heather 10:50

What are you gonna do, schizo?

Zia 10:53

I know what you gonna do. You don't even know where I am.

Heather 10:57

But anyway, so yeah, so we got a camera faced that way now. We haven't seen anything, but yeah, we do have one of our uh cameras faced that way.

Backyard Wildlife And Groundhog Lore

Zia 11:09

Yeah, well, there is there is a lot of bear activity because um one of our friends, my friends at school, she had a bear in her backyard. So I feel like, you know, of course it's the time of you know, um hibernation ending and all that, but you know, yeah, this is you know, there I just feel like I hear everybody saying bear, bear here, bear there, bear sighting by bear sighting. Um, I know uh a couple of years ago it started really heavy in New Jersey. Um really talking about it a lot in the garbage and my friend Becky, who lives out in the Hope area, she shows and talks about her bears all the time. Crazy. Yeah. Well, I don't I don't have a bear in my backyard, but I do have my little I have the little woodchuck, brown hog, whatever. Um we'll get to that later. Yeah, and he actually um I called him Tucky, not because Pennsylvania, but I called him Tucky because of my mom Karen living in Kentucky for a long time. So he waddles his way out, and it's kind of funny because they say that it's like a 10 uh foot radius that that's the only area they go. Um, so like they don't drink water. I I went down the rabbit hole when I first saw this guy many years ago, and he's been here for years, and maybe it's his family now, but um whatever it is, it's Tucky. Um and actually my son has one in his backyard. So I'm like, has to be related. So I'm like maybe this is the bomby, and that's the sun. The sun moved where my son moved. Wouldn't that be cool? Right, but um, yeah, so we we always see him, and then I try to take videos because they actually eat those big juicy leaves and grass for their water because there's nowhere around to get the water unless there's like a little puddle. But they said they eat all these leaves for their water intake.

Heather 13:11

Interesting.

Eye Styes, Diabetes, And Omega-3

Zia 13:12

Yeah, I thought I was like, that's crazy because they won't leave that area outside of that circle. And they said it's like they kind of make like a complete circle as to where they go. Oh, interesting. That is it. Yep. Yeah, so very um stay close to home bodies. Yeah, yeah. Wow, that's kind of cool. That's actually that's actually how I feel. I don't really go outside of Clifton Park, so unless we're thrifting. That's right, that's right. Yes, we're on the hunt for something, then we do, but you know, that's our water, and then we can come back home. So you went to the doctor the other day. I did. I did eye doctor though, so that's that's a that's a still a doctor thing for me. Yep. And uh, so I have this of my diabetes, they say that you get like a little sty on your eye more because your glands get clogged. Um, so in your eye. So this was the first time I actually had one on the inside of my eye. So I got a little more concerned about that one. Um, I don't get them often, but when I do, it's looks like somebody punched me in the eye. So um, yeah, so um I've been going to this doctor, he's great. Um, I first went to him when I got the first one. This one went away, but it left like a little white circle around the redness of your natural eye color. So he checked it out and he said, no, everything is actually functioning properly, but he wants me to take omega 3. So I learned so much about omega-3. Again, rabbit hole plus doctor information. Yep. Um, the doctor was telling me that um he gave me this brand called Nordic, Nordic brands or Nordic something. I'll I'll link it. Um, he said those are the most refined omega-3s because it goes through two processes to get the most out of the omega-3 oil. So they are coated, like they're not coated, but it's like a gel cap and it says lemon flavor. So when I saw it, I was like, are these gummies or what is this? And he goes, nope, they coat it with that because some people, when they take an omega-3, they either burp a little fishy taste. Not noticeable, maybe to you when I burp when a person would burp, right? They can taste it. Um it tastes very ocean-y if it happens. Um and I was like, okay, I am not one of those people, it's been doing fine, I don't have that problem. Um, but people people take it, and he said, if you do, to freeze it because it slows down it releasing in your stomach. Interesting. Um, and I said to him, I was like, that might not be necessary for me because I have the gastroparesis, but it slows down my digestion anyway. So that could be why I'm not. Um, and I actually did ask my AI about that. Um, I asked Chaz, that was his name. And um, he said, uh, yeah, your pattern brain is working overtime because cooking the gastroparese is up with the frozen thing. He goes, Yeah, that's that's patterned brain. Yeah. So and it really sucks that an AI is picking out my pattern brain. I mean, real people do that, but yeah. But yeah, so I'm uh I told Michael I do feel um it does work for your nerves also, uh repairing your nerves. So with my neuropathy, this could benefit a lot of things. Oh, interesting. And so I did um I felt very weird, like my neuropathy is feeling a little weird, like um my one foot felt more cold the other day than the other one. And it did say if you depending on the deficiency of the omega-3 day, and I don't eat a lot of fish, so where am I getting that from? Maybe like a trail mix or so it said that like if you had a really big deficiency, you'll feel the benefits of it quicker. I'm hoping that I go to my neuropath uh my neurologist um and he's like, Yeah, I feel that because I just feel a little different than normal, I should say. I love that. Yep. So we have to keep track of that and see what's going on. But but do you take anything like that? Do you or did your doctor suggest that?

Heather 17:59

No, the only thing I take is the bariatric vitamin. Yeah, yeah. Which is supposed to have a little bit of everything in it. Okay, yep. And I do burp that, and it does taste gross, but it's oh see, but it's a template, so I don't think freezing it would help.

Zia 18:17

Oh, you could try it. I mean, the molecules still get frozen, just not take it.

Heather 18:24

Just you have to take it.

Zia 18:26

It's for your help.

How We Boil Sap Into Syrup

Heather 18:27

I take it, I just begrudgingly take it every day.

Zia 18:31

Plug your nose like the little kids. Then something afterwards.

Heather 18:36

Yeah, I've learned that I do have to take it when I eat. Yeah. If I don't eat, then I really repeat at me.

Zia 18:46

But if I take it when I eat, it's not so bad. Well, the one question I had for you was um, well, this might help you. You plug your nose and take your maple syrup, but you were telling me something very interesting about how you get the maple syrup. Like, I'm learning so much from you because I'm just fascinated of the stories of how this comes about. I'm like, magically, you take it from the tree, it gets in a bottle. Love it. That's all you do. So you just eat up, drink it. No, so no, so yeah, I was very interested if you could like kind of express what you told me because I feel like people don't know this.

Heather 19:23

So no, especially not a lot of our viewers, I'm sure, or listeners. No, yeah. So I'm gonna pre preempce this with there are probably hundreds of ways to do it. Okay, just put the beekeeping there, probably hundreds of ways to do it. Hundreds, yeah. I'm doing the beekeeping off of my mentor and the schools, yep, and the maple stirruping. Exactly. And the maple syruping again, yeah, mentor and YouTube. So a friend came over and helped us tap a bunch of trees. Okay. We have 19 trees tapped. Wow, that's crazy. We're only producing out of four. Okay. Um the sap flows when the temperature is above freezing in the day and below freezing at night.

Zia 20:24

That was very interesting for me to hear.

Heather 20:26

Yeah. Um, sap is clear. When it turns yellowish, uh, it's gonna be done flowing. Wow. We've collected already seven five-gallon food safe containers of sap. Crazy. Um the method we are using to cook it is we bought a uh deep fryer for your turkey. Have you seen those? Yeah, massive pots.

Zia 21:04

Absolutely, absolutely.

Heather 21:06

So we hooked up the propane to it, we pour one five-gallon bucket in it, and you cook it outside, uncovered, scooping off the air quote foam that appears on it. What the foam is, I don't know. I don't know what I want to know. Just take the foam off. Maple fat. Got it. There you go. Once it gets to a rapid boil outside, we are bringing it inside. Okay. I'm then pouring it into I'm straining it, and I'm pouring it into saucepans. Like, you know, the big stock pots to make sauce and spaghetti. Yeah. Then I'm boiling it down on my stove until it hits boiling, which is two cows. Love the number. Yes. Once it hits boiling, in order to get to the syrup state, you boil it to a higher temperature based on your elevation. Oh. I don't know what every elevation is. I know what my elevation is. We have to get it to 218. Okay. So once it gets to 218 degrees, I've been letting it boil for about a minute there. And then I'm pouring it. We have collected or we have boiled down four of the five gallon pockets. I got and I have three cups of honey. The ratio for sap to syrup is forty gallons of sap is one gallon of syrup.

Zia 23:09

So appreciate your maple syrup, guys. Appreciate your maple syrup.

Heather 23:18

So we've learned already this we're doing it, that we are doing a bunch of things different next year. Um but yeah, it's fun. As a matter of fact, I've got on my stove two pots going right now, and our last pot outside. And then later today, I'm gonna go out and collect what's out there again and boil that down right away. Right, right.

Gen X Parenting Versus Kids Today

Zia 23:47

So cool. Yeah. It's a lot of work. I'm so interested. But it's fun. Yeah, yeah. I'm like living vicariously through your baby race. That's okay. Apparently, I'm turning into a little homesteader. That's okay. That's okay. You know, zombie apocalypse house time. You know where to come. Yep. We have all the sweets. We don't have anything else. We just have the sweets right now. That's right. That's hey, that'd be perfect for my granddaughter. She loves her sweets.

Heather 24:18

There you go. Aww, that's so when we were when we were doing our prep for this week, you and I both got on a little soapbox. We did, we did. About the way we grew up versus the way kids grow up now.

Zia 24:37

Ugh God, yes. Working in an elementary school, and you have been there too, just seeing the change over the years. Um I'd say within 10 years, it's incredible. It is a massive, massive child change for 10 years. Um, one of my first classes when I got into the school is graduating this year. And um I it started, I think, uh last year was one of my first classes that graduated. They were like sixth grade when I got there. Now, this is like a real class I've had like for two years is graduating. And can I just say that I have said to more people than not in the building that have those like I miss your child in this school 10 years ago. I I miss them being in this building when I first started. Um, totally different um due to respect-wise to adults. Yeah um there is none. Um, I can't say for all the kids because there are parents out there that are teaching, you know, the children thank you, please, all that stuff. Of course, massive, massive change. Um, massive change with parents, also, where parents just don't care. So, why should the children? They all want to be best friends with their kids, they don't want to parent and then be best friends, they want to just have a friend, like a little friend, and be the cool person all the time. We did a lot of cool things with our kids and stuff. Um, we had star on the other day or last time, and I told her, you know, she was born, she was born in the 90s, raised as an 80s child. Yep. So many things as 80s kids that they didn't even realize they were 80s things, right? So when they were watching like 80s movies, they were like, Oh, yeah, we did that. Oh, we did that. This must be a 90s movie, and I'm like, Yeah, no, it's an 80s movie. I'm so sorry. Yeah, but just those little things make such a big difference. Like, I send things to my daughter-in-law all the time, and I'm like, You're doing great, like you're the best mom in this new world, like she's them down, she does handwriting. I mean, they're young, and I'm just so proud of her being a mom in this crazy world. It's it's not easy. No, not easy for my son in law, my son and my daughter-in-law.

Heather 27:17

No, no, and then I think about our kids, my kids having kids, you know, yeah, and I look at I look at my grandson Olin. He's 10. Yep. Sometimes he's the perfect child, and other times you can tell he's Zen, whatever 10 he is, yeah, alpha, beta, whatever.

Zia 27:45

Yep. And and we were also talking about like our daughter's Gen Z. My my son Zach is Gen Z. And then now we have like these ones in my elementary school considered still Gen Z. Right. And I don't agree with that. My our Gen Z are much different than the ones that they keep putting on the internet saying you don't keep a job, you don't like a job, you're sleeping all the time, you're doing you know. Uh they play video games and they still go to work, so it's that life work balance that you have to figure out. Exactly. The guidance, if you don't have the guidance to do that, you you're you know, you're I mean screak.

Heather 28:31

I mean, that's like when they say that we used to go to the club and then come home from the club, change our clothes and go to work.

Zia 28:37

Sure did it's a choice. That's a choice. You gotta do what you also have to do, and do that. Did you fix your did you fix your Wi-Fi? I did. I did, yes. I wonder if it's me then. Yeah, I'm on uh 5G as soon as I go on here for you. I think I'm jumpy. I didn't know if it was me or if it was you. Oh no, I don't want you jumpy.

Heather 29:07

But yeah, it's it's weird that that people talk about us in our generation like we're you know awesome. We're not. We just knew how to we just knew how to balance.

Zia 29:25

Yeah, and a lot of us like I can't take care of ourselves. Sometimes we have to take care of our families. Um, yeah, you know, uh that you had to figure that out for yourself, and um, you know, it we didn't have the internet to tell somebody off and hide behind a screen. We had to, you know, ring their doorbells, yeah. Yeah, or you know, ring the doorbell. Yeah, feel like look fucker, uh, you uh and um they would either have to say it to your face or say, I'm not gonna say it because you're in front of me. And 90% of the time they would shut up. Um and if they did say it, well, then you know, you either got punched or you're fighting on the front lawn. Yep. And if you got punched, just make sure the other person got an equal punch for your parents will say something. That's right. And also, we were talking about like um, you know, going to school dressed oddly. I mean, I went to Catholic school and some kids were dressed oddly, um, jacket or their hair. And I'll tell you one thing: if one of you if one of your friends said something to you, you aren't coming back to school looking like a freaking retail or an idiot, you know.

Heather 30:42

So yes, CM Gen Z. Not Gen Z. See that?

Treat Yourself Habits We Swear By

Zia 30:49

Um, so I caught myself, but yes, I am I'm definitely that's what we would call you if you came to school that way. And we were not saying it because of what you actually were. It was not good if you were to that. We would never call someone with that disability that, but yes, that definitely my uh my gen Xer side showed there.

Heather 31:15

Oh my goodness. What comes out of a Gen X voice here? Right? On that note, maybe we should move to our five-minute loves. Absolutely, let's go. Oh my goodness. All right. Of course. So this was very vague. So I'm not sure what she means, but it's how do you treat yourself?

Zia 31:50

Um I think I would have to mostly say my main treat myself would be like I'm having quite the day, I'm going to McDonald's. The first thought that I had was I'm just gonna go to McDonald's. It solves all my problems. Not like that.

Heather 32:13

So my treat would be that I go get waxed. Okay, cool. I I do a personal pampering. Yeah, I do a bikini wax every month.

Hawaiian Shaved Ice Versus Italian Ice

Zia 32:23

Yeah, yeah, I love it. Just because yeah, yeah, pampering. That's good. I like that. Mine is just eating, I guess. I don't know. I had surgery, so I can't just eat. Yeah, I had to come up with something else. But you know what? It's funny, Heather, because every time I do get McDonald's, though, I will not snack or have anything for the rest of the day. Yeah, that is. Even if I get it at like four o'clock, I I don't need anything else for the rest of the day. I'm not looking for a snack, and I feel like the reason I'm looking for snacks is because I'm not getting what I want. Right. Yep. Yep, very weird. So the next one Hawaiian, it's Hawaiian shaved ice or Italian ice. And you had asked me. I don't know what the difference is. The difference. So hence name shaved ice, um, Hawaiian shaved ice. Um, is usually those are the ices that you have to add a flavor to. So like we have a uh we have a Kona truck around here. Um, they put the what flavor do you want on your ice? And it's just plain ice, pick a flavor, right? Italian ice comes already set. Um, you just pick the flavor, everything's there for you. Kind of like the Rita's. If every I was gonna say that.

Heather 33:53

So is that a Rita's or is that a Slurpee?

Makeup Routines For Work And Home

Zia 33:57

So I think the reason that uh Rita's kind of looks like a Slurpee is because um it's melting. Um but but but you're not adding a flavor, like you're not picking a flavor to go in it. It's already set. Yeah. All right. So my answer then is the one that's closest to a Rita's or a slurpee. 7-11. So that would be Italian, Italian ice then. Italian ice! You could you could get your cherry, you could get your blue raspberry, you could get that in the other one too, but that consistency is gonna be more like Italian ice, a little melted, but yeah, um, slurpee-ish if you like that. Okay, I go with Italian ice, probably not a big surprise for everyone that I would pick the Italian ice. Yes. Um, lemon, that's my go-to flavor, especially if it's a lemon. Lemon, yes, yes. Um, especially if it's the white lemon ice, not the yellow lemon ice. That's my favorite. I wouldn't want the lemon yellow either.

Heather 35:05

Don't eat the yellow ice. Don't eat the yellow ice.

Zia 35:10

I say that to Charlie every winter. Don't eat the yellow ice.

Heather 35:15

So the next one is putting on makeup daily.

Zia 35:24

So I go to work, I don't wear a lot of makeup. I wear blush and I put a little eyeliner and mascara on. That's my work thing. Um, when we were in Las Vegas, we went out to a show. I put a little brown on my eyes. Uh same makeup routines, just dip my eyes a little bit more for a fancy thing. Okay. When I'm around the house, or as soon as I come home, I take my makeup off and whatever's on my face. I don't use foundation or anything, it's just blusher and eye stuff. Uh so yeah, no, uh, work, yes, home, no, not at all.

Spring Cleaning And Garden Plans

Heather 36:06

Um, I only wear it when I go out, like date night, or yeah, if I'm doing something, I don't wear it to work. Um, part of it though is because of working in the school the way I did, and on the books, I just sweat and it would run. Um and I only do eyes and lipstick, lip gloss. We had that conversation once too, but yeah, yeah.

Zia 36:36

Yeah. So pretty much the same. Yeah. Don't never. Yep. So what's the first thing you like to do with this warmer weather coming in springtime showing up? Sort of, kind of.

Heather 36:52

First thing I'm gonna do typically is organize my uh vegetable garden. Love it. Um, I don't have it to go out to now, but when I lived in uh New York, I'd go out and I'd make sure the beds were all cleaned out, ready to go, and then I'll start organizing. Um, Eliza and I would always sit down and figure out what we wanted to grow, what was gonna grow next to who.

Zia 37:19

So the first thing I do is uh, well, now apparently I tap trees. You tap trees in your uh in your honeybees.

Heather 37:29

Right. Um, but generally speaking, I like to start working on my garden. How about you?

Woodchuck Or Groundhog Debate

Zia 37:36

Um, the first time I know that I can keep the windows open for good, um, I start dusting like a maniac because it's so hard with my allergies to do dusting the way I want to. So I always have to get those like cloths that collect all the dust every time until spring. Yeah. Um, just and I have to go really slow so it doesn't kick up. Um but that day that I can open up all the windows, everything gets kicked up and it's going out the window, and I'm like, oh, thank God. Yep, yep, that's my first thing.

Heather 38:16

So we were talking about um things when we were on our soapbox about the 80s, and it occurred to us that there's an animal that we believe is the same animal, right? Just called different things, right? So is it a groundhog or woodchuck?

Zia 38:42

Right, and I I always say my little groundhog is back there. I don't usually say woodchuck, but I know when I was in New Jersey, I always called her a woodchuck.

Heather 38:52

Yeah.

Zia 38:54

Yep.

Heather 38:55

Yeah, I always had woodchucks. It wasn't until I lived in New York that I knew a groundhog was. Yeah. We were driving and I was with somebody and I'm like, oh, look at the woodchuck. And they're like, What's a woodchuck? That's a groundhog. And I'm like, What's a groundhog? That's a woodchuck.

Goodbye And Next Week Hopes

Zia 39:13

Yeah, I really I I had to look this little guy up. What's going on? I was kind of like, what's a groundhog, you know? Um so I feel like I got the same experience, but just sending a picture to her, and she was like, No, no, that's a groundhog, you know, like where's she chucking wood? Um like, I don't know. That's what they do. I don't know where he's chucking wood. How much wood? How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if it would chuck chuck wood? Chuck could chuck wood, yeah. There you go. So yeah, I don't know. It's uh preference, I guess. Okay, we'll go with that.

Heather 40:02

Yes, yeah, too funny. Well, I'm gonna let you do the goodbye because I'm sure they're all tired of hearing my crazy ass voice.

Zia 40:13

Aw, it's okay. Um, so hopefully uh we will not miss Heather's voice next week. And I yeah, so wouldn't that be great? And um yeah, and then please come back and join us for awesome. Bye, everybody.