WEBVTT 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:06.000 I need you just to say three letters for me. 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.519 This is enormous with your hosts Harley and KC. 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:28.079 Are we on? 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:28.800 Yeah, we are. 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:29.519 We're recording? 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:30.320 Yeah, we are. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:30.800 Okay. 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.439 There are three letters of the alphabet that I'd like you to say. 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:34.399 I've written them down. 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:34.799 Okay. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:36.000 So you can say them. 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:37.039 Can you see them? 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:43.039 I wrote them down on our big gigantic enormous pad that we keep our notes on. 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:44.799 With markers that have a scent. 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:46.000 This is our trellis. 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:47.520 This is our trellis. 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:48.079 It's true. 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:50.079 Our trello is on a big piece of paper. 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:50.799 I like it. 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:51.439 I like that. 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:52.560 It's better than trello. 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:55.280 Okay, so I have to read the three letters? 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:56.159 Yes. 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:58.399 You mean these three right here? 00:00:58.560 --> 00:00:58.799 Yes. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:00:59.200 Uh-huh. 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:01.039 R and R. 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:01.679 Okay. 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:05.200 Now say it a little faster and put them a little closer together. 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:06.079 R and R. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:06.719 Okay. 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:09.040 Drew it one more time for me. 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:09.920 R N R. 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:14.719 Okay, you have just now said oh no in with an Australian accent. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:15.840 Arnar. 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:17.519 Oh, you're right. 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:18.079 Uh-huh. 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:18.959 That's very good. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:19.519 Isn't it? 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:20.799 That's the hardest accent to get. 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.319 Now you can say oh no with an Australian accent. 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:25.439 R and R. 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:27.120 R N. 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:28.799 Don't overdo it now. 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.920 But you have to don't you have to emphasise Emphosis? 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:33.359 Emphosis the R. 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:34.560 R and R. 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:35.760 Yeah, I like that. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:36.159 That's good. 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:37.200 That's very good. 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:38.719 Yeah, I thought I thought you'd like that. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:39.120 Uh-huh. 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:40.239 I like little tricks like that. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.280 Well, I'm glad we were able to get together today to try to do a little recording. 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:44.079 We'll see what happens. 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.359 We've done a few and they uh haven't uh made the grade. 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:48.079 That's true. 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.000 So here we are behind by a couple of months. 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.680 But you know, we have a lot of people that do listen to us and miss us. 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:59.359 And so it's it's important, I think, that we do an episode regularly just so that people know what's going on. 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:00.079 Yep. 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.400 Yeah, and then and things are going on still. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:02.879 Yep. 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:03.359 Like what? 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:05.040 Tell me what's been going on with you. 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.960 Well, uh well, nothing nothing too terribly exciting. 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:18.800 Just uh now it's almost spring or getting close to spring, so doing yard work things and kind of prepping for summer and about to get ready for the camping season and all that kind of stuff. 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:20.400 When's your first camping trip? 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.520 In this month, at the end of the month, actually. 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:24.000 Really? 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:24.159 Yeah. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:33.759 Are you gonna do the local staycation kind of staycation summarizing, opposite of winterizing, the summarizing process? 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:44.639 It's practice, it's you know, just getting setting everything up, cleaning everything, blowing the the lines out and getting the anti-freeze out of the water lines and all that kind of stuff. 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:46.400 That's it's that's a lot, isn't it? 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.240 It takes a while, but it's kind of fun. 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:48.960 I sort of like it. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.400 Now, would you have to do that if you parked it in a heated storage area? 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:53.439 Probably not. 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.360 If you were if you were pretty assured that that you weren't gonna lose heat, uh-huh. 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:04.639 I might still go to the low drain and drain all the water out of everything and maybe and even blow the excess out of there. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.719 Thing that's different is that it has that hot water on demand. 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:09.840 Oh, right. 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:20.319 So it's all these little coils that water runs through that uh that you know are heated, that the a flame comes on and just starts heating these little coils and water runs through and then it heats it as you're using it. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.439 We don't have a hot water tank. 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:22.080 Which is perfect. 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:23.120 That's great. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:33.039 That part is great, but the winterizing side of that is you know, is maybe not so great because you better make sure you got all the water out of that system or that or that's gonna be an expense. 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:33.520 Yep. 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.400 There must be RV heated storage in Denver somewhere. 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.400 There might be, although I'm not aware of it. 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.159 It's probably more than an apartment. 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:49.520 Yeah, I know there's covered where they have big canopies, yeah, and some of that covered even has uh 30 amp and 50 amp plug-ins, so you can even keep your rig plugged in. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:59.840 Well, Sarge's brother, which would technically be, I guess, uh my brother-in-law through through marriage, right, and sister-in-law are buying an RV. 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.000 And it's gonna be one that has a motor in it. 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.800 You know, it's got the Ford engine, like a Ford 400 or something like that. 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:07.759 A motor home of sorts. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:08.719 A motor home, yeah. 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:09.039 Yes. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:16.399 So I'm assuming that they're gonna build some kind of an outbuilding for it and keep it partially heated, but that would be really difficult, wouldn't it? 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:23.680 Yeah, it's expensive to heat an outbuilding, unless your outbuilding's you know, completely insulated and so forth. 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:29.279 If it was insulated and it had passive solar and maybe a little active solar, that would work. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.199 But you can have a big garage door. 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:34.560 So you can only do so much about insulating around where a garage door is. 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:36.720 It probably costs as much as a house, wouldn't it? 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:37.120 Totally. 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.439 It's no longer an outbuilding, it's a guest quarters. 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:40.000 Right. 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:41.600 Right put a bed in there. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:45.519 Well, yeah, if it's got an RV parked in there, then it is a guest quarters. 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.279 They can sleep in the RV in the outbuilding. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:57.759 Yeah, you know, our friends that live down there near uh Castle Rock in Larksburg, uh, their neighbors bought a piece of land close to them and built a fancy house there, some gays. 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:59.120 It's a couple gays actually. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:06.720 They bought this fancy house and and uh then right away they built a guest quarters, like almost a whole nother house next to that house. 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.000 But onto that, they built a whole motorhome garage. 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:10.720 That's nice. 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:17.199 So it has that great big, you know, giant, tall garage door, and they can back their motorhome right in there and plug it in. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:22.480 And I imagine when they do that and close that garage door, then they leave that closed all winter. 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:25.920 So you know, so they're not not losing the heat all the time. 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:29.920 Yeah, they had there's you go in the people door, you don't open the big garage door to get in there. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.519 Yeah, yeah, because that's the problem with garages, is you're losing the heat all the time every time you open up. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:34.959 But they have insulated garage doors. 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:35.920 Sure, sure they do. 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:41.680 Because a lot of homes now are putting garage doors in family rooms that go out to an outdoor living area or something. 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.759 Yeah, I'm I'm looking at a new garage door, so I've been looking at various ones. 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:46.160 Yep. 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.519 And you can go from super cheap to very expensive for a garage door. 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.360 Wow, what's the price what's the price range? 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.439 Well, it's I mean a thousand to five five thousand, maybe even more than that. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.120 But I would like one like with you know windows across the top of it and stuff so you get some light in there. 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:00.399 Yeah, I would like that too. 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.319 So so anything else new going on? 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:03.839 You're you're starting your camping season. 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:05.120 Yeah, no, not for me. 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:05.680 What about you? 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:06.800 What have you been up to? 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:07.920 Oh man. 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:09.120 Um, let's see. 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.519 There's been lots of stuff going on in my world. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.839 I'm still trying to figure out a way to retire. 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:14.399 Yes. 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.879 But in the meantime, I'm having practice retirement. 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:17.439 That's good. 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:18.240 Do you know what that is? 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:19.040 Yeah, I do. 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:19.839 I think I do. 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:20.480 Tell me. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.319 That's when you still have a job, but you only go in like two days a week. 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:25.839 But you don't go there anymore. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:27.600 Yeah, but you don't go there anymore. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:36.480 So uh I guess that's the advantage of owning a store and having employees that that are really great people that uh do a really good job and that love me. 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:37.759 It should be the advantage. 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:44.959 There should be a point where you can worry less about it and they can kind of take care of it for you, that they have your best interest at heart, and that's how it works. 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:56.639 So I go in Saturday for about six hours, and then I usually go in for maybe uh you know, a couple two-hour days during the week, or maybe uh just one uh four to six hour day. 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:57.040 Okay. 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.560 So I don't work more than probably twelve hours, twelve to fifteen hours a week. 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:01.759 Well, that's pretty good then. 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:03.600 But I do know you do some work at home as well. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:05.439 I do work at home and I enjoy that. 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:06.560 I have to tell you, yeah. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.680 Having that house to myself during the day is wonderful. 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:10.480 You like it? 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:11.439 I like it. 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:13.759 But Sarge now works from home. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:14.240 Okay. 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:22.319 So he works from home one day a week, and he clumps them at the end of one week and the beginning of the next week. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:24.319 To make a nice longer weekend, sort of. 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.040 So that would be like a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:27.439 Right. 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:28.240 That's a good way to do it. 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:34.879 But then since we haven't been traveling much, he's got so much vacation saved up that he oftentimes takes Thursdays off too. 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:35.279 Okay. 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.560 So now he has Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:39.120 Right. 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:47.439 But this past week was uh a holiday, a city holiday, and um so he had, I think, six days. 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:48.000 Okay. 00:07:48.480 --> 00:08:00.000 Well, I would submit to you that's also good retirement practice because at some point you do have to grow accustomed to being home together a lot of the time or all of the time, and that's and that's an adjustment. 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.680 See, so you're already getting ready for that too. 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:07.040 Well, and what we're teaching each other is is that when we have our own projects, don't bother us. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:07.439 Yep. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:08.399 He leaves me alone. 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:09.439 Yep, that's good. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.000 Yeah, but it's still not the same as being alone. 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:16.399 No, no, but but it's still good to have your own, you know, go to your own corner. 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:17.279 Yep, so to speak. 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.199 Like I say, it's practice, and I I like it. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:20.240 Yeah, that's good. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.240 Now you remember, well, you know, of course, you know our dog Marley. 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:25.279 Well, of course. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:25.759 Uh-huh. 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:31.439 We rescued Marley from a couple that was going through a divorce, some people from work, a a client of mine. 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:41.600 Marley was ten when he came to live with us, and unfortunately was very shell-shocked leaving his family and having to live with total strangers. 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:50.960 It's hard for the pet to do that at any point, but for that long, for a dog that's that's that old, if you will, that's a that's quite a an adjustment. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:51.279 Yep. 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:52.399 And he was a big dog. 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:52.960 Big. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.720 I feel like he did he did good with his that adjustment, though, actually. 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:57.440 He did great. 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:03.200 Which you guys need to be commended for that too, because you you helped him with that transition, of course, of making him feel comfortable. 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:04.000 Yeah, thank you. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:04.879 In a new home. 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.120 But one of the things he never did was he never had that eye-to-eye contact. 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:09.600 Right. 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.840 When you'd look at him, he'd look off to the side. 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:12.240 Right. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.240 When he wanted to go out, he wouldn't look at you and bark, he'd look off in the distance and bark. 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:17.200 That kind of thing. 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.679 Well, I read that that that breed of dog, that's one of their deals. 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:22.240 Really? 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:23.519 That's what I read somewhere. 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:23.919 Yeah. 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:25.039 But here's the thing. 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.279 After about nine months, it started to change. 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:28.399 He got better at it. 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:32.399 He became more he became part of the family. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.159 I think in his mind and our mind both, after about nine months. 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.360 Well, unfortunately, he didn't make it to two years with us. 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.360 And about two and a half weeks ago, we had to say goodbye to Marley. 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:43.759 Yeah. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.039 And boy, was it tough. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:45.919 That's really hard. 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:57.919 It's funny that, yeah, like it's like you had him for a year and a half, roughly or so, and you and you wouldn't think people that don't have pets or don't have a dog, I don't know if they even understand that relationship. 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:09.679 Because it's I we I we don't need to get I guess go in long in the tooth about it because we've talked about this before, but it's it's a special bond, and it's it's real painful when you when you lose. 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:18.639 And for him, I my feeling for him was I don't know if you remember, I from the get-go, I tried to get him to I would be down on the floor trying to get him to look at me, and he wouldn't do it for the longest time. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:19.200 He finally did. 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:23.519 Oh, he did, he finally would make eye contact with me, but it took it took a long time for him to do that. 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:28.720 But I think a big dog like that, and he was five hands high. 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:30.080 How tall was he? 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:33.600 He was tall enough that I could touch his head with my hand without bending over. 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.600 You know, you measure a horse and hands, right? 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:37.440 So that's why he said five hands high. 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:43.120 Um, yeah, he was a big guy, and some there's something about a big dog that's ti that takes up space too. 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:43.600 Oh gosh. 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:47.360 The minute they're gone, boy, you they're not taking up that space with you anymore. 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:48.240 You really notice it. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:49.120 It's really a feeling. 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:49.759 Yep. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.600 I've had two dogs that have died as an adult. 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:58.559 And the first one died when I was on my 50th birthday out of the country. 00:10:58.720 --> 00:10:58.960 Right. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.480 And the second one died when we took him in for teeth cleaning. 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:04.720 That must have done something wrong. 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.360 So this is the first time I had to make the decision. 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:18.559 And I was actually feeling good because I felt like I was doing my responsibility of easing his pain and letting him no longer have to suffer with his body not working right. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.080 But let me tell you, there's a lot of second guessing that goes on. 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:22.559 Right. 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:32.720 You need I tell, I'm telling you, you need to see, I need to show you this vet, this young vet that's on TikTok, that that that's all he talks about is is making that decision and knowing when it's the right decision, or whatever. 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:36.240 And he's so good at uh discussing that and making you feel a way about it. 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:37.840 And I thought I made the right decision. 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.080 And and I had talked about it with Sarge. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:42.159 I mean, it wasn't it wasn't just my decision. 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:43.519 We both we both made it. 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:44.000 Sure. 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:45.759 But afterwards I started doubting. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:47.840 Sure, absolutely, that's exactly what happens. 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:53.200 But on that same topic, we have a fellow podcaster who has lost one of his family members. 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:53.840 Right, right. 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.559 A lovely little cat that was with him for 22 years. 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:00.879 A pretty fluffy little kitty. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:01.440 Beautiful. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:02.240 Yeah. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.879 I'm really, you know, my heart goes out to him. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:05.200 Yeah. 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:06.799 Haunt Cub, we're thinking of you. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:07.360 Yep. 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:08.320 And your kitty. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:09.279 And your kitty. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:11.919 And bestie Bill, I'm sure he loved your kitty too. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:12.320 Right. 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:14.000 That that's a hard thing to go through. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:19.600 And and yep, it leaves a little uh hole in your self for a little while, for sure. 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.559 So I do have a couple other things I wanted to share. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:27.120 Okay. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.480 These are happy things. 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:28.960 Oh. 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:35.759 I got a letter from the Social Security Administration, and uh I'm getting a raise. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:36.559 Oh, you are? 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.240 Yeah, well, because I'm still working. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:38.720 Okay. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.320 Um, my base that I contribute to gets higher and higher. 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:42.799 Okay. 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:47.759 And because uh labor reports are not coming out very consistently anymore. 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.799 When I first started, I didn't get the back. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.240 You know, there was something it was supposed to be retroactive. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:54.559 Yeah. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.120 So I'm gonna get like a raise and two additional checks. 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.039 I am just I'm just pleased with that. 00:12:59.279 --> 00:12:59.759 That's exciting. 00:12:59.919 --> 00:13:00.639 Yeah, good news, right? 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:02.320 We'll take money whenever we can get it. 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:02.480 Right. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.200 I'll tell you, whenever I see a letter from the Social Security Administration, the first thing I think is Oh no. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:08.480 Oh no, what bad news? 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:09.840 You know, what what's going on? 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:10.559 Yeah, exactly. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:11.919 Yeah, so that was kind of nice. 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:12.480 Very good. 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:18.000 And then the other good news was something that made me feel really good about my life and how I've spent it. 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:24.320 Um I've been doing picture framing for 40 years and made lots of friends, and lots of clients have become friends. 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:33.200 And um, there's one particular client that I've always really liked, and we sort of shared a common respect and like for each other. 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.759 And then recently, this this client came in and uh handed me an envelope. 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:56.320 I opened it in private, and it was the most beautiful letter saying what a good friend I had been over the last 20, 25, 30 years, and um how much they loved me, and they actually put a check in there as a personal gift and said, spend this on something that will just bring you pleasure and make you happy. 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:57.600 Oh, that's really nice. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.759 And wasn't that amazing? 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:00.879 That's really nice. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:04.960 We don't get a lot of that anymore, so that's really special when it happens. 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:05.360 Yeah. 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.440 So anyway, two good news is too. 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:08.159 Yeah, good. 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:09.360 Can you think of anything else? 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:10.879 How are your how are your dogs doing? 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:11.759 They're both good. 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.480 I just called this morning and made appointments for them for their yearly little shots and checkups and so forth. 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.320 So we'll be doing that here in a couple weeks. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:19.759 Yoda just had his. 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:20.159 Okay. 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.639 Yeah, he needs to go on kidney food or something. 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:23.919 Oh, oh no. 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:28.240 I've had kitties in the past that needed to be on kidney food, and now I guess we're starting that with a dog. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.879 Well, I've had these two on a on a little bit of a diet. 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:36.480 I mean, kind of trying to be a little more thoughtful about how much I feed them because sometimes I think I'm a little overzealous. 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:37.840 So they're looking pretty good. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:38.080 Yeah. 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:41.440 So I'm excited to see when they get weighed now at the vet how they're doing. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:43.840 Do you know how much your little one weighs? 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:44.480 I don't. 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:44.879 No, not. 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:50.080 Well, when we got Yoda, I thought he was 12 to 15 pounds. 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:50.879 Yeah. 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:56.399 When he went to the vet last week, he was 19 pounds. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:57.039 Oh, yeah. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:02.480 Which doesn't sound like a for humans that doesn't sound like a big gain, but on a little dog, that's quite a lot. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:03.039 Uh-huh. 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:03.919 Yeah, it is. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:04.720 It is. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.960 He likes his treats just like me. 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:08.000 Oh my gosh. 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.879 And his other daddy loves to give him people food, too. 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:12.639 I'm familiar with that process here as well. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:14.879 Pizza, a little bit of cheese. 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:15.519 Oh, yeah. 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:16.879 Uh well, I'm guilty too. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.240 I give him treats when I see him too. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:19.360 And I do it these ones too. 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.159 But what's I think what's really funny, and and I would I do this too. 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.080 When a dog doesn't eat, you get nervous. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:24.960 Yeah, sure. 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:26.399 So then you're adding stuff. 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:26.799 Right. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.480 You know, eat, come on, eat. 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.440 But they could go for three weeks without eating, it'd be fun. 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:32.559 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:40.639 Well, I noticed that he had a uh a little adjustment when uh Marley wasn't there that it took him a minute to kind of get used to being an only child again. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:45.039 But I felt like when we were over there for before we went to the oh, we should talk about that too. 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:49.120 Before we went to the Natural History Museum, he seemed uh a little better. 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.759 Like he seemed like he was gonna be okay with us leaving him there at the house. 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:53.279 He's better, but he's different. 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:53.919 Yeah. 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:55.679 I've never had that experience. 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:57.200 I've never had more than one animal. 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:57.679 Okay. 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.919 And he was very attached to Marley. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:00.320 Yeah. 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.639 It's funny because they're they are kind of like siblings too. 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:06.240 They they kind of like each other and hate each other at the same time, sort of. 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:11.200 So but it's interesting to see his realization, his reality changes. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:11.600 Right. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.879 I mean, uh Marley was around for 20% of his life. 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:15.840 That's a long time. 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:16.320 Right. 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:17.519 So that's a good friend. 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:18.000 Yeah. 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.799 And he stopped looking out the window all the time. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:21.279 Right. 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:25.679 But he still likes to sleep now in the front room near the front door, hoping that he'll come back. 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:27.360 Seeing if he'll be coming back. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:27.919 Yeah. 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.799 Well, we were over there on a Sunday because what did we do? 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:31.519 Let's see. 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:32.799 What do we do on a Sunday? 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:34.320 We went to Sunday Mass. 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:35.039 Oh, yes. 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:35.440 Uh-huh. 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.200 No, we did not go to Mass. 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.799 We went to To see a mass of Legos. 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:41.600 Yeah. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:42.639 What did you think? 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:44.799 It was quite a pile, quite the pile of Legos. 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:45.759 It was amazing. 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:47.919 What's the name of that museum though? 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:52.080 Uh well, I still say Natural History Museum, but they they have a longer name for it too. 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:53.519 Museum of Nature and Science? 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:54.320 I think so. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.159 They had huge Lego, like four and five hundred pounds. 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.000 Yeah, with a million. 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:06.000 I I wondered how they counted them when they said this uh piece, you know, contains this number of Legos. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.079 I thought, who how'd they count all those? 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:09.519 Or do they just make an estimate? 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:10.400 I don't know. 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:18.640 And I was also I was they they might make an estimate because you can look online and see what an average selection of what Legos make how many it takes. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:19.599 Oh I can't even speak. 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:20.640