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Hello, everybody.

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Hello, everybody. And welcome to the show the big show, most importantly, critically acclaimed podcast that is recorded in our redwing Blackbird seeking device. Actually, we're not seeking them. We're just driving past zillions and zillions of red wing blackbirds. They are back. It's always good to see the red winged Blackbirds back, isn't it?

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Old friends, old frenemies

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friends? Yeah, a little bit like that. They don't really like anything. If you're ever, if you don't know much about redwing blackbirds and you may or may not, depending on where you live, let's just say the people who developed and published the video game angry birds. No red wing blackbirds

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actually did a post on those ones, relating them to community dynamics because the birds themselves are intensely territorial, and they will absolutely defend their territories against other redwing blackbirds. But they're also collaborative in that they will set up a super territory and members of the community will set themselves up periodically along the Super Territory. And they're constantly when something comes in there, giving a series of calls that either mean I got something but no big deal or we got to keep an eye on this one or call in. The clans were driving this sucker out of here.

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That's right. It's like it's like the lamb bag drum that they used to use to call the clans from the highlands down. D'oh! Say, well, stave off the invaders. Well, they're little chirps air. There are the Red Wing Blackbird or land big drums. And then it's go time. You'll see it all the time around here in the summertime, where they'll be this hawk and you'll have, like four. It'll be like a bomber, but we'll have 45 little fighter planes pecking it is back, Jason. I think I'm pulling feathers out of that thing across the sky. Don't take

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turns, one of them Obama for awhile. And then as it moves through into the other part of the red wing Blackbird territory, it'll peel off and another one's waiting at 12 o'clock high to drop right down on it into the media. So

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it's absolutely hilarious. But anyway, that's not what this podcast is about.

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We've got to the Duke's sidebar early today. We

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got to the sidebar. We just started right into the side bar. Unless you want to go ahead and talk about birds from our love talking about birds. You know me. I love birds. Now I'm gonna have to take a picture of Redwing Blackbird. And also I have somethingto deposed. Yeah. What do you think?

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I think you should take a picture of Redwing Blackbird and let us all know what the subject of this post is supposed to be. Oh,

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well, effective fits in pretty well because you know what we haven't been doing? We've been talking about redwing blackbirds instead of doing what we should be doing. The bubbly. This the this post is about there was lunch doing, doing, doing saying

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is so much easier

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right doing and then knowing when to stop doing and doing something else. So I wrote a post today. She hasn't read it. I Rhoda post this morning. This podcast is kind of a companion piece to that. And it's basically talking about something that we keep coming back to over and over again because there's just so much talk, talk, talk, talk. But so many people don't do. And this is something we have to be careful about ourselves. We talk a lot.

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Yeah, here we are,

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huh? Did you see that?

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I didn't see the behavior.

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We're gonna pauses and talk about that bird. Sorry. We had to pause the pause, the quote unquote tape there. We're working on a project. We have an unusually unusual bird that's been spotted. We're trying to figure out what it actually is. So wait. We think we're on the right track now. So anyway, pressing right along do

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And no one to quit doing and move on to something else and

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know when to quit. Do it

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because it is really easy to do only the things that are pleasant and fun and interesting. And then keep doing those because you're doing something. And it's pleasant and fun.

spk_0:   4:17
Yeah. I mean, it is because I like I love guns. So I could prep with guns all day. All night long. Not a problem. And I could prep guns. Prep guns are clean guns. I could yeah, really enjoy myself prepping guns. We have more guns than the gun store. Right. Well, the ammunition that I'm an ammunition factory, right?

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We might, in fact

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Well, maybe not that much, but But here's the thing. You get all these guns and Then what?

spk_1:   4:54
I can't even

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kill him. I can't wear him. Ondas Far as well? Yeah. You could use them. Tow steal from other people. Well, you can't survive doing that for very long.

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Besides, I don't want to.

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Besides, yeah, I don't want you. And you couldn't. If you want to do way, have links to all this. All these types of things in our rather large growing Web site. Now guns are fun with her. It's seeds, the potential of scenes. She loves seeds. They have what big advantage over guns are a lot cheaper. You

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can pack him in a much,

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but you could get a lot of scenes you could buy. A lot of seeds really can't. It's

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easy this time of year, but there's so much work involved in each and every seed that buying seeds is not the real prep. Learning to produce food out of the seeds is the real problem, and that takes a lot more work and some of it's not any fun.

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Which reminds me it's getting to be time to start our scenes. Uh huh. Not quite, but pretty close.

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Yes. Time to start our seats.

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We started a little too early. Last night

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started beginning of March last year. Really?

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Yeah. Okay. Yeah, this time. So, yeah, maybe that'll be a tomorrow project. A tomorrow project literally means a tomorrow project. So we'll look into getting getting that set up tomorrow.

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My tomorrow project is the perennials along the fence line getting them ready to roll for this year.

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And here's the thing when we're putting a date on it, like tomorrow, what we're driving today. We're going somewhere today. And so we're not It's not going to be a today thing because we're not at home. We're driving around down the road in the little red studio, Ian, But tomorrow when you put a date on it. So I'm going to do that tomorrow. And you actually mean you're going to do that to market? I mean, we gotta start the seeds. Uh, tomorrow when you put a date on it, you put it, you ready to go and then you do it, we'll have seeds. We'll have plants, will have a garden. This is how this works. But unless you, uh, get the seeds, and then unless you get the preparations for the seeds, like the soil and stuff you're gonna put him into. And then unless you actually do the work, you're not gonna have a little plans to stick in your garden, and you as a prepper cannot assume that you're always going to have availability. Uh, I'll just go to the greenhouse and pick him up now. Most likely we will be able to do that this year. Chances are very, very, very, very high, extremely I, but we still need to be able to do it ourselves. Besides, there's a certain satisfaction you get knowing that I planted this little tomato seed that grew into this big, strong tomato plant, that I'm eating the fruit

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and saving the seeds for next year.

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That's right, because we're here. Loom seems people, mostly not entirely, but mostly

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we grow a lot of hybrids for yearly production, But there's always some heirlooms around the garden, so we have a constant influx of fresh lead every year. So would have enough for another year two's planting, even if things went badly, which I don't expect, especially around here, where lots people have seeds, but still so it's a do thing. Yesterday was a doo day. What I was taking care of some oak brush trying to include our hunting lanes at place and salty was taking care of cabin maintenance at the place.

spk_0:   8:41
Yeah, we've got a you know, talk about it happens. We got a bad piece of lumber in our cabin. Um, you know, by treated lumber by good lumber. And but you never know, You know, it's pine in this particular piece of treated lumber either wasn't treated as well as it needed to be or was fundamentally flawed. Or, you know, it's a it's a four by you know they happen. But we got a four by riding on our posts, so I had to start process getting that, and, uh, it'll be fixed this spring. That's no big deal. There's a kind of trying to figure out exactly how to fix it. Unfortunately, this is a pre manufactured cabin, so it's under warranty, so I don't have to fix it. But I do have to actually put my two cents in Were and how I want it fixed because there's several options we have anyway, not really the point of this podcast. The point is, I was doing it and we had that. I had to drive to the manufacturer and go through the stuff with them on this. So I did that yesterday. That was part of my doing. I dropped her off with the place because the manufacturer, actually not super hugely, far from the place. And so I dropped her off and she did her thing, which was clearing, clearing, and, Yeah, we got a lot of time, right? We did. We've got a lot more on our list. Some of it includes doing a little, a little of it includes shopping. We got a little bit of shopping to do, but I'm not exactly sure exactly what I'm going to do on one particular thing, but we have to. We have to talk that out here in a bit. James. All

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that is Yeah. Yeah. That is one aspect about doing with prepping. It often takes longer than you expect, because at least for me, a lot of this labor does not come naturally to me. I'm not naturally inclined to it, so I have to learn it. And it's always the learning process is taking a long time to figure things out and having to backtrack and restart things from time to time and taken a while to sort things. The first time through is always really slow. So since I'm prepping, I'm often learning new skills, and that means there's a lot of time invested. It's not a very efficient way to get things done today, but it prepares us to be able to do things for a long time in the future.

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Part of prepping to ISS part of doing is doing not only the initial perhaps, but also the maintenance. For example, on my big to do list that needs to be done is I need to pull every gun that's not in Cosmo Lean. And I do actually have a certificate of out of guns in Cosmo ing that have never actually been taken out their military surplus guns that are still stored in the cosmos. Because why not? You're gonna store them for either future sale or trade or as a prep or, you know, as a collectible that's not up on my wall. Why not keep him in the original cause 1,000,000,000 which will protect them, right? Right. So, yeah, I've got about, but I've got a bunch of guns that. I know they're fine because we keep them in a humidity controlled environment. We're very careful about that. Um, so they shouldn't be rusting, but I've got to go through and each and every one of them gets cleaned and coated spring and fall once and once a year, twice a year. I mean, so that's on my list of things to do. You know, you have things like that, Like going out and cleaning out the garden or going out. We just picked up her little wagon and brought it home so that she could fill it up with the compost and get it moved over to the garden. This year's compost pile that we're gonna be using, which was, what, Two years ago? Yeah, that

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part's already out in the garden. It's, um I'm gonna pick up a load of composted manure once the garden shop opens. Oh, and boost it further.

spk_0:   12:52
All right. Well, just do You brought the car home, so

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Yeah, and that's for composting mulch,

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So? Right. Yeah, it's just stuff. Everybody's got stuff to do. We've got we've got screens. We're having a problem of cabin grasshoppers are eating through the screens that came with the cabin. I talked to manufacture about that, too. And they do the point where the the area that we're in has a ridiculous strain of grasshoppers that likes eating screens. But they want me. They can't eat metal screens. So we're replacing Lee Vinyl screamed, and we have a how to replace screens in your home piece on three B. Y in case you're wondering because she's gotten pretty good at it. Actually, she's done it a lot.

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I haven't done the metal yet, though, so I may put it addendum up after I do the metal screens.

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Yeah. So, anyway, go. Well, we'll get back to you on that. But we've got the metal. I don't assume you have a screener to to try. Yes. All right. So that's a big deal. Uh, you know, we got we got a long list of things that we can do, and we've got a long list of things that we're gonna need help with. I mean, one of the things we're gonna be probably looking at doing some time this year is putting a new roof on our house. Just Mara, when we This is the second roof we put on it and

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being in a while.

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But it's been 25 years since we put the roof on it. So, you know, kinda is what it is. It lasted its lifetime. So we've got that coming up. We've also got gutters to put up about the place. Not really sure exactly how we're going to do that. But we're that's on the list, but we gotta do it. Last year, we did not get that done. That was on our to do list, and it did not get done. And so and we're kind of gonna pay the price for a little bit.

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Yep. We got the water barrels last year. So water barrels of water into

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way don't have yeah, Don't wait up short of put him in the back of the truck and filling. But do there's a lot of do. There's a lot of do that changes. Sharpen your chainsaw blade or get it sharpen. If you don't have a chainsaw, get a chainsaw. You don't know how to use this chain. Stop talk to somebody who does learn because you really don't wanna be learning how to use a chainsaw when there's no medical

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gloves and chance to

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gloves, chaps and eye protection for sure.

spk_1:   15:23
Yeah, I wear a helmet with a screen when I'm cutting wood with anything. Because wood chips coming back in your face is just no kind of

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fun. And she's have wood ships hit her face. You know, this isn't like

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and I've had branches dislodge and fall in weird ways and bounce off the helmet too.

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So yeah, um, do and then also do not we're gonna come back to the second part of it is you really have to watch over prepping one area to the to the detriment of everything else. Something I have a lot of trouble with cause I know what some of its fun some of it isn't.

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I toss seed catalogs before I even open them.

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Yeah, I was like, Why are you Are you throwing that away? I thought you love seeds. Yeah, I love seeds, so I'm throwing it away

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when I'm ready to buy. I'm gonna go online. I've got backup seeds for the year, but when I'm ready to buy this year's fresh, I'm gonna go online and and Oh, I know how I'm gonna do it. So this will just lure me to buying more than I have space to plant. So there's no point to it. Don't even spend time with him.

spk_0:   16:39
Okay, So you got anything else you want to add to this particular podcast? Cast of potting?

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Don't let the people trying to sell stuff. Dr. What you think it is you need to be doing. Consider your own situation carefully and make your own decisions. Because there's lots of people willing to offer you specific directions on what your next prep should be in. Most of them involved buying their stuff. So they're pious source guys. They'll help you out. But no, no, they're really hoping themselves out. Consider your own situation. Make your own reason decisions and go for it that way.

spk_0:   17:16
Okay? And if you're feeling uninspired, can't really think of anything that you could do today. You'd pop by the three b y. And I read the article that goes along with this podcast. I've got a small list of the end of things that everybody could probably d'oh but me done. So I'm putting out the challenge to everybody. Do something today. Do something. Don't. And planning is not doing planning doesn't count as doing the actual actual rubber must hit road hands must hit project beat must be doing whatever feet D'oh! And

spk_1:   17:51
maybe more fit. Everything

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exactly. That's one of the first thing on my list. Is this one of the things I'm doing today is I'm getting more fit. I'm working on my fitness today as not only a prep, but live better. So you know, I'm still in my injury recovery mode building back up to where I waas. So that's just the way it is. So all right, Thank you for listening and, as always, have a great day.