March 1, 2025
2025 life updates – Dad, Snow, Beagles and MORE Snow – MDW 401
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It’s been a crazy start to the year, with a lot of big changes and challenges.
One of the hardest things I’ve gone through recently is losing my dad. He passed away from lung cancer in early December 2024 after a long battle. Even though it was a peaceful passing, it’s still been really tough on the family.
This winter has been relentless. We’ve had a ridiculous amount of snow since Thanksgiving, and I’ve spent a lot of time plowing. Now, don’t get me wrong—I actually enjoy plowing snow—but after doing it over and over, it started to wear me down.
One silver lining is that I inherited my dad’s 2020 Toyota Tundra. It’s been a solid truck and has come in handy more times than I can count.
On a much sadder note, we had a rough time with our beagles, Benny and Percy. Percy started getting aggressive, and on Christmas, he attacked Benny badly. After multiple incidents, including one where Benny needed stitches at the emergency vet, we had to make the heartbreaking decision to put Percy down. It was incredibly difficult, but it had to be done for Benny’s safety.
Thankfully, the weather is starting to warm up a bit, and the snow is finally beginning to melt. I had to put my flying on hold for a while because of all the stress, but I’m hoping to get back in the air this spring.
Around the house, I’ve been working on a few projects—running conduit for internet and electrical lines. Unfortunately, I had a storage tent collapse under the weight of all that snow. That thing is a total loss, so I’m making plans to build something more permanent to store my yard equipment.
Before wrapping up, I just want to remind everyone to stay subscribed and check out my website for updates. I also post daily facts on social media if you’re into that sort of thing. And who knows—maybe in a future episode, I’ll even talk about politics. (Or maybe not!)
Thanks for sticking with me, and I’ll catch you in the next one!
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Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
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case may be. This is Mike, and this
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is Mike Dell's World number 4 0 1.
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What is the date today? Oh, it's the
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March 1,
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2025.
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So,
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since I haven't had an episode this year
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yet, happy 2025.
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So
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my year got off to kind of a
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crazy start.
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Crazy
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meaning, you know, a little stress,
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a lot of lot lot of
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big life change things,
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happening.
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So I guess I'll
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give you kind of the rundown of what's
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been going on. So I guess that's what
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this is for. Thanks for staying for subscribed
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and, following and whatever else they call it
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these days.
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Yeah. I do
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consistently on,
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Podcast Insider or somewhat consistently.
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And, of course, this one's just,
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once in a while.
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But like I said, I appreciate you
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staying subscribed. So
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I don't know if I said anything in
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previous episodes, but, my dad was having
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a little fight with lung cancer. Not a
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little fight, a big fight. And,
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ultimately, he lost that fight
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at the December.
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he was doing reasonably well up until the
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last probably month or so.
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Something like that where, you know, he just
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got to the point where he couldn't do
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things he wanted to do. He wasn't in
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any particular pain or anything, so
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I guess that's,
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that's a good thing. But,
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anyway, we were all there when he passed,
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the whole family. And
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and, like I said, it was quite
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peaceful, but,
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yeah, always hard to take.
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He made it to 79. He was,
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about eight months short of his eightieth birthday,
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which would would have been at the May
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this year.
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And,
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along with that and, you know, I don't
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wanna gloss over that, but, you you don't
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wanna hear, you know, sob stories. You're all
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familiar with losing people. So,
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you know,
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but as an upshot of that,
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we had
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a lot more snow this year so far,
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and, it's still continuing a little bit.
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It started snowing,
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I believe,
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right around Thanksgiving,
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and it and it we had accumulating
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snow just about every day up until last
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week.
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maybe, well, week and a half probably by
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now,
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where we haven't had any major snow, at
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least not enough to have to plow, but
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I was plowing twice a day.
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and then, put the tractor on the trailer
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and bring it in here
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and plow out us.
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my sister,
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over, in Interlochen, which is not too far
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away.
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Her snowblower broke, and I haven't got around
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to fixing it yet.
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I've been busy with other things, but
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that was, that was one of the major
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stressors this this season.
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snow's good. You know, I don't mind snow,
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but this year, it was just so frequent.
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the snow. That was that's fun, you know,
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with Big snow blower and a cab on
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the tractor and, you know, you get to
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to play with power tools. It's fun. But
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it definitely
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definitely gets old after a while. But,
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yeah, I I think now,
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the rest of the year, if we get
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any big snow, it's gonna be once in
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a while.
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snow all the way up until June, really,
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but doesn't usually happen that way.
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by April, it's, it's completely done with the
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snow, but, there's always a chance.
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big that we gotta go plow it.
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So that's the hope anyway.
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So along with that,
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I inherited my dad's pickup truck, and
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that's come in handy, you know, hauling the
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tractor back and forth. Of course, my truck
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was fine too, you know, but,
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I did end up selling that because, you
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know, I have two big trucks sitting in
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the yard.
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This one's a 2020 Toyota Tundra that didn't
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have a whole lot of miles on it.
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He didn't, didn't drive it a whole lot.
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You know, I drove it a lot, but
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he didn't put a lot of miles on
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it, I guess, is the right way to
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put it. So,
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I got a pretty, whiz bang truck.
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It's, you know, rather he drive it, but,
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since that's not a thing,
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I drive
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it. So that works out pretty good,
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that way.
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And then on top of that, about,
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it was around Christmas time, I guess.
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Was it yeah. It was around Christmas time.
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We had two beagles.
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We had Benny, who we still have,
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and Percy, which we no longer have.
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And what happened was at some point on
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Christmas,
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Percy sort of snapped and decided he wanted
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to kill his brother.
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And we don't know exactly what happened, but
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the, vet,
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you know, the the well, first off, Percy
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had epilepsy ever since we got him. We
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got him as a rescue. He was a
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year old.
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once a month and, you know, wasn't
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super terrible or anything like that. And we
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were just keeping an eye on it, keeping
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track of it. Never had him on any
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medication or anything.
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So, anyway, he just
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literally tried to kill the other dog. We
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thought, okay. They just got in a spat
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and it went too far.
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You know, Benny got bit up a little
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bit, you know, his ears, whatnot, and Percy
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too. You know, they both sorta, you know,
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just a normal spat. And they've had those
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before, so I didn't think too much of
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it.
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maybe a week or so later,
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they got into another one. And, I mean,
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this one was terrible. I mean, I, you
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know, I had to
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hold back the dogs. And, I mean, they
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were just
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completely and utterly trying to kill each other.
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we figured out maybe they just need some
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time apart. Kathy needed to go down to
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her mom's house, and so she took Percy.
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so Benny, you know, recovered at home. He
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had to get his,
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spot shaved where he, got bit. Didn't have
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any stitches on that one, but, you know,
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they had to be shaved and healed.
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so she was gone about
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a week, ten days, something like that. And
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we figured, okay. We'll reintroduce them. So we
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were careful and
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cut muzzles and reintroduced
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them, and they got along fine for a
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little bit. And everything was
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copacetic.
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we're sitting there, and
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one of the dogs let out a little
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bit of a growl, and the fight was
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on. And, I mean, it was that was
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the worst one.
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was just trying to kill Benny.
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you know, at that point, it was like,
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well, there's not a whole lot we can
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do. We'll try.
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going to the emergency vet and getting stitches,
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and
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and he was bit up pretty good.
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So he lived in my office here, which
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is a little separate building in my backyard.
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we kept them apart,
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for probably a week.
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know, we we tried to
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maybe, get some advice and whatnot. There was
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nothing medically
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wrong with Percy.
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at him and say, well, they figure something
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must have just went wrong in his brain
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because of the seizures maybe.
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Percy had to be put down. So that
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was another stressor,
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because, you know, you don't wanna pass your
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problems off to another
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person. You know? Like, we, you know, brought
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him back to the the beagle rescue, you
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know, who knows who else he'd snap on,
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you know, and
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and you just can't have a dog that
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has that vicious tendency
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around.
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So that was that was extremely sad and
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and stressful.
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You know? And on top of that, we
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still got the snow happening. I'm, you know,
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I'm plowing every other day.
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It's cold. It's you know, snow's building up.
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It's just, you know, the the stress was
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just,
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you know,
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all all the above. You know?
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that was
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that's been my, my winter. And now things
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are calming down somewhat. Like I said, not
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as much snow removal. The you know, now
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we don't have two dogs trying to kill
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each other, and,
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you know, Benny's all healed up and, doing
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good and
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and all that, but, you know, just
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those kind of things just drive
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you crazy.
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You know, and and and there's just you
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know, you feel so helpless because, you know,
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you're trying to reason with with a dog.
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And, you know,
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just all the stuff happening.
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So,
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anyway, that's that's been my, my year so
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far.
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But,
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it is getting better and the weather's starting
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to get a little better sometimes.
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Last week, we had 40 and even one
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day of 50 degrees and we lost probably
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three quarters of our snow.
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Traverse City, let's see what the current
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snowfall
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is because we did have some last night.
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I got it here somewhere. Snowfall information.
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National Weather Service in Gaylord, Michigan.
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And let's see.
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So for Traverse City,
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season to date, 29.6
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inches.
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Normal to date is 84.7.
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So we're a 53
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of normal, which normal for the entire season
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is 101
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inches.
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So we're not you know exactly on a
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record setting year here because, the record was
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in 1995,
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'90 '6 snow season at a 91.2
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inches.
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I guess I remember that. I don't know.
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It's been a while.
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But,
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so, you know, we've had way more snow
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than than normal, but, again, you know, we
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had that nice warm up last week, so
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it knocked down the snow banks to a
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reasonable level.
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And
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one bad thing though is it melted my
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driveway down to gravel. So, plowing it isn't
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gonna be as fun if I have to
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do it anymore this year.
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Same out at mom's place. So
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I guess we'll, we'll make it happen.
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But,
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let's see what else has been going on.
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Of course,
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you know, I re re
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how do you put it?
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Reinvigorated
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my,
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flying.
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Last couple of years I've been flying a,
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RV 12
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IS.
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It's a light sport aircraft
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over at Giving Wings Aviation,
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and been having a lot of fun with
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that, but, had to quit, you know, with
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with the, all the stressors. I
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I quit flying for a while here, so
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I'll get back at it this spring when
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the weather's a little better. Had a few
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nice weather days, but,
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I wanna get get back to it.
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That's a a lot of fun, but, you
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don't wanna be up there all stressed out.
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So it's just as well.
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Kathy's doing fine.
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Health wise, we're both doing fine.
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That's
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all good. Work's doing fine.
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Staying busy over at Blueberry.
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You wanna check us out over at blueberry.com.
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That's blueberry with no e's.
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And, of course, they sorta sponsor this show
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only because I get free hosting since I
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worked there.
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So,
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anyway, so that's just a quick life update.
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Sorry I'm not more
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prolific here on this feed, but I do
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appreciate you guys sticking around. I know I
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say that every time,
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but, you know, it is what it is.
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And I didn't really
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wanna get too deep into anything,
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but, let let me know what's going on
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in your lives. I know, I know a
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few of you guys that are still listening,
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you know, haven't really heard much, haven't really
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said much, haven't really done much with this.
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I
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love
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getting on the microphone, but, you know, sometimes
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when you have way too much stuff going
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on and you don't wanna,
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you know, don't wanna overshare,
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That's part of the problem.
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You know? And then this time of year,
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it's always it's always funny because, you know,
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you've been cooped up, you know, or out
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in the weather all the time. So the
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weather's crappy. You can't do what you wanna
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do. You got all these little projects
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stacking up and and say, oh, I wanna
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do x, y, and z. As soon as
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spring hits, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna
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do that. I'm gonna go do this other
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thing. You know, get all these projects done.
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And then when the time comes, you never
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get the projects done.
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Well, we'll see. I did get one big
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project done before,
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winter hit is I ran a conduit
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from my office out here to the house
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so I could run,
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you know, my Internet wires.
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And, I'm gonna run another power line out
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here for
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a ham radio amplifier that requires two twenty.
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So I'm gonna run another two twenty power
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line. But I did a three inch conduit,
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three inch PVC pipe that goes, from
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my, office out here into the basement.
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So and then I put a rope through
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it that's long enough to where I can
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loop something on it, pull the rope through
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to pull a piece of wire through, whatever,
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or piece of coax or,
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you know, some cat six cable. That's that's
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the only thing in it right now. The
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power line's buried elsewhere,
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coming out here, but the new two two
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twenty line's gonna come through the conduit.
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So I did get that done. That was
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wasn't a lot of work, but it you
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know, dig a trench, you know, 30 foot
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long trench. And,
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you know, and at the office side, I
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had to kinda make a a an s
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turn and and, you know, put one of
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those
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capped,
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you know, throughput and cut a hole on
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the side and
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all that. But, it's it's all done and
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then now everything's all protect you know, at
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least my Internet cable, I would
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well, when I first built this place, I
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put a
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supposedly underground cat five cable
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for the Internet and first year it crapped
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out. So then I just ran another cable
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and it was just laying across the top
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of the ground. Of course, that one crapped
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out after a while and didn't look good.
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You know, it just wasn't a good plan.
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So now this one I think will will,
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stay working and even if it doesn't, it's
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real easy to replace.
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So I don't have to dig. I don't
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have to do anything crazy. I just plug
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the new one in and pull it through,
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plug it into the router, and I'm good.
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So a little technology there.
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But,
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yeah, so I've got,
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gotta paint the house this year. That you
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know, we've gotta do that every,
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I don't know. It's been 10 probably since
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I did it last,
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but it it needs it.
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You know, it's an old log cabin. It
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was painted before I got here, so we
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just continue to paint.
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And this time it doesn't need a full
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paint job like it did before. It just
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needs, you know, some touch up here and
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there.
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And I got a rotten log I gotta
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replace, which
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sounds harder than it is. It's just doing
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it
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and
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get that all
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squared away.
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And we had oh, yeah. Another another life
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issue thing I forgot to mention. We had
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one of those
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tent garage things you get, you know, you've
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seen them that people put in their yard
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temporarily
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sometimes or permanently sometimes.
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We had one of those that we put
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behind our garage,
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you know, to store
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yard stuff in it and just just outdoor
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stuff that just needed to
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be out of the way.
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We had tore off a lean to woodshed
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sort of thing off the back of the
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garage and then this replaced it.
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I didn't think about it. And, it's snowing
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and snowing and snowing, and I'm not thinking
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about that tent out there.
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You know?
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So
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neighbor comes over.
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She comes over periodically, and she walks in
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the backyard. And as soon as she closes
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the gate,
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I had not it's had nothing to do
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with the tent collapsing, but, the tent collapsed
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because
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it had a crapped ton of snow on
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the roof, which I just absolutely
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did not think about.
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You know, had way more stuff on my
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brain than that.
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So here we've got a collapsed
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tent in our backyard that's now covered with
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snow.
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We got a lot of the stuff out
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that we didn't wanna leave out there and
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put in the garage, but, a lot of
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the stuff is still under the the tarp.
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But, the worst part of it is we
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had shovels and rakes and stuff leaned up
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against the wall. Of course, that poked through
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the
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the,
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tent material, so
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it's not salvageable.
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You know? Plus, it bent up a bunch
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of the poles. It was a pretty heavy
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duty thing, but, yeah. You gotta you gotta
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knock the snow off of it.
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My neighbor Nancy has the exact one. In
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fact, we got them at the same time.
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They had them on sale at Costco at
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one point.
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I got one for her and one for
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me, and we put them up. But she
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uses it as a garage, but she has
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this broom out in her out in
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hers that when it snows, she's, you know,
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hits
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the hits the,
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in from the inside, knocks the snow off
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because it slides right off. It's, you know,
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slippery material.
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And, well,
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if we get another one. But I I
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think I'm gonna replace it with a,
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actual structure,
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you know, kinda, you know, carporty
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looking,
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but just, you know, something I can park
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the tractor under and
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and, you know, lawn mowers and weed whackers
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and whatever other accoutrement like that that we
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don't want sitting out in the open if
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possible or in the garage. I'd actually ultimately
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like to be able to park a car
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in the garage. That would be a novel,
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but,
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hasn't happened recently.
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It's okay.
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You know,
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first world problems, I guess.
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But, yeah, that was another,
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interesting
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event
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this winter, the collapsing
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storage tent.
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So, maybe I'll just build
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a a shed double the size of my
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office.
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That might be good enough
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just to, like I said, park a few,
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yard implements in
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and and some light storage.
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But, we'll see. We'll see.
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The,
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you know,
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lumber prices are are not terrible, I guess.
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So
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so I guess that's all that's fit to
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report. I figured, why not throw out a
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quick episode here,
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let you know I'm still around
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and,
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still kicking it. So everybody have a good
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however long it is, till the next time,
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stay subscribed,
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and,
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go check out mikedell.com
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for any latest anything.
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You know, I'm not really on social media
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either except for x,
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under m g Dell
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and
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on Facebook too.
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I've been doing these daily
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fact of the day
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posts on, x and Facebook.
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For my birthday this year, I got a
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calendar that has the fact of the day
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and
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fact of the day. And,
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well, that'd be a good thing to just
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post on social. I don't really post any
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anything
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too personal there. You know, sometimes funny stuff.
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Memes. I like my memes.
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So
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and, maybe next time we'll talk about politics.
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Yeah. That'll get everybody fired up.
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Catch you later.
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Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
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case may be. This is Mike, and this
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is Mike Dell's World number 4 0 1.
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What is the date today? Oh, it's the
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March 1,
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2025.
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So,
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since I haven't had an episode this year
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yet, happy 2025.
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So
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my year got off to kind of a
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crazy start.
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Crazy
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meaning, you know, a little stress,
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a lot of lot lot of
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big life change things,
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happening.
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So I guess I'll
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give you kind of the rundown of what's
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been going on. So I guess that's what
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this is for. Thanks for staying for subscribed
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and, following and whatever else they call it
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these days.
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Yeah. I do
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consistently on,
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Podcast Insider or somewhat consistently.
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And, of course, this one's just,
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once in a while.
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staying subscribed. So
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I don't know if I said anything in
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previous episodes, but, my dad was having
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a little fight with lung cancer. Not a
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little fight, a big fight. And,
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ultimately, he lost that fight
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at the December.
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he was doing reasonably well up until the
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last probably month or so.
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Something like that where, you know, he just
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got to the point where he couldn't do
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things he wanted to do. He wasn't in
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any particular pain or anything, so
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I guess that's,
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that's a good thing. But,
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anyway, we were all there when he passed,
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the whole family. And
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and, like I said, it was quite
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peaceful, but,
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yeah, always hard to take.
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He made it to 79. He was,
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about eight months short of his eightieth birthday,
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which would would have been at the May
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this year.
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along with that and, you know, I don't
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wanna gloss over that, but, you you don't
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wanna hear, you know, sob stories. You're all
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familiar with losing people. So,
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you know,
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but as an upshot of that,
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a lot more snow this year so far,
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and, it's still continuing a little bit.
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I believe,
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right around Thanksgiving,
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and it and it we had accumulating
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snow just about every day up until last
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week.
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maybe, well, week and a half probably by
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where we haven't had any major snow, at
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I was plowing twice a day.
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and then, put the tractor on the trailer
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and bring it in here
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and plow out us.
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my sister,
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over, in Interlochen, which is not too far
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away.
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that was, that was one of the major
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stressors this this season.
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snow's good. You know, I don't mind snow,
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but this year, it was just so frequent.
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the snow. That was that's fun, you know,
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with Big snow blower and a cab on
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the tractor and, you know, you get to
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to play with power tools. It's fun. But
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it definitely
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definitely gets old after a while. But,
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yeah, I I think now,
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the rest of the year, if we get
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any big snow, it's gonna be once in
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snow all the way up until June, really,
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snow, but, there's always a chance.
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big that we gotta go plow it.
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So that's the hope anyway.
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I inherited my dad's pickup truck, and
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that's come in handy, you know, hauling the
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tractor back and forth. Of course, my truck
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was fine too, you know, but,
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I did end up selling that because, you
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know, I have two big trucks sitting in
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the yard.
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have a whole lot of miles on it.
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he didn't put a lot of miles on
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it, I guess, is the right way to
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put it. So,
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I got a pretty, whiz bang truck.
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since that's not a thing,
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it. So that works out pretty good,
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that way.
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it was around Christmas time, I guess.
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Was it yeah. It was around Christmas time.
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Christmas,
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Percy sort of snapped and decided he wanted
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to kill his brother.
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the, vet,
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you know, the the well, first off, Percy
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had epilepsy ever since we got him. We
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got him as a rescue. He was a
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year old.
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once a month and, you know, wasn't
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super terrible or anything like that. And we
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were just keeping an eye on it, keeping
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track of it. Never had him on any
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medication or anything.
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literally tried to kill the other dog. We
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thought, okay. They just got in a spat
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and it went too far.
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bit, you know, his ears, whatnot, and Percy
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too. You know, they both sorta, you know,
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just a normal spat. And they've had those
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before, so I didn't think too much of
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it.
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maybe a week or so later,
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they got into another one. And, I mean,
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this one was terrible. I mean, I, you
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know, I had to
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hold back the dogs. And, I mean, they
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were just
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completely and utterly trying to kill each other.
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we figured out maybe they just need some
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time apart. Kathy needed to go down to
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her mom's house, and so she took Percy.
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so Benny, you know, recovered at home. He
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had to get his,
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spot shaved where he, got bit. Didn't have
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any stitches on that one, but, you know,
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they had to be shaved and healed.
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so she was gone about
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a week, ten days, something like that. And
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we figured, okay. We'll reintroduce them. So we
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were careful and
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cut muzzles and reintroduced
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them, and they got along fine for a
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little bit. And everything was
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copacetic.
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we're sitting there, and
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one of the dogs let out a little
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bit of a growl, and the fight was
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on. And, I mean, it was that was
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the worst one.
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was just trying to kill Benny.
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you know, at that point, it was like,
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well, there's not a whole lot we can
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do. We'll try.
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going to the emergency vet and getting stitches,
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and
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and he was bit up pretty good.
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So he lived in my office here, which
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is a little separate building in my backyard.
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we kept them apart,
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for probably a week.
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know, we we tried to
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maybe, get some advice and whatnot. There was
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nothing medically
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wrong with Percy.
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at him and say, well, they figure something
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must have just went wrong in his brain
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because of the seizures maybe.
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Percy had to be put down. So that
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was another stressor,
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because, you know, you don't wanna pass your
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problems off to another
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person. You know? Like, we, you know, brought
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him back to the the beagle rescue, you
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know, who knows who else he'd snap on,
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you know, and
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and you just can't have a dog that
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has that vicious tendency
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around.
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So that was that was extremely sad and
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and stressful.
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You know? And on top of that, we
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still got the snow happening. I'm, you know,
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I'm plowing every other day.
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It's cold. It's you know, snow's building up.
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It's just, you know, the the stress was
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just,
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you know,
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all all the above. You know?
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that was
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that's been my, my winter. And now things
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are calming down somewhat. Like I said, not
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as much snow removal. The you know, now
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we don't have two dogs trying to kill
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each other, and,
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you know, Benny's all healed up and, doing
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good and
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and all that, but, you know, just
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those kind of things just drive
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you crazy.
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You know, and and and there's just you
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know, you feel so helpless because, you know,
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you're trying to reason with with a dog.
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And, you know,
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just all the stuff happening.
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So,
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anyway, that's that's been my, my year so
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far.
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But,
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it is getting better and the weather's starting
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to get a little better sometimes.
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Last week, we had 40 and even one
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day of 50 degrees and we lost probably
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three quarters of our snow.
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Traverse City, let's see what the current
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snowfall
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is because we did have some last night.
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I got it here somewhere. Snowfall information.
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National Weather Service in Gaylord, Michigan.
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And let's see.
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So for Traverse City,
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season to date, 29.6
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inches.
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Normal to date is 84.7.
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So we're a 53
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of normal, which normal for the entire season
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is 101
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inches.
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So we're not you know exactly on a
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record setting year here because, the record was
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in 1995,
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'90 '6 snow season at a 91.2
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inches.
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I guess I remember that. I don't know.
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It's been a while.
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But,
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so, you know, we've had way more snow
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than than normal, but, again, you know, we
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had that nice warm up last week, so
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it knocked down the snow banks to a
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reasonable level.
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one bad thing though is it melted my
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driveway down to gravel. So, plowing it isn't
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gonna be as fun if I have to
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do it anymore this year.
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Same out at mom's place. So
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I guess we'll, we'll make it happen.
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But,
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let's see what else has been going on.
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Of course,
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you know, I re re
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how do you put it?
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Reinvigorated
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my,
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flying.
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Last couple of years I've been flying a,
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RV 12
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IS.
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It's a light sport aircraft
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over at Giving Wings Aviation,
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and been having a lot of fun with
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that, but, had to quit, you know, with
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with the, all the stressors. I
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I quit flying for a while here, so
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I'll get back at it this spring when
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the weather's a little better. Had a few
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nice weather days, but,
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I wanna get get back to it.
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That's a a lot of fun, but, you
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don't wanna be up there all stressed out.
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So it's just as well.
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Kathy's doing fine.
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Health wise, we're both doing fine.
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That's
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all good. Work's doing fine.
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Staying busy over at Blueberry.
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You wanna check us out over at blueberry.com.
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That's blueberry with no e's.
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And, of course, they sorta sponsor this show
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only because I get free hosting since I
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worked there.
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So,
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anyway, so that's just a quick life update.
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Sorry I'm not more
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prolific here on this feed, but I do
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appreciate you guys sticking around. I know I
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say that every time,
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but, you know, it is what it is.
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And I didn't really
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wanna get too deep into anything,
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but, let let me know what's going on
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in your lives. I know, I know a
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few of you guys that are still listening,
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you know, haven't really heard much, haven't really
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said much, haven't really done much with this.
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I
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love
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getting on the microphone, but, you know, sometimes
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when you have way too much stuff going
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on and you don't wanna,
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you know, don't wanna overshare,
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That's part of the problem.
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You know? And then this time of year,
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it's always it's always funny because, you know,
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you've been cooped up, you know, or out
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in the weather all the time. So the
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weather's crappy. You can't do what you wanna
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do. You got all these little projects
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stacking up and and say, oh, I wanna
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do x, y, and z. As soon as
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spring hits, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna
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do that. I'm gonna go do this other
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thing. You know, get all these projects done.
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And then when the time comes, you never
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get the projects done.
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Well, we'll see. I did get one big
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project done before,
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winter hit is I ran a conduit
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from my office out here to the house
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so I could run,
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you know, my Internet wires.
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And, I'm gonna run another power line out
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here for
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a ham radio amplifier that requires two twenty.
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So I'm gonna run another two twenty power
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line. But I did a three inch conduit,
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three inch PVC pipe that goes, from
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my, office out here into the basement.
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So and then I put a rope through
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it that's long enough to where I can
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loop something on it, pull the rope through
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to pull a piece of wire through, whatever,
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or piece of coax or,
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you know, some cat six cable. That's that's
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the only thing in it right now. The
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power line's buried elsewhere,
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coming out here, but the new two two
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twenty line's gonna come through the conduit.
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So I did get that done. That was
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wasn't a lot of work, but it you
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know, dig a trench, you know, 30 foot
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long trench. And,
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you know, and at the office side, I
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had to kinda make a a an s
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turn and and, you know, put one of
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those
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capped,
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you know, throughput and cut a hole on
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the side and
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all that. But, it's it's all done and
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then now everything's all protect you know, at
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least my Internet cable, I would
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well, when I first built this place, I
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put a
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supposedly underground cat five cable
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for the Internet and first year it crapped
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out. So then I just ran another cable
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and it was just laying across the top
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of the ground. Of course, that one crapped
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out after a while and didn't look good.
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You know, it just wasn't a good plan.
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So now this one I think will will,
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stay working and even if it doesn't, it's
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real easy to replace.
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So I don't have to dig. I don't
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have to do anything crazy. I just plug
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the new one in and pull it through,
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plug it into the router, and I'm good.
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So a little technology there.
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But,
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yeah, so I've got,
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gotta paint the house this year. That you
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know, we've gotta do that every,
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I don't know. It's been 10 probably since
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I did it last,
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but it it needs it.
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You know, it's an old log cabin. It
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was painted before I got here, so we
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just continue to paint.
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And this time it doesn't need a full
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paint job like it did before. It just
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needs, you know, some touch up here and
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there.
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And I got a rotten log I gotta
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replace, which
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sounds harder than it is. It's just doing
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it
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and
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get that all
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squared away.
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And we had oh, yeah. Another another life
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issue thing I forgot to mention. We had
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one of those
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tent garage things you get, you know, you've
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seen them that people put in their yard
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temporarily
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sometimes or permanently sometimes.
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We had one of those that we put
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behind our garage,
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you know, to store
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yard stuff in it and just just outdoor
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stuff that just needed to
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be out of the way.
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We had tore off a lean to woodshed
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sort of thing off the back of the
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garage and then this replaced it.
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I didn't think about it. And, it's snowing
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and snowing and snowing, and I'm not thinking
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about that tent out there.
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You know?
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So
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neighbor comes over.
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She comes over periodically, and she walks in
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the backyard. And as soon as she closes
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the gate,
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I had not it's had nothing to do
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with the tent collapsing, but, the tent collapsed
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because
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it had a crapped ton of snow on
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the roof, which I just absolutely
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did not think about.
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You know, had way more stuff on my
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brain than that.
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So here we've got a collapsed
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tent in our backyard that's now covered with
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snow.
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We got a lot of the stuff out
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that we didn't wanna leave out there and
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put in the garage, but, a lot of
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the stuff is still under the the tarp.
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But, the worst part of it is we
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had shovels and rakes and stuff leaned up
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against the wall. Of course, that poked through
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the
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the,
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tent material, so
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it's not salvageable.
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You know? Plus, it bent up a bunch
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of the poles. It was a pretty heavy
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duty thing, but, yeah. You gotta you gotta
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knock the snow off of it.
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My neighbor Nancy has the exact one. In
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fact, we got them at the same time.
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They had them on sale at Costco at
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one point.
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I got one for her and one for
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me, and we put them up. But she
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uses it as a garage, but she has
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this broom out in her out in
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hers that when it snows, she's, you know,
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hits
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the hits the,
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in from the inside, knocks the snow off
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because it slides right off. It's, you know,
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slippery material.
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And, well,
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if we get another one. But I I
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think I'm gonna replace it with a,
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actual structure,
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you know, kinda, you know, carporty
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looking,
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but just, you know, something I can park
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the tractor under and
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and, you know, lawn mowers and weed whackers
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and whatever other accoutrement like that that we
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don't want sitting out in the open if
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possible or in the garage. I'd actually ultimately
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like to be able to park a car
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in the garage. That would be a novel,
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but,
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hasn't happened recently.
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It's okay.
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You know,
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first world problems, I guess.
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But, yeah, that was another,
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interesting
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event
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this winter, the collapsing
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storage tent.
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So, maybe I'll just build
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a a shed double the size of my
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office.
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That might be good enough
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just to, like I said, park a few,
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yard implements in
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and and some light storage.
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But, we'll see. We'll see.
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The,
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you know,
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lumber prices are are not terrible, I guess.
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So
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so I guess that's all that's fit to
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report. I figured, why not throw out a
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quick episode here,
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let you know I'm still around
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and,
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still kicking it. So everybody have a good
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however long it is, till the next time,
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stay subscribed,
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and,
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go check out mikedell.com
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for any latest anything.
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You know, I'm not really on social media
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either except for x,
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under m g Dell
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and
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on Facebook too.
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I've been doing these daily
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fact of the day
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posts on, x and Facebook.
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For my birthday this year, I got a
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calendar that has the fact of the day
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and
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fact of the day. And,
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well, that'd be a good thing to just
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post on social. I don't really post any
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anything
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too personal there. You know, sometimes funny stuff.
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Memes. I like my memes.
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So
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and, maybe next time we'll talk about politics.
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Yeah. That'll get everybody fired up.
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Catch you later.