Nov. 9, 2025
Winterizing Your Life Up North
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In this episode of "Mike Dell's World," Mike Dell discusses the topic of "Getting Ready For Winter Up North." He starts with a humorous intro he found while digging through his files, reflecting on the absence of the Internet and video games during his...
In this episode of “Mike Dell’s World,” Mike Dell discusses the topic of “Getting Ready For Winter Up North.” He starts with a humorous intro he found while digging through his files, reflecting on the absence of the Internet and video games during his childhood.
Mike then dives into the essentials of winterizing for those living in northern climates, emphasizing the importance of preparing for below-freezing temperatures and snowfall. He mentions specific tasks such as winterizing campers by removing water and replacing it with edible antifreeze, which he explains should be flushed out in the spring.
He continues by highlighting other important winter preparations, like placing snow shovels in accessible locations and ensuring ice scrapers and snow brushes are in vehicles for winter driving. He talks about getting snowblowers operational and servicing tractors, including changing fluids and preparing them for snow removal.
Mike discusses the seasonal change of window air conditioners and reminds listeners to ensure their furnace filters are clean. He stresses the importance of checking propane and oil levels for heating and mentions that many people must also winterize boats and other equipment by running engines to remove water.
In a light-hearted manner, Mike shares anecdotes about driveway markers to avoid losing track of the edges under snow and reminisces about the past when sand barrels helped drivers on the hills. He explains the need for snow tires and the ‘summarizing’ process that occurs in preparation for summer, such as changing oil for snowblowers and clearing debris.
Throughout the episode, Mike shares personal stories, including the collapse of a portable garage due to heavy snow buildup, illustrating that even with preparation, unexpected challenges can arise. He concludes by noting that those who do not experience harsh winters may not have to deal with these kinds of winterization tasks.
Finally, Mike teases the next episode’s topic: the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, hinting that there is more to the story than just the famous song associated with it.
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Mike Dell's World number four one five
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for Monday,
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11/09/2025.
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When I was a young boy,
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there wasn't any Internet.
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There wasn't any World Wide Web.
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There wasn't any
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egghead sending you texts saying those are the
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same thing. You don't have to say Internet
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and World Wide Web. They're the
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same thing. There weren't any video games when
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I was a boy.
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Well, there was Pac Man.
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That was a game, I guess.
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And Asteroids.
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Wizard of War.
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Scrambled. Defender was a hell of a lot
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of fun.
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Those were what we called
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video games.
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Did I say we didn't have video games?
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Because that would have been a mistake.
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But there is one thing you have now
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that we didn't have when I was a
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boy that I wish we did.
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Like Dell's World.
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That was a funny little intro that I
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found
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when digging through some of my files here,
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so, why not throw it at the beginning
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of this episode?
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Anyway,
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today we're gonna talk about
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getting ready for winter,
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or winterizing.
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I know I talked about that a little
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bit in a previous episode,
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already this year, but,
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they winterize the campers,
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amongst other things. But
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kinda, you know, when you live up north
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here and,
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you know, for part of the year, there's
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below freezing temperatures
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and snow and all the good stuff. So
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there's usually kind of a a list of
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things you need to get ready for.
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And one of those things
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is, you know, the campers. You know, you
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gotta
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get all the the the water out of
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them and, replace it with some
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antifreeze.
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Not you know, you don't put antifreeze in
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all the pipes and everything, but you run
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the antifreeze through the pipes once you get
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the clear water out of it.
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And then in the spring, you have to
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flush all that stuff out. It's edible antifreeze.
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I wouldn't drink it out of the bottle,
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but, anyway.
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But there's a lot of other things that
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you you might not think about.
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You
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know, getting the snow shovels,
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put in strategic
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locations and
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putting
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the ice scrapers and,
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and snowbrushes
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back in their vehicles.
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You know, most vehicles
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or most people around here,
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put pull one in their vehicles. You know,
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because you never know. Well, you do know
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you're gonna get snow on your windshield and
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side windows and you really need to clear
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all that stuff off. So that's on the
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list for winterizing.
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You know, some of the other things is,
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like, get the snowblower running or the snowblowers
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running.
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In my case, get the tractor
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going. I'm gonna take the tractor out to
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the dealership and have them do all the
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fluids and make sure it's all ready to
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go for winter.
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You know, some of the other things, we
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do around here, you know, we don't have
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central air conditioning. So, you know, in my
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studio
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slash office,
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building here, I've I've got a window air
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conditioner. I take that out or cover it
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up. They took it out,
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and they go put it in the garage
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and, you know, put the screen back in
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the window just in case, you know, we
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do get a warm day, I can at
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least open the window.
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But, you know, get that stuff done.
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Get the, you know, in the house, took
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out you know, we have two window air
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conditioners,
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and
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I I take them out now. It's a
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lot easier to to deal with.
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But,
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you know, make sure your furnace filter is
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good,
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all that stuff. You know, if you heat
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with propane or oil, you know, make sure
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you get a full tank.
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Just a lot of that kind of stuff,
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you know, boats. That's the other thing. You
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know, I put away a couple of boats.
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You know, you wanna run the engine so
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the, you know, there's no water in the
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engine,
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and you wanna maybe fog it or whatever.
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I just heard somebody bark. Is that the
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dog?
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Well, obviously, it was a dog.
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Anyway,
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you know, things like that.
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You know, try to get the leaves out
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of the yard or at least off the
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driveway and off the walkways,
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you know, because you don't wanna be
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shoveling leaves with the snow or blowing leaves
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with the snow.
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You
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know, a lot of people, they put,
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markers on the edges of their driveways,
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you know, little sticks that stick up above
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the snowpack so you know where where the
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driveway is.
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You'd be surprised at, how easy it is
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to lose the driveway,
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especially out of my mom's house.
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You know, she's got a pretty good ditch
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at the end of her driveways.
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And, you know, we mark that so that
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when I'm plowing, I don't
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accidentally
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drive into the ditch
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or
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when you're driving the car, you know, you
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just just need to know where the edges
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of the of the driveway is.
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Sometimes the,
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the county and city road commission out here
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will put
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markers, you know, in in spots that tend
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to drift.
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They'll put markers along the, shoulder of the
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road. Not right on the road, but way,
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you know, to the edge of the shoulder.
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So for the same reason, their snowplows will
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know
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where every you know, where the edge is.
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They don't put them everywhere.
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I remember back in the seventies,
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we have a couple of really big hills
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going out of town here,
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those that are local. There's Brockway Hill,
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going up 31
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or is that Brockway? I don't know. We
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don't call it that anymore, but,
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there's like Green Hill and
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Silver Lake Road. There's Front street that goes
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turns into North Long Lake Road. That hill
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come out of town. They used to put
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these barrels.
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They were big green barrels, and they would
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fill them full of sand.
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And that way if, you had trouble getting
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up the hill, you could, go to one
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of those barrels and grab some sand and
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throw them under your tires. And they don't
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do that so much anymore because so many
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people have really good radial snow tires or
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all wheel drive, four wheel drive.
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It's a lot more common than it was
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in the seventies to to have much better
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tires,
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and
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that's,
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that's a good thing. And speaking of tires,
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you know, some some people have specific snow
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tires they put on, so you gotta get
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those switched over.
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Either, you know, if you have your own
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rims and put the snow tires on rims,
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and then you have a second set of
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rims for the summer.
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But, you know, kinda gotta winterize the car.
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And, you know, and and, conversely, believe it
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or not, in the summer, and there's not
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really a word for this, I call it
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summarizing.
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Like the snowblower and the tractor. I, you
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know, I summarize
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those.
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Usually I'll change the oil and the
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snowblower
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and, you know, the the one that has
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its own engine
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and,
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oh, fog it or put some,
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sea foam or,
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stable in the gas and top off the
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gas and,
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you know, try I, shut off the gas
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and run it until it you know, the
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carburetor doesn't have any gas in it because,
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you know, you never know what kind of
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crud you can have in there. And if
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it's sitting all summer in the in the
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baking sun,
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you know, it's not good. So, you know,
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you also have to
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summarize things.
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And the tractor, you know, we use the
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tractor year round,
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but take off the cab, take off the
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snowblower
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attachment,
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and then put on the mower deck and,
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you know, all the stuff that goes with
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summer.
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And, you know, just kind of that stuff.
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Like I said, it's,
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it is a subject around here. A lot
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of people shrink-wrap their boats too, and there's
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a whole business
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around that
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where they'll you know, if they're gonna store
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the boat outside,
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they'll
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they'll put up, like,
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wood,
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posts and whatnot to hold the shrink-wrap off
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of the interior of the boat, and then
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they'll,
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literally shrink-wrap the whole boat.
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We used to do that with, one of
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our boats, and, now now we got enough
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room in the barn to put both in.
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So
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both boats go in the barn and we
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don't have to do that. My mom also
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has a
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a little Volkswagen Beetle convertible and she doesn't
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use that in the
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winter.
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So it's got a spot that we park
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it and then put on the trickle charger
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for the battery just to keep the battery
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up. Either that or we'll take the battery
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out, put it in the basement where it
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doesn't freeze,
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one way or the other,
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and put stable in the gas and make
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sure the gas
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is full.
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So lots of little things you got to
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do to get ready for winter up here
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in the North anyway. Now you know if
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you live in Florida or
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Tennessee or someplace that doesn't really get that
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much winter,
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there may not be so much of that
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stuff.
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You know, another thing we gotta do is,
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you know, put away the yard furniture. You
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know, we don't don't wanna leave the
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you know, on the patio. We have a
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a table and some chairs and an umbrella
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and all that stuff, and, we usually pack
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that away,
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and get that out of the way because,
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you know, when I'm
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moving snow, you know, on the patio, I
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just assume not have all that stuff in
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the way and it doesn't really hurt the
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stuff. It's outdoor furniture
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and all snow is is frozen water. So,
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you know, if it doesn't melt in the
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rain, it's not gonna melt in the snow.
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It's just not a good idea.
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It's something around here that, I I have
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a,
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one of those
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tent garage
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things,
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you know, those portable garages. Well, we have
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one that's semi permanent,
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behind our garage, and that's where we put
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a lot of the stuff that we put
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away for the winter.
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We put it in there.
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And last year, we got a lot more
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snow than we normally would have got. So,
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the tent that we had in the backyard,
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the tent garage, portable garage thing,
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one day just collapsed because snow had built
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up on it and all of a sudden
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it just went just imploded.
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That was inconvenient as hell, but,
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anyway, got all the stuff we needed to
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get out of there and just left it.
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we replaced it,
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this summer. So
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now on my checklist of things to do
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is go knock the snow off of the
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roof of the
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storage
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tent. So lesson learned,
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but it's not a big deal to do.
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My neighbor uses one of those as her
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garage.
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And, you know, just whenever she goes out
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there and there's snow buildup on it, just
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takes a push broom and
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from inside and just, you know, hits it
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a few times and the snow slides off
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and, yeah, it's no problem. I didn't even
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think about that
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last year.
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And, in fact, it was her. She came
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over and
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she
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looks out there and she says, what happened
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to your tent? I said, I don't know.
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What happened to it? And I looked out
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there, and oh my gosh.
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So and what really sucked about it was,
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we had some shovels
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and brooms and stuff kinda leaning on the
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wall, and it poked right up through the
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the the roof. So that tent was garbage
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anyway. It
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absolutely mangled all the the structure of it.
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But, yeah, it was
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that was an adventure. So even if you
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do think you're prepared, you might not be
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prepared.
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and again, like I said, if you live
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somewhere where it doesn't snow like this or
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doesn't get this cold, you probably don't have
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to worry about it.
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So, anyway, everybody have a great day. I
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think,
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tomorrow,
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yeah, tomorrow
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is the, anniversary
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of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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So I think I'm gonna
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talk about that.
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Probably know about it because of the song
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from Gordon Lightfoot, but, there's a lot more
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to it than that.
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Catch me later.
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Mike Dell's World number four one five
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for Monday,
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11/09/2025.
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When I was a young boy,
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there wasn't any Internet.
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There wasn't any World Wide Web.
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There wasn't any
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egghead sending you texts saying those are the
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same thing. You don't have to say Internet
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and World Wide Web. They're the
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same thing. There weren't any video games when
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I was a boy.
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Well, there was Pac Man.
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That was a game, I guess.
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And Asteroids.
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Wizard of War.
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Scrambled. Defender was a hell of a lot
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of fun.
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Those were what we called
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video games.
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Did I say we didn't have video games?
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Because that would have been a mistake.
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But there is one thing you have now
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that we didn't have when I was a
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boy that I wish we did.
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Like Dell's World.
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That was a funny little intro that I
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found
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when digging through some of my files here,
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so, why not throw it at the beginning
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of this episode?
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Anyway,
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today we're gonna talk about
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getting ready for winter,
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or winterizing.
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I know I talked about that a little
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bit in a previous episode,
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already this year, but,
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they winterize the campers,
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amongst other things. But
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kinda, you know, when you live up north
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here and,
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you know, for part of the year, there's
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below freezing temperatures
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and snow and all the good stuff. So
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there's usually kind of a a list of
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things you need to get ready for.
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And one of those things
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is, you know, the campers. You know, you
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gotta
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get all the the the water out of
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them and, replace it with some
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antifreeze.
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Not you know, you don't put antifreeze in
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all the pipes and everything, but you run
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the antifreeze through the pipes once you get
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the clear water out of it.
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And then in the spring, you have to
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flush all that stuff out. It's edible antifreeze.
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I wouldn't drink it out of the bottle,
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but, anyway.
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But there's a lot of other things that
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you you might not think about.
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know, getting the snow shovels,
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put in strategic
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locations and
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putting
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the ice scrapers and,
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and snowbrushes
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back in their vehicles.
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You know, most vehicles
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or most people around here,
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put pull one in their vehicles. You know,
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because you never know. Well, you do know
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you're gonna get snow on your windshield and
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side windows and you really need to clear
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all that stuff off. So that's on the
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list for winterizing.
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You know, some of the other things is,
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like, get the snowblower running or the snowblowers
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running.
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In my case, get the tractor
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going. I'm gonna take the tractor out to
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the dealership and have them do all the
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fluids and make sure it's all ready to
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go for winter.
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You know, some of the other things, we
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do around here, you know, we don't have
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central air conditioning. So, you know, in my
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studio
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slash office,
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building here, I've I've got a window air
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conditioner. I take that out or cover it
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up. They took it out,
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and they go put it in the garage
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and, you know, put the screen back in
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the window just in case, you know, we
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do get a warm day, I can at
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least open the window.
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But, you know, get that stuff done.
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Get the, you know, in the house, took
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out you know, we have two window air
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conditioners,
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and
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I I take them out now. It's a
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lot easier to to deal with.
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But,
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you know, make sure your furnace filter is
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good,
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all that stuff. You know, if you heat
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with propane or oil, you know, make sure
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you get a full tank.
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Just a lot of that kind of stuff,
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you know, boats. That's the other thing. You
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know, I put away a couple of boats.
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You know, you wanna run the engine so
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the, you know, there's no water in the
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engine,
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and you wanna maybe fog it or whatever.
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I just heard somebody bark. Is that the
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dog?
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Well, obviously, it was a dog.
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you know, things like that.
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You know, try to get the leaves out
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of the yard or at least off the
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driveway and off the walkways,
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you know, because you don't wanna be
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shoveling leaves with the snow or blowing leaves
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with the snow.
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know, a lot of people, they put,
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markers on the edges of their driveways,
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you know, little sticks that stick up above
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the snowpack so you know where where the
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driveway is.
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You'd be surprised at, how easy it is
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to lose the driveway,
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especially out of my mom's house.
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You know, she's got a pretty good ditch
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at the end of her driveways.
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And, you know, we mark that so that
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when I'm plowing, I don't
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accidentally
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drive into the ditch
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or
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when you're driving the car, you know, you
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just just need to know where the edges
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of the of the driveway is.
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Sometimes the,
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the county and city road commission out here
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will put
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markers, you know, in in spots that tend
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to drift.
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They'll put markers along the, shoulder of the
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road. Not right on the road, but way,
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you know, to the edge of the shoulder.
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So for the same reason, their snowplows will
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know
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where every you know, where the edge is.
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They don't put them everywhere.
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I remember back in the seventies,
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we have a couple of really big hills
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going out of town here,
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those that are local. There's Brockway Hill,
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going up 31
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or is that Brockway? I don't know. We
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don't call it that anymore, but,
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there's like Green Hill and
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Silver Lake Road. There's Front street that goes
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turns into North Long Lake Road. That hill
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come out of town. They used to put
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these barrels.
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They were big green barrels, and they would
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fill them full of sand.
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And that way if, you had trouble getting
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up the hill, you could, go to one
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of those barrels and grab some sand and
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throw them under your tires. And they don't
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do that so much anymore because so many
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people have really good radial snow tires or
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all wheel drive, four wheel drive.
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It's a lot more common than it was
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in the seventies to to have much better
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tires,
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and
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that's,
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that's a good thing. And speaking of tires,
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you know, some some people have specific snow
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tires they put on, so you gotta get
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those switched over.
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Either, you know, if you have your own
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rims and put the snow tires on rims,
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and then you have a second set of
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rims for the summer.
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But, you know, kinda gotta winterize the car.
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And, you know, and and, conversely, believe it
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or not, in the summer, and there's not
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really a word for this, I call it
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summarizing.
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Like the snowblower and the tractor. I, you
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know, I summarize
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those.
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Usually I'll change the oil and the
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snowblower
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and, you know, the the one that has
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its own engine
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and,
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oh, fog it or put some,
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sea foam or,
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stable in the gas and top off the
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gas and,
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you know, try I, shut off the gas
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and run it until it you know, the
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carburetor doesn't have any gas in it because,
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you know, you never know what kind of
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crud you can have in there. And if
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it's sitting all summer in the in the
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baking sun,
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you know, it's not good. So, you know,
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you also have to
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summarize things.
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And the tractor, you know, we use the
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tractor year round,
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but take off the cab, take off the
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snowblower
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attachment,
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and then put on the mower deck and,
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you know, all the stuff that goes with
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summer.
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Like I said, it's,
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it is a subject around here. A lot
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of people shrink-wrap their boats too, and there's
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a whole business
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around that
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where they'll you know, if they're gonna store
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the boat outside,
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they'll
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they'll put up, like,
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wood,
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posts and whatnot to hold the shrink-wrap off
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of the interior of the boat, and then
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they'll,
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literally shrink-wrap the whole boat.
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We used to do that with, one of
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our boats, and, now now we got enough
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room in the barn to put both in.
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both boats go in the barn and we
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don't have to do that. My mom also
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has a
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a little Volkswagen Beetle convertible and she doesn't
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use that in the
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winter.
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So it's got a spot that we park
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it and then put on the trickle charger
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for the battery just to keep the battery
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up. Either that or we'll take the battery
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out, put it in the basement where it
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doesn't freeze,
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one way or the other,
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and put stable in the gas and make
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sure the gas
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is full.
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So lots of little things you got to
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do to get ready for winter up here
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in the North anyway. Now you know if
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you live in Florida or
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Tennessee or someplace that doesn't really get that
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much winter,
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there may not be so much of that
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stuff.
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You know, another thing we gotta do is,
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you know, put away the yard furniture. You
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know, we don't don't wanna leave the
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you know, on the patio. We have a
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a table and some chairs and an umbrella
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and all that stuff, and, we usually pack
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that away,
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and get that out of the way because,
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you know, when I'm
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moving snow, you know, on the patio, I
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just assume not have all that stuff in
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the way and it doesn't really hurt the
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stuff. It's outdoor furniture
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and all snow is is frozen water. So,
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you know, if it doesn't melt in the
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rain, it's not gonna melt in the snow.
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It's just not a good idea.
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It's something around here that, I I have
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a,
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one of those
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tent garage
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things,
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you know, those portable garages. Well, we have
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one that's semi permanent,
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behind our garage, and that's where we put
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a lot of the stuff that we put
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away for the winter.
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We put it in there.
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And last year, we got a lot more
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snow than we normally would have got. So,
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the tent that we had in the backyard,
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the tent garage, portable garage thing,
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one day just collapsed because snow had built
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up on it and all of a sudden
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it just went just imploded.
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That was inconvenient as hell, but,
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anyway, got all the stuff we needed to
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get out of there and just left it.
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And then,
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we replaced it,
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this summer. So
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now on my checklist of things to do
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is go knock the snow off of the
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roof of the
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storage
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tent. So lesson learned,
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but it's not a big deal to do.
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My neighbor uses one of those as her
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garage.
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And, you know, just whenever she goes out
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there and there's snow buildup on it, just
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takes a push broom and
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from inside and just, you know, hits it
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a few times and the snow slides off
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and, yeah, it's no problem. I didn't even
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think about that
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last year.
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And, in fact, it was her. She came
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over and
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she
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looks out there and she says, what happened
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to your tent? I said, I don't know.
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What happened to it? And I looked out
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there, and oh my gosh.
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So and what really sucked about it was,
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we had some shovels
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and brooms and stuff kinda leaning on the
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wall, and it poked right up through the
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the the roof. So that tent was garbage
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anyway. It
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absolutely mangled all the the structure of it.
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But, yeah, it was
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that was an adventure. So even if you
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do think you're prepared, you might not be
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prepared.
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But
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and again, like I said, if you live
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somewhere where it doesn't snow like this or
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doesn't get this cold, you probably don't have
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to worry about it.
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So, anyway, everybody have a great day. I
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think,
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tomorrow,
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yeah, tomorrow
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is the, anniversary
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of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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So I think I'm gonna
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talk about that.
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Probably know about it because of the song
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from Gordon Lightfoot, but, there's a lot more
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to it than that.
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Catch me later.