Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Start your week smiling with your friends. Kathy's aunt and Michelle Frechette. It's time to get ready for some weekly motivation with WP motivate.
Happy Thursday, Cathy.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday morning. It's coffee time around here. It is coffee time.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: I got my wonder Woman mug. This was a gift, and it came with a bottle of wine. And the opening to this mug is so big, the bottle of wine was sitting in it, so.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: It's like a gallon of coffee, but it's a lot of coffee.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: I've got my good life in Mount Shasta mug, which I use pretty much all the time.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: It's the perfect size. It's like the size of, like, you go to a diner and you have, like, the lady comes and she's constantly filling your coffee mug. And so they have, like, bigger. It's like that sized mug. So it's very. Just cozy.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't understand. Tiny mugs. Tiny mugs don't have a place in my life.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: I mean, if you do an espresso, like, okay.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, but, like the daily. Like the daily coffee? No, not so much.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I had to make the other day, I had to make because we had, we had a storm come through and I lost power in the morning and it came on for like ten minutes. So I'm like, oh, great, it's back. But it could go off again. So I got mark all situated, and then I was going to make coffee, and as I was walking towards the coffee maker, it went out again.
So I'm texting one of my neighbors and she's like, I guess it's cowboy coffee on the stove. I'm like, yeah. I'm like, oh, my gosh, I've got a mocha pot from, like, being part italian. Like, I'm going to do that. I'm like, do I have. And I had, like, a little package of freeze dried espresso. So I was like, I made espresso on the stove. I still know how to do it. So if I ever, like, you know, lose power forever, I will still be caffeinated.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: I will not be unless I buy one of those and you teach me how to use it. Let's just say it that way. Yeah. I mean, I do have a gas stove, so I still can cook, but it would be tea for me. Unless I learn how to do. Yeah, I mean, I have a courage.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: I have pour over. I could do pour over still, though.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah, you boil water.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: There you go. French press and pour over. Okay, I'm still caffeinated.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: Life can't go on caffeinated. See, we're solving all the world's problems today.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Who needs the grid?
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Exactly. Well, I went to Niagara Falls this weekend. Actually, I'm on Monday on the holiday. Naisha Green came up to visit for a few days, and she's like, can we go to Niagara Falls again? I'm like, absolutely. And we went over to the canadian side and they have this thing, like, the old power plant that's there is now, like a museum to power of Niagara Falls. And there's a lot of stuff about Nikola Tesla, and there's all these old turbines and, like, so much stuff that you can see. And I was like, it was interesting to me, but I was like, I know so many of the people in my life who, like, totally geek out about that. Like, they have got to go to this place. But the really cool thing about it is you can get it an elevator. They take you down 202 hundred and 8280ft, down into the ground, into the old tunnel. And you. It's 2200ft tunnel.
Thank God for my scooter. Poor Naisha. I had to walk the whole thing because that's almost half a mile. So by the time you walk down and back, you've literally walked almost a mile, 60 degrees. I did not have a jacket. It was cold. But you come out at the end and you are at the base of horseshoe falls. Like, you literally look up at the falls and, like, you look across and there's, like, the maid of the mist. And it was really super cool. I got pictures. I put some of them on twitter, but I need to put some on my instagram because I forget to Graham. I go to Graham and I look at the stuff you send me, but I'm always in awe. Like, I could have, like, we use water to make coffee. Unless it's scalding hot, it's not hurting me. But the power of water, when it goes from a high place to a low place, it just, you know, like, it just carves out gorges. The Grand Canyon was carved by water, right? Niagara falls, I don't remember. I'd have to google it. But, like, millions of gallons of water over that. Those falls every, whatever, a couple of minutes or something. And the power for destruction as well as the power for life, because, like, hydroelectric plants really do work and help. And it's green and it's all of those good things, but also it can be so destructive. You think of tsunamis, you think of floods. You think of people getting swept over the falls and things like that, and I think how constructive and destructive some things are. But if you just hold it in your hand, it's literally benign, right? Like, a handful of water is not harmful, and the same could be true of air, wind.
Yeah.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: So what have you.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: What have you been dealing with, Kathy?
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Well, Saturday night, show me your tool, too, because, well, I gotta get there first. I got more to tell you. So, Saturday night, I go to sleep. It's like 945. I'm like, I'm tired. I'm going to sleep. And I leave Mark's phone next to him. Not that in the middle of the night, he's going to figure out what to do with it. But his phone went off, and I could hear it all the way upstairs, and it was the tornado warning, and the tornado went just 510 miles north of me.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: So, like, you know, I wake up, and the sirens are going, and I go outside, and the sky is windy. It's windy. It's dark. It's creepy. But I look to the north, and it's just, like, lightning. It's just so electric.
The storm is going by. It was just crazy. And some of the, like, there was a 150 people in a gas station, and at that Saturday night, people are like, oh, this is a mass casualty event. Because 150 people were in this gas station. They had to cut down the walls to get everybody out, but everybody survived, but, like, a bunch of people died. And I was watching the tornado. The storm went for 100 miles, and it spun off multiple tornadoes, like, ef three tornadoes, which is, like, bad.
I thought for sure it went by Claire's horse barn. But everybody there was okay.
And then Tuesday morning, it's 530 in the morning. And Milo, the dachshund, if you know the dachshund breed, they just, you know, somebody farts the wrong way, the dachshund's gonna bark.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Speaking of wind.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Speaking of wind. He just barks at everything. So he starts barking at 530 in the morning, and I'm just like. But then I hear the wind, and I'm like, well, I guess we're not walking right away this morning because it's storming out. I was kind of oblivious to what was happening, but then when I woke up and went outside, and the wind was just howling, I have so many trees down. Like, I'm on the edge of a forest. So there's some forest that's on my land, but one of the trees just twisted. Just a big, huge 40 foot tree just at its base, it was something, it twisted. And there's another tree across the street, same thing, just twisted. The wind did this. It wasn't a tornado, it was just wind. They're saying 80, 90 miles an hour wind, neighborhood. I lost probably five or six trees. So, yeah, I've got, for those of you listening, you're missing out on my, my chainsaw.
Chainsaw. It's a little itty bitty baby.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: That is the cutest chainsaw I have ever seen. Like, you can almost fit that in a Christmas stocking. It's so cute.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: I got it around Christmas because there were some, like, trees that I couldn't get with them. They were growing too close to the house. So I had my son at, uh, well, it was Thanksgiving. I asked, he went and got me that to help get some of the stuff. And it was so I, like, wrote, I wrote him a talks to him. Like, that was satisfying because they just all, like, came down. They were like smaller little trees, but they were growing too close to the house. Didn't want them.
And so my neighbor Jason, who lives next door, has all the, you know, he is the dude, right? He's got the tractor, he's got the trailer, he's got multiple chainsaws. He is just ready for something like this. And he saw what had happened and just came over and just even without me, like, saying, hey, could you help? He just started chopping up the tree on the tree line, on the fence line, and just started chopping it up. So I went out there and showed him, and he's like, well, that'll be good for some things.
And of course, I don't know what, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just like. And then the chain came off and I'm like, did I break it? And he's like, oh, that happens. And you have to, like, do this, and this is how you tighten it. And then finally you gotta keep it oiled. Yeah. Yes, yes. I've got chain oil. I'm like, it's. And the funny thing is, I, like, lived in a forest up in Mount Shasta. Like, we had bunches of trees, and we did have, like, some snow events that took down some trees, and we had a wind event that took down a tree that almost hit the house.
But my husband always handled all of that. He would, you know, hire people or he'd get out that he was, I didn't have to worry about any of that stuff. And now I am sunburned from being to Texas, but empowered oh, my God. I feel empowered, though. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing, is, like, when it first happened, it was weird because at first I was just, like, overwhelmed. I just gasped and cried a little bit, and then I stood out there, and I was just. I stood out on my back patio, and I said, I get it, because I've had some therapy sessions where it's just like, okay, all this stuff is happening. And I just had to embrace that I am the storm. And there's this t shirt that says, I am the storm that I'm buying for myself because I stood out there, and I'm like, this is so powerful. And I know this is winds of change coming in, and I accept all that the storm brings me because I know I am the storm and just, like, accepted the disaster that just befalls.
And something about that, though, something about just, like, identify accepting nature's change and accepting the winds of change, accepting a storm coming through, accepting help from. I don't do that very easily. I don't go, I have another neighbor who's like, oh, you need to do this thing here. Call me when, I'll help you do it. And it's still not done because I hate asking for help.
And I didn't have to really ask for help. It was just kind of like, I'm helping you, ma'am. And that's one thing I do. I mean, I bitch about Texas a lot, but the people here next door was like, got chainsaws. Anybody need help? The town north of us that really got slammed, they just. Everybody pulled together and helped each other.
So for that storm, um, I I'm getting all teary eyed. Like, people are. People are good to each other here. And that's one thing I do really appreciate about. I think we just have to.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: And stuff like, well, you think about natural disasters that happen anywhere really pulls people together.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: But, yeah, I'm gonna miss.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: I'm probably gonna misquote this a bit because I don't remember it exactly, but Anne Frank, who died in the Holocaust, said something along the lines of, in spite of everything, people really are good at heart. And I completely misquoted that, I'm sure. But that's the gist of it, and I see that, too.
And part of it is being able to accept the help, for sure. But when you can look at communities that draw together over anything. Right.
We had a town over, there was a kid named Max, and I cannot remember what Max's disease was, but he had to make a wish, and his wish was Mardi Gras to go to Mardi Gras, but they couldn't. He was not. He was too fragile to go to Mardi Gras. So instead they have Max's Mardi Gras parade every year in that town. And he survived. And that's wonderful. And they still have this parade named after this kid. And it's a big tradition. And to see a whole community of people draw together or something like that, or because there's a fire or because there's a tornado and all of those things, it really does make your heart happy, doesn't it? It's like we hate the negative things that make us have to draw together. But the fact that people can and do show up for each other is pretty amazing.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: I wonder what would happen if we just did that by matter of fact. Like that was our default. Rather than having to have a massive event that forces people to really help each other out, it would be a much different world. But I think everybody's just kind of like, I don't know, in a state of self induced hypnosis of all of their stressors and problems, which, you know, we've got them. The one thing, it was kind of funny because I had sort of a challenging event happen while I had the chainsaw in hand and I'm like chopping up a tree and I'm like, I'm done with this stressful situation. I'm going to solve this problem right now. Because I had my phone in one hand, chainsaw on the other, and I was just like, yeah, no, not dealing with that tomorrow and I am not going to deal with it anymore. It is now done in my life. And just kind of like, yeah, yeah, it's clarifying, I guess, is when you really let.
When you connect with, I think, the power of nature and you really understand who we are as microcosm because we are reflective of the whole. Right. You know, I mean, you look at chinese medicine and like every little piece on your ear represents some place of your body. It's like the microcosm and the macrocosm as above, so below, it's just all reflective. And we are part of nature. You are the storm, you are the. You have all of nature within you if you allow it and accept that to be. And if you do, it can be incredibly powerful and motivating and kind of change your perspective on stuff where it's just like out with the old, in with the new. And it can be incredibly refreshing to just like tie into that. I think that's why when, like, people are going through stress, everybody says, go touch grass or go be out in nature because nature really brings you back to who you really are. Because we are that. And we're so divorced from it on our daily.
[00:15:20] Speaker A: I think about that a lot. Like, we are just the tight. Like, each one of us is the tiniest speck in the whole universe, right? Like just the tiniest in a way, the most insignificant speck in the universe. But to ourselves, we are the center of that universe, right? Like, yeah, it's like, and I think I tweeted or something a while ago that's like, I know I'm not the center of the universe, but I am the center of my universe. It doesn't negate everybody else experience, but I have to control the experiences that I have and figure out how I contribute and how I use and how I, you know, use resources, contribute the things that I have and all of those things because I, my world revolves around me. The whole world doesn't, but mine does. And that's okay.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: But you can be the force of the universe if you accept that you are the reflection of all that is right. Because you are a part of it, the percentage.
So not egotistically going out and saying, well, I've had this bad thing happen, so I'm going to be nasty to everyone.
Not like that kind of stuff, but claiming your power and saying, I'm a force for good in this world and rising above, like, rising above negative situations, rising above people who want to beat you down or tear you down and rising above all of that and realizing that they can't, there's no way because you are all that is. You're, you know, the drop of the ocean.
[00:16:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: You're not the ocean, but you're the drop of the ocean. And you have the power of the ocean within you. Right. So claiming that, I think is really powerful, especially when you do so from a sense of, from an intent of kindness. Agreed. And being a force for good in the world.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I talk about kindness a lot over the years and the fact that, like, when somebody says, you know, what do you look for in a man? And I start to list, they are asking me, do you like a blonde guy, a tall guy, a skinny guy, a guy who works out, right. And I say, well, I want a guy who's kind, who's intelligent, who has a good sense of humor, who's motivated in the right ways, you know, who contributes. And they're like, oh, but, like, do you have a preference of eye color? I'm like, no. And, honey, you are not that man, if that's your question.
But it's true, right? Like, kindness should be, above all, we should absolutely treat each other with respect and kindness. I have my snarky moments. That's why I have friends like you, so I can get them out of my system. I can be like, oh, my God, listen to what just happened, and then, like, let it go. Right? Because sometimes you just have to, like, ha. Like, the venting and whatever, because you feel like you're going to explode.
And I do try to put kindness out into the world, but I am not a perfect person. And sometimes I get snarky, too. But, yeah, if we did just start, imagine. Imagine if everybody approached life to be kind and to help others outside of the disasters, like you just said. Can you imagine how much nicer and easier it would be to move and live within the world that we have?
[00:18:28] Speaker B: It would be great. Can I tell you what I like in a guy?
[00:18:30] Speaker A: Yeah, please do.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: A guy who can use a chainsaw.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, so I didn't interrupt you because you were being so philosophical at that particular moment, but do you remember that scene in Crocodile Dundee where they're in the city and this guy pulls out a knife and he's gonna, like, mug crocodile Dundee and the girl and. And he's holding this knife, and crocodile Dundee goes, that's not a knife. And he pulls out his, like, machete. He goes, this is a knife. And I'm like, I'm picturing you, like, with your chainsaw. And your neighbor goes, that's not a chainsaw. This is a chainsaw.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And my bad. The bat, because it's battery powered, because I'm scared of gasoline, because I spill it on myself, and then I'm like, I'm going to die. Self immolation is died. And he's like, you only have one battery. And I'm like, I was only chopping down a little. I wasn't chopping down a forest. But now that, now that I'm starting, I'm like, I'm feeling much more empowered. And there is. I've gone back into the forest and, like, yeah, this needs a lot of cleanup. And I think this is just going to be the year that I. Now that I've started, I think I might get a bigger chainsaw and just make that.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: I was just going to say, make.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: That a nice place.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: I see a bigger chainsaw in your future is exactly what I was just going to say.
[00:19:53] Speaker B: I'm kind of buying power equipment.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: She's like, and I'm buying a stump grinder. And I go back home, and it's gonna be like. She's like, I gave up WordPress. All I'm doing now is, like, yard work and hire me out with my caterpillar. And, yeah, I'm just naming stuff. I don't even know what it is by this point.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: Well, he's got a tractor with, like, it's not a backhoe, but it's got, like, the bucket thing in the front. I might, you know, I don't know. I've got, like, a riding mower, but it's just been, like, sitting there since we bought the house. It's just been. Cause I'm like, I don't know how this thing works, but I'm thinking I might get a trailer for it and start hauling stuff around on my. I might be doing stuff. I might be. I might become. I gotta get cowboy hat, though, because I got burned on the back of my knock, and so I think I need a cowboy hat while I'm doing it.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: I think you do.
And two pieces. And you need at least a good pair of leather gloves to protect your hands.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: And protective eyewear. And I'm not talking just basic sunglasses. You need protective eyewear. So, yeah, if you don't have those yet, Amazon is your friend today.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Cathy.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: Or harborflight or Walmart.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: I went to Walmart last night and got the leather gloves, and there's. I wear. My husband has. There's so much stuff in the garage. I was trying to go through it with my son when he was here, and it was just like, take all of my things away from me. I don't know how to use any of this stuff. So if there's something like a wrench and you're gonna, like, guide me, because, like, I don't know. I don't know any of this stuff. I had to have, so I had to get the air conditioner replaced on the house, and they put in an air conditioner that needed, like, 25 amps. And now I know what the word is, but they had to do something to the electrical box, so I had to have an electrician come and I'm like, calling my son, and I'm like, it has to go from 20 to 25, but 20 to 25 what?
Unicorns? I don't know what this stuff is. It just said 20 to 25. I've got to call an electrician and ask Max, help me. And he's like, it's amps. So now I know I'm getting better.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Every day we learn a little more.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe I. Maybe. Maybe that's. See, I've always felt since the stroke, I'm like, I can't take care of this house by myself when I'm just like, I can't do this, but I can't move them. And interest rates and, like, I've got all the reasons why I can't move. But now, maybe this is. Maybe I have just been planted here. I'm just thinking of this now to realize that I can handle it all. Maybe I just need to accept that. Maybe I just need to be the storm and handle it all.
[00:22:28] Speaker A: Be the storm. I love it.
Yeah. I remember some kind of a parable or something where they talk about, like, that the reeds bend with the wind. Yeah, but the big trees are the things that get toppled and fall. Right. And so, like. But we tend to think of grass and reeds and things like that as this, you know, like susceptible or I can't think of it like, weak and wimpy because it's just a blade of grass. But the tree fell, but the grass is still there in the wind, so we don't have to be the mighty oak, you know, we can be the flexible that bends and moves but survives the storm, too.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: Gosh, we're so philosophical today.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: We are, yeah. And chainsaws.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: And chainsaws.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: Philosophy and chainsaws.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: Maybe that's the title of this episode.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: Yeah, could be.
It's.
[00:23:32] Speaker A: My goodness.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm glad you got to go to Niagara Falls, though. That is great.
[00:23:37] Speaker A: I mean, I can't count the number of times that I've been there over the years. I've lived in New York since I was ten, so 45 years, and it's only an hour and a half away. So clearly I've been there more than once. So when out of town guests come, that's what they want to do. It's like, so do you want to see this? Yeah. And so we went to Montezuma, the place where I, like, photograph all the birds, because I bought a camera like mine. And so I was giving her some instruction on how to use it and how to focus and the rule of thirds. And then I showed her how to edit photos and lightroom and those kinds of things. And so she's all excited about some of the bird photos and things that she got, and she's going to be putting out there. And then the next day we went to Niagara Falls, and so we got to do a lot of those fun things that she wanted to see. And then I took her to Lake Ontario, which is only a mile from my house, and we drove along the shore. And just a lot of those things that people don't necessarily experience where they live because they don't have those things there, you know. And I go to other places and I experience the things they have that I don't. And that's one of the fun things, just about hosting people and getting to share your corner of the world and the things that make you smile.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:41] Speaker A: And I love that. Yeah.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: When I lived in Chicago, I worked across the street from the Sears Tower. Never went to the top of it. I went down into the lower parts where all the good restaurants were and that's where lunch was. Right. And then I had friends come from out of town, same thing. It's like, oh, you're right by the Sears Tower, let's go. And I'm, day by day, never went to the top, but friends come out of town. It's like, woo. Let's do touristy things.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: Rochester is the home of Kodak, Eastman Kodak, and the George Eastman founded Kodak. And the George Eastman house where he lived is a little, a little mansion by today's standards would not be considered a mansion, but is a mansion in Rochester. And they do tours and like, it's a little bit controversial because he was also a big game hunter. So there's like an mounted elephant head and things like that in there. But I've lived here 45 years and I've never been inside George Eastman House. But because it's a house, it's not as handicapped accessible. So I would not be, I should have done it 30 years ago because now it's almost like too late.
Yeah, but I did. But we also have the Susan B. Anthony house because Susan B. Anthony lived here and I used to be a docent in her house. It's a lot of stairs. I can't do it anymore, obviously, but. So, yeah, I guess we focus on the things that make us happy anyway. But you're right, like in your own hometown, you're like, oh, I'll get to it, I'll get to it, I'll get to it. And then you're like, I've never done that thing.
Yeah, yeah, it happens for sure. Well, I'm glad that you withstood the storm and identified that you are the storm and that your, I don't want to say it diminutively, but your tiny chainsaw came in so handy.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: It's a tiny chainsaw. It's all I thought I needed. I was just like, man, that's, that's just the wild, right? Like, what do I need to do back there?
[00:26:34] Speaker A: But it's like trading wheels for chainsaws. You can graduate some figure.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I am going to get a bigger one. And, oh, my gosh, what am I doing? I'm probably gonna have to get overalls and work clothes now. Like, get one of those rocking chairs and just remember that straw in my mouth. And I was gonna say, howdy, neighbor.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Hey. See this optional, though. It really is.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll see. WordPress prepared me for it. Says howdy all the time, right? So I'm like, howdy. I'm ready. I'm ready to be.
WordPress prepared me for this.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: That's so funny. We'll end on this tiny little story. I had a customer once who, like, would log into her website. She wanted a membership site, so she had other people log in, and she was so pissed off that it said howdy because Howdy is just so lower class. She wanted it to say hello instead of howdy. And so I had to figure out how to do that because I was not a developer, right? But there was like, I don't know if it still exists, but there was a plugin that was like, replace howdy, like, with something else. And I was like, all right, I got a plug in for that.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: That is so funny.
Yeah, so funny.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: So funny.
[00:27:49] Speaker B: Anyway, I like that there's a little, I see, I grew up in the north, and so, you know, the north is all, like, southerners, you know? And I always thought Texas culture was a little, I thought it was interesting, and I liked the pride of Texas, you know, and the fact that, you know, don't try it under, don't mess with toxis or all that stuff. I liked that they, when we first moved here and my son went to school, it just shocked me that the kids in, like, first grade, they don't just say the pledge of allegiance, say, they also say the pledge to Texas. And I thought that was kind of cool. I thought other states should do that, too, of like, you know, pride in who you are and where you live. And so I've always liked that about Texas, but, man, it's hard living here. It's just hard. There's chiggers, there's. My dogs got fleas. I did all kinds of stuff with that.
[00:28:40] Speaker A: It's just, there's snakes.
[00:28:41] Speaker B: Snakes. I'm not so snakes. I'm like, all right, I can handle the snakes, because I've learned, like, okay, bad snake, good snake. I know what good snakes are. And I'm like, I've got.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: Don't you have scorpions too, though?
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we do have scorpions. They're not as bad as. As Arizona.
We had people come spray, like, in Arizona just because.
But when we moved, there was a giant scorpion that was dead in our garage.
[00:29:08] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: My husband put it in a Ziploc bag because it was just, like, so interesting to him. And then he left it on the dashboard of the rental pants up. If somebody's going to find this.
But I had a scorpion in the kitchen last summer, and it's just like a centipede.
[00:29:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Like northerners. It's like, they crunched pretty easy. When you step on them. They're pretty small. But when I lived down in Austin, we were out in the. In the hill country. We were out in the country and, like, on three acres, and we would get, like, scorpions in my bed. Like, they were everywhere. They were just. It was bad. So I'll take the snow. Thanks.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: I'll take the snow.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I just was there mountains? Like, if I had mountains here, I'd probably be happier, but. Oh, well, I'll deal. I'm taxing today. Yee haw. With my kids.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Ha. Go get yourself some overalls.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: I'm gonna buy that. I am. The storm shirt, though. That's. Yeah, that's on my list.
[00:30:17] Speaker A: We're on our next episode next week. Hopefully you'll have it in time.
[00:30:20] Speaker B: Okay. Better than my stay toxic shirt that I just wear.
I love it.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: They're both actually good, so that's okay. Anyway, if you've made it this far. Thank you for joining us, Mike. We still love you.
[00:30:36] Speaker B: Hi, Mike.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Hi, Mike. And who knows what's going to come in our lives in the next week. But I think one of the things that we've discovered over how we've been doing this almost two years now, I think this podcast, right? Or a year and a half.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: Wow. Is that there's a lesson in everything, and I love that we discover those things together. So thank you for being my partner in all of this crazy part of the. Part of life, I guess, Kathy. So thank you.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: I love it. And I love you. Thank you for all of this. It's great.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: I love you, too. And for everybody else, we love you too. Just maybe not as much as we love each other. Anyway.
[00:31:18] Speaker B: Bye bye.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: This has been WP motivate with Kathy, Zant and Michelle Freshette. To learn more or to sponsor us, go to wpmotivate.com.
