Jim and Laura from Standing Out in Ohio podcast take a break from real estate topics to share what they do when they're not working their irregular and demanding schedules. They reveal their passion projects and hobbies that help them maintain balance while running their successful Ohio-based business.
• Laura has planted over 50 fruit and nut trees including apple, pear, peach, nectarine, and quince varieties
• Extensive berry plantings include thornless blackberries that yield 10-20 gallons per plant
• Jim manages the property by building structures, maintaining trails, and implementing water management systems
• The property attracts diverse wildlife including wild turkeys and a bobcat
• They operate Trothwood Forest, a small private campground with secluded sites perfect for nature lovers
• The chicken coop Jim built is now producing seven eggs daily
• Both are still unpacking boxes from their recent move while managing all these projects
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to the Standing Out in Ohio podcast,
where we discuss topics,upcoming events, news and
predictions with real estateprofessionals and entrepreneurs.
Listen and learn what makestheir companies and themselves
stand out and gain advantagesover the competition and gain
market share.
Subscribe for the latest newsand discussion on what it takes
(00:23):
to stand out from the crowd.
Now here's your host, jim.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey everybody, welcome to the Standing Out in a
Hot Podcast.
This is Jim, and Laura is withme.
Hi everyone, the office,goddess, so all right, so Laura.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So Jim.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We work a lot, yes, Jim.
We work a lot, yes, sir, andit's really not consistent hours
because schedules, but itdepends on the client when they
need a home inspection done.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, like last night , I was doing stuff at 930 at
night.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, because all of a sudden I had somebody
scheduling online.
So yeah, things, Things change.
There's a lot of hours and thenit's kind of irregular,
irregular hour for the most part, especially on the evenings and
weekends Very irregular.
So anyway, what I thought thispodcast we go, or what the heck
(01:20):
can Jim and Laura do?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
when they're not working.
Sounds like a plan, but firstlet's listen to this.
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Speaker 2 (01:48):
Alright, Laura.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
When we're not working.
What the heck are we doing?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh, you're usually annoying me.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, that's my job, part of the job description.
It's all playful.
It's like come on, you want togo do something, let's go.
As you said yesterday, you justcan't stay home, can you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Or can't sit.
Still, I can't remember whatyou said.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You just can't stay home.
You have to constantly be gone.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Doing something.
Doing something.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, I wanted to stay home and do my gardening.
I had seeds to plant, I hadbulbs to plant, I had berries to
plant.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
One of the things you do when you're not working.
You are doing a shit ton ofplanting In the dirt.
You're grounding, I'm grounding, you're grounding.
Describe all the stuff you'veplanted in the last, say, two
years.
(02:43):
You can sum everything up.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
At least 50 trees.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, that's more than I thought I was thinking.
35.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
That was the first year.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That was the first year, so wow.
Okay, so you plant about 50trees.
What kind of trees are these?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Fruit nut Like what Apple pear Apple pear Pineapple
apple nut Like what Apple?
Pear Apple.
Pear Pineapple apple is one,because I just had to try that
one because that looked cool asheck Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I'll be weird.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Nectarine peach plum.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Wait, nectarine, does that even grow here?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's out there growing.
It's one of the nicest lookingones, oh, nectarine.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I was thinking tangerine.
Oh, okay, okay, growing it'sone of the nicest looking ones.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
oh, nectarine, I think I was thinking tangerine,
oh okay, so okay, nectarine,just like a peach, but not fuzzy
fuzzy gotcha, I messed that oneup, that's cute.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You're paying a quince, quince.
I don't know what that even isbut basically related to an
apple all right, does it makegood pies?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I think so.
So we're going to find out,we're going to find out, okay.
So there's the quince, there'sapples, a crap ton of apples.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Peaches cherries.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Peaches, cherries, I've got blueberry bushes, I've
got cranberry bushes, I've got awhat the heck is that word
Apricot bush, apricot bush,blackberries and raspberries.
A lot of the stuff that Itransplanted from our old house
(04:11):
did a great job and survivedthrough the winter.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm 100% down with the raspberries.
What was that?
I'm 100% down with theraspberries being all over the
place.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I just got some new thornless blackberries that I
planted yesterday that aresupposed to do like 10 to 20
gallons of berries on each plant.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
See, that's a crazy amount, but I like it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You're thinking pies, razzleberry pie, baby
Blackberry and raspberry.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I am all over that Sometimes I like crazy when it's
beneficial.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So we've got that.
I've got rhubarb that I planted.
I've got strawberry that Iplanted rhubarb that I planted.
I've got strawberry that Iplanted.
I've, of course, got my flowerbed that I'm working on getting
looking all nice and pretty.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The flower bed near that cabin.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Near the cabin.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
We have a little cabin that people are going to
rent out for camping over theweekend, so you have a flower
bed, so I've got a flower bed.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
In front of that I've got a bunch of like.
Front of that I've got a bunchof wildflowers and herb-type
plants.
Going down the long drivewaydown a strip.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That's probably like a 150-yard strip that's going to
be wildflowers.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And I've got some more to finish planting.
I need to see what comes up,though, and see where I want to
put my new seeds.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I just thought it's raining so hard.
It's almost like they've gotwashed down you may have
wildflowers growing I'll haveplaces where we didn't really
desire for them to do, which isfine I can just yeah, I bought
you like 800 000 wildflowerseeds or something they're all
planted too, baby yeah so let methink what else um I've got
some peonies that I need toplant.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I haven't.
I love peonies, they're likeone of my favorite flowers okay,
you said nut trees also I haveum almond and pecan and I've got
, oh, white willow, um oh.
There's a couple of other onesthat are similar like medicinal
(06:10):
ones.
White willow is very good forum boiling the bark and making
like an aspirin tea aspirin yeahthat's actually where aspirin
came from.
Is is the willow tree yep, soyou're.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're part hippie, I'm part hippie herbalist.
So so it sounds like we have alot of things that are going to
be great for pies, really.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And I actually already have.
A couple of the guys that wereworking on the house have
already requested pies, so assoon as they start coming in,
I'm going to be making a bunchof pies.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Some of those trees have been there for three years
maybe.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Okay, so here's the weird thing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't think I'll get too many, but they were not.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
They're not looking as good as the ones that I just
planted last year.
Like they came Well, the onesyou planted last year those
already came like six feet tall.
And they looked good, like theycame with dirt.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
They're older, so this year I get a few fruits.
We did have a peach last yearbut we did not let that grow.
I want to make sure it staysstocky and sturdy.
So this year, next year, wedefinitely should start getting
some fruit.
Yeah, next year we should.
Nut trees take a long time.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, especially with as small as those ones are.
It's going to take a few yearsfor those to start kicking in.
So when?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
we're not working.
You are doing things out in thefield or around the house
planting, gardening gardeningplanting.
I played earth bender, waterbender yes, because it rained so
hard.
I was like watching the waterflow.
I was like, all right, let medig a little, a little swale
here, collect the, redirect it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Explain for the audience what a swale is,
because not everybody's going toknow.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It is say, you got a slope that's running towards
your house.
Okay, you don't want all thewater going through your house.
So what you do before it getsto the house is you make a low
spot like a little ditch, atrench.
A little trench, but not asdeep.
It can be a gentle, where itgoes down and then goes back up
before it gets to your house.
So it's basically a low spotthat will collect the water and
(08:15):
all the water go into there andthen direct it wherever you want
.
So I made little tiny swales todirect things.
So I've been doing a lot ofchainsaw.
Yesterday A tree fell acrossone of the trails here in the
woods.
Had to clean that up.
So I got the chainsaw out, cutthat out, get it out of the way.
I did some shoveling toredirect the water so it routes
(08:37):
appropriately away and drainswell to where we want it to, or
waste some areas.
I recently built the chickencoop.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yep, we got that up.
We got seven eggs this morningGot seven eggs this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Seven eggs this morning.
I got a still got a bruise onmy finger from I hammered myself
.
I only hammered finger one timeduring the whole project,
though it's getting better, it'snot not too bad getting better
but a lot of what I do aroundhere is building, helping you.
I'm like all right, laura,where do these holes?
So dug holes yesterday for youbecause you're playing with a
(09:11):
low type of blueberry, orblackberry.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It was a oh crud.
What were those calledPartridge berry and a dewberry?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
All right, I'll just see the one that, because I
don't know what those are.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Kind of like small short blackberries.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Deer like them.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Deer birds will like them yes.
So we have a lot of wildlifearound, so those are by the pond
, so that'll be really nice forthe animals near the pond, yep.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We have a lot of wildlife around.
We've had turkeys in the frontyard, the back yard, like 10
yards from the back door, andthen we had Bobcat.
Had Bobcat walk through theyard.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Through the side yard .
I haven't seen that one again.
I really want to.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I got to move the trail camera.
We got two new trail cameras.
I want to put one right next tothe house to catch that
location.
The other ones are kind ofspread out Secret locations on
those.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Super secret so.
But yeah, mostly a lot of it so, but yeah, mostly a lot of it
like getting the grass growing.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I put more grass seed out yesterday.
Oh, my project now?
Which?
So making that, if you want tocome camping down here,
trothwood, just look uptrothwood forest I've been
building a making a littlebathroom, a little latrine, not
like, not like a militarylatrine, but like a bathroom for
people to use.
Guess, because the port-a-johncompanies, they weren't very
good, so they're gone.
(10:33):
We're doing our own thing.
But I'm making.
I have a solar shower whichdoes not work well in the winter
.
The water's never gonna getthat hot enough.
You take a shower and with thissystem, but no with the system
I have here.
Nobody's answering a winner.
Often Some people do, but it'sdesigned so you can heat the
(10:53):
water up with fire.
You just build a little firethat goes about 20 minutes and
you've got hot water, which isvery hillbilly, but you're
camping.
You should not expect HyattRegency and a mint in your
pillow If you want that?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
go to the Hyatt?
Yeah, go to the Hyatt.
If you want to get away, enjoynature and not be around people,
come camp.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, and our campsites they're separated.
None of them are really closetogether.
The cabin is probably theclosest to a place.
All the others are you have towalk to them.
You have a motorcycle adual-purpose motorcycle that's
on-road and off-road Perfect.
You can drive your motorcycleright up to your campsite and
(11:42):
then drive around the trails aswell.
If you really want to take yourmotorcycle through the woods to
go bushwhacking, I'm fine ifyou do that.
Just you know, be careful.
But so what I do is kind oflike tend to oversee the
campground, make sure it's doingall right.
We've only got like four sites,so not a whole lot there to
(12:02):
really take care of for the mostpart, but I do have to cut wood
, split wood, haul it around.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah.
Don't we have somebody campingthis weekend.
We need to get wood set up forthem.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, I got wood all set.
I need to take it to theircampsite.
He's coming on a motorcycle, sohe'll be motorcycle camping.
He'll be motorcycle camping,which is fun to do Now.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Harley's gold ring.
I would not.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You would not want to take those on the trails.
They're not going to work wellthey get the traction.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I still want to see you get your gold wing down the
hill our driveway is gravel soyes, it is tricky with that.
So I don't see you get on adual purpose motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Fine, that's all cool .
So anyway, that's.
I think it's up for thispodcast, just kind of showing
what jim lord doing the whenthey're not working putting
boxes away putting boxes away.
Putting boxes away.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
We're getting getting stuff taken out of boxes.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Oh yeah, from the recent move.
We're still working on thatrecent move, but yeah that's to
be expected, that's arduous.
We got to get something back tothe donation place.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, I've got about four boxes that I need to take
back this week.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Sounds good.
All right, Thank you everybody.
Bye guys.
Bye-bye.
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