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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is am I. Today's the twenty six of August.
Temperature seventy three, not quite what it was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
But it's still nice outside.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So it did get up to ninety seven yesterday, but
that's kind of Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It started out at sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So there's a light at the end of the tunnel
at this point for the summertime, so I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We'll have nineties all the way through September.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But we're gonna this is not gonna be like the
last two years with the El Nino, where the law
Nina or whatever it was we were having that caused
us to have high nineties all the way into October.
So this is gonna, as they say, a normal year.
The problem is, and it's hadn't been normal and so
(00:52):
long we're not really sure what a normal summer looks like.
It's Tuesday, so Tuesday is the tubl of the week.
So what tool do we have today? Our tool today
is I think it the company name I looked at
up swad know and I'll put a link in the description.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is E Tech City. It's E T E K
C I T Y.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Now what syllable of that's supposed to have the emphasis.
I don't have a clue, so E tech City is
what we're gonna call it. It is an infrared laser
thermometer and it is wonderful. I use it on a
regular basis. It's it is extremely helpful when you are
(01:43):
doing any kind of baking that requires yeast or sour
dough or whatever where you have to have something at
a specific temperature. So I will use it to see
if my starter has warmed up to room to mature
before I feed it. I will also use it the
(02:07):
recipe I used, and I've talked about it before I
got from the log Farmhouse on Boon b O O
n E. She has a huge number of sourdough recipes
on her website, and I think she even has like a.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Sour dough book that she has put together. It looks
like it'd be a nice book.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
If I wanted to drop a hint for you know,
an occasion at some point.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It is one of the things with baking.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You have to do this when you bake with yeast,
or you have to do this when you bake with
sour dough. Is that the liquid you add to whatever
dough you're making has to be warm, which is between
a hundred and ten to one hundred and fifteen degrees.
And so when I am faking my potatoes our dough
(03:08):
bread that we use for sandwich bread, I actually put
the it costs for two cups of milk at the
appropriate temperature, and so I will pour two cups of
milk in a too cup measuring cup, and then I
will put that in the microwave.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now, my microwave, which is a not.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
A big to do microwave, it's pretty i'm gonna say
for a microwave, maybe kind of lame.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Had we had a microwave.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Lasted for probably twenty some years and then it died
and we had to get this one. And I think
we bought it more for the aesthetic of how to
look in the kitchen then whether or not it was
functional as a microwave. And we tend to only use
a microwave to just heat up stuff. So if we're
gonna do we really like our air fryer, rotessery, baking whatever,
(04:01):
that ten and one.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Gadget is that we have sitting on the counter anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So if I put the two cups of milk in
the microwave for two minutes. It will then when I
hit the little thermometer, it will register somewhere between one
ten and one fifteen.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So it's pretty consistent.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Now, one thing I have noticed that if, especially if
you are taking the temperature of something that you have
heated in the microwave. You know how microwave is bad about,
you know, like the outside.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The container that you put in there.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Will get hot before the the what you're heating up. Actually,
so actually, so what I will do is take the
I'll take it like a spoon or you know, plastic something,
and I will stir up my milk in my two
cup measuring and then I will take its temperature with
(05:03):
the little infrared thermometer.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What's really nice about it is all you have to
do is aim it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So it's really nice that you can take a temperature
like that. It would work for all kinds of other
things that needed a temperature. Now, if you're doing meat
or something like that that you're gonna need an internal temperature,
I would probably do a meat thermometer, and you can
get those as a digital too, But this one is nice.
I think if you were making candy or something like that,
(05:31):
this would work for that. So it's pretty handy to
be able to take this. It's taking the surface temperature
of something. But I use it all the time when
I'm doing the sour dough. But you can also use
it if you're doing anything with yeast. So if you
have something in the kitchen that needs to be a
(05:52):
specific temperature, this is a really handy gadget to get.
I also looked it up, as I said, on Amazon,
which of course is where I.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yet last night, and it's like sixteen dollars, so it
doesn't cost a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It seems to have a.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Huge number of reviews and it's about a I don't know,
four and a half or something, so it has good reviews,
and it is.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm trying to set my cruise control on my vehicle.
There we go. Okay. So it is a handy tool.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And that's what I've tried to do with this Tool
of the Week thing on Tuesdays, is you know, just
little things that I use a lot and are handy
to have around. I will say this, none of what
I do I have an affiliate relationship. Well, I don't
have an affiliate relationship with anybody. I did turn the
(07:02):
ads on my spreak your account, because that made kind
of a difference in how they whether or not they promoted,
and somebody watches it from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So that that did help. So I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think I've listened to it upon every once in
a while, and the ads are kind of random, so
I don't know exactly what they're trying to advertise.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It'll there's no telling. It'll come up different every time.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But this is a really handy device. You know, we've
had the candy thermometers, you know that had that you
put on the side of the pan when you're cooking candy,
or you could do that, but that's what I've used before.
But first of all, you have to wait till it
gets to a certain temperature. Well it's not that temperature,
(07:52):
and by the time you get it, you know all
that the thermometer going up and down, your temperature has
gone down.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, So that one's you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Know, just using the traditional thermometer with the mercury bulb
of candy or whatever thermometer is not really very it's
kind of frustrating. And the thing I like about this
one is literally you point at at whatever it is
you want to take the temperature of and pull the
little trigger device with your finger and whil aw you
(08:25):
you have the temperature. And I think it uses too
either double A or triple A batteries. It's not very big.
It's in your hand like a little gun. So I
am as I said, this is a tool. I use
it every time I'm baking something that requires a specific temperature,
and that's gonna be anything that you're doing with yeast
(08:49):
or sour doughs. So that's an important thing to know
to you. So that's our twol of the week, the
e Tech City for red Laser.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thermometer. So what else can we talk about today since
we're not to work yet.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, you know, there's always things going on in the world,
many of which we cannot, we don't have any control over.
I was listening to the Prepared Homestead this morning, and
so he was talking about all the things that are
happening at the federal level right now, of which there
(09:31):
are multitudes, and I thought, as he was saying all
of this, I thought, there's not a blessed thing I
can do about any of those, Okay, nothing. So what
I can do is I can make sure we are
as self sufficient as possible and as prepared as possible.
Those two go together, and that's all we can do.
(09:54):
There's not Now when it comes time to vote, I
can vote the way I think would be the best.
That's gonna be different for different people, probably the things
that that actually affect our lives the most, or the
more local, The more local the election, the more of
an effect it's gonna have on our lives. Federal can
(10:15):
have an effect on our lives as well. It kind
of depends. But there's not a other than vote. There's
not really much I can do about this. So that
part I'm not gonna worry about because I'm gonna watch.
I will pay attention, but I'm just gonna keep on
doing what I'm doing. Penball Preparedness had an interesting segment
(10:40):
the other day. He actually talked about well he he
and his wife lived in Nevada, in actually in Las Vegas,
and so they decided that they wanted to move to
a more rural setting because Las Vegas will be a
lot of things, but rural is not one of them.
And so by what he the whole point, and I've
(11:01):
sort of talked about this before myself.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Is that it's like, is this really the life for you?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Do you really want to do this? Because before you
up and sell and move and whatever, then you need
to put a lot of thought into how is this
going to work for us? And that is the trend,
I would say, especially at this point in time, there's
a big trend of that for young families, young couples
(11:28):
with children, and you know, they want to get their
kids out of the city. And I can't blame them.
I don't want to live in the city, but I
have never had lived in the city. There are things
that you have to realize that are very different. That's
what he was trying to point out. He's like, you
know where when we were in Las Vegas, the grocery
store was about five or ten minutes away. Said, well,
(11:49):
now it's more like, you know, thirty or forty five.
And you know, apparently they liked to bowl, so that
he said, you know, the bowling alleys like an hour away.
So and I think they're in a league or something anyway, Uh,
And that's a good point. You have to realize that
it's gonna take you longer to get places. And if
(12:10):
you you are someone in your family has medical issues,
then you have to you have to uh take into
consideration how far you may be for medical help.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
A few weeks ago, No, it wasn't a few weeks ago.
Time flies, you're in fun jim is when it was.
It was more than a few weeks. Sister fell in
the kitchen and cut her head and she was bleeding,
like you know, there was no tomorrow. I mean, you
(12:44):
know when anytime you have a cut on your head,
you're gonna bleed a lot. She's on a little bitty
tony does of blood thinner, so that didn't help. Uh,
So she had she had quite a mess.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now she was fine, she didn't break anything, she didn't
have a brain bleed.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
She's all right.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But she had to go to the hospital and have stitches.
And this is something I did not know until Nice
who had, you know, taken care of her father before
she was having to take care of her mother. If
you have somebody on blood in her and they fall
in at their head, you have to go to the
emergency room and you're gonna need to have a set
(13:24):
skanda see if there is a brain bleed. And sister's
done that before. It was a little one and shed
it did resolve itself. But that is a thing, so uh,
and that was a thing I didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Know, so that was important. But so she had to
go to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So Nice called the ambulance to come get her, which
they did, but they don't The whole point of this
is it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Takes a little while for the ambulance to get.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
From town, the closest town to which is not where
she would end up at the hospital, because they're gonna
take her onto a bigger town, a local to us,
smaller city, and you know, this is gonna have a
trauma center and that kind of stuff. Ours at the
closest town to me is more like a first aid station.
(14:16):
And so she did that. She called the ambulance. They
came and got her, took her on to the bigger town,
to the bigger hospital, while Nice proceeded to try to
clean up the kitchen because blood was everywhere, and Bubba
Dog and Sissy Dog were kind of having a meltdown
(14:39):
over all of the things that had happened. Bubba Dog
was as sister was. She was able to reach some
paper towels on the cabinet, so she got the paper
towns and was trying to stop the blood from flowing,
but she was steadily filling up paper towels, so then
she gets more well. He he was hauling them all
(15:00):
over the kitchen and treaddam so there was that mess.
Sizzy dog had one of her toys in her mouth
and she was over in the corner just circling because
so she was very stressed about this. So niece had
to deal with all of the drama that was going
on in the kitchen, and then she followed a sister
(15:23):
to the hospital, and I, you know, I was at work,
so I had to come from a different direction. But
that that hospital, which is if you're going to the hospital,
is the real hospital, is about an hour away from us.
And so that is one of the things that you
(15:43):
would have to realize if you decide to live in
the country, that you know, medical.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Stuff is not going to be close.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So if you need if something happens and you need help,
it's not gonna be immediate. So that brings a lot
of things to mine. First of all, as the prepper
folks say, you are your own first responder, and if
you're in the country, that is absolutely the case. So
there's something else to keep in mind where you're going
to work.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know, I'm working.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm very fortunate in that I work in a nearby town,
not the other one.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
This is a different one.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And it is probably it's just just under a thirty
minute drive.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's thirty minutes to work, thirty minutes back.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Now if you're in the city, that could be an
hour or whatever, because you you know, depending on what
kind of traffic you're having to deal with. I don't
have to deal with a lot of traffic. I just
it takes a little while to get there. It's kind
of on the other side town from me. So there's
lots of things to take in consideration. Is this an area,
this area that you're looking at, Is this an area
(16:54):
that has something that you can do for a living,
or is this or can you do remote work? And
if you can do remote work, what kind of internet
are you? Do you have internet connection? And that, because
that's very important. That's one of the kind of providential things.
Because we had not had a landline at our house
(17:16):
for years, because we've all had cell phones and there
really didn't seem to be any reason to keep a
landline because it was just a traditional landline. So I
had gotten rid of the landline a long time ago. Okay,
So in the fall of twenty nineteen, our phone company,
(17:39):
which is a co opt like our electrical.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Put a door knocker on our door.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And it said that they were laying fiber in our
area and if we wanted to get in on it,
they would lay it to our house for free, but
if we.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Didn't then later and decided later only.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Wanted the fiber, than we were gonna have excuse me,
have to pay for it. And so we were like,
I thought, well, it's kind of on the fence. Uh,
it was gonna be another bill, you know, adding to
the list of things that you know, we paid monthly.
It wasn't gonna break the bank, but it was one
(18:23):
more thing to pay. And I was like, do I
really want to do this? Do I not want to
do this? We up until this point had done.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Uh satellite TV.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now, when we first moved into the house, I'm not
a big TV watcher, but sister is. So she had
now realized we've been in the house thirty years. So
she thirty years ago, she's a little bit more spry
than she is now. She crawled up into the attic
and rigged up an antenna in the attic and had
(19:00):
so there's an antenna up in the attic, died up
with ropes and so she did that so she ca
have a TV antenna. Well then eventually and you know,
with a TV antenna, we got what we got when
I was a kid, uh, basically about three channels. Well eventually, Uh,
it got to the point in the nineties is when
all the reality TV shows started, Survivor and all that stuff,
(19:24):
and there literally was in which we cannot abide and
so literally there was nothing. Oh there was nothing that
you could watch. And so we broke down and went
to to satellite at that point, so we had a
satellite dish and all that kind of stuff. And so
once I got the I went ahead and decided to
(19:44):
go ahead and get the fiber and then at that
point we could do streaming and so that's what we
do now. And so that's a big help. But the
biggest thing that was a was uh unbeknownst to us
and we uh. Before she retired, she worked in the
same building as mean as she was in a different
(20:04):
department obviously, but she did work in the same buildings.
So in March of twenty and twenty when we all
had to go home to work, we'd have been kind
of up a creek if we had not had the fiber,
because that gave us high speed internet wouldn't up until then,
(20:25):
we'd never had it. So that's kind of an important
thing because if you do have to work from home,
you need internet connection to do that. Most people do anyway,
So that's something you have taken consideration. What kind of
electrical service do you have? What kind of water are
(20:48):
you going to have? Now? You know, because I have
always lived here, and this was a place, a home place.
There's been a house, the house that what that I
grew up in, that my.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Niece lives in.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Now that house is older than my house that I
had moved. So there's that it had been there a
very long time, since the eighteen hundreds, probably late eighteen hundreds,
I'm thinking, Uh so there was already a well, and
now since then I had to have another one drill.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But so that's the third well on that property.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But so you know that kind of you know, electrical
service was already there.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well was already there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
There is community water that comes there's a pipe that
goes across the front yard. So now at one point
in time when I thought, you know, when my well
was had caped, my old well had caved in, and
I was going to have to figure out what to
do about a well. I did check on community Water
and at that point in time there was a waiting list,
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and so I don't know if that's still the.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Case or not, but you know, that was an issue.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So those are the kinds of things that you have
to look for when you are thinking about moving to
the country. It's not always convenient, you know. You Now,
when I was little, we lived in we we lived
farther out in the country, but we actually lived closer
to other people. We were not The houses weren't so
(22:26):
spread out. They were pretty close together, at least within
walking distance. So it was like a little neighborhood out
in the country. And so you know, as I said,
being a baby boomer, and everybody had kids, so there
were a lot of kids in that little area, and
so you know, we got outside and we played whatever.
We moved over here to where I live now, that
was not the case. There really weren't any other kids around,
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So you know, it's kind of something you have to
think about, what's it gonna be like to take your
kids to things they're in. You know, it's it's the time,
So if you're thinking about moving to the country, those
are things to keep in mind. Okay, I have arrived
at work and again there's a lot to do today.
I will talk to you soon
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is am I. Today's the twenty six of August.
Temperature seventy three, not quite what it was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
But it's still nice outside.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So it did get up to ninety seven yesterday, but
that's kind of Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It started out at sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So there's a light at the end of the tunnel
at this point for the summertime, so I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We'll have nineties all the way through September.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But we're gonna this is not gonna be like the
last two years with the El Nino, where the law
Nina or whatever it was we were having that caused
us to have high nineties all the way into October.
So this is gonna, as they say, a normal year.
The problem is, and it's hadn't been normal and so
(00:52):
long we're not really sure what a normal summer looks like.
It's Tuesday, so Tuesday is the tubl of the week.
So what tool do we have today? Our tool today
is I think it the company name I looked at
up swad know and I'll put a link in the description.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is E Tech City. It's E T E K
C I T Y.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Now what syllable of that's supposed to have the emphasis.
I don't have a clue, so E tech City is
what we're gonna call it. It is an infrared laser
thermometer and it is wonderful. I use it on a
regular basis. It's it is extremely helpful when you are
(01:43):
doing any kind of baking that requires yeast or sour
dough or whatever where you have to have something at
a specific temperature. So I will use it to see
if my starter has warmed up to room to mature
before I feed it. I will also use it the
(02:07):
recipe I used, and I've talked about it before I
got from the log Farmhouse on Boon b O O
n E. She has a huge number of sourdough recipes
on her website, and I think she even has like a.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Sour dough book that she has put together. It looks
like it'd be a nice book.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
If I wanted to drop a hint for you know,
an occasion at some point.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It is one of the things with baking.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You have to do this when you bake with yeast,
or you have to do this when you bake with
sour dough. Is that the liquid you add to whatever
dough you're making has to be warm, which is between
a hundred and ten to one hundred and fifteen degrees.
And so when I am faking my potatoes our dough
(03:08):
bread that we use for sandwich bread, I actually put
the it costs for two cups of milk at the
appropriate temperature, and so I will pour two cups of
milk in a too cup measuring cup, and then I
will put that in the microwave.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now, my microwave, which is a not.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
A big to do microwave, it's pretty i'm gonna say
for a microwave, maybe kind of lame.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Had we had a microwave.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Lasted for probably twenty some years and then it died
and we had to get this one. And I think
we bought it more for the aesthetic of how to
look in the kitchen then whether or not it was
functional as a microwave. And we tend to only use
a microwave to just heat up stuff. So if we're
gonna do we really like our air fryer, rotessery, baking whatever,
(04:01):
that ten and one.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Gadget is that we have sitting on the counter anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So if I put the two cups of milk in
the microwave for two minutes. It will then when I
hit the little thermometer, it will register somewhere between one
ten and one fifteen.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So it's pretty consistent.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Now, one thing I have noticed that if, especially if
you are taking the temperature of something that you have
heated in the microwave. You know how microwave is bad about,
you know, like the outside.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The container that you put in there.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Will get hot before the the what you're heating up. Actually,
so actually, so what I will do is take the
I'll take it like a spoon or you know, plastic something,
and I will stir up my milk in my two
cup measuring and then I will take its temperature with
(05:03):
the little infrared thermometer.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What's really nice about it is all you have to
do is aim it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So it's really nice that you can take a temperature
like that. It would work for all kinds of other
things that needed a temperature. Now, if you're doing meat
or something like that that you're gonna need an internal temperature,
I would probably do a meat thermometer, and you can
get those as a digital too, But this one is nice.
I think if you were making candy or something like that,
(05:31):
this would work for that. So it's pretty handy to
be able to take this. It's taking the surface temperature
of something. But I use it all the time when
I'm doing the sour dough. But you can also use
it if you're doing anything with yeast. So if you
have something in the kitchen that needs to be a
(05:52):
specific temperature, this is a really handy gadget to get.
I also looked it up, as I said, on Amazon,
which of course is where I.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yet last night, and it's like sixteen dollars, so it
doesn't cost a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It seems to have a.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Huge number of reviews and it's about a I don't know,
four and a half or something, so it has good reviews,
and it is.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm trying to set my cruise control on my vehicle.
There we go. Okay. So it is a handy tool.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And that's what I've tried to do with this Tool
of the Week thing on Tuesdays, is you know, just
little things that I use a lot and are handy
to have around. I will say this, none of what
I do I have an affiliate relationship. Well, I don't
have an affiliate relationship with anybody. I did turn the
(07:02):
ads on my spreak your account, because that made kind
of a difference in how they whether or not they promoted,
and somebody watches it from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So that that did help. So I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think I've listened to it upon every once in
a while, and the ads are kind of random, so
I don't know exactly what they're trying to advertise.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It'll there's no telling. It'll come up different every time.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But this is a really handy device. You know, we've
had the candy thermometers, you know that had that you
put on the side of the pan when you're cooking candy,
or you could do that, but that's what I've used before.
But first of all, you have to wait till it
gets to a certain temperature. Well it's not that temperature,
(07:52):
and by the time you get it, you know all
that the thermometer going up and down, your temperature has
gone down.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, So that one's you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Know, just using the traditional thermometer with the mercury bulb
of candy or whatever thermometer is not really very it's
kind of frustrating. And the thing I like about this
one is literally you point at at whatever it is
you want to take the temperature of and pull the
little trigger device with your finger and whil aw you
(08:25):
you have the temperature. And I think it uses too
either double A or triple A batteries. It's not very big.
It's in your hand like a little gun. So I
am as I said, this is a tool. I use
it every time I'm baking something that requires a specific temperature,
and that's gonna be anything that you're doing with yeast
(08:49):
or sour doughs. So that's an important thing to know
to you. So that's our twol of the week, the
e Tech City for red Laser.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thermometer. So what else can we talk about today since
we're not to work yet.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, you know, there's always things going on in the world,
many of which we cannot, we don't have any control over.
I was listening to the Prepared Homestead this morning, and
so he was talking about all the things that are
happening at the federal level right now, of which there
(09:31):
are multitudes, and I thought, as he was saying all
of this, I thought, there's not a blessed thing I
can do about any of those, Okay, nothing. So what
I can do is I can make sure we are
as self sufficient as possible and as prepared as possible.
Those two go together, and that's all we can do.
(09:54):
There's not Now when it comes time to vote, I
can vote the way I think would be the best.
That's gonna be different for different people, probably the things
that that actually affect our lives the most, or the
more local, The more local the election, the more of
an effect it's gonna have on our lives. Federal can
(10:15):
have an effect on our lives as well. It kind
of depends. But there's not a other than vote. There's
not really much I can do about this. So that
part I'm not gonna worry about because I'm gonna watch.
I will pay attention, but I'm just gonna keep on
doing what I'm doing. Penball Preparedness had an interesting segment
(10:40):
the other day. He actually talked about well he he
and his wife lived in Nevada, in actually in Las Vegas,
and so they decided that they wanted to move to
a more rural setting because Las Vegas will be a
lot of things, but rural is not one of them.
And so by what he the whole point, and I've
(11:01):
sort of talked about this before myself.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Is that it's like, is this really the life for you?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Do you really want to do this? Because before you
up and sell and move and whatever, then you need
to put a lot of thought into how is this
going to work for us? And that is the trend,
I would say, especially at this point in time, there's
a big trend of that for young families, young couples
(11:28):
with children, and you know, they want to get their
kids out of the city. And I can't blame them.
I don't want to live in the city, but I
have never had lived in the city. There are things
that you have to realize that are very different. That's
what he was trying to point out. He's like, you
know where when we were in Las Vegas, the grocery
store was about five or ten minutes away. Said, well,
(11:49):
now it's more like, you know, thirty or forty five.
And you know, apparently they liked to bowl, so that
he said, you know, the bowling alleys like an hour away.
So and I think they're in a league or something anyway, Uh,
And that's a good point. You have to realize that
it's gonna take you longer to get places. And if
(12:10):
you you are someone in your family has medical issues,
then you have to you have to uh take into
consideration how far you may be for medical help.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
A few weeks ago, No, it wasn't a few weeks ago.
Time flies, you're in fun jim is when it was.
It was more than a few weeks. Sister fell in
the kitchen and cut her head and she was bleeding,
like you know, there was no tomorrow. I mean, you
(12:44):
know when anytime you have a cut on your head,
you're gonna bleed a lot. She's on a little bitty
tony does of blood thinner, so that didn't help. Uh,
So she had she had quite a mess.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now she was fine, she didn't break anything, she didn't
have a brain bleed.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
She's all right.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But she had to go to the hospital and have stitches.
And this is something I did not know until Nice
who had, you know, taken care of her father before
she was having to take care of her mother. If
you have somebody on blood in her and they fall
in at their head, you have to go to the
emergency room and you're gonna need to have a set
(13:24):
skanda see if there is a brain bleed. And sister's
done that before. It was a little one and shed
it did resolve itself. But that is a thing, so uh,
and that was a thing I didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Know, so that was important. But so she had to
go to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So Nice called the ambulance to come get her, which
they did, but they don't The whole point of this
is it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Takes a little while for the ambulance to get.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
From town, the closest town to which is not where
she would end up at the hospital, because they're gonna
take her onto a bigger town, a local to us,
smaller city, and you know, this is gonna have a
trauma center and that kind of stuff. Ours at the
closest town to me is more like a first aid station.
(14:16):
And so she did that. She called the ambulance. They
came and got her, took her on to the bigger town,
to the bigger hospital, while Nice proceeded to try to
clean up the kitchen because blood was everywhere, and Bubba
Dog and Sissy Dog were kind of having a meltdown
(14:39):
over all of the things that had happened. Bubba Dog
was as sister was. She was able to reach some
paper towels on the cabinet, so she got the paper
towns and was trying to stop the blood from flowing,
but she was steadily filling up paper towels, so then
she gets more well. He he was hauling them all
(15:00):
over the kitchen and treaddam so there was that mess.
Sizzy dog had one of her toys in her mouth
and she was over in the corner just circling because
so she was very stressed about this. So niece had
to deal with all of the drama that was going
on in the kitchen, and then she followed a sister
(15:23):
to the hospital, and I, you know, I was at work,
so I had to come from a different direction. But
that that hospital, which is if you're going to the hospital,
is the real hospital, is about an hour away from us.
And so that is one of the things that you
(15:43):
would have to realize if you decide to live in
the country, that you know, medical.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Stuff is not going to be close.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So if you need if something happens and you need help,
it's not gonna be immediate. So that brings a lot
of things to mine. First of all, as the prepper
folks say, you are your own first responder, and if
you're in the country, that is absolutely the case. So
there's something else to keep in mind where you're going
to work.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know, I'm working.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm very fortunate in that I work in a nearby town,
not the other one.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
This is a different one.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And it is probably it's just just under a thirty
minute drive.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's thirty minutes to work, thirty minutes back.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Now if you're in the city, that could be an
hour or whatever, because you you know, depending on what
kind of traffic you're having to deal with. I don't
have to deal with a lot of traffic. I just
it takes a little while to get there. It's kind
of on the other side town from me. So there's
lots of things to take in consideration. Is this an area,
this area that you're looking at, Is this an area
(16:54):
that has something that you can do for a living,
or is this or can you do remote work? And
if you can do remote work, what kind of internet
are you? Do you have internet connection? And that, because
that's very important. That's one of the kind of providential things.
Because we had not had a landline at our house
(17:16):
for years, because we've all had cell phones and there
really didn't seem to be any reason to keep a
landline because it was just a traditional landline. So I
had gotten rid of the landline a long time ago. Okay,
So in the fall of twenty nineteen, our phone company,
(17:39):
which is a co opt like our electrical.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Put a door knocker on our door.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And it said that they were laying fiber in our
area and if we wanted to get in on it,
they would lay it to our house for free, but
if we.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Didn't then later and decided later only.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Wanted the fiber, than we were gonna have excuse me,
have to pay for it. And so we were like,
I thought, well, it's kind of on the fence. Uh,
it was gonna be another bill, you know, adding to
the list of things that you know, we paid monthly.
It wasn't gonna break the bank, but it was one
(18:23):
more thing to pay. And I was like, do I
really want to do this? Do I not want to
do this? We up until this point had done.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Uh satellite TV.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now, when we first moved into the house, I'm not
a big TV watcher, but sister is. So she had
now realized we've been in the house thirty years. So
she thirty years ago, she's a little bit more spry
than she is now. She crawled up into the attic
and rigged up an antenna in the attic and had
(19:00):
so there's an antenna up in the attic, died up
with ropes and so she did that so she ca
have a TV antenna. Well then eventually and you know,
with a TV antenna, we got what we got when
I was a kid, uh, basically about three channels. Well eventually, Uh,
it got to the point in the nineties is when
all the reality TV shows started, Survivor and all that stuff,
(19:24):
and there literally was in which we cannot abide and
so literally there was nothing. Oh there was nothing that
you could watch. And so we broke down and went
to to satellite at that point, so we had a
satellite dish and all that kind of stuff. And so
once I got the I went ahead and decided to
(19:44):
go ahead and get the fiber and then at that
point we could do streaming and so that's what we
do now. And so that's a big help. But the
biggest thing that was a was uh unbeknownst to us
and we uh. Before she retired, she worked in the
same building as mean as she was in a different
(20:04):
department obviously, but she did work in the same buildings.
So in March of twenty and twenty when we all
had to go home to work, we'd have been kind
of up a creek if we had not had the fiber,
because that gave us high speed internet wouldn't up until then,
(20:25):
we'd never had it. So that's kind of an important
thing because if you do have to work from home,
you need internet connection to do that. Most people do anyway,
So that's something you have taken consideration. What kind of
electrical service do you have? What kind of water are
(20:48):
you going to have? Now? You know, because I have
always lived here, and this was a place, a home place.
There's been a house, the house that what that I
grew up in, that my.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Niece lives in.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Now that house is older than my house that I
had moved. So there's that it had been there a
very long time, since the eighteen hundreds, probably late eighteen hundreds,
I'm thinking, Uh so there was already a well, and
now since then I had to have another one drill.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But so that's the third well on that property.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But so you know that kind of you know, electrical
service was already there.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well was already there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
There is community water that comes there's a pipe that
goes across the front yard. So now at one point
in time when I thought, you know, when my well
was had caped, my old well had caved in, and
I was going to have to figure out what to
do about a well. I did check on community Water
and at that point in time there was a waiting list,
(21:59):
and so I don't know if that's still the.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Case or not, but you know, that was an issue.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So those are the kinds of things that you have
to look for when you are thinking about moving to
the country. It's not always convenient, you know. You Now,
when I was little, we lived in we we lived
farther out in the country, but we actually lived closer
to other people. We were not The houses weren't so
(22:26):
spread out. They were pretty close together, at least within
walking distance. So it was like a little neighborhood out
in the country. And so you know, as I said,
being a baby boomer, and everybody had kids, so there
were a lot of kids in that little area, and
so you know, we got outside and we played whatever.
We moved over here to where I live now, that
was not the case. There really weren't any other kids around,
(22:48):
So you know, it's kind of something you have to
think about, what's it gonna be like to take your
kids to things they're in. You know, it's it's the time,
So if you're thinking about moving to the country, those
are things to keep in mind. Okay, I have arrived
at work and again there's a lot to do today.
I will talk to you soon
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