May 21, 2025 • 23 mins
It’s almost summer and we decided it is the perfect time to remind ourselves what makes us smile and hopefully does the same for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome to another Curveball production outside of the Curveball production studios.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Today, I would say this would be the pool Side edition.
A little early in the season, but you're getting after it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We're getting the pool started. That is not the sound
of a babbling brook. If you could hear that, that
would actually be.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
There would be Minnetonka City water.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yes, going into the pool. We're almost to the point
where it's full. And now it's just a matter of
getting that blasted heater going.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's always something it is. There's a chippy right there.
Decided to come peek out at us.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have critters, we have birds, and it's just a
gorgeous night. We said, you know what, let's do this outside.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yep, great idea.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I had an interesting day today. I had to
get some stuff done, get oil changed in my vehicle.
Decided I was going to stop by to get the
my drops, my eye drops at target case. For those
of you who don't know, I'm old. Glaucoma is now
part of my deal. I drops some other regiment every
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day and it's a beautiful thing. So I had to
go pick up some I drops. I said I was
gonna do some shopping at Target, pick up some stuff
for a sheet pan dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
If anybody is interested the eye pressure test that your
eye doctor continues to give you. Yes, you passed that
test swimmingly.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, it's fine, flying colors flying. Well, I'm color blind.
So no, that didn't work. But so we're so I'm
doing I'm getting my stuff done. And oh that had
a great deal on toilet paper. But if you bought
toilet paper and you bought Bounty paper towel rolls, and
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you bought some uh some Kleenics, you get like a
ten dollars gift card. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
In case you're wondering, we're not sponsored by Target, but
we're sponsor.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We are. We are. So I was able to get
that ten dollars card by buying stuff that I really
didn't need. I mean, I'll you down the road, I will.
But so they got me there. But that was all right. Anyway,
long story short, I'm at Target. I'm having a great time.
I'm doing getting my shopping done as you normally do
it Target, you buy extra stuff because you just you're
just there. And then I went and to go to
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check out, and it reminded me as I was checking
out that I had read somewhere. Target is getting rid
of their self service lanes. The and it's not the
not the ten items or less lanes, but just the
regular self service lines. Know where you go to Target
and you'll roll in there, you'll have like four or
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five things to get and you want to just take
care of it yourself, and you'll have the person there
that has a big cart full.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, yeah, they didn't have any They don't have signs
saying that it's an express lane. No, I mean depending
on how long the other lines. Yeah, correct, And so
they're getting rid of that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, from what I read is Target did their own
research and they decided that that it would be cheaper
and just more efficient if they were to have more
checkout lanes that were actually manned or womaned personed if
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you will, okay, by cashiers, because they would it would
just go through faster. They've done their research, their due diligence,
and decided that these self service lanes were just too
slow people not knowing how to scan their own items.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, I call BS and b s as an s
because I read an article that said the real reason
that Target's getting rid of these things is because of
loss theft. Retailers are finding out that too many people
are able to steal too much stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I believe that that is really at the root of
it as well. Yeah, I believe it's the that people
were going through with their carts of stuff and they might,
you know, not scan a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Right, Well, there you go. You think about how much
they're paying the average cashier and how much somebody could
probably steal walking out of there. It probably it probably
is a significant offset.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I would I would imagine that it would be. Again.
Now they're thing and the efficiency thing. I've seen some
people in these lanes trying to scan their own stuff
and do their own things. Have their kids.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh, you know, I'm all about getting the kids involved.
And maybe I'm turning into a curmudgeonly older woman. I
don't know. But when I'm there and I'm in a
hurry and a young mom I'm assuming she's young, has
a young kid, and the kid is doing the scanning
and it's taking a really long time. I appreciate what
you're doing. I like the life lesson there. I like
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getting kids involved, but not during.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Rush hour read the room.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, you go during the middle of the day when
most of the population is working. It's a great time
to teach your kids these lessons.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, you don't want the kid putting a pack of
three russet potatoes on the scanner and trying to figure
out how to find that russet potato by going to
the produce and then hitting the potato and then going
backing the right one up.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I stood behind plenty of dads that don't know how
to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, not to be sexist here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But it's trust me, I've had my issues.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I mean it could be because I had a bright,
shining high school career as a cashier at the Minard's
company or corporation. I don't know if they're a company,
that must be a.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Corporation going corporation.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, you know what else though, You know, it's super
exciting when you walk up and you see that there
is no one in line at the self checkout, and
like all the lights are green and you got your
seven items or whatever, maybe some bananas because you're feeling
like making banana bread because lord knows, you wouldn't just
eat it. Aren't things correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Those are those are the times where again, you know,
people always thinking you you you run into a bit
of a luck. They always say, I'll better go to
the casino. Yes, when you run into the checkout line,
nothing going on.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I feel like we need to correct the dog who's
starting to dig a hole in your yard.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's all right, cheese. You after something? Ah, yeah, I'm
not sure what that is. Probably a mole. Probably found
a mole in the hole and went down there and.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Said sorry for that little correction. I did turn my
mic off. Okay, maybe it didn't pick it up.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Probably picked up on mine most likely anyway. But uh,
but no, there's a lot of those little things out
there that I don't know if it's because you get
older and you're able to find joy and excitement out
of the mundane.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Like, for instance, if you're at Target and you find
a really good produce, I can you find mangos that
are nice and ripe? And we get really excited.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And you're going, this is this they're on sale?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh my, I mean right, mango that's on sale. Hell's bells.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Those are the things where you start making phone calls.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And does anyone need any mango?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
The It reminds me of this of a story i'd
heard on the on the radio. The uh on one
of my many walks, one of the things that I
find true enjoyment went.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
From boy, that's a shift when you're a kid, right,
like when you're a kid, No kids want to go
on a walk. I mean, unless there's like a destination
in mind. Kids don't walk for the sake of walking
at the end of it. Yeah, I mean, I guess
there's some fitness, but I mean, really we do it
for like just enjoyment and mental health and whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
If our deer are out there.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, our little critter friends.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So anyway, so I'm listening to the radio and uh, okay,
not the radio, my ear my air pods, online streaming
radio station? Is that better?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It is? Now I'm going to interrupt you because when
you were a kid, one of the highlights, because we
mostly listened to the radio, was if you tuned into
your favorite radio station and they were playing your favorite song,
and if you could somehow hit the record button on
your cassette player so you could have your own copy
of said song. That was living your best life. But
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now you know, we just have streaming services and can
listen to it on repeat, you know, on a road
trip to drive somebody crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, or listen to the first ten seconds of it
and then just say, okay, next song as you're driving
down the road.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So back to my story. So this this guy was
just talking about how he him and his wife they
have a chicken farm type thing. They live in town,
but they have their own chickens, okay. And the one
of the big things was they have an incubator and
the incubator has to get to have evidently the perfect
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humidity for the chicks to grow. Okay, And the gentleman
evidently got a text from his wife sometimes during the
day saying the humidity is now at seventy eight percent.
I have never been more turned on. And it made
me chuckle because there are so many things while not
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to the point of being turned on pretty dang close.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't know when you tell me that you get
wordle intwo oh, that's pretty come on.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Come on, whirl in two. That's the muzz. We will
just stop for the rest.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Of the day, right, I mean, you've already won, But there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Are just so many and it just started I started
thinking about just the little things that that I find
joy entertainment from now and I look at them just
as as a little instance and go, holy crap, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I mean, well, it's shocking if you really think about it,
or if what happens to me is my kids will
point out like, wow, you're going to bed so early,
you're so happy, Or if we don't have any plans
for a weekend, it's like what do we doing this weekend?
And I've actually started saying things like, look, I'm not
Julie the Cruz director. You're in your twenties, like, seriously
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figure it out. But no, I mean, and I don't
get me wrong, I love spending time with the kids,
But the idea of having a weekend with zero commitments, correct,
that is exciting.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Never in that, of course, then you always find your
own commitments, but they're not commitments, they're just things that
you do well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's kind of like the difference between having to do
something and feeling inspired to do something on a weekend.
So you can look at your weekend and be like,
I have zero commitments, right, And then you happen to
be puttering in the yard. You know, you pick up
I don't know, you bend over and you decide to
pick a weed, and next thing you know, you're like
weeding your yard or weeding a garden. But it feels
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good because it was your idea. Nobody told you you
had to do it, it wasn't scheduled, It's truly what
you wanted to do in the moment. And I think
kids are that way, like they just want to be
left to do what they want to do, when they
want to do. But as you get to what they
don't understand is, as you get to be an adult,
there aren't just many people telling you what to do,
but there's obligations and responsibilities that direct.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
All of that, and they're just starting to find those now.
And it's just like I don't want to I don't
want to have to go to work because I want
to go do this.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, it was funny for as much as Lauren is
excited about being an adult and she's going to school
full time and she's got a big girl job working
full time, and she's she's kicking butt right now. We're
proud of all of our kids, but you know, she's
busy telling us what an adult she is. Meanwhile, you
know she lives at home, she eats for free. She
her car is free, her gas is free her and
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she has zero responsibilities, right. And her a doctor bill
came because she had some concus of the bancas here
a month or so ago and went to urgent care. Well,
it was almost five hundred dollars for a little trip
to urgent care. And she said to me over dinner
that night, She's like, man, I was looking at the bill, going,
I'm really glad I'm not like an adult adult because
you dead are paying that, right, And I'm like, yeah,
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we're still covering your medical bills.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yes, yes, there were there. We were not exactly kicking
the kids out, No, we're pushing them out a little bit,
but the door still open.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We're just actually we're not even doing that. We're just
we're shining light or awareness to the types of adult
responsibilities that come along, like medical bills that I don't
know about you, but my parents aren't paying mine, how
about you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The no, no good news.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is neither of us really ever go to the doctor.
Knock on winds. So that's one way of avoiding that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Correct, uh. But you had brought up doing some yard work,
and one of the things that that I've I think
I'm probably as I don't know if it's bad at
it or I find a lot of enjoyment in the
before and after. I will take a picture if I
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have to do some weeding or anything in the yard,
I will take it before picture, and then i'll take
it after.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Picture, kind of like if I clean my closet, ye.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And then I'll send those because it's like, look at
look at what I did there. Now. Occasionally I'll take
the after picture and Renee, I'll look at it, go
so what am I looking at here? Did you do anything?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Well, not entirely, because well you're half assed helpers.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Correct, so we don't. Really that's a bad example. But
uh but that's the again, those little things that you
just go, wait a minute, I'm going to because I'm
going to do this right now, but before I started,
got to take it before picture, ye, to show everybody
that I actually accomplished something today.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You know what else is kind of cool is again
but it's your idea. But when something unfortunately goes wrong
around the house and you're not quite sure how to
fix it, maybe this applies to me more than you,
and I think I really don't want to. I don't
want to pay somebody to do this, and I don't
really have the skill set, but I figure out how
to do it on my own without hassling a professional
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or my dad or you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So it's like, I remember one time I put off
fixing a toilet like it leaked, not leaked leaked, but
it ran had a tiny I think everybody can relate,
but most people wouldn't let their toilet run for three months, okay,
because that's really not a good use of your money
or our natural resources. Having said that, good old YouTube
comes to the rescue. I fixed the toilet in like
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ten minutes, and I kind of was ashamed of myself
for how long I let it go because it really
was an easy solution. But I was walking on clouds
for like, I took pictures of my toilet I think
I did actually posted on Facebook. I was so proud
of myself for fixing my own toilet.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And that's just one of the I mean, everybody talks
about AI and how AI is going to be taking
all these jobs from people. YouTube's been taking jobs from
handyman for years now.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
True. I mean, I think all the work you did
in my old car, yes, but you didn't know how
to do it to the rescue.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I my dryer died a month ago, and I had
no idea there was an error code, had no idea
what to do. I was about to call up somebody
to come either get a service or buy a new one,
because that's what I do. If it's broken, I'd probably
just buy a new one. But I said, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm going to google this. And I googled it and
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up comes a YouTube video and I watched it and
I said, well, that looks kind of right, and I
watched another YouTube they did the exact same thing as
the first YouTube video. I'm thinking to myself, maybe this
is how you get it done right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And you know, our parents are listening to this podcast, going, yeah,
that's the way it used to be in the world.
If something was broke, you figured out how to fix it.
You didn't just buy a new one.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But you would either figure out how to fix it,
or you'd find somebody who knew how to fix it,
somebody down in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right because the Encyclopedia Britannica I didn't have a lot
of no two instructions for fixing things.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But yeah, but youtubees made it so that. I mean,
you can pretty much find anything.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know what you're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I was just thinking about it because it happened today
trash Day. You get so excited on Tuesday mornings. Deses
is alarm for five am on trash Day because he's
got to get it out there. Now, they don't typically
come until like seven thirty eight o'clock, but lord knows
his trash is going to be at the into the
driveway by five am.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I don't. I live on a rather busier type
of a street, so I don't like to put the
garbage out that night right and leave it overnight.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
In case it's windy.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, so I'll go ahead and put it out on
the border. But yes, it is. There's something about it's
not so much hauling the trash down but bringing that
empty trash back up. It's just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's I'm tried hauling up the empty Cansas morning. Well,
well check that off the list of things to do
today exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And I think part of it has to do with
because I'm kind of starting to get rid of stuff.
I'm decluttering and so I'll find something in the in
the house. I'll be like, yeah, let's just get rid
of that. I'll throw it away, and it's not really
gone until trash day.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Or maybe even along those lines, you know, making it
to the leaf drop or the compost site on the
weekends they have it open and getting everything in just
in the nick of time, just unloading a bunch of refuse.
I mean, I think we get pretty we get excited
about finding other people's trash and making it our treasure
at this age. Unfortunately, like case in point, my dad
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has what does he have? Four or five snowblowers right
because he knows people that are getting rid of snowblowers.
He's like, yeah, I'll take it, and he'll buy like
a two dollars part and spend you know, thirty minutes
to an hour, and next thing you know, he's got
a perfectly functioning He also has like four lawnmowers. That's
just at home. But wait, there's more. We have five
lawnmowers up at the cabin. I believe I could be
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I don't know, it changes. And there's a small engine
repair guy by my house who always has the Toro
mowers out in front that he that he fixes and
I like, try to keep my dad away from it,
or we will have ten lawnmowers at the cabin.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And and it is funny. You look in his garage
and there's just a line of snowblowers.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It looks like he's a dealer.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Right, And you're thinking, okay, does he use all those?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
No, he uses a couple, well different you know, different
types of snow Oh hey, I can't complain. His next
door neighbor was getting rid of a snowblower and the
guy was like, yeah, it's a piece of junk, doesn't work.
My dad's like, what are you gonna do with it?
He's like putting it out for the trash. That's why
it's down here. My dad's like, would you mind if
I take it? It was like a fifty cent part
and it's worked for me for five years. I'm not
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happy about that.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Do I tell him about the lawnmower I have in
my shed that I've had in my shed for about
ten years.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We're going to keep that on the down lock got it?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So we're not mentioning the uh, we're not mentioning that. Okay,
I will not, but yeah, I mean, okay, we've already
talked yardwork. But for me, that's one of the big things.
Is I just enjoy I get I get great joy
in the fall hauling leaves out.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
They're just spending the afternoon outside raking and blowing and
listening to a little fall baseball.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And it's yeah, those things. Oh, speaking of that, we
have a side notes. We will have two morning football
games this year. Oh that's right, are thinking to back
in Europe? Yea, So we'll have our morning tea and
crumpets out on the deck watching football. Awesome at eight
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eight o'clock in the morning. Anyway, that was just an aside.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Speaking of morning, we're missing a big one. How excited
were we to get new pillows that actually were comfortable?
That was a big deal. Having good betting as an
adult is a big deal. I mean, it doesn't even
necessarily have to be expensive. But for instance, some sheets
are a little to knit for my liking, or you know,
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pillows are I don't know, they can't.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's fifty to thread count. I have no idea if
that's just Jerseys, so I'd like stuck.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
No. But really, we were pretty excited about our new
Costco pills because if Costco doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Of course because we're going around Costco, because we went
there to get coffee probably and coffee and beef sticks
and probably that block of hobbin. If you have not
ever had the hobby narrow cheddar cheese from Costco comes
at a big brick. It is phenomenal, a baro, a banarow,
So we win forget those and of course because you're
at Costco. I got like a pair of pants, probably
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pair of shorts, and we got a couple of pillows.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's true because and they're awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So I guess Target is not. But Costco is kind
of doing the same thing. They were cutting down on
people coming through the self service as well. I mean
they're there, they're on you like like a hawk just
watching yep. Because again it's people. People are going to
take advantage of stuff when they can take advantage of it.
There's no doubt.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
One thing I was gonna mention, but it didn't really
come up. And I'm rather disappointed because the sun is
quite set at this point and it's getting dark. But
it's pre mosquito season. There's something that we really appreciate
being outside before mosquito season.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Love it. It's it's it's a glorious time. And of
course I'll have to do some spraying in the backyard anyway,
because I want my mosquito season for free mosquitoes, the
entire season. Right.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, I actually had my phone ready with the Merlin
app open, because when we first started recording, the birds
were insane, and so I thought, at some point we're
gonna have to talk about how much I enjoy birds
now that I'm older, that I really hated birds when
I was younger, and here we are, but now I'll
quiet it down because I suppose they're going to sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well, it is that time. So we really didn't talk
about much of anything on this particular podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Speaking of skeeters, you got one on the back of
your head.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh jeez, All right with that, then, I think it's
okay that the mosquitos in the back of my head
because I have the uh swirl of Willis or something.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
In the rain where your brain rerotes blood plus.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Sucked out all the blood from one side of my
brain would come around to.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Nice clap back to last week's episode.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Keep on trying, I do what I can.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You know, one thing I would say is if people
have things that we haven't covered, because it's quite possible
people are finding joy and everyday things that we're missing.
They should definitely should just speak.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You chuckle and you think to yourself, well that's kind
of weird, but it makes me chuckle.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Something else that we've never really done on this podcast
is we've never encouraged people to like and follow the
podcast or share with friends, and I think that in
twenty twenty five, in May of twenty twenty five, it's time.
So you've never asked for people to give us ratings
or to share the podcast with people that you know
and think would get a chuckle out of our banter,
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then now's a great time to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Like subscribe, what else do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Follow fails?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And keep in mind that we are going to eventually
be on the whole YouTube thing as right.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I know, I know eventually, And this has been a
another curve all production
Welcome to another Curveball production outside of the Curveball production studios.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Today, I would say this would be the pool Side edition.
A little early in the season, but you're getting after it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We're getting the pool started. That is not the sound
of a babbling brook. If you could hear that, that
would actually be.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
There would be Minnetonka City water.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yes, going into the pool. We're almost to the point
where it's full. And now it's just a matter of
getting that blasted heater going.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's always something it is. There's a chippy right there.
Decided to come peek out at us.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have critters, we have birds, and it's just a
gorgeous night. We said, you know what, let's do this outside.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yep, great idea.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I had an interesting day today. I had to
get some stuff done, get oil changed in my vehicle.
Decided I was going to stop by to get the
my drops, my eye drops at target case. For those
of you who don't know, I'm old. Glaucoma is now
part of my deal. I drops some other regiment every
(01:19):
day and it's a beautiful thing. So I had to
go pick up some I drops. I said I was
gonna do some shopping at Target, pick up some stuff
for a sheet pan dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
If anybody is interested the eye pressure test that your
eye doctor continues to give you. Yes, you passed that
test swimmingly.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, it's fine, flying colors flying. Well, I'm color blind.
So no, that didn't work. But so we're so I'm
doing I'm getting my stuff done. And oh that had
a great deal on toilet paper. But if you bought
toilet paper and you bought Bounty paper towel rolls, and
(01:56):
you bought some uh some Kleenics, you get like a
ten dollars gift card. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
In case you're wondering, we're not sponsored by Target, but
we're sponsor.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We are. We are. So I was able to get
that ten dollars card by buying stuff that I really
didn't need. I mean, I'll you down the road, I will.
But so they got me there. But that was all right. Anyway,
long story short, I'm at Target. I'm having a great time.
I'm doing getting my shopping done as you normally do
it Target, you buy extra stuff because you just you're
just there. And then I went and to go to
(02:31):
check out, and it reminded me as I was checking
out that I had read somewhere. Target is getting rid
of their self service lanes. The and it's not the
not the ten items or less lanes, but just the
regular self service lines. Know where you go to Target
and you'll roll in there, you'll have like four or
(02:53):
five things to get and you want to just take
care of it yourself, and you'll have the person there
that has a big cart full.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, yeah, they didn't have any They don't have signs
saying that it's an express lane. No, I mean depending
on how long the other lines. Yeah, correct, And so
they're getting rid of that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, from what I read is Target did their own
research and they decided that that it would be cheaper
and just more efficient if they were to have more
checkout lanes that were actually manned or womaned personed if
(03:31):
you will, okay, by cashiers, because they would it would
just go through faster. They've done their research, their due diligence,
and decided that these self service lanes were just too
slow people not knowing how to scan their own items.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, I call BS and b s as an s
because I read an article that said the real reason
that Target's getting rid of these things is because of
loss theft. Retailers are finding out that too many people
are able to steal too much stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I believe that that is really at the root of
it as well. Yeah, I believe it's the that people
were going through with their carts of stuff and they might,
you know, not scan a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Right, Well, there you go. You think about how much
they're paying the average cashier and how much somebody could
probably steal walking out of there. It probably it probably
is a significant offset.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I would I would imagine that it would be. Again.
Now they're thing and the efficiency thing. I've seen some
people in these lanes trying to scan their own stuff
and do their own things. Have their kids.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh, you know, I'm all about getting the kids involved.
And maybe I'm turning into a curmudgeonly older woman. I
don't know. But when I'm there and I'm in a
hurry and a young mom I'm assuming she's young, has
a young kid, and the kid is doing the scanning
and it's taking a really long time. I appreciate what
you're doing. I like the life lesson there. I like
(04:56):
getting kids involved, but not during.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Rush hour read the room.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, you go during the middle of the day when
most of the population is working. It's a great time
to teach your kids these lessons.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, you don't want the kid putting a pack of
three russet potatoes on the scanner and trying to figure
out how to find that russet potato by going to
the produce and then hitting the potato and then going
backing the right one up.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I stood behind plenty of dads that don't know how
to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, not to be sexist here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But it's trust me, I've had my issues.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I mean it could be because I had a bright,
shining high school career as a cashier at the Minard's
company or corporation. I don't know if they're a company,
that must be a.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Corporation going corporation.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, you know what else though, You know, it's super
exciting when you walk up and you see that there
is no one in line at the self checkout, and
like all the lights are green and you got your
seven items or whatever, maybe some bananas because you're feeling
like making banana bread because lord knows, you wouldn't just
eat it. Aren't things correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Those are those are the times where again, you know,
people always thinking you you you run into a bit
of a luck. They always say, I'll better go to
the casino. Yes, when you run into the checkout line,
nothing going on.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I feel like we need to correct the dog who's
starting to dig a hole in your yard.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's all right, cheese. You after something? Ah, yeah, I'm
not sure what that is. Probably a mole. Probably found
a mole in the hole and went down there and.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Said sorry for that little correction. I did turn my
mic off. Okay, maybe it didn't pick it up.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Probably picked up on mine most likely anyway. But uh,
but no, there's a lot of those little things out
there that I don't know if it's because you get
older and you're able to find joy and excitement out
of the mundane.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Like, for instance, if you're at Target and you find
a really good produce, I can you find mangos that
are nice and ripe? And we get really excited.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And you're going, this is this they're on sale?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh my, I mean right, mango that's on sale. Hell's bells.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Those are the things where you start making phone calls.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And does anyone need any mango?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
The It reminds me of this of a story i'd
heard on the on the radio. The uh on one
of my many walks, one of the things that I
find true enjoyment went.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
From boy, that's a shift when you're a kid, right,
like when you're a kid, No kids want to go
on a walk. I mean, unless there's like a destination
in mind. Kids don't walk for the sake of walking
at the end of it. Yeah, I mean, I guess
there's some fitness, but I mean, really we do it
for like just enjoyment and mental health and whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
If our deer are out there.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, our little critter friends.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So anyway, so I'm listening to the radio and uh, okay,
not the radio, my ear my air pods, online streaming
radio station? Is that better?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It is? Now I'm going to interrupt you because when
you were a kid, one of the highlights, because we
mostly listened to the radio, was if you tuned into
your favorite radio station and they were playing your favorite song,
and if you could somehow hit the record button on
your cassette player so you could have your own copy
of said song. That was living your best life. But
(08:18):
now you know, we just have streaming services and can
listen to it on repeat, you know, on a road
trip to drive somebody crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, or listen to the first ten seconds of it
and then just say, okay, next song as you're driving
down the road.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So back to my story. So this this guy was
just talking about how he him and his wife they
have a chicken farm type thing. They live in town,
but they have their own chickens, okay. And the one
of the big things was they have an incubator and
the incubator has to get to have evidently the perfect
(08:54):
humidity for the chicks to grow. Okay, And the gentleman
evidently got a text from his wife sometimes during the
day saying the humidity is now at seventy eight percent.
I have never been more turned on. And it made
me chuckle because there are so many things while not
(09:14):
to the point of being turned on pretty dang close.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't know when you tell me that you get
wordle intwo oh, that's pretty come on.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Come on, whirl in two. That's the muzz. We will
just stop for the rest.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Of the day, right, I mean, you've already won, But there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Are just so many and it just started I started
thinking about just the little things that that I find
joy entertainment from now and I look at them just
as as a little instance and go, holy crap, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I mean, well, it's shocking if you really think about it,
or if what happens to me is my kids will
point out like, wow, you're going to bed so early,
you're so happy, Or if we don't have any plans
for a weekend, it's like what do we doing this weekend?
And I've actually started saying things like, look, I'm not
Julie the Cruz director. You're in your twenties, like, seriously
(10:09):
figure it out. But no, I mean, and I don't
get me wrong, I love spending time with the kids,
But the idea of having a weekend with zero commitments, correct,
that is exciting.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Never in that, of course, then you always find your
own commitments, but they're not commitments, they're just things that
you do well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's kind of like the difference between having to do
something and feeling inspired to do something on a weekend.
So you can look at your weekend and be like,
I have zero commitments, right, And then you happen to
be puttering in the yard. You know, you pick up
I don't know, you bend over and you decide to
pick a weed, and next thing you know, you're like
weeding your yard or weeding a garden. But it feels
(10:48):
good because it was your idea. Nobody told you you
had to do it, it wasn't scheduled, It's truly what
you wanted to do in the moment. And I think
kids are that way, like they just want to be
left to do what they want to do, when they
want to do. But as you get to what they
don't understand is, as you get to be an adult,
there aren't just many people telling you what to do,
but there's obligations and responsibilities that direct.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
All of that, and they're just starting to find those now.
And it's just like I don't want to I don't
want to have to go to work because I want
to go do this.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, it was funny for as much as Lauren is
excited about being an adult and she's going to school
full time and she's got a big girl job working
full time, and she's she's kicking butt right now. We're
proud of all of our kids, but you know, she's
busy telling us what an adult she is. Meanwhile, you
know she lives at home, she eats for free. She
her car is free, her gas is free her and
(11:41):
she has zero responsibilities, right. And her a doctor bill
came because she had some concus of the bancas here
a month or so ago and went to urgent care. Well,
it was almost five hundred dollars for a little trip
to urgent care. And she said to me over dinner
that night, She's like, man, I was looking at the bill, going,
I'm really glad I'm not like an adult adult because
you dead are paying that, right, And I'm like, yeah,
(12:02):
we're still covering your medical bills.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yes, yes, there were there. We were not exactly kicking
the kids out, No, we're pushing them out a little bit,
but the door still open.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We're just actually we're not even doing that. We're just
we're shining light or awareness to the types of adult
responsibilities that come along, like medical bills that I don't
know about you, but my parents aren't paying mine, how
about you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The no, no good news.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is neither of us really ever go to the doctor.
Knock on winds. So that's one way of avoiding that.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Correct, uh. But you had brought up doing some yard work,
and one of the things that that I've I think
I'm probably as I don't know if it's bad at
it or I find a lot of enjoyment in the
before and after. I will take a picture if I
(12:54):
have to do some weeding or anything in the yard,
I will take it before picture, and then i'll take
it after.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Picture, kind of like if I clean my closet, ye.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And then I'll send those because it's like, look at
look at what I did there. Now. Occasionally I'll take
the after picture and Renee, I'll look at it, go
so what am I looking at here? Did you do anything?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Well, not entirely, because well you're half assed helpers.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Correct, so we don't. Really that's a bad example. But
uh but that's the again, those little things that you
just go, wait a minute, I'm going to because I'm
going to do this right now, but before I started,
got to take it before picture, ye, to show everybody
that I actually accomplished something today.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You know what else is kind of cool is again
but it's your idea. But when something unfortunately goes wrong
around the house and you're not quite sure how to
fix it, maybe this applies to me more than you,
and I think I really don't want to. I don't
want to pay somebody to do this, and I don't
really have the skill set, but I figure out how
to do it on my own without hassling a professional
(13:59):
or my dad or you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So it's like, I remember one time I put off
fixing a toilet like it leaked, not leaked leaked, but
it ran had a tiny I think everybody can relate,
but most people wouldn't let their toilet run for three months, okay,
because that's really not a good use of your money
or our natural resources. Having said that, good old YouTube
comes to the rescue. I fixed the toilet in like
(14:23):
ten minutes, and I kind of was ashamed of myself
for how long I let it go because it really
was an easy solution. But I was walking on clouds
for like, I took pictures of my toilet I think
I did actually posted on Facebook. I was so proud
of myself for fixing my own toilet.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And that's just one of the I mean, everybody talks
about AI and how AI is going to be taking
all these jobs from people. YouTube's been taking jobs from
handyman for years now.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
True. I mean, I think all the work you did
in my old car, yes, but you didn't know how
to do it to the rescue.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I my dryer died a month ago, and I had
no idea there was an error code, had no idea
what to do. I was about to call up somebody
to come either get a service or buy a new one,
because that's what I do. If it's broken, I'd probably
just buy a new one. But I said, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm going to google this. And I googled it and
(15:21):
up comes a YouTube video and I watched it and
I said, well, that looks kind of right, and I
watched another YouTube they did the exact same thing as
the first YouTube video. I'm thinking to myself, maybe this
is how you get it done right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And you know, our parents are listening to this podcast, going, yeah,
that's the way it used to be in the world.
If something was broke, you figured out how to fix it.
You didn't just buy a new one.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But you would either figure out how to fix it,
or you'd find somebody who knew how to fix it,
somebody down in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right because the Encyclopedia Britannica I didn't have a lot
of no two instructions for fixing things.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But yeah, but youtubees made it so that. I mean,
you can pretty much find anything.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know what you're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I was just thinking about it because it happened today
trash Day. You get so excited on Tuesday mornings. Deses
is alarm for five am on trash Day because he's
got to get it out there. Now, they don't typically
come until like seven thirty eight o'clock, but lord knows
his trash is going to be at the into the
driveway by five am.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I don't. I live on a rather busier type
of a street, so I don't like to put the
garbage out that night right and leave it overnight.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
In case it's windy.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, so I'll go ahead and put it out on
the border. But yes, it is. There's something about it's
not so much hauling the trash down but bringing that
empty trash back up. It's just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's I'm tried hauling up the empty Cansas morning. Well,
well check that off the list of things to do
today exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And I think part of it has to do with
because I'm kind of starting to get rid of stuff.
I'm decluttering and so I'll find something in the in
the house. I'll be like, yeah, let's just get rid
of that. I'll throw it away, and it's not really
gone until trash day.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Or maybe even along those lines, you know, making it
to the leaf drop or the compost site on the
weekends they have it open and getting everything in just
in the nick of time, just unloading a bunch of refuse.
I mean, I think we get pretty we get excited
about finding other people's trash and making it our treasure
at this age. Unfortunately, like case in point, my dad
(17:26):
has what does he have? Four or five snowblowers right
because he knows people that are getting rid of snowblowers.
He's like, yeah, I'll take it, and he'll buy like
a two dollars part and spend you know, thirty minutes
to an hour, and next thing you know, he's got
a perfectly functioning He also has like four lawnmowers. That's
just at home. But wait, there's more. We have five
lawnmowers up at the cabin. I believe I could be
(17:47):
I don't know, it changes. And there's a small engine
repair guy by my house who always has the Toro
mowers out in front that he that he fixes and
I like, try to keep my dad away from it,
or we will have ten lawnmowers at the cabin.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And and it is funny. You look in his garage
and there's just a line of snowblowers.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It looks like he's a dealer.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Right, And you're thinking, okay, does he use all those?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
No, he uses a couple, well different you know, different
types of snow Oh hey, I can't complain. His next
door neighbor was getting rid of a snowblower and the
guy was like, yeah, it's a piece of junk, doesn't work.
My dad's like, what are you gonna do with it?
He's like putting it out for the trash. That's why
it's down here. My dad's like, would you mind if
I take it? It was like a fifty cent part
and it's worked for me for five years. I'm not
(18:32):
happy about that.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Do I tell him about the lawnmower I have in
my shed that I've had in my shed for about
ten years.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We're going to keep that on the down lock got it?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So we're not mentioning the uh, we're not mentioning that. Okay,
I will not, but yeah, I mean, okay, we've already
talked yardwork. But for me, that's one of the big things.
Is I just enjoy I get I get great joy
in the fall hauling leaves out.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
They're just spending the afternoon outside raking and blowing and
listening to a little fall baseball.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And it's yeah, those things. Oh, speaking of that, we
have a side notes. We will have two morning football
games this year. Oh that's right, are thinking to back
in Europe? Yea, So we'll have our morning tea and
crumpets out on the deck watching football. Awesome at eight
(19:23):
eight o'clock in the morning. Anyway, that was just an aside.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Speaking of morning, we're missing a big one. How excited
were we to get new pillows that actually were comfortable?
That was a big deal. Having good betting as an
adult is a big deal. I mean, it doesn't even
necessarily have to be expensive. But for instance, some sheets
are a little to knit for my liking, or you know,
(19:47):
pillows are I don't know, they can't.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's fifty to thread count. I have no idea if
that's just Jerseys, so I'd like stuck.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
No. But really, we were pretty excited about our new
Costco pills because if Costco doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Of course because we're going around Costco, because we went
there to get coffee probably and coffee and beef sticks
and probably that block of hobbin. If you have not
ever had the hobby narrow cheddar cheese from Costco comes
at a big brick. It is phenomenal, a baro, a banarow,
So we win forget those and of course because you're
at Costco. I got like a pair of pants, probably
(20:24):
pair of shorts, and we got a couple of pillows.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's true because and they're awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So I guess Target is not. But Costco is kind
of doing the same thing. They were cutting down on
people coming through the self service as well. I mean
they're there, they're on you like like a hawk just
watching yep. Because again it's people. People are going to
take advantage of stuff when they can take advantage of it.
There's no doubt.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
One thing I was gonna mention, but it didn't really
come up. And I'm rather disappointed because the sun is
quite set at this point and it's getting dark. But
it's pre mosquito season. There's something that we really appreciate
being outside before mosquito season.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Love it. It's it's it's a glorious time. And of
course I'll have to do some spraying in the backyard anyway,
because I want my mosquito season for free mosquitoes, the
entire season. Right.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, I actually had my phone ready with the Merlin
app open, because when we first started recording, the birds
were insane, and so I thought, at some point we're
gonna have to talk about how much I enjoy birds
now that I'm older, that I really hated birds when
I was younger, and here we are, but now I'll
quiet it down because I suppose they're going to sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well, it is that time. So we really didn't talk
about much of anything on this particular podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Speaking of skeeters, you got one on the back of
your head.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh jeez, All right with that, then, I think it's
okay that the mosquitos in the back of my head
because I have the uh swirl of Willis or something.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
In the rain where your brain rerotes blood plus.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Sucked out all the blood from one side of my
brain would come around to.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Nice clap back to last week's episode.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Keep on trying, I do what I can.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You know, one thing I would say is if people
have things that we haven't covered, because it's quite possible
people are finding joy and everyday things that we're missing.
They should definitely should just speak.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You chuckle and you think to yourself, well that's kind
of weird, but it makes me chuckle.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Something else that we've never really done on this podcast
is we've never encouraged people to like and follow the
podcast or share with friends, and I think that in
twenty twenty five, in May of twenty twenty five, it's time.
So you've never asked for people to give us ratings
or to share the podcast with people that you know
and think would get a chuckle out of our banter,
(22:41):
then now's a great time to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Like subscribe, what else do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Follow fails?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And keep in mind that we are going to eventually
be on the whole YouTube thing as right.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I know, I know eventually, And this has been a
another curve all production
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