The One About Chin Straps & Dags

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the she Said podcast with Amy and Lisa. We're back. I know. I feel like. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Talk about. I think maybe I haven't seen you in a. I didn't see you last week. Right, right. Took a little. Took a one week break. [00:00:16] Speaker A: I don't know. It feels like a long time. [00:00:17] Speaker B: It does feel like a long time. [00:00:19] Speaker A: We had an episode come out last week, but we didn't, we didn't record one last week, so. But I've been crafting. [00:00:27] Speaker B: Me too. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Isn't that funny? [00:00:29] Speaker B: Yes, it is. I'm like, it's important to like. I've always loved to be that kind of stuff. [00:00:35] Speaker A: Loved it. [00:00:36] Speaker B: And I've really gotten away from it. What did you craft? [00:00:39] Speaker A: Well, I, you know, I was going to have my mom's friends over for brunch, which got postponed because of injuries, but I was making them gifts. And when we were little, my mom used to always do. We got. Somehow we got an old hymnal and I don't know where it came from, but she would get, I think my dad. I don't remember how the wood got to our house, but we had little plaque size wood. Pieces of wood. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:03] Speaker A: And she would take out the hymns out of that, like all the old favorites, like How Great Thou Art and all those old. And we would mod podge them on this wood. And that was her gifts to everybody for so many years. And so I kind of wanted to modge pod something for them since mom and I did that so much growing up. So I did. I made coasters out of like epoxy resin. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:28] Speaker A: And then I did epoxy on it. But I did a paper, a really pretty napkin that matched my table because of course my table is full of flowers and all the things in case [00:01:37] Speaker B: people don't know you. Can you peel the napkins apart? So, like, I mean, take a napkin. [00:01:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Because you get a whole variety of them. You peel them apart because there's two layers to most napkins. And then that is like the perfect thing to mod podge onto anything. [00:01:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Or I've done fabric too. I used to years ago when I'd reupholster. I always reupholstered my furniture and I would use the extra and put on like a big charger plate for a serving tray to match my. [00:02:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Living room. And so you can do fabric too. But napkins are a lot cheaper and easier to get. And then you pull the plot to ply apart and you use the decorative side. So I mod podge that and then I Did epoxy on them, so it matches the table colors for the. [00:02:18] Speaker B: I'm done with that resin. [00:02:20] Speaker A: It's so fun. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:22] Speaker A: So pretty, too. [00:02:23] Speaker B: And when I was there at Hobby Lobby last week, a lady had knew I was looking for something. She was just buying there as well. Well, turns out she owns, like, a dangle or a glass crushing Facebook group or something, and so she's really into the resins. So she gave me lots of pointers on, like, the best resins to get. Which actually wasn't at Hobby Lobby for that. It was on Amazon. Anyway, she was just super helpful. I mean, in there. I know. I want. I'm dying to play with the resin. [00:02:51] Speaker A: I pour the. The resin I got was two bottles. You mix together, and then you put it on there and brush it on. Well, I obviously got a little bit out of control with my resin because it was so thick. It's supposed to dry within 24 hours. In the middle of these coasters, they're still sticky. And it's been a week and a half, so I did really wait. It's like, the key is not very much because it's already thick and shiny and all the things. But so I've been doing that, and I've been playing with air clay. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Me too. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Air drying clay. [00:03:22] Speaker B: Air clay, too. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Yes. [00:03:23] Speaker B: I did not know that. That's what I bought all last week. [00:03:26] Speaker A: It's so fun. It's so cool. [00:03:28] Speaker B: And the videos you can watch on it are, like, addictive to watch. [00:03:32] Speaker A: This is gonna sound like we planned this. [00:03:34] Speaker B: We did not plan it. [00:03:35] Speaker A: We have not talked about this. [00:03:37] Speaker B: No. And I even got Ty to do it with me, and then he was like. And I didn't have to beg him. I mean, I think anybody would tinker with clay. I mean, that's fun. I got my whole family to mess with that diamond art, and that was fun. Everyone was like, that's kind of relaxing. And you forget how basic little things like that. But the clay. Yeah, you can get the regular air dry clay by Crayola. Start out with that. And then they have the bricks of it that happened to be on sale last week, too, when I was just getting into this. And I used to take sculpting in college, and I loved that class. Loved it. Can't say I was great at it, but I sure loved it. And Ty was like, mom, if I tell you something at school, when I. Every time they'd pull out the, like, this clay to do this, he was like, it was my favorite thing ever. He's Like, I didn't want to put it down. They'd be like tight classes up. He's like, I. I just was like, just a little more. So I got him to do it with me. Bought paints for it. [00:04:32] Speaker A: And so fun. [00:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:34] Speaker A: And it is relaxing. Oh, yeah. [00:04:37] Speaker B: So. And you just put it over a jar. People can look up what a flower frog is. But you. It's basically like a little saucer. You put little holes at the top of it with a straw and then you let it dry. Paint it however you want. And it's a way to propagate your flowers. It holds up your stems if you're doing propagation or like a small flower floral arrangement. It's fun. [00:04:59] Speaker A: I was doing. I haven't put the any kind of painting on it. I'd rather just do the napkins and do mod podge this painting because I'm not good at painting. But just do like a little daisy. [00:05:08] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:09] Speaker A: Like a cookie cutter daisy. And then curl up the edges and make it like a little ring holder for like set your rings in at the kitchen sink or something. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:17] Speaker A: It's been so much fun. [00:05:18] Speaker B: Saucer I made this weekend that's. I'm waiting to paint it now, but I. To put the final stuff on it. But I did a little buff and rub on the edge with a little gold edge. Little scalloped. A little dish for my jewelry. To think it's just fun. I'm like, I want to do more. [00:05:37] Speaker A: I think it's because it's relaxing and it's just. I don't know, it's unique because, you know, I'm doing that now for the. The seat at the table. And this was a brunch that was kind of treating it the same way. And so it's. I'm doing as gifts because it's just [00:05:49] Speaker B: colors I made for a gift and I gave one to a client for a gift. And. And it's. [00:05:55] Speaker A: I think it's different than just going and buying something. It's just got your hand on it. It's got your. [00:06:00] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:06:00] Speaker A: There's just some love behind it when you actually make it for somebody. I've had so much fun just making all of it, just coming up with ideas. And the air dry clay is like the best invention ever. [00:06:12] Speaker B: So cool. They do say the best one to get is D A s. It's called das Dos or something you can get at Hobby Lobby. People will see it if they go there and look at it. But it's a. It's a Little. It's better to work with if you're going to play with it a little bit more. One day I'm getting a pottery wheel. I wanted to play the pottery wheel. I don't know how. I've never messed with one. [00:06:32] Speaker A: It's hard. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:33] Speaker A: We did a girls night out there. There's. There used to be one on sixth in Peoria, and we did a girls night out. It was a little bit this side of Peoria on 6th Street. I think I've got the bowl in my office over next door. But it was fun. But it is. And it is messy. I had clay messy from my head down to my toes. [00:06:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:52] Speaker A: When you start putting water on it and it slings everywhere if you go too fast. I mean, there is a trick to it. [00:06:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:58] Speaker A: But it. But it's relaxing. I think once if you started doing it and really got so you could figure it where, that night was a little stressful because, you know, you're trying to learn everything, but it's. It is relaxing. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Well, see, what else did I make? [00:07:10] Speaker A: I made. [00:07:11] Speaker B: I did make a really great bow, Like. Like one of those streamer type bows, I guess, for my wreath. Fourth of July, you know, like 10 different ribbons. [00:07:21] Speaker A: It looks really good. [00:07:21] Speaker B: I could. I could get into that. I mean, like, in high school, I used to love to make wreaths. Like, I would love to make, like, fancy wreath. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Going back to that feel like people are getting back to making things again. [00:07:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:33] Speaker A: But there's some beautiful ribbon out there I might. Oh, so need you to make me. [00:07:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Because I. I'm not very good at ribbons. My mom used to make beautiful. The big bows. I'm not very good at that. [00:07:44] Speaker B: That was really cute. I'll show you a picture of my. [00:07:46] Speaker A: And if you go buy them in the store, they're like $150. [00:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. No, but it's fun. So I get to, you know, take. Take a little brain break. [00:07:57] Speaker A: Yeah. I think that's what it is. It's just a way for your. It kind of gets your cortisol lowered down a little bit and just. [00:08:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:08:05] Speaker A: Chill. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:05] Speaker A: I'm having so much fun, but my kitchen counters are a disaster because I've got paper. Because I'm. I'm mod. Podging little saucers with the napkins on the back of them as the. As the dessert plates. And I've got some painting and then. [00:08:22] Speaker B: Well, and that resin. So we turn this into an arts and crafts show. But, like, you know, we all go collect seashells at the beach. A few go, like the little tiny ones. And this one lady, you get. First of all, it's like a. They look like tin muffin things, but they're silicone resin molds for. For saucers. And so they did a light layer of the resin, and then they filled it with the little shells and sand from the beach that they went to, and then they put more resin on it, let it cure, and they had the cutest, meaningful coasters. [00:08:56] Speaker A: That's a good idea. [00:08:58] Speaker B: I know. And I know I have shells in my garage rotting somewhere from trips to the beach. So anyways, that's what makes it cool [00:09:06] Speaker A: when you can do stuff like that. [00:09:08] Speaker B: So anyway, have you bought anything new? [00:09:11] Speaker A: No, but I'm sure looking at stuff. Have you seen the chin strip strap that you said? [00:09:17] Speaker B: Look at my cart right now. [00:09:19] Speaker A: It's in there. [00:09:20] Speaker B: It's in there. I'm checking out tonight. Honey, you're buying it. I'm buying it. Well, so, yes, I'm totally buying it because they say, like, the silicone is, like, so good. So I'm gonna tell you why. Because those heel cups that I got. Yeah, okay. The silicone heel cups that I said worked really well with that cream. Now ask me if I've done it over the past four or five days. No. However, my feet feel night and day. Oh, yeah, I did. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Talk about back on. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Yeah, well, same thing goes when you put it on your chest. Chest. Silicone strip. They have a. I'm about to wrap myself in silicone. [00:09:53] Speaker A: The scar tape. Is it the silicone? [00:09:55] Speaker B: I have a scar tape. I don't know that it worked. This is. It's not the same as, like, the heel cups. The heel cups are like actual. Almost like rubber sheets. But it's a medical grade silicone. So you want a medical grade silicone that's thick. And I remember that because when I was nursing, the lactation nurse came in. It was pretty painful at that time. And I remember she gave me these silicone like. Like cakes to put on, and they were made out of silicone, and they were made to help with the. With the pain. You kept them in the fridge. And it's the same. It's basically the same thing as, like, what cakes is, now that I think about it. [00:10:30] Speaker A: Oh, that. Yeah. Because they are silicone. [00:10:32] Speaker B: Yeah. So you could probably take an old cake and cut it in half and put that puppy on your neck and strap it up. Well, I might. On the counter. My boys are like, mom, please move your cakes. Thanks. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Well, this is silicone scar tape. And it's thick. And that's what I have. I ordered that. I got that yesterday. [00:10:55] Speaker B: I got one I think that was just too cheap. And. But today I DIY'd. I was like, I want the DIY version of Frownies. Okay. There's lots of little different things out there, but the one thing that really seems to be legit. So Frownies is basically. And even says it on the box. So it's basically like the brownie packing tape. It's brown paper bag wrapping tape that has a. A finish on the back of it that once it gets wet, you do. You put it on your face. Those girls been doing it for a long time now. Using it this method, you can buy two big rolls, like, I'm talking giant rolls off Amazon. It's 25. And she said the only difference is that she's like, now they may tell you there's aloe and all that. They have some secret ingredients that they don't put on the box. However, she was like, I'm just here to tell you, wetting this. And she doubles it up. So double up. So it's thick enough, hard enough. It is every bit of the frownies that she's had tried to buy. [00:11:58] Speaker A: You did. [00:12:00] Speaker B: I'm about to second shot for my Amazon car, but yes. My chin strap, my packing tape for my face and. Do we ever give up? No. [00:12:09] Speaker A: The chin strap I was actually talking about is a. It vibrates. It's actually like your husband wears for snoring kind of the same. [00:12:17] Speaker B: His is the same thing, but his is like a fabric one. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what this is. [00:12:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:20] Speaker A: So what I'm looking at is it's fabric and it goes all the way up to the top of your head. And it's got. I saw that red light and vibration to like 199. I don't remember they. But it's for, like, tightening the skin underneath your chin. [00:12:37] Speaker B: Well, that's where I'm like, okay, we're gonna have to engineer something different. All the red lights I need. I got all the creams I need. I gotta. I'm gonna try the silicone strap, baby. Cinch up my face. [00:12:49] Speaker A: What makes me wonder, you know, my red light goggles, if I could just lay them under my chin. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Well, I use that. And I'm telling you now, I. There was a picture that popped up on my phone today from. I think it was like three years ago. Holy moly. My skin texture was totally different from [00:13:08] Speaker A: your using your red light 100. Yeah. [00:13:11] Speaker B: I mean, I definitely do better like with my skin care and stuff. But the sun damage is so much less. Is so much less. But also that's really when I started the whole castor oil journey too. So I feel like now I'm not as regular on that as I was. However, I think that eliminated so much that I had going on. [00:13:33] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, speaking of that castor oil, I went into Amber Marie a couple weeks ago after work. [00:13:41] Speaker B: So cute. [00:13:42] Speaker A: And I was so accosted by a woman that could not get over my face and my makeup and my, my skin and how my skin was. And she literally just kept going. Now, now, wait, what do you put underneath your eyes? Wait, why your eyes so glowy? Wait, what is on your cheeks? And so I was telling her, I mean, I use a lot of palm of air oil. I love oils. I layer tons of oil on my face. But I also do castor oil every single night on my face. And I think that's a lot of it. [00:14:08] Speaker B: Well, drives all that in. [00:14:10] Speaker A: And so I kept telling her, I was trying to tell her and she, I was up checking out and she brought a little post it. She goes, could you give me the website of all the places you buy this stuff? Because she just would not stop talking to me. [00:14:21] Speaker B: I love giving people information like that. I mean, they want it. I'm so happy to share. I'm not a gatekeeper. [00:14:28] Speaker A: No. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Like, why are you? Well, I mean, they asked. I'd love to share a good deal. [00:14:34] Speaker A: Right. Well, she was, she, she, when she came up there, she goes, look at her. How old do you think she is? And that girl, she's like a 20 something year old going, I know she's probably thinking, I don't know, she looks like my grandma. [00:14:44] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:14:46] Speaker A: She goes, she's 61. [00:14:49] Speaker B: Wow. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it's crazy. [00:14:51] Speaker B: So she's happy though. [00:14:52] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm, I'm like castor oil I do think is the game changer. Plus that Palma Fair oil, I use everything that they have, which I swear by, so. But it does work. But I do think castor oil makes a big difference on your skin tone. [00:15:06] Speaker B: I think so too. I can tell when I, you know, I'm not doing it like I should. I totally can tell. Especially on my legs. [00:15:14] Speaker A: Oh man, I smear that all over my face at night, so. And then I have a tallow cream from Pomafera as well that I put on top of that. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:26] Speaker A: Oh, man, it smells so good. And it is like just smearing melted butter. Oh, it's so good. I just lather my face in it. [00:15:36] Speaker B: I had one that I bought at the farmer's market and I think it got left out in the car and it just broke it down so bad. I was so mad. So it got wasted. However, I'm going to tell you I might have mentioned this before because it reminds me of the little tubs that tallow comes in. I found a deodorant that it is the best thing hands down I've ever been. I've ever deodorant I've ever had in all my life. I can go 24, 36 hours, there is nothing going on. And it's by the little seed. You get it. Well you can get it on Amazon but I don't even know if you can get it in a store. It's called little seed Farm and it's all like a. Like grapefruit, lavender, patchouli or whatever. But there's a little sample thing you can get off of Amazon that get. They'll send you like 8 packets of all their different scents so you can really try them out. One packet will go. Which are great to have in your travel bag because one packet would give you enough for several days of trying it out. But you put it on with your hands or they have a little wooden spatula you can buy with it. I just prefer to do my hands. But I'm telling you I think between that I never really have like a stink like that. But you know armpit. I do feel like cleaning your arms with witch hazel and. Or the ordinary's salicylic acid which they swear by that for totally. As a matter of fact I made everyone in my family do it today. I was like here, take it. No, no, no. You're not leaving until you do it. We're doing this whole family wipe your armpit. But it works. It cuts down for whatever reason the sweat odor and stuff. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Well, there's a whole thing out there about detoxing from all deodorant and it takes about 30 days of just. You're just gonna have to. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it is aluminum free and all that. [00:17:22] Speaker A: Go to an island somewhere to use [00:17:23] Speaker B: one of those because it like. I don't know, I just. That felt sweaty or whatever. I don't feel that. I feel nothing with this. It is a. And it smells so fresh and so clean clean. [00:17:32] Speaker A: I've used each and every for years. And it's one of those. That's an all natural. And it is the same way I can sometimes three days before I have to apply again. And it works like. [00:17:44] Speaker B: Like that. [00:17:44] Speaker A: It really works. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Are insane. I mean, and there's men on there who've been like, they use it and they're just like, I've never had anything work like this ever. So we'll see. It's like maybe 15 for a little tub of it, but it's gonna last you a while. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Yeah, shoot. [00:18:00] Speaker B: I mean, secret. The strong one's $10. [00:18:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I haven't priced one in forever, but it's ridiculous. It makes a difference though. I like it when you don't have to wear it every day. [00:18:12] Speaker B: Yes, exactly. It's true. [00:18:15] Speaker A: We were skin so soft. I bought some. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I haven't had that in forever. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Me either. But I. I have a guy that comes in sprays for mosquitoes. But you still. I mean, it really does cut them down drastically. But every once in a while there'll still be one out there. And at sundown, which is. Seems to be always when Piper wants to go out and spend her day in, you know, her two hours in the yard. So I'll sit outside and that's when they really get me. Is at sundown the mosquitoes. And then once the bats come out, then you're good. But anyway, I bought some for that very reason. And boy, it makes a difference. Skin so soft. [00:18:52] Speaker B: I wonder if there's still an Avon store across from Promenade, across from that Mexican restaurant that's across the street. Like where at&t used to be. [00:19:00] Speaker A: Yeah, that Ricardo's restaurant back there. [00:19:02] Speaker B: Yes, it's across from that. And it was a full blown Avon store. She had stock of everything. [00:19:07] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:19:08] Speaker B: So I wonder if that's still there. But speaking of mosquitoes, did you see that there was somebody who had made a post in midtown. They'd come across three dead bats in their yard. And like people are freaking out. Like, don't touch them. Like it's like it. And one lady said she had touched one. [00:19:24] Speaker A: And then freaky. [00:19:27] Speaker B: She did get like 5 series of [00:19:31] Speaker A: rabies shots. [00:19:32] Speaker B: Yes. And anyways, apparently their bite is so tiny, you won't even know that you really been bit by them. [00:19:38] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:19:39] Speaker B: Kind of crazy. Speaking of Piper on Grand Lake, boaters family came on yesterday, I think it was maybe on Sunday. And their little Yorkie that was like 11 or 12 years old, older, was on their boat, jumped off the boat into the water and never came back up. They've obviously been in a frantic search for this sweet little puppy. And so with it, you know, after hours of them just searching she's like, we've had to just. [00:20:06] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:20:07] Speaker B: You know, understand. So now if anybody finds a body of our precious dog, this is who you call. So I'm like. Which then brings up the whole thing of, like, dog parts. Because I hear people talk about winning dog parks. I'm like. Like, to me, that's such a liability for whoever is even putting them in. Because, honestly, the only time our dogs have ever been chased were by little perfect dogs of all sizes. But dogs who would never do it, I think. But they're dogs. They're going to do it. And then it makes you think, okay, if my dog's gonna be on a boat, better be on a lee. Well, like, if our dog's in a golf cart, he's on a leash and being held on to. I mean, I just. [00:20:45] Speaker A: Or a life jacket on them. I found a boat my dog has [00:20:49] Speaker B: to wear a lot. No way. [00:20:50] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. You'd have to sedate me. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Drown. And it was. We saved them, actually. They were sinking, and it took every bit. They were huge labs. It took every bit of me and Stephen to get them up on that dock. And the people had no idea they had left. The dogs jumped off the dock to go chase after them for an evening boat ride. And the dog would not quit trying to follow them. And their music was so loud on their boat that they couldn't hear us yelling for them, anything. So we get over there and kind of get the dog's attention to get them to try to start swimming back to the dock. And by that time, like, their legs is exhausted, so Stephen had to, like, push one up onto the dock while I got it. It was, honest to God, the worst thing I've ever almost witnessed in my life. And I sat with those dogs for an hour on that dock without anybody home, just waiting for them to catch their breath. I mean, they were so. What was funny is the next day. [00:21:45] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:21:46] Speaker B: Stephen went to go swim across the COVID right there to go let those people know what had happened because they came home late and whatever. Before Stephen even got halfway over, that dog had jumped off that dang dock again. But to come and get Steven, he recognized Stephen from trying to save it. [00:22:04] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Dogs are so cool. [00:22:06] Speaker B: It's so cool, right? [00:22:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You'd have to sedate me. [00:22:10] Speaker B: It was awful. So I was so upset. [00:22:13] Speaker A: Poor dogs. [00:22:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:15] Speaker A: I just hate that she has zero fear. [00:22:17] Speaker B: Think, like, a dang cinder block. [00:22:19] Speaker A: She's never been in water except a bath, so I don't Even know what she would do. [00:22:22] Speaker B: She loves the water, really. Skippy don't want anything to do with it. Skippy will get on a golf cart. Daisy won't go near a golf cart. Like, she is scared death. But Daisy will swim to the buoy if you let her. So she's been through, like, three or four life jackets and fatter, fatter and fatter. [00:22:38] Speaker A: Piper's afraid of, like, she doesn't like to go out in the rain, so I don't know if she'd want to get in the water. [00:22:43] Speaker B: She. Daisy, will sit in the. In the middle of it, underneath a tree and watch a lightning strike in front of her and not jump. Skippy, on the other hand, is like. I mean, his teeth literally chat. [00:22:55] Speaker A: It's funny because Piper could care less about thunder and lightning Storms don't scare. Fireworks don't scare. But you get a fly in the house, she'll lose her mind. See, it's the buzzing. She hates the buzzing. She will jump down off the highest thing and run back to her bed. She gets into her bed. [00:23:12] Speaker B: That's funny. [00:23:12] Speaker A: But it's like. And one night she woke me up, literally hysterical, which she never barks throughout the night. And I was, you know, in my room. She's back in her sun room that she gets. And I was like, what in the world could be going on? I thought someone was trying to break in the house. So I jump up and run out there. It was a June bug had gotten in the sun room. She was losing her mind. I let her out because I still didn't what it was, and she just panicked. I finally got picked her up and calmed her down. I was like, what in the world could have happened? And so I finally went back there because she wouldn't even go back in the sun room, which is where her bed is, and she'd walk there and she'd just screech on the brakes. So I finally was like, what in the world happen out here? I thought, did she get bit by a spider or something? And there was a June bug. And the buzzing, like a fly will send her over the edge. And that June bug is buzzing. [00:24:00] Speaker B: It's over with. [00:24:01] Speaker A: She was hysterical. That's awesome. Yeah. So lightning doesn't scare, but a fly will literally send her into trauma. [00:24:09] Speaker B: I love my dogs. [00:24:10] Speaker A: Oh, man, I can't. I don't know what I'd do without them. [00:24:13] Speaker B: So have you. Have you had a problem with solicitors? [00:24:16] Speaker A: No, but I. I used to. But I put up a no soliciting sign and I haven't had any issues. [00:24:20] Speaker B: Well, see, but the problem is you have a gardener, and I am the gardener. [00:24:24] Speaker A: Oh, well, there's a difference. [00:24:25] Speaker B: These chumps keep catching me in my front yard. My. I have a sign on my door, and apparently that stops them, but it doesn't stop them when I'm out in the yard trying to take advantage of 30 free minutes that I might have to clean up a flower bed. [00:24:40] Speaker A: And you're accosted. [00:24:41] Speaker B: And then literally, they just don't take note. I'm like, you people have got to chill out. Like, it. One even said, I saw your note on your door. I didn't. I didn't knock, but since I see you outside, I'm like, oh, it's okay [00:24:54] Speaker A: to do it outside. [00:24:55] Speaker B: That covers the whole parameter. [00:24:58] Speaker A: I'm so ridiculous. It is annoying. [00:25:01] Speaker B: It is so annoying. [00:25:02] Speaker A: My dad had a guy come to his house Friday when I was there and ring the doorbell. My dad jumped out of his chair, and he runs to the front door, and I'm hollering at him not to open it because I'm look now, looking on his phone, on the camera, and it's a guy saying that he was two doors down spraying for bugs at this house two doors down. And he thought, well, he's in the neighborhood. He'd stop by. And so when my dad came back in there, I listened to it on the camera. And when he came back in, I was like, so dad told me. And I said, dad, did he have a truck out there? He goes, no, he was on one of those little scooter things. I was like, so he's here spraying someone's house for bugs, but he's on a scooter. He doesn't have a truck. I said, where was his truck? He goes, oh. He kept pointing down the street. I'm like, of course he did. I was like. And my dad introduces himself to him and gives him his name. [00:25:52] Speaker B: I'm like, yeah. [00:25:54] Speaker A: Oh, it makes me crazy. [00:25:56] Speaker B: Social Security number this last week for a new security system. I was like, absolutely not for me. It's for you. Just put it here in the iPad. And I'm like, yeah, again, no, sure. I'm not giving you my social or any other. I'm just not doing it. Which I find ironic that after we had that heavy visit of that kind of stuff that our. Our car was rummaged through. And I'm like, is it. You know, I. I don't know. We just haven't had that problem. [00:26:24] Speaker A: I mean, did they take anything or did they just rummage? [00:26:27] Speaker B: I don't even know, because it wasn't. It was Steven's car full of stuff. And, you know, he was like, I don't even know right now. It was even in that glove compartment. You know, he's in his police car more than he's in his own, but it was definitely torn all apart. And so I think he's gonna leave a note for him if they want to come back. [00:26:49] Speaker A: It's a good idea. [00:26:50] Speaker B: That took some cajones to do that with a police car in the driveway. They had. The head would literally just be higher than a kite. I don't know who's that stupid, but [00:26:59] Speaker A: just looking for money for drugs or something. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, found something in that glove box. She. She. Whatever. [00:27:06] Speaker A: Who. Whoever it was. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't like the idea of that. [00:27:09] Speaker A: No. I hate that feeling. I've never had. I. I don't leave my car in the driveway. I park it in the garage for that reason. Because this midtown. It's just throughout all night. [00:27:18] Speaker B: Post about it where. And you could tell. I mean, people were. It was nowhere. Nobody knew it was me making. [00:27:25] Speaker A: I knew it was you. I saw it, and I was like, you bet you anything that was her. [00:27:30] Speaker B: But. And like, well, lock the car door. Was it. I'm like, first of all, do you know how often I will go to bed knowing my car is locked? And then a kid or somebody's like, oh, this is in the car I need. And they unlock it from the house. They go outside to grab it, and [00:27:45] Speaker A: they don't want it. [00:27:46] Speaker B: Lock it back. Or like, there's always traffic. I mean, yeah, common sense. Lock it. You just lock. But it's just funny how people think they're really schooling somebody. I'm like, I am an expert on trying to prevent crime, people. But I. I appreciate your advice. [00:28:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you. [00:28:02] Speaker B: Yes, thank you. [00:28:02] Speaker A: Good to know. Yeah. People on those neighborhood things where they get nasty. [00:28:06] Speaker B: Oh, it's so funny. [00:28:07] Speaker A: And on the ring camera thing where people post that this person, you know, tried their doors last night, or. You know what it is, the amount of condescending comments to those people. It's like. [00:28:18] Speaker B: It's really. [00:28:19] Speaker A: The whole idea of the camera sharing thing is so that you kind of know what's going on in the neighborhood. It's not to blast the people that actually do it. Oh. And if somebody even says, I just heard gunshots. Did anybody else hear gunshots? The amount of hatred that goes to that person, Bananas. [00:28:36] Speaker B: I don't get it. [00:28:38] Speaker A: It's well, even the comments. It was two guys that. In my backyard jumping over the fence. The comments I got, it's like they jumped the fence. Like, the gates are locked. What. What do you want me to do? [00:28:51] Speaker B: We've tried to get speech events on our street for 20 years, and we've been like, I think now it's happening. [00:28:57] Speaker A: Forge. [00:28:58] Speaker B: Thank God. After 20 years. Literally 20 years of trying through the city through the proper channels. And one year, like, it was right there. We're at the petitioning part of it. You got a petition. One man had ended up deciding that, well, it was going to be more inconvenient for him to go through them because he lived towards the end of the street on Cincinnati, and he went around and put letters on everyone's doors saying that it would take an ambulance something like 3.7 seconds longer to get to them in an emergency. It was literally that ridiculous. One of the ladies down the street had come. She's like, you know what? I think I changed my mind, and I'd like to take my name off the petition. And I'm like, suit yourself. Whatever. At that point, I was so frustrated with the whole whole process. I'm just like, I am done. Well, guess who was the first person to get her car hit on our street? Flipped into a neighbor's yard not once but twice and came to me and was like, hey, are we. Do you know when we're gonna get those speed maps? I'm like, oh, girl. I had to work so much harder because of people wanting to take. Because of fear of getting their names taken off the list or, you know, having it take too long. 3.7 seconds longer. And now the guy who started it all doesn't even move. [00:30:11] Speaker A: As I say, he probably moved. Yeah, boy, we need them on our street. These people fly, especially. [00:30:15] Speaker B: Got a petition. [00:30:16] Speaker A: They come off of Harvard and cut through to get to. And now that there's the construction on Harvard. [00:30:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, but they're really getting. [00:30:23] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, they are flying. I sat there and watched cars literally fly through the stop sign at 45, 50 miles an hour. [00:30:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I go ask for a speed study. So you call the city and you say, I would like to have a speed study done on my street. And they start out by counting how many cars go through and how fast they go through between the lines. [00:30:43] Speaker A: And Is that what that does? Okay. Yeah. [00:30:48] Speaker B: And to see the highest point of that traffic, because it'll go hit from how fast that tire hits one line and then hits the other. Yeah. It's a. It's a big mess. I mean, I finally have had a girl on our street who has really stepped up to really help with the process and because it's. It is a lot. You gotta fight, man. [00:31:05] Speaker A: I tell you, it's crazy though. I'm just like someone. I worry because I'm in that big circle. You know, there's those houses that all. And then that big. That someone is gonna come the other way and this person running the stop and they're gonna end up in my yard or in my house because they're gonna to try to miss the other person because they're flying so fast and no one stops at that stop sign. [00:31:27] Speaker B: Ask a. Ask for a police officer to come watch the street for a little bit. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Oh, they'll do that. [00:31:32] Speaker B: I believe so. I think that's how. I think that's how it works. Now don't quote me, but I think you can call down to your division, which would be Riverside division, and just say you're having a real issue and you'd like to have a police officer come sit and watch, but you got to go through the right again channels for that. Now I could be wrong on that, so. But I'm pretty certain that that's a possibility. [00:31:52] Speaker A: Do you know how many times I've called that non emergency, non emergency number? I call them all the time. For people in my neighborhood, the funniest story is there's a house on the. On the corner. And there was a guy when I pulled up after to go home to let Piper out at noon, he was sitting in front of my house. So I just pulled up right behind him. I just sit there and stare at him until they see me in the rearview mirror. And then he drove off. So I drove off right after him and I followed him. Well, he left the neighborhood. So I go back into my house and I look out my front window and he's parked at. Down the street just a little bit at a house facing my house. I'm like, what is this guy doing? So I call the non emergency number and here come two police cars. They come to the intersection. They go turn around and pull in behind. Like pull in the driveway right past him and pull up right behind him. Soon as they get out of their car and start walking up to him, he starts his truck. Well, by that time they're already at his window. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:45] Speaker A: And so they talk to him. And then I don't ever know what happened, but he drove off. I've never seen him again. But I do it all the time. Yeah, I've chased. [00:32:52] Speaker B: My husband doesn't ever want me to call, so I have to be very particular. He's like, everybody knows if you call, so do not, like, you know, they get embarrassed. Police wife feels that way. [00:33:05] Speaker A: My friend said that your name is probably on a list. When they see your number show up, they're like, it's the girl on Florence again. Yeah, I call on everybody. Well, we're out of time. [00:33:15] Speaker B: Well, okay. [00:33:16] Speaker A: So I will see you next week. [00:33:19] Speaker B: Bye.