Say it and also spray it (s1e04)

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Finn was sores ball and last night he got to bed and he's like, he's looking.

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Oh yeah.

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Cuz he left his toy outside.

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Yeah.

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Well, should we start inside?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Different approach today for clippings.

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This is our very first ever remote episode because I am, uh, joining you

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from Albuquerque New Mexico with somebody you've already been introduced to.

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Yeah.

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So I am fortunate enough to be Christopher's mom.

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I remind her of that constantly.

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so I asked mom, uh, since we're here in Albuquerque, what we could get up to.

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Um, and what is the most important thing for us to do today in your garden?

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Yeah, so summer is really just blossoming with lots of goodness and also the

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bugs and pests that come with it.

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I've had a little bit of aphid problems on my roses.

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The weeds are coming up and I get these some things that.

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Build webs in my Rosemary and then some of the branches die off.

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So for that, we just spray the heck out of em with high force water.

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Cool.

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So it sounded like, uh, today's pest removal in the garden,

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pest removal, except for my dog.

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Okay, great.

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we'll keep him.

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Okay.

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Cool.

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All right, well, let's get outside.

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First order of business has picked up the dog's toy.

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So it doesn't get wet.

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yeah.

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Oh, we just scared away a hummingbird.

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Oh,

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So this is basically, how did you notice that these are, so I saw these

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webs and I, first of all, I just tried removing them, you know, with gloved,

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hands and so forth, and then they'd come back the next day and so forth.

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So I finally.

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I've got a bunch of this Rosemary, I just started spraying and that seems

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to work for about three or four days.

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And then they come back.

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Um, and it's only for about a month.

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And after that, it, it's not a problem here interest.

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So it's just like right at the beginning of the warm season, it is, they attack.

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Yeah.

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Well, I think it may have to do with.

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All those wonderful purple blossoms are starting.

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Oh yeah.

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So this is kind of, did you plant the Rosemary here or

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did, was that already here?

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So there, this looked like a lunar landscape.

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Um, the person who lived in the house before me didn't like any plants.

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So I had someone come out and give me some tips about what . I

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can spend a little bit of time.

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Uh, nurturing and fostering for a year or two, but after that, I want

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them to just grow on their own with maybe a little supplemental water.

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Yeah.

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So the Rosemary's actually pretty water water.

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It's pretty serious conservative.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, I have, um, a sober hose on it and that's all it requires now.

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Oh, that's pretty cool.

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Yeah.

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And it forms kind of a little bit of a privacy screen.

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Which most people think of Rosemary.

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I know I do as just like herbs mm-hmm , but this has really grown

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to just look like bushes it does.

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And it kind of absorbs the sound and it does make it, um, More private.

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I can be sitting out in the backyard and people don't wave at me anymore.

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as they walk by plus my little dog weaves in and out, and then

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it's kind of aroma therapy.

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He comes into the house and the house smells good.

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yeah.

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Yeah.

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Turns Finn into an aroma therapy agent.

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Exactly.

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Oh, he looks ready and willing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He's ready to go.

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Cool.

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Okay.

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So we're I have taking this hose and then we're just gonna spray

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the hell out of these things, huh?

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Exactly.

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Okay.

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Cool.

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So there you go.

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Okay.

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I turn it on pretty forceful.

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I'm on hose duty.

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You you're turning it on.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And it's all of them.

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Uh, yeah, just start down at that corner and just really spray and

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you're gonna see these darn little, tiny, tiny little things fly up.

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Okay.

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So yeah.

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A lot of people think gardening in Albuquerque has to be all cactuses,

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but it's really wait, pose problems.

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Okay.

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We're on, I was trying to ruminate mom.

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I, you can, there's all these like weird little bugs flying out, right?

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Yeah.

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And they are little.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So I just do this a lot.

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Yeah.

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That's all over.

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And does this a technique that works for other cuz you've

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told me to spray things that I.

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You know, does this work for other bugs?

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If you see bugs on your plants, your brother was here a few days ago, and I

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noticed an avid infestation on my roses.

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So, um, he was on spray duty as well, and he just sprayed the heck out of this.

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And the next day I'd say 75% of the aphids were gone.

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But then that, uh, that evening we got the Neme out and sprayed.

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And name is insecticidal type of thing.

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Do you know where it comes from?

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I've heard of it, but I don't know what it is.

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I think it's geranium.

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Oh, okay.

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Mm-hmm I can look it up, but I'm pretty sure it's just kind of a natural,

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um, bug deterrent from geranium.

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And that is something that you can spray on any kind of plant.

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Yes.

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So, um, Sprayed really, really heavily.

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Um, and then we'll do, I'll do it again, uh, seven days later and hopefully that'll

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help I prefer to use just the water.

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Um, but I'll, I'll go to the name if I have to.

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Why does spraying bugs with water work?

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I think that it destroys their actor skeleton.

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Like their ectoplasm act, whatever, like oh, "who you gonna call?".

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um, yeah, I, I kind of think it, it destroys the outside of them

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and they're not protected, I guess.

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That's not a very scientific thing there, but.

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, but you have to kind of observe, you know, that's one of the things

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that I've learned is I need to come out and just, uh, look at my plants.

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And of course I do talk to them.

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yeah, I, I do like some, I I've got this gorgeous, um, golden Raintree that almost

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died because the roots got strangulated.

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It was not planted correctly.

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And there was way too much, uh, dirt packed too heavily around it.

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And so it started dying and I will come out and just tell it.

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I'm so proud of that.

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And it stands more erect.

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I know it does.

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yeah, totally.

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Yeah.

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Are we good on this Bush?

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Should we move over or do you think?

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Okay, cool.

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Yeah.

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You can direct me as we're.

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I'm gonna double check all those feet.

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Okay.

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Doing a little quality control here.

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Uhhuh, miss the spot,

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but doesn't it smell.

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Yeah, it really smells great.

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One of the payoffs to doing this is it just, it's a little aromatherapy time,

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you know, it just smells fabulous.

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Do you know what Rosemary aromatherapy is good for?

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So it tends in, in for a lot of people, it tends to be an alerting fragrance.

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Oh, like it like perks you up.

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Yes.

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Perks you up.

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So if people are, some people use it when they're depressed or feeling down

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and it's just kind of enlivening and, Um, I worked with people with depression

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and thoughts of suicide and so forth.

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So I would have them go out into the garden and pluck just a, a pretty.

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Large piece of Rosemary and just stuck it into their, um, shirt pocket.

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And they would then just, as they were walking around, they

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would crush it and smell it.

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And they said that it really helped them feel better.

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Let me look and see if I look, you're doing a really good

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job with this very thorough.

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Well, I'm doing two things at once, so , you have to keep me honest.

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Do you want me to take over?

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Is it hard to, that's not the, oh, okay.

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Conceit of the episode, mom.

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There you go.

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There you go.

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Well, and I'm paying you so well for this.

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What was the fee we discussed?

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I, I, I think it's that little word?

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Free three.

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Uh, I thought it was dinner.

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Dinner.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Dinner was mentioned real new Mexican, Mexican food tonight.

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Yes.

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So I find twice a week really just discourages them.

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I think they have to fly away, takes 'em a while to come back

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reestablish and then I hit 'em again.

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And then after about a month, they're.

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Totally done.

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What says I hate that Terry's like how cops get rid of skateboarders at malls.

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Yeah.

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That's exactly what you think.

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Well, I did know I was gonna be a bug NA,

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but my Rosemary is already thanking.

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Can I show you this one area?

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Yeah.

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There's a, a right in that area?

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Yeah.

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Hey,

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I almost thought about spraying you.

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I don't wanna make you curse on your first in-person recording.

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I would throw tons and tons of extra hot green chili on your food tonight.

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Oh my gosh.

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I am definitely feeling it from the extra green chili pepperoni pizza last.

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Oh yeah.

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That is a whole, you have to plan the next day accordingly.

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Like I need to, I'm flying tomorrow.

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I need to.

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And people are gonna be in the same cabin with, yeah.

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I need to be a little more respectful with my diet tonight.

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are we, what do you think?

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Are we done?

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Is this officially?

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I think that's great.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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That is awesome.

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Good.

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It didn't.

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I me to take this from here.

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Oh yeah.

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Cool.

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So pest, pest removal, the, uh, water therapy way.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Water hose.

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Well, I think we did our task.

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It's time to start thinking about ordering.

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Sounds good to me.

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Cool.

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All right.

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Any final messages of hope for the audience?

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Oh, just enjoy the abundance of summer.

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It's it's just renewing and just, Ugh.

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Just makes one feel so good to get out into nature and the garden.

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So enjoy you heard it from the, the lady herself.

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we'll catch you guys in the garden next time.

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I know what you're thinking.

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I need more Albuquerque.

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Do not worry.

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On our next episode.

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We'll actually be sharing part two of mom bossing me around in her yard.

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So there is so much more where that came from in the meantime,

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check us out on Instagram.

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We are fresh clippings.

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I'll post a few pictures from mom's garden.

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It's beautiful.

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You'll really love it.

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I have a question too.

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Do you have a mom who likes to boss you around in the yard?

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Do you have a mom who would appreciate being shown how to

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download and listen to podcasts?

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Why not send her this episode of clippings?

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She can listen to us on Spotify, apple podcasts, anything else, but also

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our website, fresh clippings dot.

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Thanks so much for joining us on plant time.

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I'll catch you next week.

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So I think what's happening is that is now becoming an established tree.

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And what used to work for it is no longer, it needs more.

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Good enough.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I've got a variety of different nozzles that would be so handy if

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you, do you have to, what time is it?

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It's five 30.

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When do you wanna eat?

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I should probably call in the yeah.

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Ench lot order.

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Yep.

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Dad said he wants the mixed Ench lot plate.

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Really good.

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I haven't looked at the menu, but I'm are their choices.

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Yeah.

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Okay.