WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY: Raising Rabbits w. Survivor Jane on The Changing Earth

Welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co host Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive and thrive. And now here's your host Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Chapter eighteen. Exhausted by the long days of controlling traffic flowing in and out, Cole sat in the mess hall with Monroe and Chappie. What I wouldn't give to be back in Reno, Chappie declared, dreamily, I could go for a drink and the company of a woman. Monroe agreed, joining him in his imagination. Hell, I'd prefer the quarantine ten over this, Coley added, laughing at his joke. They're bringing in more refugees to start holding a wall along the border. Chappi explained, I was talking with some of those Feds and they told me that the Central Region is doing the same. Monroe added, walls to divide the country. Cole mused under his breath, walls have always kept people safe. Monroe commented, they're just scared of the sick. Chappy countered, those jerks from the Colonel's police force didn't seem to concern. Monroe replied, I've been looking into them. Commander Carl Gray has been put in charge of them. Cole added, those guys were pissed you didn't give them priority loading, Chappy said, with a smile and a chuckle. Serves them right. We could have used the help, Cole declared, spitefully. What's the deal with this guy? Commander Gray? Monroe inquired, he was a US marshal before the fall, dealt with mob crime in the east. Cole informed him. Nice, Chappy declared, Tommy guns, he made machine guns sounds goofing around like a child. Knock that crap off, Chappie, what freaking year do you think it is? Monroe teased. I'm just saying, if you're gonna be a gangster, you've got to have a Tommy gun. Chappie insisted, and hot chicks, Monroe added. Speaking of how long do you think we'll be down here? Chappy wondered, feeling his friend's distress, Cole explained, I'm not sure how long this sick will last. Maybe after they get the wall up and the border secured. Rising from his chair, Chappy declared, in that case, let's go build a wall, Returning to their posts patrolling the refugees building the wall, The day turned from bad to worse as the rain began to pour down. The FEDS drove the refugees forward, and Coal's heart ached for the people toiling in the miserable conditions. Returning to the shelter of a tiny lean to, Cole noticed a hooded figure standing in the shadows of a building. Eyes on the shady ca character over there, Monroe said, eyeballing the same individual. I see it. I think I recognize that frame, Cole admitted, nonchalantly. You want me to check it out? Major chap, he wondered, heading out into the rain, Cole replied, no, I got this. If it's who I think it is, we wouldn't have seen her unless she wanted us to stay frosty, Major Monroe advised, watching him leave. Thanks for your concern, honey, Cole teased, stomping through the mud. His suspicions were confirmed as he approached. What are you doing out here all alone? Cole queried. Cassidy stepped forward and answered, you should know me better than that. A large man stepped out of the shadows behind her. Hello, vergis he commented, Hi, Philip, nice to see you have her back. Cole praised him always. Philip replied, what brings you so far north? Cassidy? Can I just stop by for a visit, she wondered? Aren't thrilled with the militia activities as of late? They're saying it's undermining our efforts, Cole warned her. Cassidy laughed at his information. Good. Just because we're recovering doesn't give them the right to circumvent the constitution. Knowing she was not here to discuss politics, Cole asked, why don't you tell me why you're here. Dolores needs supplies. She's trying to help the freetowns in the west, but the sick is spreading like wildfire. We're digging mass graves now, Cassidy explained, with fear in her eyes, concern for her well being and his friends out west. Cole took a deep breath, unsure how he could help. I've made sure security is tight. Come on, Vergis, you must know a way, she pleaded. Her brown eyes bagged him for mercy and it melted his heart. However, helping her meant betraying his unit. She touched his hand gently, and Cole couldn't refuse her. The crews switch out at oh three hundred, that's your window. Look here, Urdas grabbed a stick, leaning down to draw in the mud. She stood close to him so she could follow his directions. Her smell was intoxicating and cold. Desperately wanted to reach out and hold her. He remembered how her naked body glistened in the moonlight and the softness of her skin. Trying to focus, he began to draw. The fencing is weak here. You'll need bolt cutters, but it's only two bolts. I'm assuming she needs IVY packs the most, he asked, knowing they were in high demand. How did you know, she asked, sarcastically. Lucky guess, Cole commented, before continuing, there are eight pod buildings. The IVY supplies are in this one. There's a searchlight here. The buildings all have coated locks. I can take care of that, Philip countered, Really, you'll have to show me that one day, Cole declared, curiously. Anyway, that's your route. He looked up at her and stared into her eyes. Cassidy, I can't help you if you're caught. I wouldn't ask you to major, she said, flirtatiously. You pick your night. I don't want to know any more about it. Cole replied, wondering why he had agreed to help her. Thank you, Vergis, she replied, and hugged him tightly. He knew precisely why he agreed to help. He watched her longingly as she faded back into the shadows. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number four hundred and thirteen, Season fifteen, episode eight. Hey Chin, what's up? Hey? Chin's up? Y'all and I have a super awesome my pleasure guest survivor Jane is here with us. Hi, Jane, how you do in? Hey? Hi, hate both of you. Glad to be here, so happy to have you here. We're just talking. I'm happy to provide you with an excuse to be able to just sheillax for a few minutes with us. Yes, shellax is it? Yes? Thank you? Yeah? Yeah. So very excited for Prepper Camp coming up the end of September. It's always a good time. I can't quite talk about it. I'm so excited. You know, we're excited too. It's a lot of work and a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that people don't even get to see. But you know, this is ricking my our labor of love, and this is our ministry, our mission, our way to educate. So just so excited the lineup is going to be awesome this year. Isn't it amazing how those labors love just keep us so busy? Oh yeah, they do, they do. But you know what, you know, you try to put all of that energy in so that people don't notice that you put all that energy in. You know that it goes as flawless as it can be. Yeah, that's truth of it is. You know, it's almost at least ten months out of the year that's consistent consistently, you know, day after day after day after the day, it does not stop. It's it's just a continuous of it. You know, we have a downtime after the event, you know, at the end of September, we have all of October November, and then we just hit the floor running again come December. So it's just we have downtime to clean the equipment and do all that other fun stuff and then we're you know, starting all over again. Yeah, I was just talking to my mom about that. She was like, wow, they put on this whole event every year. How long. I'm like, ten's be the ten year anniversary and she's like, man, that is just full time gig right there. It has to be to be able. To We thought maybe if we got one under our belt, we would be doing good, you know. Right. Oh, And after that first one, Rick said never again, No way would I do something like this, and we just started right back up. You know, you don't even think about it, and it's just I don't know where ten is gone, but it it's flown by, and we've made so many just thousands and thousands of friends all over the country, in the world, yeah, and the world, thank you, yes, in the world. M So I feel the same way about my audio drama. After season two, I was like, that's it. I'm done. Like it took me a year to pull that off, endless hours of doing audio editing till four in the morning. I was like, it's over. And then everyone's like, well, when are we doing the next one? That was so much fun. I'm like, yeah, you just sit there and record lines, so but yeah, definitely a good time. And then you play thelorus and the audio drama. So for everybody who doesn't know, that says dolorous and you just love being the brothel the brothel house, Yes. You know what I guess I like. And the boss is what it is. Yeah, yeah, there. I don't get to be here on the homestead, so at least I can be in charge of. Something that's right. Yeah, the power woman, she is, she is the power player. That's why I was like, all right, all right, so you do a great job at it, and I really really thank you for. It. I know. The last one was quite a ordeal. I heard that you had to lock yourself in the bathroom and Rick had to go out and kick animal bots all day to get him to stay quiet. You know what I mean. That's around here. We live it, and I mean we literally have animal sounds, round sounds. So I'm even now as a recording, you might hear a rooster, or you might hear a goat, or you might hear a dog, or you might even hear the old goat. Well that's I don't know what you're gonna hear. That's what I had heard, like the in one of them, and I'm like, what's there, like a dove with you or so I thought you had a dove on your shoulder here. Right the wall that I was recording in actually on the other side, I was where our goats, the boy goats were, and they're probably going at it. I'm so used to hearing things that I don't I don't even discount it anymore. I do discount it, you know, it's just normal every day, right, not realizing that, Yeah, you had you had you had some type of a brawl going on back there. So I was hoping you could mix that into the sound bite and make it just some type Yeah. Yeah, maybe maybe in the future, like cause your character goes far. I'm not going to give any spoilers, but no, so we can definitely maybe work that in the future. Yeah you need animal sounds, I got. Them right, Oh okay, So speaking of animals today, we're talking rabbits, and I myself have done rabbits in the past, but it was miserable. It didn't go well. I got a brother and sister there. It's like the only thing you can't mate or whatever. It was an agerie. But you've been really successful. You have a special well not a special but you have a unique I think, pretty unique breed of rabbit. What is that rabbit called again. It's called it's called Champagne Darjeon, and it means nothing more than big gray rabbit, you know. And they are huge. They're just big old honking things, very meaty, pretty docile, you know, they're not aggressive. And we've just had a success and that's the only rabbit that we have had, or the type of rabbit that we've had. Yeah, I knew it was like something unique, very unique name, and I was like, I can never remember what it is, so. Just an old snooty name for gray rabbit, silver or something. I'm like, that's not it. Well, silver gray, you know, I'm like, yeah, the for the commoners like the rest of us, it's yeah, it's silver silver rabbit. For the Americans it's silver something. Yeah. There pitch black right when they're born, Aren't there pitch black when they're babies? And then they change. Are and I will and I'm honest, you know. We we did the traditional, We did the traditional in the cage type of situation where you take George over to meet Susie and that's work, and that's we kept a long list along who was with who and what have you. And we made the mistake of getting the metal cages that had the metal pool outs in it, and their urine is so caustic that it literally will eat through anything and everything. And Rick had created he had all the rabbits cage and I'm thinking we had we had two levels, and we had probably about I'm gonna say eight to ten cages. And he created this shoot at a corrugated paneling so that it went at a slant from one end to the bunny cages, and it went down towards the ground. And as they pooted, we didn't have any trays there at all. It was just the mesh and they would just pooty and duty and it would all go down into a bucket and then we could actually take it out and use it as fertilizer. And even that, you know, that's a lot of you don't you want your farm to actually work with you and not against you, right, you know, it's hard enough to do work, but then to have to actually work to do work. It was just too much. So we decided that we would work into a colony for Matt where they're all running around, you know, they're all locked in. Yes, nice time. But they actually can go out and they dig. Oh my gosh, dude, they dig. They're gonna hit China one day. Yeah, but you know, I'm always up there burying up, you know, the holes that they dig and whatever. I thought your system looked like they were all together. And my Mom's like, no, no, no, because if you put them all together, they will kill each other. Blah blah blah blah blah. And that is what Sarah, That is exactly what everybody says. Oh no, they're gonna tear each other up and they're gonna kill each other. And I went to Walmart and I got those bakery buckets that you can get for a dollar, the big five gallon buckets, and I cut half of the lid out so it was like a big opening. And I've got like four or five of those. I put straw on them, and the bunnies going there and that's their nesting boxes. I mean, how cheap is that? Yeah, dollar in that I can clean them out. I can spray them out because I punch a little holes so the yurin can go down into the ground. I have feeders that I use. Let me see what I guess they could be for goats and whatever that you hook on on the the the wall is self feeders that you can drill in m H. I have those and I just fill their food up during the morning. And I actually have dog waterers, you know that you have like a three gallon water jug and then the water comes out by gravity. I have two of those and that's what they drink out of with their and I have a cat door that they go in and out of during the day and then I lock it up at night. Like a slide doors at night. Right, yeah, all the yeah, so all the bunnies coming. Now. I have a regular barn door that I go in to clean and what have you. But that's that shut and the goats go the goats, the rabbits go, you know, in and out. They want to come in and get cool, so if they want to go. They basically have like a shed where they can just be in there at random. They're not in any cages, and then they have their outdoor run. It's basically like how you're doing chickens, but with rabbits. That's exactly right, exactly right, and it is just so less laid labor intension. They're happier because they can get out there and run around and chase each each other and they're not all caged up. And to me, I'm thinking, I don't want to be caged I want to just be sitting locked up all the time. And yeah, yeah, no, I totally agree. And we did the same shoot the same like, oh, this will make it so easy all their poopile just fall down here and then go right down to where we collect it for for the gardens and stuff. It didn't work. It got all hashed up and then the page will catch. It's hard. Yeah, And you know a lot of times you see YouTube videos out there, and I'm sure we've all experienced in stat where we've seen something and it just looks fantastic. But I wish that YouTubers would do follow ups after six months to show us that, oh, you know, that really didn't work, York, because a lot of things I've seen and I they say that's brilliant, and then you do it and then you see the flaws of oh no, the reason that doesn't work is because this and this and that. And it's not to say anything bad about the person that put the video up, but it helps us all because we're all in this for education. Yes, this is we all want to have that magic way of doing something so that we're not working so hard and that we can spend time doing other things. So this is just a learning process with all of our animals. That's if we're experts. We're experts in mistakes. Yeah, I like, I say, I saw your setup, and I'm like, she is running them all together. There's no way that they're separating. So the males are right in there with the goals and the babies, and the babies and the baby. The babies are there rabbits that live in the yard. They're not in a little cage. They're not separated from each other, and they don't go and kill each other. No, No, I have the males and the females. And then of course the babies stay in the nesting boxes. Mamas will make sure they stay in there until they're old enough and their eyes are open and they're big enough that they can get out there and start nibbling on solid foods and going out too. They followed the lead of the mom and dad, so they'll come back in at night too. About how many males do you have in proportion of females in there. Do you do? You do? You know what? I wish I could tell you about it anymore? How don't does it take from me? I have to look at it. I look at the females, but your size mm hmm, yeah, you know as far as Yeah, we we wait for at least three months. Ok. You know, we could go longer because that's what happens, but you know, at least until three months. So there's been times where we have had a bet there was fifty fifty you know, it seemed like it anyhow, rabbits running around in there. But yeah, we try to kind of thin it out and just make sure. But after the three months time, now do we have them marked so okay you're this old that you're that old. No, we don't. We just kind of look and we look at the size, and like I said, these are huge, huge rabbits. So, like Jennids said, or I had mentioned that, when they're babies, they're solid black and then all of a sudden, as they get older, after they get maybe three weeks four weeks old, they start that gray and then they look like they've got mange, you know, because they're just like black and gray, and they look pitful, just like, what do you want to be Do you want to be gray? Do you want to be black? You know what? You know. So it takes a while until they can get all that black out and all the gray comes in, and then they look like what they're supposed to, the big gray rabbit. And Rick has a cool feed growing system, right, is that what you used primarily to feed them? Kind of walk us through what you're feeding them. Well, actually we had when we created the the bunny barn. He actually did that. He built an outside where they run, but we actually had put the wire over the top of it also because we're afraid hawks would come down in. Well, we had a natural grape vine that was growing up the side, so it just naturally covered over the top of the run. So that gave them that instant, the instant shade that they needed. Then we threw out seed and we had it just beautifully lush green grass. One of the learning lessons of rabbits and colonies is they love to dig, and they destroyed that like nobody's business. I mean, it was just like so I have to literally oh yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes. Now it's just and chickens just ably it looks like desolate. Yeah, it's just it's just totally and that's shocking to people because you see these beautiful pictures on homesteads and the big rolling green grass and the wood have you. That's like going to Sunday school and dressing up really nice. You don't always look like that, you know, And that's the same thing as for some of these homesteads. My homestead, the Bunny Run, started out beautiful and as it ends up, so I have grass that is growing all over the property and I literally will just take a big five gallon bucket a clippings and cut it and bring in for them to eat. I also have ok naw with spinach and the greenhouse that I cut for them, and I also have leaf lettuce that I cut for them. And so they pretty much live off of the homestead here of what what we provide them. And like I said, they have their waterers. So you're buying any kind of a pellet forum though too as well. You know, we have pellet, but we don't rely on that. You know, they they will get some of the pellet food, but we're just always especially with all of this, I think it was like maybe and I can't remember, there was like maybe six months back where there was like, what's in this food. With the chicken food I have and everything? Yes, yeah, my chickens totally quit laying. So I found a local Texas brand here and I started buying their food and giving them a crack corn again and. Good for you. Yeah yeah, and and so we were nervous about that too. So we have been really working on trying to supplement more of the that we have here are the waste that we have that we can give to the chickens or the pigs and the uh, the ducks and and everything like that. So yes, we do give them on pellets, but again we're trying to to steer away from that if we can, or as much as we can, because there's so much that's growing here on the property that the rabbits can eat and they can and we know what's going in in their. I even did started, uh sprouting my own lentils and just making trays of sprouted lentils for them for the chickens. And I'm doing that in the greenhouse, but I'm doing barley okay, perfect, Yeah, yep, just got a big old bag ordered from the like you said, the local, the good, the guys that you could trust locally to go in and get feed from instead of these big commercial uh feed stores. And so yeah, I bought a big old bag of barley for one cup, you know, to put in you know, your tray, and then you get this within five six days, You've got a big old thing of sprouts and I'll bring that out to the rabbits, the the ducks and the chickens. So again, that's just food that you're doing. Pardon me, did you like the California juice bars for take all the fancy little green drinks? You know what? This is a homestead, mister Mann. My fancy days are over? You kidding me? The wheat grass option, yeah, I know what he's said. This is just eat it and hush up. Yeah, no, that's a good idea. And I bet you because the lun tolls, I mean you can buy them pretty bulk, but like, I bet you can buy the barlay much easier and a bolt quantity there. And that's what we did. Yeah, because I was just so afraid. It was like, Okay, I don't know what's going on, and I need to really, really step it up as far as you know, making sure. Okay, if I couldn't go any place, can I feed them? And like I said, there's so many cuttings and things that I can take out of the garden itself, but of course it takes work. I have to take, you know, the time out to go do that too, so I can do it in the greenhouse. Oh, they're unbelievably and you can cut them in fours or whatever pieces, you know, chunks, they're all mountain You're done. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, they're cake walk They're they're really easy. If you guys haven't tried that yet for your chickens and your animals, are really really worth it. You know. I just went on Amazon ordered oh go ahead, No, I was just gonna say. I just bought like eight stolite little shoe box containers, took the lids off, poked holes in the bottom of them, you know, and just had them staggered. So you spray one in the morning, it goes down to the other four, you know, and then two rows. I mean, it's like that's kind of idiot proof, and it's a fast way to get. One of those absolute greenhouse racks. And and yeah, yeah, and then I can yeah, because I could expand it. Yep, so I have more rotating. That's a great idea. Oh. I like that. It really is, and it's idiot proof and it's something that everybody can do. Have you heard about the vinegar that they're now like selling the vinegar that's one downgrade from what you need. To can Yes, yes, you know. I well, you know what when I look at things and a lot of people, we're creatures of habit period. And if you look on the side of a canning jar, it says it's good for one year right now, your mother and her mother and her mother, those jars lasted for five to ten sometimes you know, fifteen years once it was sealed. It was sealed. If it was kept in a good climate control area, nice and dark and cool, it was fine. But they have made things like anything else. They've made things so cheap anymore. They that to me gut feeling is they don't want you to store food. Now, whoever that is who they is is you know you can just come up without yourself, but they don't want you canning. And to me, and it's just a personal opinion, I just think that this is just another creative way, because you can't can unless it's five percent vinegar. You can use can use it higher. But there and who who stops to look at their vinegar? Right, you're so wrapping off the shelf. Who would look at that? Well? I just so happened to look at the box of the canning jars one time. Why I don't have a clue, And it was like one year. What do you mean one year? Yes, it's like this is not could be used up to one year? It's like, no, these things are supposed to last forever and ever. And unfortunately even canning equipment and canning supplies are becoming a consumer product, which is you consume it and then you discard it. I get it. So yeah, like somebody vinegar, you know, somebody has time, like needs to start an American made like canning process again, canning where we have canning stuff that's made in the United States again, because you know, I asked you the question even last time that I had John was like, you know, well, what do you do post apocalyptic when how do you get more jars? Right? Well, you know what I do? And I. There's there's these bands and I think I talked maybe a bit, and if I won't, I'll share it again. There's a company that actually harvests guard that sells just rings and they're the rubber gasket rings. Well you can buy or you could at the time. Now maybe people have become wise to it too, but you can buy those gaskets. I got like a hundred of them for twenty dollars. They're good for up to five to ten uses each. Alrighty, I'm already up. You know. Look, you know I could use them over and over and over and over again. So I took a bottle of I took a jar of distilled water, and I canned it with one of those gaskets. I did that. I think I did that two years ago. And I have it sitting in my kitchen up on the window where it gets heat and it gets cold, and that thing is solid. It has not budged. And so I'm saying, okay, that's a good test for me that the thing is going to seal. Because if I would have put it in my pantry where it's nice and climate controlled as far as the coolness and it's dry and it's dark and all that other stuff, but I wanted it in the real world where it got hot so it could expand or it could get cold or whatever it was. And that's that to me. I went and I bought a lot of them. I bought probably, I don't know, maybe five hundred of those because I'm thinking, Okay, that's going to get me through a long, long time. And if they said that they're good for five or ten uses, they could be used for longer. Who knows. I don't know. But the stuff that they're putting on the cannon lids now, it's almost like the chewing gum wrappers. Yeah, you know, the foil that you get it. I mean you're so thin that it's like they buckle. Yes, they're cautious with it. Yep. Now the whole lid one and again that's yes. And that's again I'm saying consumer because they don't want you to reuse those lids again, they want you to be really cautious. Yeah. So I mean, is a conspiracy? I don't know, But you know what, I don't want to be the one caught with my breeches around my ankles, you know. I want to make sure that I am able to can whatever we produce up here and can it in a healthy way so that the lids aren't going to and do I say my lids absolutely, I say. Everything I do too. I'm like, you know what, maybe I can use it. You know whatever, we'll we'll cross. Something, you know, if they're not damaged, if they still, if the rubbers not, you know, got a really serious run in it, groove in it. Absolutely I'll use it. And I'll also use the the tops, like the spaghetti jar, the the jilly jar things that make the pop sound. The lug lids Yep, yeah, I can pickles at those last year and they turned out fine. I love that idea too. I mean, well with the vinegar, I mean you're already a step in the right direction. So I mean, as long as you can create a seal and then you do the uh, well, everybody's got to come to Prepper camp and see your class because that the little trick they have for the sealed up is just awesome. So yeah, good stuff, very good stuff. Well, I like I say, I knew that when I was watching Oh gosh, oh the latest YouTube video that you guys did that was incredible. It was a great YouTube video that you guys did about your homestead and when you guys were talking about your bunny area. I was like, that is not like set up. That's set up like I set up my chickens. And if it is that easy, then I could definitely pull that off. Now, how do you guys kill them like? Cause I've seen like, uh, just pull their head. I'm sure Rick's the one doing it. Maybe, I don't know. You you know what I usually I get no, no, no when it's naked. You know. Once, once Rick has asked them to remove their coats and their heads, then you know, I get the I get the the the whatever you would put the spit. On broomstick or he's just pulling it or what what's he doing? No, he literally would just pull it off. Yeah, because lead to tell you the truth, it is like pulling off a jacket, you know, I mean, it's that easy. Yeah, it just is not nasty at all. Do you guys do anything with the skins? Well, you know I have, I've got a lot of them in my freezer because I do want to do something. I don't know what I would do with them, but I just think it's such good. Yeah. That that's something that I taught myself how to do. Was tanning and it's really really cool one. So using. It's a chemical alium alum alum right, alium, you can all you can chemically treat it. It's one of the easiest ways to do it. And then I had I had met this friend who did like beaver hides and stuff like that, and you know, you've got to just work that skin and work that skin and work that skin to get it soft. And his were the softest, softest skins. And I was like, how do you do that? So what he did was he took the heater element out of an old dryer and then he'd put the skins in there with like rocks and just let them tumble and tumble and tumble and tumble. And so leather it just softened. Yes, Yes, he didn't do any work. I was like, what that is such a yeah, yeah, because I've worked. Record can't see I don't have that luxury. Yeah yeah, I mean, honestly, it's it's just right now. In our life, you know, it's always been just I don't have the luxury. You just sit there and just scrape that, right, you know, its scrape and scrape. I just don't have that time. I got to be doing it. It takes so long and hit for so long and it still wasn't that soft. And I was like, okay, how are you doing this and like cranking them out? And that's what he did was he took the heating element out of an old dryer and then you put stones in there with it and just let it tumble and boom. Now you've got soft skins. You didn't even have to work them. Because that's what you that's what you need. You're breaking down that the uh, the fibers or what have you that are holding together. So yeah, so there's your trick. And say, what are you doing? I said, I'm taking the here this dry. Yeah. And once you know, once you get them, so you first have to salt them and get all that stuff off of them, give them the initial shirt down and whatnot, you know. But yeah, and then you soak them in the alum and that chemically treats them and then after that you can throw them right in that dryer and boom you've got soft skins. Wow. So that could right? Yeah, I mean, well, you know the neat thing about rabbit meat is that it's like chicken. It literally takes on whatever it is that you're making. So I have made chicken spaghetti, I've made chicken cord on blue, I've made baked chicken made I mean chicken rabbit rabbit I made, you know all. Yeah, anything that I would make a chicken, I can make with rabbit. You know, you just want to make sure that you marinate it real well. A lot of people say, oh, it's it's tough, and you put it in a slope cook cooker, you put it in a insta pot. So many people are using those this the pot things. You know. It's just it's as tender as can be. You can can it, so you can go ahead and cut it up in in bone or out of bone off phone, you know. So there's just so many versatile things that you can do with it. In a pinch, if you can't get to chickens, or you didn't have chickens, or you needed to have some protein, and it's so lean that you know, the sky's a limited on what you can do. You can actually add some pork fat to it, and you can make burgers with it. I mean, there's just so many foods that you can make with it. Yeah, that's awesome, that's I really would love to try it again. Go ahead. I was looking at Rick's book, The Secret of Livestock of Survival, and I was surprised that rabbits have like some of the highest percent of protein like turkey all it's it's way about. I was surprised to see how how much protein? Like no fat. So that's the other thing you can't Yeah, yeah, you gotta have some fat in there, and. That's why you have to add Yes, you have to add that pork fat to to make bunny burgers. If not, there's nothing to make. Out, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's the binder. Yeah that makes sense. That makes sense. So we'll wrap it up. I want to just talk a little bit about what's what are you most excited for? Oh, actually, hold on before we go there. So I had asked Rick when he was on my show, asked how he how he met you and how because I needed a question for him that he wouldn't expect, right, I didn't want him to be prepared for the question. So, from your point of view, how did you meet Rick? And walk us through that? How that all? I'm not going to walk you through. And I get to tell you that we met through mutual friends, and our first date was at Disney World, and it was kind of like from that first night on, we just were a couple and we have been a couple since then. I mean, it's just like we're a little different because anybody that's met Rick knows that he's kind. He almost looks gruff, he almost looks like, you know, he just kind of doesn't want to talk to anybody or whatever. And me, I'm just like a water wiggle, you know, I'm just like all over the place. Yes, and that's exactly what it was. But we realized that we had a lot in common even though we had different personalities. I mean, he he's a very very smart man, a very very very very smart man, which I appreciate it. You know, I liked somebody that had, you know, something upstairs, and I had come out of the legal field, so it was nice to be able to talk to somebody that had conversational skills, if you would. And but he also likes to play, you know, he's he's uh, he's the type that he would write little notes. He'd fix a sandwich and to send me to work, and he'd put a little note in there and it would be like an embarrassing note type of thing, so you would just he didn't want to open your little lunch bag because he didn't know what he was going to say. In their type of thing. He just was like that, you know, he just or he'd put old sock in my lunch. But but you know, it's just like he just he like I like humor, I like funny things, and I like that he's sentimental. I like that, you know. So, like I said, it was just we've been we have been together forever, you know, because we've been together almost day and night, day and night, day and night. It seems like, you know, so I don't know if that jives with what his conversation was. He probably said that he ordered me from the mayor or something like that. Order bride. No, he said that the thing he loved most was that you were dead honest, very very very Yeah. I am. I am honest. I mean, you know, I I don't I can't tolerate lying, cheating, just like you know, I just I don't stealing. I just I don't understand it and I can't. And so you know he could underst and that and don't I don't care what it is, just don't lie. Don't I don't lie. That's all. Unfortunately too many people. Oh yep, it's a sinking foundation. Well you guys. Have you? Yeah, you guys are the cutest, like the ultimate yang and yang. So you know, I always like my husband and I have been together for a lot of years. Now, I know our past a drinking age. Our relationship is past drinking age. And so I always like, you know, especially in this day and age where everybody, it seems divorced is part of marriage or whatever. You know, I always love to pick brains of well, how did it start for you guys, because you know it's very special to have that type of relationship, and oh it is. Well, I will tell you I had a practice I had a practice husband, and he had a practice wife. So we knew. We knew right away that didn't work. We don't want it. And I told him I won't do this again. I will I won't. I will never do this again. So you better be sure right if you want me in your life. But it's forever love. There's not going to be any quitting it. And he understood that. And so I mean good, bad, and disferent, which is what life is. All about Did you say that to him with a shovel and a pickaxe in your head? You know it? Actually it might have been a pew pew. I don't know that part. That's just details, okay. And one question, what are you most excited about for this year at proper Camp? Sarah? You know the answer already. It's the people. Yeah, it's the people. I mean, every year I get to bring to one location everybody that I've been able to talk to online all year and sometimes years eleven. I mean, I started prepper Talk back in two thousand and eleven, and I still know people from way back there that I have never personally met until they came to Prepper Camp. Yeah, you told me, you told me. It's just amazing you, Sarah. Don't be one of those people that says they're gonna come meet me and never done. And I was like, no, ma'am, I'm coming. And you know, it's funny because I'll have people come up to me and say hi, I'm Mary Sue with the blue ribbon in her hair, and I'm thinking, oh, who says? You know we talk all the time on Twitter or Facebook, is like, oh, come on, brain thing, you know, because it's like a little moniker or an avatar or whatever in comparison with actually meeting a person, and then you're like, oh, you know, and then you feel bad that you don't really recognize the name because so many names come through. It was basically. Awesome. The first time we met, you were like, oh, you're not what I expected. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, you. Know, but that's you. Just somehow your brain and I don't know what it does, but it has preconceived of who you are and what you look like. And then all of a sudden you meet and it's like, oh, wow, you're you're taller, you're shorter, you're wider, You're not wider. You know, it's just we're not taller. We're going to put it that way. No, I definitely, well I kind of knew. I mean it was like you're lacking height. I'm sorry, you just were not paying attention when that came around. But awesome. But it is the people. It is the people, definitely. I mean, I don't get a chance when I do. When I'm working all year and I'm putting the memes together for the classes and the speakers, and I'm thinking, oh, that's a good class, you know, reading the descriptions and stuff as oh, that's a good one too. Oh that's good. That's good, and it's like, oh, I wanted to go to that one. I have never been able to go to a class in nine years. I've just down over and. Class and it's just like, man, all these people are smarter than me. And I'm putting the event on. It's like this is right. Yeah, there's talent. Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. You guys line them up. It's awesome and a great lineup this year as well. Gosh, the guy from Forward Observer is going to be there. Yeah, Mike Shelby. Mike Shelby. Yeah, and I haven't got a chance to beat him. When we first started to come to Prepper Camp. That was like the first year he didn't come, and then he hasn't been there since we've been there, and so this is the first year that I'll actually get to meet him in person. So that'll be awesome. Oh yeah, there's a lot of a lot of new people coming in a lot of new classes. We always try to make it at least twenty to twenty two new classes every year. There's just some classes that people want and consistent. When we get feedback at the end of the year, which we hope anybody go into Prepper Camp, well please, you know, send us what you like, what you didn't like, what, because I'll promise you there are duds when we think that there's going to be a great class and all of a sudden it turns out that it's not what we thought or what they said they was going to be. Yeah, unfortunately we don't invite them back. But there are classes that people want to see. They want them every year and they will come and sit in the class for three years, four years, nine years. You know, I was surprised that was happening with the self defense class. Like people are like, I'm back this year, I'm back every day this year. I'm lying it. Okay, Wow, we're doing the same thing. You just can't get enough that a gold star for you. I mean, they love what you're doing, and that's what we want. We want people. You know, you make your on schedule. You know, we throw the classes out there, but it's up to you. If you want to see something three times in a row, or you want to see you know, your wife or your husband go one way and the other one goes the opposite way. Whatever it is. You know, I want it to be your schedule. You know, you make it nothing worse than regiment. You know, where you have to do this, you have to do that. That's not fun. I agree, I agree. So we try to make it as unique as we can in that way. Love it. And the special part about camp is is the networking and just getting to meet people, because like the people that teach the class, they're not like they don't teach a class and then go to the green room and you don't see them like you mingle. You can go sit and eat lunch or you know, like just chat at their booth or see them as they're walking. You know, sit at the fire with us that night. Yep. It's like and you know what that is. That's exactly what we want. That's exactly what we don't want, Prima donnas. You know, we don't want anybody. We want a person that they spend the time, they spend the energy and the money to come to this camp. We want them to have access to the speakers and to other attendees. You'll see people sitting there talking to each other and it's like, oh, I just met him, he's from so and so, and you know, and it's it does your heart good to know that we're all coming together and it is a big networking. Their friendships have been made lifelong friendship purely out of people coming to Prepper Camp and meeting others in the campground or in the in the the vendor area, or they're booth next door to each other as a as a merchant. You know, it's just it's great to see. And that's exactly Chen, that's exactly what we want. We want people to be able to come up to the speakers and have lunch with them or talk with them and fellowship with them. Would be like you're setting up camp and one of the speakers leat right next to you setting up their tent. They're their camp or whatever, and like you guys are going back and forth. It's just really special. Yep, it is. It's a really cool thing you've done. Jane. Well, it's a teamwork. And it's not just Rick and I. It's a whole it's our organization. It's all of us. Absolutely, we can't take credit for it. And plus it like I said, it is it is our ministry and we have to give glory to God, because there's just no way that two people could put this together by their self. Yes, there's just no way. God has just Yes, He's opened these doors of people that we can contact and we can invite to And this is a self financed event. I mean, the from the tickets goes to paying for the the attents and paying for the chairs, and paying for the the the porta potties and paying for the the you know, on and on and on and on and on. It's it's not a it's not a money maker. And I think if it was a moneymaker in all honesty, and we would fail. We would fail very very big, because it's it's just the motivation would be. And I think that's where a lot of events fall flat is because they're looking at the dollar amount that could be brought in opposed to how much education you can give somebody else that they can educate their community. Yep, yeah, very much respect on that one. Well, Jane, we could go all night long, honestly, we could. Soon enough, Soon enough, we're gonna be able to hang out and and have that conversation. So still got tickets for sale. We still have tickets for sale. We'll be selling them up into two weeks before the event. Go to preppercant dot com. I mean it says easy as you can be. Just click on the little Hamburger three dashes up there to see where you can buy your ticket gets right on the front page. You can click on that. You will not regret it. Once you come, You'll be coming back God willing every year. I mean, it's just that's just a pilgrimage that most people just plan on their schedules every September preper camp yep. That's what it is in the summertime, yep. And that's what it is. We encourage you to bring your family, We encourage you to bring your friends. We encourage you to fellowship and and enjoy each other. And that's It's just one. It's just a The atmosphere is positive. People are smiling, people are happy. Even if it rains, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. All of the best days of like I've been when I was just pouring everybody's hiding the tents together. Yeah yeah, it's great, perfect, that's gonna have the trailer now. Coy yep. Yeah, but you know what those are fun stories. I remember, you know where we had such a gust of wind. One not that it took somebody's camper thing off. Everybody kind of rallied together and they put it all together. It took I mean the entrance too. You guys had the entrance all set up. I mean to tell you that they was blowing to pieces and people were waiting in line to come in that morning. And we got duct tape, and we had sticks, and we had and we had men holding up corners and we duct taped it. And nobody was the wiser. Nobody ever said, look at this place. And it was just done teamwork. It was people. The attendees that were waiting to come into the event all chipped in and made it look awesome. And it's just that's what prepper camp is about. Everybody helping everybody else. And it just that's when you know you're doing something right. You got it, You got it alrighty Jane. Well, I gotta let you go get through my so we can get through some change in earth news. But I can't wait to see you in September. Always listener, thank you so much for inviting me back. And if you have another hour down the road, you want to talk about something else. I'm always welcome. I mean I'm always open. You are always welcome. You got that right on that head? All right? Bye bye, take care all right bye bye. Oh man, I just love that lady. She's a best Oh Sarah, we really need to have notes when we go into a show with Jane because there's so much dead air, I know. Right, like we just wait, yeah I will Yeah, no notes needed. I wrote down three things on by paper today. Though. Okay, let's do some uh weather music and we're gonna jump into some change Earth news because we got some change on Earth here. Hello, holdo, all right, singer, your news. So thankfully, solar activity has slowed, which is good because we we were rocking and rolling last week as far as uh the earthquake activity went not not so much in your neck of the woods. But you guys had some big storms, right, we. Did, but we didn't, but there was you know, there's storms running through. North of you. Yeah. Yeah. So top stories uh for this week obviously Hillary's head in southern California, which hasn't happened, Like yeah, I know, I love that they named it Hillary too, like right, tropical storm Hillary is screwing over California. Go figure. In report. Right, So storm hasn't taken that track since like nineteen thirty nine as far as like tropical storm activity that's just coming up to just slam California. I think they made it bigger to do. But we're gonna find out tomorrow what the endgame is there. I know they had a pretty good earthquake today as well. In California. They've been having some rumbling going on, so they really don't need any more moisturizing of their plates there, I'm gonna say, you know, so we'll see what happens. Unfortunately, the death toll in Hawaii is still increasing, and I kind of figured that was going to happen because there was limited access to a lot of parts of the island. One of the best things for fighting fires is to be able to have you know, total access around the area, which they didn't have, and so as they go in and get things figured out, I think that that it's going to continue to happen. Unfortunately, so I don't really want to get into So there's been a lot of hoopla on like, uh, the government could have done more to prevent disaster. There's been horrific stories of like land grabbers already trying to go in and like buy up huge swaths of land and stuff, all kinds of your cutthroat stuff and stories going on. I've seen amazing stories of people banding together to help each other and help. Their neighborhood boom. That's what I really to go help pluck people out of the water. I've seen neighbors like just stock private boats. Just bringing in tons of supplies, tons of money being raised from like sturgists. And stuff for them, and that's like people work together. Yeah, it helps so much more, see, and that's why. Like, actually, it was Bright and Duff that told me one time that he was like, you know what, Sarah, we've never gone to a mad Max scenario before in the United States when it was like we're getting really hammered, So I would hope that would be the trend in the future. And I was like, you know what, that's true. It's really true. We've been down on our luck. We've had some really severe things happen in our country, and we've never ever like every time we're faced with severe hardship, the trend is to band together. So hopefully that would be the trend no matter what, because I think that's really what pulls us together, and that's awesome common goals. Other big topic item for this week was a six point nine earthquake hit Bogatah on just south Bogata in Columbia, and so that was pretty severe. I mean, that's almost a seven point zero earthquake, so that's getting up there into numbers that you know, are like the highest we've ever seen, highest we've seen as a nine. So you know, prayers go out to everybody over there. It didn't seem like it was going to be a really big deal at first, and then it was. It turned into a lot more damage than kind of the stories weren't making it so large at the beginning, and then this time went on it was just wor some worse stories coming out. One person unfortunately, did lose her life in that event. So not you know, we're not on like Turkey scale obviously, but still a big, big event that happened there, all right, So let's get going. August thirteenth, we had four hundred and seventy six earthquakes that were two point zero bigger, biggest of which was a five point seven in the Salomon see by Papa New Guinea. Jordans saw some mega sandstorms decrease visibility. China, Okay, China has been getting hit hard and two people died fifteen were injured when an EF two tornado touchdown in ten two hundred and eighty three homes for destroyed, thirty two greenhouses destroyed. So I've been trying to key in like I always do, on stories that really tell us what's going on with the global food supply, because obviously that's pretty important to us, right especially when we're all watching our dollars and cents right now, and uh, we don't need everything going up in price. So Etna, who's been making noise again over in Europe. One of their largest volcano has been erupted on and off, so she was making some noise. And then in Italy they had this huge mud slide that came just rushing through the whole town of uh bored and None Gosh bored on Nassia, bored on Nassia, and it was pretty spectacular to watch this mud slide come through. It damaged homes. Luckily there was no injuries for that incident. I ran had ninety four kilometer per hour or fifty eight mile per hour wind that created did this major sandstorm and put a thousand people in medical care. So we kind of talked about that. I kind of brushed like on Sunday, it's tough to see, like is you know, is it breaking news now or did this happen yesterday? So I tried to go back to Sunday and see what happened once around next Sunday, on August fourteenth, there was three hundred and ninety three earthquakes that were two point zero bigger and biggest of which was a six point one in the North Pacific Ocean. Hunter SNL Salvador had some major storms flooding seven rivers swelled and broke their banks, so they it was just the streets just turned, the rivers, washing away the cars. Everything. In Japan, eight hundred flights were canceled, ninety thousand people without power when typhoon land made land La n made landfall, and that was just on the heels of the other typhoon that hit them. I can't remember what that one was named, but that one just hit them, and now this one hits them again in just a double WHAEMI one hundred and fifty kilometer per hour ninety three mile an hour wind. They evacuated two hundred and thirty seven thousand people and twenty six people were injured, one critically. So big storms over there in northern India, fifty eight people died. They are still having these horrendous monsoons. If you haven't seen the pictures out of Northern India, it's absolutely insane. They had flooding and landslides and just whole parts of mountains just sloughing off. This temple collapsed and like forty some odd people were stuck underneath it. In total, fifty eight died in that day and they're just their infrastructure has just been absolutely devastated. So prayers definitely go out to all the people there. It's some insane pictures. They had a four point three earthquake on the Hawaiian Island, not what they need over in Hawaii right now, a five point five in the northern India Bangladesh border, which is not what they need right now, but you get those fault lines lubricating and you can have some slippage from it. And the USA, Missouri saw major flooding and there was food flooding in the primary I'm sure I'm screwing that up region of Russia. Twenty five hundred people were evacuated there and Boston and Haverhill. This huge sinkhole opened up from from all the storms they've been having, twenty foot wide by twenty foot deep right by this apartment complex, so they couldn't let anybody into their homes that live there, and they were trying to get this huge hole filled up, you know, And these are the kinds of things that you know, can happen. We were just talking about the earthquakes last week, and these earthquakes, you know, that would be the example of the cave In earthquake. In the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe are recovering from some severe flooding that they had. And then on the fifteenth of August, there was three hundred and seventy three earthquakes or two point zero or bigger biggest which was a five point eight in Indonesia and in the United States. This was North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia. They saw some severe wind about eighty seven mile an hour winds one hundred and forty seven kilometers per hour with some hail coming down about one hundred thousand people when without power, and one person was killed in that event when a tree fell on her car. They also saw some fire start from the electrical from trees coming down and stuff like that, and oman three people died from flooding. They've had days of torrential rain pictures again, I mean, it's just crazy, like they're we're driving by this mountain side then all of a sudden, the side of the mountain just blows open and here's water coming through. You know. All the cars are just like trying to get out of there. It's crazy. So they lost these two cars that went down the river. It was seven people in these two cars. Four of them were rescued, but unfortunately, three people, including a child, did die in that event. On the fifteenth of August, there was three hundred and seventy three earthquakes. Our two point zero or bigger because of which was a five point eight in Indonesia. The heat is still just rock in the southeastern United States. It has just been miserable. Guys. We're looking at another week of one hundred digits and the real feel has been like one ten. It doesn't even cool down at night. It's just been horrible. My chickens do nothing but pant. It's been It's getting real old. I'm gonna put it that way. Washington, d C. Saw some severe flooding. Seven employees had to be rescued from this boarding facility for dogs. Twenty dogs were rescued, but unfortunately some of the animals did perish in that flooding event. And then there were severe storms from Chicago to DC. On the sixteenth of August, a bunch of tornadoes touched down in there as well. On the sixteenth of August, there was four hundred and five earthquakes that were two point zero or bigger, biggest of which was a six point five in the Coral Sea by Banatu, northwestern China and Gansu. They had a strong sandstorm as well as big storm Sandstorm and Phoenix Arizona that brought it was like on the head of another severe storm. They've been getting hit by a lot of thunderstorms and they still have the heat, but they're getting the rain. I wish we were getting some rain. Charlotte, South Carolina, they had some severe storms, seventy mile an hour wind power outages there. Florida. Mother and her child were hit by lightning on the beach. So that's kind of a sad story there, to say the least. Just crazy that you'd be out on the beach and then you just, you know, get hit by lightning. In Illinois, they had severe flooding. They had a magnitude two point five earthquake in the southeast, just southeast of Lawrenceville. So I always kind of watch those because that's the New Madrid area, and so I'm always interested in what's kind of shaken in that area. And there was a five point three earthquake in Turkmenistan. Luckily nobody was injured in it, but they did have that severe earthquake there. Papua New Guinea, they have extended their state of emergency because of Mount Bagana erupting and it was just a you know, ash everywhere people and severe NITA supplies and things like that in that area. So prayers going out to everybody there. August seventeenth, we had four hundred and twenty four earthquakes that were two point zero were bigger and biggest of which was a six point three in Columbia. The Canary Islands saw some interesting skies. They were dealing with wildfire, smoke, from one of the islands, and then the Saharan dust storm came in. And I have to say I was out walking the other night and the sky was just hazy as like you know, being in California and some of the wildfires, and all I could contribute it to was that Saharan dust moving. In Frankfurt, Germany, severe flooding, they had ground flights. Canada, thousands had to flee north about twenty thousand people out of yellow Knife, which is a large city up in their northern territory. They were literally doing like military flight evacuations. And this one lady was like, my car was melting as I was trying to evacuate like that, right, Like, dude, you've waited too long if your car is melting on the way out. So we'll have to see kind of what the aftermath of that is. But it seems to be relentless there in Canada. Six point three, that's when the six point three hit near Bogatah. One person died. They had a five point ten earthquake ten minutes later on the eighteenth, there was four hundred and thirty nine earthquakes that are two point zero or bigger. The biggest of which was a five point seven in the South Atlantic Ocean. They had another earthquake at two point eight on the Indiana Illinois border. The Spanish island of turin If has a wildfire that's burning. And then Minnesota they've been having those severe hail events, so they're starting to do a lot of assessing on what their crop crop output is going to be for the year. They've had some severe damages as far as their crops go. Same with Colorado. They had drought and then they had the rain, then they have the hail. Now they have these worms that are invest that are infesting o their crops. And I have to say too, like I've never seen this in Texas before. We had so many grasshoppers this year, like these little black grasshoppers, and now they're like these huge, huge, like two inch long, yellow like locusts. I mean, that's all I can really call them. They're like huge with these big wings. They're eating all the bean plants and stuff, and uh so that's crazy. I've never seen uh, actual locusts before in my lifetime, so I don't know, but it's just odd, something odd. So that when I saw the article there about them and the worms. I was like, okay, there's some weird stuff afoot here. And Rhode Island they're having some severe flooding. Nineteenth of August, four hundred and twenty three earthquakes or two point zero or big biggest of which was a five point four in the Full Philippian Sea near the North Marianna Islands. There was a three point oh earthquake in Ridgecrest, California yesterday, and then there was a big fire that started up in Washington State. They had to evacuate thousands of people near Spokane, Washington. It burned an area four point seven square miles or twelve square kilometers big, and they have crop land that's burning, range land, primary structure, secondary structures, so big fire causing damage over there. As of today, that five point four that happened in the Philippe and Sea still our biggest earthquake four hundred and twenty three earthquakes so were two point zero or bigger. And then there was a five point two in the North Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. So that's that's why it's worth noting. As far as volcanoes, we're down to twenty seven volcanoes actively erupting, so that's still on the high edge, but definitely not as high as the number as we've seen lately. Thirty two showing minor unrest, that's still on the high side of things as well, and thirty showing unrest, so that's starting to tick down a little bit. Two more fell off the list, so seems like the planet's kind of calming down a little bit. As far as our preparedness level for wildfires in the United States, I know today even in Texas we had a red flag warning because of the lack of rain in the amount of heat we've been having. So overall we're at a preparedness level of four. That is four out of five, just in case you're keeping track. In the United States, in total, we have ninety three big fires burning for a total of six hundred and twenty six thousand, seven hundred and fifty five acres. Alaska is coming in number one, and I didn't even see any articles about that, so we'll guess the journalists got to get on it as far as reporting this stuff. Twenty one fires burning on Alaska right now for a total of two hundred and eighty one thousand, acres. Number two is Oregon with five fires burning for a total of about seventy four thousand acres. None of those fires are contained in either state. Number three on the list is Montana twelve fires burning seventy thousand, five hundred and ninety four acres, with three of those fires contained. And number four on the list is Idaho with thirteen fires sixty seven thousand, three hundred and twenty seven acres with no fires contained. So interesting that, you know, I didn't really see any of those states really make the news articles for the week, yet they are our top four. Pretty crazy stuff going on, right, You're like, how can you not be reported on that? It must just be like a lot of woodland, that kind of thing. So I have friends in all of those states, and everybody's okay, so far, so good. So yeah, friends all over. The place, low places, Yeah, yep. Oh god, I wish I could remember that the same, oh lifestyle and then not so rich and famous. That song that came out that's pretty funny, So check that one out. Alrighty guys, Well, sorry to run over today. That's why I didn't put a commercial in for this episode. I was like, oh no, Ma, and Jane, Hm, we're gonna talk a lot. So two guys are bunnies going. I'm telling you. When I saw that YouTube video I saw her layout, I was like, she's coming out and do the bunny show because I have questions and it doesn't look like like everybody tells you like what you have to have. And I'm like, I don't think you do have to have that, and she didn't think so either, and I knew it. You're that colony. Yeah, that makes sense, Like why you know, and if you have somebody who's a rabble rouser, then guess who's going on the you know, on the grill, so right. Who's coming for dinner? It would be just the same as with the chickens. You know you got a rooster his little a hole. Well guess what you just made the pot buddy, you know. So I mean that is just how it is. I like that though, because man, I'm gonna tell you, if there's somebody who listen listening to the show that can really really pull off like decent huge gardens here in Texas and do it, you need to come teach me because man, oh it's just so hot here. I watch people even like to have good gardens. First of all, they're always by the woods, so they have lots of shade, right shade, And like this one people that I watch because I'm kind of a stalker when it comes to people's gardens, and I was watching their guard It was beautiful this year, right, we had tons of rain. It was beautiful. And then as soon as that he kicked up, man, just every things is dead. I was just like, oh, poor garden. So I know it's not just me, but gosh, it's such a challenge. So I'm thinking of going more like just go meat base and then I can trade people. You know, it just makes sense. I can raise chickens like nobody's business. So mm hmmm, do your indoor sprouts exactly. Yeah, And we're gonna do it, uh like a shade house. I'll call it a greenhouse, but it's gonna really be more of a shade house. You know. We were thinking about doing hog paneling and like a U shape and then we can just put the screen right on it shape things out because it's just so it's just too intense. Man, it's crazy, crazy hot. So I don't know if I was just like just really stoked to be here the first few years, but it was not this hot or in the summer like last summer was just kicking in. This summer just followed right in the floor steps. It was just crazy. I think it's the Hongatonga. Uh. When Hongatonga erupted, it just blasted all at water vapor up into the atmosphere. And I know, I was like, oh, yeah, right, it's gonna be the volcano that warms the planet. But you know what, I think it did a little bit that water vapor. H Really it was a marked difference. So it's too hot, yeah, exactly. All right, Well, we better wrap it up. Let people get on with their Sunday evening. Uh, but guys, check out prepper Camp. If you're not signed up, I don't know what else I can tell you. We've been so make it easy for y'all. Yeah, and if you're following me on any social media, so you can definitely find the links there. And if you can't figure out preppercamp dot com, then I can't help you. And Vergess is out. I'm putting together the Blooper episodes right now for it's so funny. Doug is gonna hate me. He's gonna just relish in the torture scenes when he gets to torture my character. Yeah, I know. So so. Just like pop the Bear, put the Bear. So sorry, I'm having way too much fun. But we're gonna do the blooper episode along with the binge episode, and I think I'm gonna try to convince James to pull that off before we go to Prepper Camp, so we'll see what happens. Yeah, so we'll take a break from Vergis for that that Sunday, so we could do that and get everybody on. But uh, yeah, lots of good stuff. You got like a night off tonight, sit back. And post the stuff in the chat, you know, some pictures and websites and stuff. Yeah. I was like, I was trying to be quiet and give you a second to jump in between me and ja. I know, you gotta just barge in like, hey, hey, ladies, I got something here. Get that whip out of the closet, right. Yeah. So I always think about doing like the Women's Show after Prepper Camp, and then I never pull it off. So this time I got to like, really do it. Cadre of Femie like, oh excellent. Yeah, the one gal I always forget her name, but she does awesome shooting classes. She was Wolf's significanlor Oh yeah, yeah yeah, her name is escaping me right now. We've hung out with her, no big time. I'm just sucks so bad with names. I'm so sorry. I'm the worst with names. Nicole, Yeah, thank you. Oh it's like, no, I cannot forget she's such yeah. Yeah, she's another story at. Shorties we rocket at Prepperkamp. Jordan's yeah, right, I know, and so I'm always like and then Ronda of course and yeah, oh god, so we gotta get them all on the show. We'll have to do that after Prepper Camp this year. But all right, guys, we're gonna get out of here. It's been so much fun. Thank you for listening, thank you for joining us, and until next time, remember. Dream, Survive, Thrive. Thank you for Joe, Sarah and Chen for this episode of the Changing Earth podcast. Don't forget to pick up your copy of Day After Disaster, Without Land, The Walls of Freedom, Battle for the South, Dark Days in Denver, and The Endless Night at www dot offer Sarahfpathaway dot com. 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