FNL: The Last FNL of 2023 is All About Nothing and Happy New Year 2024!

FNL: The Last FNL of 2023 is All About Nothing and Happy New Year 2024!

Hi Everybody I hope this is working because um YouTube is having issues today um they’ve changed that formatting thing and hi I’ll catch up with everybody in a minute but they’ve changed the formatting thing to where um it’s portrait automatically instead of vertical I mean instead of

Landscape and uh that just does not work for me because then I can’t see chat and everything so anyway hi everybody you’re going to get the sunset behind me and when I move it’s really pretty because it’ll focus on the Sun but when I come

Back in screen it blows it out thank you everybody for the thumbs up already oh my goodness you guys rock and I see everybody saying Happy New Year happy New Year can you believe 2023 is already coming to a close I am just blown away Richard Alber this is you you just

Finished your last um Christmas working and before you retire are you going to work on um New Year’s also and congratulations on your upcoming retirement in 2024 I’m so happy for you Mera the Greyhound is here Sue oh happy to see you sweetheart um is is Deborah getting

Ready for nothing that’s we’re going to talk about that Brenda Whitlock texting Lulu says hi frugie uh well she said hi Frugal actually hey tan did you figure out what we were gonna ask them oh I just said it right before uh tan and tan and Sarah we were talking about oh yeah

We were talking about you guys today say something and Wing or wing and something wing and bl is that it wing and black so we were your ears burning today first of all uh Jan and I fral arval and I were talking not about you guys but we were

Like well what would tan and Sarah say and and it’s like wing and bl it wing and I said just wing it and then I said what is it that they say yeah can’t remember so you’ll have to remind us what what you say wing and black

Okay um B and Mino fairy uh Happy New Year to you too darling Sunny Central Texas yay Tex and Lulu and seasons greetings from of course the UK that is awesomeness um so merera the Greyhound are you here in court site uh merera I’ve got uh hair in my eyeglasses Mera

Are you here in court site um hi be on the road yes we had a wonderful time at the mini Meetup we had a 12 I think there it was just awesomeness um and and you know we got to uh spend a couple of hours and um

With each other oh miror I wish you could have um come by the Meetup and um well um be sure and check out my events page uh on where I might be coming up because i’ I’d love to see you in person um but as far as where’s the party at in

Court site for New Year’s um yeah I’m not the party party one to ask I’m not the party to ask about the party um I I guarantee you I won’t see New Year’s come in I’ll wake up maybe in the night and thank you Mera I’ll wake up in the

Night and it’ll be 2024 uh and I’ll go woohoo but uh yeah how how many of you on here I used to make myself stay up and uh make sure that I uh brought in the new years’s but I’m kind of over that how many of you do bring in the New

Year’s literally Mira says they go to sleep early too I hear you I hear you um so uh oh you’re in your camper van yay that’s awesomeness Mira I know some people we may join some friends for excuse me I have the hiccups we may oh my goodness I have

Hiccups oh my gosh hey sus hey Suzanne you’re in Denver awesomeness um yeah I can’t um I can’t I can’t I went to y’all’s Facebook pages tan even at my personal uh self and and not author Deborah Dickinson and I can’t I didn’t see anything on either yours or

Sarah Jane and uh so you might need to email it to me if you don’t mind because I’d love to see that uh hey Robin good to see you silver Warrior hello everyone wishing you all a Happy New Year I’m so glad everybody’s here thank you so um

Dorene says she that they go to sleep um oh New Year’s Eve happy early birthday Brenda um that’s awesomeness and so uh we’ve got a a family of chipmunks that that lives here I’m going to see if I can show y’all I’m going to turn this around so um over

There in that tree across the wash that’s about a 30 foot Gully right there Gully wash um ditch Ravine in um in New in Arizona they’re called um Ravines I mean uh washes in New Mexico they’re called aoas in Texas they’re called Ravines or ditches um but anyway that there’s a

Family of about five little chipmunks that live over there and they’re just so dang cute we’ve been watching it thank you tan I look forward to that yeah happy early birthday Brenda that is amazing so has anybody written that they um they stay up Kathy says they stay hi

Kathy she says they stay up in her family um um I don’t see anybody else responding oh Richard is off on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day good for you Richard go party seriously go party um and uh I think I’m caught up on comments that’s

Awesomeness let me see if y’all can see the sun see if I get out of the way it’ll focus on the sun isn’t that pretty but uh if I’m going to come in and and uh look at the camera I have to um yeah so that whole thing about

Nothingness so I um I’ve been writing all day so uh my mind is a little preoccupied I haven’t felt like writing in forever and I’ve just i’ I have finished a nine-page prologue to my next book and I’m almost done with the first chapter uh so um I’ve been writing all

Day and when I ride I’m I’m kind of preoccupied would that be a good word for it oh y’all hear that that’s a woodpecker I don’t know where he is oh did you hear thank you because I was like kept thinking it was coming from Sammy yeah no no it’s a woodpecker

Um I don’t I don’t I hope y’all he’s still around I don’t know where he is he’s got to be in that tree yeah I think he’s over there that’s too funny we have woodpeckers and hummingbirds and squirrel I forgot what I was talking about oh do drop in hi sweetheart you

Stay up to chat with a lifelong friend that’s awesomeness um that is awesomeness um Suzanne says she just finished building a new bed platform for her minivan yes come on down Suzanne um so U for the people that are here in this area the next time that I uh will be in Town

Um yeah Suzanne says she’s not good at late nights even on New Year’s Eve um is I think the 8th right Saturday the 8th January 8th at qia or 6th no I think it’s it’s January 6th I think oh no worries hi Nifty traveler we I don’t see anything

Um oh listen Nifty traveler I totally get that about needing to Purge stuff um you know I I mean golly Moses the six so go to my events page I think you’ve already put up the link didn’t you but U the next time I’ll be in town is I

Started to say November but this is December and it’s going to be January so it’ll be January 6th Saturday from 9: to 1 at the qia and the address and everything is on my events page oh yeah there’s that that book bullet point thing oh I just hate that so much that

Little dot see it right there I wish I could get it off there it’s an iPhone problem but um anyway the address is on my events page I’ll be there from 9:00 to 1 and I have a table we’ll be signing and selling books and we just have so much

Fun so many cool people come by we met uh last uh qia we we met a lot of people but we have run into since then Tiffany several times and uh she is on my video from the Q yeah hi Tiffany everybody say hi I don’t know if she’s on here or not

She she works at a vendor in um down on qan and so we have seen her right around the corner from Greeno she works at the popcorn stand and so if y’all like popcorn all flavors all kinds go buy the popcorn stand on qan it’s right across

From from the game store and right behind green go and um say hi to Tiffany and uh it was so fun to meet her and now I’m not gonna was it Robin her friend H I’m so bad about names and I’m so sorry I have called every time I’ve seen her

I’ve called her by anything but Tiffany but that’s her name well I got it straight this time so I saw her and I’m like hi Lee and she goes no I’m like oh it’s something that ends in it like a Lee and she goes and of course she said Tiffany and then

The next time I saw her I’m like hi Stephanie I was like no it’s Tiffany and Jenna’s like no close again but Tiffany oh good Doran says their popcorn is so good it smells good I can’t have popcorn but it smells so good anyway y’all stop

By there and surprise her and and and say hi Tiffany uh because she she they’re just they’re so sweet and they came by and and they came by and we met them and if you saw my video you saw that and then they came back and and uh

Bought my book and so that’s so cool we have a neighbor way across the way over there can y’all see that little bitty dot I think that’s our neighbor isn’t it no looks like Trel trailer yeah yeah it’s they’re way across over there but that’s our closest neighbor we finally

Got a neighbor out here in the hood yeah you know because Court site’s so crowded I mean it can be you can go down there where I’m going to be for I’m going to be across from the big tent across from Green go across from K B across from

Beer bellies across from the discount grocery store across from the game store all of that I’m gonna be across the street Joan Rock Pringle and I uh January 19th through the 28th I’m I’ve got a a booth right next to hers and I’m camping there you guys

I’m taking Phoenix and I’m going to Camp there I’m a little nervous about it especially since since my last big TBI episode on December 14 I was in Camp literally for two weeks without leaving um yesterday for my mini Meetup was the first time that I left camp and now I’m

Going to be camped like you know but I can get away from everybody and and go in my rig anytime I need to and I can hibernate in there and I can wear my headset and um and if you have to live get and if I have to leave and I already

Checked with uh the management there at Tyson Wells and and it’s like if I can’t stay the whole time and I need to move my rig out is is that okay and and they’re and they’re like yes just come get them and and they’ll help with it

And everything and then of course Frugal would be there to help me and so I’ll be okay but I am a little nervous about it qia is easy it’s 9 to one I go and and I have a good time and Jan’s there to help

Me so I don’t give books away because we all know how that went when I tried to do it once by myself you got you were talk I think you went somewhere or did no I just wasn’t doing it I was letting you do it she was letting me do it well

Not letting you but no you you were doing all I was doing it I was like uh it didn’t go well she’s like want I get their money she’s like I think you’ve given away like four books you know and then I did it again and she goes go get

Money from that person and so she took over the the purse and she Tes you know it’s a fanny pack and it’s got where I can uh the credit card reader and and the change for the cash and everything and and if people want a receipt and all

That of course if they pay by credit it it sends them an email receipt automatically well or I can do write it out yeah or we can write it out so all of that is in this like little fanny pack so she took that away for and

Rightfully so and then we have to update inventory and she’s like well how many books did how many of this title did you sell it’s like yeah I don’t know she’s like we have to count inventory again to get a count for the sales I was like sorry so anyway she she

Does all of that now for me and she won’t be camped there but she’ll come in during the day and and not every day I’m not I’m not putting that on you but she’s she’s so sweet she’s like yep every day anyway that’s at j22 I sound like I’m playing bingo here let

J22 and um so the the rows across from the big tent are they have a there’s a post and it’ll have a letter on it and so you just find r j and walk until you find 22 and Joan Rock Pringle is at 21 and so you can come by and see both

Of us and yes uh half of you on here have hit the thumbs up for me if y’all would stop and do that I would appreciate that and and and smash that thumbs up uh so Sarah says fanny pack um she knows that’s us for bum

Fanny and what’s weird Sarah is it’s a fanny pack but it’s worn in front by the tummy so I I you know I’m sure what do they call them yeah what do y’all call them they’re in the in the UK hiy Mike and Cindy my cousins are in

The house welcome good to see y’all yeah Sarah do y’all have to have fanny packs there in the UK what do y’all call them uh and let’s see I’ve got to back up and and see uh Hey Judith can’t wait to see you a waste pack that sounds like

Something in a nuclear shelter that’s no suzan at large s Su at large Suzanne hey Suzanne have you found a place for your nomad land uh license plate yet and uh oh Susan Jack is in the house oh congratulations Nifty traveler you sold your a

Condo that is awesome yeah I I get it I went from um I started well I’m not counting the houses I had when I was married but but me myself and I I started uh counting down from 2800 then I think I went to 2100 and then I was in

A two-bedroom two bath townhouse that that was like 1,700 and finally I just kept dwindling down and then I was in like a one-bedroom apartment and then when I got on the road the first year I was on the road I had a storage unit but

After my first year on the road I went back and I uh spent five days uh they let me Camp outside the storage unit place I knew the owners and uh I worked on my storage unit every day and I got rid of everything so and then then then

For a while like my dishes were at my cousins for a while they’re they’re with me now my blue and white Courier knives dishes uh so at this moment everything I own is in my rig it’s it’s a it’s a big deal fanny pack is good D bum bag a bum

Bag bum bag I like that i g to start saying hey you got the bum bag and she jel be like what we’ll have to remind everybody and what was the other one chips and black no wing and bl Wing chips and black it’s like you know wings

And chips fish and chips wings and black it’s it’s like a foreign language happy New Year yes um that’s so funny that’s probably what they say when they listen to us yeah you’re like trying to figure out what especially us Texans and we have our own I mean every state has

Kind of their own jargon but Texas are oh that’s what I one thing I was going to do is do the uh somebody’s going to have to remind me I I forget but um uh do the Texas thing do yeah to do the a sling slang so SL sling slang sling slang

Slong Fanny is the name Fanny is butt in in the US that’s funny yeah but Bobo tush that is so funny oh my gosh Ah that’s so funny yes Robin U I can’t recommend downsizing enough I it’s it’s just it gives you give gave me I don’t want to speak for anybody else

Gave me such peace of mind uh and and and my my rig is is still too cluttered I’m getting rid of stuff all the time um and and uh you know a lot of people hi Dame the first Happy New Year to you too um so a lot of people have the the

Mantra out here nothing new comes in without something old going out well well I’m not even bringing anything new in well that’s not true didn’t I just buy a shirt no no I wore a new shirt but I didn’t buy a new shirt did I seems like I did well you bought new

Pants but yeah but all of that was for the winter season but not since then so I got I’m sorry I digress squirrel I got rid of a bunch of clothes to be able to buy some new winter clothes um because I I’ve got a drawer

For pants a drawer for shorts and Capri and U fold up skirts um a door for um undergarments and stuff like that a door for socks and stuff and that includes fny stuff Fanny stuff bum stuff they never going to forget it and then I’ve got a um um a drawer

For socks and stuff like that and and the reason that I have a whole drawer for that is because we we have waiters for like when we’re fishing in New Mexico and stuff and those socks are big and thick they’re not made for people

That live in an RV I can only if I roll those up they’re they’re that freaking big it’s they go up to my knees why are you laughing I’m not laughing you are oh look she says I’m not look at that camera like you were looking at me see she’s laughing I’m not

Laughing she’s like don’t show me I know she was like I don’t why were you laughing I’m just thinking of bum well I’m just thinking then you say waiters they’re probably like what oh waiters oh yeah that’s a good one okay so waiters so so in the UK um what are they

Thinking yeah the waiters in I don’t know if y’all have waiters in the UK but waiters are uh fishing boots that you can put attached to suspenders and everything to wear to go in the river of fishing I know tan and Sarah y’all are awesome but she says see what we

Started um oh that’s so funny Mike says of course it’s a heap Heap more acceptable than a man purse that’s too that’s too funny oh Janna got after this one guy that was harassing us one time and he he was he was carrying his his girlfriend’s purse

Or or something when and who yeah she’s like when and who he was he was that the police ended up coming out long story we’re not going there didn’t have to do with us but um he was a little bit out of it and at one point Jan’s like you’re

Carrying a purse dude not that there’s anything wrong with that but it’s like he was all like I’m just I’m just walking my dogs man I’m not doing anything wrong or unusual but he was like hanging out out around our um well when I got when I walked up he was um

Leaning on my hit all and his girlfriend wife whoever she was um standing with her H hand on my hood and and and between mine and Janna’s truck camper and this this this was a parking lot uh a casino where we’ paid I think we paid

For five nights there that time or three three nights anyway she’s like dude you’re carrying a purse and he starts he holds it up to look around for the purse he was like it’s my wife and then he then he realized he was holding it

And he’s like oh this is my wife that’s I’m sorry digress squirrel um they have fishing waiters good yeah Tan’s like Hey Maryanne good to see you Maryanne Edwards is in the house Richard says talking about downsizing from his Sticks and Bricks I know you’re getting ready

Ready to Richard he’s going to go he’s going to try to retire I mean not going to try to retire when he retires he’s trying to move into a a class um yes I mean it’s amazing it’s I mean I think for anybody but when you’re

Our age and uh I mean I’m not making you as old as me Richard but but when when you’re older and you’ve got a lifetime of stuff and you’re going to try to get rid of it and get it get it down to uh living in an RV

It’s like holy hell what was I thinking but it is doable I this is UN this may be unsolicited advice but I’ll tell you what I did I made piles of yes no maybe yes was what I thought I absolutely had to bring with me no was I knew I wasn’t

Going to maybe was stuff I just couldn’t make my mind up on and and and you just go through everything quickly that way you touch it and you put it in one of those piles and you can’t take anything out of the no pile pile by the way um

You can take clothes to the free table at the RTR that’s true um and getting rid of pictures Jana scanned all of hers what I used was a an app called photo mine where you can use your phone and take a picture of it and that that takes

Care of them digitally you take a picture of your picture and uh then the other thing is if you if you’ve got um you don’t want to lose all your framed photos or you’ve got Treasures you can um take uh put get a digital photo frame

That you can turn on and um and it will scroll through the pictures and so you can have one frame that that has a lot of your pictures and your momentos and and stuff on it um so that’s one thing that you can do but that yes no maybe

Pile and then you go through the um oh good Kathy I’m glad to hear that hey John sooner JH travels Happy New Year to you too but that yes no maybe and then you go through the maybe pile and you do the same idea yes no maybe yes no maybe

And and it and it really will help you dwindle it down but you have to pick something up and make a decision you can’t if you’re like me and then you want to look through it and you want to think about it and you want to massage

It and you want to go to bed with it and live with it and love it and never let it go and those are the things that if you take a picture of it then you can have it with you forever but let the actual object go whether you you are

Donating it or giving it to uh family or friends um because it it just it it just uh this lifestyle if you try to keep a foot and and ask me how I know but if you try to keep a if you’re going to do

It fulltime and you try to keep a foot in Sticks and Bricks in other words if you’re going to try to live in your rig just like you did at home um it can be quite miserable you have to pair down anyway so that that’s what I my biggest

Things that I did that helped me was the yes no maybe taking pictures of the things that I just was having a real hard time letting go of and using photo mine uh instead of scanning because that that just I didn’t that just was going to take forever and that was back uh

Before my brain surgery I was thinking about doing this lifestyle when I retired so I was already starting to to go through pictures and stuff and that scanning I I just didn’t have the patience for it it took me yeah it took me two two and a half years to

Scan you know I just take and I sorted everything in Manila is that manila envelopes mhm and so I would put family I mean I would organize them all just in uh envelopes yeah and then once I scanned them I’d put them back in there

And I’d r on there scanned and I’d throw that one to the side and um so yeah it took me forever to scan on my pictures yeah how big was your house that you moved out of into a truck camper 20 500t 2100 I remember square feet pretty big three three bedroom two

Living rooms three baths yeah big who needs three bathrooms yeah well I got I got a funny story about that though about the bathrooms but um yeah and Jenna does still she has a small lake house a little cottage um it’s like a a fishing cabin um that and and she has some

Things stored there but um for the most part all of her stuff for uh living is is with her on the road hey Cardis no worries glad you’re here uh Chuck a good tidy up and Chuck out of stuff yeah chuck chuck the stuff I love that Chuck the stuff uh

Thank you Richard I hope it helps John so good to see you on here um I think I missed something hold on um the free table good idea um I know I missed something I was going to come back to it now um oh I don’t I don’t remember now Um oh my my friend Linda May that was in Nomad land um and she she she’s doing well um but she I I was texting with her the other day so this is fresh on my mind that she now has bought she’s off off the road and she has bought a huge home

Twostory you know cuz she can now after being in Nomad land and and and and uh being nominated uh for a best supporting actress and all of that let let alone the whatever I don’t know if it’s called royalties or whatever they get but but she could she could afford to do

Whatever she wanted to do so she bought a a twostory home and I’m I may have this wrong but I think it’s like five bedrooms six and a half baths it’s just Linda well she has a boyfriend now and she has she has a lot of kids and grandkids that come see

Her I I don’t I got to think if she I don’t think she would mind me sharing this about going room to room Jan’s like you probably ought not and now I got to figure out how to get out of this mess cuz I started change the subject change the subject but

Anyway she bought that house and so she was just like going room to room to room because she could we were on the phone and she’s like I’m in this room I’m in this room I’m in this room so she went the other way after having been on the

Road for forever but she deserved to wanted to and and uh can do whatever she she wants to do but I that cracks me up that that and but she still hasn’t filled the house up um yeah she do I doubt that she does uh Brenda but yeah um but

Um you know she still hasn’t bought stuff it’s still pretty vacant and um you know you can minimalize no matter if you want to that may not be your thing but but even if you’re in Sticks and Bricks and you want to declutter and and downsize you can still use the yes

No maybe and the things about photos and everything um to to have less stuff in your house um and that’s the nice thing Brenda about that app photo mine is you have a copy of it and it’s on their cloud and you can download it from their Cloud

Anytime you want to uh you don’t have to pay extra for that and so it it it’s uh it’s quite lovely uh Mama wonderless hello and Happy New Year to you too um let see Mike says if they told me to haul assd or it would take a tractor trailer

In six months to go I no kidding that’s how I used to be too Mike so I get it um I get it I was trying to see I was trying to see what um uh oh that down yeah I love that um Sue at large says never met my friend

Linda but after reading NAD land she thinks the world of her happy she prospered I’m smiling at that idea of her big house that’s not full of stuff it is not it’s ve it’s very minimalist um and um um I’m I’m very proud and happy for

Her too um so I for what’s my title nothing nothing uh the last FNL of 2023 is all about nothing and happy New Year yeah so this is the last FNL of 2023 and I meant to look and see how many I I held I

Think I’d have to go back and look but I think this is actually even the 50th one I I uh no that’s not true it was going to be and I missed another week so this is like 47 48 49 um um after you scan the pictures what do you do with them

Destroy well I I’ll let frug answer that if she wants to but I I will tell you I tried to give mine to family members um especially if it was like my sisters and so my my uh nieces and nephews and and uh different people that that it would

Mean something to and nobody wanted them and then when they found out that I had them digitally they’re all like well send me a copy of the Dig digital no nobody wanted the printed copies and so yeah after I I made sure that they were

Secured um I I really uh had had no choice but to uh get rid of them and and it it hurt my heart it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever personally had to do I grieved for days even though I had them digitally and um and now I just

I I look at the digitals sometimes or I’ll go pull something that I want to write about and go back and look at my digital um copies um but I can’t even tell you what all photos I got rid of I mean I have have have the ones that I wanted

Um digitally but uh yeah it’s kind of crazy how emotional that was for me and here I am eight years later and it it doesn’t affect me one little bit didn’t affect my quality of life nobody has asked me for anything that I didn’t already have digitally from using that

App um and it just was a bunch oh yes thank you Kathy uh it was just a bunch of angst that I didn’t need to put myself through um so um that’s good Nifty traveler oh Susan Jack see my sister inherited uh pictures of your family from 1800 they’re in New Mexico so

That’s awesomeness have photo albums of my mom’s that M my mom and dad’s I don’t know which but yeah the old Black and Whites um and I still have all my hard copy photos I did scan them but I couldn’t get rid of them so

They are at my cabin in a tub and I still have all those black and white and they’re they’re a adhered to the black paper those you know and big long and a lot of those I don’t know who those people are but I know they’re

Family and friends of my mom and dads and um but I do have most of them um on the cloud and I use Microsoft drive and then I’d use Google Drive one drive one drive and Drive um whatever Microsoft says too for storage too yeah that’s good yeah so you

Have to figure out what works for you because just you know what worked for me might not work for anybody else what worked for Jan might not work for anybody else and what works for you I’m going move so you can see the Sun and

What works for you my is has got to to be something that you can live with and um be able to look at those photos whenever you want want to so uh 10 types Susan is saying yeah and and plus y’all are how many generations New Mexico Susan so that’s awesomeness Jerry

Seinfeld show was about nothing and that’s pretty much I was like man it’s the last um last FNL of the year and I ain’t got nothing I called a Jenna earlier today and I’m like I don’t have anything to talk about tonight not really not you

Know I’ve got up coming events and it’s the end of the year and I’m coming off of that TBI episode but I’ve already shared all of that I have anything new to talk about and that’s when she said well do do what Sarah and tan would do

And and I was like what’s that and she goes that Wing thing wing it yeah she goes that Wing It thing and I’m like well we’re gonna have to ask them because I don’t remember what that was so that’s how we’ve gone full circle now back to the beginning of that hey Texas

Lady good to see you Carla glad you’re here um yes the black mounted on the black with Corner tabs and that’s the other thing the the the photo albums that we all grew up with that have the glue and everything okay that have the glue and

Everything uh those it eats the ink and so those photos just disappear after a while so you’re going to want to do something with those anyway talking about I just looked it oh my gosh what is with the color of hair was that your hair I don’t let me

See pink it’s not pink it is pink no it’s y’all look at this adorable adorable adorable photo is but isn’t her hair like pink that’s Janna Frugal RV gal and her mom hope there’s a hint there for you and her dad yeah and her brother Michael yeah

Yeah Bill I’m sorry I didn’t say his name Bill but isn’t that the most adorable look at that little girl and I just couldn’t bring it up oh my gosh yeah cuz you scanned it yeah you and your mom had almost the same hairdo I

Know I know I love that and so see that’s a scanned picture and that I have you know um oh wow Kathy has the certificates from when her family arrived at Ellis Island that is so cool wow um Kathy from from Italy the oh that’s

So cool yeah so I was G this is was going to be a show about nothing but I was like you know what we’re just going to suit up and show up and hang out together for the last FNL of 2023 um Cardis was here for two and a half

Months oh no I’m sorry we didn’t get to see you and I understand about repairs girl glad you’re home though while so you can get them done there um so Nifty traveler I get that you’re you’re not planning on being on the road forever and um if you find your forever home uh

Or when you do you have some things you want to have with you I get that I that’s how I am about my blue and white Courier knives dishes it’s uh I’ve been told by several uh curators that it’s uh probably the world’s largest single collection but I

Had been collecting those since I was a teenager and then I was able to um my ex husband um uh got some uh hired somebody to go to estate sales and got a big haul for me one Christmas and so I don’t want to I don’t want to lose those because if I

Ever do get uh to get off the road and do Sticks and Bricks again in some form or fashion then I want to have a cupboard with my uh China in it I did I haven’t hung on to anything else there there’s very few regrets I have over

Things that I’ve let go of or had to let go of or lost but um that is one thing that I I if I ever landed in Sticks and Bricks again I would be really sad if I didn’t have those so I’m finding a way to hang on to them

Um oh man sue by the way hi Sue how are you doing and she has an old video of her parents coming to America from Denmark on the Queen Mary that is so cool oh that is so cool Kathy I love all of your history yeah she did look like

Her mom didn’t she uh I know Brenda that was a lot of hair right so so adorable you have any more I want to see more I hadn’t even seen that photo really no I hadn’t seen that um anyway yeah let me show you all the sunset let me get out

Of the way look at that look at that oh so pretty night before last we had one of the prettiest sunsets I’ve ever seen here in Arizona and they can they they can they can be like outstanding and it was just one of the

Best ever um and I was wishing it I was like man why couldn’t it be Friday night so they could see that but this one might be a pretty one too we’ll we’ll hang out and find out here in a little bit she’s looking for more pictures yeah

So yeah this is the great FNL about nothing oh I I will tell you that um a pigeon I just hired the narrator to produce uh a pigeon story on audiobook and so that will be out on audiobook next month and I have been in touch with

The narrator for the last book in the trilogy one day at a time today and we’re on track to to get that out to you in January so I I just misspoke January will be one day at a time and a pigeon story will come out in February he will

I’m I hired a male narrator for a pigeon story and he does the characters so good he even does the mom and everything he he just he does the character so good um and um but he has all of January or or we both do all of January to finish the

Production on that he’ll read come back to me for edits he’ll do the correction and then I’ll do the final approval and so we’re going to take all of January to get that done so I just looked up and noticed that every single one of you

Have given me a thumbs up thank you so very much for that that that um let me see if I can get a screenshot of that I’m afraid I’ll um afraid I’ll I’ll blow it if I try to do a screenshot but um so can I also just show something else that

I did of course so I would here hold on so I would scan my picture and then for old family members and all that and then I would take it around to that side of the family and have them write the names on the picture so I

Would always know so this is an example of that this is a family reunion and of course it’s dated 1958 which was before I was born let me show so I would take it to family reunions and take it to families and have people write people’s names on

Them and it didn’t destroy the picture because it was a copy and then then I scanned that back in so I could write everybody’s name down that I would know or if you know if somebody knew it that is so cool but yeah that was before I

Was yeah that was before I was gosh that was that was the year the month the month and year I was born yeah so that is so cool cuz I do genealogy so that’s very important to me to have those names and everything on on those pictures and

I have several of um back in are you look zooming in on it mhm I love somebody got their name wrong yeah that’s not them that’s not them they crossed it out and put the right name look at the look at the car in this One look at that car yeah it’s a it’s a old model A or Model T that’s a family reunion Walker Family Reunion yeah on your mom’s side dad my dad’s that is so cool I I wrote all the people’s names that people knew that is so cool lots of I what that’s so

Neat see I didn’t know that either that’s so cool so there’s all kinds of things that you can do to to preserve stuff and yeah yeah oh here well show them you just got to hold it up real close oh I lost it oh here it is next to the

Car if you see the word with Billy which is it’s written up here but it’s pointing that’s my grandmother oh yes that was the one that had the the restaurant restaurant yeah on Old Highway ad in Texas and but that was her right there so see this isn’t I mean

It’s an old old picture that is so 1930 1930 let me just leave it here for a minute yeah dated 1930 of a family reunion oh oh my goodness but that was my grandmother so yeah I mean just kind of it wasn’t a picture of me but anyway

So you can do that when you scan your stuff and you know I’ve got a whole bunch of old blacks in whites and but that is so cool yeah that is so cool oh te Texas lady Carla says her grandmother’s name was Willie Marie oh mine was Willie May mine was my great

Grandmother was Willie May Holland really yes Willie May oh I didn’t know that that’s too funny both our grandparent well my great-grandmother was Willy May oh y’all want to see y’all want to see Janna this is sweet 16 her sweet her sweet 16th birthday look at that she got the Farah

Farah faucet de going on isn’t she beautiful it’s all about the hair all about the hair the hair that is awesome sweet 16 right there that is awesomeness is that funny oh yes Sarah you uh you can do that in photo mine it lots of different apps but

That’s one thing I forgot to say about photo mine is you can clean photos up like that you can colorize them you can decolorize them you can repair them oh my gosh okay I this one I this one ought to be some sort of prize I wish we could

Put up several photos and get them to guess which one is you because y’all would never guess that this one is Frugal yeah my mom put me in ballet isn’t that adorable isn’t that about that no no no look look look how happy she is look at

That she’s on point she’s like I’m on point yeah oh my gosh that’s adorable that’s you so you have worn a tutu before I have oh my gosh it’s princess deir that’s true yeah you’re not so happy in that one she I don’t think she got all

The Easter eggs in this one what do y’all think that’s the beauty about scaning pictures just right there you can just look at them anytime you want to Brenda says great Wing Janna on that other one that’s awesomeness oh is that funny yeah I can’t believe Willie Willie Marie

Willie May there’s my graduation picture yeah now this one she’s hot y’all look at this that’s her graduation photo if I was her dad I’d have been like who you looking at like that while they’re taking your picture I I’d have been like girl you ain’t wearing that black anymore was her

Dad oh oh Texas lady says I would like to hear the audible pigeon story that’s exciting she has the paperbook but it would be cool to listen to the story that’s so cool yeah it’ll be out soon we have um the five minute audition we got

I think got like 15 auditions this time yeah uh since I opened it up to both male and female let me let y’all look at that sun sunset anyway I got like um 15 auditions but then this guy he came in and oh my gosh he just did all the

Different characters and and I just can’t wait to hear next is a 15minute checkpoint just he does 15 minutes of something and sends it to me just for double verification and then from there we we he starts production but um yeah it’s so cool no way Frugal and valet shoes that’s Texas

Lady oh my goodness yeah that’s yeah cutie pie I agree Megan uh and she does still like to dance Dane the first you’re right you’re right uh Brenda which one oh no it doesn’t Brenda Brenda says it looks like a gunny sack dress no which one I don’t know

No um oh yeah Susan oh I tell you what you you pull that off and um you’ll go down in history she says bring a tutu and get Jan to dance in it at cocoa Fest yeah oh that’s too funny a dove just flew over we have the fireball going

That my wonderful cousins Mike and Cindy gave me I got I guess been a long time ago we seeing that picture oh well you got to get out and come back I did you did yeah cuz it felt like it was hung up so the chat um oh she’s saying the graduation dress

And top the Lacy part oh yeah yeah I hear you Brenda uh oh Syble hi sweetheart she says wanted to uh I thought I just saw oh it’s Birds um she says um wanted to stop in and wish everyone a healthy happy and safe 2024 thank you for stopping in Syble always

Good to hear from you and see you let me show you the sunset before you leave and I’m not I’m not leaving I’m just Cil saying she’s just dropping in so I thought she might have to leave well it’s behind a cloud right now so it’s

Not very good but it’ll get pretty here in a minute that’s Sky it’s just it’s amazing Arizona sky Arizona what’s that song There’s a song Arizona sky Arizona yeah there’s the so so I don’t have a giveaway this week I guess I could but I

Don’t know how to do it we didn’t bring our laptops out well let me see if I can um because I could do um you know what I could do is um since I just hired no let me think I what I could do is

Give away you want me to go to ACX and play the can you do that I think so nah I don’t think so I’m almost I’m there okay well okay let me ask them instead of us deciding would y’all like to hear a portion of the narration just

Like a little bit like a few seconds not a few seconds but like um 30 seconds or so of the narration of a pigeon Story the guy’s name is Zach ferich F I can’t say his name right Zach F fichi texting Lulu yes oh Megan six days

Non-stop rain in Michigan oh my goodness hey Margie and Jeff RV ashes and April good to see you and Suzanne says sure so thank you Janna me she she’s going to she’s she’s gonna kill me she’s let me kill you give away a signed copy of Jana in a

Tutu oh we could print that out and do that know she’s like it’s not going to happen who said that that Sarah are you ready for um okay so this the Zach F feder federi Zach federici okay I killed your live stream so it’s not going to feed

Back is um gonna read to you from uh the beginning of a pigeon story it doesn’t have this is his audition tape so it doesn’t have a lot of characters in it oh my gosh you guys I got I got one person that was reading it and um

They were uh a little bit Oriental and it was it was so funny to hear the characters read in English with Oriental accent and different animal characters you never know what you’re going to get when you put out for these auditions but I can’t imagine the work

That these people put into this and I’m so proud of them um Mike wants to know what the temperature is I can tell you with the sun setting sweetheart it is getting cooler and cooler I may have to while we play this if Jenna doesn’t mind

Oh you need to put your code on too probably I was going to say while Jenna is playing that I may get up and put my poncho on I’m it got up into uh the low 60s today and um and and Mike says it’s going to be in the low 30s there tonight

In coastal Texas yeah I think it’s going to be in the low 40s tonight yay Syble I’m glad you’re enjoying it and do drop in says play spend the wheel to to give away Janna’s signed picture they want that picture of you ballet in the two two okay we you want

To play you want to play that while I put my so here’s Zach frederich Zack federici reading for a pigeon story she landed on the ledge beside her son and used her beak to put some of her feathers back in place when she was done she asked Jacob are you ready can we

Leave now I don’t know if I can leave ma he said it quietly and passively and hung his head under his wing as if that were the end of the conversation another pigeon joined the other two that Olivia had been watching the three of them began to quarrel and

Peck at each other she turned her head in disgust they were acting like Jackal not Birds Jacob you have to let it go Annie’s dead because she couldn’t let go you have to her sharp words hurt his heart and had him looking up at his mother his eyes were wide and

Blinking I’m sorry Jakey that was horrible of me this place terrifies me I’m worried I’m going to lose you she nestled in next to her son and lowered her body to the concrete completely so that she was lying next to him I to I he rested his head on her

Neck for a moment it’s okay mother I understand it wasn’t always like this you know she was ashamed that she didn’t know she meant to fly and see her son and Annie but the truth was she had always wanted them to come back home to The Grove which is where in her mind

They belonged she never wanted her son I think that’s good what do y’all think hey doesn’t he have the smoothest dang little voice I was just like dang Zach and then and then uh in the rest of the passage he um he he gets into Olivia as

She’s really uh trying to um get her son to come home um so uh yeah Suzanne doesn’t he have a great voice and uh he he just so far has been so pleasant to work with too so courteous and and sorry got to turn that yeah she had her volume

Turned up and uh anyway so I I it’s um I I just the work that they have to put into the engineering and everything is crazy um oh yay Nifty traveler thank you oh I was trying to read it and I’m squinting I have glasses duh he sounds good with feeling yes oh

Yay I’m glad y’all like him too like I said I got like a probably um a dozen no I I I think even more yeah yeah at least um auditions I’m trying to stay out of the way of the sunset for you guys guys um thanks Sarah and um and then and then

We narrowed it down to two I well yeah two and then right as I was making the offer one came in that was pretty good but I still think it I would have still awarded it to Zach so I had three that were really good contenders yeah and you

Had published it and you said we got a guy and I was like what yeah I told them I know she didn’t know I’d opened it up to mail yeah and then it was like oh yeah you know cuz the main the main character is a guy

Yeah so it was like okay so you know we had to or I had to wrap my head around that and I was like yeah I like it see I can move over there now y’all can see the sun I was trying to put the cam uh

Turn the camera and I’m like I just need to I just need to make sure it doesn’t melt because it’s over the fire yeah anyway um I don’t have any anything else do do you guys oh let me ask you this is anybody doing anything special for New

Year’s I was saying earlier that we may go eat not May we’ve told some friends we’ll go join them for lunch on New Year’s Eve um but we don’t have otherwise we’ll be back home and inside at Sunset oh yeah and but does anybody do any of y’all have anything special that

You’re doing to bring in 2024 and I just I just believe 2024 is going to be such a good year Megan says sleeping she hopes I get that Megan I hear you me too me too um yeah I wanted to get get more into writing this next book be I

Didn’t want to roll the new bring in the New Year Without at least being into chapter two or chapter three on this new book look at that ready you’re you’re ready what happened we’re ready for a new book oh you’re ready for a new book that’s so awesome thank [Laughter]

You uh so Texas lady says she’s staying in so what else what are y’all all doing for New Year’s I want inquiring minds want to know eating yes eating uh oh invited to Mom and Dad’s on New Year’s Eve and working New Year’s Day all right

I bet New Year’s Day is is a big day to work um Sarah um I I can’t do the fireworks Megan I I uh you know people talk about Vietnam or not just Vietnam Vets but veterans having trouble with the fireworks and the animals have trouble with fireworks

And my brain injury has trouble with fireworks I hate them too Megan so take care of yourself Cardis says New Year’s party with seven grandkids woohoo Robin mallerie says staying home well uh Rob if you didn’t want to stay home you can always go to the French

Quarters oh but I hear you staying home that’s good Kathy says she’s partying with her family at her sisters Dame the first is probably going to go to her sons and uh so thank y’all for for sharing that um yeah one year I guess three years ago um oh yeah New Year’s

Day not too bad New Year’s Eve is busy I bet that’s right uh Sue says staying in unless she gets a better offer that’s awesome Sue um I guess it was three New Year’s EES ago uh we were in Yuma at the casino we and and I think only two out

Of our group went back in but early that evening we went in and had dinner and then we went to their New Year’s Eve photo booth for the big ball room because it was just out in the middle of nowhere at the time they hadn’t roped

Anything off yet because it was early I mean it wasn’t even dark yet it was like 5 or six o’clock and uh so we got pictures with their their Ballroom stage photo booth because I hadn’t even open I had even closed off that area yet staying home and watching movies that’s great

Staying home New Year’s oh cibil I’m sorry that you’re sick um but oh I hope you get better soon New Year’s Day Parade in that’s awesomeness do drop in I hear you um soe that just cracks me up um yeah I tell you Texas in Lulu that’s

What I used to do by myself even in Austin and I I loved it but I don’t I just don’t stay up anymore Robin says she hates fireworks too I can only imagine that the French Quarter would be wild for New Year’s Eve um and yes soble

Get get uh get ready get get I’m sorry get better and then she wrote uh ready for a new book I I would love to say that I would have this one out in um March or April but I that that’s probably pushing it um so um I may have

To line up a new publisher too I don’t know so we’ll see how that goes but um oh yeah happy New Year to you too Bev good to see you on here and yes I used to watch the Rose Parade every New Year’s Day morning um Mike says planning

To stay above dirt for New Year’s Eve and 2024 Mike all the way through yes buddy you and Cindy both um I just finished watching on Apple TV on my phone um the three Ser S three seasons that are up of the morning show with Reese everybody watching with Reese Withers SPO spoon

And Jennifer Aniston and I’m like oh my God I wasn’t ready for that to end and I don’t know when season 4 is going to come out but I’m shooting myself because I’m like now I got to wait till season 4 comes out to know what happened and um so I’ve been I

Don’t usually watch uh TV or I got smudge all over me I don’t know what that is um anyway I don’t usually watch TV or or anything like that but every now and then I’ll get H I don’t know what that is I’ll get

Is that just my spot yeah you okay um I I get hooked on something um like the morning show um and then Janna’s been watching Virgin River Virgin River on Netflix on Netflix yeah so um and then I’ve heard that anybody else watch yeah does anybody else watch Virgin River or

The The Morning Show and then I’ve heard also that Ted lasso is like incredibly good um Christine Cooper says that she went to see the boys in the hi Christine by the way happy New Year went to see a movie today the boys in the boat oh cool cool Texan Lulu says she

Loves Virgin River I haven’t watched it and Heartland Dorene says Virgin River and Heartland finished Heartland you finally got caught up on Heartland until on Netflix so that one I finished and then I moved to Virgin River you tell them I just you just did I just did she just did I finished

Heartland which I even started that in my Sticks and Bricks six years ago it’s taken me that long to get all the way through Heartland there are so many yeah and started um Virgin River about a year and a half ago or so and now that I’ve finished Heartland now I’m back

On finishing Virgin River that’s cool yeah that’s cool I started Heartland but I was so far behind and there’s so many seasons ahead of me I’m like I can’t do it I can’t track it all there too many oh yeah um I don’t know how

Many like 11 oh yeah I couldn’t I was like I can’t do that I know it’s too many for me to catch up took me took me this long to yeah well you did it though yeah oh cool oh wow Chris Cooper just got here to to court site Christine

That’s great oh after driving in the dark and rain oh ug where’d you drive in from Christine but glad you’re hear safe and sound Dorene says she’s waiting on season 17 of Heartland and she’s read all 21 books of Virgin River before the show dang I didn’t know that was a book

Oh man now I might like the I mean I would like yeah wow yeah oh Sue we uh uh I I blew through graceon Frankie like I I do the morning show it’s like I would watch it and then I’d have to wait a year till the next season came out you

Had seen grayceon Franklin yeah it’s just it’s too funny it’s just oh my God Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda in there I don’t care what you think about fil individually in that move in that show they are they just spin off of each other just so brilliantly it’s

Crazy um and um yeah it was too it was just too too crazy funny anybody watch The Morning Show on here no Morning Show peeps that’s funny to me um I I just I don’t know why it’s the writing in that and everything it just I I I did finish

It last night right yeah so now you I have to wait I don’t know when season 4 will come out probably next winter she’s like now well no now I’ll I’ll do something else like usually like I’ll find something like that and I try to limit myself to watch one Ser episode a

Night you know except that one but except that one I couldn’t stop I was just like I’d be like no you can’t end it like that and I’d watch the next episode and before I knew it I was watching three or four before I could go

To sleep so I was like oh man that just stinks so anyway well guys I’m going to let you see the sunset one more time and unless you have any questions or anything um yeah I hadn’t watched jell Stone Brenda I know a lot of people do

I’m gonna move out of the way so you can that will focus a little bit it’s not focusing very good is it um and unless y’all have a question or something you want to ask me I think um I think we’ll head out for the evening and go in before it gets too

Cold thank you all for being on here and I got to go watch Virgin River she’s got to go watch Virgin River you’re G to buy the books now I didn’t realize I know I didn’t know either 12 s 12 no 21 books 21 books that’s a gosh heard of it

Before yeah yes Megan we’ll see you all next year and everybody just stay safe and um have a happy New Year and may it be your best year yet and I love you guys thank you Suzanne for being here and uh thank you all for the thumbs up

And please make sure you’re subscribed and hope to if you’re in the area check out my events page and hope to see you at qia on Saturday the 6th 9 to one love you all you too Happy New Year one two three happy New Year bye Y’all

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