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E1 Wisconsin Great River Road - Michael Scott
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Episode 1 of the Wisconsin Great River Road Microcast features storyteller and historian Michael Scott.
Bob Schmidt: I’ve known Michael Scott for a long time. Michael is a history buff, but he’s also a storyteller. I’ve had the chance to see him on some of his different walks that he takes around the City of La Crosse. Michael, what do you like best about living in a river town?
Michael Scott: There’s the history. I’m down at Riverside Park often. That is an international port. I could put my kayak in the Mississippi River right there, and I could go to Key West. I could go to the Caribbean. I could cross the ocean if I was so inclined. It’s such a beautiful place. I came here in 1986, and I just fell in love with the river and the bluffs.
Bob Schmidt: The Great River Roadway is known basically the entire country, and perhaps the entire world. What makes, in your mind, the La Crosse area so unique?
Michael Scott: I’ve traveled the whole length of the Upper Mississippi Wildlife Refuge, and it’s all beautiful. But there is just something about La Crosse, and it could be … Even the native people felt that La Crosse is a sacred place. It’s because three rivers come together – you have the Mississippi, the Black, and the La Crosse River. In Native American culture, that is a sacred place, and they say no mighty wind will blow. Every night I’m down there, I get a sense of that. There is just something special about it. I don’t know if I can put my finger on it exactly, but you know it when you see it.
Bob Schmidt: Michael, you’re a performer and you do a lot of stories and you do a lot of tours. Tell me about some of the things that you do in the City of La Crosse that helps to share the wonderful Mississippi River with those that come to visit.
Michael Scott: It’s called “Dark La Crosse Walk.” We would take visitors through the City of La Crosse and tell them about our seedy underbelly. We would talk about these murders that happened a long time ago. We would talk about the brothels that were here in La Crosse, and there really were a lot of them. I like to point that out in every tour; we just walk them a little bit here and there. Ori Sorensen ran for Mayor in 1913. In his campaign, he claimed to have a list of 40 to 50 brothels that were operating within the City of La Crosse. I tell people we easily could have been nicknamed “Sin City” long before Las Vegas had a hold of it. I also started to do … I call it an active interpiece called “Walking Twain” where we walk along the river and I dress up like Mark Twain. I have the big white hair and the mustache and the white suit. I identify the six different stages along the river, along in the park there. We walk along, and I’ll stop and I’ll do different passages from Mark Twain’s writings. If you want to find out more information, you just need to go to the website footstepsoflacrosse.org.
Bob Schmidt: Michael, I know that you do other tours as well. What are some of the other tours that you personally do?
Michael Scott: The big one is “The Ghosts of Historic La Crosse Walking Tour.” I’m going on my third season from the popularity of the “Dark La Crosse” tours. You know, we figured, ‘Boy, people really like this.’ I am a storyteller, so I knew of several ghost stories in the downtown area. I went to the library, and I said, ‘Let’s do a ghost walking tour, and it will be a fundraiser for the Public Library.’ To build the tour, I went into the archives and found old newspaper accounts of haunting in the downtown. I love it. Over these two seasons, I have met people from all over the world. La Crosse is really becoming a budding tourist location. Lots of people are coming here.
Bob Schmidt: Do you think the Mississippi is one of the things that brings people to the area?
Michael Scott: I think so. I don’t know if I read it or I heard it, but when they ask people from elsewhere – Europe and people from other places around the globe – what they would like to see in America, the Mississippi River is in the top five. And believe me, you don’t want to see the Mississippi River right at the south of us where it’s just barges. You want to see the upper Mississippi River, I think, with the bluffs and inside the refuge that La Crosse sits in the middle of. I don’t think a lot of people realize that La Crosse is pretty much right smack dab in the middle of this huge wildlife refuge, and so there’s all this protected land from Wabasha all the way down to the Quad Cities. There are just so many opportunities for recreation – kayaking and boating and bird watching. We have little sandbars, and you can pull up there and camp for I think 30 days if you wanted to at one spot. It’s free, and they just ask you to keep things clean.
Bob Schmidt: I’ve known Michael Scott for a long time. Michael is a history buff, but he’s also a storyteller. I’ve had the chance to see him on some of his different walks that he takes around the City of La Crosse. Michael, what do you like best about living in a river town?
Michael Scott: There’s the history. I’m down at Riverside Park often. That is an international port. I could put my kayak in the Mississippi River right there, and I could go to Key West. I could go to the Caribbean. I could cross the ocean if I was so inclined. It’s such a beautiful place. I came here in 1986, and I just fell in love with the river and the bluffs.
Bob Schmidt: The Great River Roadway is known basically the entire country, and perhaps the entire world. What makes, in your mind, the La Crosse area so unique?
Michael Scott: I’ve traveled the whole length of the Upper Mississippi Wildlife Refuge, and it’s all beautiful. But there is just something about La Crosse, and it could be … Even the native people felt that La Crosse is a sacred place. It’s because three rivers come together – you have the Mississippi, the Black, and the La Crosse River. In Native American culture, that is a sacred place, and they say no mighty wind will blow. Every night I’m down there, I get a sense of that. There is just something special about it. I don’t know if I can put my finger on it exactly, but you know it when you see it.
Bob Schmidt: Michael, you’re a performer and you do a lot of stories and you do a lot of tours. Tell me about some of the things that you do in the City of La Crosse that helps to share the wonderful Mississippi River with those that come to visit.
Michael Scott: It’s called “Dark La Crosse Walk.” We would take visitors through the City of La Crosse and tell them about our seedy underbelly. We would talk about these murders that happened a long time ago. We would talk about the brothels that were here in La Crosse, and there really were a lot of them. I like to point that out in every tour; we just walk them a little bit here and there. Ori Sorensen ran for Mayor in 1913. In his campaign, he claimed to have a list of 40 to 50 brothels that were operating within the City of La Crosse. I tell people we easily could have been nicknamed “Sin City” long before Las Vegas had a hold of it. I also started to do … I call it an active interpiece called “Walking Twain” where we walk along the river and I dress up like Mark Twain. I have the big white hair and the mustache and the white suit. I identify the six different stages along the river, along in the park there. We walk along, and I’ll stop and I’ll do different passages from Mark Twain’s writings. If you want to find out more information, you just need to go to the website footstepsoflacrosse.org.
Bob Schmidt: Michael, I know that you do other tours as well. What are some of the other tours that you personally do?
Michael Scott: The big one is “The Ghosts of Historic La Crosse Walking Tour.” I’m going on my third season from the popularity of the “Dark La Crosse” tours. You know, we figured, ‘Boy, people really like this.’ I am a storyteller, so I knew of several ghost stories in the downtown area. I went to the library, and I said, ‘Let’s do a ghost walking tour, and it will be a fundraiser for the Public Library.’ To build the tour, I went into the archives and found old newspaper accounts of haunting in the downtown. I love it. Over these two seasons, I have met people from all over the world. La Crosse is really becoming a budding tourist location. Lots of people are coming here.
Bob Schmidt: Do you think the Mississippi is one of the things that brings people to the area?
Michael Scott: I think so. I don’t know if I read it or I heard it, but when they ask people from elsewhere – Europe and people from other places around the globe – what they would like to see in America, the Mississippi River is in the top five. And believe me, you don’t want to see the Mississippi River right at the south of us where it’s just barges. You want to see the upper Mississippi River, I think, with the bluffs and inside the refuge that La Crosse sits in the middle of. I don’t think a lot of people realize that La Crosse is pretty much right smack dab in the middle of this huge wildlife refuge, and so there’s all this protected land from Wabasha all the way down to the Quad Cities. There are just so many opportunities for recreation – kayaking and boating and bird watching. We have little sandbars, and you can pull up there and camp for I think 30 days if you wanted to at one spot. It’s free, and they just ask you to keep things clean.
E8 Eco Gardens by Washburn LLC Podcast
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Eco garden by washburn and I've had the opportunity to go through and look at your website and your Facebook stuff and I think it's really cool that you have the software you have the ability to help somebody actually plan their yard using 3-D landscape design.
Yes.
That is so cool and to tell you the truth it is kind of like playing a video game because you can sit there and pick different plants and my client sits right next to me and says you know what maybe I would like something else maybe something more of a purple foliage. So we picked something out and we delete the one plant we put the new plants in. And what's also neat is that you can see each plant as the seasons change to. So like if we put a crab apple in the front yard or something you'd be able to see the beautiful magenta or white flowers in the spring. And then you turn it to fall. And there's not really that big a fall color on a crab apple but switch that around with a sugar maple. Holy buckets is that ever different. One of the coolest parts is that I can actually make the client a movie. So make them a movie in this movie. There are birds and butterflies and you see the wind blowing the grasses. When I design landscapes that have patios with fireplaces or outdoor kitchens you can see the flames of the fire pit illuminated. There's outdoor lighting that lights up music too so you can you can have a little jazzy tune or you can have crickets chirping in the background also designed some landscapes that have ponds in them so there's a little goldfish that are swimming around and this is this is like a video game. And you push the spacebar and it throws fish food and then the fish come up to the surface. Really I can hook this up to a
big screen TV or just glance at it on the computer. I always finish a flash drive so that the client can do this or that.
No you'd mentioned a couple of different things like backyard patios and decks and fish and ponds and things like that is that all stuff that eco gardens does.
I do small paper patios I do very small retaining wall feet walls nothing taller than three feet high and usually not more than 100 feet long. Now the ponds do not do so I leave that up to the professionals when it comes to the other gardens we've talked about.
We've talked about planting gardens and stuff but I know in the past we've had conversation about different types of gardens like pollinator gardens and rain gardens and rock gardens. Is there anything special you need to do to those types of gardens as we turn to the next season leaving your plants and to the spring to benefit the pollinators.
You could give it a really good reading if you know like a rock garden. What I'm kind of thinking is it's hard to leave if you have a lot of leaves that fall onto your garden and then sit and decompose there. What I mean that's turning into organic matter and with organic matter we get growth. So it's a weed seed goes into the organic matter in between a rock that more than likely lead to plants that you don't want there otherwise known as a weed. If you can blow those leaves out or pick them out. But that would be the best thing you can do going into winter for a bit like a rock garden. But your other garden I would invite the leaves fall in their.
Yes.
That is so cool and to tell you the truth it is kind of like playing a video game because you can sit there and pick different plants and my client sits right next to me and says you know what maybe I would like something else maybe something more of a purple foliage. So we picked something out and we delete the one plant we put the new plants in. And what's also neat is that you can see each plant as the seasons change to. So like if we put a crab apple in the front yard or something you'd be able to see the beautiful magenta or white flowers in the spring. And then you turn it to fall. And there's not really that big a fall color on a crab apple but switch that around with a sugar maple. Holy buckets is that ever different. One of the coolest parts is that I can actually make the client a movie. So make them a movie in this movie. There are birds and butterflies and you see the wind blowing the grasses. When I design landscapes that have patios with fireplaces or outdoor kitchens you can see the flames of the fire pit illuminated. There's outdoor lighting that lights up music too so you can you can have a little jazzy tune or you can have crickets chirping in the background also designed some landscapes that have ponds in them so there's a little goldfish that are swimming around and this is this is like a video game. And you push the spacebar and it throws fish food and then the fish come up to the surface. Really I can hook this up to a
big screen TV or just glance at it on the computer. I always finish a flash drive so that the client can do this or that.
No you'd mentioned a couple of different things like backyard patios and decks and fish and ponds and things like that is that all stuff that eco gardens does.
I do small paper patios I do very small retaining wall feet walls nothing taller than three feet high and usually not more than 100 feet long. Now the ponds do not do so I leave that up to the professionals when it comes to the other gardens we've talked about.
We've talked about planting gardens and stuff but I know in the past we've had conversation about different types of gardens like pollinator gardens and rain gardens and rock gardens. Is there anything special you need to do to those types of gardens as we turn to the next season leaving your plants and to the spring to benefit the pollinators.
You could give it a really good reading if you know like a rock garden. What I'm kind of thinking is it's hard to leave if you have a lot of leaves that fall onto your garden and then sit and decompose there. What I mean that's turning into organic matter and with organic matter we get growth. So it's a weed seed goes into the organic matter in between a rock that more than likely lead to plants that you don't want there otherwise known as a weed. If you can blow those leaves out or pick them out. But that would be the best thing you can do going into winter for a bit like a rock garden. But your other garden I would invite the leaves fall in their.
E4 Chris Jones 1 Word - resolution
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New Year new resolutions, also talked about marriage, and branding. Got any ideas for Branding Chris Jones? Something that says Chris Jones in 5 words or less. Also we talked about Chris's syurp addiction.
E4 Invisible Fence Brand of the TriStates- Sharing
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Invisible Fence Brand of the TriStates / E4 - Sharing
Invisible Fence Brand of the Tri-States
319 Northstar RoadWI 54636
(608) 399-1266
https://tri-states.invisiblefence.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Pet-Service/Invisible-Fence-209481692915/
Bob: You mentioned the word ‘system’ a lot of different times. So it’s a full, everything encompassed type of system?
Karla: It can be. You can do a basic system just outside, or you can expand it to do all kinds of things you need to do inside, outside, camping. If I sit and I talk to my fellow dealers when we’re at conferences, it’s really interesting listening to some of the different things people have helped with. I mentioned to you that I helped a gal in a wheelchair with our shields. I just heard from another dealer that had a dog that was obsessed with the vacuum cleaner. We hear this story a lot. The dog will bark and grab the vacuum cleaner. Mom is trying to clean, and isn’t that annoying? They attached a small microshields to the vacuum cleaner. Now the dog leaves the vacuum cleaner alone and doesn’t bark at it anymore. Isn’t that just great? The dog is going, ‘I can’t go over there, so I’ll leave that thing alone.’
Bob: You just said camping a little bit ago. A lot of like to go on trips, like to go to different places. Is the Invisible Fence Brand fence and shield compatible with other places other than home?
Karla: Yes. With our Invisible Fence Brand Shields Rock, we can actually attach some wire to it, and you can actually take it camping with you. You can use it for camping, or let’s say you’re going to grandma’s house and grandma doesn’t like it when your best friend runs through the house and might knock something over.
Bob: That happened a lot when I was a kid, and it was mostly my friends that came over. My mom yelled at me for that.
Karla: But now your best friend is your dog, so they can take that shields with them. Some people will use their shields when they go to the vet or take their dog for a car ride because the dog is so excited and wants to jump between the front seat-backseat, front seat-backseat, front seat-backseat. They’ll take their shields and put it in the front seat so the dog can’t come up to the front, which is a safety issue because if you’re driving and you have a big dog that jumps in your lap, you could get into a car accident.
Bob: Invisible Fence Brand can help with that.
Karla: Oh, my gosh, yes. Like I’ve said before, not just [with] dogs, [but also with] cats, goats, pigs. Some people have more than one Invisible Fence Brand system. For instance, I have some people that have cabins or vacation homes, and they have an Invisible Fence Brand system there. They take their dog between the two systems, and they just share collars between the two.
Invisible Fence Brand of the Tri-States
319 Northstar RoadWI 54636
(608) 399-1266
https://tri-states.invisiblefence.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Pet-Service/Invisible-Fence-209481692915/
Bob: You mentioned the word ‘system’ a lot of different times. So it’s a full, everything encompassed type of system?
Karla: It can be. You can do a basic system just outside, or you can expand it to do all kinds of things you need to do inside, outside, camping. If I sit and I talk to my fellow dealers when we’re at conferences, it’s really interesting listening to some of the different things people have helped with. I mentioned to you that I helped a gal in a wheelchair with our shields. I just heard from another dealer that had a dog that was obsessed with the vacuum cleaner. We hear this story a lot. The dog will bark and grab the vacuum cleaner. Mom is trying to clean, and isn’t that annoying? They attached a small microshields to the vacuum cleaner. Now the dog leaves the vacuum cleaner alone and doesn’t bark at it anymore. Isn’t that just great? The dog is going, ‘I can’t go over there, so I’ll leave that thing alone.’
Bob: You just said camping a little bit ago. A lot of like to go on trips, like to go to different places. Is the Invisible Fence Brand fence and shield compatible with other places other than home?
Karla: Yes. With our Invisible Fence Brand Shields Rock, we can actually attach some wire to it, and you can actually take it camping with you. You can use it for camping, or let’s say you’re going to grandma’s house and grandma doesn’t like it when your best friend runs through the house and might knock something over.
Bob: That happened a lot when I was a kid, and it was mostly my friends that came over. My mom yelled at me for that.
Karla: But now your best friend is your dog, so they can take that shields with them. Some people will use their shields when they go to the vet or take their dog for a car ride because the dog is so excited and wants to jump between the front seat-backseat, front seat-backseat, front seat-backseat. They’ll take their shields and put it in the front seat so the dog can’t come up to the front, which is a safety issue because if you’re driving and you have a big dog that jumps in your lap, you could get into a car accident.
Bob: Invisible Fence Brand can help with that.
Karla: Oh, my gosh, yes. Like I’ve said before, not just [with] dogs, [but also with] cats, goats, pigs. Some people have more than one Invisible Fence Brand system. For instance, I have some people that have cabins or vacation homes, and they have an Invisible Fence Brand system there. They take their dog between the two systems, and they just share collars between the two.
E3 Invisible Fence Brand of the TriStates - Shield Products
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Invisible Fence Brand of the TriStates / E3- Shield Products
Invisible Fence Brand of the Tri-States
319 Northstar RoadWI 54636
(608) 399-1266
https://tri-states.invisiblefence.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Pet-Service/Invisible-Fence-209481692915/
Karla: We’ve done things in homes where we’ve had two dogs tha - t mom and dad want to feed both their dogs at the same time [and] not one in one room and one in the other. We’ve used our shields products so that each dog can’t get into each other’s food, but can eat at the same time. It’s so cool. We have cats and dogs eating next to each other.
Bob: That’s true love right there.
Karla: It really is. We have dogs that aren’t allowed to get into the cat litter, but the cat can get into their cat litter. The cat can’t jump on the counter, but the dog can lay next to the counter. It’s really cool the things that we’re able to do.
Bob: You mentioned ‘best’ a couple of different times, and you want to do the best for our animals, our pets. Do you think Invisible Fence Brand is the best?
Karla: I do. Invisible Fence has spent a lot of money on research. We’re able to tell how often your dog is getting a correction, or if they’re just getting that warning tone, which is totally cool.
Bob: So you’re able to pull up a report saying, ‘Your dog got this?’
Karla: Yeah. When we look at our programmer, we can tell you … What’s really cool about it is when we start that training process we’ll talk about how many they had, and a lot of people … I play a little game, [and I ask], ‘How many times do you think they activated the collar?’ Believe it or not, they’re usually close. With our Perfect Start Plus training, it’s easy for us to teach the dogs on most stimulations so that they’re not at a high level. They’re never meant to be at a high level unless that’s what they need. We don’t want them at a high level.
Bob: Does it change for different breeds?
Karla: No.
Bob: So it depends on the temperament of the dog?
Karla: Absolutely.
Bob: That’s a good thing to know, because I think a lot of people might think that, ‘I have a chihuahua,’ or, ‘I have a mastiff.’ Can you help them both? By the sounds of it, you can.
Karla: I can. They’re customized for each individual dog. It’s not a, ‘Let’s look on a chart and it’s this breed of dog [and] this many pounds. This is what it should be.’ It’s not like that at all. We’re trained by animal behavioralists to look for cues and to understand how that dog is responding to the system. Then we’re using our tools to verify that information that we have.
Invisible Fence Brand of the Tri-States
319 Northstar RoadWI 54636
(608) 399-1266
https://tri-states.invisiblefence.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Pet-Service/Invisible-Fence-209481692915/
Karla: We’ve done things in homes where we’ve had two dogs tha - t mom and dad want to feed both their dogs at the same time [and] not one in one room and one in the other. We’ve used our shields products so that each dog can’t get into each other’s food, but can eat at the same time. It’s so cool. We have cats and dogs eating next to each other.
Bob: That’s true love right there.
Karla: It really is. We have dogs that aren’t allowed to get into the cat litter, but the cat can get into their cat litter. The cat can’t jump on the counter, but the dog can lay next to the counter. It’s really cool the things that we’re able to do.
Bob: You mentioned ‘best’ a couple of different times, and you want to do the best for our animals, our pets. Do you think Invisible Fence Brand is the best?
Karla: I do. Invisible Fence has spent a lot of money on research. We’re able to tell how often your dog is getting a correction, or if they’re just getting that warning tone, which is totally cool.
Bob: So you’re able to pull up a report saying, ‘Your dog got this?’
Karla: Yeah. When we look at our programmer, we can tell you … What’s really cool about it is when we start that training process we’ll talk about how many they had, and a lot of people … I play a little game, [and I ask], ‘How many times do you think they activated the collar?’ Believe it or not, they’re usually close. With our Perfect Start Plus training, it’s easy for us to teach the dogs on most stimulations so that they’re not at a high level. They’re never meant to be at a high level unless that’s what they need. We don’t want them at a high level.
Bob: Does it change for different breeds?
Karla: No.
Bob: So it depends on the temperament of the dog?
Karla: Absolutely.
Bob: That’s a good thing to know, because I think a lot of people might think that, ‘I have a chihuahua,’ or, ‘I have a mastiff.’ Can you help them both? By the sounds of it, you can.
Karla: I can. They’re customized for each individual dog. It’s not a, ‘Let’s look on a chart and it’s this breed of dog [and] this many pounds. This is what it should be.’ It’s not like that at all. We’re trained by animal behavioralists to look for cues and to understand how that dog is responding to the system. Then we’re using our tools to verify that information that we have.
E2 Invisible Fence Brand of the TriStates - unconditional love
4m · Published
Invisible Fence Brand of the TriStates / E2 - Unconditional Love
Invisible Fence Brand of the Tri-States
319 Northstar RoadWI 54636
(608) 399-1266
https://tri-states.invisiblefence.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Pet-Service/Invisible-Fence-209481692915/
Bob: People are using their animals as maybe an escape from family or children.
Karla: It’s not an escape. It’s actually, in my opinion, because we are very disconnected from our friends and family because we’re more connected electronically. We’re disconnected physically. Years ago, you used to go visit grandma and grandpa on Sunday after church. Well, nobody does that anymore. So that hug from grandma or your cousins or all those kinds of things that you had is now replaced by an animal. It’s unconditional love, and that’s what we all want. We look for it.
Bob: It boils down to our loved ones. How can Invisible Fence Brand help to nature and nurture that relationship with my best friend?
Karla: It can make a relationship better. You already have a great relationship with your dog, but it can make it so much better. Dogs are like children, and when they misbehave it just makes you angry. A lot of times with Invisible Fence Brand, what you can do is build that relationship by being able to go in the yard and play ball with your dog without them being on a chain. You can garden in your yard, and they can be out there with you and not feel like they’re attached to something. The other thing is that it’s freedom. The other part about it is if you do have problem areas in your home where dogs are naughty – let’s say the garbage can. Invisible Fence has products that when you come home after a long day of work and you really just want to be with your friend, but you’re not cleaning up the mess your friend made, and now you resent them because they don’t really know why they did it; they’re dogs. But we can put shields there, they can stay out of the garbage, you don’t come home to a mess, and you can come home to that unconditional love that one dog that waited all day for you. It’s awesome the different things that we do. It’s just really awesome. It’s cool.
Bob: I think it’s pretty cool the products Invisible Fence Brand has that helps us to achieve that and to show our pets that they’re truly loved. What are some of your favorite products that you guys have?
Karla: I have so many. It’s proving to them that we love them, but it’s also keeping them safe so that we can keep them and love them for as long as we can. That unconditional love doesn’t last forever. We only have them a short period of time, and so we want the absolute best for them, and to keep them safe. Some of our products that we have that I just absolutely love, I love our shields products. I absolutely love them [and] how we can do so many different things with them. When you have two dogs in the house and you’ve got one that pretty much can go anywhere and you’ve got another one that’s really, really naughty, you can make so that the one dog isn’t affected by it and the other dog you’re keeping safe. For instance, my dog, Ella. Ella is very naughty. She is a 14-year-old black lab-basset mix, as you know, and has the most stoic, innocent face of any animal I’ve ever met in my life. Most people look at me and go, ‘Oh, my God. Ella’s naughty?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, she’s the naughtiest dog I have.’ But what’s great about the Invisible Fence shields is that I can keep her out of things that she shouldn’t be into. For instance, we had a cupboard that we didn’t have a shield in. My husband bought a huge tub of chocolate Slim-Fast that he likes to drink in the morning. She got into it.
Bob: And there was a mess all over the place.
Karla: Oh, my gosh. She flung it all over the walls and then licked them. It was just nasty – very, very nasty. And the other part about it was that she also got sick. She could have died from that. That’s chocolate, and it was a huge, 100-ounce powder that she ate almost all of it. Not only did we have the mess, but we had the fear she was going to be sick. She had a tummy ache for a couple days, and then that was it.
Bob: So the shields will work for something like that?
Karla: Yeah. Right now we have the shields set up in that cupboard. She can’t get in there. I have another dog that likes to lay next to that cupboard – a little dachshund named Bucky – and Bucky can lay right next to it and doesn’t even know the shield is there. It doesn’t affect him.
Invisible Fence Brand of the Tri-States
319 Northstar RoadWI 54636
(608) 399-1266
https://tri-states.invisiblefence.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Pet-Service/Invisible-Fence-209481692915/
Bob: People are using their animals as maybe an escape from family or children.
Karla: It’s not an escape. It’s actually, in my opinion, because we are very disconnected from our friends and family because we’re more connected electronically. We’re disconnected physically. Years ago, you used to go visit grandma and grandpa on Sunday after church. Well, nobody does that anymore. So that hug from grandma or your cousins or all those kinds of things that you had is now replaced by an animal. It’s unconditional love, and that’s what we all want. We look for it.
Bob: It boils down to our loved ones. How can Invisible Fence Brand help to nature and nurture that relationship with my best friend?
Karla: It can make a relationship better. You already have a great relationship with your dog, but it can make it so much better. Dogs are like children, and when they misbehave it just makes you angry. A lot of times with Invisible Fence Brand, what you can do is build that relationship by being able to go in the yard and play ball with your dog without them being on a chain. You can garden in your yard, and they can be out there with you and not feel like they’re attached to something. The other thing is that it’s freedom. The other part about it is if you do have problem areas in your home where dogs are naughty – let’s say the garbage can. Invisible Fence has products that when you come home after a long day of work and you really just want to be with your friend, but you’re not cleaning up the mess your friend made, and now you resent them because they don’t really know why they did it; they’re dogs. But we can put shields there, they can stay out of the garbage, you don’t come home to a mess, and you can come home to that unconditional love that one dog that waited all day for you. It’s awesome the different things that we do. It’s just really awesome. It’s cool.
Bob: I think it’s pretty cool the products Invisible Fence Brand has that helps us to achieve that and to show our pets that they’re truly loved. What are some of your favorite products that you guys have?
Karla: I have so many. It’s proving to them that we love them, but it’s also keeping them safe so that we can keep them and love them for as long as we can. That unconditional love doesn’t last forever. We only have them a short period of time, and so we want the absolute best for them, and to keep them safe. Some of our products that we have that I just absolutely love, I love our shields products. I absolutely love them [and] how we can do so many different things with them. When you have two dogs in the house and you’ve got one that pretty much can go anywhere and you’ve got another one that’s really, really naughty, you can make so that the one dog isn’t affected by it and the other dog you’re keeping safe. For instance, my dog, Ella. Ella is very naughty. She is a 14-year-old black lab-basset mix, as you know, and has the most stoic, innocent face of any animal I’ve ever met in my life. Most people look at me and go, ‘Oh, my God. Ella’s naughty?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, she’s the naughtiest dog I have.’ But what’s great about the Invisible Fence shields is that I can keep her out of things that she shouldn’t be into. For instance, we had a cupboard that we didn’t have a shield in. My husband bought a huge tub of chocolate Slim-Fast that he likes to drink in the morning. She got into it.
Bob: And there was a mess all over the place.
Karla: Oh, my gosh. She flung it all over the walls and then licked them. It was just nasty – very, very nasty. And the other part about it was that she also got sick. She could have died from that. That’s chocolate, and it was a huge, 100-ounce powder that she ate almost all of it. Not only did we have the mess, but we had the fear she was going to be sick. She had a tummy ache for a couple days, and then that was it.
Bob: So the shields will work for something like that?
Karla: Yeah. Right now we have the shields set up in that cupboard. She can’t get in there. I have another dog that likes to lay next to that cupboard – a little dachshund named Bucky – and Bucky can lay right next to it and doesn’t even know the shield is there. It doesn’t affect him.
E9 McHugh Excavating proud of core values
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Dean McHugh from McHugh excavating what are you most proud of. What do you think of McHugh excavating.
Well I'm proud that this company that my dad started out of the basement of our house when I was 10 years old is still around after 42 years. Lot of people that we've helped over the years with their projects and with their problems there's people some water problems right now and sometimes it's just a little bit of grating in the backyard to get that to go away and sometimes it's not quite so simple and to think be more of a complex issue and I'm proud of helping those people. Probably most importantly I'm proud of all the good paying jobs and all the people that I've been able to support families working here.
Q Over the years keep things local that's that's fantastic. Dean Mikir from ACU excavating. I know that any Web site it says innovative construction solutions of 1976 which is like you said 42 years ago when your father started the company. And what I like about your website is you've actually got a page that's got your core values on there. How often do you see an excavating company with their core values listed right on their website.
Well the core values are something we really believe in by about four or five years ago sat through a seminar on our guys talked about the Ritz Carlton you know that I don't stay there and few do. But we all know what the Ritz Carlton is and we know what their reputation services. And he talked about how they use core values to make sure everybody in the company is always thinking like they want their reputation to be. And we felt at that time that our company demonstrated a lot of the things that a customer would like to see or an employee would like to see in a company. But after listening to that fellow give that seminar we realized we get these things out on paper and so we had several management meetings and that came up with what we thought were the 13 most important values to our company. We define them. We came up with examples of them and we take time every week. Every Monday morning we have a 15 minute conference call that everybody in the company is on and we ROTY through the 13 works out well because at four times in a 52 week year but we rotate through those core values and we have the column Tuesday and the values there and we discuss we're being fair means improving the customer being fair to your fellow employees. We have guys that chime in from all on the job sites and the example they've seen in the last week of what being fair is and like you said there's 13 of them and there is just one of them. But we feel having that reminder and talking about that for 10
to 15 minutes every week keeps that top of mind and keeps everybody in the company from top to bottom hopefully they're producing and acting out what we want to be as a company.
Well I'm proud that this company that my dad started out of the basement of our house when I was 10 years old is still around after 42 years. Lot of people that we've helped over the years with their projects and with their problems there's people some water problems right now and sometimes it's just a little bit of grating in the backyard to get that to go away and sometimes it's not quite so simple and to think be more of a complex issue and I'm proud of helping those people. Probably most importantly I'm proud of all the good paying jobs and all the people that I've been able to support families working here.
Q Over the years keep things local that's that's fantastic. Dean Mikir from ACU excavating. I know that any Web site it says innovative construction solutions of 1976 which is like you said 42 years ago when your father started the company. And what I like about your website is you've actually got a page that's got your core values on there. How often do you see an excavating company with their core values listed right on their website.
Well the core values are something we really believe in by about four or five years ago sat through a seminar on our guys talked about the Ritz Carlton you know that I don't stay there and few do. But we all know what the Ritz Carlton is and we know what their reputation services. And he talked about how they use core values to make sure everybody in the company is always thinking like they want their reputation to be. And we felt at that time that our company demonstrated a lot of the things that a customer would like to see or an employee would like to see in a company. But after listening to that fellow give that seminar we realized we get these things out on paper and so we had several management meetings and that came up with what we thought were the 13 most important values to our company. We define them. We came up with examples of them and we take time every week. Every Monday morning we have a 15 minute conference call that everybody in the company is on and we ROTY through the 13 works out well because at four times in a 52 week year but we rotate through those core values and we have the column Tuesday and the values there and we discuss we're being fair means improving the customer being fair to your fellow employees. We have guys that chime in from all on the job sites and the example they've seen in the last week of what being fair is and like you said there's 13 of them and there is just one of them. But we feel having that reminder and talking about that for 10
to 15 minutes every week keeps that top of mind and keeps everybody in the company from top to bottom hopefully they're producing and acting out what we want to be as a company.
E7 Masters Services Chimney Chad dirty chimneys and cleaning logs
3m · Published
Growing up in Wisconsin I only knew three or four families that actually had wood burning fireplace or coming down to Texas. Everybody had a wood burning fireplace not knowing that. So as I'm driving around with this gentleman who worked for me Tell me about the chimney sweep the business. He's pointing. Every house has a chimney. If you draw a line from the East Coast the West Coast forward Dallas Texas is up to Tulsa. The climate is a seasonal climate where it does have we do have four seasons but we have a mild Four Seasons.
So what kind of things need to be done on a regular basis when it comes to having a fireplace or having a chimney no matter where you live.
You should your fireplace and chimney inspected once a year. Main thing is to have your fireplace be in a working order and safe chimney had to dirty chimneys cause issues in a home dirty chimney cause many issues. Number one is there an allergy. Number two is a dirty chimney who accumulate soot and over time it will turn into a dangerous hazard that can cause the chimney fire across the country.
There are many chimney fires due the lack of proper maintenance yearly maintenance on fireplaces and chimney.
No. Can I know that there's a product out there that I can burn in my fireplace that will miraculously clean out my chimney is that something that you would suggest people to do.
It's actually not a bad issue I used to think that it wasn't but that said My blog is not a bad deal to burn every once in a while and your chimney is what it does is it crystallizes. Just like it does and has everything crystallizes soot and it all fall. The problem with that is you're not also seeing you're not also getting the result of a chimney inspection to see if there is any damage that occurred during or during before or after the process. The problem with the law those logs is that you burn you burn that log you clean your chimney. You don't think you need to have a professionally looked at which is exactly the problem with that log is people will have issues with the fireplaces. They say they knock UTM inspected. They're just having the logs burned. And with that burning that thing. Okay. My gym is clean there's nothing wrong with my chimney. Well there can obviously be many things wrong with the chimney that have occurred over time and the false sense of security with burning a log does not replace an annual chimney inspection.
So you say annual chimneys inspections we do.
Reminder emails and calls will leave for people to do that. With that most people that burn enough will do it.
So what kind of things need to be done on a regular basis when it comes to having a fireplace or having a chimney no matter where you live.
You should your fireplace and chimney inspected once a year. Main thing is to have your fireplace be in a working order and safe chimney had to dirty chimneys cause issues in a home dirty chimney cause many issues. Number one is there an allergy. Number two is a dirty chimney who accumulate soot and over time it will turn into a dangerous hazard that can cause the chimney fire across the country.
There are many chimney fires due the lack of proper maintenance yearly maintenance on fireplaces and chimney.
No. Can I know that there's a product out there that I can burn in my fireplace that will miraculously clean out my chimney is that something that you would suggest people to do.
It's actually not a bad issue I used to think that it wasn't but that said My blog is not a bad deal to burn every once in a while and your chimney is what it does is it crystallizes. Just like it does and has everything crystallizes soot and it all fall. The problem with that is you're not also seeing you're not also getting the result of a chimney inspection to see if there is any damage that occurred during or during before or after the process. The problem with the law those logs is that you burn you burn that log you clean your chimney. You don't think you need to have a professionally looked at which is exactly the problem with that log is people will have issues with the fireplaces. They say they knock UTM inspected. They're just having the logs burned. And with that burning that thing. Okay. My gym is clean there's nothing wrong with my chimney. Well there can obviously be many things wrong with the chimney that have occurred over time and the false sense of security with burning a log does not replace an annual chimney inspection.
So you say annual chimneys inspections we do.
Reminder emails and calls will leave for people to do that. With that most people that burn enough will do it.
E1 Blues City Strength
9m · Published
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A person who has never been to the gym before or when they go to a gym. They leave feeling unsuccessful because they were really kind of felt like they were going to do this and they get to the gym and then there psyched about their goals, are psyched about New Year's resolutions. I signed up for the gym. They're starting to pay a little bit of money to do that and then they get there and they just don't know what to do, and they're just kind of like floating about in a leave and it feels like that really wasn't worth it. I think that that person would definitely be someone well-suited to work with a trainer because we create that relationship with them and their experience Jason Friedman tell me little bit about who you are what I would say that I nobody who is very passionate about training and about fitness and about the daily practice of of movement. Why would somebody want to go to having having a place to go to food, to be able to work on yourself and kind of devote yourself to getting better and doing something worthwhile. When I kinda got into training and decided that I want to pursue this a little bit more seriously as a career. You know, as opposed to just like something that I like to do as a hobby, it was because I really felt like I didn't want to spend my time sitting in it at a desk and plugging away at something that wasn't particularly important to me and I was felt like no matter what was going on in my life that if I was able to get to the gym and I felt good. I felt like I did like II had a little bit of the success that they even if things were not particularly successful in other ways you can become a professional athlete but can everybody become healthier. Yeah for the fitness aspect of people's lives. What I really try to do is meet people wherever they are and try to make fitness or gym life. I guess you could say something that feels really at home. Philly feels really relatable to them. Not overwhelming. Or, you know, scary in any way that this is not like all you know you're you're going to come and get your ass absolutely handed to you by your trainer in your trainer to be yelling at you and making you feel bad about yourself that is the complete opposite of what I think training experience is that you not think it's a it's a relationship that that a trainer and person kind of develop in terms of like what it is that they want to get out of it. And there's anything that I really put out there to folks, it's that anybody can do it and that being healthy and being said of being strong or being able to move is about the practice itself. It's not when folks come in, so often they come in with you know very kind of like rigid goals, but they haven't worked out or moved it all in like 20 years and so they have their sights set on this very like specific idea without any process in order to get them there and that can be very quickly frustrating for people because the results take time and they're very indefinite. They're not like as finite as people think like oh yes I Verizon achieved and made it there. Now I'm done when really it's just about the consistency in the frequency and the practice which is something that you continue to go back to on a regular basis you continuing to work on on your movement, and that's really as in anything. What mastery is just the continued practice of working on it getting better and I find that through. That is how to me where the most success comes from is when somebody adopts this into their life. It fully integrates to come to the gym. They do the work. They leave the feel-good and that they come back and it's a it's a very positive rewarding full circle experience. So in that regard, there is no exact recipe. It is whatever somebody makes is that as long as it's something consistent to someone or some of the things that we can do simply in our house maybe one or watching television or got five minutes in between this meeting in the next meeting. What can we do that simple in our house or in our office. That's actually a I think one of the most important things most important places to pick it up would be at the office or at home. What I would say about the industry now is that as a trainer were tending to see the same injuries again and again and essentially there, sitting injuries, their poor posture injuries and that's because people your training yourself at all times. So the things that you do the most. Your body is adapting into those positions. So if you're kinda slouching at a desk and your wrists are all kind of been to encrypt over because you're banging on the keyboard and you're peering into the into the computer screen like kind of meaning for your neck is out of position and your back is curved. That's training for your body. So then when you stand up and you try to like straighten yourself out. It hurts. It feels kind of like unnatural feels bad and so that's when you know during that time when you're sitting I would say the first thing is get up. Don't sit still for a long extended periods of time. You know half hour 45 minutes really try to limit it, limit it to that is much as you can so that when you get up you you don't have to get up and do a power packed workout every half an hour, but if you get up and stretch and you move you take a quick walk maybe do a few reps of something like 10 good push-ups. 10 good squats, you know, I really some of the more basic foundational movements. It kind of resets your entire system reset your entire posture and so then when you sit back down to work and you have a little bit of awareness in terms of how you're sitting you know, holding your chest open, holding your shoulders, back and down sitting up nice and straight having to know the proper support in your in your lumbar spine that lower back area of the feet firmly planted on the ground and just some general awareness about the where your body is know in time and space. That's also training and can help alleviate a lot of these postural problems with people having so what is publicity strengthen what blue city strength is my business to take somebody's blues away by giving them a good workout. Blue city strength comes from my father. My pop school is a bluesman. He grew up playing the blues and he still does to this day stands out. You know with with some friends who he's grown up with your Chicago is known for the blues. Can anybody workout yeah ever anybody can work out that anybody who can move can do it, or should move and I think that the term working out might create a certain impression in somebody's head like they have to do this for hour and 1/2 dripping wet of sweater things like that and it depends on the person. It depends on who you know what your experience or background is any sort of injuries metal conditions of things that the program would be then uniquely suited for them to help them step-by-step get a little bit better as far as my clientele goes, I will. I work with kids and that I work with folks who are in their 80s folks who are like really serious about going after maybe an advanced certification of some kind or advanced training. You know like marathon prep for a triathlon recently been working with a guy recovering from cancer who you know. It lost a lot of weight and lost a lot of strength and decided he wanted to get control of his life again and wanted to dedicate himself to feeling strong and being physical and so II think it it it just depends anybody could do it to you only work out of a certain Jim or can I call blue city strength for any Jim I really only workout of the gym called the space okay which is run by Annie put rid you know we really work extremely well together and we have great great training staff you know where all training independently so it's a trainer's Jim, I do exclusively work out of the space right now. How do something to hold. The blue city strength, Jason telephone number is 773 301 0344 773-301-0344 I have a website. My website is blue city strength.com, people can reach out to me by email [email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/bluescitystrength/
A person who has never been to the gym before or when they go to a gym. They leave feeling unsuccessful because they were really kind of felt like they were going to do this and they get to the gym and then there psyched about their goals, are psyched about New Year's resolutions. I signed up for the gym. They're starting to pay a little bit of money to do that and then they get there and they just don't know what to do, and they're just kind of like floating about in a leave and it feels like that really wasn't worth it. I think that that person would definitely be someone well-suited to work with a trainer because we create that relationship with them and their experience Jason Friedman tell me little bit about who you are what I would say that I nobody who is very passionate about training and about fitness and about the daily practice of of movement. Why would somebody want to go to having having a place to go to food, to be able to work on yourself and kind of devote yourself to getting better and doing something worthwhile. When I kinda got into training and decided that I want to pursue this a little bit more seriously as a career. You know, as opposed to just like something that I like to do as a hobby, it was because I really felt like I didn't want to spend my time sitting in it at a desk and plugging away at something that wasn't particularly important to me and I was felt like no matter what was going on in my life that if I was able to get to the gym and I felt good. I felt like I did like II had a little bit of the success that they even if things were not particularly successful in other ways you can become a professional athlete but can everybody become healthier. Yeah for the fitness aspect of people's lives. What I really try to do is meet people wherever they are and try to make fitness or gym life. I guess you could say something that feels really at home. Philly feels really relatable to them. Not overwhelming. Or, you know, scary in any way that this is not like all you know you're you're going to come and get your ass absolutely handed to you by your trainer in your trainer to be yelling at you and making you feel bad about yourself that is the complete opposite of what I think training experience is that you not think it's a it's a relationship that that a trainer and person kind of develop in terms of like what it is that they want to get out of it. And there's anything that I really put out there to folks, it's that anybody can do it and that being healthy and being said of being strong or being able to move is about the practice itself. It's not when folks come in, so often they come in with you know very kind of like rigid goals, but they haven't worked out or moved it all in like 20 years and so they have their sights set on this very like specific idea without any process in order to get them there and that can be very quickly frustrating for people because the results take time and they're very indefinite. They're not like as finite as people think like oh yes I Verizon achieved and made it there. Now I'm done when really it's just about the consistency in the frequency and the practice which is something that you continue to go back to on a regular basis you continuing to work on on your movement, and that's really as in anything. What mastery is just the continued practice of working on it getting better and I find that through. That is how to me where the most success comes from is when somebody adopts this into their life. It fully integrates to come to the gym. They do the work. They leave the feel-good and that they come back and it's a it's a very positive rewarding full circle experience. So in that regard, there is no exact recipe. It is whatever somebody makes is that as long as it's something consistent to someone or some of the things that we can do simply in our house maybe one or watching television or got five minutes in between this meeting in the next meeting. What can we do that simple in our house or in our office. That's actually a I think one of the most important things most important places to pick it up would be at the office or at home. What I would say about the industry now is that as a trainer were tending to see the same injuries again and again and essentially there, sitting injuries, their poor posture injuries and that's because people your training yourself at all times. So the things that you do the most. Your body is adapting into those positions. So if you're kinda slouching at a desk and your wrists are all kind of been to encrypt over because you're banging on the keyboard and you're peering into the into the computer screen like kind of meaning for your neck is out of position and your back is curved. That's training for your body. So then when you stand up and you try to like straighten yourself out. It hurts. It feels kind of like unnatural feels bad and so that's when you know during that time when you're sitting I would say the first thing is get up. Don't sit still for a long extended periods of time. You know half hour 45 minutes really try to limit it, limit it to that is much as you can so that when you get up you you don't have to get up and do a power packed workout every half an hour, but if you get up and stretch and you move you take a quick walk maybe do a few reps of something like 10 good push-ups. 10 good squats, you know, I really some of the more basic foundational movements. It kind of resets your entire system reset your entire posture and so then when you sit back down to work and you have a little bit of awareness in terms of how you're sitting you know, holding your chest open, holding your shoulders, back and down sitting up nice and straight having to know the proper support in your in your lumbar spine that lower back area of the feet firmly planted on the ground and just some general awareness about the where your body is know in time and space. That's also training and can help alleviate a lot of these postural problems with people having so what is publicity strengthen what blue city strength is my business to take somebody's blues away by giving them a good workout. Blue city strength comes from my father. My pop school is a bluesman. He grew up playing the blues and he still does to this day stands out. You know with with some friends who he's grown up with your Chicago is known for the blues. Can anybody workout yeah ever anybody can work out that anybody who can move can do it, or should move and I think that the term working out might create a certain impression in somebody's head like they have to do this for hour and 1/2 dripping wet of sweater things like that and it depends on the person. It depends on who you know what your experience or background is any sort of injuries metal conditions of things that the program would be then uniquely suited for them to help them step-by-step get a little bit better as far as my clientele goes, I will. I work with kids and that I work with folks who are in their 80s folks who are like really serious about going after maybe an advanced certification of some kind or advanced training. You know like marathon prep for a triathlon recently been working with a guy recovering from cancer who you know. It lost a lot of weight and lost a lot of strength and decided he wanted to get control of his life again and wanted to dedicate himself to feeling strong and being physical and so II think it it it just depends anybody could do it to you only work out of a certain Jim or can I call blue city strength for any Jim I really only workout of the gym called the space okay which is run by Annie put rid you know we really work extremely well together and we have great great training staff you know where all training independently so it's a trainer's Jim, I do exclusively work out of the space right now. How do something to hold. The blue city strength, Jason telephone number is 773 301 0344 773-301-0344 I have a website. My website is blue city strength.com, people can reach out to me by email [email protected]
E7 Eco Gardens by Washburn LLC Podcast
4m · Published
As we switch from season to season we're lucky in the Midwest to have four distinct seasons. What does eco gardens by Washburn do in the winter months.
Well in the winter months garden design is so sustainable landscape design. Getting ready for spring eco garden will also come out and do them like fruit tree pruning. No we're just gearing up and we're going to educational seminars trade shows getting ready to see what new things are coming out the next season. Plus there's always new diseases new pets that we have to learn about to watch for and how to combat them sharpening up the tools and making sure everything's ready to go for the next season as well.
I had the opportunity to walk through a garden with you and I thought that was really cool. Do you offer that as a service where you'll take somebody through and show them things in their yard that you could do this and this is what this plant does and here's why this one would be good for your backyard.
Yes absolutely. There's many people that call me just to come over for ideas so I go over and provide a consultation. And you know even with scheduling like OK Thero and when should I do this.
When should a true that when should they fertilize everything calendar based when it comes to dealing with your garden.
No no I wouldn't say calendar based I would say temperature based. You know we look at the life of the plant or the lifespan of the plant really the temperature makes the big difference.
We're known as the frozen tundra or at least the area of the frozen tundra. When it comes to when the ground freezes and we end up with her Snow is there anything that we can do or what should absolutely be done before our first snow flies Hulsey Lottering.
You don't need to fertilize things because they're going into dormancy. Well not evergreen. You could give a little shot of the light there right now definitely watering that in giving them a very very healthy drink. They need that energy to get down to their roots so that they can survive the winter because we're not probably going to get a whole lot of rain. Maybe we will in the winter as long as your larger plantings get a really healthy drink. Then you can start to say yep I did the best that I could to prepare these plants for winter.
A lot of the big box stores sell bags of mulch is that the kind of mulch that you're talking about and you're talking about mulching.
You can certainly use that but also press clippings and leave would work just fine. And if you have a straw bale around as long as these scenes are disease free and don't have a bunch of mold I'd say use them. And yet you could definitely use like a cedar molds if you like from the big box stores.
No problem when it comes to my asparagus do I cut those down or do I do a lot those winter and then come down in the spring.
Essentially you could do either one Bob. But if you wanna cut them down right now you certainly can. I'd probably cut to about 4 inches above soil level.
What about strawberries do I need to do anything with those.
Give him a good mulch. Get yourself a straw. Clubroom with and look best to be.
Do I want to cut him down at all or just put it right over the top of the leaves and everything I just put it right on top of them because they're going to those they're going to die anyway. When you start raking that stuff off in the spring it'll come right with it.
Well in the winter months garden design is so sustainable landscape design. Getting ready for spring eco garden will also come out and do them like fruit tree pruning. No we're just gearing up and we're going to educational seminars trade shows getting ready to see what new things are coming out the next season. Plus there's always new diseases new pets that we have to learn about to watch for and how to combat them sharpening up the tools and making sure everything's ready to go for the next season as well.
I had the opportunity to walk through a garden with you and I thought that was really cool. Do you offer that as a service where you'll take somebody through and show them things in their yard that you could do this and this is what this plant does and here's why this one would be good for your backyard.
Yes absolutely. There's many people that call me just to come over for ideas so I go over and provide a consultation. And you know even with scheduling like OK Thero and when should I do this.
When should a true that when should they fertilize everything calendar based when it comes to dealing with your garden.
No no I wouldn't say calendar based I would say temperature based. You know we look at the life of the plant or the lifespan of the plant really the temperature makes the big difference.
We're known as the frozen tundra or at least the area of the frozen tundra. When it comes to when the ground freezes and we end up with her Snow is there anything that we can do or what should absolutely be done before our first snow flies Hulsey Lottering.
You don't need to fertilize things because they're going into dormancy. Well not evergreen. You could give a little shot of the light there right now definitely watering that in giving them a very very healthy drink. They need that energy to get down to their roots so that they can survive the winter because we're not probably going to get a whole lot of rain. Maybe we will in the winter as long as your larger plantings get a really healthy drink. Then you can start to say yep I did the best that I could to prepare these plants for winter.
A lot of the big box stores sell bags of mulch is that the kind of mulch that you're talking about and you're talking about mulching.
You can certainly use that but also press clippings and leave would work just fine. And if you have a straw bale around as long as these scenes are disease free and don't have a bunch of mold I'd say use them. And yet you could definitely use like a cedar molds if you like from the big box stores.
No problem when it comes to my asparagus do I cut those down or do I do a lot those winter and then come down in the spring.
Essentially you could do either one Bob. But if you wanna cut them down right now you certainly can. I'd probably cut to about 4 inches above soil level.
What about strawberries do I need to do anything with those.
Give him a good mulch. Get yourself a straw. Clubroom with and look best to be.
Do I want to cut him down at all or just put it right over the top of the leaves and everything I just put it right on top of them because they're going to those they're going to die anyway. When you start raking that stuff off in the spring it'll come right with it.
Podcast For Hire has 145 episodes in total of explicit content. Total playtime is 15:34:51. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on October 26th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 24th, 2024 02:20.
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