[Speaker 0] In a world created by Mike Dell, I
[Speaker 0] guess you would call it Mike Dell's world.
[Speaker 1] And good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whatever
[Speaker 1] the case may be. This is Mike, and
[Speaker 1] this is Mike Dell's world number four eighteen
[Speaker 1] for those who are keeping score. This is,
[Speaker 1] day twelve of NAPOD promo. And, for the
[Speaker 1] first time in this series, I'm actually, in
[Speaker 1] real time. What I mean by that is
[Speaker 1] I've been recording them a couple days ahead
[Speaker 1] of time, and then putting them out at,
[Speaker 1] early early early in the morning and, didn't
[Speaker 1] have any time yesterday to record. So, hey.
[Speaker 1] Today is actually the twelfth of November. And
[Speaker 1] I figured I'd take this opportunity to just,
[Speaker 1] you know, sort of make a little, almost
[Speaker 1] mid month update. We had our first snow
[Speaker 1] here in Traverse City. I don't know. You
[Speaker 1] know? Certain places got a lot of snow.
[Speaker 1] Certain places didn't really, but most of it's
[Speaker 1] all melted off now. It's up to forty
[Speaker 1] one degrees Fahrenheit. I don't know. That'd be
[Speaker 1] what? Plus five or six Celsius? Actually, I
[Speaker 1] could tell you that here in a second,
[Speaker 1] but, suffice to say, it's above freezing. There's
[Speaker 1] a little bit of rain off to the
[Speaker 1] east, of us, but, let's see. Yeah. Anyway,
[Speaker 1] a little bit of rain off to the
[Speaker 1] east of us. No big deal. Yeah. What
[Speaker 1] is it? Five hey. I guess pretty good.
[Speaker 1] Five degrees Celsius or forty one Fahrenheit is,
[Speaker 1] what I've got at the airport right now.
[Speaker 1] And since I'm not that far from the
[Speaker 1] airport, that makes sense. But, anyway, I just
[Speaker 1] wanna make sure I got an episode out
[Speaker 1] today and, update you on what's going on.
[Speaker 1] Ironically, or not ironically. That isn't even a
[Speaker 1] right term. Why does everybody say that? It's
[Speaker 1] not ironic. It's just what happened. Anyway, the
[Speaker 1] the snow or the leaves have you know,
[Speaker 1] we have mixed maples and oaks. Maples dropped
[Speaker 1] their leaves earlier, and oaks generally hang on
[Speaker 1] to them. And maples were hanging on to
[Speaker 1] them until just, you know, tell this tell
[Speaker 1] this no, really. I mean, we had a
[Speaker 1] lot of leaves. I blew all the leaves
[Speaker 1] out of the yard. I guess it was
[Speaker 1] Saturday afternoon, something like that. And, it is
[Speaker 1] Wednesday. And now the snow's melted that fell,
[Speaker 1] you know, between Sunday and and now. And
[Speaker 1] a whole bunch of leaves came down. You
[Speaker 1] would never know I even blew the leaves.
[Speaker 1] So, I've gotta do a quick run through
[Speaker 1] the yard with this leaf blower again before
[Speaker 1] it snows again. And also gotta get out
[Speaker 1] to mom's house and and get all the
[Speaker 1] leaves picked up out there, get the the
[Speaker 1] mower deck off the tractor, get the snowblower
[Speaker 1] on the tractor, and then get the tractor
[Speaker 1] over to the tractor doctor for its yearly
[Speaker 1] checkup. Get all the fluids, replaced and or
[Speaker 1] serviced, and I'll make sure that that's gonna
[Speaker 1] function through the winter or at least attempt
[Speaker 1] to. So that's the the plan. So Friday,
[Speaker 1] that's my plan is to get the leaves
[Speaker 1] picked up, get the tractor situated enough to
[Speaker 1] get it to the tractor doctor, the John
[Speaker 1] Deere dealer. And, hopefully, that'll all that'll be
[Speaker 1] all that needs to happen with the tractor
[Speaker 1] until it gets back from the shop. And
[Speaker 1] I put the cab on it and get
[Speaker 1] it all battened down and ready to go
[Speaker 1] for, real winter, which could start anytime. So
[Speaker 1] but it sure did feel like winter. We
[Speaker 1] went to dinner Sunday evening for my wife's
[Speaker 1] birthday. Went to Outback Steakhouse and had a
[Speaker 1] big group and and that was cool, but,
[Speaker 1] it probably snowed six inches while we were
[Speaker 1] eating dinner. It was just that, you know,
[Speaker 1] wet heavy, you know, lake effect snow. And,
[Speaker 1] yeah. It was, pretty intense. And then, you
[Speaker 1] know, we drove, you know, Outback's kind of
[Speaker 1] on the west side of town. I drove
[Speaker 1] back to the east side. And by the
[Speaker 1] time we got over here, there was hardly
[Speaker 1] any. So it was a a thick band
[Speaker 1] that went right over the west side of
[Speaker 1] the town, and my mom and sister had
[Speaker 1] a little bit of trouble getting home. Not
[Speaker 1] really trouble. They got four wheel drive, whatever.
[Speaker 1] You know, each of them do. And and,
[Speaker 1] there's a big hill on the west side
[Speaker 1] to get out of town. If you live
[Speaker 1] west of town, you have to go, you
[Speaker 1] know, at least one hill. They had to
[Speaker 1] go up over Green Hill, and I guess
[Speaker 1] there were people having trouble making the hill.
[Speaker 1] So it was a bit of a challenge.
[Speaker 1] But, typical typical winter here in Traverse City
[Speaker 1] or typical beginning beginning of winter. I call
[Speaker 1] it amateur winter driver mode because, people forget
[Speaker 1] how to drive in snow. And that's where,
[Speaker 1] you know, they have a lot of racks,
[Speaker 1] and they go into the ditch and you
[Speaker 1] know? But that's typical everywhere. I don't I
[Speaker 1] don't think that's anything really unique here. It,
[Speaker 1] just it it always takes people by surprise.
[Speaker 1] I drive like foot you know, putty duddy,
[Speaker 1] pots most of the time, so not a
[Speaker 1] not a big change for me. I just
[Speaker 1] know that, I need to slow down. You
[Speaker 1] know? And then you get these these people
[Speaker 1] with these big four wheel drives and and
[Speaker 1] all that, and they think, oh, I can
[Speaker 1] go everywhere. Yeah. You can go. But you're
[Speaker 1] not gonna stop much better than, than somebody
[Speaker 1] in a regular two wheel drive car or
[Speaker 1] truck or whatever. But, so be it. But,
[Speaker 1] anyway, well, I better get this going. I
[Speaker 1] I'm gonna I'm gonna make this a short
[Speaker 1] and sweet one. What I was planning on
[Speaker 1] talking about today, I'll talk about tomorrow, Clinch
[Speaker 1] Park. That's a little a little that's a
[Speaker 1] a rather major park in Traverse City right
[Speaker 1] on the waterfront and has an interesting history.
[Speaker 1] So we'll be talking about that tomorrow. But