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- Jey & Anna: Hey everybody, welcome to the Two Tools No Clue podcast. I'm Anna. And I'm Jeidan And today we're learning about... Homesteading. What is it? What does it mean? Who are they? Who are they? Who are we? We're gonna find out. Okay, so I did a deep dive into homesteading and I will admit the definition of homesteading is very underwhelming. That's kind of sad. Do we want to say what's going on on our homestead before we dive into a great idea, because that's more exciting than what the definition of homesteading is. Yeah. OK, so I guess the most exciting thing that's happened is our poor little kitty Larry had to get his balls taken off. Poor boy. He did great. He was wicked stoned when he got home. It was so sad. But good for us because he was peeing everywhere. Our house smelled terrible. Yeah, it was not good. He was starting to get territorial. ⁓ We have an older male cat, but you know, obviously the right thing to do as homeowners, whether your cat's going to be inside or outside. You never know what's going to happen. You should always be getting your animals neutered and spayed. Amen. That's just that. Like there are so many kitties that need homes and you know, we go, we go. of the Humane Society all the time. Well, not as much anymore, but there's just so many that they're like in the hallways in these like crates. And I'm sure it's the same everywhere. But even around here, it's really bad. And we have a lot of barn cats around us. ⁓ One of our cats is a barn cat. ⁓ Yeah, Harley's a barn cat, too. But but Jams a barn cat from around here. We trapped her. So yeah, you know Larry did got his civic duty done and he's back happy as ever and He hasn't peed on anything. So yay go Larry. We're out of the woods. Yeah, we're out of the woods The second thing I think would be to tell everyone about our social media straight off the bat So we jumped the gun and we got almost everything just to get our name out there So on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and threads it is at two tools, no clue podcast, tick tock, which we don't have anything on yet, but we will one day hopefully is two tools, no clue. Patreon.com is patreon.com slash two tools, no clue. And you can email us at two tools, no clue podcast at gmail.com. Heck yeah. Send us your stories. Uh, I want to hear about your own homestead adventures and you know, people are like, I don't live on a homestead. I just own a home and horrible things happen to me. Cool. I want to hear about them. And I want to know all about it because we're going to tell some crazy stories that have happened just in our home. Being homeowners can You know, I'm not even going to sugar cut it. It can suck sometimes. It's terrifying. It is a great privilege. And I'm so proud of us that we are homeowners. But oh, my God. I've, know, home broke is like real. Yeah. But I guess we should tell you guys we've been homeowners for two years. Yeah, two years. We live in New Hampshire. It's currently freezing and snowing. anywhere between a foot and a foot and a half with the snowstorm that we got today. Yep. Woohoo! And we've been gardening for like three years. Yep. But I don't know, there's always more to learn. ⁓ And here's Stevie that's our producer Stevie she's telling us to stay on task and so I guess The last exciting thing that happened ⁓ this past week ⁓ My brother's best friend a family friend of ours Luke ⁓ Came to stay with us. He ended up needing somewhere to go and you know, the homestead was a good Spot for him to come to ⁓ We already had Reggie. We knew that Reggie could handle something like that. Reggie's our RV. Yes Yeah, our saving grace and I'm just excited that it can be a saving grace for somebody else especially Luke because he's a good dude So yeah, Luke is here now. ⁓ He got here just in time for 18 inches of snow forecasted. But, ⁓ you know, nothing that he can't handle. He was up in Alaska for a little while, so I'm sure, you know, I'm pretty sure he's excited to see the snow tomorrow and not be like terrifying to go out. And because that's what he was saying the other day, he told me I'm excited for the snow because when I was up in Alaska, like it was a, it was like. scary to go outside in the snow so you just didn't you just stayed inside. ⁓ I'm ⁓ okay with the amount of snow that we get here I don't want any more. Yeah so not okay with 18 inches but definitely better than... Geez back in the day we used to get three or four feet. ⁓ yeah you know when you were a kid you didn't have to think about it you know making little huts. at bottom of your driveway from the snow pile snow as I think about it as an adult, I'm like, one, that's terrifying. ⁓ two, like mom and dad, why'd you let us do that? The nineties, know, it was the best, but you know, at the same time, like not a good idea. Don't, don't do that. Not a good location for an Igloo Yeah. They learned. Yeah. I didn't learn anything. I'm just alive. Luckily. so yeah. I am in charge of the homesteading research today. So we figured episode one should be, what is a homesteader? Yeah. What is homesteading? Yeah. And Anna was going to be shocked at even just the information that I'm about to bring forward. I know nothing. I didn't do any of the research. It's not what we expected. So, let's go. Let's go for it. So the very underwhelming definition. of homesteading. Oxford language defines homesteading as a life as a settler on a homestead. What's the definition of a settler? That's all she wrote. You know, I automatically, my brain just started spiraling. So I'm literally now I'm like on the Oregon trail. I'm like, what is, you've died of dysentery. I am like, I'm am I a homesteader? Apparently not. But I mean, we are on settled land, technically. Yeah, it's ours. We bought it in a very different way. But yeah, so, you know, that for the definition wise, that is all she wrote. So the one thing I did find interesting, though, was that the North American English, it's a North American English now. Interesting. OK, so to me, I'm like. We made that up. Yeah, it's not Latin. Obviously, obviously we didn't make up the act of homesteading, right? Like people have been doing shit to get by since the beginning. And now we're just going back to some of those ways. It's kind of how I see it. Yeah, like we're just trying to be self-sufficient, obviously in modern times. But anyway, so ⁓ I just thought it was really cool that somewhere in American history, we idolize that. Yeah. Enough to make an noun And it was homesteading. It's not a verb. I don't know. ⁓ Yeah, I just thought that was I thought that was cool. ⁓ then I got like really hyped up on. Just the word settle. ⁓ Yeah, you can't do that. You can't do that anymore. You really just have to figure out how to buy land. But even then, you can't just buy land and then be on the land. And that's it. Like you have have permits and you have to have plans to make a driveway and to have sewage and have electric and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's really just it's not that way anymore. Yeah. Not just. plopping down in an area and cutting down some trees for a house exactly but once upon a time They did do that Okay, and that's where homesteading came. Okay, and so Wikipedia good old Wikipedia Homestead act of 1862 opened up millions of acres to any adult who had never taken up arms against the federal government of the United States. Wow. You could apply as long as you didn't harm any federal goons, I guess, right? That's kind of what is going on here. ⁓ Women and immigrants who had applied for citizenship were eligible. Wow, that's shocking. So forward thinking. So progressive. moly. ⁓ So most homesteading occurred during the period of 1900 and 1930. As of 2017, around 93 million Americans are descendants of people who receive land throughout the Homestead Act. Wow. 93 million of you motherfuckers out there are just sitting on some free land. Good. for you. know what percentage that is? I guess we need to figure out how many Americans, many people live in America, right? I don't know that. But I was just stuck on the, I thought that was so cool. ⁓ so yeah, anyway, then I was just like, okay, how did they get all this land? Like, obviously that's not gonna be that easy, right? So I looked up more information also on Wikipedia and. 160 million acres like the US government said, just like go get it right there like off you go. Obviously, it wasn't as easy as that because there were already indigenous tribes there. Right. And they weren't trying to give away their land. So that was. The downside of it, and I will say not all the land got taken up. Like a majority of it is still some Native American tribes, but like rest of it, like they take tiny fraction they did take from them. So like, you know, it was free because it was somebody else's right. Right. But that is America. Well, I'm sorry, guys. Didn't mean to call you out like that. But. then you know how I am. I have ADHD. name is Jeidan. I have ADHD and I can go from one subject to the other very quickly and you are going to find this in my notes. Okay, so now I'm thinking to myself. Okay, so they got the land and now 93 million of descendants ⁓ they have that land. Okay, so now I'm thinking about ⁓ all the ⁓ old that there have to be in America. Okay, I I was born in Scotland. I'm an American citizen now like as of last year. But I have always been obsessed with the fact that there are no castles in America. Like y'all don't have castles. In Scotland, there's castles, right? Except for that one house in North Carolina. Yeah, there's like a castle in North Carolina. It's like a trailer house that looks like a it's got like. What are those walls called? It it's bad, it's bad. It's not a castle anyway. But I I just was like, OK, where are the oldest houses in America? Well, my dad's house was built in the 1700s. So would he would his house be part of this movement? Probably. I mean, OK, because it was way before then a lot of the homesteading that was done a part of this was more westward. That's what I thought. So it like it was. Like that house is probably older than some of these. Yeah. Definitely. Because like 1862. Because that's when they were just like, no, there's more. Yeah. Leave the coast. Go away from us, from New England. Like, we don't want you here. Like, you know what I mean? I think that's what was happening. Majority of the people that did end up on, like, kind of genuinely settling for the land was like all along the Mississippi like all the way up the Mississippi because like There's running water. Yeah, you know, it's safe to drink. Yeah. Yeah. That's how they transported everything But yeah, so then I ended up looking at What do we got? Small world shit, right? Okay. Anyway, watch my dad's house be on this list. It's not. Okay. So I ended up reading this article on geo jangle.com. If you've never been on geo jangle.com. If you've never been on it, which it sounds like you haven't. You need to go on it. It has insane stuff on it. Just the most random information all about the world anyway. So this is a oldest oldest homes in America We've got some that are I wish I could show you pictures. Maybe I'll figure out how to I'll figure out how to so it was them on our tails. Hey blow in New Mexico. ⁓ There's these structures that are they're all made out of like clay and mud and they are still standing. ⁓ I believe it. It's insane. It's very eerie. Cob impressed impressive at the same time. it just cob or is it a cobb and something? But that form of building is incredibly strong. And they have like those windows that are just like, you know, cut out spots and even that. But they were like layered on top of one another. And now I want to go to New Mexico. I never had a reason to want to go to New Mexico. And then I saw that like, OK, you cannot go in them. It looks like you can't even go near them. That makes like the picture that how old are they? ⁓ we're going to. I think I've always wondered how those structures would hold up in like a New England climate with snow and all that. Yeah, but like listen to this. So also, so yes, we live in New Hampshire now, but I grew up in Connecticut. Hey, I grew up in Windsor, Connecticut. It is one of. The oldest town, it is the oldest town in Connecticut. First settled upon. We fight Weathersfield. Weathersfield for some reason thinks they're the oldest. They're not. They're lying to you. We're the oldest. The Loomis Homestead in the town I grew up in. OK, and it you've been there. Anna has walked the premises of the Loomis Homestead, which is now. Yeah. You have, OK? The Loomis Homestead was built between 1640 and 1652. Don't know why there's such a wide like when was this built? Yeah, but did it take that long? Maybe. Oh, wait to build. OK, how many years is it? A lot. Twelve years. Wow. Makes sense. I forgot that, you know, things were built by genuine hand back then. So. In Windsor, Connecticut, it was originally built as a home and it is currently used as a private school. Do you know where I'm talking about yet? No, it's Loomis Chafee. We walk. Do you remember when we took that walk with Stevie when she was a puppy by the train station? That's all a wicked fancy private school now. And that. Full property used to be the Loomis Homestead. And now it's Loomis Chafee. It's private school. It's been there forever. Obviously. My high school ⁓ played their hockey games there because they have like ice rink and everything. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't remember that at all. We did. But yeah, it's beautiful. We'll go there again. And you'll be like, ⁓ my gosh, I want to look at the house again now. Now that I know this, I'm like, wow, OK, because it's just a tiny little house. But then it's surrounded by everything. And. You can like picture it really being like, wow, I bet they grew a lot of stuff, but they had huge pastures at one point. It's just really cool to think about because it's been where I grew up this entire time. But yeah, it was originally built as a home and is currently used as a private school ⁓ It was built and constructed by Joseph Loomis an original an original settler of Windsor, Connecticut In the 17th century the house was significantly enlarged from its original frame The original house the L on the right side was home to the Loomis family who emigrated from Braintree England in 1638 None of our names are original No, upon their arrival in the New World. The world in quotations. Joseph and his wife, Mary had eight children while living in the colony. That's crazy. That's a lot of kids. Yeah, guess like for the time, that's honestly not that many kids. Yeah, that's true. You need to. were out there having like 16 kids once doing the laundry. Like it's a whole ordeal. feel like. The house was passed down through eight Loomis generations until one childless daughter willed the house, the Loomis Institute, a private school started by other relatives. That's pretty cool. Yeah. It at least became a school. You know, I can always admire when rich people put their money to something that will, you know, establish something along the way or preserve something. Yeah. Like instead of buying like weird shit. But yeah, in 1940, the house saw many renovations to continue its use as a school. The building is still in the school's possession, representing the Loomis family history in Windsor. think want to go see that. Yeah. Maybe we can make that a Patreon episode. Yeah, that'd be cool. Us visiting the oldest homestead in what, Connecticut, you said? Yeah. Yeah. Windsor, Connecticut. I think it's so cool. I wonder what the oldest homestead in New Hampshire is. should have looked that up. Sorry that I didn't. But yeah, I thought it was really cool. Because I've just been there so many times. And I really can't, like I was saying, really can picture it. Like orchards and horses and all the things that you just need. I don't know. It's pretty sweet. And it is right around, it is right along ⁓ the River, the Farmington River. So I mean, the water was right there too, which is pretty cool. Okay, anyway, ⁓ more ⁓ interesting facts about homesteading. ⁓ and 1934, the federal government 1.6 million homesteads during that time. That's a lot. That means 1.6 million people applied and then successfully got I I don't know. just trying to. I have a question, but I'm not sure how to phrase it. OK. It's like, what's a homestead then? Back to our original question. How big were they? How many homes were on them? I don't know. I have questions now, too. It says they distributed 270 million acres. Wow. But yeah, that's a total of the 10 % of all the land in the United States. Wow. That's quite a bit of land. That is. And 93 million are saying pretty on it. ⁓ was discontinued, no longer trending by 1976 except in Alaska. ⁓ That until 1986. ⁓ People, you know what? When I was a kid, I remember at one point Alaska was like, hey, we'll give you 10K if to come up here. And at the time I was a kid I was like that sounds like a great idea. We should go to Alaska, but it was for like Yeah, I it was interesting that home studying, you know still kept going until 1996 I was born in 1998 so that's not too far for me. Obviously now it's a really it's far away. It's like 40 years ago. But so yeah, a lot of land, a lot of opportunity. Wait, it start homesteading started in 1986. It didn't stop. It stopped everywhere else in America. Oh, I see. It's in seven in 1976, but it didn't stop until 1986. Homesteading. Yeah. Like the act of it. Oh. Like there was no like the American government was like you cannot just find land and call it yours. ⁓ okay. Is it? Yeah, I don't know. feel like there's got to be some control, but at end of the day, all these parcels of land that are just like sitting there because they're like you have, like I said, you have to all these things. I think that's a bunch of bullshit. know, Reggie could have sat pretty on a real nice lot, but you know, we waited it out and we're here now, so it's fine. So yeah, by legal definition, by 1986, homesteading was a thing of the past, but that doesn't mean that homesteading didn't live on. And honestly, I think how it's defined now is better. Still a freedom that you can't buy at Walmart. You know, it's just something that you live instead. It's not, I don't like to call it a lifestyle, but it kind of is a lifestyle. You know, you don't have to depend on what's at the stores. You know, I think it's cool that we know how to. Make chili powder and we know how to make garlic powder and stuff and it's so easy. It's like silly You know, but you wouldn't think about that stuff. You just go to the store and you buy garlic powder. Yeah, you buy chili powder ⁓ I would like for this podcast to teach us how to make our lives more Inconvenient. I want my life to be more inconvenient so it can be more wholesome at the end of the day Yeah, you know so that you're using Every everything yeah It kind of just made me more aware of what we were throwing out when We could have been saving money by not throwing it out. Yeah, cuz like, know going back to garlic powder Not a long process not hard at all. You like bake that for like what 40 minutes? it. It's just bake it. It's just though. It's just the feels. Yeah You take the outer peels out, same with onion powder. the peels. You take the peels, you let them dry out a little bit, you put them in the oven on a low temp, and then just... I've seen people take whole-ass onions and whole-ass garlics and just shove them in a food processor and then take that paste and put it in the oven on low for like hours. That's why I was like minutes. What? No, like eight... Hours and then when you when it comes out, it's a fine powder And you get way more of it when you're using the I bet it's more and just the appeals. Yeah, I bet it's ⁓ Yeah, more nutrients. Yeah, but it's a good. Yeah. Save your peels. Yeah. So to make little batches, you can't just like go out into the wilderness and, you know, pitch a tent anymore. Obviously, everybody rolls their eyes at that nowadays. ⁓ But there is still what I call urban homesteading, at least like in our case, you know. We own a home. It runs on electricity. You know, we're not off the grid by any means. Like we do have well water. But like we are reliant on our town for ⁓ a lot of things. ⁓ But yeah. So I was like, OK, what's urban homesteading? ⁓ And this is what the Internet told me. Internet told me an urban homestead is a household that produces a significant part of the food, including produce and livestock consumed by its residents. This is typically associated with residents desire to live in a more environmentally conscious manner. Heck yeah. Aspects of urban homesteading include resource reduction using solar, alternative energy sources, harvesting rainwater, using gray water, line drying clothes, using alternative transportation such as bicycles and buses, raising animals including chickens, goats, rabbits, fish, worms, and or bees. ⁓ Edible landscaping, growing fruit, vegetables, culinary and medicinal plants, converting lawns into garden. Woot woot, lawns into garden. Self-sufficient living, reusing, repairing and recycling items, homemade products, food preservation, including canning, drying, freezing, cheese making. that sounds like a great idea, And fermenting community food sourcing, such as foraging, and trading natural building and composting what is gleaning I forgot to look up I thought that to myself while I was reading this and then I forgot to look it up let me look it up right now gleaning it's highlighted too there was a link I should have clicked it Cleaning is the practice of collecting leftover crops from fields after the main harvest often due to cosmetic imperfections economic unviability or surplus production It dates back to ancient times with fruits and biblical laws that required farmers to leave portions of their harvest for the poor widows and strangers Back when people cared about people to leave some stuff okay so yeah I guess you know by definition we could I think we are gonna be doing a lot more of these things but I think we all could be doing some of them whether it be for just like a hobby to do or just to like save money you know people think that homesteading is gonna require like all these fancy tools and all this time. But there's some things that you could just, you know, really easily do and it would just save you money. That's it. Nothing else. No trick or anything like that. I think people get so scared, you know, about like little like, know, like a little basil plant or something in their window. So like basil can be tricky, but it can also live for a very long time. Yeah. Pick it off and use it when you need it. know, just weird stuff like that. I feel like homesteading is such a daunting term, but so is the term herbalist. And it just means someone who uses herbs. Yeah. So it's just someone who wants to eat food that they grow and wants to live more sustainably. Yeah. And I and that's what I'm, you know, I'm excited about. this podcast for it because it's going to make it so one, we maybe know what we're talking about. And two, like we generally will learn something. Yeah, that's what I'm most excited about. We'll help, you know, whoever decides to listen. This is for entertainment purposes only. This is not educational. We are not professionals. We have no clue. Zero clue. I repeat, zero clue. But yeah, I just think it's really cool that people are benefiting from just random stuff like this still. And it's kind of trending again. I feel like with AI and all the fake bullshit that's going around, people are going to start wanting to have something more real. Because I mean, OK, like we got blueberries from Spain and like, you know, Spain, I appreciate your blueberries. You know, I do. But. It came all the way from Spain. Yeah. And it's just weird. There's probably no nutritional value left to them by the time that they get to us. It's just dead food. Yeah. And like, we're really, you know, we're really picky about our blueberries. Yeah. You want to tell them why? My parents moved to New Hampshire and the lot that they purchased has 800 bushes. It's too many bushes. And so that's kind of how we ended up. know, it's not just because we bought a house. Like we already had the dream to homestead, but you know, we ended up at the farmer's market really quick with blueberries to sell blueberries galore, blueberry jam, blueberry bread, blueberry, blueberry, blueberry. ⁓ And you know, we love going to the farmers market, you know, we called ourselves Watson Acres Homestead. That's who we are. That's what our homestead is called. And yeah, it's been a lot of fun. It's been crazy because again, we have no idea what we're doing. Like we're not blueberry people. These blueberry. We're not a blueberry family. When his parents bought the house, they were told that a guy will come every summer and collect the blueberries for the local co-ops. And he like, has the boy scouts or something come along to help him or something like that? Some crazy story. And they're like, don't you even worry about it. They buy the house. The paper goes through. Everything checks out. They they they purchased the home and the guy never shows up. We become the guy. Yeah, we became the guy overnight. We're still trying to tame the fields because they went. For at least a few years before we got to that, they're being choked out by chokeberries. You know, they are beautiful rose. We. We're grateful for them like we like we love blueberries, but. But yeah, you know the blueberries from Spain. You know, again, I appreciate them, but it's just so much better when you can only go out to your backyard. Yeah, what you want better for you and better for the planet. Yeah, exactly. So, OK, so that was my crazy spiral about homesteading ⁓ they're clapping. Is there a clapping button? ⁓ let's see. There's a cheer button. Our first ever episode! So before we leave, gonna, we love answering questions. We have been practicing and we think it's really funny. Check that out on Patreon. Yep, you'll see some pre-launch episodes of definitely entertainment, not no knowledge. We're just talking out our ass in those. No knowledge. ⁓ Zero idea. So, okay. What do you think of when you think of homesteading? Well, if you had asked me this beforehand, I would have said like what we're doing, kind of, which is like just a little tiny garden. Like we're not feeding the community. We're just feeding ourselves with and there's chickens in my mind and goats and just living without having to go to Wal-Mart every day. Yeah, is what I see. Or saw but I guess now we know that the true definition is just somebody who goes and settles In a in a place takes land. This is mine now builds a home homesteader. I wish I Wish I guess I could have been a part of that but the same time like I probably would have just died. Yeah ⁓ I don't think I would have been like, I'm sorry, this is yours. right. I would agree with you. I really just think it means like, you know, relying on yourself and and and what you have in front of you as much as you can. You know, it's a good answer. I. Have a lot of hopes and dreams for our homestead, obviously, we're. Getting there slowly and I think that's also a part of the definition. It's like it is not your homestead does not appear overnight. No Your homestead appears to you like 40 years later when you're sitting on your porch and you're like, ⁓ it happened This is cool, you know, so like that That's what I at least i'm grateful that we we both Realized quickly and not like haven't been getting too like overwhelmed it. So okay, why do you want to be a homesteader? Because I want the earth to be able to sustain life for a little bit longer. That's a solid answer. I want to know where my food comes from. Yeah, like again, grateful for Even if that means going to my neighbor. for their butchered chickens because I can't bring myself to butcher them myself. just like, I want it to come from my local community rather than California. That's what I loved about the farmers market this year. You know what I mean? When like, you know, we would trade a plant for scones. Like that's crazy to me. Yeah, I loved the bartering. is just like, of course. Yeah, here's some scones. Like thank you for the plant. Like it's just. small stuff like that yeah yeah I am excited to go back to the farmers market we're gonna try some new methods we're not gonna get into it yet but we're gonna try something yeah okay what was your first thought when you found out that we had to handle all the blueberry bushes on our own? Me? You're asking me first? I you were going answer it. No. I was excited because I didn't I didn't fully realize what it entailed. Yeah. Once I realized I was like, wow, those are beautiful. You know, and then you get it and you're like. The wasps, like remember the first year? jeez, yeah. ⁓ my god. But yeah, those choke, what do I think, those choke bushes or whatever the heck they are, like I wanna choke them. I'm serious. My first thought was like, what are we gonna do with all these blueberries? Yeah, we figured it out. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. Lot of them still get lost to the wasps and the wildlife, but you want to hear something funny? I found two bags of blueberries in the freezer. I'm like I'm gonna save these for the farmers market. I'll show up some blueberry bread day one. These people are gonna be like What? Well, you saved them because that guy wanted jam midwinter. And I was like, yeah, we'll save some berries for you. But we haven't heard anyway. Well, I didn't know. And I was like, well, I know what I'm going to do with these little teaser at the beginning of the farmers market. So watch out people first time. First serve 100 percent. And then you're going to have to wait. You know the drill. OK, what else? Where would you like to see us in five years? I'd like to see us going to Walmart less and eating our food more and Eating our leftovers more. I have a really hard time with leftovers. Yeah, I need them prepared for me. Otherwise I get an ick need to get over it. So hard of my part of my homesteading journey. You're doing better with it, honestly. Thank you. You ate leftover chili. was so proud of you. You didn't even bat an eye because it was prepared for you. ⁓ I you know, I would like to see the same, but I would also like to just see as like being a little more efficient with it all too. like just have more of like a rhythm instead of just like, you know, more proactive, less reactive. You know, I like to be, you know me, I like to be prepared. And obviously we're still learning like what goes down owning a home, you know? Yeah. And so I think once we have like that down, it'll be easier for us to, you know, get a rhythm with everything else. So I've always been like, what is happening? I agree. Because that's where we're at right now. Yeah. Something happens. What is going on? You we keep running out of oil and we're like, what is going on? Why is the house cold? Like, just get like call for oil. Like, it's not hard. But apparently for us, it is hard. ⁓ So, that's that's what I that's what I would like to see. Yeah. I agree. Which I think, you know, we're going to. That's totally. So, yeah, I guess. That's all. Nice. That's that on. Yeah. So to end each episode, we wanted to read a little thing out of the farmer's almanac. So today is January 25th. It is st. Paul's Day Happy St. Paul's Day who you we don't know you we got no clue And also ⁓ January thaw traditionally begins about now But we're in the midst of 18 inches of snow. So yeah, I'm gonna say that's not happening this year Yeah, it's definitely not happening. It is currently snowing ⁓ No, I wonder when that's based off of when does it usually thaw and where yeah Because in New England nothing's thawing Like you're lucky if some sun like mid-april. Yeah Yeah, I wonder where Looking at each other with concern anyway to reiterate the social media. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, threads is at two tools, no clue podcast. TikTok is at two tools, no clue. You can visit patreon.com slash two tools, no clue. And you can email us at two tools, no clue podcast at gmail.com. want your stories. ⁓ want your insight. We want your critiques. We want everything. Give it to us. We want to be your friend. Yes. Tell us all the weird stuff you've done like by accident, like, you know, what tools you were using, what tools you regret using. Cause that happens to me a lot. Yes. I'll be like, What have I done? Shouldn't have put that hole in the wall. My only note would be I don't want any stories about death. Like I don't want, I got all these chicks and none of them made it. You know, like I don't want that. like funny stories about what things your chicks did or maybe you lost them and retrieved them. I don't know. Nothing sad. Not yet. Not yet. Maybe we'll have a ⁓ dark. episode but ⁓ But yeah, we do want to hear from you guys ⁓ we obviously have a lot of stories to tell and We want to hear yours as well because you know, that's how we all learn, know, I learned from making horrible mistakes that's how I learned my most valuable lessons is by just Doing the wrong thing. Yep. That's kind of why we wanted to start this podcast. Yeah, so we can get ahead of it Yep. Because we're two tools with no clue. Bye guys. Bye guys.