It's so easy to get caught up in technology and — nowadays, and social media, and it's just like a — feels like a brain drain and I feel so much better when I put in effort and I go out into nature. And it's worth it to hike a little bit or to, you know, feel too hot or too cold outside or, you know, maybe there's too many bugs or something. You know, it's just — it's worth it to feel — to get away from technology and to feel, like, connected again. Unburdened.  It's worth it to garden. It takes a long time. It is difficult, it take lots of patience. But getting your own, you know, food and produce — like I just got my first, um, it's called a white... dwarf... cucumber? White... I don't remember. But they're like weird and then, but they're cucumbers still and it's — it's fun. You know, I've been harvesting — I just harvested all my chamomile and dried that and I was able to make my first cup of chamomile tea that was tea from the chamomile that I grew and harvested and dried. And it's worth it to say that I did that, and look, I'm making tea out of something that I did. Like peppermint. Like I grow lots of, lots of peppermint. So I've got peppermint up the wazoo and I make tea with it all the time, make honey tea with it all the time. It's worth it to say "Look what I did." So, I don't know. It's just there's a lot of things that are not easy, that are difficult to do, um, that's worth it that doesn't seem worth it.

Right now, someone is obviously engaged in our other major religion, which is lawn care. Because I hear someone mowing, which means it's probably a neighbor. Not saying we don't, but we definitely do not religiously take care of the yard. We planted ours with, um, with sunflowers and clover and Michigan native grasses and we get fireflies like crazy. And butterflies, and bees. It's pretty cool. So yeah, there's that. It was actually kind of a cool thing to talk about to be honest. Grateful that no one in my household is that interested in having a — is not interested at all in having a manicured lawn. You know, which means that we've probably saved on water a little bit this summer too, because we're not watering the lawn. We're watering our, um, our flowers and vegetables and such. So there's that.

But, um, it just — I just kind of messaged the — again, the woman who is now, like, trying to lead this and she was like, "Hey, is it okay if somebody does one of your tasks?" And I was like, "Yes, um, because the task list you gave me is impossible." Like, I mean, she doesn't know that because she doesn't have any experience in any of these things. But it's rid- — I don't know, that's — I was kind of laughing. But again, I shouldn't be so cynical. But I have this, this ginormous to-do list and some of my tasks are broken down into like eight lines, you know? Like, it's like, um... Like imagine, for example, someone gives you a to-do list and it's like "Make cookies" and then it says, like, "Put the flour in the bowl, and then mix with the eggs and the butter," and then, you know, "Put the chocolate chips in. Then next," you know, like, "Step six, like, put it on the tray and, like, put it into the oven," and then "Step, like, eight," you know, "Take it out and let it cool," and then "Step nine, like, put it into a basket and wrap up with a blanket or something, like a towel," and — right? Like that's what, like, one of my to-do lists is, or like this massive to-do list — that's what, like, one of the section is. And then she has another one that's like, you know, essentially the equivalent of being like "Make beef Wellington." And it's just one line, you know and it's just like, "Okay. Well you do" — and then she's — you know, and then as she's messaging me, it's kind of like this, like, "Oh, well, you know, you have" — if the first one with the cookies is like nine steps and this beef Wellington one is just one line, she's like, "Oh you got ten things to do." And I'm like, "No, no. No, I — no, it's — I have like two things to do. And they both contain many steps. So..." I don't know, like, I think it's that, like, disconnection. And so it's abso- — and I just told her — it's absolutely insane to me that you realistically think that I can even do one of these things by the deadline like it's just, it's so... it's so incredibly impossible that even just me — like it's really not doing great for my morale, to legitimately know that…

But yeah, Lake Superior is my favorite because it's so clean. And the place that I live on Superior, um, if you're looking at the lake you're facing East, so it has some really really cool sunrises. And I don't ever wanna leave. I think I might — you know, maybe I might live somewhere else for a short period of my life, but I want to stay here because — because of the lake really. The thought of living somewhere that's not on the coast of a Great Lake just feels suffocating to me, because when you look out on the shore of Lake Superior, it's so vast. Like it feels like you're looking at the beginning and the end of the world at the same time. It's like you could walk out onto it some days. It's so glassy smooth and then other days it's just like 30 foot waves. It's incredible. It's like an ocean, and I think technically you can categorize it as a sea. But they don't for some reason. I forget why that is but yeah, it's it's just frickin' awesome. And I don't know why — why would you pick another lake, man?