I want to start off with the people who support this show.

Matt W.

bought us two coffees in the last week or so.

And we now have two memberships.

One with Jeff and the other with Mitsiel.

Mitsiel is as a membership with us every single month and goes to buy me a coffee.com slash sober friends pod

and if it's important for you to have this in the ear of the new guy or gal you can also support

the show by going to buy me a coffee.com slash sober friends pod.

I want to talk a little bit about asking for help and accepting help.

I think I'm better at this than I have been in a while, but it's still not the easiest thing.

And I'll set this up because it's a non-sober reason that I asked for help, Steve, but it is asking for help.

My wife was cleaning out all the brush in front of our house.

It's very difficult to keep up with some of the chores, cutting the bushes and stuff, and

it's gotten overgrown.

And she decided I had enough, and she came out and started just pulling stuff and

piling it up.

And our neighbor across the street came over.

And he keeps this immaculate yard and

stuff. So I'm sure he was annoyed how our house looked. But he recently retired. And he said,

you know, I'm bored. I need a project. So if you're willing, I'll come over and I'll price it out for you, but I'll do a project where we cover up the stones with fabric.

We get the right stones put in the right amount, and that way you don't have to do some of this stuff.

And as long as we can afford it, I'm going to accept his help because he's good with this stuff. And as long as we can afford it, I'm going to accept his help.

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