Hey folks. Oh man, where do I begin? Uh, gosh, I haven't spoken to you in quite a while. And I want to

explain why before we jump into today's episode. So I took a little over a month off of podcasting.

And it wasn't totally planned, but it was something I needed.

You know, we've got a little baby at home and a couple other kids.

And then also, you know, I'm getting ready to change jobs, which is exciting because I'm going from what I'm doing now.

And I'm jumping into full-time conservation work,

wildlife and landscape conservation.

So I'm excited to share more about that.

So I've been gearing up for that transition,

which is gonna be a big change from what I do now.

But all of a sudden, out of nowhere,

if you don't know, I live in Florida,

we had two hurricanes come back to

back and ravish our area um we did not get it as bad as the carolinas my heart truly goes out to

those folks who are dealing with that unbelievable amount of devastation uh but our area was hit

pretty hard by both we had some flooding flooding from the ocean in our house.

It literally came up across the street and got into our house. So I've been repairing that

the last few weeks. And that's been really disrupted to our lifestyles. You can imagine,

floors and drywall and our mother-in-law lost her house, so

she's living with us, and it was just a lot. And then all of a sudden, right after that,

here comes another storm that just tore down so many trees, you know, it ripped up buildings.

It were roof, you know, part of our roof was torn out, and it was just a mess. And we were one of the lucky ones.

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