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Jason, how are we doing?

Oh, I'm doing pretty well here. It's a gray and snowy day here.

It feels like the past,

similar to the last 20 weeks or so

that we've been talking, but yeah,

the end of winter is coming

as we've been discussing.

It is, yeah. Speaking of winter you had a

really wintery weekend, right? I mean you sent me a photo of some heavy snow.

Yeah, so we talked about it on the maybe even the last two episodes that I was planning to do some winter camping up on my cottage property with a friend of mine who does a lot of winter camping back country winter camping.

Yeah. And it turns out we got really lucky by deciding to do the first outing on the cottage property

because the the first day that we went up was pretty cold like it was about negative 15

before the wind and then it was like insane wind and blowing snow so much so that there

would have been no way to put up a tent unless you were in a very sheltered area.

Yeah. So we considered our options when you know when my friends first showed up they hadn't been to the cottage before they were kind of thinking like oh we might genuinely need to like consider a hotel or going back home for a day coming back tomorrow

They got there. I'm like it look it it's a cabin, like we can absolutely just

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