The Houseboat

Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep

Wellness Loud

Fiction, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Our story tonight is called The Houseboat, and it’s a story about a calm morning on the water and the small joys of observation. It’s also about a kettle on the stove, orange zest and Sweetgum flowers, properly tied knots and a sweet reunion celebrated without words. Subscribe to our Premium Channel. The first month is on us. We give to a different charity each week and this week we are giving to Adopt-A-Pet of Fenton, Michigan. Adopt-A-Pet’s goals are to continue to find loving families for homeless dogs and cats as well as assist people in the community with their personal animals. AquaTru water purifier: Click here and get 20% OFF with code NOTHINGMUCH. Beam Dream Powder: Click here for up to 40% off with code NOTHINGMUCH. BIOptimizers’ Sleep Breakthrough: Click here and use code NOTHINGMUCH for 10% off any order! Cornbread Hemp’s CBD gummies: Click here to save 30% on their first order! Cymbiotika products: Click here for 20% off and free shipping! Moonbird, the world’s first handheld breathing coach: Click here and save 20%! NMH merch, autographed books and more! Pay it forward subscription Listen to our daytime show Stories from the Village of Nothing Much on your favorite podcast app. Join us tomorrow morning for a meditation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi friends. Want every episode ad-free?
0:05.3	Tap the link in our show notes to subscribe.
0:08.1	If you're on Apple Podcasts, just hit subscribe on our show page.
0:11.9	Easy and it helps keep the show going.
0:16.6	Welcome to Bedtime Stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens.
0:26.2	You feel good, and then you fall asleep.
0:31.6	I'm Catherine Nikolai.
0:34.3	I write and read all the stories you'll hear on nothing much happens.
0:41.5	With Audio Engineering by Bob Wittersheim.
0:46.4	We give to a different charity each week, and this week we are giving to Adoptipa-Pet of Fent, Michigan.
0:55.6	Adopt-a-Pet's goals are to continue to find loving families for homeless dogs and cats,
1:01.9	as well as assist people in the community with their personal animals.
1:07.7	You can learn more about them in our show notes.
1:11.4	A few years ago, shows the size of this one.
1:16.4	We're getting big contracts pretty easily.
1:20.6	It made paying our staff an overhead possible.
1:25.0	One let us dream about ways to grow.
1:28.8	While the world of podcasting is changing,
1:32.9	and those contracts don't look like they used to if they come up at all.
1:38.7	The good news is that we aren't going anywhere.
1:42.8	No matter what, you will always have access to these bedtime stories.
1:48.7	But to pay our bills, we've had to make some changes. If you'd like to support what we do,
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