Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 226, which we're recording on Thursday, August 27th, 2020.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And normally I would complain because it's almost the end of

another month. But you know what? This year, the faster it's over, the happier I will be.

And also considering all of the things going on in the world, I don't want to complain about a thing.

I'm kind of afraid. I'm kind of afraid, too,

but I actually do, I saved this story until we were recording. I had to ask Charlene to wait a few minutes because our neighbor was knocking on the door. He's a little bit on the paranoid side,

and he has cameras

that film our street, and it's kind of cool because sometimes he catches some really cool

wildlife. He has caught mountain lions right in our, in my driveway, literally. But last night's

filming wasn't so great. There's someone casing our neighborhood.

They stopped and they pointed their flashlight at Josie's car.

Josie drives the Prius.

And if you drive a Prius in the United States, you need to be aware that they are stealing catalytic converters off of Priuses.

So now Mike's trying to figure out how to keep her catalytic converter safe and

just crazy. Yeah. This year is crazy. Yeah, it is. Okay, so what do you wear? Well, I did have an

opportunity to wear my look squirrel sweater this weekend.

Yay!

I attended an outdoor socially distanced lunch for 13.

And it was a special lunch for a promotion of a friend,

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