A Homegrown Family
A Midwestern farm boy and his family members and friends discuss anything homegrown. From gardening, beekeeping, mushroom hunting, hard cider and maple syrup to their adventures in raising children and homeschooling all the while sharing his life story.
A Homegrown Family
A Century of Life
In this interview style episode, we welcome back Joe's grandma who was previously featured on the "Good Ol' Days" and "Food Preservation of the Past" episodes. She is 100 years old and shares words of wisdom and insights to what was a simpler life style through questions stemming from general categories such as historical perspectives, family relationships, and life lessons and reflections.
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Welcome to the Homegrown Family Podcast, where we grow the product. Hey everybody, welcome to the Homegrown Family Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Mettler here, and today we're kind of doing more of an interview style podcast episode with my 100-year-old grandma, which you've seen in other episodes here. You know, in the I think it's a good old days episode and then the food preservation of the past. Today it's just me and grandma. We're celebrating our family reunion and a hundred years of life here with my grandma Rosina, and so I really hope you guys get a hoot out of this, but um I'm basically just going to ask grandma a series of questions, and honestly, I kind of dropped the ball a little bit in terms of being able to do this little interview here, so I just asked ChatGBT, you know, maybe that'll be a thing of the past one day, but um, it was a useful tool uh for this occasion where I asked ChatGBT to give me a list of you know 50 questions to ask my 100-year-old grandma. And so I have a couple different categories of things, you know, historical perspectives, family relationships, um, some life lessons and reflections kind of questions, and then I have like favorites and fun, so we'll kind of maybe learn a little bit more about grandma, and then uh some personality preferences, legacy wisdom, and advice types of questions here. So yeah. Today we have my grandma Rosina with us. Would you like to say hello to the audience?
Speaker 4:Hello.
Speaker 2:So why don't you just just yeah, state your name quick and where you're born and when your birthday is, because I mean that's pretty important stuff.
Speaker 3:My name is Rosina Welters. I was born in Lake Henry, Minnesota. And what else? You're born July 8th. July 8th.
Speaker 2:1925, right? July 8th. Yeah. Yeah. So just past a hundred years, still living in your own house. Yes. We were just talking about how she was out in the backyard picking some beans. So she gets out once in a while, you know, and and has a little garden and potted stuff of her own.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I know that's one of my fondest memories of you, is when you came over to the farm and helped garden all the things, and we were doing the sweet corn chucking parties and you know it's work back then when you're little, but nowadays people do it for fun. So, yeah, if you want to catch a little catch up a little bit more on some of her childhood and some of her upbringing, catch the good old days episode. But today we're gonna focus a little bit more on this interview interview type questions. So, if you want to catch more of the personal history, that's gonna be in some of them other episodes. But um there was a couple questions that ChatGBT came up with for personal history. We already kind of discussed where you grew up, but I never did ask you in that other episode, when you were growing up, was there something you wanted to be? You know, what profession? Did you always want to be, you know, a mother? Um, did you always want to, you know, you worked as a waitress for a little while. Is that something that like what was your goals and aspirations when you grew up what you wanted to be?
Speaker 3:Well, just like everybody else, I suppose get married and have a family.
Speaker 2:That was the goals back then. Now now you ask uh, you know, Amanda's kiddo here was just playing cards last night, and she's like, I've always wanted to be in the medical field, you know. I've always thought about being a doctor of some sort or this or that, and that's kind of always been a passion of hers. So it's like it's a generational thing, it seems like people are more looking at uh, especially for women, what what uh professions they want to do versus I just want to be a stay-at-home mom. Right? And raised for raise a family, you know. The perspective and focus has changed over time, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 3:Well, not really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the the desire is still there, I think.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. One of the other questions here in regards to the personal history is Did you ever have a nickname growing up?
Speaker 3:No. Not at all.
Speaker 2:You're just called Rosina.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. What's your middle name, by the way? Hedwig. Hedrick? Yeah. Hedwig. Hetwick.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Is your middle name?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Ah. We were talking about that the other day. We were trying to decide, you know, I don't even know half my aunts and uncles' middle names. Let's go down the line. You know, what's Kathy's middle name? Kathy. Yeah. Katleen. Catleen?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then uh you got Rich.
Speaker 3:Oh, Richard.
Speaker 2:Yeah. What's his middle name? Robert. Robert. You got Al and Roger.
Speaker 3:Almost Anton. Anton? Yeah, middle name.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:And Roger, that's Sean. Sean? Yeah.
Speaker 2:And my mom's Helen. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't skip one, did we? Nope, that's it.
Speaker 3:I guess we forgot. Roger, John. Yeah, I guess we got all of them.
Speaker 2:And then we talked a little bit about school in that previous episode. Did you have a favorite subject when you were in school? Like what did you like to learn about the most?
Speaker 3:I think arithmetic was about the easiest one for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, math?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Ah. And man is a math teacher, so that's interesting. Just kind of let her let her know too, you didn't end up finishing high school, right?
Speaker 3:I never went to high school.
Speaker 2:Right, you just went through like junior high, eighth grade or something, right?
Speaker 3:Eighth grade, that's all I had.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yep. And then you were a waitress for a little while over in Flensburg, uh, went to St. Cloud, lived in St. Cloud for a little bit, right? Yeah. And then ended up moving over to the farm, meeting Grandpa. Can you remind the listeners how you ended up meeting Grandpa?
Speaker 3:Oh, that was true some friends. Through some friends?
Speaker 2:That's the best way. My wife and I, we met um at a friend's wedding. Um, Keep It Weird is the episode if you want to learn how about how my my wife and I met. But um moving on to like historical perspectives.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You had a lot happen in your life. You know, you had the the Great Depression, World War II, World War One, all this stuff. What major world events do you re remember the most?
Speaker 3:Well, there was nothing really exciting that I can remember.
Speaker 2:Not nothing in the Midwest, anyways, right? I imagine if you're over by Pearl Harbor or you know, a little bit more closer to the coast than some of those, you know, Cold War type situations, it would have been more intense. Yeah. What uh inventions or discoveries surprised you the most?
Speaker 3:No. I can't think of anything that really Like when the phones became cordless. Well, yeah that Or when your microwaves weren't the size of an oven.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well It's kind of along those same lines then. You know what's the what's the biggest changes that you've seen during your lifetime?
Speaker 3:Hmm.
Speaker 2:The cars sure do look different.
Speaker 3:The cars look different and and well a lot of stuff around here that goes by and you can't figure out what to use anything of that for.
Speaker 2:So so so things things are less simple. Yeah. Yeah, you're like, well, what kind of electronic does that go to? You know? Yeah, before it was all hands-on tools and things like that. It's kinda along the similar lines, what invention impacted your life the most Can't think of anything yet. Microwaves, a fridge. Direct TV? Yeah. That's supposed I heard the twins beat Pittsburgh the other day.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Are the twins doing pretty good this year?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:No. So you talk we mentioned the radio to the TV, which I guess, you know, you always see these old style movies with a dad turn tuning into the radio, you know, and listening in, and sometimes it was like a family event coming together to listen to the local nose news on the radio. Was that ever kind of the way you were raised, or when the radio came about or the TV? Was it kind of like a family thing?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was about all some not too much thing here, really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, grandma lived pretty basic in life. Now we're kind of moving on to family and relationships. We kinda talked about how you met Grandpa. Getting a little bit more personal questions. What do you what are some of the things that you remember about your wedding day?
Speaker 3:Nothing really special. Married, we had dinner at the church hall, and then we went back to the house and had just brothers and sisters who were invited to the wedding. Oh wow, so it's a pretty small wedding. So I mean there was nothing really special.
Speaker 2:What type of uh clothes did everybody wear? What? What type of clothes did everybody wear? You were wearing a white dress? Yeah. What was Lawrence wearing? Suit. A blue suit?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2:Everybody else is wearing suit and ties.
Speaker 3:Well there was only one pair of attendants and there was Lawrence's sister and her husband, hmm? Then my sister was made of honor. But they just wear a long dress and suit, so it wasn't nothing that uh really all matched together.
Speaker 2:Did you h like decorate at the house or did you have flowers or do you recall what your flower bouquet was like?
Speaker 3:No, we had nothing like that.
Speaker 2:That was kind of a thing a thing that developed over time. That you had to have flowers and had to have a ten thousand dollar wedding if you're going by cheap.
Speaker 1:So simple and straight to the point.
Speaker 2:And then how long after you were married did you start having kids?
Speaker 3:Well, we were married two years before we had first child. Kathy.
Speaker 2:Okay. So one of the questions here is what was it like becoming a parent for you?
Speaker 3:Seems like just that's how it was supposed to be after you got married.
Speaker 2:Yep. Yeah, nowadays they have all these you know, breast pumps and gotta put your milk in the freezer to hold on to it and all this stuff. You know, was it was it difficult to acclimate to being a mom? Or did you kinda have it a second nature?
Speaker 3:Well, that was just nature, I think.
Speaker 2:Did you give birth in a hospital? Yes. Okay. I wasn't sure if you did the at-home birth in the tub kind of thing or hehehe.
Speaker 3:Oh no home births.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's all always in the hospital, huh? Yeah. So what hospital uh did most of my aunts and uncles get born in?
Speaker 3:Little Falls.
Speaker 2:St. Gabriel's there? Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's where our kids all were born.
Speaker 2:Okay. And that's where me and my siblings were all born too, was in St. Gabriel's there, Little Falls. So as as you started having more and more children, you know, um, I know something that Nora and I kind of think about is what kind of traditions do we want to start or continue within the family, you know? Was there certain holidays that you did certain things? Like, was there anything that was kind of a tradition to do in your family? What was that? Like, was there a tradition that you liked to do? Like whether it was you always had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, or you always sang Christmas carols, you know, at the old folks' home, you know, for Christmas. Was there any kind of traditions that you did? Well, kids?
Speaker 3:We always stayed home on Christmas. It was not really special. It was just a Christmas tree and then a few gifts and the first year as well, there wasn't that much money that you buyed a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Something that comes to mind is more more like traditions, but also just uh things that you do as a family. So, you know, whether it's harvesting produce out of the garden or going to church on Sundays, was there other things that you did as a whole family?
Speaker 3:Well we hadn't have too many get togethers like that.
Speaker 2:So I know every Sunday we see you in Swambo here saying the rosary before mass. Is that something that you picked up later in life?
Speaker 3:Or is that something that you prayed with your kids and Well, that was later in life.
Speaker 2:And you had a little bit more time?
unknown:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What did raising your kids Catholic look like for you?
Speaker 3:Well, this just was something that was natural. I don't know what you just went to church and and see too that the kids got there and that's all I did they have any after school programs or Wednesday night C C D classes or anything like that.
Speaker 2:It was pretty much the primary responsibility of the parents.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well they had the catechism at uh from school they went to the to catechisms and in the grade school.
Speaker 2:So they just went to public school in Swanville here, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh wow. So back then they were teaching some of the catechism or going through some of that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the smaller kids they usually got off uh on Wednesdays for an hour to go to religion class and the older grades they had to go in the evening. They kept parents had C2 that they got got there. They always had instructions at the church.
Speaker 2:Gotcha, gotcha. So it took some time during the Wednesday to so I know when I went to school in here in Swandal, that was the case for me too. They had like Wednesday afternoons. Yeah, you know, the younger kids would go from like two to one or one to two o'clock or something, and I can't remember, but I think they might have stopped doing that. I'm not entirely sure, but I thought I remember hearing something about that. So uh other questions here on the family relationship aspect is uh kind of going back to parenting, is what's your best parenting advice?
Speaker 3:Hmm.
Speaker 2:Don't always let 'em get what they want? No.
Speaker 3:It wasn't that easy. Our kids didn't get a lot of things they wanted.
Speaker 2:But do you have any advice for people trying to raise kids today?
Speaker 3:Well that's what I can't under still can't understand that the kids get everything they want. If you want a new car, if they want a bicycle right, they usually get it somehow.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we kind of touched on this a little bit too. I'm just realizing that these questions are kind of bouncing around a little bit here, but back and forth between different things. Should have vetted these a little bit better, but bear with me. Um apart from Catholic values, did you have any other values that you wanted to pass down to your kids?
Speaker 3:Hmm. Not really.
Speaker 2:Just kind of came with the territory. You were always a hard working mama. So hard work, right? Yeah, that's true. Hard work. Telling the truth. Uh did you ever get soap in their mouth? Huh? Did they did the aunts and uncles ever get soap in their mouth? No. No? See. This question, we'll see if we'll keep this question in here or not, but it asks Has the meaning of family changed over time? Throughout the course of your life? You know, was what family meant back then different than what family means now?
Speaker 3:Well, yes, um. Now the people get around a lot easier than they did years ago.
Speaker 2:Right, so family back then might have been just your immediate family.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And now family can be a lot more people that you kind of associate with.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, just because of transportation and everything. Huh. And then do you have a favorite memory of you and your kids? Do you have a favorite memory of you and your kids? One that you can kind of pops up.
Speaker 3:Not really. Yeah, I can remember.
Speaker 2:How about with your grandkids?
Speaker 3:Yeah, nothing special about that either.
Speaker 2:It's a little harder for you to move around, so you don't get a lot of interaction with the grandkids just too often. Yeah, that's one thing. That's I guess that's some advice is just to not work, work, work all the time and take some time to to breathe and take it all in, right? So now moving on to the life lessons and reflections. Uh, one of the questions is what's the hardest thing you've ever gone through?
Speaker 3:I think the hardest thing was when Lawrence died. That was not easy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. I imagine pretty sudden.
Speaker 2:Changed your whole entire projection of life, right? Yeah.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:What's something you wish more people understood about life?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Don't know what to answer there.
Speaker 2:She gave you these questions ahead of time so you had a chance to read them. If you could relive any moment in life, what would it be?
Speaker 4:I don't know.
Speaker 3:Perhaps your wedding or birth of your first child, maybe, or the wedding I suppose would be about find your own home and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some highlights, yeah, getting back to your own home and Yeah. What advice would you give your younger self?
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's one of those things where you can't live with regrets, right? Yeah. Alright, so here's some favorite and fun things to kind of learn about you. What's your favorite holiday?
Speaker 3:I don't know. Must be Christmas. Christmas?
Speaker 2:And so then do you have a favorite holiday memory?
Speaker 3:Nothing special.
Speaker 2:Is this the routine? Is there a particular favorite food or dish that you have?
Speaker 4:Hmm. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Are you more of a sweets and desserts? Or you like the salty?
Speaker 3:Well, desserts would be something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you like you have a sweet tooth? Do you have a favorite book or a story that you like to read?
Speaker 3:No, I don't have no favorite books.
Speaker 2:Did you read much as a child or as an adult?
Speaker 3:No, we didn't have much to read.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't really read much either, but my wife Nora, she seems to we're moving to that new house, you know, or whatever, right? And uh I swear I packed up boxes and boxes of books. Some of 'em I don't know if she's read, but some of 'em she knows they're good and wants to read, and there's books everywhere. Which is a good thing though, too. My daughter, she also likes to really read books and sit around just turn pages and uh not not me. I don't know. I'm a doer. But so here's kind of a going to the hundred years, grandma. What do you think the key is to a long life? Mostly genetics, right? I know some people will say, well, as long as you're you're active and you can move every day and go for walks and this kind of thing, and and then uh you haven't been a whole lot you haven't been very mobile the last couple years, you know, still living in your own house, but you're not really going for super long walks or anything like that either.
Speaker 3:So we I don't know, I don't seem to have time for walks.
Speaker 2:What makes you laugh?
Speaker 3:What was that question?
Speaker 2:What makes you laugh these days? What makes you happy? I mean when you get up get to a hundred years old, there's gotta be stuff you look forward to that that you find joy from, you know, to keep on going day to day.
Speaker 3:That's all the the kids are around and you know, they remember you when you something to do help.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So she appreciates the phone calls, the cards, the visits, you know, so if you got if you got friends and family that are older, you know, don't forget about 'em, right? Stop by, say hi. Yeah. You know? They look forward to that kind of stuff. I'm pretty sure you didn't do a lot of traveling. I know you went to Colorado for your honeymoon, right? Yeah. Other than that, did you do a lot of traveling or what are some of your favorite places to visit or go to?
Speaker 3:You mean at a Hanuman? Oh well anytime, you know.
Speaker 2:No, we didn't do much traveling. I didn't think so, but what other places have you been?
Speaker 3:The only time is when went to visit John and that's about all the place we ever went. At least ate more than a day.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so you haven't been outside of the country or anything like that? No. Okay. Kinda like my parents are kind of home bodies. Yeah. But when you have a farm and animals to take care of, you know, or school to go to, it's hard to find time sometimes. And if you have a big garden, well, you leave your garden for two days and your beans are about ready to explode. You know? Oh, funny. So kind of going now into the legacy wisdom and advice, you know, which is probably what everybody wants to hear as from a hundred-year-old, right? What do you want your great-grandchildren? What was what would be one thing you want them to know about you? I have an idea. Born and raised in Minnesota, you like to sew. She did a lot of blankets and quilts. Right? So if you're one of the great-grandchildren that didn't get a blank in her quilt, you missed out. But uh you were quite a quite a big sewer. Yeah. You know, and you do a lot of donations to Sisters of Charity or something like that, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, for donations. She made a lot of quilts.
Speaker 2:Yeah. A lot of quilts from missions.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was last time we retired.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Yep. Kind of along the same lines, I guess, not just your grandkids, but what do you hope other people remember about you?
Speaker 3:Nothing special about me that they want to remember. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Now that's one of the you know, you don't have you don't have to be or do anything special, you know, to be remembered. You know, I one thing I'll always remember is that every every Sunday we went to church, there's grandma singing the rosary, you know. You know, so I'm gonna I'm gonna remember that. You know, remember that you got a strong faith there in that. Uh remember that you had a big passion for gardening, right, and canning and preserving food and stuff like that. That you passed on to my mom, right? That's now getting passed on to my sisters and David, and I'll get into it eventually, but now that I got some more garden space, I can actually maybe do some more food preservation type stuff. Um so that's things that come to my mind, and and twins, right? You're twins fans, so I think people will remember that. People will remember that you're a twins fan. You know, so a couple of those things like that, you know, I think uh but you're you're you're a woman of few words, right? You really don't talk a whole lot, you know. Um but you're definitely, you know, uh especially after like losing losing Lawrence and raising kids yourself, you know, and stuff like that, that people remember you as a strong woman, you know.
Speaker 1:So what are some of the life lessons you've learned?
Speaker 3:Haven't any idea what you mean about that?
Speaker 2:Um, like like a life lesson might be like take joy in the small moments, not to work too hard and take time to enjoy life, or life lesson could be, you know, hold fast to God, you know, through the tough times, you know, um, could be like a life lesson or something that you've learned over time, you know. Um actually I as I mentioned that, maybe we'll dive into this a little bit more. Um the hardest things that you mentioned was when Lawrence passed away, right? What was your response to that situation? I mean it's it yeah, it's tough, tough to answer, you know. I mean because you were you were at the farm by yourself with Lawrence and the kids, right? At that time?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then it's after that that you move in with the uncles and Redwoods. Well how how long were you on the farm after Lawrence passed away?
Speaker 3:Uh about two years.
Speaker 2:Yeah. When the uncle unc uncles were kinda helping you and then Yeah. And then m end up moving into town after that. Yeah, so that really changed yeah, it really changed the trajectory of your life there, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep.
Speaker 3:I moved out when John got married.
Speaker 2:Hmm, yeah, because you lost some of your helpers on the farm. Yeah. But um so I guess my my question was kind of, you know, for for me and my hardships in my life, which isn't to that extent, but um some people can get really closed off, you know, and not talk a lot, or really resent God for let allowing that to happen. You know, some people really hold tighter to God and try to find the trust, you know, that God's trying to lead them through something in life, right? So that's what I was kinda wondering, is how how you how you responded to your husband passing away.
Speaker 3:No answer for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Probably something you want to forget about, right? Fair enough. Um I think we just have a couple more here. Oh. What's the best advice you ever received?
Speaker 3:Best advice. I haven't had You can do it?
Speaker 2:Trust in the Lord. I know one of mine that I think of is uh you know, I was kind of in a stressed-out period in life and I was kinda worried and really anxious, and someone just told me, you know, actually this is my uh Uncle Bernie actually, you know, passed away a little over a year here now.
Speaker 1:One of the best advice he gave me was just breathe. You know? Just breathe. So I'll always remember that as a as a piece of advice. Because in the end, you know It's kinda how life's gonna take a turn that it's gonna turn.
Speaker 2:And kinda gotta go with the flow for a little bit, you know, and just breathe. So how would you describe a life well lived?
Speaker 3:Life well lived?
Speaker 2:Yeah, how would you describe that?
Speaker 3:Well we're religion and uh work hard and It's about all I can think of.
Speaker 2:Live your faith and work hard and it'll get you a long long ways in life. Yeah. It'll it'll help you get your first job, you know, it'll it'll help you through the tough times in life, it'll you know, help you celebrate even more the great times in life. Knowing that you worked hard to get there and that you know you have a a faith to fall to and people within the same faith to fall with, so and celebrate with. Is there anything that you wish you had done differently? We're getting into some deep questions here, Grandma.
Speaker 3:I haven't any idea.
Speaker 2:I don't really like that style question just because you're if you're thinking about something you should have d did differently, that means you're living with regret, thinking that you could have done it differently. And live life with no regrets, right? So that's where I think that question's kinda I don't know, don't I like it, but he thought I'd ask it anyways. Alright, I got the last one. If you could leave one message for the world, you know, what would it be?
Speaker 3:Try and get along with all the other people. True.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you say that with all the different bombings and things that have been going on and Israeli and Iran and all that stuff. Yeah, try to get along, right? Yeah. Any other Any other words of wisdom? I mean a hundred years old, you've lived a long life.
Speaker 3:Lived a long life.
Speaker 2:Yep. Are you looking forward to the party tomorrow? Not really. Go sit in the hot sun for a little while and they see and it's hard to hear, so it's makes it challenging for you to hear all the conversations and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:And well, if I could hear better, then I would understand people talking, all you have to do is all the time. But what's that you said?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:The hearing aids there don't do no good at all.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. But hey, you at least get to watch and observe some of your grandkids and your kids and your you know, great grandkids on the part there and stuff, and you can kind of see the see the legacy you're leaving behind, right, one day, but yeah. It's always gotta be a little fun anyway, sitting there and just observing at least. Yeah, so that's what we got for today. Um, I kind of just want to take the opportunity to, you know, grab my hundred-year-old grandma before it's too late.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker 2:So uh um wanted to catch some of these uh questions and learn a little bit more about grandma for those who are listening. Obviously, this this uh episode is a little bit more geared towards my family and those who listen or people that know my grandma, but maybe some of you guys kind of found it interesting as well. But uh feel free to follow the podcast, rate it, you know, five stars would be awesome. It's a little bit different than your typical, you know, homegrown kind of podcast, but there'll be more homegrown type type of uh content coming out here as we get moved over to the new place uh on the five acres there, um, or by my in-laws, you know. Um my daughter, she says we have to have a pig. So that's like one of the first things that we gotta put on the our acreage is the pig, Grandma. Sophie loves pigs, so we'll see. But anyways, um you can follow me on Instagram at homegrown fam. You can email me at homegrownfam at gmail.com if you have any questions or anything like that. But uh we'll leave it with that and say uh happy birthday, grandma.