Home Alone - E24
Clancy talks about how she handled Rick traveling this week. Rick took the initiative to plan an evening out-where did they go? Met Clancy’s parents for lunch and discussed some “not so fun” topics. Text is from Tanner.
Clancy Denton 0:00
Welcome to the loud quiet. Ooh, empty nester. Okay. What does that mean?
Rick Denton 0:06
I think that actually probably is the theme of the empty nest. What are we doing? Let's do this. Let's do this thing. Is this Recording?. Okay, yes.
Clancy Denton 0:15
great. Sans, children just us. we need to tissue box up here. Follow along on our journey and maybe you know we can learn from others.
Rick Denton 0:23
I don't have a clue how to be empty nesters, if
Clancy Denton 0:25
this is the loud, quiet, living the empty nest Hello, welcome back to the loud quiet episode 24. Yes, right.
Rick Denton 0:37
You would think one of these weeks we wouldn't be hesitant about that. 20
Clancy Denton 0:40
I know I type it when I type it will push out and everything but probably not.
Rick Denton 0:50
Back to the first episode, we're not professionals.
Clancy Denton 0:52
So yes, welcome back. I hope everyone is having a good week. And we had a little bit of a different week this week. And that this was really Rick went to Austin, which he does every month. But this time he went for business and to see family. But it was kind of the first time in a while and since I we've been empty nesters that you have been gone for multiple nights. It's you know, you've done day trips, and we've done trips together. But this was kind of the first time that I was solo for a few a few days. And we
Rick Denton 1:37
always talked about I would imagine every married couple says this whether they've been married one year, one decade, one half, you know, millennia, whatever. It's kind of nice to have the house to yourself. This though was the first time you had the house to yourself to yourself to yours. Hell. No. Well, I guess the cat who choose chords was around.
Clancy Denton 1:58
I know. Yes. ABC as glancing. Because we did get our new chord but I mean, he is sitting in the corner just eyeing.
Rick Denton 2:10
I've got eyes on him. You're safe,
Clancy Denton 2:11
because it's any time it moves. He's like, Oh, yeah. So yeah, I mean, you have always traveled in, you know, the jobs that that you've had.
Rick Denton 2:26
My first job was as a consultant here coming out of school, right? And consulting Wouldn't that was in the era where you traveled Monday to Friday. And sometimes we remember those days where I would leave on Sunday.
Clancy Denton 2:39
And then, you know, when we had when the kids were younger, you know, you were doing some travel to Asia. And those were, you know, 10 day drugs, you know, longer trips. And then even in high school days, you were, you know, in Boston or in, you know, for days at a time and but yes, it was. It was not all can be good place was
Rick Denton 3:04
in Dayton it was a Defiance, Ohio, Dayton would have been a treat.
Clancy Denton 3:09
But yeah, so this was it was interesting, because even chickens when it was just me and Tegan Tanner was already off at school if you were traveling, she was still here in the afternoon. And evenings sometimes, but yeah, it was it was a different experience. I
Rick Denton 3:29
did you find yourself talking to the cat more? He
Clancy Denton 3:32
wasn't around that much. I mean, really, you know how he is during the day. I mean, I would come and find him. When I would get home from work, I'd come and find him. Upstairs in the me he chose the media room this week, he migrates to different places, but this week, it was the media room. So I would come and say hi to him, but then he's not real big. Because even when you are here, I don't see him sometimes until you get home when he hears two voices in the House talking
Rick Denton 4:02
and that's probably important to that. I don't know how many people care about our cat but that is so important about him. It's Wherever two or more are gathered. I mean, he's got that verse down. One voice he didn't care about but there's two he's got some sort of kiddie FOMO or something. What's going on?
Clancy Denton 4:17
Yeah, so yeah, so even at night I would tell Okay, come on, you can get in the bed because he's not here. Because you don't like him to be in the bed and you don't even know when he gets in the bed now because he stayed he he's always on my side. He does. He knows that he never goes to my side that he would not get up into the bed until the lights were out. Because that's his cue when that okay, we're going to set I'm asleep. Bust what it is. So yeah, it was pretty gnarly. I mean, I can continue to Talk about I was glad that I had things in my schedule. In the evenings. I had Life Group on Tuesday night I went to that I went out with my chair mom, girlfriends Wednesday night. So I was very thankful that I had some things planned. Because as I we both like everyone likes alone time, everyone likes a break from not having to cook not having to.
Rick Denton 5:27
It's Yes, like the activities. It's also just, there's no mental energy that has to be expended around. Okay, I want to do X, what does the person that I'm living with want to do? And does that match up? It's just, you almost get to go back to sort of your animal. Not like weird impulses, but just I want to go turn this on that I will watch the show. I want to go rebook I want to go play game I want to eat snack, whatever that is, you just you don't you get that little taste of full, unbridled independence that feels good for a little bit of time. And just you get to just do what you want to do. So I imagine you get to do what you wanted to do.
Clancy Denton 6:14
It was nice. And like I said, I I like that, you know, two nights is fine when it starts getting longer than it starts getting. Because I do enjoy spending time with you. We do enjoy talking and when there's no one else in the house. That's
Rick Denton 6:31
why I started talking. It probably didn't help to that you and I are so outside oriented that this was some of the crappiest weather that we have in Texas not ice storm crappy but just raining cold. Yeah, you don't want to go outside. See you didn't even have access to just go wander Yeah.
Clancy Denton 6:49
Yeah, but we you know, I survived it was good.
Rick Denton 6:55
You did talk about was that a conscious choice to plan activities during that time. We
Clancy Denton 7:01
are a group we get together once a month life group now that's always on husband on Tuesday nights. But our Cheer Mom group we always get together once a month and we had already started our text chain. Okay, what's the January week? And I did I looked and so I threw out as it Oh, what about the week of this to this because I knew you were going to be gone. And so I knew that that would give me something to look forward to and to do that evening and it's always so it was a little always a good time
Rick Denton 7:34
was definitely a conscious choice. And I would think that I don't know when the next time will be that I have the house to myself. There is something about that though. Okay, you know, I got a free weekend, let's connect with that person or group or you know, yours is a regular one, mine tends to be a little more ad hoc. It just, Hey, let's go do this. Because we have the opportunity to do this. I don't know what do this. I was gonna say things like golf, or other things that you have no interest in, but only interested in golf, but picking something that you have that freedom to just choose the independent moment? Well, yeah.
Clancy Denton 8:10
You need to find people that like to camp because that's I don't enjoy doing.
Rick Denton 8:18
That is probably if you were gone for a series of days, and there was not a work responsibility that I had. And I probably go wander
Clancy Denton 8:26
it is interesting, because like you said, you know, when are you going to have the house to yourself? I have never traveled except when we were young married when I was applied to them that my it seems like my age group or maybe it's just my you know, we don't do the girls trips. I've been on a few. But
Rick Denton 8:53
boy, I can't even remember the one. Yeah, I
Clancy Denton 8:55
mean, I've been on a few. And why do you think
Rick Denton 8:58
that is? Because it's such a cliche, and
Clancy Denton 9:00
there's people that do it. And you know, I don't know if I just missed out on starting those things. Because the activities that our kids were involved in, always fell on the weekends, and I didn't want to miss and some. I mean, I couldn't there's no way that I could not be involved in one of her cheer competitions. So
Rick Denton 9:29
as with my daughter's life, there's no way I could do the hair.
Clancy Denton 9:33
I mean, I think it's kind of the same vein of the The Bachelorette bachelor parties that now have turned into trips. You know, so I don't know if it's that I don't know if I tend to be and we talked about this last week. I tend to be the planner, in a lot of my groups not all but in a lot of my groups. I am the planner. So if I probably said I said something, then yeah, something would probably come together. But I
Rick Denton 10:04
had a, you know, I had another thought, now it's risky for me to say, hey, here's a reason why your groups don't do it. Well, it could be you and I do so much travel that maybe there's not that same sort of, like imagine a couple that didn't travel a lot. And if the one of the spouses wanted to well, then that could manifest itself into a guy's trip or a girls trip. A lot of our weekends were already traveling. Yeah. So my alone time tends to come a lot of times traveling, like in this case, going down to Austin, which was really great trip. This was, I say, it was a really great trip. And it was it also was a not really great trip. At times. This was a very up and down from a family perspective. Such a great trip, I've learned a few things about the work part of it, that mixing a work trip and a family trip is not easy. It was hard, it was hard to merge all those things together. And yes, that means that I got to have the flights tax deductible and all that kind of because it was legitimately a work trip. Much like a lot of people with their careers at any stage, trying to balance those two worlds gets really tricky when I'm trying to okay, I'm at this conference. And I know the hotel is 10 minutes away from my mom's memory care, I can get out of this event and go to see her right, those kinds of things. So the logistic complexity of it was difficult. the delight of spending three days in Austin two nights was really nice. I was able to first of all, I got to see my mom three days in a row. And the first two were, you know, kind of sleepy that sort of the second day, she snorted the whole time and we had a good enjoyment about that. The third day she was wide awake, even to the point of when I walked up to her I got the facial smile, like her eyes brightened, I saw a bit of a grin. And we've talked about that. I don't know if that means that she recognizes oh my gosh, this is my son, Rick Denton, or is it? Oh, here's someone in my face, right? It's just It doesn't matter. It brought her a moment of at least a parent delight. And that was fine. And she was awake the whole visit. And there's just something nice about the day trips are so great, we are so lucky to be able to be a 30 minute flight away. They feel rushed. This had moments of while it was a jam packed schedule, there still were some moments where it was just a little quieter. A little pause. I even mentioned to you that there was a moment that I was in the bramble wood home, the home that I grew up in by myself. And it reminded me it was just that kind of moment of oh, yeah, this is this. This was my house that I grew up in, I felt, and I know that the family has is so welcoming. So I want to be careful with this sentence, the family is so welcoming. But sometimes because you don't live there, you feel like a visitor in the home you grew up in. I didn't feel like a visitor for that moment. And that was nice. And so getting the chance to take that trip. Which it'd be a lot for you to come down there during the week. So this was sort of my chance to do that independent thing and be down there. And it was great. I got to connect with people who I haven't seen it at least two decades. And in some cases, well wouldn't be three decades. But definitely two decades. It's been since I've seen them. And we went one of the guys that I met up for happy hour on the last night that I was there and I was trying to get it in before the flight out and it worked. timing worked out perfectly. And it was I even said it to him. We haven't talked in over two decades. We picked up as if we were sitting as if time had not happened as if one of us had been in a coma for two decades kind of thing. It just you immediately pick up and had no memory. And,
Clancy Denton 13:50
and both I let me just interject both of y'all is personalities are like that, too. So that helps. Oh,
Rick Denton 13:58
yeah. And I'm sure he'd be fine with this. He had talked about Scott Buckholtz, and Scott said, you might be listening. So Scott, shout out to you, we really was a great visit to see you again. There's something about those high school memories that are just so cemented. And this really doesn't have much to do with empty nest, other than I think it's just as we achieve this stage of life, it can be nice to just connect to those positive things of the past, even if they weren't necessarily couple related, but it just helps us as the individual, really just live a deeper, fuller life. I know that sounds way too deep for what I mean, here. You know what, let me just call it out for what it was. It was a really fun time to have some drinks at the Driscoll with a good old buddy, who still has a Skeena teak and is everything that we remember. And I know you know, Scott as well. So at risk of rambling too much that Austen trip was so many things together, and it was so great to do and we're lucky to be able to have that chance to do that with the flexibilities and emptiness so that we can
Clancy Denton 14:58
Yeah, and I think It does. It's fun to talk about those times, because those are the times that our kids are in right now. So we see it with their friends and all the things that they're doing. So when you get to talk to someone that you knew through high school, college, even, I mean, I knew Scott, because we all lived in Dallas, when we were single. And so yeah, we're kind of we can see it now through their lens of you're making the friends now that you're going to be connected with for thought
Rick Denton 15:35
about that. You've just, you broke my synapses there. That was a let's, we'll just hit pause right here. That was, that does make a lot of sense, because we enjoy watching our kids build those relationships, and thought about that. It's kind of that reminder that of those times when things didn't take as much.
Clancy Denton 15:59
I don't think I could be skiing behind a boat. Any we talked about that I
Rick Denton 16:04
forget exactly. Scott. He said he doesn't ski as much. And I wonder what it's been a few years. And I said, I asked him do you get to show off for he's got a daughter? And he said, Yeah, not as much. But it is kind of yeah, she's because she's seen it. But I remember when we went and we're skiing there in Arkansas, and the kids didn't know. Yeah, I was like, Yeah, watch your old dad here. He actually knows what he's doing. And it feels good.
Clancy Denton 16:32
It might not have felt so good the next day, but it felt good as well.
Rick Denton 16:35
That's what bourbon and agile are. That's not an exam. So yeah, that was fun.
Clancy Denton 16:44
Yeah. And again, it's it's nice to know that we can be independent and and luckily knock on some wood somewhere. Nothing went arrived. Sometimes when you're gone. It seems like things go awry in the house or something. And so I didn't have any of those issues. Yeah, but then you know, when you got back and on late Thursday night, and you took to heart Well, we talked about last week,
Rick Denton 17:15
and we talked about it last week, even we had said that there's some theater stuff that we talked about. So after the episodes like here's what I was thinking about, and so, yeah, we went out to the local theater, and so not local. Well, oh, Frisco and Dallas. Okay. I mean, yeah, here's what I mean by local theater though to separate it out. This was not Broadway tour. This was a local troupe in a small theater. So this was theater three is the name of the company the name of the suit the theater we actually were even in the for those that happen to be in the Dallas area know this. We were in the smaller theater called theater two, which is the basement theater and this was a tiny theater, but it so that the show was love you You're perfect. Now change that just that's what's the ticket that's on here? Yes.
Clancy Denton 18:08
Because I put the ticket because it didn't start till eight o'clock. And it was an over two hour show, which okay, it was it was raining that day. I had a horrible sinus headache. And I was like, if we hadn't already bought the tickets, I think and you were tired from your trip. But now looking
Rick Denton 18:29
back, though. Oh, it was now that you know that even with your sinus headache, even with the rain, would you rather canceled or done what we did?
Clancy Denton 18:37
No, I like to I will Okay, that's kind of a of course I liked what we did. I'm not gonna say well, no, I would rather that we stayed home. Well,
Rick Denton 18:47
no, sometimes there are times that I think though even with the right I was dreading the rain I was that the traffic it took us an hour and five minutes or 10 to get to the restaurant that we went to
Clancy Denton 18:59
before the show, which that was fun being down kind of in our old stomping grounds and found a good tapas restaurant.
Rick Denton 19:07
Barcelona is the name of it. If you're here, it's down on Knox Henderson area spectacular. Surprisingly inexpensive. Yeah,
Clancy Denton 19:14
service was great. It it was a little loud. So yeah, it was service was great. But it was just a little loud. The mute the music was good. But it was a little loud. And I just don't like having to yell. It was a tiny table and still
Rick Denton 19:33
had to yell across. And it was actually from five to six, which is when the happy hour was it wasn't and I made it. I think it's six o'clock that day and I turned a party scene and I know this just sounds so old. And it does and I really wonder do 20 Somethings yours just absorbed that differently? And they actually can hear their friends better or they're just content to put up with it? Because yeah, we were there times. I'm like, What's that? Clancy? Yeah,
Clancy Denton 19:58
I don't know. I think all of them are gonna go have hearing problems way before us because they were their air pods and their ears every single moment of the day, but I don't know. But yeah, but it was that was a good experience. And then yes, we went over to the theater. And I mean, it was like, we're on the stage. It.
Rick Denton 20:20
There were two rows. Yeah. Three, sorry, the third row us behind us. Yes.
Clancy Denton 20:24
But, I mean, literally, the first row was lining the people were there were four actors. And at some points, they were, you know, in your face, which, but it was good. The, they were excellent. It's a musical that spans through different stages of couple life. Beginning from
Rick Denton 20:48
that, like the first song was first date. And then I actually thought it was kind of quirky or fun how they did the first date, but then let's skip all the others and so and yeah, even into marriage, kids and for relationships that didn't make it and then it was kind of a heartwarming one. Was that the last one or next to last? A heartwarming one with the old couple.
Clancy Denton 21:10
They're meeting at a funeral. Yeah.
Rick Denton 21:13
But yeah, they're well, here, I will put this on the video this how small this place was. And that was the intimacy of the theater. And, and the uniqueness of the theater. We haven't done this. Ever. No, I Well, I don't know. I can't remember. But it's been like a tiny show like this. Small. And it was fun to do something we
Clancy Denton 21:34
did in Houston. We did a couple of that. Yeah. And I mean, we've watched you do improv? Well,
Rick Denton 21:42
okay. It's better when I'm in the audience.
Clancy Denton 21:46
Yeah, it was, it was very good. And it was hilarious. Because the the couple sitting next to us, it was there. And they had brought their married kids in front of us. And she was telling me, they've been 14 times The show runs during Valentine's Day. And one of them husband's in front of me when I sat down. I heard him go. Why don't you like me? And it's a friend's reference. And so I'm behind him. And I go, chapter one. And he turns around, he's like, You know what I'm talking about? Because it was it felt like your right to be yelled at or seconds or so close. But it was funny
Rick Denton 22:31
about the time that you think there'd be an intermission? Well, life doesn't. So yeah, if you know, that episode of Friends. Now, thankfully, this was not there was no anger. No, no, no. And we talked about this a little bit. Think about this. This is this smaller theater troupe in a town that is it has its fine arts components. But I don't know that people would say, yes, Dallas is a fine arts, Mecca. Right. And the talent level that was there. And so it just amazes you to think how much talent is out there willing to perform on a stage in front of 2025 people on a rainy Friday night. It was it was impressive. And
Clancy Denton 23:13
the time because because you know, these people have to have other jobs. They can't support themselves doing local theater. But the time commitment, I'm sure is
Rick Denton 23:25
your final production, right? That's not the same as the rehearsal it to your point? Absolutely. Yeah, it
Clancy Denton 23:31
was very it was it was a good fun Friday night.
Rick Denton 23:35
I'd like to Yeah, and I'd like to add that as a category of something that we do on a recurring basis, when that does not mean weekly, that does not mean monthly. Now that we've done that, it's just it's one of those that it's not thrown in your face. And so you have to seek it out. And I think that's going to be true of a lot of emptiness stuff is as we try to figure out, you know, how do we kind of date? Well, we can't just rely on what we've known being thrown in our face, but rather, what are the new experiences that we can try? And this was one of them?
Clancy Denton 24:07
Well, again, it's we get to create our schedule, our schedule is not created for us, like it has been for the past, right? How many ever years there's
Rick Denton 24:19
no way we would have chosen an APM show and many, many, many decades before now.
Clancy Denton 24:23
Well, I'm That's what I said. You know, we probably would have been at
Rick Denton 24:27
what's Friday night? Yeah, we know exactly. Well, not
Clancy Denton 24:30
in January. But yes. So yeah, that was fun. Fun Friday night. And then we, you know, we've talked about obviously and this episode to you, you we go to Austin, once a month to visit your mom and, you know, see family. And we've started doing that after she got diagnosed and I hear that I after, I think it was even after last week's episode I said to you, you know, we haven't seen my parents. Yeah. Because we used to see them almost every weekend with Kid events, because they are they were supportive, they would come to everything. And so I said, you know, I haven't seen my parents. So I said, Let's meet them. I'll see if they're available Saturday for lunch. And so we met them in Plano yesterday for lunch. It was good. It was good to compensate, you know, I talked to my mom on the phone, and we text and that kind of thing, but I hadn't seen them in person. Since before the kids went back, it's
Rick Denton 25:44
almost I don't use the word lazy. It's just, it's it's not, there's nothing that forces the hand to do that, right. So I have declared, I'm going and we, when you come are gonna see my mom once a month, and there's logistics that have to be managed. There's a plan that has to be when family is in town, it almost becomes too easy. And so that ease has devolved into well, then we just don't do and I was really glad that you did say, Hey, we should do something because I like your parents do. Yeah, this is not the stereotypical in law situation. They're good
Clancy Denton 26:21
people. And I look at some families and especially, I don't know how many families down south, but up north. I've just feel like the families. They go to there, they get together for Sunday dinner they get together for you know, there's a meal once a week, if you live close enough that you're getting together with your family. And you know, it's too bad that we didn't start anything like that. Because when when we were all living here, I mean, most of us are still all living in the same area. You know, I hope that if we're close to where our kids are, maybe we can start that tradition.
Rick Denton 27:08
Then we'll take I think more episodes to figure out why I think if someone's kids scheduled, some of it is sure fatigue of weight. This is the one day that's quiet, but you're right. Well,
Clancy Denton 27:16
yeah, I mean, most of the families that I and maybe I'm being fooled by movies and shows, but there are families that I know that you know, and most of the time it's on Sunday, well, we like our Sundays, especially when the kids were in school. That was the reset day that was you know, we're not doing anything. And so
Rick Denton 27:44
I think you're right, Hispanic families and it that is, every time we were at White Rock Lake, you would see gatherings of clearly multigenerational. I feel that way about black American families it I don't know if there's something about Southern white that we just lost that are texts and wider urban. Like, I've seen the shiny city, I think
Clancy Denton 28:05
it has to do with where we probably live because there are southern families that do you know, but I think it has to do with how busy we have chosen to make our lives it's your choice to
Rick Denton 28:20
use that word. Because too many people Oh, my life is so busy. I don't have time you everybody has the same amount of time. It's what you choose to do with it. And they were choices that we made.
Clancy Denton 28:27
Yeah. Yeah. But I, you know, I would maybe you just pick a different diet or something. Anyways, I was just thinking about that when I was thinking about I, you know, I wish that that would have been something that would have been more established in our Yeah, family families, because I don't even think you're I don't think your family did that.
Rick Denton 28:52
We would, it just wouldn't be overly extended. Growing up, because I've talked about my mom's fried chicken meal right after church, there always was a big meal after church that we would have. And I think Nana sometimes would participate. That was just your very, very little and you know, we hadn't moved to that stage of grandma might come over, but we didn't have a lot of kind of just because of death or those sorts of things. We didn't have as many branches in the family. And just some geography took care of it that way. You're right. We didn't necessarily do it to the same degree.
Clancy Denton 29:24
And I didn't necessarily mean to bring us down that path. But it was just something I was well, getting back to why I wanted to get together with my parents because we just we hadn't seen them. So it was good to catch up and see what's going on with them and we had some serious conversations not not super serious, but well no
Rick Denton 29:46
end of life discussions around preparing for that and the the the need because there's some extended friends and family that we are knowing that there's ways to have perhaps had prepared or handle things in ways that would optimize it. And within our own families, we're pushing hard for everything to be taken care of. So that when tragedies happen, or when diseases happen, or whatever, then you've the business is already taken care of. And you can focus on the care and the love rather than the business and the transaction.
Clancy Denton 30:21
Well, yeah, like I told them, you know, what we've been through the past four years. Has, you know, we know more about wills, power of attorneys. Planning, yes. You know, I ever thought I would know, at this age or maybe any age, but yeah, we just, you know, talked about some of that kind of stuff. And
Rick Denton 30:47
it was interesting how it organically came out.
Clancy Denton 30:50
And it's nice that I, and you, being the son in law, have that relationship with my parents that you know, because it it's on your side of the family that we're dealing with everything right now. But that they're comfortable with you, you're comfortable with them that we can talk about those kinds of things. Hey,
Rick Denton 31:12
how are y'all dogs? Yeah, it to be clear on my side, we're dealing with it. But thank God for the preparation that my mom had done, and my dad had done and a Jerry has done. And so it is, we're able to navigate this in a much simpler way. And even what we're having to do with with Nana and make sure that those things are in place. Yeah, they're examples of what happens when you do it. Right. And how that eases things when you do well.
Clancy Denton 31:36
And It shocks me when I find out people. Not necessarily our age, but just a little bit younger than us who have kids that don't have a will. And I mean, as soon as Tanner was born, we had we made a wheel will and then have updated it, of course as we've gone along, but but it does surprise me. How many people don't think about that until it's time to think about it. And then it's too late.
Rick Denton 32:11
Be thinking about it now. You haven't Yeah. Well, you know, something else. And there's no real natural segue here. But we've been thinking about rain a lot. And we have kids in a place that doesn't have the same amount of text of the week. Well,
Clancy Denton 32:26
yeah. And it was funny. I had dinner with my chair moms the other night, one of the sons that's graduated has moved to Arizona actually lives close to our Chandra's. And I asked her how's it going? She said, If I get another beautiful sunset picture, she said because what we're dealing with here, so yes, if you live in the Dallas, Fort Worth or even anywhere in Texas, I think right now, you know, the rain has just been horrible. I mean, I know we need the rain and we need to be thankful for the rain. But I don't live in Seattle. Yeah. Okay, I guess I needed to come in here and sit under these lights. Because but yes, Tanner texted and
Rick Denton 33:09
these past few days have been the most consecutive cloudy, rainy days I think I've ever had in Tempe. And I'm kind of rockin with it. Not the text you want to receive. I just
Clancy Denton 33:23
sent back and said shut up. It's been horrible here. But they do walk. They don't get they don't get the rain, like we do. And so yeah, they get excited when it rains and they have a clay you know, everybody. I like a cloudy day occasionally. But when it's been 10 days or 14 days, it's
Rick Denton 33:48
been too much. So yeah, so hopefully we will have some we have the Sunday. Yes. It's nice. As you said, please let us be able to go take a walk or something today all bundle up. I don't care if it's cold. Get out and that sunshine. Yeah. So fun, fun. Another one with you, kiddo. All over the place today. This was a
Clancy Denton 34:12
vast array of topics.
Rick Denton 34:14
Thanks for hanging with listeners and viewers. If you have made it to the end, we appreciate that. And as always, you know, come on, let us know what you'd want to talk about. Let us know we always want to hear your thoughts as well. Thank you for those that have shared your thoughts as well.
Clancy Denton 34:26
Yeah, and thank you for recommending our podcast to people you know I've had a few people tell me oh I've told so and so about it and so so we do appreciate the word of mouth and again, you know we enjoy doing this we hope you all enjoy listening to it and yes if you have a question or if you need any of the references to restaurants or or theaters that we've been to are still figuring out
Rick Denton 34:55
the relationship but by golly we can tell you about food and entertainment we got just out there in many cities yeah
Clancy Denton 35:02
that is true
Rick Denton 35:04
oh goodness Well this has been fun yep another episode of the loud quiet living the empty nest
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