Routine...ish - E3

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.

i don't know if i'm Recording.  Yeah I am .Okay, 

Clancy Denton  0:15  
Great, Sans children, just us, we need a 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. 

Welcome back to the loud quiet. Thanks for joining us. I'm Clancy and this is Rick. And we're so glad that you've chosen to come along again with us on this journey. This is episode three,

Rick Denton  0:44  
three more than I thought we'd get to so

Clancy Denton  0:48  
more than maybe we thought we would get to we could just you know sudden my first studio and just

Rick Denton  0:56  
Fisher Price is my first studio appear. Yeah, no, we we definitely are glad that folks and listening wants you to continue. We've seen so much engagement. Continue with the comments. Please continue with the likes the follows the shares with your friends. Not just because we want more folks to hear the show. But really we want to learn from more people and the more of y'all that are contributing. We're already seeing it on some of the today as we're recording. Clancy had put something out there on the Facebook page. And we're already seeing some great commentary there. And some great ideas coming from there. So please go out there. Have a look. And let us know what you think. Because it's it's fun to hear from you. And we're learning Absolutely,

Clancy Denton  1:34  
yes, we do. Really appreciate the comments, love the comments, love the feedback. Love all the shares, please share with your friends and family. We really do appreciate you guys. So I guess we can get into it. That's right this week, because this week's episode episode is we titled it routine ish. It's right, because that's what we feel like are back in a routine.

Rick Denton  2:02  
Ish. Yeah, it definitely is sort of a routine. You know what, it's almost like the facade of a routine in many cases where you're going about some of the same things. And the same steps are happening. It just feels different. It's like it's walking down Disney's Main Street. But if you look behind, you'd see that it's different.

Clancy Denton  2:24  
It is I mean, everyone craves routine. I know. When we think Summer's here, oh, no routine when the kids are younger. But we as humans crave routine. And yes, ours has stayed the same in some degrees, but has definitely changed and probably more than it stayed the same.

Rick Denton  2:46  
I mean, you were telling me about this specific time of year has its own element of routine. And it were you were telling me because I'm not out there as often but all of the first day of school post that you saw.

Clancy Denton  2:56  
Yeah. I mean, that was, you know, something every year that you pose them wherever they were, at whatever. Whatever time it was, yes. Because sometimes it was very early in the morning. But yeah, you saw the first route first day of picture posts. You know, luckily, both of our kids appeased me and have every year that they have been our chancellor is it done that every year he's been in college and Tegan started this year. And since their first day of picture to me, so that makes me feel good. You know? Yeah, they were still willing to do that for me, because it's for me, it's not for them, it's for me,

Rick Denton  3:41  
you wait when they're 30, when they're 40, they might endure but in that that's a great example of routine ish, in that it's what we are so accustomed to. And we got a little taste of it. Right. Tana was doing that when he was off at school, but now there's no one standing in front of our door by their sports side. As we've we've done for probably not decades, but decade, at least, as it's always been.

Clancy Denton  4:05  
Now, and actually, I think every year has been by his fraternity flag, but not this year. He actually, you know, took one outside of his town halls because it's, you know, it was a neat picture before he went off to class that day. So, so yes, I do appreciate that they are still trying to keep mom in their routine a little bit. But, you know, we got back Monday night.

Rick Denton  4:33  
Work to 510 that alarm went off and off to Bible study off to a gym off to work right. And it was it actually was satisfying to be back in that routine, work notwithstanding whatever, you know, those sorts of comments, it just it was a distraction for that. At some point though, this isn't a distraction anymore. It's actually our routine and it started feel that way. Last week when we were recording it was all about raw emotion. I mean, we were I know I was still feeling it, you were still feeling. At times I felt like I was in a daze right. It just didn't seem real. Well, now we're sitting here talking to each other and it is that routine then it worked for a week now. And yeah, doing doing the rhythms of commuting and everything that that involves. Yeah,

Clancy Denton  5:24  
I mean, my routine stayed, you know, pretty much the same. I went to work and went to the grocery store. Now. My cart looked like some sad single persons because there wasn't much in it because divvied do people. It's totally different than feed for and one a college boy. Yeah, I mean, that was I could not believe how little I had in my car. Yeah. And yeah, came home. You know, it didn't take me four trips, download everything,

Rick Denton  6:05  
like while I wouldn't ever that it was just it's true. On the other end to that question that you put on Facebook today of how can you tell the truth? How do you tell people you're an empty nester without telling him you're an empty nester, for me, it's, well the trash can was really light. When I rolled it out to the street there was I mean, there's just not even the generation of trash anymore.

Clancy Denton  6:25  
It is just you know, cooking dinner. There were two placemats at the table. You know, we had for all summer, because tainer was home all summer. Tegan has always been with us until now. And so yeah, having only two placemats there. And, you know, we could eat at whatever time we weren't going on anyone else's schedule, we were just on our schedule, whether it be the early bird special, or there were some nights that it wasn't wasn't quite quite

Rick Denton  7:00  
as early with the we are finding ourselves at the AARP dining time, we'll try not to continue that. That's the one example of it's the routine, but it's different, in that it is to placemats. And yet, I'm sure that you and I both noticed at first, but I don't know that I really noticed that as much. I'm just filling up to Lhasa Tea for the day and laying out two forks or whatever it just, that's now what reality is, is two placemats

Clancy Denton  7:29  
and one of our couple friends Ashley and Ward, who will be on the podcast probably in a couple of weeks. As she said, word changes seats every night just drives her crazy. And I specifically meet Listen, remember Tegan saying don't sit in my seat?

Rick Denton  7:53  
I do. I do remember that. Now, that is some inspiration. So there's an example of a tip that I do want to start taking. Even things like planning out the weekly schedule. You know, we would usually sit down on Sunday afternoon and we would talk about Okay, so where does this kid go? And even if we weren't, we were out of the driving days for a long time. But there Okay, so this one will be away. This one's working all of that we definitely got to experience that on a deeper level this summer. And now it's Well, I guess we'll record on Monday night. And then that's about

Clancy Denton  8:26  
it well, and like we were talking about, you know, I've seen on Facebook this week. Oh, the first football game is this week. And I just like to say thank you, Teagan for graduating last year so that we do not have to drive to Texarkana this Thursday, or Thursday or to Burlison next week. So thank you. And I'm sorry, to those of you listening who do have to do that. But you know, that was that was just another? Okay. Yeah, we don't have Oh, yeah.

Rick Denton  8:59  
And Thursday, we're okay. So I gotta leave work here so that we can drive the four hours to Alito or whatever that looks like. And, again, thanks. So

Clancy Denton  9:06  
yeah, it was, you know, as much as you know, they're there. They're in Arizona. But you know, even though they are 16 hours away,

Rick Denton  9:20  
I feel like we're still hearing.

Clancy Denton  9:22  
They do still need you for certain things. Which brings us to our tech. Oh, sorry. We haven't worked that out yet. I didn't know it had a name.

Rick Denton  9:32  
It doesn't have a name. I was trying to do an improv just trying to read what you were saying. So there you go. We're not We're not professionals. That's

Clancy Denton  9:38  
only one of us has done improv in this. Yeah, but I'm the one that screwed it up.

Rick Denton  9:43  
And we're definitely leaving that in. May that's the phrase that will be in every episode. Yeah, we're not professionals.

Clancy Denton  9:48  
So these were this was the first one that I got. We were here we were home. But yes, it's from Tegan. This was, um, do you know where we put my jewelry box? By the way? I was trying to find it? Well, first of all, we didn't put it anywhere. I put it in her rolling cart, which she found it. I was unpacking while she was building shelves and that kind of thing. And then to this morning, it was where's my rain jacket again? And I said hanging in your closet. Okay, thank you. Yes. So, so they do still need your help. From time to time, your

Rick Denton  10:34  
your tone when I read that, though, you know, where's my rain jacket? Sounds like what do you you answer that very oh, what's in your closet, I'm sure in your mind was like, it's in your closet.

Clancy Denton  10:43  
She did not pay attention to the orientation. I guess I should have left her a map or a list or, but that's okay. I still want them to need us. But we all want them to still need us. I would be very sad. And I've seen some posts that my kids not talking to me, you know, pretty much cut off ties when they got to college. And no, I don't know, we've had very vibrant texting. I'm very happy to help you figure out where your stuff is in your room.

Rick Denton  11:15  
Okay, so I want to remember this moment. And I want to ask you that. Is that still true October 17 or March 3? We're still feeling that way about? Yeah. Thinking more about the routine stuff. There were things though not though, things that we were doing before I used to play Zelda just about every night. And then I came to know that they were taking the switch away. So I was playing Zelda a lot to try to get as much well now Yeah, it's a routine. But I was relegated to playing Paper Mario. So there's still the things that are routine, but they're

Clancy Denton  11:49  
different, for sure. And I'd like to add, you know, let's go for a walk in the evening. Well, great. But yeah, but you can't go until eight o'clock, because it's still 104 100 degrees.

Rick Denton  12:02  
You know what, though? There's a great example, though, that is the kind of thing that okay, it's a routine. But now we don't have that structure that it can truly be that not that the kids, they were out of our hair in the evenings anyway, but it really was. And we're starting to experience that, that the choices we get to make are truly just the two of us, which it sounds guys that said, that sounds so selfish. I think for now, though, we're probably trying to figure out how to be that kind of selfish again, and the good kind of selfish. And to me, that's almost a dating equivalent, like, you know, it's a hey, let's go for a walk together. And we did and yeah, we had to wait till it was eight o'clock. And yet we did it last night. It was great. Just wandering out there, sweating together. And

Clancy Denton  12:46  
I mean, that's, you know, once we made it to our weekend, and this weekend, we didn't have anything on the calendar. You know, on Saturday, we're just said, Let's go to Fort Worth,

Rick Denton  12:58  
and what did we decide to do? Yeah. And so I assume I imagine that most of the folks that are listening or watching know that Fort Worth is about an hour away from where we live. We live in Frisco, Texas, the Fort Worth is over there. So it's not a place that you wander to every you know, every weekend or whatever, but it's not a this far trip. It really was a hey, let's just head over there and give it a shot.

Clancy Denton  13:19  
Yeah, and that was very pleasant. And, you know, we knew some things to do over there. We enjoy the Kimball museum. And so that's what we decided to do was inside air conditioning,

Rick Denton  13:33  
it was part of the requirement. It definitely was. And so this is the outside of the Kimball that's here on the screen or on the on the video. It is it's not an overwhelming museum. It's actually quite cozy. It's there's not a ton of space in there, but there's some neat there's a Mondrian in there. There's some other really neat people of course, every Picasso's that they're in then there's really really wonderful things to look at in there. What I found so enjoyable about being there is just the peace right? Even when this is outside inside. We're not taking pictures inside it just walking around the grounds and just enjoying how calming that is. Yeah, this is a picture that we're putting up here. That is the the waterfalls that are out there and there's a grove of trees it it was nice to be able to have a weekend. That was not all about gogo think about what a Saturday prior was that was moving in that was that just intensity of that here was a chance to just chill out and enjoy each other's company, sometimes with words sometimes with silence, but no structure at all. Just peace.

Clancy Denton  14:42  
I love that. And it wasn't crowded. I mean, it was it was it was a very just ideal afternoon, you know, we got to see there was a wedding party. They're getting their pictures taken before they went to their reception or before they went to their ceremony. I don't know which

Rick Denton  14:59  
one weddings outside in August though that party was dying. Yeah,

Clancy Denton  15:03  
they photo they didn't look real happy with that. That's okay. It was still a neat, it was a beautiful it's a neat thing to see

Rick Denton  15:12  
they can Photoshop out the sweat beads. So you know, yeah, I know that I enjoy walking around and enjoying the peacefulness I get a sense that you have a different objective when you're wandering around.

Clancy Denton  15:25  
Can I do museums very differently. I enjoy museums. I enjoy culture. I like to find the creepy pictures. tried to figure out which ones are the creepiest? And there was a tie for two at the Campbell. So if you go

Rick Denton  15:47  
Come tell us which one you thought was the most

Clancy Denton  15:49  
creepy. There were a lot of portraits.

Rick Denton  15:53  
Like creepy. 

Clancy Denton  15:54  
Yeah.

Rick Denton  15:56  
Watch my language. I don't want to get the explicit flag on this episode. But really creepy pictures. One was, I walked up and like, oh my gosh, that girl is going to end up in your nightmares tonight. And then there's a couple of wipes. Oh, look at that just darling. Based on that girl, like, that girl is gonna stab you in your sleep. She's gonna come out of that pain. And I'll kill you. For me. It

Clancy Denton  16:15  
was the two brothers one that. Yeah, that looked like they could have been in The Shining part two. I mean, I was ready for them to just for blood to start running from that picture.

Rick Denton  16:29  
Sorry. So I hope you're all enjoying the art history lesson that we're going to provide here in the loud quiet. Of the Kimball Museum. Well, we'll tell you about the DMA. Next.

Clancy Denton  16:39  
Sorry, yes. But that's also I mean, again, I can enjoy it for what it is. But we also like to make things put our little spin on.

Rick Denton  16:53  
And that's always been an element of who we are. Exactly. And that's not to try to get too deep here. But that I think is a key part of this emptiness thing is, I always screw up the math, but over the years, what is it 21 years ago, 22 years ago, I guess 21 years ago, is when we stopped being empty nest or then we weren't in it. We were just dating. We were a couple it was just Rick and Clancy. Then we became Rick and Clancy and Tanner, then Rick and Clancy and Tanner and Tegan. There's a lot of rediscovery that has to take place when you have a 21 year gap from that time and not that we never dated or anything like that during that time. But just that kind of not necessary rediscovery, but amplification of exactly that. We go to some serious things. And well, sometimes we're not so serious, and that's okay, we're not rude. We're not in interfering with anybody else's world. But uh, we don't necessarily take everything as seriously as perhaps you're supposed to.

Clancy Denton  17:47  
Hence some of the shows that we enjoy, which I'm sure at some point, we will get into some of that, let's

Rick Denton  17:53  
review what were what they did in the shadows. There's the high level of maturity love that one. But what do you do after high culture? Oh, it's time for beverage.

Clancy Denton  18:04  
Yes. And, you know, we didn't have to get back to worry about making dinner for anyone or making sure everybody was where they were supposed to be. So we could just spend as much time over there as we want and do. Yeah,

Rick Denton  18:14  
I think actually the only thing that we had we actually had two things planned. We knew we wanted to go to the Kimble because was air conditioned. And we knew we wanted to eat dinner. That's it. Yes. After the Kimball it was alright, let's go find a really cool let's find a cocktail place. We found a really cool cocktail place. Listeners or Fort Worth goers

check out 

Clancy Denton  18:34  
Thompson's Booktore. 

Rick Denton  18:36  
Yeah,

yeah. No, it's not Barnes and Noble. It is it's it's I think it was originally a bookstore. It's the classic old school cocktail place. It's neat. Really neat.

Clancy Denton  18:45  
Soft. plushy couches, nice bar to set out. Yes. Very. That was just a nice,

Rick Denton  18:52  
it probably turns loud later, we got there when we got there.

Clancy Denton  18:56  
Three, it opened at three. First ones there were there were other people. Before we got there.

Rick Denton  19:03  
I'm sure it gets great. But that was nice. And it this does show perhaps my age is I want to go have a good cocktail crafted by an intelligent bartender who knows how to make something good. And have a conversation with Yes.

Clancy Denton  19:15  
And yes. That is the one complaint and with my girlfriends when we go out to is that some of these places are so loud now. You can't Yeah, you can't have a conversation. And especially now that we're getting older and yes, we can't hear oh my gosh, we

Rick Denton  19:30  
sound so old.

Clancy Denton  19:32  
It's true. I mean, you want to be able to, you know, connect with the person that you're with. And if you can't hear them, they can't do that. Now. You did say by what? How did you describe the bartender? What did you say you wanted to intelligent?

Rick Denton  19:50  
Northern say young I don't think I'd say yeah, that leads

Clancy Denton  19:57  
me to Yeah, Am I, we had one of their craft cocktails. And then I said, Oh, you know what, I haven't had a Kir Royale in a long time. And that was Rick's dad's

Rick Denton  20:09  
he really enjoyed that what his favorite was a signature one that he would order to travel, especially internationally.

Clancy Denton  20:15  
And so she came over and I said, Okay, I'll you know, can I have a Curaao, please? And she looked at me and she said, I don't know what that is. And I said, Oh, okay. And I said, Well, it's really basic, because it's champagne and casies. And she said, Oh, and so I showed it to her. And she said, Oh, okay, yeah. And then served it did a great job. Then she came back and she said, now, what's your name? And I said, Clancy, and she said, Okay, now the string is called the Clancy. So if you go to Thompson's bookstore, order the Clancy and I love sending that text to our oldest child. Guess who just got a drink named after him at the bar.

Rick Denton  21:00  
So there, the enjoyment of the Clancy is going to take place at Thompson's bookstore. Yeah. Okay, that does. Order a Clancy beverage. Let's try that. That sounds better. Try not to get the explicit flag again. And yeah, we wrapped up with a good Mexican food dinner is Mexican in I think it original Mexican in Mexican and cafe, I think was multiple locations. But that was just great. The whole thing though, the whole theme of this was a chance to reconnect a chance to do something, the freedom to be able to do that something

Clancy Denton  21:35  
well, and I knew this was going to be our first Saturday at home. I didn't want to be in the house. I wanted to be, you know, we did our morning routine and stuff. But I wanted to be gone. I just I knew that sitting here all day or doing stuff around the house would just not be good. I I wanted to, you know, and we should let's take advantage of, you know, the time that we have now to go do these things. So

Rick Denton  22:07  
I think it's going to be interesting to see how well how well maybe I'll just say how we do that going forward? Because it's not sustainable to Okay. Okay, so we're gonna go to I've mentioned Berlin center. Yeah, we will go to Grand barrier when you start doing the Saturday tours. Well, that doesn't make sense. Plus, we live in North Texas, there's not a ton that's around us. It's not that you're, you know, got things that are that close. Yes, there's weekend trips to be had with flights and stuff. So how do we do that? And what does that look like? How do you? I'll say it almost very nakedly. How do we date again? Or how do we live? Again, as a couple, right? The dating, the engagement, the marriage, there was that period before kids? What did that look like? And there's even an element of that, did we ever really, really do that? Because both of us were doing some heavy traveling during that phase of our lives. So this is a time that neither of us are heavy traveling. And so what does that look like as we be a couple in the same place? At the same time without kids?

Clancy Denton  23:12  
Well, yeah, and I think looking back at that time, you know, you were you we were working, you know, you probably didn't have as much money as you have later in life. You know, so yeah, we tried to find things on the weekends like that. And we were still with our younger friends. None of us had kids. So we would go out, you know, those kinds of things. But I think, I think especially this first weekend, oh, yeah, it was just so important to me that we have to find something to do. Yeah. You know, we have to and and, you know, which leads us, you know, Sunday.

Rick Denton  23:49  
Oh, gosh, yes. You know, that Sunday is the I'm interrupting you. Oh, no, no, no, no, you're

Clancy Denton  23:54  
fine. Yeah, no, Sunday, you know, we go to church, but we don't. We've gotten into the 11 o'clock service because the kids were going with us this summer. Well, no way. Are they getting up to go to a nine o'clock service. So and, and nine o'clock has pushed it a little bit, even for we have a disagreement

Rick Denton  24:12  
on this, but I've capitulated I prefer the nine.

Clancy Denton  24:16  
So I had already finished my one load of laundry meal plans for the week before we even went to church. And that was kind of our after church. You know, everybody was trying to get organized for the weekend, you know, and all summer, every Sunday had pretty much been trying to get the kids something done for school. Something, you know, Sunday was college Sunday. That's what we called it because that seemed to be when we would always do what needed to be done for college. And so, you know, by two o'clock, I was just like, I can't this is I'm so bored. You actually I know, I'm bored. Yeah. And that's not saying anything to you. That's just, I've been so busy that I just was sitting in my feelings. I didn't like it. It was quiet. It was. I, like I said, I had already done the things I needed to get done. And yes, some people would see that as a gift. You know, our sermon this week was actually on about, about Sabbath and taking the Sabbath. But I can take the Sabbath for about 30 minutes, I need to get up and get going.

Rick Denton  25:41  
Well, that was, that was the first real tangible feeling of the loud choir, that it was so quiet, that it was loud. And I didn't get there as quickly, I had a few more things to do. And then by the time I finished those things, I was reading something I was just, I was actually enjoying that moment to actually just have a quiet time to read a National Geographic, I'm backed up by a couple months, because I haven't even had the time to read them. At the end of that, though, I think the TV had shut off. I'd finished the magazine and it really was just so shockingly quiet in there.

Clancy Denton  26:20  
I don't think we even had, we didn't have the TV on because EPL, soccer was over. Now, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm ready for NFL to come back. Because that's

Rick Denton  26:33  
mark it down. I heard it, I enjoy time,

Clancy Denton  26:36  
I enjoy it. But that's a chunk that will take up, you know, and we can get together with our neighbors we can get you know, so.

Rick Denton  26:44  
And this was a weekend, we didn't do anything with other people too. And so that was that was something that you know that that will be a rhythm and a routine, I think we're going to have to discover it's not like I've got an answer to this. But we're gonna have to discover how to balance that need for activity, the need for dating, the need for connection, all of that with the realization that there's also a space to be still and what does that look like? And I say that like, Clancy, there's a need to be still no, I need that to like, I need to know how to sit in that because you have even called me out on that in the bathroom, like, you keep trying to do something or you're busy doing this or that I don't do so well. It's really just Heck, I plan our vacation sometimes that way, we're just go go go as opposed to just a moment of No, don't do anything. And that's a balance we're going to have to figure out is the freedom to do whatever we want and the freedom to do the nothing that exists.

Clancy Denton  27:37  
And that's what I don't think it was necessarily the lack of something to do. It was just that there was nothing else going on in the house. You know, which is just, you know, when you different

Rick Denton  27:55  
on a Sunday there's there's even if it's not every moment, there's some question, hey, upstairs to somebody or you got a question.

Clancy Denton  28:02  
I'm doing four to five loads of laundry. Yeah, that that'll keep you busy on a Sunday think yeah, I didn't even get

Rick Denton  28:09  
a chance to fold a load of laundry. Not that that's like oh, oh, yay for you. But yeah, it was one and done. It's gone. Yeah. So that is that is gonna be our loud quiet and how do we adapt to that will be interesting.

Clancy Denton  28:21  
And that, you know, that was my answer. Today. I said on the tell me, you know, you're an empty nester without telling me. I said, I only did one load of laundry. Now I answered 10 questions about how to do laundry?

Rick Denton  28:37  
Yeah. Plenty of advice. Yeah. And to certainly even in spite of the texts, we're we're talking about the 1% of the things. They're doing such a good job of adjusting and the things that they're figuring out on their own and all of that. So it is, it is actually really, really good now. Yeah, we're talking about them

Clancy Denton  28:59  
adjusting what's on with it. And you know, and the cat is going through his adjustment, as well as

Rick Denton  29:06  
a Sunday. This was Sunday, right? This was sad

Clancy Denton  29:10  
or no, this was Friday night because she called she called us Yeah. And she said, You know, I said, Do you want me to put you on FaceTime because she hasn't really been asking about him a lot. And that's on purpose. And she said, Yeah, put me on FaceTime the minute the second he heard her voice, he jumped down. And he rubbed this as a picture. He is rubbing all over that foot. He could see her face. She's crying. I was like, Okay, we gotta cut this.

Rick Denton  29:41  
So, he was me, Alan, but yeah.

Clancy Denton  29:44  
So that was that was good. I think for her and I've been you know, telling her he's doing fine. He's fine. You know, this is her baby. And,

Rick Denton  29:55  
and he is doing fine as he has now. found his way back upstairs. He was in here. Earlier, he's kind of went back upstairs in that space, but it was a sweet moment to see him. Yes. And in FaceTiming Yeah. Did I say that?

Clancy Denton  30:10  
He doesn't have his own phone and that was my phone that I was hoping.

Rick Denton  30:14  
When does he get his phone?

Clancy Denton  30:16  
But you know, it. It is. We made it through that we made it through the first weekend. I five. So

Rick Denton  30:27  
well, let's let's uh, enjoy another week coming up. And I want to end with that. I think that's where we should end that with with the cat there. Certainly, again, reinforcing. We just love hearing from everybody please let us know, hey, let us know what you thought about that or how your kids talk to their pets. Or how you can tell people that you're an empty nester without actually telling them that you're an empty nester or just say hi to us the loud quiet pod@gmail.com Yeah,

Clancy Denton  30:52  
yeah, and please also, if you have a text that your child is fine with you sharing you might make it up on the text of the week. That's

Rick Denton  31:01  
right. These don't have to be our kids. We'd love to see almost kids here as well. Well, Clancy I think that's that's a wrap to another episode three of Stellan figured out how to close out this thing but it's it's fun again recording another episode. I can't believe we're like, this is fun. I'm actually enjoying this. This is good. We'll just end with that. Yay.

Clancy Denton  31:22  
Thanks again for joining us on The loud quiet living the empty nest

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