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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know? I really miss that, I'm from Chicago originally, and I miss the MUMBLEx seasons that, you know, that we used to get up there that you just don't have down here." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I know in, um, I'm from Missouri and we always had pretty ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, uh, I like that and we moved here from Houston in, in, uh, July and everyone kept saying, oh, you're going up north it's not going to be so hot, it's not going to be so humid," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, that...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, really --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "It --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- has been," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's pretty hot here during the Summer --" }, { "speaker": ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- has been," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's pretty hot here during the Summer --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- it was extremely hot, I thought I wa...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- it was extremely hot, I thought I was going to die, my car, I thought it was going die last Summer but," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Do have air conditioning in your car or," }, { "speaker": "A", "tex...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, the air conditioning was broke, but broken, I guess it just couldn't handle," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "the stress, and the heat, the record heat, and, you know, I was worried about every time we came to an int...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "because --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- of the extreme heat." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. I know, my husband doesn't have air conditioning in his ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- of the extreme heat." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. I know, my husband doesn't have air conditioning in his car and he, when he comes home from work, you know, during the Summer --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B"...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- he's just wa-, he feels like he's burning like he's been baking for an hour." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, I know." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "That's really awful, but, but I, uh, understand that t...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "That's really awful, but, but I, uh, understand that this is kind of typical for this time of year --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that rainy season." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "What I hate is, I hate...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "What I hate is, I hate having to water so much around here --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know, we never used to have to water our lawns --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "No." }, { "speake...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "No." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know in Chicago it was always enough rain here and there --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- so here if you don't water it just looks awful." }, { "speaker":...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- so here if you don't water it just looks awful." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Brown." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I just hate to spend the money just going down the drain and watering grass, you know." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah. T...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah. That is, that is awful and it, it takes time and the, the kids, they, you have to water your lawn and they want to go out and run in it and get all muddy," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "You know, so you're going do...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "in the house." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we have a dog too so that adds to it --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, no." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know, traipse in and out with whatever the weather is like out there so," }...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know, traipse in and out with whatever the weather is like out there so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I don't know, do, the nice thing I'm looking forward to is, uh, not having a hurricane season." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yeah, beca...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "weren't there a lot of hurricanes there?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yes, we always had, uh, big concern about hurricanes, and they're close enough to the coast and, you know, you had to have a supply like, uh, emergency supply on hand all the time --" }, { ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- during the hurricane season," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, that would be, Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- you always have to think, you know, what's the weather doing," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Keep the weather radio close...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Keep the weather radio close by and stuff like that?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. And do we have enough, you know, um, food storage, and enough, uh, batteries and --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "--...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- all the kinds of things." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, really, every time I store batteries, I wind up going to use them and they're dead they've been stored so long." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "That's right." }, { "speaker": "B", "...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "So," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, now this is a little bit of relief, although they still have warnings all the time around here for, you know, tornado season --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-hu...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- hurricanes and stuff, so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I, yeah, I don't really like tornadoes either," }, { ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "I," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I, yeah, I don't really like tornadoes either," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, uh, at least there isn't, we fe-, I feel like I got rid of something," }, { "spe...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, uh, at least there isn't, we fe-, I feel like I got rid of something," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "hurricanes, so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "not too much of that." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. Well, I've been worried about mos...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. Well, I've been worried about mostly with having little kids now with taking them out in the Summer and getting them burnt up, I mean I have to keep the sun screen on them just constantly when they go outside --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." }, { ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "and --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- it is, and, I just, I can't believe the, the record temperatures that --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- have, were...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- have, were here last Summer that," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "a hundred and ten degrees and," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "oh, it was just unbelievably hot." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "A...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "oh, it was just unbelievably hot." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And I can't stand to be outside at all when it's like that, I just don't even want to go out, you know, of the house to get the mail even," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "leave me in the air co...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "That is pretty bad." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We had our air conditioning broke, break last, last Summer. The switch got something wrong with the switch and we had to call somebody out to fix it, because I couldn't take it more than a few hours without it on." }...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Even, well, that would, it is just pretty bad, but I guess, um, I guess the weather hasn't changed too much from here to Houston and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "But it...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "But it is, like you say coming a little bit further up north." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "where you have some pleasant weather everyday where you can feel like you just want to open your windows and," },...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, that's really nice I hate having to leave the house clo-, you know, closed up all the time." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And get some fresh air in the house and,...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "And get some fresh air in the house and, it feels good but," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, I guess," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, have you been here during the real heavy, heavy rains? I mean I ca...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, have you been here during the real heavy, heavy rains? I mean I can't remember what time of year, I think it's usually this time of year when we get some, just torrential down pours." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "No --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- but I --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- flooding." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- remember," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Our neighbors had flooding," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "so badly it was like a foot deep in their h...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Our neighbors had flooding," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "so badly it was like a foot deep in their house last year." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, no." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "They had to replace all their carpeting and everything, i...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "They had to replace all their carpeting and everything, it was miserable." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, that sounds awful." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. That would not be fun." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, I have seen those. I...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, I have seen those. I have driven around in the neighborhoods and seen those little flood gauges --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that will be at little yellow signs, it's, you know, has it like from one foot t...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, really." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- with a flood gauge down the street." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, gosh, no kidding. Talk about asking for trouble, huh?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, that would be awful." }, { "s...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, that would be awful." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I've got some kids out on the trampoline I need to go look and see what they're doing." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Okay, well, have a g...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I've got some kids out on the trampoline I need to go look and see what they're doing." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Okay, well, have a good day." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, you too." ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh, I don't know. My personal perception of government and, uh, the way things are at this current time, is that nobody can really be trusted. And I don't feel that too many of the candidates are out there to, uh, be self-serving to the community. I think that they have their own,...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "The sex, sexual harassment, that kind of thing and just to see our government react to that and then just little things that have added up where people have taken vacations on taxpayers ' monies and things like that. I, I just thi...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Doesn't Wisconsin have a, uh, state, uh, Medicare program or health program?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, they just, uh, they've already put through the health bill. Yes. It just went through and it was passed and that is going to be a heavier tax burden on a lo...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh. Oh, sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And that is, uh, uh, we become so debt ridden and credit oriented --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- instead of, uh, cash and carry or debt free --" },...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- instead of, uh, cash and carry or debt free --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and therefore, uh, that puts a lot of undue pressure on municipalities, state and federal governments." }, { "speaker": "A", ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "It, it sure does. And -- -- I think it, it is reflecting. Like you said I think society as a whole, uh, you can't expect, uh, when we have T V -s and we have things that are kind of bombarded at us for, uh, you know, immorality and this and this and this, that we can expect somebo...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, what is, see the thing is, is when a lot of things become acceptable practice --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- uh, it's hard to discern the bor-, what has become muddy as to what is ethical and what is not et...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Exactly." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- someone blows the whistle and says, oh, this is not ethical and yes I did it too." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, that's exactly what happens in government all ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, that's exactly what happens in government all the time. They blow the whistle on each other. Oh, I hear that you're doing this, I've done it but oh boy, and it's not going to get out. Ex-, yeah, e-, exactly. It's, uh, there's no --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I don't think anymore." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right. The mayor of Dallas is, uh, Bartlett, Steve Bartlett." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "He also, u...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "He also, uh, was a congressman." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh, to the, uh, to Congress." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker":...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh, to the, uh, to Congress." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And he had been in that position for years." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And, uh, he was electe...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And, uh, he was elected mayor of Dallas --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- overwhelmingly." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "And, uh, he was elected mayor of Dallas --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- overwhelmingly." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "However, if the vote was taken ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, what kind of garden do you have?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, we've tried having, let me turn the T V off, we've tried having a vegetable garden, and I'm from Chicago, and the way that, uh, bugs and weeds grow down here is very different from Chicago." ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We had to put so much poison out on everything that we thought, Who'd want to eat that stuff." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh, uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "You know, so we have really been frust...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "You know, so we have really been frustrated by our gardening attempts here, and, uh, if you really water a lot, you can do it, but, you know, when you have to pay for water, it really gets to be an annoyance to have to water constantly." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "U...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Do you have a lawn?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we, we just try to maintain the lawn and the shrubs right now, and the trees." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We have a peach tree. That's the extent of our, um, contributing to our food supply. But th...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "yeah. So what do you do up there?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, um, actually it, we've sort of had an ideal Spring." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Um." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Um." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And, um, the, the peonies have been out for now about three weeks --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, wow." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- and the roses have been blooming for two weeks, and the grass is, u...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- and the roses have been blooming for two weeks, and the grass is, uh, this lush green, and of course I've got lots of weeds in mine because," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "I don't use any poison either." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "But, um, you know, I just keep looking at, and I say, Jeez, you know, this is the first year it's been so perfect." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Really. Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "But, and my garden, you know, my tomatoes are two and a half feet ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- the plants and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- that sounds wonderful." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "you know, I'm g-, I'm going, Gee, this can't, you know, we'll have a freeze." }, { "spea...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "you know, I'm g-, I'm going, Gee, this can't, you know, we'll have a freeze." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "If you don't have a frost you'll be all right." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "That's what I remember from living up north, is that you'd get everythi...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, that's it. Last year, I think it was, you know, my peonies were, were, budding in January, and, you know, there was no way that was going to make it, and sure enough, you know, we d-, had really mild weather until --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Wow." }, { ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- and then, you know, everything just got hit hard." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy, that's frustrating." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "So, but yeah, it, it's interesting, and I enjoy gardening. My ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "So, but yeah, it, it's interesting, and I enjoy gardening. My son does the mowing of the grass." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yeah, my husband does that, thank goodness, because I, that's not a pleasure for me." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "I don't th...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "I love gardens that are well tended, and I just, there's been a few different places I've lived where I've just n-, I don't know whether it's little old ladies living there or what, but you could just tell that they had a love, uh, a love affair with their gardens, with beautiful ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Course we have two little kids that are two and three years old." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, they help you." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So that has put a crimp in my every activity other than diapers and laundry, I'll tell you." }, { "spea...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh dear. Oh but that's nice, you know, I mean the peach tree is, is a start and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Tha-, yeah, that's really lovely. I would love to have different fruit trees. It's, it's been wonderful to have the peaches. They're just delicious. And, we,...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Um, we've tried them, but again, it's just like the sun scorch." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We've tried them in kind of halfway in the shade and halfway in the s-, I mean it's just, you really, really" }, { "spe...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "have to be prepared to water constantly during the Summer. People that have been successful out here have done this drip irrigation --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- an...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and installed that, and um, that's really what makes the most sense, because you don't have to use so much water, and --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- it really does the job. But it's just amazing how hot and dr...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "And if you're not really committed to it, I mean, me, I'm, you know, I'm real committed to it for about a week, and then I forget about it for a week, and then I go, Oh, yeah, I need to do something, and by then it's burned up, you know." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I would a, assume, too, I mean, you've got three or four months you're talking about --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- of, of bad weather." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it just gets so hot so ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it just gets so hot so fast here. We don't have really a Spring or a Fall --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and it just, uh, immediately heats up. So, that's one thing I miss about living up north, as I rememb...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We always had gardens when I was, uh, living in Chicago. In fact, my mother once tore up our entire back yard," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "and redid it. I'll never forget. Got my stepfather to put in, uh, a waterfal...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, dear." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, but she used to love to do stuff like that." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sounds like it would have been pretty." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it really was. I enjoyed it there. But maybe when...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it really was. I enjoyed it there. But maybe when the boys get a little older, we'll do some more planting, because they like to see things grow. They've done a couple of little seed projects, and so I think it would be fun for them." }, { "speaker": "A", "text":...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, it sounds like you, you've got your hands full." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yes. They're both running around now." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And, you know, gardening isn't, isn't high on the list, but it's not off the list." }, { "s...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, well, it's very therapeutic, I think, really to get out there and dig in the dirt," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "you know. They certainly enjoy that part of it." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's ju...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's just trying to keep anything. I planted bulbs last, uh, Fall on the side guard, and when I went out there in the Spring and the first day they came out the little one went and pulled all the flowers off, and the flower petals were scattered all over the walk." }, { "s...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "At least he didn't eat them, I mean, I guess I could be thankful for that." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. Maybe next year they'll do better." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, really. If they survive this year. Oh, well, good luck to you." }, {...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Okay. Well, basically I am a mother of a three year old," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "so I kind of relate to trying to find a good day care because it's, uh, extremely hard thing to do to trust somebody else with you...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- all the rest of that. And, uh, I've been pretty selective, and what I'm finding is with, um, day cares that are like day care centers like, for instance, uh, Learning Tree or Kinder Care and all of that." }, { "speaker":...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh, like nap time or whatever time, uh, because of parents ' hours they are differ, and when I bring my daughter into such a system like that, uh, they only have one thing going on and that's nap time. Everybody is napping," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "on a cot. So, um, home day care has been an option. And I've looked into that. The only thing is you raise the question of if it's safe, uh, can you trust the people, you know." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "That's rig...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Um," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And you never know. I have, um, an ex-sister-in-law that," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "um, currently has a child abuse case on a home baby-sitter." }, { "speaker...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "um, currently has a child abuse case on a home baby-sitter." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure. Oh, sure. Sure. That's really scary. And," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "To the point that you kind of say to...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "To the point that you kind of say to yourself, especially home day care I mean, I think center day cares there's so many people coming in and out --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that you're better off if you're goi...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- home da-, home day care works well if it's an infant. If it's, if it's," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "The kids have," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Righ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "All right, do you want to start out?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, it'll be real easy for us," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "because we're both, my husband and I are vegetarians." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, are you really?" }, ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, are you really?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So, yeah. So that's the first thing we look for," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "is if we can eat there or not." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Are y...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "is if we can eat there or not." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Are you strict vegetarians?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We're not vegan vegetarians. We do, we're ovolacto. We do eat, uh, eggs and, and milk products." }, { "speaker": "A", "text"...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I used to be a complete vegan vegetarian," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "where I didn't eat any animal products at all." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-h...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "where I didn't eat any animal products at all." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "But, um, it was, it's really difficult in the area if you don't have, you know, the products that you can get. And if you go out to dinner, ...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "There's very few places that you, I'll bet that you could, uh," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. I think maybe if you were somewhere like California, where they have a lot more vegetarian restaurants --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { ...
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and stuff. But here, basically, you go to an Italian restaurant or you go to a Mexican restaurant," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "you know, where you can get foods that, you know, where you have a little bit more va...
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- the corn meal, you know," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "or something." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And you -- -- wouldn't have the meat products in that...