Seasons Change: The Bittersweet Transition from Summer to School

The transition from summer to fall brings with it a wave of nostalgia, especially for those of us who remember the distinct rituals that marked the back-to-school season of decades past. In the latest episode of Dysfunction Junkies podcast, hosts Chrisy and Kerry take listeners on a journey through their memories of this bittersweet seasonal shift, revealing both universal experiences and uniquely personal moments that defined their school years.

Chapters

• 0:07 Welcome to Dysfunction Junkies
• 3:23 Back-to-School Shopping Memories
• 8:17 School Uniforms and Fashion Struggles
• 13:32 High School Cafeteria Days
• 19:45 The Canfield Fair and Labor Day
• 21:35 The Iconic Jerry Lewis Telethon
• 25:18 Summer's End: Band Nights and Fireflies
• 31:29 Junkies Care Initiative Announcement

Transcript

DJ Nick: 0:07

Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. Now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry.

Kerry: 0:20

Hello Junkies, I'm Kerry

Chrisy: 0:22

and I'm Chrissy.

Kerry: 0:23

Oh, I can't believe it's the end of summer already. It always comes around. I know it took us forever to get here, though. We had cold weather and torrential rain until June and then June. I don't know where did June go? July was nice. It was warm, I liked it.

Kerry: 0:42

Yeah, and now here we are at the end of August, Yep, Back to school, Back to school. I don't really get to experience this much right now because you know my grandchildren live far away and they're still in. You know first grade Right, Not in school yet. You know Gracie's still not in school yet. This is real life for you.

Chrisy: 1:01

Yeah, and well, kids are older, but back to school. They still got to do the shopping for the supplies, for the clothes. Yeah, but I tell you not like when we had our back to school the fact that you go out the schools, publish lists of what you need. We pretty much got what we wanted. Yeah, we kind of knew what we were expected to have for the most part, but did you?

Kerry: 1:29

have this Because, you know, I went to a Catholic school, you went to a Catholic grade school, so, but we were two different schools, so I don't know if it was something that all the schools did or if it was unique to ours, but I remember before school started, like maybe two weeks before school started, like maybe two weeks before school started we would go to the school and we would go into, like whatever, their auditorium or whatever, and they basically had all the school supplies there and you went around the room okay, you have to pick your school crate. You know that you had like that crayon box, that cardboard box that was your pencil box, and you would get, okay, you need one eraser and you need a red pen or a pencil or whatever. And you would go around and then you, you were buying them, but it was all right there, so you didn't have to go to well, hills, we didn't have walmart's, then we had hills or whatever.

Chrisy: 2:19

But it's like, yeah, you know.

Kerry: 2:21

so it was all right there and you just went around and you picked there.

Chrisy: 2:25

I feel like this was something maybe, but it wasn't like before school, but maybe at some point they did have something like this. But yeah, I don't really remember getting that opportunity prior to school starting.

Kerry: 2:39

I just basically kind of remember doing the Hills thing or the Kmart thing or and this would have been the same time that you would have gotten like, because we had uniforms. So I think that was the day you picked up the uniforms. So, like your uniforms, your parents probably ordered a month ahead, but you went that day to pick up your jumper or your skirt or whatever. And then, you know you, you had to provide your own blouse or whatever, but you picked that up, so it was like all the same day. And then that's where you got your teacher list of oh, here's the teacher you're going to have and this is the classroom you're going to be in, and then the parents would take you to that classroom and you would meet the teacher that you know. Of course, we we had basically one teacher. You were in that one classroom all day, right with one teacher. Maybe you switched another person, but yeah, that's that was my room that was my remember.

Kerry: 3:28

And then when you went to the department store or whatever, you were getting your clothes, other clothes like your shoes or your blouses, maybe. Maybe you got a trapper keeper, yeah, which pick up extra paper or something. But wasn't a lot of school supplies shopping in my younger years that you did that at the school?

Chrisy: 3:50

going to junior high or high school. You know more serious stuff, I guess notebooks and things of that nature. Uniforms, because I did both. Yeah, I like uniforms. Oh, I love a uniform. And you know I had the opportunity for three years to. I went to public school and you had to pick your clothes.

Chrisy: 4:21

And it's just horrible in my opinion and plus, the time period in general for fashion was horrible. We're talking 85, 86, and the end of the role, no, the beginning of 87, I guess, and acid wash. Not that that was still a thing when we were in high school, but I had a uniform so I didn't have to worry about it as much. Yeah, just those stretchy pants.

Kerry: 4:46

They were just not flattering on anybody With the stirrup strap.

Chrisy: 4:51

Well, no, actually before the stirrup because that would have been more when we were in high school. I don't really remember them in junior high, but they were just like stretchy pants and just like not flattering and it's just like not flattering and as a teenage girl early teenage girl, when you're 13 or 14, you kind of already feel you know, unless you're lucky enough to be a stick which I wasn't. The pants I don't care how really thin or whatever you were, they just made you feel even more dumpier.

DJ Nick: 5:21

I'm sorry.

Chrisy: 5:21

They're like dumpy pants. You know what am I wearing these for? Yeah, Almost. I guess like they would be thought of as pajama pants, but they were not. Yeah, Nobody wore pajama Jogging pants, kind of like. It's so funny. I had such a problem with my daughter Specifically. It seemed like it was more of a thing for her and maybe they still do this, but I have a real problem with they would have pajama day at school and my daughter.

Kerry: 5:46

I don't think we ever had that at our school. No.

Chrisy: 5:49

And I never understood why this was something you felt you should have your students do. Yeah, how does that prepare them for the real world? Well, it's terrible, because I think it has. If you've been out in public, obviously it's prepared somebody because they're making choices of wearing this stuff out while shopping, which I'm sorry, I'm just.

DJ Nick: 6:12

I don't agree with it. I don't. I think.

Chrisy: 6:15

No, no, no. You're not if you're not wearing it on the job, if you have a job. I think the last person who I know wore pajamas to his job all the time was Hugh Hefner, and that's fine. Hey, who's going to argue with that?

DJ Nick: 6:32

I'm not offended by Hugh when he was wearing his pajamas.

Chrisy: 6:35

That's what he did, I mean, the guy probably spent more on his pajamas than I ever spend on any piece of clothing. Silk and lovely, and he had an image and that's fine. But no, I didn't agree with that at all. So back to school. Shopping was always fun.

Kerry: 6:50

Yeah, it was fun for us because, you know, not having a lot of money, the back to school shopping was the one time we would get to buy a couple outfits. You know. Granted, those outfits was for pretty much the year. That had to last us through Easter, you know, until maybe we got a couple more for the summer. But yeah, so that was kind of fun. But yeah, just, I remember this thing. I never really thought about it until we started talking about, but I also remember in our school that there was, they had a, it was like a little staples store in there, you know, and you could go buy construction paper and you can buy so at your grade school?

Kerry: 7:25

yeah, at our grade school it was like this little closet room and there was one lady that she sat in there and if you needed a pencil or if you need an eraser, if you needed a two-pocket folder, there was this very little room. I mean it was like the size of a little closet.

Chrisy: 7:40

But yeah, I remember that at our school well, I didn't have that at my grade school, but we had that at high school in the cafeteria.

Kerry: 7:47

We had that, but they sold also like T-shirts and sweatshirts, yeah it was like stuff, but they had pencils. Did they really?

Chrisy: 7:55

Yeah, they had like little things like that, I think you could get, or maybe a full. I feel like maybe it was a high school with the emblem on it folder. It was called something cottage. Was it the Irish?

Kerry: 8:06

cottage, irish cottage. You're right, and it was in our cafeteria. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chrisy: 8:10

And I tell you one thing about our high school. What's that? Our cafeteria was very, very big. It was big, it was a really good sized cafeteria. It was Because when I was at public school, they had like six different lunches because the cafeteria was small. Yeah, we only had two. Yeah, we did. Yep, you were either in. What was it? A or c? What happened to b? I don't know. I don't remember them ever saying you're in lunch b.

Kerry: 8:33

It was either you're in lunch a or lunch c. You're right, that is true, because I think the lunch was less time than a full class, because they you either had an 11 30 or a 12 30 or something. There was something about that.

Chrisy: 8:46

Well, I think they had to prepare for the next group to come in to clean up the tables, and then yeah so you had to go and hover about in the lobby. Remember, everybody went to the lobby yeah, you're right and sort of milled about until we were allowed to be released into our next class. So yeah, because we would eat, yeah, and then we would go to the lobby. We were never, we didn't go outside.

Kerry: 9:09

Hardly ever.

Chrisy: 9:10

I don't remember ever going outside for lunch.

Kerry: 9:12

No, you could go outside, but I think just because the weather was so crappy, really, I know.

Chrisy: 9:17

Geez, I was like I ain't going outside.

Kerry: 9:19

Yeah, I'll just stay right here.

Chrisy: 9:20

No, I remember we had lunch together the one year, yes, and we would sit together, of course, and my lunch always had the same exact thing they used to make those no-bake peanut butter with the chocolate on top squares. Oh those were good, they were really good. I've never been able to find anything that tasted like that.

Kerry: 9:44

I wonder if they still serve it. I don't know if they do, let's go down there in September and see what they got going on.

Chrisy: 9:50

We'll go get in the cafeteria line. Well, you remember, because we were very lucky, we had a caterer that managed the kitchen at Ursuline. How do you know this stuff? Well, because it was food first of all. You know, I'm on board with that.

Kerry: 10:05

We had a caterer.

Chrisy: 10:07

They didn't have a cafeteria cook that cooked the food. Well, he oversaw the cafeteria food, though. We were really very lucky. I don't know where Mr Fusillo is anymore.

Kerry: 10:17

Oh, that was the person you oversaw.

Chrisy: 10:18

Yeah, and he was a caterer also, so I tell you they didn't. And Thursdays, I think, was pasta day and everybody was running for that cafeteria because you needed to get in line. It was good.

Kerry: 10:41

It was good I was given a roll of quarters for two weeks. A roll of quarters was my lunch money that I had to make for two weeks. So whatever, if I wanted that had to last me.

Chrisy: 10:47

No wonder we were eating this the squares, and I think I remember we had an orange drink. But thursdays I remember participating in lunch.

Kerry: 10:55

I didn't always eat the full thing. It was usually just something small because I had to make that last, but I forget what it was. There was something that I always would get because I really liked it.

Chrisy: 11:05

I don't know I think they used to do taco type oh, that might have been it, yeah but thursdays. But if I got the full meal.

Kerry: 11:12

That usually meant three days out of the 10 that I didn't have a lunch. I had to bring something, or I just didn't eat.

Chrisy: 11:18

Again, Carrie's bringing up something where I just have no concept of this. It makes me feel so bad. So wow, yeah.

Kerry: 11:28

I can't believe you don't remember me with my little roll of quarters. You know this roll of quarters.

Chrisy: 11:32

Like it wasn't even a bill. It was like a roll of quarters. It was roll of quarters, like it wasn't even a bill. It was like a roll of quarters. I wasn't concerned, I was eating. I probably sat down with my whole meal and you were eating the flipping chocolate square. I was probably done eating because I was like what's the matter, carrie, aren't you eating? Look at this, you want some Yum, yum.

Kerry: 11:54

So yes, Around here because you know well well, we have the camfield fair in our area, gosh I forgot about that yeah, so back to school always meant the camfield fair.

Kerry: 12:05

So camfield fair is like the largest county fair, not only in the state of ohio but I think it was like one of the largest ones east of the mississippi. Now it's gotten mean, obviously the property size is the same but there's not as much there as there used to be. But that was kind of interesting because we always started school the week of the fair, so Labor Day. The Canfield Fair is always on the Labor Day weekend, so it was always like the week before or two weeks before or whatever. But I always missed it because I would be showing at the fair. So it was always a struggle of like school starting and missing a day, the most missing those first few days of school because I'd be at the fair. Now I know that some of the schools would purposely wait to start until after the fair because all the kids were in 4-h or whatever. So at urslan, because we were, it was a city school. That was always a hard thing because we would start during the fair, so I would often miss those first few days of school?

Chrisy: 13:02

I seem to, because I did both public and private school. The Catholic school seemed to always start before Labor Day.

Kerry: 13:09

Oh, yes, because they got to get the football season.

Chrisy: 13:11

So it was usually that week before Right, and when I was in the public school system you went the Tuesday after Labor Day. That was your first day. Yes so that's sort of like where I noticed the difference with that. Yeah, you know what. Just to tell you about where I live now here in Worcester and their fair, which Nick remind me that's the largest agricultural fair in the state.

DJ Nick: 13:38

Yeah, it has some distinction. Obviously it's not as big as the Canfield Fair, but something about the agricultural aspect.

Kerry: 13:44

Right, because Wayne County has a lot of agriculture, Right right. Yeah, so the Canfield Fair had agriculture, but they also had vendors, and you know the property size. I mean it's just rows and rows of food.

Chrisy: 13:58

Yeah, no, I think that with the Wayne County Fair here, I can see that a lot of people do come here and appreciate it for that aspect, and the thing that they do here for their children who are involved in 4-H is they. I think that even they go back pretty early for school here.

Kerry: 14:18

But I take a break for that.

Chrisy: 14:19

They have like two days off, yeah, so those children can participate in their 4-H. That's awesome. So Gotta support that.

Kerry: 14:27

So any other Labor Day weekend specialties? You guys got something special on Labor Day weekend. Well, we got married, yeah.

Chrisy: 14:36

And then it's a good time to get married. I don't know that it's a real popular time because a lot of people look for spring or fall weddings and that's sort of the end of summer.

Kerry: 14:45

But did you do that for the convenience of if people were coming, they would be able to get time off because it was a holiday weekend?

Chrisy: 14:51

No, we ended up moving it a few times because, well, we were both still in college, because, we got married we were both still 21. And you know my dad, if you listen to our Valentine's episode, wanted to make sure Nick finished college.

Kerry: 15:06

Hey, that Valentine's episode is the number one episode for us and I love it. It's great. I am so glad people are enjoying it.

Chrisy: 15:13

So we basically decided originally I think our wedding was going to be like. At one point it was going to be like at the end of April. Then we moved it up to the year before, in October, because we wanted to have the fall aspect to it. But then, because of the university we went to in Youngstown, they were still on quarters, yeah, and quarters generally started the end of September and we didn't want to have to miss a whole quarter. So we felt we could get married in early September, have a chance to go away on a honeymoon and be back in time to start that quarter, which we did.

Kerry: 15:54

So, yeah, we did so. Yeah, we did that.

Chrisy: 15:56

I feel like it was like always september 20th or september 21st, like around there, that the ysu would start absolutely absolutely so and I think the other thing we might want to touch on that probably a lot of people don't have any concept of but it defined our labor day.

Kerry: 16:10

it did the jerry lewis Find our Labor Day? It did.

Chrisy: 16:14

The Jerry Lewis Telethon.

Kerry: 16:16

Yes and boy I tell you that was amazing.

Chrisy: 16:20

It was like between the fair that you mentioned, canfield Fair, and they had a tent. They did have a tent there.

Kerry: 16:28

For that yeah.

Chrisy: 16:29

And you would want to go out there and if you made a donation or they'd have like local TV personalities manning the tent, you wanted to try and get on TV. Yep, and the other place to go if you wanted to get noticed for the Jerry Lewis telethon was the mall. Oh yeah, you're right.

Kerry: 16:49

They had a thing at the mall.

Chrisy: 16:50

Yes, yes, yes so you ran out to the mall or you ran out to yes, yes, it shows.

Kerry: 16:56

So you ran out to the mall, or you ran out to, so we might want to actually explain what the telethon was, because there might be listeners who have no idea what this is about.

Chrisy: 17:04

Well, I tell you it's funny because it was such a big deal and it was every year and I don't know how long that telethon ran, but it's probably been gone for 30 years. I don't even know how long it's been gone.

Kerry: 17:14

Maybe not that long you don't think they still do it. I'm going to Google that?

Chrisy: 17:17

No, I don't. I don't think so. Not that they don't still raise money.

Kerry: 17:21

It was basically telemarketing in the very early ages Kind of, or like online. What do you QVC?

Chrisy: 17:36

Kind of like call-in shopping, but you're making a donation, but it was also yeah.

DJ Nick: 17:38

Yeah, I mean, they provided entertainment. I guess, by definition, what a telethon is? It started in 1966 oh, you found it okay. And actually it ended in 2014. That was the last jerry lewis oh 66 to 14 now they may do other ones, but the one that was specific to jerry lewis, you know, for muscular dystrophy, it ran from 1966 to 2014.

Chrisy: 17:56

Wow, and it had a specific formula yes it went for 24 hours straight. And remember we're talking about when television carrie brought this up to remind me, because at that time tv did stop. Yep, after midnight there was no more programming. You had your national anthem and then, and then you usually had a little blonde girl sitting in front of the tv that said they're here. Oh no wait, I'm sorry wrong, wrong.

Kerry: 18:28

No, it was the gray white noise static yeah, which freaks me out.

Chrisy: 18:33

Even that sound, you're not. Even just the fact that you're making the sound is freaking me out. I was causing you to get tremors.

Chrisy: 18:39

I just hear the sound, I think, of the image, but yeah, so Jerry was on. Generally Jerry was like taking his break, though I don't know how often he came out in the middle of the night. You generally didn't get your. I hate to be insulting, but I mean your top notch entertainers weren't going to get the three o'clock in the morning slot. No, they were going to get good billing time Right. They were going to be on at prime viewing times and you had, you know, the whole Rat Pack thing you know, and one of the big things which, even though I don't really I'm not a big Jerry Lewis fan, I love Jerry.

Chrisy: 19:19

Lewis. Do I think he was funny? Yes, did I appreciate some of his movies? Sure, but the fact is, I'm sure all the stuff that's come out about him and his personality and the way he treated other people, especially women, I think that was probably true. So in that sense, personally I just don't appreciate him. But I do appreciate the man's craft. I know he was responsible for developing a specific type of camera. Oh really, yes, he was in filmmaking. I mean, the guy was definitely important and talented.

Chrisy: 19:50

But what I was getting at was there was one time because and again, I'm dating myself and people are like who are these people you're talking about? Back in the day, before even us, there was Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. They were a comedy team Yep, and I guess they were a really big deal. By the time we had come on the scene they had already been broken up for quite a while.

Kerry: 20:14

I love watching those old movies with them too.

Chrisy: 20:17

Well, they just were. You know, Jerry was the cut up and Dean played the straight man. I think Dean eventually got sick of being the straight guy, but I'm sure there were other reasons Dean was more associated with what they called the rat pack. Don't get that confused with the brat pack. Not them. Not molly ringwald it was. It was the rat pack. So it was dean martin, frank sinatra, sammy davis, jr, joey bishop and peter lawford how about that?

Chrisy: 20:46

that's pretty impressive, christy and peter lawford was married to a Kennedy, by the way, want to let that be out there, go ahead.

DJ Nick: 20:55

What were you going to say? Nick scoot in, so I found your. He did. He was a pioneer in using video assist technology in filmmaking, which basically means it's you would be, you would as you were filming. You were also recording scenes using both film and video cameras. And what it did is it enabled immediate feedback on captured footage.

Chrisy: 21:13

That's cool.

DJ Nick: 21:14

So that was Jerry Lewis's contribution.

Chrisy: 21:16

One of them.

DJ Nick: 21:17

I don't know that he invented, invented, but he was one of the first, or pioneer, one of the early adopters of it.

Chrisy: 21:24

So, yes, so very important in pop culture, very important in motion pictures and comedy, and what he did for muscular dystrophy, you cannot deny him any of that.

Kerry: 21:38

But that definitely marked Labor Day weekend.

Chrisy: 21:41

The Jerry Lewis telethon yes it was everything, so yeah, and yeah, I mean, oh my, my gosh, if I even try to pull up something from that it would take me so back to my childhood oh 100 and just you know and I think you would call in donation yeah even if it was a little bit, just because you wanted somebody to say your name you wanted to hear it on tv, remember, ed mcmahon you, then you would sit there and you'd wait for them to tell you how much they've raised.

Chrisy: 22:08

Yeah, ed mcm McMahon. Yeah, what was this? Didn't they have a saying that when they told them to show the money, there was a saying they used to say to Ed, you know. Yeah, I don't know, I don't remember what the saying was oh crap Just a total.

Kerry: 22:21

Oh yeah, but to try to do you wanted so bad. So you know what? I don't remember, because you know, really, credit cards and that kind of stuff, like was I mean, how did they do that then? Were you just calling in a pledge and you were sending in a check? Yeah, I think you pledged. You pledged it and you sent a check. It's not like they were taking I mean, in later years I'm sure they were taking credit cards- and stuff.

Chrisy: 22:42

But in the beginning that no. And I think that they did have a lot of people that reneged who would just do it to hear their name and didn't get the money. No, Come on, that's kind of lousy everybody. I mean they were willing to take whatever to help that cause out Right. But I know that that was definitely a thing that was done.

Kerry: 23:01

I wonder how many checks bounced.

Chrisy: 23:04

Well, I don't know that they bounce, they probably just never mailed them out.

Kerry: 23:08

Oh, I'm sure they had some bouncers too. Yeah, I'm going to send you $1 million.

Chrisy: 23:14

Well, that's real extreme. So yeah, I'm trying to think.

Kerry: 23:19

Was there anything else that we did before back to school? Well, you know, it was always. For me it was always band nights. Oh, that was a big thing for back to school, because you know your, your band, that you know your school band, your high school band. You would, you know, spend a month of your summer learning your routine, and then all the bands would get together. You would just have a band night, and it was just a night where it was all the different schools you know, have 10 different schools and they would just do their halftime performance, and so it gave you a chance to it, gave the kids a chance to practice it before the football game started or whatever.

Kerry: 23:51

So, right, that was always something that we that. It was a big marker, whether I was performing in the bands or before I was old enough to be in, and my mom would always like to go that so we would go to band nights. So, yeah, so I will have to say there is a little part of me that you know it's about now that we're starting to hear the schools, their bands are having band camp and are practicing, and so sometimes even at lunch at work, because where I work, the high school is just a block down the road. You know, if I go outside at lunchtime I might hear the drummers or you might hear you know, and so it always kind of is a little exciting, like oh, they're practicing, and to hear that, that that was kind of a big thing for us.

Chrisy: 24:30

Well, the one thing I do remember, which brought sadness, because it was the end of summer, the end of your freedom no school and all the summer fun you were having with swimming, like for us or whatever was there was that weird silence that started to come over the neighborhood Because I think kids were going and getting started with their school extracurricular activities like band or sports.

Chrisy: 25:01

So they weren't really running around the neighborhood as much. And the other thing I remember about just that weird quiet that started to happen in August and into early September was you heard the crickets?

DJ Nick: 25:11

get louder in the evening.

Chrisy: 25:13

And that meant you know cold weather was coming and summer was going to end.

Kerry: 25:18

Yeah, because you do. That was always something about. August is the. You'd still have your hot days, but cool nights. And so we're already starting, you know, doing that. Where we have the, you know, the air conditioners on during the day, but at night time we can sleep with the windows open. So, yeah, there's. That is that now. Are they? Are you thinking that they were crickets? Are they tree frogs or are they technical?

Chrisy: 25:41

I got busted. I always thought they were crickets. They weren't barn swallows, were they? No, no, those were birds. What was making that noise, carrie? I thought it was crickets. What the hell was the noise?

Kerry: 25:53

You know, and I just had a mental block too, because there's, but it's the tree frogs are one of them that you're hearing, and then the other one, gosh, I can't believe I can't remember.

Chrisy: 26:02

Where do these tree frogs come from? How do they get in the tree? What are you telling me?

Kerry: 26:06

The tree. It's a frog and it lives in the tree. How does it?

Chrisy: 26:10

get up a tree With its little sticky feet, and then it can just like land at you.

Kerry: 26:15

Yeah, they don't usually jump on you, but they live in the tree. They live in the tree. Yes, how is it? Is it crook, crookets?

Chrisy: 26:24

What is it? Well, I tell you, you say tree frogs. And recently I had an experience where this came up. We were just socializing and somebody had a very nice swimming pool built-in swimming pool.

Chrisy: 26:36

And we were just sort of hanging around the pool and they were commenting. It was at night and they were commenting on some stuff that was falling into the pool and they mentioned this tree frog thing, which I became horrified by, and they were just sort of picking these things up and tossing them out of the pool and I was like, is that something that falls off of a tree? But you call it that because it resembles a frog, but it's really a leaf or no, it's a frog, it's a frog.

Kerry: 27:05

There's also cicadas. That's probably what you're talking about, the cicadas but I thought there's only cicadas. That's probably what you're talking about the cicadas, but I thought there's only came every seven years or something well, there's different species, and some species are seven years and something there's pretty much always, but the cicadas are also something that you really will start hearing too.

Chrisy: 27:20

That was the word I was thinking crookets those are really creepy I know people get excited about that and, okay, they're very large bugs and I am freaked out yeah, so, but the tree frog thing is like something. No but, swear. I never heard yeah, until recently. It is.

Kerry: 27:39

Uh, I'm just looking at these trying to find the other bug identifier. Yeah, the tree frogs, they make a lot and actually when we go the caribbean they have them a lot and it it's the weirdest sound because it sounds like this high pitch buzzing or whatever and it almost sounds like it's not real, like it's a microphone left on, like it's buzzing noise but, it's these little tree frogs and they live in the plants and the trees and stuff and well, now that you bring this up and you explain it to me.

Chrisy: 28:05

I was. I was told my husband. He says wow, having a built-in pool is really complicated because these little frogs just want to jump in your pool. But now that you're telling me and the person even said it was a tree frog, and I didn't put it together that they're falling in there, probably from the tree. I just equated it as something that just decided to jump in your pool.

Chrisy: 28:26

No, and I was like geez, I'm kind of glad I never had a built-in pool, because I thought it was just too easy for them to get into. But we never had trees. You didn't have trees over your right, so it wouldn't matter if it was above or in ground.

Kerry: 28:39

But I don't think it's so much the tree frogs that are falling in the pool, as it is cicadas falling in the pool.

Chrisy: 28:44

I think it's more the cicadas that fall like I know that if I saw that that's gonna be like a person splashing down in the water A small bomb landed next to you.

Kerry: 28:57

You know, the one part of summer that I always love is the fireflies. I just actually did 5k and it was at night and it was really neat because it was just at that time of night where the fireflies start coming out.

DJ Nick: 29:10

So as you're running.

Kerry: 29:10

there's all these little fireflies popping up and stuff, but now that it's getting colder at night they're starting to go away that means summer's ending.

Chrisy: 29:18

Yeah, july seemed to be the height for that you know, what's sad is there, you don't see as many as we used to yeah they're saying that probably in our lifetime they'll be gone they'll be gone.

Kerry: 29:29

It's all the insecticides and stuff. We have a lot of them at the farm, but we also are very organic at the farm.

Chrisy: 29:34

Right.

Kerry: 29:34

So we do have a lot, but yeah, you're right, you don't see them like you used to.

Chrisy: 29:38

No, when we lived back in the Youngstown area we had a ravine behind us and it was dark and we would go stand or sit out on our deck at night. Stand or sit out on our deck at night, yeah it was such an amazing sight it was like christmas trees they would just go off and it was quite yeah lovely to sort of watch.

Kerry: 29:58

That is how it is at our at our house at night in in the in the summer we see some here in our backyard, but not that oh yeah, there'll be like hundreds of them, and it's so neat because it's almost like a light switch. It's just like boom, they're there, there, and you don't see them. And then boom, you see them.

Chrisy: 30:13

Yeah, it's like a bunch of twinkle lights, it is.

Kerry: 30:15

It's really cool. And what's funny is, you know, I got these little Papillon dogs and they were from a breeder in California, arizona, and so this is like a whole new world for them to have this yard, this big yard and grass and stuff, and when the fireflies first started coming out, you know they had never seen that, and so they'll be. They'll be running and they'll see it flash and they'll run to it and then it stops flashing and they're like looking around like where'd it go? And then it flashes another one behind them, it's, it's. I think it's hysterical to watch. Well, because, yeah, they're trying to figure this.

Chrisy: 30:47

They can't figure it out. You know, Summer always winds down and we have to think about going back to school for our kids and the summer in general ending. People are closing up pools, people are closing up campers all that good stuff.

Kerry: 31:05

But we have something really to look forward to in September. So, as we introduced in August, we have our Junkies Care Initiative, which is our community outreach to community awareness, recognition and engagement. And Canine Companions is the organization that we are partnering with through a sponsorship to bring awareness to this wonderful organization that provides service dogs to people with disability, and we are going to be at their dog fest event in September. It's going to be September 21, in New Albany, ohio, which is outside of Columbus area. So if you happen to live around the area that day and you want to have something fun to do in the afternoon between one and four, come find us so we're going to have a booth there. It's a great day to learn about Canine Companions. You can bring your kids, bring your pet dog on a leash to learn about the organization. We'll be there raising funds for them. So that I will have to say, as much as I am sad to see summer ending, I'm very happy that September is coming for this event.

DJ Nick: 32:03

Yes, Very exciting.

Kerry: 32:05

All right, everybody, we'll have a safe Labor Day weekend. If you happen to be around fireworks, please be safe, duck and cover and enjoy your holiday weekend. Bye everybody, bye-bye.