1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: Podcast Playground. Welcome to taking a walk, an excursion to converse, 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: connect and catch up at a cool location with some 3 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: of the most interesting people you can find. Here's buzz night. Well, 4 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: here we are taking a walk. This is a different walk. 5 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: So it's solo as far as me, but not solo 6 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: because I got two furry creatures here. I got Elmer, 7 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: who is all hound, all nose and needs to investigate 8 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: everything here that's possible. Every smell from the night before 9 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: needs to be investigated. And then so he's like he's 10 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: a detective, but he moves so slow because he's gotta 11 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:16,919 Speaker 1: be like the somalier of smell. And then there's crazy Sadie, 12 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: who is also really attracted to every smell, but she 13 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: will move along quicker, she will not lag behind as much. 14 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: She will take the hint, and generally the hint is 15 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: a little nudge on the on the leash, and then 16 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: she frantically ends up scurrying after that nudge. Elmer, by 17 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: the way, when you give Elmer the the nudge, he 18 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: is like a bag of cement. That's the way. He's 19 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: built a brickshit house literally, and he's stubborn too. He's 20 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: stubborn like a mule. He's a good boy, but he's 21 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: stubborn like a mule. So this is a great spot 22 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: here here he's being stubborn. Now, come on, boy, come on. 23 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: I got a little drizzle coming down, so I know 24 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: you guys hate the drizzle. I'm not the biggest fan 25 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: of the drizzle either. But we're at the Elliot Preserve, 26 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: which is right around the corner from where the one 27 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: and only legendary Rachel Paige Elliot lived, who was a 28 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: dear friend of ours, big farm, and this was part 29 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: of her special land, special territory. I would imagine she 30 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:10,239 Speaker 1: ended up donating it part of her estate. So it 31 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: sort of winds down the back here of the Concord River. 32 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: It's the Saidbury Valley Trustees Reservation is what it's officially called. 33 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: And usually nobody's here. Occasionally you run into one person, 34 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: maybe walking a dog something like that, but it's a 35 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: very very quiet spot, small spot, and I'm quite sure 36 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: there's been multiple animal activity throughout the night. The dogs 37 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: tend to do this super crazy thing where they're literally 38 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: frantic for every available smell. I would imagine here the 39 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: range of things that we could see if we were 40 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: here in the night would go from deer to coyote. 41 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: It's funny. When I said deer, Sadie was looking. I 42 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: think she knows that that word. So it's probably deer, coyote, 43 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: fisher cat, skunks, raccoons, probably even at certain times of 44 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: the season because of the conquered river. I would tend 45 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: to bet there's actually some turtles, cause I have seen 46 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: dead turtles here or decaying turtle shells. See what did 47 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: I leave out? I know because I've seen him here 48 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: left out wild turkeys as well. So this is a 49 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: real active spot. It's a gorgeous spot too, and super 50 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: close and it's one of many places that I like 51 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: taking a walk, and specifically taking a walk with the pooches. 52 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: But I think taking a walk with the pooches is 53 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: a different vibe. You see, there's sort of wild activity. 54 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: It's a little harder with two, but I figured it out. 55 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: Often do this walk with Joan, but she is passing 56 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: this morning, so using it is my opportunity to give 57 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: you a little narrative. Here try to paint the picture, 58 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: and here's Elmer doing this thing. He's very very discreet. 59 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: If we had the video rolling, which we don't you 60 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:15,119 Speaker 1: would see how he's able to go off quietly into 61 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: the corner. UH. So he's very respectful that way. Sadie 62 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: will take her dumb pretty much anywhere along the path 63 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: if she really has to. She's getting better with her manners, 64 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: but it ain't easy. You work with what you got, right, 65 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: and that's what we got. But she is learning and 66 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: they seem to get along. So as we're taking a 67 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: walk here at the uh the Elliott Preserve, UH, one 68 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: of the cool aspects here is UH is just the colors, 69 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: the leaves turning. It's a bit of a grade day, 70 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: you know, as I said earlier, as far as the rain, 71 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: but the colors still come through. And what I like 72 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: about this place is just the quiet, because I don't 73 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: think I think it's possible nobody has walked here on 74 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: the human side this morning, and that the most recent 75 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: form of activity that was going on occurred in the 76 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: night and was all animal. I remember going out, well, 77 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: it was actually the morning that we picked up Sadie 78 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: when we first got her from her adoption place in 79 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: Arkansas and Arkansas and Tennessee where we went up to Connecticut. 80 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: We left the house about three in the morning and 81 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: the wild activity of animals, screwing in the night. We 82 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: saw you know, manifest itself, so I know this is 83 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: one of those places. That's why the animals really really 84 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: dig it here. So hot diggity dog gets your smells 85 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: in Boys and Girls. So the quiet is part of 86 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: where Taken a Walk goes because obviously so much of 87 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: the series has to do with taking a walk at 88 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: a cool location with an interesting friend, author, musician, different 89 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: forms of people. So this is this is more of 90 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: the solitary the solitary walk, enjoying it, laughing at the 91 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: dogs once in a while, becoming aggravated at the dogs 92 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: once in a while as well, when they just seem 93 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: to have a mind of their own and a nose 94 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: of their own as well. But we love the furry creatures, 95 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: so we would be wrong if we didn't take a 96 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: walk with the dogs as part of our series. See here, 97 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: you hear a little plane activity going on, which is 98 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: so unusual because we live so far out in the country. 99 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: But that's a handsom Air Force base which is nearby, 100 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: not too far. It's a few miles away, which has 101 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: private air but also obviously air force and cargo, so 102 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: not unusual. To hear air traffic over some of these 103 00:09:54,120 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: beautiful places. I think actually in one or two of 104 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: the segments that we did UH for Weldon Pond, I 105 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: think you heard air traffic over over there. But one 106 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: of the other aspects of UH enjoying taking a walk 107 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: is just the sounds, not the air traffic sounds, sounds 108 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: of the the birds chirping, uh, just the quiet sound 109 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: that you just sort of take in. I don't think 110 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: that's really possible. Quiet sound that is really dumb. Just 111 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: the quietness of the outdoor. That's really what I was 112 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: trying to say. Didn't say it very well, but but 113 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: part of the you know, the cool aspect is listening 114 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: to the sound of the rustling uh leaves and just 115 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: really just just enjoying that. Sometimes it's just nice just 116 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: to stop hear that. And sometimes you have no choice 117 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: about stopping because the dogs right now, particularly Elmer, are 118 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: hot on the trails of something and distracted. Elmer's nose 119 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: is going ups, going up, like an infield fly. So 120 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: they enjoyed here, and they are so impatient. Before this walk, 121 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: my father used to do something when he was anxious 122 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: to go, you know, wherever we were going over to 123 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 1: our relatives or just out for Aeron's. If he was 124 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: waiting for my mother, he would do this thing, which 125 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: was the jingling of the keys, which meant he was anxious. 126 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: So I think it's really funny when the dogs are 127 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: anxious for their walk as well. Uh, they do their 128 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: own version of the jingling of the keys. They just 129 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: stare at me, just like, aren't you ready? Aren't you 130 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: ready for the walk? Aren't you ready? So they do 131 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: not u rest easy until until the walk occurs. So 132 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 1: we've winded around, uh the river here, and now we're 133 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: going up the hill which has a nice view of 134 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: the river, beautiful trees. It's really interesting coming here at 135 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: certain points where you know, a s little storm comes 136 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: through and then suddenly come through here the next day 137 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:58,359 Speaker 1: and there's big trees down. So that is, uh sometimes 138 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: a a hinder rance. So as we're winding down here, 139 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: taking a walk comes in many forms, Like I've said, 140 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: it comes with friends, comes with other interesting, interesting folks, 141 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: which is a great part of the experience interesting places. 142 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: But I'd be remiss if I didn't in some form 143 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: document taking a walk with these poochas here Elmer and 144 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 1: Crazy Sadie as they are doing the first of two. 145 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: Might I add two walks that they take on a 146 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: regular basis, which is a great part about having dogs, 147 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: one of many great parts. So taking a walk at 148 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: the Elliott Preserve and Carlisle Masts use it is a 149 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: cool thing, and I thank you for joining me. Taking 150 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: a Walk with Buzznight is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, 151 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.