 So first I want to welcome everybody to my home. This is not something I usually do, but somehow this year it seemed like the good and appropriate thing to do. You will occasionally hear my solid world dog in the background. I am a lover of dogs and have dogs in Second Life and in RL. When I said I would do a presentation on urban gardening, urban farming, sustainable farming on a small scale, I didn't think about it being wintertime and then I thought, you know, this is absolutely perfect because winter is the time that we plan our gardens. So welcome to my home in the confederation of Democratic simulators, the CDS. And I have lived here in the Neufristat Valley for 14 years now. So I've had a while to get my garden established. And we have today here people from the Science Circle. We also have some of my friends and neighbors in the CDS around here. So if you have questions about this land, it is a residential community. We are self-governing. We elect our government officials. And we've been doing that even longer than I've been a resident. So of the people who are here, Rosie Gray, I know would be perfectly willing to answer questions. Laurie, Samara, Kiyoko would be glad to answer any questions that you would have about this whole area. So back to what I was saying about winter and the garden. Yeah, yeah. Yes. It is a free city, yes, with the Constitution, the whole area. This is the oldest of the regions. So I guess it is an appropriate place for me to be living all these years. And before we start on the garden that is right here in front of us, you'll notice that there is a poster on the side of the barn here. And the poster is of a keyhole garden. And that was one of my first gardens in the second life. It was on the cozy, excuse me, cozy shire, which is no longer in existence. And I started that one in 2006 before I came here, but still had it there in 2008. So if you click that poster, you will find a little bit, a note card with a little bit about keyhole gardens. And they're wonderful for people with small spaces, because they're circular and the compost and the, the, that feeds the garden is right there in the center of the garden. So it's a very compact little thing. I also put on that particular garden, a rain catcher because it was inspired by some of the keyhole gardens in the drier parts of Africa where they don't get a lot of rain. And so the rain catcher collects the, the moisture, very simple thing to make, but it connects, it collects the moisture out of the air and drips onto the, the garden so that the, the plants grow. So let's get back to here and why I wanted to do this in the first place. A couple of months ago, I did a presentation on systems thinking and critical thinking and the importance of systems thinking to sustainability for a regional UN conference. And I used the sustainable development goal number two, zero hunger as one of my examples. And it got me thinking that if we are to have zero hunger, there's a lot of work that we need to do not only from a community standpoint, from a national standpoint, from a world standpoint, but from an individual standpoint in understanding why this is so very important and what each of us can do so far as actions, but also so far as mindset and questioning the decisions that we make and the, the way we go about living our daily lives. So as I said, I've had the gardens here in Second Life vegetable gardens for 14 years, but much, much, much longer in our solid life. I have been working on community gardens wherever I have lived for 35 years. So that was starting in the downtown areas in Boston and every place else that I have lived and including where I am now in Western Massachusetts. And we are just about to start here on a pretty ambitious community garden, community farm on an unused land space close to where I live and engaging people who don't normally garden or who haven't garden. So a lot of things have gotten me interested in doing this as a farm project in, in RL and not the least of which is that I was one of the founders of the local farmers market here about eight years ago now. And I have a front yard vegetable garden because that's the south side of my RL property. And because I have a front yard garden, I have children walking by on the way to school and the children would see me working in the garden and they didn't know what I was doing. So in the summertime or in the late, late, early summer, late spring, when we began to get tomatoes, I would hand them a cherry tomato and their eyes would wide go wide like they had no idea that that is where food, their food came from, a garden. So I've, I've left every year some tomatoes where kids could pick them. And I have raspberry bushes that grow over the fence to the sidewalk and I make sure that I leave some of the, the good raspberries there so kids can walk along the sidewalk and pick those two. So if we are raising children in our developed world who don't know where food comes from, it seems to me we are kind of missing the boat if we are going to get to the sustainability goal of zero hunger. So moving back here for a minute, as I said in the beginning, that winter is really a very important part of the gardening cycle. And you'll notice the garden in front of me. So if people would really take a minute and look at it and look underneath and see what do you see there? What do you notice? What is it that you see first about the garden here? Because this very much reflects what my RL garden looks like at the moment. Yeah, it's straw. It's not hay. So the difference between hay and straw is that hay has the seeds in it. So there is hay in a troth inside the barn. If you click the barn door, you'll see some in there. These are pretty hardy sheep, but they do on occasion go into the barn if it is very, very chilly. Yeah, so there's straw and then the snow over top. But what else is there? Onions, yes. So you'll see here some root vegetables and some really cold weather vegetables that are still there. So for instance, if you look over in front of Scott, right where Scott's standing, and you'll see some kale and a little bit of spinach, and they're buried in the straw. Kale doesn't mind the cold weather. It's in a spot. I don't have a good, I have a better west facing sun than south facing sun. So the kale in the winter is in the corner there where it gets the best of both. Because if it freezes a little bit, so what? It may get even frozen and then unfreeze and be usable. Most of the kale is that hardy. A lot of the cabbage is some of the collards. The other thing here that is right in front of me that is very hardy is parsley. And so parsley actually, to me, tastes better after it freezes. After the weather goes below zero centigrade or 32 Fahrenheit, the parsley gets sweeter. The beets, the beet greens are not freeze hardy. But if it's all covered with the straw, so long as you don't get a hard freeze all the way down into the ground, you can still use the beets. So if you look hard, you'll find beets and carrots and potatoes, radishes, they're still in the ground. So kale will also come back. So if I leave it there, it'll be one of the very first to come back in the spring. The parsley is, you have parsley for two years and it will reseed itself. Kale will reseed itself also. The other unlikely plant that seems to reseed itself here in the northeast where I am, I'm in the Taconic Mountains in western Massachusetts, so it gets pretty cold here. But the cherry tomatoes seem to have gotten themselves to be freeze hardy as well. And cherry tomatoes keep coming back, reseeding and coming back every year. So that's one of the other things that I want to make sure to mention here. And that is to pay attention when we're growing food to pay attention to what is the nature-based way to do this. So that, as I said, I am in the northwest part of Massachusetts in the northeast of the United States in the Taconic Mountains. And this is right on the edge of the Appalachian and the New England Piedmont regions. So that it is soil that overlies marble limestone, a lot of limestone. It's not thick soil, but it's good soil. And knowing your soil is the very first important piece of gardening. So if you have a garden and you haven't had your soil tested, it's a good idea to do this. Most of the universities that were originally land grant universities will do this for either free or a very small cost. Now, Shiloh, it's not that one is better than the other. It is knowing the soil that you have so that you begin to plant things that will be, will like where you put them. One of the reasons that we have depleted the soil around the world is not only because we want to get higher yields for the soil and over fertilize, but also because we're not paying attention to what would grow well, what would like living in this particular soil. And yeah, I plant garlic in September, but I also have some clothes in the house in a little bit of water and then in a pot so that I can cut the greens. So when I was talking tagline about testing the soil, you want to know what the soil is in regard to what the plant likes. So the leafy greens like the soil that is a little bit more alkaline and the tomatoes like the soil that is a little bit more acid. And so learning what the plants that you want to eat like is a real important part of gardening. So don't plant something, two plants next to each other that don't like the same kind of soil. And that's the other advantage of doing the no-till or the, which I've done always, or planting into the straw. The nitrogen fixing bacteria, it's not just that, Maragon, you have, and I should mention, and I didn't mention this before, over by the other side of the barn, right in front of the barn. Right behind Nexus there is a little box and it has some of the, a list of resources. It's certainly not all of the resources, but there's a note card in there with some resources. But there are not only bacteria, there are fungi and different microbes here in the soil that plants need in order to be healthy. And I'm skipping around a little bit, but it brings up another piece here, and that is, it's not only the, yeah, all of those, plus animals that dig in. But starting with healthy soil is critical for sustainable food. It means not only that the food that you grow initially is better quality and more nutritious, but it's also that the seeds are going to be better seeds for germinating. So that if you want to have a sustainable garden, the things, take care of your soil, plant things that you like to eat. Don't plant, don't bother plant something that is maybe looking good, but you don't eat. That really is a waste of the resources. And then make sure that you rejuvenate the soil. So I'm not a big believer in fertilizer or certainly not heavy fertilizer by any means. Biochar added to the soil will make it a little bit more acid. And if you need to do that, that's a good thing. And composting. If you look behind Edgar, there, there is a compost pile. My RL compost pile looks different than that, but it is still something that I use all the time. And that's because if you're going to put, have healthy soil, you want to put the nutrients back into the soil. We eat, but then they never, what never gets replenished is the soil in the areas where the food was grown that we eat. So if I am eating strawberries from Mexico, for instance, I am virtually using the Mexican water and all of the soil nutrients, because that nutrients, whatever is left over is going to get deposited in western Massachusetts and not in Mexico. This on the long term of sustainability doesn't make a whole lot of sense on a broad scale. So soil first, then plants, and I do organic gardening. And on that list is the seed company that I use, but that is for the northeast of the United States, that a high mowing organic seeds is in Vermont. So if you're looking for seeds, look for seeds that are grown, produced in the area where you live. So if you're in California, you want to look for seeds. Not all organic seeds are heritage seeds. Some are, some aren't. That's as much a matter of preference. Sometimes heritage seeds are better suited to the land, but not always. I'm sorry that the seed did not get the voice. But anyway, so soil, then plants, and then care. I also don't use pesticides or very, very little of the pesticides. And if that is so, only ones that are natural and decompose. So that if you've done the planting well, and I do some companion planting, not only for the pests, but for the adapting to the seasons. And then you think of pests like slugs and stuff. But I also have a woodchuck that lives in the area. And so I have had to plant mint around the kale because the woodchuck doesn't like the mint. So yeah, marigolds, some tomatoes, if you plant the marigolds around the tomatoes, that will discourage. So to a limited way, I do the companion planting. Yeah, chickens absolutely help. Now in RL, I don't have chickens. Here I do have chickens. You notice I have a chicken coop over there and chickens that wander around here. And Geo, the very active friendly dog, makes sure that the chickens stay alive and that no foxes or raccoons or come and eat the chickens. So I guess the most important thing here from a gardening and a scientific perspective is to figure out for your area what would be nature's way. And I'm not a purist on what might be an invasive species. Because we're all migrants. Every single one of us and every single plant around over time has migrated somewhere from somewhere. So, but I am very much concerned with the balance and how nature would balance things out. And that, as I said, for instance, I don't use the pesticides, but I do take care to make sure that things don't get eaten by everyone but me. So that, for instance, with tomatoes, if you have an area where you have cut worms, plant the tomato seed or the plant. With a cup or a cuff below the ground and then about two inches above so that the cut worms can't get in there. Yeah, probably the best, one of the most effective things for deer is not only put things around the plant that they don't like, but also if you can get coyote urine, for instance. They tend not to want to be there. So I do have a problem with snails and slugs. And one of the things that I do for that is to put out a very shallow bowl and put it in the ground to the point where the lip of the bowl is about level with the ground and put beer in it. You could use milk, I've used beer. Like humans, the slugs and the sails are attracted to the beer and so they will go for that instead of the pale and the collards. The slugs seem to like the beer. Yeah, they actually drown in the beer, but yes, it attracts them. Yeah, they do drown. So the things that I have that I grow, because it's what works in my area, because we have the very cold and then relatively hot summers, not brutally hot summers, but hot summers. So I grow a lot of the brassicas. I grow kales and cabbage and collards and musters and bok choy and radishes. And those are probably good three and a half season plants for me. In the very hot weather, I will put down either a shade cover for the kale or make sure that they are shaded in some way because they kale and spinach do not like very hot weather. The kale, the spinach will bolt, you know, it will go to flower almost immediately. Lettices don't like really hot weather either. So those are early planting for me as soon as I can put them in the ground. Yeah, the Swiss chard is also a good three season plant for me. And then I do a very a variety of tomatoes. Some are hybrids, some are heirloom peppers, tomatillos, peas and beans, peas I also put in the ground just as early as I can stick my finger in the ground. They also do not mind cold and they hate hot. They will, they will wilt in the hot weather. My area seems to be really good for peas. Beans come after peas on the same, I do steak them. I have onions, garlics, chives of various kinds. And then I do squashes and cucumbers. I also plant for a little bit of color, I plant the nasturtium and nasturtium is edible. So I use the flowers in in salads makes a lovely salad with a little bit of garlic chive and lettuce and a couple of tomatoes and some nasturtiums, beautiful salad. And then I have a lot of different herbs because I use them a lot too I have oregano and oregano doesn't mind the cold weather. I can right now I have snow on the ground, I can reach under the snow and pick a little bit of the oregano and it's perfectly good to use. So I have oregano, basil is very temperature sensitive so that comes in the house. I have sage, rosemary, I have regular peppermint and I have chocolate mint. I have lemon balm, thyme, tarragon, tarragon in my area grows like a weed, parsley, summer savory and lavender. Now some of those can be used for medicinal purposes as well. So rosemary where I am has to come in the house. Right now my rosemary plant is right next to my desk in the office so that it does get some sunlight still. It won't grow much over the winter and it doesn't like a lot of water in the winter but it should be just fine to go out in the late spring again. What I didn't mention and if you'll look around you'll see are berries. So you notice I have bushes here and trees. Because this particular region here where we are in second life is a alpine, European inspired region. It's not by any means a role play region but it is inspired by alpine areas. In RL I have blueberries, here I have the slow berries and they're right along the side there. We tried to keep some of this close to what it would be in feel as you would in an alpine region in RL. I don't have gooseberries, I have currants in RL. I also have, I do have the blueberries, I have currants, I have a number of different kinds of raspberries. And then if you look down closer to my house here I have elderberry. I have elderberry in RL as well. Now you only see one plant there but if you down further behind the house there is a second elderberry. That's because to pollinate there needs to be two of them at least. So many of the plants don't care but elderberries do, apples do also. So you'll notice that there are two apple trees here in the yard but up on the hill not on my property here there are more apple trees. So apple trees need to be cross pollinated. On my RL land I have four different kinds of apples. And we were asking about heritage plants. Two of them, two of my apple trees are heritage trees. My Baldwin is first came to the United States or was made grafted in the United States in the early 1800s. And the one in the backyard is a Roxbury Russet and that was put or developed in the United States in the 1600s. So the Roxbury Russet looks a lot like a pear actually. And it's got that rough Russet skin, very sweet, very tasty. And then I have one ancient tree that was this behind the garage here and very, I don't even know what version it is, but it helps for the pollination. And then in the front yard, I have a very new variety and it is in the front yard vegetable garden and that is a northern pole apple. And so it is vertical, it has branches that do not go out very far and all of the apples are clustered right near the trunk of the tree. So that's kind of an experiment for me. But again, I grow what I like to eat. And so in the mornings in the summer, you'll find me and I get two crops of raspberries off the bushes that I have. So I get raspberries most of the summer and I get the apples starting in mid to late August. Yeah, most of the apples are trees in the United States are splinting or grafting or but yes. What kinds of squash do I do? I do a number of kinds of cucumbers. I do the summer squash, the zucchini, and I do some of the some winter squash, but not a lot. I do a little bit of a corn squash and a little bit of delicata. And I have a small plot. I don't have that winter squash. Yes. So my elderberries are, I have bought the two elderberries that I have from a farmer that I know well, who does also organic farming, and she has grown them from stock. So they're not, they're not natural here. They weren't wild. But I do want to get a little bit to the wild here. And because I was talking about, in fact, a lot of people are talking about rewilding. And while that's important to give land back to whatever non cultivated land that we can and let nature do the design. I also don't have grass like other people have grass. So we decided that we would let that go pretty natural. And even though we cut it some, we have things that have volunteered themselves. So and you'll see that here in the summertime. I have dandelions and dandelions are native to my area. We do eat the dandelion greens. They're wonderful early in the season. The young dandelion leaves are excellent. We also eat the flowers. I do not make dandelion wine. But yeah, that's the thing that I was going to say tagline. They are the first source of nectar for bees in my area. And I don't have beehives in RL. My, my grandfather did have beehives. I do have a beehive here, but it's too cold to have the beehive out. So bees don't want to be out in the snow. If you come by here in the summer, you will see the dandelions in the grass and you will see the bees floating around, flying around. So, so I do have dandelions. I do have curly dock. Curly dock is a native of Europe, but it has naturalized here in the US and it is spread spread all around. I use those leaves too. I let those go to seed, share the seed with the, the birds, but I also use some of the seeds and, and I have taken the roots of the curly dock and cooked those and made a really excellent Asian dish that I learned from a Korean friend. And I have goldenrod, which the birds love, but dog likes the bird, the goldenrod too. He eats the leaves. Ramps are native to my area. So ramps are in the onion family, but they are a endangered. So I just cut the leaves and use the leaves and not all of the leaves out of the plant. Just some of the leaves on every plant, but they do grow wild in the, in the woods and on in the woods inside of my land and use that to make pesto. Purse Lane is in my yard. Also, I use that sparingly. Some people love Purse Lane. I'm not wild about it. And violence. The, the blue violets are native to my area and they are all over my yard. They're also edible. And I use the, the leaves and I put the flowers into salads. Again, I was going to say that the nasturtiums taste quite a bit like cucumbers, but the, the violets have, I don't know, more of a savory flavor to me. And if you look around here, you'll see on the sides in the woods ferns. I have ferns in RL2. Yeah, you can eat the violets. I don't know about the roots of the violets, but the leaves and the flowers you can eat. But here you'll see ferns that are either dead or dying. I have ferns in my RL yard. Also, you can cut the fiddleheads. Again, do not cut all of it or you will kill the plant, but take some of the fiddleheads and they, you know, steam them like you would green beans and they have a lot of taste like that. You know, tagline, if you ate a lot of anything, you'd probably get overwhelmed. But if I put violets as the, the garnish in a salad, it's fine. It's fine. So there's a lot more to say here, but I'm watching the time and I want to get to the, the back to the little greenhouse area in the back. But before we leave this area, does it do anybody, people have any other questions about this? And I do invite people to come back over the, the year because this is a seasonal region, and it will change in the spring and the summer and the fall. And I changed the garden along with that. I have started growing a little bit of, of tomatoes and potatoes, but not a lot where I am now. This is not, the purpose of this sim is not to educate, but that is certainly my purpose. So it is part of what I do in Second Life and in the solid world. Yeah. And we certainly do have educational programs here, but we also have just one programs too as well. So let's take a walk into the next parcel. It may be that the, the voice will take a minute to get itself settled in. But if you walk, pay attention to what else is around here. Oh, somebody mentioned the medicinals. If you look to my left here, you'll see which easel, which is definitely used as a medicinal and rose hips also. So the ice should be solid enough to stand on. We're not, this is a very small, all tight place. So this is the south side of my house. This is the area that gets the most sun. And so this is where I put the attached greenhouse to my house. You'll notice that there are two trees here. So in the summertime, they will leaf out and they will cool the greenhouse area a little bit because I still do use it some in the summertime. Oh, and I might mention that now to my left on the other side of the stream is a willow and willows are used to some degree, medicinally to buy different peoples, but take a look inside the greenhouse. See, I've moved all, yeah, you can have willow tea. There's a little bit of similar to aspirin in the willows as well. I've moved all of my herbs inside. In RL, I have them scattered around my house here. I have them all in one place. I also have here in my greenhouse a pot of violets so that I can use those for my salads. I have a hanging nasturtium plant, so I will use those too. I've started some lettuces in, my animals don't eat the, well, that's not entirely true. Micah, my dog would eat some of them if they were down where he could reach them. But he would take a little bit of the basil, but it's hanging up so he can't. Here, and I am trying this now in RL as well, and it's not something I've done before, but notice in the planter next to the lettuce, which Micah absolutely would eat. I have a semi-vegetarian dog by his choice, and he loves lettuce. He loves cabbage, so he would definitely eat that. But I have the chard growing inside, and now, I must say in RL, I don't have this kind of a greenhouse, but I have a long, thin front vestibule where I put shells along the windows, and that's south-facing and east-facing, and I have the window boxes with lettuce and chard and kale in that area to grow for the winter. But I'm going to say here, and I'm starting to try this in, yeah, I add eggshells to the soil, definitely. Crumble them and add them to the soil. That makes it so that the slugs and snails don't want to walk over it, but it also adds the nutrition back into the soil. And the ones I don't put in the soil directly, I do compost, yes, tagline. I put those in my compost. But here, I'm going to try planting some little seedlings in the eggshell cups and see how that works, and that's going to be an interesting experiment for me this winter. Now, if you look on the other side here, right in front of the shells with the herbs, you'll see sitting in water, the bottom, the top parts of carrots. I don't have as many of these in RL, but I do have them, and they are on my kitchen table. And so I am growing the tops from the carrots that I cooked and used in soup, and when I have enough of the tops, I will make pesto again with the carrot tops. So I have a good goat cheese, and the carrot tops makes a wonderful pesto. Yeah, yeah, I do. I make pesto out of the tops, Max. So I have a goat cheese that is, I don't know, it's sort of, it's not a cheddar, of course, but it's sort of that kind of a flavor, and it mixes very well with the flavor of the carrot tops. Yeah, so I use, I may try also because I'm growing the radish leaves from the bottom, the tops of the radishes, so I'm doing that as well. And I'll use the leaves, I'll try that in pesto, and maybe put a few walnuts or something in that as well. Yeah, I'm so lucky in the area where I live, it's a tiny city and lots of small farms around, so I can go to the farm that makes the goat cheese, I can go to the farm that makes the sheep cheese, and I can go to the farm, the dairy, the cow farm to get my half and half, and I'm really lucky. I do not have chickens in RL, but I know I have some very good friends who do have chickens, and so I get eggs, fresh eggs from them. I'm just really lucky in what I can do where I live. I don't know if it will work, I'm trying it here, but I'm also going to try it in RL to start tomatoes earlier and start them inside in one of the window boxes. Yeah, and see if I can start my tomatoes early, because where I live, I can't put tomato plants in the ground until the beginning of June, it gets too cold. I do that too, I put coffee grounds, I really am an organic gardener, and I put my organic coffee grounds into the compost. Yes, yeah, so yes, and here, and I'm trying this in RL as well. If you notice, I have a grow light on the ceiling here, and I put a grow light now into my front vestibule because I don't get eight hours of sun in there in the wintertime. And I know I can't grow the tomatoes unless I have that, so I will probably try starting the tomatoes inside in March and see if that works because I'm going to have more sun, and I'll let you know whether I can live if this is a working thing. The last thing that I want to point out here as well, if you notice right by the inside door here, you'll see a little plant in a test tube hanging on the wall. So that is regrowing, and I can do mint and oregano that way inside. And then you'll notice on my little gardening table, there is an avocado starting to grow, but it's not just avocados that you can do that way. And there are some resources in the note card that I provided on other things that can be grown like that little avocado seed is being grown here. Yeah, back to what we're asking about that chickens and horses and all. I get my straw from a farmer who is also a good friend, and she has chickens and horses so that it is, yes, it is in the straw. Tomatoes like manure. They really like manure, so yes, so that's a good thing. You're welcome to go inside and look around. I also, as I said, yeah, I don't use it. It will burn the roots of the plants, Sumo, if you use it when it's new, the manure, yeah, yeah. So you do want it to age a little bit. Inside here on the stove, you will see soup cooking. In RL, I make soup all winter. And so this very much mimics, though it's not identical, but it mimics what I do in RL, yes. Ursa, I have not had that as a problem. I get the straw, where I get the straw, they are also organic gardeners. So I have not had to deal with that, yes. I have used a rooting compound, yes. I couldn't tell you the name of it right now because I can't reach it. It's in the back vestibule, yes. Let's see, other thing, speaking about some of the toxicity in some of the compost and all, you want to be careful. And that's the other reason to get your soil tested ahead of time and know the farmers. One of the goals in setting up our local farmers market was that we wanted a farmer producer market so that people could get to know the farmers themselves and ask those particular questions of the farmers, how things were grown and express their desires to the farmers. So that the people who are eating the food and the farmers who are growing the food are all on the same page. So I guess what I want to leave people with here is we are not going to grow all of our food. I'm not going to grow all of the food I eat. But in growing the food, some of the food that I eat, I am much better at asking questions and recognizing how food is grown, what are the pluses and minuses, and to encourage people all around to take a scientific, nature-based perspective on growing and eating food. So that is one of the things that I absolutely want to spread around. Yes. Yeah, Mike, notice that I have an aloe plant on the table. Not too far from the stove, yes. Yeah, so the aloe plant that I have in my RL home was grown by girls in a private school near me in their gardening and nature class. Yes. So I'll be glad to answer questions. And also, I know that I or anybody else would be glad to answer questions about these six regions. Rosie would for sure as well, but we'll be and explore the whole area. And this is, as I said, it's six residential regions and a very, very nice friendly community. And Kyoko Samara, who just popped back in, is our chancellor for this six-month term. And Rosie was chancellor for our last six-month term. We are now on our 34th term of government. So, yes. I'm glad everybody enjoyed this. So each term of government here in the CDS is six months. It goes from December 1st to and then the next one starts June 1st, year after year. No faceless electors, no. No. I'm really glad and really glad people enjoyed it. And now you have a landmark. You're welcome to come back and check it out anytime. Do make sure, though, that you stop and say hello to the dogs. They'll get very offended if they don't get the tension. And when somebody asked about horses, there are usually two horses that live here in this, in the pasture. I farmed them out to a friend's lot for today because they would have gotten in the way of people standing. But if you come back, you will find two horses. Yeah. Well, this is good. This has been fun. This has been fun. And you're very welcome. And I wish everybody a wonderful holiday season.