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Fast Food
There’s nothing like a fast food fix. If you have a hankering, chances are that Prescott can deliver.
In this episode we cover the Top 5 “Gotta Have” fast food places available in Prescott.
BTW: There is a Wendy’s in Prescott Valley.
Video TranscriptStupid Tax
A stupid tax is a tax you don’t have to pay if you’re smart enough to avoid it. Right now in real estate, across the country, people buying homes are pulling out their wallets to pay up – bidding up the price of homes well beyond what anyone thinks they’re really worth.
In this episode, we cover what we’re doing in the trenches to help our clients avoid paying the stupid tax.
Video Transcriptthere diane and randall bro here
arizona prescott arizona baby yeah we
are the pickle lady brigade
and uh today’s topic that we’d like to
talk about is called what randall
stupid tax that he calls it the stupid
tax well stupid tax
is any tax that if you’re smart you
don’t have to pay it
so lottery tickets you know that’s a
stupid tax
yeah yeah but spend a lot of money on
lottery tickets
that’s you’re essentially paying
attention yeah that you don’t have to
pay it’s a stupid tax
so we wanted to talk about right now um
it’s it’s occurring
all over the united states uh everyone
there’s hardly any inventory homes are
flying off the shelf
that’s true across the nation most areas
they are running on average it’s about
one-third
the level of inventory uh the
usual inventory is about what’s
available now
right and that’s about where we are we
usually pretty crazy
yeah we usually have about 1200 homes
right
that are fascinating to pick from at any
one time and now we have
about 400 about 400 and 400 homes
covering
all price points yeah all price points
so that’s
very very small yeah very few so it’s
making it hard
and so people have perhaps sold their
homes they’re desperate to get in
uh to a home and they’re willing to win
a bid at
any cost so what we’re seeing a lot of
is people are
waving appraisal contingencies uh people
are going in
way over ask which we never had before
yeah
areas like california right and that’s
new to us uh
crazy over list price uh probably
started happening uh you know maybe a
couple of months ago it just
sort of started we started
people started coming in uh at ask and
then it increased to five thousand over
ten thousand over twenty thousand
now we are seeing things going in over
fifty thousand yeah recently we lost a
bid
uh someone came in over a hundred
thousand
over ask it’s kind of scary people
yeah especially if you’re waving
appraisal contingencies
um a lot of our clients if we get into
that point it’s like you know what it’s
time to stop
we don’t need to keep throwing money
just to win
yeah you have to be careful what you
might win right
you might get in a position where you
have grossly overpaid just to win
and you don’t always want to be a winner
in that kind of situation
well the first thing you need to
understand when when you’re getting into
one of these bidding wars
is what is the property really worth
the list price is not always the fair
market value
uh some agents intentionally price high
others intentionally price low some
really
don’t have any idea what the home’s
worth and they just kind of price it
maybe where the seller wants to price it
so
the first thing you need to understand
is where where is the list price
in comparison to what the home’s really
kind of worth
and if you understand that
then you know we’ll tell you what that
number is we’ll show you why we think
that is
and it’ll be up to you i mean if if we
think that you know you need to go at
least fifty thousand dollars
uh over this price to get this home and
we’ll tell you
how far above the market you know the
market value that
is uh we’ll tell you yeah that says you
can safely go there
yeah and still yeah retail value you
know here’s the list price
here’s where we think the market is you
might be able to get it to appraise a
little higher than that
you know but i mean if you’re competing
with someone who’s willing to pay a
stupid tax if you don’t pay the stupid
tax which is money that
the home’s basically not worth that if
it’s your dream home and you
absolutely have to have it you
absolutely have to have it now
that’s the price and it’ll be up to you
whether you want to pay it or not
but we will give you sound advice yeah
we’ll we’ll tell you okay
where you should go probably flushing
about 50 grand
you know and if it’s worth it to you to
get that house now
then you can go ahead and pay that but
just know that it’ll be
at least a year before the uh home
appreciates enough
catches up catches up with what you pay
so
we here at the pickle lady brigade try
to keep it real
try to keep it honest um we really will
guide you
not to go too far um if that is where
you want to go
and you’re willing to take that risk and
yeah that’s up to you if that’s up to
you of course
uh but i wouldn’t call that a stupid tax
i mean if you know what you got what’s
stupid
is when somebody comes in the home’s
already overpriced
and they just oh 100 you know they have
no idea what they’re doing
and then usually what happens is they go
under contract with this crazy offer
and then during the inspection period it
falls off because either they come to
their senses
or they write some numbers or they just
get cold feet
so right so just something to keep in
mind
we don’t want to bid something up just
for you to win that you
may regret later like wow i could have
used that cash maybe to travel the world
yeah but now i’m kind of strapped in
this house
or buy a car or you know if that’s your
deal and you don’t care
we’re happy to do that too but we will
give you sound advice
and tell you where you should go and
where we think you should
land and uh if and if we don’t win
and we get outbid we’re going to keep
keep trying for you and uh we’ll make it
happen
yeah a lot of uh people are saying oh
you you can’t find me at home
here’s the thing this woman is
particularly good at finding great homes
that are available
and tight markets like this it just
takes her longer
uh we might have to make more offers
before we get one for you right
but you know usually we could get
someone in a beautiful home at a good
price within
a week now it might take three or four
weeks
right we keep searching we keep our ears
open
we all work together uh sometimes we’re
uh find a house we want to get the offer
in right away
uh one of our we’ll be back home hey
start writing it up so we can meet some
of the other people
we try hard yeah we try hard we move
fast
speed to lead or you know speed speed is
very important
uh to make sure that you get the best
possible deal absolutely
we’re like little commandos little
commander jumping on them
always ready to attack yeah yeah in a
nice way
yeah and win yeah we’re here to win the
war that’s right
we don’t want to lose the battle we will
win the war ultimately
it might take us a while but we’ll get
there especially in this market
so keep that in mind uh how much
victory yes we avoid the pirate i avoid
the pirate victory
yeah so cheers to that all right
have a wonderful day nice to see you
well i don’t see you but
nice for you to see us yeah well yeah
maybe
we hope it’s maybe i don’t know we hope
it’s nice it may be the bane of their
existence we don’t know they might be
like oh god
they are again skipped get them off
x out of that one yep i get it i
understand
no hard feelings no hard feelings no
hard feelings we’re just here to share
share our wealth of information
that’s up to you if you want to hear it
Stained Glass
Whether it’s those three little square windows over your master bed or a particular spot that gets too much sun during part of the day, if your home has any of those “weirdo windows” and you’re not sure what to do with them, we may have the perfect solution: stained glass.
Turn full sun exposure into an asset with a gorgeous custom creation from our good friend, a local glass artist… or re-purpose an antique window from one of the local shops.
Check out some beautiful examples in this week’s episode.
Pete Churchill – (805) 205-3202
Video Transcriptdiane is the pickle lady and i’m her
partner in crime partner in life we are
here to help you with
every aspect of your real estate
transaction whether it be buying or
selling we offer full service
full service full customer service seven
days a week very broadly defined
what our role is rain sleet or snow
sleet or snow even if we’re sick we try
hard
we sure try hard and we do so today we
want to talk about something that i love
and uh we it’s one of my favorite things
stained glass stained glass
so in excuse me that’s my voice wow
in a lot of the homes here you’ll find
three little windows
yeah over your master bedroom little
square
little square randall will show it to
you yeah and people are like
what do i do with that uh i don’t want
the sun to come through
i don’t like this i don’t like that well
we have a solution
a fellow neighbor and good friend pete
churchill who makes
beautiful stained glass gorgeous from
scratch
yeah this is not a kit yeah this is his
own design
um his wife janice selects all the
beautiful pieces of color
glass it is like a work of art yeah
and so a lot of times they will fill
those little squares with a piece of
stained glass
so instead of buying a great option a
shade or something excuse me having
something custom made
yeah i have custom made yeah uh shutters
yes and those little square wings get
custom-made stained glass
and it’s like a piece of art you can put
it in they’re removable if you ever
should
if you ever move yeah uh you can put it
in another piece of glass and
it’s easily removable yeah so you could
take it with you
buy another house with three squares
exactly so we have one over we have a
transom
over our front door that got a a lot of
direct sun a lot of heat
so he designed one we did it all with
butterflies and irises
beautiful beautiful so when you’re
looking at a house with kind of an
odd window particularly one with like a
particular
time of day or maybe all day it has
direct
sun oh that window’s got so much sun and
you turn the the liability into an asset
correct and think about a piece of
stained glass yeah instead of an ugly
old shade or because then when the sun
hits it it just gets
so bright and then then that the colors
come through
sometimes you get a pattern on the wall
it’s beautiful so
something we we kind of did in our own
home if you have a transom
if you have the three little square
windows some people have them in their
bathroom some people have in that master
bedroom
or just a window that you need a
showpiece a centerpiece
uh my favorite uh that peeks down
honestly it becomes a different
work of art throughout the day depending
on where the sun is in the sky
wow um you know the sun begins to settle
beauty very nice good for you you’re
enjoying the beauty
you gotta suck the marrow out of life
you know what i’m saying
carpe diem carpet carpe diem
but so different little ideas for
odd windows if you’re looking at
different houses and you’re like i don’t
even know what to do with this
stained glass and if you want stained
glass
we have the connection connection for
custom glass
also oh i should mention too that it’s
relatively easy to find antique uh
stained glass pieces that you can hang
right
um that’s what we have all throughout
our yeah we’ve got that windows
old windows from uh plantations down in
louisiana and you can find them
pretty cool uh antique shops here
yes uh from churches and whatnot and uh
really beautiful pieces very affordable
yeah
so it’s just kind of a little unusual
decorating tip
that we wanted to pass on to you so
we’ll show you some of our pictures
of our stained glass we have a window
from a church yeah i love it
i’ve got all kinds of windows it’s my
thing i love stained glass too
uh so if you were interested and you
want to reach out to us
you can find us at pickle411.com lots of
friends lots of free information and uh
we’ll give you pete’s information
if you want to have a customer i’ll put
a link on the i’ll put a link on there
as well yeah good idea i’m assuming he
has a
website if not then just contact
customers
we’ll get you in touch so enjoy our
pieces of stained glass
and i hope we gave you some good tips
for some of those weirdo windows
in your new house if you are looking to
buy or sell give us a call
we are here ready willing and able to
make that happen for you captain
right make it happen make it happen
captain even though it’s been crazy
crazy uh hard yeah we are still making
it happen we’re still kicking so we’re
excited
yeah absolutely and we welcome all of
you can’t wait for you to join us
here in prescott enjoy our town all
right
that is all and stay in glass sunglasses
you’ll love it
all right thanks for listening and have
a great rest of your day
bye
Grinder Pumps
If your house goes over a cliff, you’ll probably need a grinder pump. A grinder pump takes what you don’t want and moves it up to a higher level, so you can get rid of it more easily.
Confused? Don’t be… For all the dirty details, check out this week’s episode.
Video TranscriptToilets and Tushies
The latest rage in home decor is sure to take some of your most private moments up to a whole new level, plus a new game-changing technology that is just a blast… right where you need it most.
Video Transcripthello peeps our fellow pickle peepsters
dianne and i like peeps too diane and
randall bro
realtors in prescott arizona
something kind of crazy but funny we
want to talk about
um because well it’s something you gotta
do something new and something great
something new on the horizon everyone
has the courage to
jump in
something that really helps a little bit
on your resell of your house
is tall toilets tall toilets
and tall counters in your bathroom
that’s big people want tall counters
they don’t want those
low ones they’ve got to bend over while
you’re brushing your teeth yeah
love tall counters and love tall
toilets tall toilets yeah well i should
say
we do have clients that are
you know high challenged a little on the
short side
yeah they’re not a big fan but i will
tell you i’m not a big fan but
the world’s going against you my friends
my short friends look at your step stool
yeah we’ve got to get you a step stool
because the tall toilets more and more
but if you’re thinking about i’m gonna
upgrade my bathroom or whatever
what we’re hearing time and time and
time again is when we go look at new
construction when we go look at houses
oh they have a tall toilet i’m so
excited they have a tall toilet
this is how you know you’re actively in
middle age
also to all of our friends out there
yeah when you get
about the honey you’re excited about the
height of your toilet
and we’re we’re in that group yeah we
actually are in
we decided you know what let’s let’s
jump on this bandwagon
yeah let’s get a tall toilet yeah so we
did
we are ecstatic with our tall toilets
where it’s the same just higher
it just it just it’s much easier to get
up and down at night but you know when
your back is out your hips are out you
don’t feel good you’re
you know nobody hates that sudden and
abrupt
fall when you think you think you’re
going to land a little higher up and you
go boom
and then sometimes you get you know as
my dad used to call it a little splash
it’s called
the kiss of death guess death don’t want
the kiss of death
but tall toilets are very helpful a good
uh
resale value people love it i’m telling
you i can’t believe it i’ve actually had
people
i’m i want to just sit on this body and
just see if it’s uh
the right height configuration when we
go look at houses
i think it takes the pressure off of uh
men to
constantly put the toilet seat down too
because if we forget and the lady of the
home goes to use the toilet they don’t
fall into the bowl because well it’s a
tall toilet
the other thing people love people love
love love they’re talking about it
is tushies tushy.com
sushi.com tushy.com if you’re watching
this
you’ve feel free we’re giving you a free
shout out yeah like
it’s a bidet attachment easy to attach
to your tall
toilet yeah uh it’s the rage
all of our clients again are like oh i
like that bidet feature
i like that well the days were starting
all right we should you know
okay so you probably have to get in
first of all
a bidet like i used to think that a
bidet was essentially for women
no it’s for all parties not because it’s
the you know it’s the other side of
things
it’s for all areas it’s our all areas
but
one area in particular and it reduced
she always say it reduces the amount of
toilet paper that yeah
i assume so you kind of get the idea so
bidets were kind of starting to get
popular
they’re very popular in europe all over
europe all over korea
japan yeah all a lot of the asian
countries
um essentially think that we are the
dirtiest country
on earth we clean without water
so anyway yeah it’s a fun thing to jump
on that bandwagon
attach it to your tall toilet yeah
because the bidet like you get a real
bidet
that’s like having another toilet and so
you need and that can be expensive
yeah a little bit more expensive than
just buying the attachments yeah because
you need a place to put it
you know so you’re gonna have a toilet
end of the day and you need bigger
bathrooms
to take up more space so if you’re if
you are you know uh
redoing your bathroom yeah you know all
these things help
people love it when they go in your
house they’re looking for tall toilets
yeah tushy’s an extra bonus it’s going
to be the conversation
piece of of cocktail parties for some
time you know as my daughters say you
also have one yeah the whole family got
it
it’s life-changing life changing it’s
like it’s a game changer
game changer yeah it is
that’s i particularly like the tall
toilet yeah
only because after we have three tall
toys
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with the hot water attachment yes
so that’s we did we
it’s just funny every time we’re going
out this is something we keep hearing
a common theme a common theme tall
toilet
love it love it love it and tushy
whatever some of them are clea
clear clad up clean i forget clear rear
or something i don’t know
there’s a whole bunch of different
companies that like that’s oh clear yeah
clear rare yeah it’s hard to say the
names alone
make me laugh for hours and hours on end
i did see
in lowe’s uh when uh we were looking at
toilets
they have toilet seats now with a
day attachment now they were like 100
you know but that’s about what you pay
for tuition yeah um
so it’s all good it’s all it’s all good
possibility uh something we wanted to
share with you if you’re thinking about
remodeling go for the tall toilets
if you’re not quite up for the tushy
it’s okay it’s it’s a it’s something new
kind of you know but it is rapidly
becoming more and more popular here in
the
in the old good old u.s event so we
thought it was
important we thought it was
important that we share this with you
we are excited about our little upgrade
that we just did
and uh just wanted to pass that on to
you guys when you’re looking
at homes or looking at uh remodeling
something to think about yeah remodeling
information
if you’re interested in getting more of
that you can go to pickle
411.com which is our source
of information of all kinds all kinds
real estate
not just hotties sellers buyers
you know all kinds of stuff all kinds of
good stuff and not toilets
part of our offering to the world that’s
right and as you know i like a tall
toilet if i have a lot of wine
except don’t have too far to tonight to
fall as far
you don’t have to fall as far which is
important after
you know some wine a couple of
martinis doesn’t hurt it doesn’t hurt
Petroglyphs
People have been living in Prescott for a long, long time… and we have some very old rocks to prove it. Check out Prescott’s famous petroglyphs in our latest episode.
Video Transcripthello
peeps this is diana randall bro here
we are on this lovely lovely day today
we are excited this fella over my
shoulder here
yeah she’s very uncomfortable with me
this close
correct it’s kind of invading my
personal space
she has sort of a rabbit instinct to
flee
as you approach well not really flea it
is survival mode
well you’re flying that way anytime she
attacks yeah correct correct
anyway we are here today to talk about
something really cool about prescott
yes uh petroglyphs that’s glyphs
petroglyphs uh we used to have at one
point
a very large indian population yeah way
back in the day
uh especially in different sections of
prescott
you will find groupings of petroglyphs
what are petroglyphs mr brown uh
well the the petra means rock
and glyphs is writing so it’s uh stone
writing
i knew he was writing on stone
oh very old yeah so yeah so not like a
new one like i know
the rage right now is for people to
paint their own rocks not quite the same
um a petroglyph is truly an authentic
uh rocks with with paintings on them
from
thousands of years ago some of them yeah
and it would be
a lot of times they would place them
with good indicators like you know
here’s a deer that you know deer running
through there yeah
yeah uh it was a way of marking along
the paths
yeah well obviously to some extent we
don’t really know what some of them mean
but uh some of the symbols uh
repeat again and again have certain
themes
uh there’s a spiraling out circle
or square uh which is what does that
mean
um they think it has something to do
with uh like a religious uh
kind of like go forth and multiply oh uh
in the bible so maybe like a positive
yeah
like the idea is you are here right now
and
god wants you to you know to expand
in all directions yeah is that your
interpretation no no no
i didn’t make it up i mean of course i
didn’t talk to send anyone who wrote one
because they’ve all been dead for
hundreds of years but but
that’s what they that’s why i think that
that particular and it gets a positive
message
positive methods basically go forth and
multiply
so you will find a lot of these
groupings of uh petroglyphs uh
sprinkled throughout yeah prescott out
in talking rock there’s a whole
section you can hike way out there and
find
their collection of petroglyphs which is
why talking rock got their name
it’s uh all of these rocks convey a
message
yeah so talky rock discovered it and
thought hmm there we go where can we go
with this
talking rock yeah uh prescott lakes also
has
uh several sections lots of sections um
even when you’re walking along the path
there’s a grouping they’ll be just right
there
i mean right yeah we’ve had a couple of
individual privately owned homes that
actually have petroglyphs
in their yard yeah they have big rocks
that uh
they built around to preserve them so
it’s pretty cool
i i would like to have a petroglyph yeah
you get a petroglyph well you can’t
you can’t take it we can get uh you know
reenactments
what do you call them uh uh reenact
recreations
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there’s one area on top of
mesa in prescott lakes called
solstice park or heritage park
solstice mesa but it’s called solstice
because the petroglyphs in that
particular area
are aligned with the summer and
winter solstice it’s pretty
sophisticated and so their street by it
is called solstice
that’s why i got the name the theme of
seoul but you can hike up there
right in the middle of prescott lakes
and see this uh
outcropping and how they’ve lined it up
pretty sophisticated for that time
to uh drive up with the yeah so that
they figured yeah that was the
same thing like stonehenge certain
things are yeah aligned with uh
celestial
occurrences um so it can’t be can’t be
we need to walk up there and see it once
yeah yeah we have yet to go up
we just kind of took some pictures for
this but yeah yeah we need to
see pretty cool yeah absolutely
absolutely cool so
uh big indian population here at one
point traveling throughout
the the acreages of the rolling lands
here in prescott
and um yeah yeah
and some of the people you know no
longer exist
their cultures have been lost right uh
that did because some of these
uh petroglyphs date back you know a
couple thousand
yeah i think the oldest are like three
or four thousand years old so it’s
fascinating completely fascinating
absolutely
how you know prescott is just has this
the spirit and the soul of those that
proceeded before us
well which is a great team yeah diane’s
favorite
rock that doesn’t have any writing on it
well yeah if you come in and i take you
to prescott lakes you’ll see it
we won’t talk about it well yeah but
it’s very maybe a later one we’ll we’ll
kind of get into it
i’ll show a picture of it you’ll see it
all you’ll figure it out when you see
the picture
it’s a very specific uh interesting rock
formation um very hard they can’t remove
it they’ve tried
it won’t go down it won’t go it won’t
come together the hardest substance
known to man they cannot remove it
anyway it’s not really a petroglyph it’s
just an interesting rock formation and
it has a certain name
here in prescott lakes and uh we’ll let
your imagination
you’ll see a picture of it shortly but
no gloves on it
no glyphs they’ve tried nothing maybe
they tried yeah
yeah they couldn’t find it right carving
tools that were
we totally tried diamonds it wasn’t okay
all right anyway uh if you want to learn
about
the just fascinating history of prescott
and what it was like before
it became our little sprawling western
town in 1864.
uh come in here we also have a lot of
museums around that covers all of the
indians and
you can buy your own cocopelli coffee
mugs cocoa pellets but they’ll tell you
all about
what who was here before us and
uh the beautiful beautiful history that
they brought to
our town yeah absolutely all right so
petroglyphs are cool
uh the other rock formation is pretty
cool too that’s pretty cool
it’s pretty cool that it was uh
naturally made very imposing
you’ll see see what you think uh so we
wanted to share that with you
uh we have a pretty cool town yeah
absolutely very deep
deep and far rooted history here
if you need more information a place to
find it is pickle411.com
yes see about petroglyphs and hiking
trails and
all those kinds of things absolutely
give us a call we’d love to
show you in person some of these
petroglyphs uh
especially if we’re in prescott lakes uh
we’ll show you where it’s located
and we’d love to show you around our
lovely town in general it’s a great
great town
great town with lots to offer and we’d
also love to list your home
so give us a call if you’re thinking
about moving on or moving to a different
place
we’d love to help you on both sides uh
along that process
absolutely right that’s it anything else
to add absolutely nothing that is all
right that’s it for today um come
see us come check out the petroglyphs
love to see you
bye have a good day
Spring is a’Bloom
Delight with us in the glory of Prescott’s latest spring, and see the white and pink blossoms through the holes in the Pickle Lady’s chest.
Video Transcriptthis is randall and diane bro here your
friendly uh part of your friendly
pickle lady brigade and we’re here on
this beautiful
monday morning you’ll see this probably
on a tuesday but
we’re filming on a monday morning it’s a
gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous spring day so
i decided to put it on my mom
very springy scarf yeah yeah and
um talk about it so probably
little bits of her might disappear is it
that i i think it’s good
i think it’s pretty much greens yeah i’m
not allowed to wear anything green
because i fade into the green screen
green screen yeah well you can’t see the
green screen you won’t see that but
i’ll show them the green screen i can
show you the green screen
it’s hard to find something not i know i
don’t know it’s very hard i don’t want
to be in black
that’s depressing that’s depressing i
like to be colorful
particularly in springtime particularly
in the springtime
which we want to talk about yeah uh
there is nothing like springtime in
prescott yes
it is
well the first thing is there is a
spring where
from there is no spring current goes
directly from winter
into the thick of of summer and it’s you
know 90 degrees the next day
right you never see spring again that’s
right uh spring’s not like that here
not here in fact you will have these you
know it kind of lulls you into this
false sense of oh the sun is out and i’m
gonna get my shorts
i’m gonna get my shorts out and then our
very white legs come out which is
highly alarming yeah that’s kind of
scary and you and you’re starting to
kind of let your guard down but
spring here kind of will zap you will
have a couple more days of winter
in the middle of nowhere in the middle
of nowhere um and then you’re like oops
gotta go get my sweater again
yeah they said don’t plant until the
middle of may yeah we never plant
anything until after mother’s day
no baby plants because every now and
then we get a little surprise
light light snowfall and you’re like
what is this yeah it’s just
it’s the reverse of of autumn right so
that’s right and autumn you have a
little bit some days where oh it’s a
little cooler it’s a little cooler and
then it’s warm again
it’s the same way here we were over at a
friend’s house last night
and a shout out to bob and karen and
happy birthday bob
happy birthday bob and uh we had a fire
pit you know
been sitting out on a fire pit and we’re
hearing down in phoenix you know it’s
almost touching the three digits and uh
texas and louisiana oh it’s in the 90s
already we have a fire pit going not
here we’re still
and it was not we had a little nip in
the air it was very nice
so not only was there a nip in the air
but we had some nips as well
and we took a little nap we took a few
naps we took a few naps around
the fire pit which was very nice but
what i really wanted to talk about was
how stunningly beautiful um
spring is here not only are is the
temperature
delightful but all of the trees all of a
sudden and it really seems like
overnight
it starts blooming and blossoming so um
the bradford pears are to die for
gorgeous red bud which is my
all-time favorite um red buds just don’t
grow that well in the south but here
they are
stunning vibrant vibrant i hope you got
some pictures oh absolutely i got
some pictures of the bradford pears
repairs red buds
pears are the ones with all the white
white blossoms
and uh i may have some i haven’t had a
chance to shoot them yet but uh you also
see
paint blossoms these are the uh red leaf
plums
that’s his favorite very favorite i mean
the pink blossoms are beautiful and then
once the blossoms are gone the
leaves themselves are like this leathery
kind of deep red purple
it’s gorgeous that’s something to know
here too a lot of people don’t know
um fruit trees are abundant here
and they grow very very well so a lot of
people with cherry trees
apricots plum lemons not so much
interesting the citrus don’t do so well
but all the others do amazingly well and
then you get to have
springs bountiful gift
well yeah harvest but you know their
gift in this
in spring all these blossoms start
coming in
and it’s just gorgeous and a lot of
people will trim their trees so it
actually looks like little snowballs
they don’t come snowballs here probably
snow cones
for all of you others not from louisiana
in louisiana we call them snowballs
every part of the country calls it
something different snow cone for use
for you people forget for use i know
where are you from i don’t know what’s
happening here
this is something we’ve discussed at
length you know but it just makes sense
yeah absolutely anyway not so much use
well
well we might get some comments yeah
let me tell you why she’s wrong
we
but anyway so spring is absolutely
stunning here you can’t miss it so if
you move here
remember always remember if you want to
plant some fruit trees they will do very
well here
then you will get to enjoy all the
blossoms in the springtime
number two roses grow very well
roses while we’re talking about spring
and flowers and blooming and
you know plant where your bloom moon
where you plant
bloom we’ve had this discussion this
discussion i know i still don’t have it
so i think our earlier
seat iec earlier wind down where i
talked about that phrase still don’t
have it where you’re playing bloom where
you’re planning
after i looked it up i still don’t have
that’s bad the mind is a terrible thing
to waste sometimes
it just goes mine is sometimes a
terrible thing anyway
yeah the anyway roses are beautiful here
as well
they’re very hardy um they love the
climate here
and beautiful stunning roses such as
bloom bloom bloom
all summer long so if you are a rose
aficionado if you are fruit tree
this is the place for you um if you just
like great weather
yes and you’ve never really experienced
the joy of spring
yes um i’m talking mostly from people
from the south springs
underrated yeah well rightly so in the
south i i get it in the north
you know winter’s finally over and
people get excited about spring but
uh in the south people dread the spring
because it means
i mean you go from 60 which is winter
to 90. like overnight and then it just
trudges along until november
so this has been a new experience for us
uh we thoroughly love our spring here
and we wanted to share that with you and
we hope you love all the pictures of uh
the trees that we’ve taken around here
absolutely it’s good stuff people
if you need information about real
estate the best place to find it
is pickle411.com we have all kinds of
information for both buyers sellers
or and everyone in between if you’re
thinking about
prescott lots of information about what
goes on here what you can do here what
you can eat here
um a wealth of information pickle411.com
we live to serve yeah we do sometimes
it depends if i get really tired then i
have to crash yeah i can’t
it’s hard it’s hard hard to keep that
energy going
but uh we do have fun and we’d love to
help you
in your next steps in buying or selling
absolutely so check us out
and have a wonderful beautiful spring
day bye
Meat Sticks & More
When it’s comfort food you’re looking for, there’s no better place around than Prescott’s family-owned diner located right in the crook of where Highways 89 and 69 meet – Prescott Junction. Cheeseburgers, meat loaf, home-made pies… with friendly service and 50’s music. Join us as we celebrate the re-opening of their famous breakfast bar, an extravagant spread featuring, among so many other things, the ever-elusive fried meat sticks – which you really don’t want to miss.
Video Transcripthello peeps cheers to you
this is diana randall bro here right in
the lovely
hubbub in the middle of prescott
arizona yes we are and we’re happy to be
here this this afternoon
absolutely um it’s uh spring has from
spring is fun
we’re excited got our second shot today
second shot today
it was awesome i tell you they have like
a well-oiled machine
so everybody here is getting vaccinated
left and right
systems are in place it’s easy for you
to get vaccinated
and with that opens up us going to all
of our favorite restaurants oh
and our favorite restaurants becoming
our favorite restaurants again because
correct a lot of them change quite a bit
yeah covet has unfortunately closed some
down uh there are several though who are
still going strong
and we applaud you for that absolutely
for hanging in there and making it
happen and
so uh one of those we want to talk about
is our favorite our daughter’s favorite
as well so whenever they come to visit
we call it pj’s the actual name is
prescott johnson basket
junction it’s a great great little diner
family-owned yes local family um
it’s great it’s like a mom and pop uh
little diner
delicious food right absolutely
delicious it’s like
home style cooking meatloaf is good
fashion
diner yeah stuff they even play the
old-fashioned music play old-fashioned
music when you sit in your face yeah
your little booth
oh narcotide
[Music]
it is really a trip back but uh the
thing that was really cool about the
endicovid is the breakfast buffet
and pjs has reopened as of i think last
weekend
yes so we hit it we were like about two
or three days after they opened it when
i saw
they had the the breakfast bar baby your
little eyes
lit up oh man he was the first one
running up there to get they make these
delicious chicken we called meat sticks
meat sticks he was all about that
chicken fried steak
correct my daughter was with us so she
got to come back to the
breakfast bar she was in for easter she
was just tickled pink
um it’s uh very reuniting when the whole
family can join and hit the breakfast
ball get the meat sticks
so it’s called press conjunction because
it sits at the junction of highway 69
and highway 89.
so it’s called prescott junction great
breakfast buffet
great staff everybody’s super friendly
great pies
i order all my pies from them for
thanksgiving
uh and they’re always delicious coconut
creams
yours is the french silk right i think
it’s the other one the chocolate
chocolate silk chocolate cream i don’t
know they’re all good the boston cream
is good
they have rhubarb yeah i like it he
likes that
yeah yeah he’s one of the weirdos that
eats
you know but there are others to select
from normal folk out there
but the other good thing about uh
prescott junction is
they do have some wine and i think maybe
beer
but i’ve had beer there before you’ve
had a beer i couldn’t remember
but they have really good uh like their
dinners are delicious uh
i love their pot roast i love their
meatloaf i love their cajun pasta
because you know we are from cajun land
randall loves their burger he gets
that’s double
that’s my usual yeah usually it’s all
there and it’s not breakfast time
yeah i’ll get a double cheeseburger
sometimes he still gets the burgers 10
30 it’s like
he calls it it’s time for me to have a
morning birthday my breakfast burger
breakfast burger
that’s it so i think i want a breakfast
burger
then he eats that and he comes home goes
back to sleep
takes a nap but anyway we love
prescott junction prescott junction made
it through the covid
of this past year uh i don’t think they
missed a beat
i don’t think they did i mean they were
going to take out people are lining up
absolutely it’s an institution we’ve
talked about a lot of different
restaurants and i guess we
we we tend to focus on the ones that are
sort of fancy
or noteworthy but i mean the one we
probably go to more than any other is
pjs
pjs are oppressed we that’s just our
little nickname within our face yeah
don’t look up pj
look at prescott junction it’s lovely so
if you want a good mom and pop
family diner experience
it’s a place to go and they also honor
their patriots there so
anyone who has been a vet a lot of times
they meet there
and uh someone will pick up the whole
time more times than not people yeah
it’s a really nice nice place
so we wanted to give a plug to prescott
junction that’s good
you probably don’t even know we’re
giving a plug we get plugs
all over the place we should yeah we
have a lot of plugs yeah
we like to spread the love people don’t
even know we’re spreading love
but we like to do it and we enjoy it and
i think
all family-owned restaurant businesses
deserve that little extra plug
no extra family i’m all about small
business
all about it how about you oh yeah
absolutely
you yeah i think you’re just you got the
meat sticks yeah
he’s all about the meat sticks and they
make a taco thing you like on there too
oh yeah
when the breakfast is over they have a
taco bar and taco bars
and a salad bar um also also pretty good
but anyway excited to say everything’s
really starting to open up again
it’s been really nice it’s been nice to
get back to them it has been starting to
get back to normal
so if you guys are coming in to visit
and you’re like hey you know what i just
kind of want
like a good home-cooked meal we highly
recommend prescott junction
very reasonable and when you move here
always order your pies from them they
are delicious
very very delicious very good so that is
our little plug for today
on prescott junction if you need
information the best place to find it is
pickle411.com
whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere
in between lots of free information
including restaurant recommendations
absolutely among many other things that
we’re that’s right
always plugging always plugging plugging
away
we’re plugging away and we also make
plugs
we are here for you to serve you help
you find your way help you navigate this
crazy insane market and the breakfast
and help you uh find some good breakfast
i’ll show you the meat sticks
what should i sticks are awesome it kind
of reminds me of high school again when
i
eat you know because we used to have
those those were good nothing beats
there’s
nothing from high school or the rules
the rules
oh yeah good stuff i didn’t go to the
same school you did so i know you didn’t
but yeah our roles were disgusting
really yeah ours were good they made it
themselves you can’t buy something
i remember uh our high school capture
with great fondness
i love their pizza their rolls and their
meat sticks yeah
but anyway i digress going back
Solar Compass
Identifying where the sun rises and sets isn’t just for constructing megalithic structures in bronze age agricultural societies any more.
Sun exposure can greatly impact the living experience you have in your home and its value in the marketplace. Is there a precise way to track the sun’s path in the sky across the seasons of the year?
Well, ask a nerdy question, get a nerdy answer in this week’s episode. (Always be careful what you ask for.)