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Patriotism in Prescott

Prescott is a city of patriotism, and its residents honor those that serve. In this episode, we celebrate independence, discuss Prescott’s culture of patriotism, chat with some local law enforcement folks… and pet some dogs.

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You Are Safe Now

When people have spent most of their lives watching out for underhanded thieves and thugs, it’s hard to get them to relax. But when you are in Prescott, you are safe. You can let your guard down and rest easy… but it might take you a while.

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Many Faces of Prescott

People have different notions of what Prescott is like largely because it is a lot of things. Depending on where you are in the city, the ground around you can be very different.

In this episode, we take the Pickle Van on a magical mystery tour of the many different types of terrain Prescott has to offer.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello pickle peeps hey peeps this is diane bro with my better half sometimes better half randall bro correct rumbling we’re in the van again we’re trying uh a dash cam still got some grumbling going on on the road so we thought that would be kind of cool in the pickle van driving around keep it keep it uh keep it jumping keep it jumping spicy that’s kind of spicy yeah because yeah we’ve been in uh we’ve been in lockdown for a while yeah exciting so today we’re going to talk about the many terrains of prescott yes so we have people that come in and they have preconceived notions of what prescott is and very different preconceived notions and the answer is we’re all those things we are we have many different types of terrain uh you can drive within five minutes and be in something that looks entirely different than where we just were so if you are a tree person or a forest person we got an area we got it yeah that’s kind of what i thought of about prescott i guess people described it as a mountain town well a mountaintop town to me is a place that’s well mountainous and has like lots of pine trees like pine tree forests yes and we absolutely have that we do yeah and so what’s nice is those particular areas are a little bit higher elevation uh but they are surrounded by pine trees some areas are also bordered by the state national forest it’s lovely it’s beautiful it’s going to be a little you’ll get a little more cooler weather up there you get a little more snow than the winter season you know that’s negligible but what’s beautiful about the tree the trees and the forested sections i mean you really feel like you’re in a tree house yeah some of these homes are built off the side of a mountain and all you hear is the swaying and the wind in the pine trees yeah it’s gorgeous it’s gorgeous it’s it’s just beautiful very peaceful very nice so if that is where your heart is we have that we have that section to take that and then that most of the areas in town that have lots and lots of pine trees are the southwest section of town yes if you go a little further north uh we’ll show you scenes from uh the haciampa area which is uh is kind of like our our next terrain the trees tend to thin out a little bit but still lots of terrain lots of drought that has and boulders yeah trees and boulders trees and boulders which is a really cool combo kind of my favorite combo really yeah um you’ll have the boulders plus you’ll still have the beauty and the greenness of the trees yes um and a little bit mountainous yes so that’s cool yeah and some people do not want any terrain they don’t want any hills they don’t want they want it flat yeah you know and so a good area for that but they still want trees is williamson valley williamson valley so lots of uh lots of flatter land still get a fair amount of rock um you know you can have some rock formations most of the homes can be done on a single level because there’s more flat land right um you’re not looking through trees so if you’re an area with lots of trees well your view is going to be trees sometimes you can’t see past the trees to see what’s beyond uh they have granite mountain in the distance yeah and out in the williamson valley area flatlands but lots of juniper uh scrub brush it’s kind of looks like an old western town it’s kind of a western like you’re just waiting for those tumbleweeds to come come through so totally different section totally different feel and one section that’s really popular it’s kind of in between a little bit more terrain than williamson valley but not a lot of trees is sort of midtown around the uh the area prescott lakes uh there is uh there are some homes that are built like on the edge of a cliff you know the the stemwall construction uh which is nice but there is some flat land some singles and again you have views of the dells willow lake watson lake um so that’s a little more of a planned subdivision so it’s beautifully landscaped so you see lots of green um but you will see some great distant views of granite mountain thumb butte uh and the dells and the dells which is our last area we wanted to talk about which is not unique to prescott but pretty close there are only a few areas in the world who have these kinds of uh rock formations and we are one of them and they are just stunning i love it it’s uh very similar kind of similar to the rocks in sedona but these are we call the fred flintstone for you people of our generation you’ll know what we’re talking about fred flintstone rocks and it’s right here in the heart of prescott lots of kayaking around there lots of hiking in there um it’s beautiful very very peaceful so some people like to live around those dells and see those rocks and the rocks and it is super cool um so prescott has it all so whatever your preconceived notions some preconceived notions we don’t have some people think that prescott is a desert town no we are not we are not a desert town we have four seasons here folks four beautiful seasons yep none are extreme okay we are not desert this is not phoenix this is not uh yeah you know scottsdale yeah this is very moderate you know temperatures yeah we’re not like flagstaff we’re not high enough to really get snowbound we don’t have elk here no uh we have a fickle lady you know she’s pretty wild yeah yeah i can be after a couple martinis absolutely it’s pets absolutely but anyways so when you come to prescott be open we will take you to all sections especially for your first visit and then you can decide oh i love the rocks oh i know i’ve got to be in trees end of sentence yeah then we can really hone in on the search and just go to those sections and be open to the possibility that you might change your mind we did i thought i wanted to live in the pine trees absolutely and we ended up buying uh in the prescott lakes area that’s right uh which is more kind of a happy happy medium that i think we love it so check it all out you gotta check it out keep yourself open to all possibilities you cannot go wrong here everything here is beautiful and delightful absolutely just different flavors of beauty is that your philosophy difference philosophical flavors flavors of beauty he’s right about that though yeah if you need information the place to look for that is pickle411.com whether you’re a potential buyer or seller uh just go ahead and hit there it’ll send you on your way you’ll find all kinds of free and informative stuff we’re all here together to help you guys yep happy relocation center for our buyers and lots of everything in between so super cool all right guys this concludes today’s tour of the terrain enjoy our little video that will come in and you’ll get to see for yourself exactly what we were just talking about all right have a great day bye

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Prescott Open Up

As Summer sets in, Prescott opens up a bit after weeks of corona quarantine. Get the latest as we drive around in the Pickle Van, now decked out in all its splendor.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello what’s happening out there ah summer’s happening summer is happening we’re super super excited we’re in the new pickle mobile yeah well the the the pickle van is not new but it’s got a new look it’s got a new look we got our pickle decals we’re so proud to represent the pickle lady brigade uh very excited summer’s here i don’t know if you can tell my bangs have grown in a little bit she’s looking less childish since the last time you saw us that’s right trying to hold this stick straight but it’s hard um but anyway so yeah we’re super excited that summer is arriving our pace has picked up dramatically the city is open we’ve had a ton of visitors our californians hey you guys may not know this but you are allowed to come into our fair city we do not have a quarantine in effect you are allowed to cross state borders you do not have to stay here for 14 days and self-quarantine [Music] you’re okay here absolutely we’re open for business you’re allowed to cross the state lines you’re allowed to visit our hotels are open our restaurants are open with limited table tops uh we are still following protocol but pretty much uh prescott’s open for business yeah a lot of misinformation out there we’re getting a lot of calls from people saying oh i heard you’re gonna have to self quarantine for 14 days that is not the case not the case at all um we’ve had several californians who came in crossed the border they said absolutely no stops or weird things uh they had their one agricultural stock that they always have but other than that um no fears here no one’s going to lock you down once you cross the state lines you’re good to come in here uh of course use common sense if you feel like you’ve been exposed stay put for a while if you’ve been quarantined and you’re and you’re ready to come out and check out what life is like here in prescott feel free absolutely you’re welcome to do that we’ve had i think 294 cases in yavapai county which is where prescott is located that encompasses sedona cottonwood some other smaller cities as well as prescott prescott valley we’ve had 294 cases with six reported deaths so uh we’re holding pretty steady yeah um and uh as i said we’re following all safety protocols yes we are so you are welcome to come here come enjoy the beautiful summer weather here before monsoon season starts and our rains come right now it’s just glorious sunshiny days in the 80s and the evenings it’s in the 60s can’t beat it it’s been nice it’s been really really nice look at what a good job randall’s doing driving oh yeah we both have survived uh quarantine yeah uh i withdrew the divorce the separation that’s right yeah i withdrew that i thought about it i still can’t get within six feet of her but uh other than that i’m good to go but we decided to hang in there we survived the bangs survived the bangs are coming back that’s right now my hair has gotten shorter yeah his hair has gotten shorter yeah i got my summer dude going here i got to keep myself nice and cool but we’re making it so sorry if this is a little yeah just a little wobbly i’m trying to keep wiggle it a little more it’s it’s hard you’re getting some bumps while we’re driving but anyway uh we’d love to have you we’d love to take you out to look at some homes tell you what life is about here and uh see if this could be your next destination you’re looking for more information hit up pickle411.com both buyers and sellers lots of information free giving away and uh very informative yes so look us up check it out and uh give us a call the pickle lady brigade is here with you with you to help you on your next step in life hold on we’re hitting some bumps again lots of bumps lots of bumps but life is full of bumps that’s right i couldn’t get it out fast enough but isn’t that what life is about that is with life lately lots of bumps am i right check us out at pickle411.com see what we’re all about and uh make an appointment to come out and see us love to show you around take care and have a good day bye

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17 Degrees

When you see the temperature in Prescott is going to be 17 degrees, you may think “the weather outside is frightful.” In this episode the Pickle Lady explains why it may be a lot more delightful than you might realize, and why even folks from the Deep South often find Winter to be the best of Prescott’s four glorious seasons.

Video Transcript

hello what’s happening out there today here with pickle lady cheers and our pickled brigade mugs that contain non-caffeinated coffee beverages for all of our 18 year old uh our home buyers home buyers that we’re setting ourselves we’re not trying to influence and we’re trying to influence not at all yeah but what we are here to talk about is a lot of people who move here we talk about how we have four beautiful seasons and none are too extreme then we have some clients and they move in and they’re like you said it wouldn’t be cold and tonight it’s going to be 17 17 degrees well here’s the thing does it get chilly willy at night time yeah it does it does but the difference is when it’s 17 degrees it’s usually three o’clock in the morning and you’re when you’re already snuggled under your coverage 17 degrees in your bed yeah yeah and it’s not 17 degrees in the daytime no for instance last night we had a pretty cold night now we’re standing outside it’s in the 50s yeah i want to say last night it was down to you know 27 yeah it’s getting up to close to 60. yeah um look at this weather it’s like spring here yeah so don’t let these low temperatures that you see like oh my gosh it’s 15 degrees hardly ever happens yeah when you see 17 degrees in a place like idaho for example it’s gonna be like 17 degrees all day long oh yeah you know it it doesn’t work that way here no yeah it gets very chilly sometimes at nighttime yeah so don’t worry about oh i looked on the weather channel and it says it’s 17 degrees there but they’re at yeah it’s a cold place it’s a cold place it’s not it’s not it’s not it’s not it’ll be fine you have your fireplace on and you’re sleeping yeah because it’s three o’clock in the morning no one’s like a few days in the winter where it’s in the 40s yeah yeah it it it’ll it’ll be cold at night and you know it might be drizzly so it’s really cold or whatever and you do something called stay home uh but like then you know the next day the day after would be up in the 60s that’s the thing the thing about prescott winters is that they’re not relentless they relent uh you know yeah that’s a good way yeah you you get inner space with days where you can run around in your shorts without a shirt i know you know the pickle lady likes to do that and so she’ll do that you know trying to keep the family safe we got to get to keep the family safe don’t forget so don’t let that throw you because yeah it can get pretty cold at nighttime when you’re sleeping but in the daytime look at your day yeah it’s gorgeous it’s in the 60s yesterday i was out taking some buyers i was like wow i’m getting a little hot actually i’m like i’m starting to sweat yeah so don’t let a lot of variety and you know i i i’m from the south so i’m not a cold weather guy but you know i enjoy having a few days where we’ll have a little snow or you know it’s a good day to have a a cup of coffee with the pickle lady right you know sit down on the back porch under a blanket and snuggle and you know all that kind of stuff and then when you get tired of being cold then you get 60 degrees you get 60 degrees yeah and spring has sprung again but the key to remember is do we have snow occasionally is it gone by the next day pretty much usually gone by the afternoon eighty-five percent of the time it’s like no big deal folks i mean you’ll see we had snow a few days ago you might see some snow in the background a little bit of white you know usually by the afternoon the the asphalt the the the roads get warm enough that all the snow’s off the roads and you’ll be on the grass and the bacon lunch you’ll see a little snow no now he’s getting scientific with your ass you know a little snow spice a little snow it’s kind of like having a little gray on the side of here well i don’t have that they tell me i’m distinguished now because mine is minus faith i don’t know any more than i used to i look like that so yeah what we’re saying is folks don’t let those teen temperatures freak you out it is a non-event event 100 non-event where can they find you you can find me at prescottpicklelady.com or we sell prescott.com for our listeners out there people looking to sell homes in the prescott area and there’s always the prescott lady hotline you know what 713-302-1964 introduced ourselves i am diane bro by the way this is randall bro it did that at the beginning yeah maybe i don’t think so it’s hard to edit these things people it’s hard to edit these things it is with the pickle lady she’s not always working on this i’m not i’ve got a lot going on a lot a lot up there houses i’m thinking about people coming in showing that house that’s what i’m thinking as we’re recording she does it never shuts off folks it never shuts off it’s always going to work that’s not very nice there it is that’s not nice all right cheers all right cheers have a great day and we’ll see you next time bye

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Traffic Control Test

Where do you find cutting-edge metro design experiments aimed at improving pedestrian and traffic flows, resource efficiencies, and the every-day life of citizens? Well, it’s the trail-blazing, pioneering world-class metropolises you would expect – like New York, Tokyo… and Prescott,AZ.

Check out the radical traffic control test Prescott is conducting right now just off of Whiskey Row, and find out what the Pickle Lady has to say about diagonal living.

Our Old Wine Down Mentioned: Traffic Calming

Video Transcript

good morning hello peeps this is randall and diane brooke prescott arizona arizona i put on my christmas attire and i brought my christmas cheer my holiday cheer uh so we are here to introduce to you our new traffic camera traffic control test you’re in question if you’re going to check out a traffic control test there’s always traffic so there’ll be traffic noise on this one so this is kind of a new little development here yeah since we have so many people who come to wisconro and the square and it’s a good tourist section of town right here they have actually put in what we call diagonal cross diagonal crossing at four-way stops at four-way stops it’s pretty cool so right now there’s a test going on at one corner one of our busiest corners right on whiskey row yep which is uh montezuma and gurley yes so i just did some walking across the diagonal yeah she’s good she she tries it out and she’s trying to be like a holiday elf holiday elf running across right yeah diagonal crosswalk yes and walking across the traditional so i i uh showed you how it’s done so when you come visit here don’t be afraid i like the way yes that’s right she’s blazing the trail all right what’d you think it felt a little different kind of like when you’re falling in love for the second time you know the first time it’s just amazing and you’re just like oh my gosh i i’ve never felt like this and the second time when you fall in love with somebody else maybe feels just as good but just a little different i didn’t see much difference i really thought i’m going to get killed is what i really want but it just goes to show you that here in this town we are progressive we have diagonal crossing which is only what you see in big big country yet japan tokyo so uh prescott is progressive here man we are up and coming so how much how much time do you think you save going diagonally versus i don’t think i see anything i’m gonna be honest yeah no because you you know you have to wait for it’s really not to help us it’s really not to help pedestrians can’t tell i think it’s to help traffic flow that’s what this is about yes because my track is slow because then people can’t take the right on red because pedestrians are crossing so really this is to keep traffic going so people aren’t backed up you know trying to make a right turn on red waiting yeah well that could that’s what this is about it’s really not about pedestrians well if you look at if you look at the basic geometry and mathematics you would think that it would be about 29 shorter 29 shorter in terms of the walk and it would be about two-thirds quicker in terms of the weight but yep you go up to the light you have to wait for the light you know i’ll tell you what i felt i felt annoyed because he was directing me press the button she kept going to the wrong corner the wrong that’s what i felt was just annoying because i’m also freezing and go to the that’s what i thought i didn’t feel any time saving or whatever but well we’ll see what happens we don’t know if the uh the how long the test is gonna last no i would think maybe through this year i don’t know it’s been going on for a few months now it’s kind of cool and uh you know we are keeping up with uh keeping up with the time yes moving forward into 2020 in the 2020s the traffic control tests and traffic calming if you haven’t seen our traffic calming video traffic we should check out our traffic into trash a lot of things a lot of things have been cool yeah where can they find you my life you can find me at prescottpicklelady.com 713-302-1964 you can check out our seller’s site we sell prescott.com you also find a link on our regular site prescott piccolo correct so we’re all there me randall we’re here to serve you help you find your perfect place here in prescott absolutely and happy holidays and save some time cut corners cut corners but in a safe and effective way i’ll cut corners where are you going to hurt yourself please corners on whiskey right absolutely all right next time have a wonderful day bye

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Musical Holiday

Prescott is Holiday Central these days – with plenty of lights, charm, special events… and wonderful music. In this episode, the Pickle Lady covers Prescott’s 30+ year tradition of Acker Night, our historic Elk’s Theater, the Rat Pack Christmas, and Prescott’s very own musical treasure: Esteban, the world-famous Spanish-style classical guitarist. Plus, we wear exceptionally ugly sweaters.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello hey peeps i don’t know if you can recognize us because right now we’re kind of christmas elves yeah but this is diane bro and my better half randall bro correct and part of the pickle lady brigade so cheers to that here’s that so we wanted you to see our new christmas sweater and all of its glory couldn’t be more thrilled he very happy you’re thrilled with this woman’s sweater that you bought you should wear it proudly say i even have pom-pom you have a pom-pom too i’m channeling my yeah but anyway or something so we are very excited we can take the hoods off because it’s getting a little hot but anyway we are very excited tonight or this evening to talk we’re in front of the old our own christmas tree fireplace and this is in the air yeah a little brown wine here he has brown wine i have real one but we are super excited to be here this evening to talk about what is it randall bro christmas and prescott christmas impressions particularly christmas music yes we should have someone in the background huh yeah but that’s all right just pretend that we’re humming something or snoopy’s charlie brown or something like that but anyway um as you know i think we’ve mentioned this before prescott is called arizona’s christmas city that’s right it is gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous guys come here plan a visit now the lights were just the whole town square lit up officially on december 7th that’s right all around the courthouse it’s like the first saturday of december yeah i do it i think and it’s over a hundred thousand likes i mean you’ll feel like you’re you know back and you know you’re in some hallmark movie yeah some christmas hallmark movie absolutely beautiful it’s beautiful absolutely but besides that christmas is a beautiful time to come here the elks theater um has a lot of special christmas shows yeah it’s a big time for music here in prescott what with the elks theater uh but before the else theater gets into christmas mode we have acronite so somebody had another first yeah so akronite was named after this guy james zacker he was a philanthropist had nothing to do with establishing acronym he was just such a nice guy they named it after him huge philanthropist yeah beautiful they’ve been doing action right now for over 30 years right and uh a lot of the businesses in the downtown area participate uh they will open shop at at night right and so they start like for instance this week it’ll be this friday they only do it one night and it’s a huge charitable fundraiser yeah and so actually it’s tonight because by the time they see this oh you’re right we’re gonna pretend yeah but pretend we’ll protect this uh tomorrow night though we will be there we’re very excited yeah we’re we’ll go and so all of the little shops around the immediate square and and the outskirts of it will stay open extra late normally they close a little earlier they stay open late they have some uh some of them have hors d’oeuvres and little you know some wine but they all have musicians local musicians that will come in and perform all kinds of stuff i mean any kind of music you can think of will be represented there and uh it’s it’s free but they do ask for donations right and the donations go to the musicians correct so i’m not sure what the it’s for the arts musicians need you know instruments and right music lessons and those sheets of paper with those squiggly symbols on them and those kinds of things so it’s a you know i do fundraiser for the owner for music yes and so it’s a great time to go enjoy the square and all of its beauty and all the lights and get to go to all these different little shops yep and um there’s a lot of art galleries along the square too and it’s all sort of like mint cider yeah all that kind of stuff it’s a big social event it’s a big event here in prescott and um it’s you this year it will be december 13th they hold it once a year it’s just a lot of fun it is it is and we enjoy it and it’s not trying to get up that’s the start of our weekend because after that we’re going to hit elk’s theater we are hitting hard this weekend we are partying partying pretty hard yes the holidays are started yeah first we had some lovely neighbors who had our little supper club and they had a little uh winter christmas dinner yeah yeah we just got fished a little christmas so that was fun that was the start of it so thank you to the churchill to the church yeah and then uh this friday night we’re going to akron as we said yeah and then uh saturday night we’re going to the elks to see the rat pack so it’s uh in person yeah yeah frank sinatra and dean martin and sammy davis and whoever the fourth guy is correct and they’re gonna be singing some of the oldie peter lawford you never get it right peter lawford no you said chris lawford and then i changed it and then i changed it as long as you got it right now i got it right it’s all that matters so now the the the impersonators do the right pack and then for christmas so it’d be kind of like a big they’re uh send off to uh their old vegas uh yeah christmas shows so we’re excited about that we’re going with some friends to that having a little bite to eat before yeah and going to the rat pack christmas at the outset yeah theater itself is gorgeous it’s a old historic landmark uh it’s really refurbished it’s just one of those old school small town theaters uh just just beautiful uh the iconic elk on top of it yeah gigantic very large gigantic elk on top of the yeah yeah it’s on top of the building what do you think that is what do you think it’s made out of something adorable it’s not made of elk no it’s not it’s not taxidermied yeah no yeah it’s like some kind of bronze bronze that’s what it is i think it’s one of those metals but yeah one of those hardcore that can survive for many years yeah who knows i don’t know it’s pretty cool yeah and then on sunday so this is what i’m saying the bros are having fun i’m telling you we’re out here we’re gonna wear our christmas sweaters we’re out here enjoying what this great city has to offer during during the christmas month during the holidays and it’s all about music this weekend yes music so sunday we’re going to see esteban classical guitarist spanish style classical guitarist he’s amazing uh studied under segovia and he is he is a treasure and we have him he lives here in president he lives here in prescott yeah it’s super super cool a treasure yeah so he did a great concert uh for mother’s day and now he’s doing a christmas concert so so we are super psyched about that we’re going to enjoy that yeah absolutely so we’re kicking off our holidays in good form we’ve been working hard super hard this week this year it’s been crazy lots of people are still coming in yeah hey we’ll work with you we’ll show you whatever you need to see yeah whatever you need to say we’ll bring you mult cider and we’ll sing a christmas tune correct take you to go see houses no problem we’re working whether it’s been nice and crisp really fun it’s been beautiful yeah if you haven’t it’s good oh real really cheers life is good life is good if you haven’t decided on prescott yet you’re still considering all those other god forsaken places that people retire to besides our little town that will never rate us we’re never going to rape but we’re partial come during the holiday season and this town will win your heart yes absolutely absolutely wonderful what’s sad what’s that right now we’re out of the spirit of christmases don’t grab your boobs wow i’m not sure which one of these is my group one of them is my navel i think i don’t know but yeah if this town at christmas doesn’t capture your heart and make you you’re a grinch yeah you’re a great you are officially a grinch no doubt about it you’re missing out on having a great life here in prescott just for the christmas season alone or the holiday season just the right pack that’s it’s not too late to come in for a little holiday visit not too late yes well cheers cheers and happy holidays to you happy holidays to you you look very handsome and you’re yeah this is me at my best this is okay if you guys need anything if you’re coming in town and you’re like hey you know we came in for your holiday visit on your suggestion but maybe we want to see a couple of houses hey give us a call we’ll be happy to take you out have a fun day um so call me at you’ll find 713-302-1964 links to our relocation center if you’re looking to relocate that’s a good place to go and get lots of good information correct we sell prescott we sell presskit which is our site for sellers so if you’re correct thinking about selling your home and need some help we’d be glad to help you you can find more information at we sell press kit.com yes or go to prescott picklelady.com you’ll find a link all of it all of it’s there it’s a huge wealth of information it’s a it’s all mixed in it’s all interconnected that we like part of the big plan correct that we like to share with you there you go there you go all right so that is all all right we’re here to help you all right thanks bye hey frankie you said you would do yours you sweet girl

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Witchy-Poo

Fall is in the air in Prescott already, as the Pickle Lady gets into the Holiday spirit- starting with Halloween. A great time to visit our town, but – as we reveal – maybe not so good if you are heading off to other destinations.

Get the low-down and watch the ventriloquism.

Catchy Song in Background: Señorita by Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
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Whiskey Row

When you are ready to raise some hell, Prescott has just the thing for you: It’s own mini Bourbon Street. Great music, great bars, and a great time. The Pickle Lady tells you all about it.

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which shaken my fellow friendly pickle peeps what happened to hello hello four hello hello hello yeah that’s what gets me going hello hello that’s a little disturbing [Laughter] and very very sad yeah i know all right she’s the preschool pickle lady my name is randall bro we are real estate agents here in prescott arizona and uh we are at the plaza bandstand on the square that’s right underneath this beautiful bandstand yeah you can kind of see up with the yeah there you go it’s really coming at you and right behind us is whiskey row so we thought we’d say a few words about the infamous whiskey row that’s right yes press gets answered to bourbon street well yeah a little bit not quite but uh one block of it anyway one half block right yeah so yeah if you come here we have a lot of friends who like to honky tonk as we call it that’s their favorite thing to do they come down here and uh enjoy all the music that whiskey row has to offer have a couple of drinks dance honky tonk and then head home and sleep it up go home at nine no i’m kidding no actually uh uh whiskey road is open kind of late so uh one of the few places that is openly and there’s not a whole lot around so they can make lots of noise yeah and nobody complains and so this is a good time to kind of come and have some fun some of our favorite places here there’s uh the bistros over there there’s a whole bunch of honky tonk bars down here just a lot of fun and really really good music i mean you would be surprised i mean it’s for people think we’re such a small town we’ve got some really good musicians yeah we do we do they have uh sort of alternative jazz they have traditional plastic rock and country western and the whole thing it’s just a lot of fun a lot of dancing a lot of you know you can kind of let your hair down here absolutely and have a good time so if you’re looking at honky tonk and you love music and you want to have a nice time this is the place to come place to come man safe yeah absolutely safe totally safe yeah totally fun yeah get a bunch of friends have a couple of beers do some line dancing yeah i don’t know i like these i like blind bags yeah it can well especially they have a lot of beers the more drinks i have the better the line dancing i can never remember the routine well i don’t i don’t care if i don’t care i just want to have fun i’m just like oh we turning right i turn left that’s cool that’s cool everybody embraces you accepts you yeah i guess so but anyway just wanted to tell you if you’re big into music and and you think is that small town is that going to have some culture some things for me to do yes yeah well amazing amazing music here and you’ve been known from time to time you head out that’s right caused a little trouble possibly trouble i wouldn’t i wouldn’t say that cause a little trouble fall asleep at the table and they get mad at me that’s more like it yeah but anyway i hope that you come and visit prescott and enjoy all the fun that uh whiskey row has yeah absolutely waiting for you fun is just waiting for you absolutely all right have a good evening and we hope to see you here in prescott yeah except you got to tell them where to find oh yes i forgot that’s very important you can reach me at 713 3 or mr oddly enough you can find the preschool pickle lady at prescopiclady.com relocation center that’s pretty cool stuff check it out get some good information yeah we’d love to meet you come on bye yeah take care have a good night bye

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Early to Bed

Who would ever have thought that these crazy night owls would change their ways? The Pickle Lady explains how to become one of those “early to bed, early to rise” types without even trying.

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hello hello hello we’re heaps this is randall and diambra that’s uh your local hopefully favorite realtors yeah we should be by now i hope yeah we sure try hard we’re working we’re working this is your uh we’re your preschool pickled peeps yeah this is the preschool lady with me here that’s right along with our other our other pickled lady part of our pickle lady brigade janice erickson that’s right not drinking this uh for this episode it’s too early in the morning it’s too early in the morning yeah too early in the morning so we thought what a beautiful day let’s go down to the square so here we are here we are uh we’re actually kind of by the platform i wanted you to see they come here sometimes to play summer pops so this whole square the symphony will come and play and everybody brings their lawn chairs yeah yeah evidently we’re sitting on kind of like like a stage or something here i don’t know there’s some statues behind us and the statue back there oh cowboy got a good shot of that horse’s butt it’s awesome awesome bud anyway so it’s just one of the many little fun time summer activities they have here a lot of people like to come to the square and see that yeah but we’re really here to talk to you about kind of early to bed early it’s bad early to rise right so a little known fact about randall and i we used to be major major night owls night owls yeah we’re both from new orleans i used to pick when we were dating i used to pick her up at like 9 30. yeah you know that would be out till three in the morning not anymore not anymore and i think it has something to do you’ll find a lot of people here it’s like let’s meet for dinner sounds great let’s go what time are we going i’ll meet you at 4 30 or 5. centers early at first i was like i’m too young for this because i’ll tell you what i think it’s because we’re in the mile high city i don’t know i don’t know if it’s the altitude or i don’t know but people like to go to bed early here and get up early in the morning and i we were never that way our total body chemistry has totally changed so now i embrace i’m like oh hell yeah 4 30 for dinner sounds perfect and in bed at eight even better yeah right absolutely it’s kind of whack-a-doodle yeah but i don’t know if it’s the clean crisp air that i’m breathing or that it’s the higher altitude um i don’t know but i’m okay with it yeah you just i’m now a morning person i don’t know what happened to me today i woke up it’s like 3 30 in the morning yeah and i’m like i think i’ll get some work done because i’m up i if you had told me that i would be that way there would be some place on the earth that would make me that way i would have laughed at you because i used this when i was a kid i’d sleep until three in the afternoon i know who would have ever thought yeah so people who know us way back in the day are like we didn’t want to call too early and i’m like it’s perfectly fine i’m up i’m up with i’m up with the roosters yeah guys not necessarily a function of getting older i think in part it’s just a function to come in a preschool i think it’s just so if you want to stay a night out well you might want to reconsider because your body clock will totally change when you yeah you won’t have a try i mean i didn’t do it by choice it just kind of happened i mean if you while you’re in the process of transition there there are places that do stay open uh and they’re all over here it’s uh whiskey road you see over there and that’s where all the the late night stuff is going on they’re usually open to two or three in the morning so if you want to do that you can uh but we would suggest to you that you probably won’t yeah over time you probably start getting up early in the morning with us so exactly we’ll see you for breakfast just exactly great breakfast here all over great great brunches that you can go have so just when you pass on that little tidbit your body clock might change yeah with the higher altitude yeah but you’ll still love it here they’ll still love it and you’ll still enjoy the pops here in the summer when they come play in the square so anyway where can they find your first plastic pickle reach me at 713-302-1964 yes it is a texas number yeah i’m not soliciting yeah in any shape or form um i just didn’t change mine i’m too lazy i’ve had it too long i can’t change now yeah i’m not changing it or you can find us online at prescottpicklady.com where you can find information about relocating the preschool uh you’ll see the link there to our preschool relocation center lots of good information there you’re looking to sell yeah how home are you looking to sell in prescott check out our listing site we sell prescott.com absolutely and we’d like to any of you buyers coming in give us a call give us a call we want to show you what it’s all about absolutely here in our newly adopted you got to have a good breakfast yeah to go on a house home with us because we really we hit it hard yes all right thank you so much have a good day bye you

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Inappropriate Attire

The Pickle Lady dons some very inappropriate attire to demonstrate a very important point.

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hello hello hello hey pete hello randall bro how are you i am good how are you governor i’m doing okay governor hat on yeah that’s right well good morning good morning i am diane breaux and this is my better half randall grove here in the beautiful square of downtown prescott yeah uh we are in august but we’re wearing our winter garb drinking coffee here yeah because we wanted to explain to some of you who think i can’t move to arizona it’s too hot yeah it’s desert yeah it’s broiling you are wrong you are wrong there are some sections as in phoenix and tempe that yeah has that terrible 120 115 yeah crazy weather but we’ve done the summer challenge man we’re dressing up for winter weather that’s right in our summer challenge in august summer challenge here in the square of recipe rescue the downtown square right by the courthouse so you can’t you can’t do this in phoenix no if you did this in phoenix or las vegas in august you’d burst into flames you’re right yeah so we decided let’s put our coats on so people who who just think arizona is too hot to move to we want to show you it’s not especially here in prescott we have four true seasons so here we are august 29th uh it’s 8 o’clock in the morning we are in full winter gear not even breaking the sweat not even breaking news it’s a lovely split 70 degrees right now yeah i made 75 sometimes early in the morning it’s about 8 a.m but it will get a little hotter later on today but it’s that much hotter yeah no it’s not yeah so here we are in in arizona and crossfit as well yeah yeah and it’s just not what you think when you think of arizona we have just the perfect perfect weather even our summers aren’t that hot nope right our winters are great our fall is even better yeah absolutely and spring is just lovely yeah so when you’re thinking i don’t want to move to arizona too hot too arid to this to that look at all the greenery around us just not we’re not not here in prescott no not at all it’s the perfect four seasons absolutely so we’ll do a winter challenge too yeah i don’t know how much how many clothes we can take off oh yeah nobody wants to see that but yeah i won’t be in a bathing suit yeah like you said nobody would want yeah yeah i work in the region my love you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or find us online at prescottpicklelady.com you’ll find a link there to our prescott relocation center lots of good information about prescott and moving here and making a new life for yourself so come to prescott don’t think about vegas and phoenix and and florida and all that too hot yeah you can’t bundle up in august there like we are absolutely come to prescott and enjoy beautiful living and great great weather all right have a good day bye

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Critters… and an Escape

Worried about the critters you might find in Prescott? The Pickle Lady gives you the low-down on all the creepy crawlies that might have you on edge… plus a fortuitous escape caught on camera.

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hello hello hey peeps randall and i am bro she’s a lady i am i get to hang out with her it’s one of the perks one of the perks of being a realtor he doesn’t know he doesn’t always think that but yeah don’t be fooled by that especially when i fail at technology which is a lot yeah is that so nice i didn’t marry her for her technical savvy is that a word savvy i think that is i don’t know i don’t know i don’t know okay we’re outside our office here i have a little balcony that overlook i’m gonna see if you can see the square behind us here yeah down that street it’s right to the square in the square yeah to the square in good times yeah we’re still having fun making it work absolutely all right so today what we wanted to talk about was uh a lot of times we get texts emails phone calls i hate snakes i’m scared of scorpions yeah what’s the story i hear uh i was about to say alaska not alaska i know what’s wrong with me i don’t know we have friends yeah we do no but they’ll call and ask about arizona i hear they’re just written with all the critters all the time oh yeah i’m here to tell you that’s that we first one’s the snakes right so let’s do the snakes correct so we have the diamondbacks i’m not a sports guy what are the diamond banks basketball i’m not even sure i don’t know we uh we’ve been here three years we’ve had a few snakes none of them rattle snakes just like snakes the ones that eat the the mice and the bad so yeah i’ve never had a you know a diamondback yeah no i’ve never had an escape from that or anything it’s all good of course you know we’re all god’s creatures yeah um we cannot say unequivocally 100 you’ll never find one here um but i myself have not run in across one i go hiking i’m on the i haven’t run across one on the path um but it’s not like we’re we’re tons of snakes no i mean there are snakes all over the world so we can’t give you a hundred percent guarantee separate except for ireland ireland is supposed to not have sleep i’m not sure what that has to do with it but well i want to work that in i don’t want to speak falsely that the whole world doesn’t have something oh you heard that yeah that is rude somebody live in the present all right yeah but anyway all right scorpions scorpions same thing uh i’ve lived here three years i’ve never seen one in or outside of my home no um it’s not like they’re crawling around here owning the place at all no no you won’t see them uh again are they here sure is it a chronic problem like cockroaches no which is another thing no roaches and no mosquitoes oh my god the mosquitoes here are so stupid like you have one you could just go and kill them yeah they are amazingly stupid coming from the south yeah i mean you’re just eating a lot eating a lot it’s very refreshing to sit out on your deck people here think they have here yeah they’re mosquito they think they have bugs here yeah so they’ll put like screens on the windows like why do you bother you have no bugs here it’s amazing delightful absolutely delightful which is your usual favorite one i love the word but i’m going to adapt adopt it not adapt it i’m going to adopt that word it is very uh delightful so tarantulas i have seen maybe once a year i see tarantulas in some areas they like to uh they like to get on asphalt they don’t see them on the road yeah uh i have seen two since i’ve been here so on average maybe about once a year you’ll see a tarantula in an area where there’s asphalt and there’s not a lot of traffic and on the road just sitting there it’s not like they’re hanging out in your house yeah we’re not in the home or anything yeah so you never fear coming to prescott arizona that’s a hot rod never fear coming to prescott arizona about really lethal fatal scary critters they’re not that common and just for good measure we don’t have earthquakes either yeah we get that too we have earthquakes we have water we don’t yes that’s another one yeah yeah we’ll do one on water yeah no lack of water no lack of water the water comes from the tap here you turn it on it comes out we do not have earthquakes not to say that we could hold on another another motorcycle yeah not to say that you couldn’t but uh we don’t get tremendous i mean we are not god we can’t predict at all we try hard but no hurricanes no hard things just nice weather yeah nice beautiful four seasons with no critters with no critters hardly any critters don’t worry about the craters yes all right well this is diane and randall bro signing off on our critter chapter yeah you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or on the web at prescottpicklady.com you’ll find a link there to our prescott relocation center with links to all kinds of wonderful stuff so if you have a listing where do we go if you want to sell oh yeah yeah go you can go to we sell prescott.com or preschoolpicklady.com you’ll see the link there that we sell we are all here to help you sell and buy both sides and we do both sides extremely well and protect you from critters and we will personally protect you from any any diamondbacks that not randall yeah she will i’ll be gone somebody else may yeah we’re looking at houses and there’s a snake on we will make sure that it doesn’t get we’ll run real fast we’ll run real fast we’ll set the pace for you time to run but anyway all right good to see you guys take care have a good day bye you

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Dog Heaven

Prescott is a great place to be if you are a dog… or dog owner. Check out this over-the-top dog park and meet the Pickle Lady’s pups.

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hello hello hello hey peeps this is randall and diane bro he’s the pickle lady and i’m the i don’t know pickle person he’s pickle pickle man pickle pickle man um we have our sunglasses on because we’re standing directly directly in the sun so uh but anyway we’re having a great time we’re here at the biggest dog park here in prescott yeah huge and we’re having kind of look pan around here there’s some dogs and some people and people with dogs and all kinds of huge yeah yeah we would love to come here with our dogs we have one dog that behaves yeah one dog that absolutely does not she does not get along well with others not play well i should say not to sound like one of those moms but i think the others just don’t get along with her she’s misunderstood she’s largely misunderstood she is misunderstood her name is stella and the good one we have is frankie lou beautiful dogs yeah but uh but sadly we can’t do the dog park no but i wanted to show this to you guys yeah um and like you have well-behaved dogs or if you move here and get a well-behaved dog you can come here what i wanted to tell you was uh how prescott it’s a huge huge huge dog community yes everybody loves dogs yes everybody has a dog here yes um you go to eat at any restaurant and you’re on an outdoor patio they’ll probably have their pockets a couple of pups you come here to the dog park they got a huge i mean a huge piece of land yeah for the big dogs and then a smaller area for the smaller pups yeah they do and kind of kind of an area i don’t know if you can see it over there but they have a place that uh it’s kind of cordoned off for the smaller dogs although most people have small dogs don’t bother yeah they don’t they don’t follow the blue i know and their little dogs are the ones that come those are the ones yeah no offense to anybody out there but you know it’s true it’s true you can’t deny it you can’t deny it you can’t deny you know it’s true but it’s also cool they got a lot of stuff that the dogs can run on and have fun and climb on and jump off of and water and it’s it’s just great it’s right it’s located at the end of willow creek across from finley toyota there you go so for those of you who are new you pass by the fry shopping center and come on why do i have some shade on me but i do strange i feel like i’m in solar eclipse interesting yeah i don’t know but anyway um nature’s nature is a phenomenon yeah it is but don’t feel bad for our dogs though because uh we take care of them we uh we walk them quite a bit and uh we also ride them around they love to go for a ride yeah go like go for a ride so we have a dog that is devoted to the dogs it’s our dog car and uh at least twice a day in the morning in the afternoon they’ll come by us and start jumping around because they know it’s time for their run time for a ride so we take them for a ride everybody knows our car because it’s a black car and we have two black dogs they stick their heads out their heads and everybody’s like they’re going to pickle people again so you see crazy people driving around with their dogs hanging out the side of a black car that you know that’s us that’s us but we wanted to tell you when you move here in case you didn’t know about this great dog park you can come here and meet people here as well they’ve got a lot of chairs and people sit around and chit chat and there’s kind of a little dog family uh friendly community yeah yeah so please make a make a trip out here with your pup if you’ve got a good one yeah people here are super friendly dogs are usually friendly and uh it’s just a good place to kind of come enjoy a beautiful day like today beautiful beautiful day so all right that is it for the dog parks and the dog-loving city of prescott so where can they find you my love you can find me at 713-30 or on the web at prescottpicklady.com where you find a link to our prescott relocation center all kinds of great information about the city and where to find things and stuff about buying houses and everything where to get your hair cut yeah yeah yeah anyway so good good good information there so check it out happy to be here today and spread the news about this great dog park you guys have a good day bye

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The Time of Your Life

This week we devote a whole episode to nothing but having fun – and the fun that awaits you here in Prescott. See the special footage of the Pickle Lady having a ball with some wonderful friends. Come share it with us.

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Sprung 2019

Spring is springing in Prescott… and the great buying season for 2019 has begun. Join us in Mark’s Beer Garden to celebrate.

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hello hey peeps how’s it going out there yeah it’s going well here yeah we are so happy to be celebrating the start of spring absolutely here in our beautiful prescott and we are at uh one of our new favorite places mark’s beer garden yeah absolutely so we’re not drinking wine we’re drinking uh a little german beer drinking a local uh hard cider made locally here prickly pear prickly pear hard cider and it is delicious yeah it’s also a strangely pink color it’s well it’s prickly pear yeah it makes sense but anyway mark was cheers to you mark was kind enough to uh let us come shoot and his beautiful beer garden out here garden beautiful it’s off of iron springs uh we highly recommend it it is fantastic good food too good eats great time for an open uh open place because it’s spring it’s bright right and he has sprung darts here and corn hole here you can come here and have a great time german beer yeah yeah you did it but anyway let’s get back to the task at hand i am diane and this is randall bro she’s the pickle lady i am your local prescott pickle lady or sometimes we’re just the press kit pickle peeps peeps it’s hard to say though yeah pickle peeps pickle eater yeah people um and we are just very excited now that spring has sprung and uh the market is warming up yep we’ve got lots and lots of people coming in um ready to start that next chapter and uh we are happy to help you yeah absolutely and so what we’re super psyched about is interest rates suddenly have gone low yeah we were told at the beginning of this year all the lenders were saying oh you know it’s going to be five five and a half six as high as six and a half by the end of the year and of course uh interest rates immediately started to drop so yeah just goes to show you nobody really knows what it is nobody knows but it’s good for you guys out there who are thinking about it get in now we just closed one at 4.125 that’s crazy that’s crazy crazy that’s crazy and the lowest it’s been in a while so if you are really thinking about making a move that’s a good time now is the time that’s good get in here get it while you can lock up those super low rates before they start creeping absolutely a lot of new listings coming on people put their homes on spring is uh home selling time that’s right it’s time to be it’s time to be here and you don’t want to miss the spring so we’ve got i’ll intersperse some uh some beautiful pictures of what spring is like here in prescott we’ve got red leaf plum trees that look like cherry blossoms from washington dc bradford pears that look like giant snowballs yeah well they may not know i thought about this but i refer to these trees as snowballs because uh in new orleans you call some of you other people may call it shaved ice or snow cones or snow cones yeah i call them snowballs so when we say the trees look like a snowball a snowball for all you others it means a shaved ice or a snow cone yeah whatever you may refer that tasty treat honestly that is the proper term if you ask me i mean that just makes sense i don’t want to think about that a snowball just sounds fun and delicious and tasty and and uh anyway anyway i digress i digress so now is the time to come for spring uh we’re already booking up we’re pretty much booked in april to take people uh buyers out give us a call we always want to always can add more we always can add more we’re going into may and uh i think it’s just the time time for you to plant where you know how is it blossom where you’re planted that’s it [Music] replanted transplant yeah well and yeah i think in this case it will be blossom where you’re transplant transplant that’s right and you should transplant you know you should try something new and you too could become a snowball if you just yeah you too could enjoy the snowball yeah or be a snowball or be a snowball transplant if we should open a snowball stand here that would be awesome that would be hot that would be a little rum yeah i had a little rum new orleans style new orleans style anyway i’m digressing again we’re gonna go uh to experiment with some shaved ice that’s right but anyway just wanted to tell you the weather is gorgeous here it’s perfect perfect house hunting weather perfect storm perfect yeah perfect interest rates perfect weather and perfect realtor pickle lady yeah you could spend time in spring in worse places with worse people than the pickled lady in spring and breast can everything we try to make it fun honestly we really do because it is a hard process and it’s a lot of homework and so we try to bring some humor in it and have fun absolutely so anyway this is randall and diane bro here pick a lady pick a lady where can they reach you my love you can call me at 713-302-1964 or reach us online at prescottpicklelady.com yes hope to see you soon thank you mark’s beer garden bye

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Shhh! The Traffic is Sleeping

Just when you thought the traffic couldn’t get any calmer, the Germans put us in a coma.

If you are used to long, tortuous, bumper-to-bumper traffic jams and insanely aggressive motorists who threaten your life at every turn, wait until you drive around Prescott. It’s calm, sane, and beautiful.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get any more peaceful, the Germans engineer something just a little bit crazy.

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hello hello peeps hey guys what’s up buttercup what’s up buttercup what’s up buttercup right now we are standing by this sign that says traffic calming so we are an area of traffic calming traffic traffic calming so you can see the traffic that’s kind of coming by people should be very very calm yeah traffic calming is uh an engineering oh that’s right i’m diane randall bro yeah we are the local prescott pickle peeps she’s the prescott pickle lady also also uh hopefully one of your favorite realtors here yeah happy to serve you realtors in prescott arizona home of at least some traffic calming that’s right okay so traffic what is traffic economy so traffic calming is like an engineering thing that the germans started and it’s like a literal translation of the german like traffic called mexico i i don’t know the german but but it literally translates as traffic calming and the idea is to design the streets themselves like the way the lanes are laid out and everything so that people people are calm people drive calm they’re not crazy lunatics driving faster yeah but here’s the funny thing let’s be honest all of prescott is traffic calming that’s the point here traffic is very common yeah traffic is very calm here in prescott we just think this sign is kind of um hilarious because all yeah evidently some some politician was very concerned that we needed some traffic calming and this i guess this was the only place i’ve seen this yeah i think they had to stop because people were going into a coma so yeah the point if you get any calmer driving here there’d be a lot more car accidents yeah for smaller older generations so let’s be honest they drive a little bit they drive slow they do they’re a little more cautious yeah they are but the most exciting thing is no heavy-duty um traffic uh we don’t get a lot of drugs we don’t get road rage yeah no roadways that was ridiculous but anyway a very big truck here comes some more traffic sorry okay yeah sorry for the traffic noise there are no rush hours here yeah you know if you want to get to uh prescott to go down to pv it’s really going to take you about 12 minutes guys you know unlike la where our daughters live oh my gosh you you want to go someplace 10 minutes away it could take you 30 to 40 minutes yeah traffic yeah it does not happen here it’s it’s calm it’s lovely but not only that it not only is the traffic slow and you know not high uh a high multitudes of cars everywhere jamming up the the lanes it is um beautiful yeah yeah you drive around it puts you in a good mood like you know even if i have to wait for this light i’ll just stare at this i’ll just stare at this mountain until the light turns green exactly so you know you’re driving okay so might maybe there’s a little build up of traffic but you’re surrounded by beautiful beautiful scenery yeah so you don’t care and you don’t have people constantly blowing the horn at you unless you fall asleep unless you pause it and flipping you off and you know it’s a very polite town yeah it is oh and also the other thing i love pedestrians everybody stops they’re so kind yeah there’s none of this crazy oh my gosh i’ve got to get some place right now yeah get out of my way everybody i’m going to hit that pedestrian because i’ve got to get to some place on time it doesn’t happen here you’re safe this is all love and peace it is that’s why we have a traffic calm traffic calming yeah yeah so be careful as you drive through here because you may find some people pull over the side of the road and actually fall asleep exactly it’s very namaste namaste so don’t worry about rush hour here don’t worry about i’ve got to get someplace and i’ve got to you know time it out i have an hour to get there on time you don’t have to worry about all that time is real here it’s real time yeah live in the moment live in the moment that’s what i can calm down your traffic and stare at the mountain fell on you what fell on me some tree i don’t know but it wasn’t a bird all right so that is all we just wanted to give you a heads up so yeah absolutely traffic wherever you may live think wow think about traffic calming in prescott and just enjoying beautiful scenery and driving peacefully absolutely you know worrying about anything where can they find your pickle lady you can find me at 713-302-1964 or prescottpicklady.com online we’d love to show you around here comes another car yeah throw me something mister anyway we’d love to show you around so you can see firsthand how lovely it really is here yeah all right have it until next time

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Snowmageddon?

How two Southern kids survived the heaviest snow Prescott has seen in 90 years

Winter: Snowmageddon?
Winter of 2018/19 was crazy all over the country, and Prescott was no exception: We got the heaviest snow we’ve seen since 1930.
Pretty much our worst case scenario… and really not bad at all!

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hello hello hello hey peeps it’s diane and randall bros yes we are we are here after our two days of fun and snow days that we were locked in the house it’s been called snowmageddon snowmageddon snowpocalypse yeah and here we are yeah we had an unprecedented 28 inches of snow well i’m not unprecedented because uh the last time was in 1930 that’s right they have had that much snow before but it’s been since 1930 1930 yeah but so it was kind of nice we had a little staycation yeah we did and got to enjoy the beauty the beauty the beauty and the quietness of the snow and so here it is two days later yeah here we are i’m in a sweater it’s not that cold it’s gorgeous uh let’s see so it was wednesday so this is saturday this is saturday it was wednesday night the snow started uh snowed all day thursday yes uh yesterday it finished up like late morning uh we drove around with the dogs that the roads were closed yesterday afternoon uh the highways were were free and we came down here and checked things out a little bit and uh now one day later the sun is shining sun shining it’s melting it’s family day here in the square yeah you can see all the all the kids all the families are out with snowman galore it’s gorgeous and the point is is that some people are like oh gosh i can’t deal with that snow yes you can this is the worst case scenario this right here is 100 percent the worst of the worst the worst that’s been no big uh we were snowbound for only one day yeah uh second day roads were already cleared third day it’s completely everything is clear um the snow is white beautiful everyone’s having fun yeah and um we’re just having the time of our life it was a great staying home with the pickle lady drinking coffee all day drinking coffee you know drinking some wine stayed in my jammies which was nice nice to be in my jammies all day and now the great melt has begun the great melt has begun survived so we wanted you to see uh don’t be deterred i love that word i like that don’t be deterred by the snowfall here it’s not that big of a deal we’re from the deep south so believe me if i can you know come from louisiana and say this is no big deal it’s no big deal well i don’t know going forward i might you know i don’t know if i’m gonna tell people it was no big deal because you know i survived the snow 2019 back in the day when men were men and that’s right he did uh probably the first full driveway of shoveling snow he’s ever done i was helped out some neighbors all the neighbors were coming out and helping one another that’s right it was very nice it was a very bonding time yeah it was it was a little hot too to kind of see all these guys out there shoveling snow when you’re in 2019 men are being real man yeah dogs being real dogs too run through the snow oh my gosh the dogs had the best time running around and having a good time here comes some cute pups now coming through the square absolutely yes they’re coming to enjoy the snow as well here they come yeah just all having some good times so yeah it was nice the whole city came together we all look out for each other and uh just enjoy the beauty that uh a good 28 inches of snow can bring you and it was absolutely beautiful but the best thing is we’re up and running no big deal no loss of electricity no loss of heat so oh and the city for us the city did a remarkable job keeping the roads close open and everything yeah so we salute them salute you know what a concept you actually you pay taxes right the people who pay the taxes actually benefit yes because they didn’t pay anything they did such a great job they were out and about immediately running all night uh so you know we salute them and we thank them for their service to our city absolutely very much so this is diana randall bro here in the square of prescott yeah enjoying all the snow and all the seeing all the families and snowmen and pups and we’re gonna go have some fun we’re gonna go have some fun you can find me at diane at prescottpicklelady.com or 713-302-1964 and the website is prescottpicklady.com you can find home listings relocation guides and a whole bunch of fun stuff yes so anyway we just wanted to show you that snow is not a big deal we survived again we’re from louisiana and we had a great time it was fun all right guys have a wonderful day diana randall bro here enjoying the snow 2019. pick a lady in the snow who did pickle it yeah i’ve come far i’ve come far all right snowpocalypse have a great day bye guys

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Chillin’ in Prescott

What it’s like during the coldest month of the year in Prescott.

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hello hello hello peeps hey peeps this is diana randall bro that’s us what’s shaking bacon yeah anything good going on today i hope something fun is going on for you yeah we’re having a lovely day we decided to talk to you today about the winters here in prescott yep which as you can see by the blue sky is very oppressive yeah and pretty scary i can’t get some surroundings here pretty scary january is the coldest coldest month we have and uh here we’re on uh martin luther king day that’s right enjoying some time out on the patio outside the prescott lakes country club which is lovely by the way and behind us you can see some of the water traps here at prescott lakes it’s beautiful beautiful beautiful country club here we really love we lit we live here and we love it and we encourage anybody coming in we’d love to take you around and show you all about prescott lakes and what it’s about but most importantly we want to talk to you about the weather because we’ve had a number of inquiries yes oh my it’s god cold i can’t do the winters i can’t actually you can and you will love them i am from the deep south you cannot get any hotter and milder than that no no and uh we love winter here it’s brisk it’s beautiful um and you can see we’re suffering we’re really suffering here we thought about being naked for this because it’s not good no not me yeah but we yeah yeah it wouldn’t be a good yeah it wouldn’t be a good thing but what’s nice about winter here is uh at nighttime it might get in the 20s or low 30s and you’re like oh that’s too much that’s true but you’re snug as a bug in your nice warm house then you wake up to this beautiful sunshine yeah and then in your bed you’re in your mind by cold you’re in your back that’s right who cares why you’re sleeping how cold it gets but when you wake up in the morning uh by 11 o’clock it’s up to the 40s by noon it’s up to the 50s and it’s just beautiful sunshine yeah uh mild mild today yeah last night was the lunar eclipse so i was out on the back porch checking out the blood moon and all that stuff and i know it’s been as late as 10 o’clock and it was still you know it was fine so yeah don’t let that don’t don’t let that scare you i’ve also had questions about the snow we might have snow three at the most four times during the winter season january is our coldest month we’ve had two little snowfalls this month but the snow plows come in we’ve got all the infrastructure and take care of that yeah you’re not snowbound this isn’t the blizzards in new york city and and buffalo most of the snows last like hours you know so it’ll snow overnight and so you wake up and it’s beautiful winter wonderland blah blah blah and then usually before dinner it’s mostly gone absolutely it gets up to in the 50s every day so so you get like the best of both worlds excuse me my hair’s flying all over the place that’s a winter gust coming through so devastating gust so you get to enjoy the beautiful white snow there’s no yellow snow here no if you know what i mean yeah it’s gone all melts away it all melts away there’s no snow drifts that sit there for weeks and weeks and weeks and become dirty with the grime and you know new year’s eve we had a crazy a crazy storm uh you know it really affected a lot of the surrounding areas we got six inches which is a lot first very unusual yes you know by by new year’s eve night you know uh the plows had done their than their work and the roads were all accessible uh the next day the big milk starts you know i think actually the next day was still uh still kind of cold but i mean by like friday you know within a few days it’s pretty much gone you know don’t let the cold don’t let the cold scare you out it’s wonderful it’s it’s really nothing to speak of plus we have hardly any humidity so this is a dry cold yeah it’s not that damp rainy where it gets into your bones and yeah absolutely not this is absolutely dry dry cold and low humidity so you hardly really need a coat so you know you get to dress like perry como and put on turtlenecks and i’m wearing this which i would never be able to wear back in texas but i sure do appreciate it here it feels great so we wanted to pan over here and you’ll see a beautiful view over here the of the uh um yeah just some views here at prescott lakes there’s the clubhouse it might be a little uh a little too bright but there’s some uh the one of the creeks here and then yeah the creek’s over there it’s beautiful yeah all this technology so we want to thank president lakes for letting us come and film today and talk about it prescott lakes is a beautiful development it’s one of the largest master plan developments here in prescott beautiful golf course right absolutely great restaurant great great social life here pickleball number one right here if you’re a pickleball person this is the development for you yeah cooking classes coming up i’m gonna be taking a creole and cajun cooking class which actually i could probably teach but i’m not gonna tell them that and uh they have corned beef and stuff later on like salted meats and stuff and cooking classes come here to prescott lakes or prescott in general don’t let the winters scare you away from making a new life here this is the best time of the year i think it’s winter i love it here it’s it’s just gorgeous so all right well that is it for now and we thank you for joining in have a great day out there hope you’re staying warm wherever you are and we look forward to hearing from you if you need to reach us you can call us at 713 or find us on the web at prescottpicklelady.com that’s correct give me a call i’d love to share my pickles with you as well as my wealth of knowledge about all the homes here the neighborhoods here the weather very exciting well you know the cool air is making you know makes me a little frisky yeah frisky it gives me some money oh she’s getting frisco yeah you could cut this short yeah all right y’all have a good day bye

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Get Your Boot in Gear

The Boot Drop: Prescott’s answer to Time Square is the Boot Drop. One drop to coincide with the New Year in New York, and another to coincide with the New Year in Prescott if you are up for a late night.
Fireworks too. Awesome!

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hello hello hello hey beeps welcome to our weekly wine down weekly wine down the first one of 2019. that’s right very excited yeah oh one went out in 2019 but we recorded it before well that’s true but this is truly 29 yeah this is being recorded and released all in 2019. that’s right the first week of january yep versus the second week i don’t know but anyway right behind us if you look over my shoulder yeah right there that’s called the boot yeah i’ll get a close-up of it later yeah so we’re here on whiskey row yeah and every year and new year’s on new year’s eve the boot yeah starts to drop yeah it’s kind of like our answer to the ball drop exactly so it goes way up to the top of the thing and then about they have two boot droppings for some of the old stairs who were kind of tired and like i don’t want to hang out till midnight the boot drops which actually i’ve come to appreciate believe it or not yeah that’s right you do get tired and you’re ready to go home you do and then at 12 the other shoe drops the other shoe drops time for the other shoe actually it’s the same shoe it is the same shoe they just when no one’s looking they they raise it up again that’s right and they drop it again so that’s the boot behind us yeah so 10 o’clock coincides yeah yeah 10 o’clock coincides with the drop in times square correct for people like to be official i guess that way that’s right uh and then 12 o’clock is 12 o’clock you get to celebrate new year’s eve twice here 10 o’clock that’s right or midnight yeah your choice and they do fireworks they do fireworks like i think they do fireworks at 9 10 and 12. not here yeah they were at the casino yeah the casino and then right yeah boy it’s a lot of fun people come out yeah people come out like whiskey row welcome in the new year and they all get out and celebrate it’s a good family time as well for the 10 o’clock boot drop so the little kids are here and families and it’s just a lot of fun yeah so something we wanted to point out to you about uh another special feature here comes the trunk sorry there’s our truck industry at work anyway something else we wanted to talk about that’s fun here in prescott uh and kind of a big tradition here on new year’s eve it’s just really really cute um but more importantly i’m going to loop this now as they say in the business show business we’re going to loop this around to make a tie in with your new year’s resolution that’s right and since we’re in a brand new year 2019 some of you we’re getting a lot of contacts and people are calling saying not quite ready yet not sure do i want to really move the answer to that question is yes yes yeah yeah pretty much you do and 2019’s a really good time to do it it is interest rates resolution to make this happen this year you need to resolve to make your resolution happen yeah that’s right it’s easy to do anyway the reason why we say that is interest rates are going up which is kind of good i mean you know that’s good for i mean it’s not natural to have a three percent interest rate on the home that means the economy is stayed yeah the economy’s not really doing anything money’s not worth anything money isn’t working pay any money for money you’re right you’re right yeah speaking of economics you can economic economists economists yeah not really an excuse i couldn’t get the word out right but anyway um so anyway interest rates are inching up of course we’re close to five percent now yeah it’s gonna possibly in the next year go up to six yeah so if you’re thinking about it and you’re wishy-washy and yeah this is the time decide make your new year’s resolution yeah it’s a time of cleansing it’s a time of purification when the new year starts yeah it’s good time to buy too that’s right start a new life start a new life make it happen we are here to help you we’d love to help you come here and help you see yeah this is a good decision this is a wise decision we need a do-over we need to get in there before the rates go up yeah and have a wonderful new life it’s a great place for a new life it is a great place for a new life as well as you know for your new year that’s it so new life for a new year new life no better resolution in the world be resolute in making your resolutions that’s right that’s right we could do this all day long yeah i think so but anyway so we wanted to come and show you the cool boot yup so you could get an idea of that and one of our little local traditions here and also seriously start thinking about it get your ducks in a row and make it happen for you in this new year we’d love to help you where diane and randall bro and she’s the pickle lady i am the pickle lady he’s the pickle peep we’re pickle peeps together peeps together so yeah give us a call at 713-302-1964 or you can find us at prescottpicklelady.com that’s right we’d love to help you make your new year’s resolution come true take care happy new year bye

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Christmas Central

Arizona’s Christmas City: The Holidays in Prescott are ridiculously charming – from the Square lights to the Christmas Parade to Acker Night… Prescott is “Arizona’s Christmas City,” and people come from far and wide to share it with us.

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hello hello hello hey this is diane and randall bro the preschool pickle lady the prescott people i should say yeah the press could pickle people that’s correct the press could pick picked a pack of pickled peppers yeah something like that uh anyway we are the spouses who sell houses here we are at christmas central we are grandpa i’m sorry my voice is changing i’m uh going through puberty i think again i think okay we’re at uh ground zero of the uh arizona’s christmas city right outside the courthouse there’s the courthouse kinda and uh the lights are on the lights are on and we just wanted to talk about this if you want to kind of have a small town feeling come here yeah absolutely it’s amazing all the lights are lit there’s over a hundred thousand lights uh i think it cost them ninety thousand dollars for the whole season so it’s a it’s a little under a buck a light correct it’s just a lovely lovely small town feeling uh you want to feel good about life again come here you want to feel like huckleberry finn come here uh well yeah like simple life okay i don’t know that he lived in a city though well you know a little more rural than we’re looking for but i mean there’s no raft here look at this it’s just gorgeous yeah kind of get look around now we can’t we can’t film too late otherwise you won’t be able to see us uh but you can kind of get a sense of the light and all the lights here and the screen pretty what are we looking at they’re pretty i don’t know what that is that that thing whatever pavilion that little pavilion it’s very nice anyway and it is really beautiful very very charming and it just makes you feel like um life is good again life is the way it should be life is simple so you know what you guys come here and visit us and escape all the craziness that is yeah and come see what uh small town living is all about and let me tell you it’s awesome it’s great and it’s beautiful and um there’s no other way to do christmas that correct no regrets no regrets so let me show you a little bit more yeah [Music] come visit us we’d love for you to see what we’re all about and we’d love to show you what we’re all about absolutely you want to find us look at us uh look ups look look somewhere what is it look at that look us up look us up yeah what’s the number 713-302-1964 love to help you we’d love to help you out we’d love to show you what it’s all about to take a step back and enjoy a peaceful quiet living instead of that crazy big city life that maybe some of you were living uh anyway we’re here to serve you from christmas central christmas central right here and uh you can come see why prescott is called arizona’s christmas city it’s awesome all right have a good night talk to you guys later bye you

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