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Lone Spur Cafe

New visitors to Prescott tend to gravitate first towards our town's historic Western venues, so it's surprising that it took us so long to check out this classic downtown destination.  If you're really into breakfast, don't repeat our mistake!  Jump on this one right away.

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well good morning good morning peeps this is randall and diane bro she’s thickly i am the pickle lady i’m the pickle i don’t know the pickle sidekick pickles he’s yeah he’s picking a sidekick correct he’s like a little gherkin i’m the pig i could say something else i’m not going to go down that that line it does make me giggle though but anyway here to talk about the biggest subdivision in olive prescott and very popular yes yes and we listen here what do we do it’s called prescott lake lakes it is a beautiful beautiful master-planned community there are nothing there are no ladies not in prescott lakes they’re the latest ones outside yeah people will say well you know i’d like i like the idea of this prescott lakes find me a house that is no um there are some golf traps there are some some water traps um but basically it’s called prescott lakes because it’s between uh borders watson lake and willow lake and both are really reservoirs they’re not really true lakes plastic reservoirs does not sound as nice correct so it’s kind of uh those are uh on the outside on the outskirts of prescott lakes yeah so we came here uh and we checked it out and we fell in love and it’s it’s a really cool concept it has about what 12 or 13 different neighborhoods yeah neighborhoods throughout so it’s not like um some communities where you go in and you most of the houses look the same and they’re cookie cutter and jim jim jim and they’re just pop pop pop pop pop street after street after street even if they’re custom homes they still all have kind of the same look yes uh you know the prescott prescott lakes is not that way well first of all back up a little bit people use the term subdivision in neighborhoods sort of interchangeably which you could do here if it weren’t for prescott lakes because in prison lakes the neighborhood is a subdivision of the subdivision it’s like a smaller little yes so there are about 1200 um homes 1300 homes and prescott lakes and uh the smallest neighborhood probably has something like uh 15 or 20 homes i think this one actually smaller than that and uh the bigger ones have maybe you know 50 or 75 homes and they’re all price ranges in prescott lakes they have everything they have some apartments they have condos they have beautiful town homes um and then they have all price ranges so uh you know in homes you can go anywhere from the high fours all the way to the millions and they’re all in different subdivisions there’s different neighborhoods so for instance and some are gated here in prescott lakes and some are not some are not that’s right um some are single levels smaller homes just all single level two beds some are multi-level and four thousand five thousand square feet some have you know upstairs downstairs some are built into the terrain some have flat lots it’s a really interesting area but what drives people here and they all love it is that uh we have this amazing golf course you’re not required to join golf so if you’re not a golfer you don’t have to pay for that but you get to enjoy the beauty of it it has a private restaurant at private exercise club clubs within the club uh so if you uh you can join the women’s club the bridge club the mahjong club the hiking club you name it there’s something here for everyone so if you are from out of town which a lot of people are they’re attracted to that and they’ve heard about prescott lakes because it’s a good place to move in and meet people right away who are in the same boat as you yeah nobody’s from here most of them are from out of town they don’t have family and it’s nice to quickly meet people it really is and no matter what neighborhood you’re in no matter what house town house condo you’re in everyone belongs to the same club and everyone belongs to the club so you know if you meet a neighbor and you say let’s meet at the club yep they’ll meet you at the club because they’re members of the same club that you are they’re like sure i’ll meet you over there and you can say or you know hey let’s go to that aqua size club exercise class that they’re having today do you want to go with me sure let’s go to the indoor pool because we have an indoor pool we have an outdoor pool yeah so do you play pickleball this is the place for you yeah at least six pickleball courts i think or something like that huge huge from beginners to you know um advanced they’re here yeah and so we love prescott lakes it’s been lovely uh it’s centrally located eight minutes to the square you’re close to grocery stores doctors i mean you cannot ask for a better location right in the heart of prescott proper and um so you can do as much or as little as you want with the social at the club we do a lot of socializing yeah we do we don’t do a lot of we have a lot of fun not a lot of working out how we do socialize but we do socialize and they make great cocktails good filled they give you a good a good pour yeah really good pour great great martinis great martinis yeah lots of good martini dinners yeah absolutely yeah so if you are investigating prescott lakes and you don’t understand i don’t get it that’s why it has prescott lakes is one giant umbrella and under that umbrella are many different assorted neighborhoods uh are each one has their own hoa as well yeah that’s right so people get confused they talk about the subdivisions say of astoria well astoria is one of the neighborhoods within the subdivision of prescott yes and yeah their homes have a very different look you might go down the street to another neighborhood and they have a totally different look you go down into the estates which are the bigger fancier homes and each one of those is a little more custom and a little different in uh in appearance so it’s it’s pretty interesting because it’s interesting that’s interesting you’re never going to be like every house looks the same in this entire community it’s uh it’s very unique and some have more trees than others some are more uh mature than others so it’s um so at this point you can find something for sure at this point by far the biggest subdivision we have in prescott and a very successful formula it’s a very small form you know people get plugged and played into the social scene uh i i think it’s it works pretty well here so a lot of people and we love it when we came here when we came to prescott i wanted land i wanted um i didn’t want to have a neighbor close by i could care less about a golf course or being in a gated community and uh when i found my home that was it i was like all of that went by the wayside and it was worth it to me uh to come here i was like this is it i love this house and i love the feel of this so never write it off uh you know keep an open mind keep an open mind because you may follow your mind open up to the possibility that you may not know offhand exactly what you’re looking for yeah but now that we’re here and we’re doing it it worked really well for us not in the least what we started out looking for not at all and we’ve met the nicest people and good good friends and uh we do hit the social life a lot with those people and we have some martinis yeah it’s good times good times all right so that’s our uh that’s our bid for today uh prescott lakes and subdivisions and neighborhoods and all that yes uh if you want more information about prescott lakes we’ve got membership information golf information all that stuff we also have the same thing for a number of other subdivisions in the area uh and we have information about pretty much anything you can think of when it comes to basket whether it’s real estate or just living here restaurants place to go is pickle411.com that is our information hotline thank you thank you good job good plug and then you know if you’re interested in prescott lakes give us a call we really are the authority on prescott lakes we live here we’ve sold many many many homes here um and i’d love to show you around absolutely we’ll take a tour you’ll fall in love too hopefully anyway we like it all right cheers to you you have to like us she’s you know you still live here that’s right it’s not required it’s not required okay have a great day thanks for listening bye

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Pronouncing Prescott

People are often confused by how the locals pronounce the name of our little town.  In this episode, we explore who put the "kit" in Prescott ("Press Kit"), and why some might consider pronouncing it any other way as downright unAmerican.

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hello hello my little poops pickle peeps pickle beeps this is randall and diane bro here in prescott he’s ramsey correct i am a pickle lady uh if you come visit us i’ll have some pickles ready for you that’s why that’s why she’s that’s why i’m a little lady in case you didn’t know that’s right but uh today randall’s going to give you a little history lesson on why prescott which howard spelled it’s called prescit instead of prescott which i mean i totally get it when i moved here i was like prescott prescott that’s how it’s spelled however we have learned since we lived here why it’s pronounced presque it yeah like biscuits biscuit yeah yeah well the first thing is follow the follow the lead of the locals you know absolutely always i mean yeah when you move here don’t say press god everybody will know they’re not from here don’t don’t argue with the locals about how to pronounce their own town immediately just start saying prescott yeah i’ve done a lot of a lot of traveling and you know i’ve been told how to say raleigh yeah and not raleigh yeah it’s not boise it’s boise yeah uh so just follow those particularly when you’re there you know when you always take the lead of the look yeah you can pronounce any way you want when you’re not around but when you’re there particularly if you want good service or you know whatever i pronounce it just adapt and adopt the local thing and and by the way as an aside uh very few people pronounce the town of new orleans new orleans yeah we are oh that’s an i’m from new orleans yeah they don’t say hey i’m from new orleans yeah sorry that’s an assignment let me get back to price case down to prescott okay so uh the town of prescott was named after after a historian uh and his name was prescott that’s how he pronounced his name uh and it was spelled prescott well the reason why his family pronounces are pronounced his name the way they did is that his family was from new england and a number of new england families who had english names changed the pronunciation of their names to indicate that they s uh uh supported the american cause not the the tory the not the british cops correct they were not this gentleman was from there yeah and he had a very british yeah his name his family’s name was uh press prescott prescott and they decided to pronounce the name prescott there are a number of families that did that in new england uh to this day there is the town of what you would pronounce as peabody is pronounced pvd uh and that’s another example so there’s a whole bunch of them uh but anyway they they were the prescients and uh with with the western accent press press cut as in cut cut steak that’s how they pronounced it prescott became press kit yeah uh so most people had a little midwestern yeah they they didn’t do prescott yeah they did press kit but press guides out unless you don’t support the american revolution and although most not very many people will call you up that out for that anymore i don’t think that i don’t think there’s anybody alive out there who will be like hey that’s a loyalist yeah you’re not you’re sort of ants iron man i think we’re way pa yeah we’re 200 plus years i think i don’t think there’s anybody else yeah yeah they might call you out on something else yeah they’ll catch you in these recent times but uh anyway so if you come to visit us and you’re like why is it press kit that’s what that’s why that’s your little history lesson so this town was named after historian from the eighteen hundreds yeah the eighteen yeah and he was a barrier a particularly bad historian well well yeah he did the best he could at that time and did well and he did okay uh but he uh he said all the indigenous people in this area uh the yavapai tribes and things like that were descendants of the aztecs nowhere and we know that’s not sex so we have uh we have a montezuma street we have a cortez street that’s right all because uh people here were supposed to be connected to uh yeah i thought the american indians that they came right from the aztec line we are named after him who came out here and and wrote about prescott and and what was going on that’s our little history lesson so if you want to mispronounce his name you know maybe you could use that as an excuse i don’t know you could yeah but anyway anyway lots of uses we just thought lots of useless information we’re full of it more useful information than that uh one place you can go is press pickle pickle411.com get it straight that is our information site whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of information about local real estate local restaurants local events we have fun people we’re out there and we’re trying to experience it all so we can share it with you yeah press get uh the prescott experience that’s right yeah that’s exactly right so we learned a lot right since we moved here yeah well i was here like two or three years before i heard the story of why i had to say press cake i know it’s really cool there’s so many cool things here lots of there was a big indian presence here too oh yeah so you’ll find a lot of petroglyphs and so yeah we have a whole video on petroglyphs you can check that out pretty cool really cool stuff really cool anyway so that is the story of what we’re called prescott which rhymes with biscuit and uh if you want to hang with the cool kids learn how to say press kit not prescott but don’t order a biscuit i don’t know what you’d get nobody would understand we’re not saying any of it makes sense we’re just telling you what’s happened why these things have evolved give me one of those biscuits delicious i love a delicious biscott in prescott okay all right now we’re getting silly

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Overcoming Adverse Markets

In this episode, we discuss how to get a decent deal even during adverse market conditions, celebrate leaving the craziness of 2021 behind... and hold on to our cautious optimism for what lies ahead in 2022.

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hello hello hello my fellow prescott pickle peeps out there that’s right this is diane and randall bro that’s right realtors in prescott arizona correct here we are here we go cheers to that love it here love it here um we’re very excited first we want to wish everyone a happy 2022. 2022 hard to believe yeah isn’t it well you know the last two years went by were so crazy very crazy and uh went by so fast and at the same time it lasted forever well it has they were the best of years and the worst of you i mean honestly it’s been pretty grim things have can only go up can only go up can only go up from here that’s what we’ve learned and i think they will i think 2022 is going to be good i think it’s going to be an amazing i think we’re going to recover from a lot of the stuff absolutely yeah people will get nice again yeah with all those things absolutely tough year for our buyers very tough 2021 but we are happy to say that uh oh well i can’t think of any any any of our clients who ended up with either crappy homes or prices that they shouldn’t have paid correct we tried super hard even though as you know a lot inventory was very low very low very very good usually we have like 1200 homes uh throughout the year um inventory dropped to like 300 at some point below 300. one point it was below 300. it was in the same hundreds and when we say below 300 homes we and that covers all price ranges so really hard yeah but i am happy to say so two one or two things were happening you had buyers that were just getting into stupid money and paying homes uh prices for homes that could in no way be worth that right exorbitant going over uh ask uh in exorbitant amounts and uh we are very proud to say yeah we did not let our clients do that it’s very easy to get swept up into it and like where am i going to live i’m going to be homeless so yeah i need to go 50 000 over and at some point we would just say it’s time to stop you know prices are appreciating you know and as best we can tell we think the home might appraise for maybe this much and you might want to think about going maybe a little over that but we’re getting into the realm now where you got to stop and so a lot of them you know ever they listened and we said don’t give up hope we will find the right one and we will find just the right price i think our record but you know what he ended up with a great home he did for a really good price even in this crazy market uh most of our clients got pretty good prices yes uh and the other thing is there are always homes that no one ever wants to buy even in the strongest seller markets they don’t sell because there’s a reason they don’t you don’t want to sell and you know when you’re a buyer and you your home is already sold and or you’re desperate for home or uh you’ve been through 10 offers and you still haven’t found one there’s there’s this little nagging thing well maybe maybe it’s not as bad as you think and we were like no we had to wave off a couple of those too we don’t want you to settle yeah we’re gonna try as hard as we can to find the right fit the best house maybe you might have to replace the flooring maybe you didn’t like that but we never got anything that was just so awful but it was like oh i can cry every night the inspector report comes back about two or three times the length that it ought to be he’s like you know this is not a good sign you know maybe you know you know inventory was low you might have to do some painting but nothing major and we tried really hard to get some great houses and some good neighborhoods uh maybe put your personal touch on it without exorbitantly overpaying so proud of that so we are very proud cheers to us and to our clients who are patient correct and you know who really had the trust and faith in us and it’s very important in this business to have a good relationship with your realtor and have a level of trust that they have your back and they’re trying as hard as they can which we do we try super super hard yeah uh and honestly one of the things yeah one of the reasons why we’re able to do that is because our clients did trust us yes you know if you have your clients trusted you’re really acting your clients best interests you can reach those kind of outcomes really in very adverse market condition and i would recommend if you’re working with someone and you’re just like i just don’t think they care they’re really not into me they’re really not look around find someone else this is one of the most important financial decisions you will ever make and you want to have someone who is in your corner and has your back they’re not just looking for their next commission and paycheck they really want to make you happy they want to you know make you uh welcome to the community and everything else so if you’re not feeling that look around look around you don’t have to come to us we’d love to help you but we yeah there are lots of us out there yeah but uh they’re you know being in the business you come across agents and you know that there’s some that uh you know you would recommend uh wholeheartedly and and others well maybe we’re more run-of-the-mill you know and that’s okay i mean but you want someone you can you can trust and you feel confident and you feel confident 100 so if you’re not feeling that keep on searching because this is a very important decision you’ve got to have someone in your corner that can help you with repair people that can help you with where do i get carpeting where do i get you’ve got to get somebody with a complete package and something you trust enough that when she says you need to stop yeah you don’t want to pay any more than that you feel you feel like that’s good yeah yeah so anyway this is twenty-two words of advice 2021 is over who are coming in 2022 looking for a new house make sure you have good working relationship with your realtor um and we are very proud this year we were able to get some people into some lovely homes despite despite our super low inventory and we wish we could promise you a better market for 2022 but i know nobody knows what really will happen i find it hard to believe it would be worse but yeah and we’re we’re uh what do you call it cautiously optimistic we are cautiously optimistic so but we will sure plug away for you if you decide to give us a call and help you find that right place for the right price without too much work and have a great time and help you every step of the way so if you’re thinking about coming to prescott and trying this out give us a call we’d love to show you around our lovely town if you want to schedule a tour there’s a place website where you can put yourself on our calendar there you go we talked a lot about market conditions uh we do a monthly market report which you may be interested in so the best place to get started if you need information on any of that is pickle411.com that is our information hotline whether you are a buyer seller anywhere in between free entertaining insightful information yes yes so get on that site and check us out and uh give us a call we’re here we’d love to help you buying or listing not a problem have a good day and most importantly happy happy 2022. absolutely and here’s to an amazing year i feel like the tide is turning for the whole world i just think it’s going to be great cheers to that exceptionally good coffee yeah have a good day good to see you bye bye

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Big Personalities Beware

Charming, loving family homes are very personalized - and often very hard to sell.  In our continuing series on home staging, we explain why that is and what you should do about it to capture top value for your home.  Check it out!

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yeah we gotta make sure we’re recording these sometimes that happens folks yeah we just we do uh some of our best episodes one of our best episodes we’re not recorded and then he comes upstairs oh my god by the way uh we weren’t recording yeah hello hello you’re seeing a little behind the scenes behind the scenes stuff she’s the pickle lady that’s right i am her partner in crime and uh we are here in prescott arizona real estate agents uh extraordinaire correct yeah i am diane this is randall grove we are happy to uh help you guys out when you come visit if you’re looking for a home happy to help you list if you’re ready to do that yeah so we’re doing we’re we’re doing seller tips we have a series of seller tips and we wanted to focus on staging yeah uh and staging tips when you’re trying to sell your home as i’ve said before uh professional staging is not that big a deal here in prescott there’s not a lot of that going on there’s some yeah not a lot of that for the most part the sellers themselves or their agents are responsible for staging the home but just because no one’s paying money to have it professionally done does not mean it is not important it is vitally so it is and it’s necessary absolutely so this little staging tip is all about depersonalization depersonalization yes when people come in they don’t want to see i have pictures i know uh pictures of your family your children your daughters your wedding you and your wedding dress this that and the other i am so guilty of this yes i consider my daughters my own works of art yes so i’ve got beautiful portraits of them when they were four beautiful portraits of them when they were 18 it goes on and on and on i am the biggest one guilty of this but when i go to sell it’s all coming down when we go over to someone’s house uh just you know socially and their house isn’t personalized it’s kind of creepy yeah i don’t like you go in you don’t see any pictures of them or i think that’s with their children it’s like this person must be in witness protection yeah something i’m a little suspicious a little suspicious so we like homes that are warm and personalized and that the personal touch with all the pictures there’s nothing to say there’s anything wrong with decorating decorating your home in a personalized way it’s just when it comes time to sell that can get involved some of that needs to come down not all of it you keep a cute little picture tucked here and there yeah that still gives the warmth of hey this is a nice family home yeah we’ve had a good time here we’ve got good memories it gives good juju yeah but if it’s too too much of it yeah then people can’t see past my family moving in here this is where i could hang my portraits yes this is where i could hang my grandchildren’s pictures yes so if you’re covered with all of your stuff and it’s too much of it they can’t see past it and they can’t see themselves we want them to get an emotional connection to your home i’ve got to live here my family would be so happy here so a couple of points there first of all uh the reason why you do this is that uh the reason why stage in general is that people do not make rational decisions in buying a home they make emotional decisions they do and buying a home and you may say oh they can look past all my stuff where they could you know they could go home and photoshop it all out you know or they could you know do it in their own minds but what we’re telling you is they don’t in practice they don’t that’s not how they make decisions uh most people unlike investors most people most buyers will make an emotional gut decision in connecting with a home and if your personalized stuff doesn’t connect with them it’s going to get in the way of that process and they’re not going to connect with your home and they’re not going to want to move forward that’s true the other thing to kind of de-personalize is besides you know family photos or you know is anything that of religious nature that’s if you are overtly you know if you’ve got a lot of religious or even i hate to say it patriotic yes um which i don’t agree with but um yeah i mean we have religious stuff in our home we have oh you know that’s how we personalize our home right some people it could be that they are not religious correct it could be that they have a religion that is different than yours right and it’s not like they say oh you know i would say i’m jewish and all these crosses are around or vice versa and they say well you know i don’t i don’t like all these crosses i don’t like this house they won’t even be able to articulate it correct they just won’t connect with the house they won’t even be able to explain why there was something about the house that just didn’t feel right right you know and that’s what we’re trying to avoid absolutely i mean i have all of that i love it all i have buddhas i have catholic things i have dude jewish thing yeah i like to cover my bases i have it all i i want to make sure i got i have crystals you name it yeah i have a very eclectic home yeah i will say it’s very clever but that may not connect with a lot of people and it won’t they may be like what does she have some weird stuff weird stuff that was a weird house and i’ll be the first one to open it it is so i agree you know so when i do go to sell i will remove some of those items just because again we want it to be a clean slate yeah that people can see you know their special things coming in their special photos right uh portraits and things like that a quick rule of thumb when it comes to family pictures so if you go to a place like say michael’s and you buy picture frames most of the picture frames will have pictures in them yep you know showing you you know this is where you would put your family but they’re kind of sort of generic looking family photos if you don’t have a lot of family photos and it just looks like a family there’s nothing particularly different like it it could be the picture that they put in the frames at michael’s and sell the to sell the frame if that’s the case then it’s probably not so personalized that you need to get rid of it but if it’s you know like uh halloween costumes or something just kind of strange that you wouldn’t see at michael’s then you probably need to yeah yeah that is just keep it light keep it simple keep it not too crazy like my house and you’ll do just fine but the most important thing out of all of this is when your agent is nicely suggesting hey you know you might want to remove this you might don’t not argue but don’t get defensive don’t be insulted it’s not meant in that way at all it’s just having done this thousands of times and helping people find their place and the feedback we get back we know what your house will be tagged about it’ll be like oh gosh did you see that that was terrible and so just listen to us ahead of time and save yourself a lot of heartache yeah and it may not be fun to hear and it may be i’m not really comfortable i understand i mean i get tagged myself so it’s a it’s a pain but we’re telling you it will put money in your pocket it will put money in your pocket and it will save you uh you know have the house sold pretty quickly so it’s all in your best interest too personal absolutely in your best interest so depersonalize depersonalize depersonalize and when someone suggested like we suggested to you just take it with a good heart and say okay thanks all right good points here if you look for more good points you might want to go to pickle411.com yep that is our information center everything there is free highly entertaining and insightful yep it’s one awards no it hasn’t won awards not yet we’re waiting for an award i feel like it’s coming yeah the pickle i just have a pickle or something it’s coming yeah we feel it i think it’s coming i feel it yeah all right and if you’re watching this we want to wish you a happy new year happy new year to you because uh 2022 i think it’s just going to be amazing for everybody we’re going to turn this around turn this ship around and everybody’s going to be the ship chip oh i thought you said something else no okay no you could turn that other thing around too well yeah i’m done with that yeah it has been pretty good yeah so i would agree but we’re going to turn that ship around 2022 is going to be amazing yep i just feel it it’s going to be a good start for all of us so here’s to a happy healthy and prosperous 2022 and give us a call to sell your home and we’ll give you some more tips in person that’s right all right take care bye

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Red, White & Brew

People have been buzzing about this new restaurant, located just off the square - right in the heart of the action.  A great venue for dinner, wine, bar flying... and even a spot for the dog.  Come hear the results of our recent scouting trip to the new Red, White & Brew.

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happy holidays yeah what is that jingle bells jingle bells jingle bell hold up yeah i guess jingle bells i don’t know i just like to see it’s just inspired by these things yeah getting into the holiday season so if you’re watching this in you know like july it’s not our fault that’s why we’re dressed in our winter guard correct we’re excited uh things are winding down yeah get it yeah and uh things are starting to you know we’re getting back into the season looking forward to families coming in and uh just having a nice visit and a little maybe maybe a little downtime we have been uber busy uber i i think we’re going to be busy all the way to christmas to be honest the way it’s going santa’s going to be dropping new homes down the chimney i think he is i think so there’s nothing wrong with that right nothing wrong with that have another restaurant tell you about so this one is called red white and blue it took the uh the spot that used to be prescott station yes for those of you who are local you may not know but that’s the new venue the new venue rare bite and brew yes so uh we like the old one um until they got rid of my fundido and then i had nothing that i really liked there so we were all everyone was very excited about uh seeing the new restaurant come in uh renovations so there was a lot of anticipation and we were there i mean shortly after they had just opened and uh red white and blue so we we went there with a couple of our friends that’s right and it was it was a good experience it was it was not what i was expecting not at all we give it a thumbs up yeah um we just kind of thought it might be bar food pub food kind of things given that it’s called red white and brew you would think it’s kind of a brewpub but it’s it’s really not no it isn’t yeah they had some really nice good dining yeah the eggplant parmesan was unbelievable parmesan took the the best of best of meal i guess yes frank got the eggplant parmesan and it was uh really phenomenal good beers good wines yeah the beers they had about uh a handful on tap uh they had just started so i think they had like maybe three beers on top uh i think they planned to have like four or five so it it’s really not about the they have a lot of beers in bottles oh yeah uh but it’s really not about the beer at all they did a better job i think with the wine yeah they did a great great wine selection great wine selection and as he said a lot of good bottled beers as well yeah yeah and they’re going to add more to tap they were just opening when we got there yeah um and so just a great place if you’ve got a lot of company coming in yeah and you’re like yeah where can we go where can we go i would recommend it they’ve got a nice outdoor area too where you can sit yeah it’s a great species are you losing yeah is your voice changing i i think you’re mentally trying to keep me from talking i think i might be yeah i think that’s what this is good very very very susceptible to that so anyway i was gonna say that there’s a building itself which is right across the street from the hacienda and one of the historic hotels right uh it’s a great venue uh it’s a great building the inside’s really neat they have uh remodeled it just a large extent did a great job it’s very uh outdoor seating indoor seating and there’s kind of like this sort of indoor patio yeah area which is kind of cool uh there’s also a great bar in the back just a just a bar area still one of my favorite bar venues uh in town yeah so if you’re just looking for a great place to drop in go back there and have just a couple of drinks yeah the bartender back there is uh i think he’s the same guy who was there he is and he’s amazing hats off to you friend yeah he does a good pour yeah he does a great great we’re always looking for a good poor poor so with all of your folks and family coming in try it out yeah absolutely we always love to try out new places and support our small local businesses yeah and this one is right about the square so oh also i should mention too the outdoor area is dog friendly so if you want oh yeah it’s a great place to bring a dog you can bring your pup and he can sit with you so maybe we’ll see you there over the holidays we may be there yeah probably who knows you may not recognize me i’ll be the one with the eggplant parmesan he’ll be the incline of arms yeah you will yeah you’re right about it i mean no bones about it okay well we hope to see you maybe there yeah and uh enjoy if you need help buying or selling a home please feel free to reach out to randall and i we would love to find that perfect place or help you sell your existing home as you move on to your next chapter if you’re looking for information on prescott uh whether real estate or just prescott in general great place to go is pickle411.com that’s our information center lots of information with your buy or sellers somewhere in between or just looking for a good plate of eggplant parmesan i think frankie wants to go to i think she’s she’s convinced she’s convinced she was just barking lettuce now i’m happy to do that with you guys i want to go to that patio okay we’ll do it later yeah later frankie thank you for doing that frank yeah all right guys hope to see you out about and uh i hope you’re enjoying the holiday season absolutely take care bye

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Why Color Can Cost You Big Money

Often the things that make a house a home are the very things that will cost you plenty when it's time to sell.  This is particularly true when it come to color choices.  

In our continuing series on home staging, we offer our tips on paints, finishes, and color choices.  Check it out!

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well good morning friends hello brandon diane bro here your prescott pickle team we are indeed i am the prescott pickle lady um when you come in you’ll see why i’ll bring you some of my cajun pickles they are fabulous yeah the pickle lady often wears uh green but not during our wine downs i can’t can’t wear green i love green i know green is my lucky color i have green eyes they get really green when i wear green i have my lucky green jade earrings i’m all about green all about green well we’re here now let’s talk about color so we’re doing staging tips for our sellers out there uh as i said in a previous wine down uh professional staging isn’t that big of a deal and prescott not a lot that go not a lot of that going on uh yourself we trust you guys yeah no that’s the way it’s good it’s done by the sellers and done by the agents it’s not done by professionals but just because it’s not done by professionals does not mean it’s not important it’s violated and it’s vitally important and it’s very necessary now and one of the important factors in staging your home is color color color color we’re going to talk about some colors some things that you need to keep in mind about colors in a home right uh one of them so if one of the i think we’ve talked about this before if you’ve got weird colors yeah you need to paint yes if you’ve got like yeah uh bright aqua yeah yeah peach peach is so dated yeah peaches love is so dated yeah um seafoam green is so dated and a lot of the painting techniques are dated the faux finishes and stuff like that a lot of that is really kind of passe people really get turned off when they see it it’s kind of like popcorn ceilings you just can’t sell anything with a popcorn ceiling now there are certain colors where that is the case um i would i would i always tell people avoid just white uh it’s too strong it’s too stark people go to white because they think it is uh safe right um but it can be too bright and too jarring yeah particularly if you don’t have a lot of too sterile too sterile particularly if you’re not gonna have a lot of pictures on the wall yeah if you just show a home that’s empty with white walls it really cheapens it quite a bit so be careful like when we say hey these peach walls you really should paint go with a nice neutral gray or a nice neutral soft white or soft cream yeah or like a taupe very soft completely neutral nothing jarring nothing startling nothing um for instance we had a house in baton rouge way back in the day and our daughter’s playroom we we did this whole all four walls were beach scenes and sea creatures and murals and we had a great time we also did it in texas in their house too um but as soon as we went on the market nobody had to tell us we immediately covered it up and painted and did all it was kind of sad yeah we did take some movies of it and some pictures so the kids could look back and realize what amazing talented parents they had yeah because we need to you know constantly put that in front of that like send them the evidence yeah not many parents paint their walls like this for their kids yeah but your parents did yeah you had a blue a killer whale yeah we had a killer yeah yeah and jellyfish and we allowed that to happen but anyway that’s just a shout out to the kids and all you parents out there who did the same thing you know you know what we’re talking about kids rooms are always suspect so if you’re yes if your daughter just loved hot pink and her whole room is hot pink including the trim you’re gonna have to paint that absolutely you know uh little boys like uh you know crazy dark colors sometimes black walls yeah they’ll be terrible get rid of that space scene or whatever and or whatever it is uh crazy purples we’ve seen some crazy purples it’s got to go yellow it’s got to go don’t push the envelope with colors if you have something that’s pushing an envelope you really should paint them and you know it may cost you maybe a thousand dollars to repaint all that yeah it’s worth it you will reap that in in the price of your home you will regain all of that and more and again if you leave it and it remains in place your house will probably sit on the market yeah and the longer it sits on the market you’re going to have to drop the price drop the price so that little bit of investment ahead of time will actually get you more money even if it doesn’t so so i’ve told the horror story before there was a home beautiful home uh the walls were a mint green that’s not that offensive no not about uh but everyone took in it was like this doesn’t match any of my stuff uh in the end long story short i think that color ended up costing them at least fifty thousand dollars they had to keep it was they ended up having it anyway yeah they should have painted it in the beginning and you’d be done and they would have been done right away and they would have gotten more money for the home it’s not just oh i can’t sell my home so i have to lower the price right if you have two people who are interested in your home then they compete with one another on price you get more money if your weird color only makes one go away it’s going to cost you money even if the home sells right away it can still cost you money that’s right and the other thing is people people were like well they can paint it themselves and they can pick whatever they want people just don’t have the imagination the vision and also they think to themselves i want to be move-in ready i don’t i don’t want to come in and have to hire painters have to find a painter i want to be able to move right in and unpack my stuff hang my stuff on the walls if they have to wait for a painter and it might take two or three weeks to get the whole house painted it’s a turn off they may walk away from a perfectly great house just because they’re not interested or they find one that they don’t have to do that and that’s a deciding factor right yeah so i know when we moved in our home i painted it from top to bottom and it was about a three week process because i had a small team yes and um so yeah if you want to live with your painter and get to be really good friends yeah you know and that’s okay um but it’s you’re really better off just doing a a minimal touch-up painting yeah and and adjusting the color it will save you a lot of time and money in the long run time on market and more money absolutely absolutely so another another seller tip if you’re looking for seller tips or just information about real estate or just prescott in general whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between go to pickle411.com correct that is our information center everything there is free and highly highly entertaining and insightful it can be it’s very insightful too and anyway if you’re making uh thank thinking of making a trip to prescott give us a call we’d love to show you around our great town and show you some interesting properties some good places absolutely all right take care and have a good day bye

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Park Street Deli

One of our favorite spots in town covers a lot of different categories, and it's a good choice in every one of them.  Whether you are looking for a quick bite, a fine bottle, or a good smoke, this might be your place.

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hello hey peeps hello we’re rapidly approaching the christmas season here which is why we’re uh dressed in red that’s right we’re festive yeah this is my winter holiday season uniform that’s right i swear to god yep that’s his uniform i’ll see that until april this season for dressing like perry come on yeah no one here well maybe some people know who perry promotes most people don’t yeah i think it was one of the egyptian pharaohs the young folks won’t know but anyway i digress yeah we are here today i am dianne and randall bro yep she’s a bigger lady arizona correct we are the pickle team together yeah pickle team we are here to help you find a home if you’re traveling near or far happy to find that perfect place in our lovely little town or if you’re ready to list we absolutely would love to help you on that yeah venture we also have a lot of people following us that just sort of live here yeah kind of get the inside scoop of what’s going on town as well i want to hear what’s going on yeah what’s going on so today we wanted to talk about park street delhi street deli especially with the holidays coming up if you are local here you know or maybe you don’t know but that is the place to go for any kind of fine wines good liquors nice tequilas yeah it’s just to be clear it’s uh it is a deli you can go there and eat and they do have good food but it’s primarily a liquor store but it’s also a bar and a restaurant it’s got a few things going on there’s a place to sit outside they also sell cigars there’s there’s a cigar patio room yeah and is there an inside smoking room i think i know there’s an outdoor space where you can smoke cigars either that you buy or bring right um so there’s a lot going on at park street uh but the name is park street delhi that’s right and we love to go there and grab a sandwich uh we like to eat outside if you got a nice you know as he said a nice little patio and then of course mr bro cannot leave without buying a little bottle of something something something yeah great selection great selection of wine great selection of liquors scotches rums tequilas it’s they do a great job they do an amazing job so we just want to give a little shout out to park delhi thank you for the service you provide uh if you’re getting ready for the holidays or you’re here in town visiting yeah make sure you stop by there grab and grab a little bite to eat yeah and get a little something something for the holidays so i usually get to i like the gyro sandwich is one of my favorites there they do have really good pizzas probably a number of goodies yeah they do yeah they have good pizza yeah with salads oddly enough a good beer selection so yeah we highly recommend it yeah we were there not too long ago with one of our clients yep so i’ll share the pictures from that pictures that you have for that we’ll share from that we had a nice time yeah far straight down it’s just a nice relaxed venue you don’t have to get all dressed up just just go chill just kind of knock in chill have a glass of wine have a beer so i’m not sure if that’s a restaurant review or not we we do restaurants all the time here kind of a restaurant kind of a liquor store we’re not quite sure what you would special purpose but uh that’s the kind of information we have on our site if you’re looking for more information the place to go is pickle411.com lots of information about real estate whether you’re buying selling someplace in between or if you’re just about town need uh ideas about good restaurants and things to do and who knows what there’s just so much free information so much stuff that we just vomit out all the time vomiting out vomit there’s vomit everywhere to help everyone out there who might be watching we thank you for watching yeah and we hope you get something uh something new to learn every time you click into one of these videos all right thanks everyone and have a wonderful day give us a call if you need any help at 713-302-1964

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Simplifying to Sell

Real estate has gotten kind of spiritual.  Life coaches and spiritual healers will tell you that the first and most important step in selling your property is to create a canvas that allows your buyers to paint a picture of their new lives inside your home.  

Deep, right?

While all that may make sense to sellers drinking mushroom tea, you may be looking for some more specific steps - a little less spiritual and a little more concrete.  

Well, in this Wine Down, we bring this concept straight down to earth (where most homes are sold anyway).  Come check it out!

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hello hello hello hello beats randall and i am bro here your local prescott pickle team that’s us i am the pickle lady uh happy to join you today and uh we want to talk a little bit about something that i think everybody should learn when they’re about to list their home and uh you know just listen to the advice of your agent and one of the main things we’d love to talk about when you are ready to go live and we’re getting ready to take pictures and video of your home you want it to be shown in the best possible light possible mm-hmm i said that this might be possible best possible light as possible forget about that yeah only one possibility just take one of those possibles ignore all that but yeah possible ignore the extra possibility if it’s possible if it’s possible ignore the extra possible that’s right so this is yeah seller tips staging tips so in this town uh professional staging is relatively unusual in some markets it is a matter of course that sellers will pay a professional stager they’ll come in and stage the home for the most part that doesn’t happen in prescott usually yeah there’s some uh you know usually staging you’ll see if the home is empty right and uh they don’t think it shows well empty they may put a few things in absolutely uh but state professional staging is not that big a deal in prescott but that does not mean that staging isn’t important it’s super important but it’s up to you to get it done that you are my agent right so the most important thing is i’m sure most of you have heard this if you’ve sold a home before declutter declutter declutter yep declutter i’m famous for this i have a stack where my mail goes i have a stack for here stack for there yeah i have my books tucked you know irregularly that’s a good word they’re regular books yeah in the in the in my bookcase and things like that and you get little pigeonholes like yes you stuff stuff in the in the space between the book and the top of the bookshelf just as a temporary holding spot and three years later that paper is still there well we’re not here to talk about the issues you have with you no i’m not trying to i i’m i’m assuming that i feel like he’s he’s addressing that to me because that is what i am famous i am uh we see that in homes that we are listing we see that in homes that we were taking our buyers through it’s like you know they really should spend a couple of minutes to stage the home better right and the decluttering is just sort of a base you know you you you get used to seeing that paper in the pigeon hole or whatever it is you don’t even see it anymore and after a while you stop seeing you don’t see it but other people other people will yeah and then they’re like oh that was you know and and they get not fixated but that’s all they see yeah and they don’t see the other good qualities of your home yes and so anyway it’s very important to get rid of the stacks of magazines you may have okay national geographic oh my gosh my parents must have had 150 right i have never had a buyer ask them you think you can get them to uh give me those copies of national do you think that’s not gonna happen just letting go interested in your national geographic that’s right yeah and and you know people need to understand that a home purchase is in large part an emotional decision absolutely investors maybe not so much they’re looking at the numbers and that kind of stuff but typically uh buyers either fall in love with your house or they don’t right and they don’t always know why they fall in love or why they don’t fall in love and honestly you know some clutter on top of the books in the bookshelf might be enough that that little you know brains and synapse or whatever shut it down just doesn’t fire and the home doesn’t really connect they won’t connect with them and they don’t even know why yeah uh they couldn’t even explain it so absolutely it’s not like we’re being irrational oh they can see past the papers like honestly we’re here to tell you but they won’t they most of them can’t they just they just it’s like they don’t have the imagination so it’s very important um when we say declutter we don’t mean to be insulting to you or this that and the other we’re just telling you we’ve been in homes and the ones that are decluttered they’re so they sell quick they sell fast just say bye bye bye yeah you know if you haven’t used it in two years get rid of it and it doesn’t bring you joy is that lady says that japanese lady who yeah i can’t think of her name condo yeah it’s actually she’s she’s she’s on the money which is absolutely if you haven’t used it in two years it’s never going to happen get rid of it and make your house look good just but if you’re a child of the depression you just can’t throw things away that’s fine too get some storage get some storage and get it in storage correct pull it out yeah roll it out it’s got to go go down yeah one of the things you need to be aware of is that in large part people coming to prescott are looking to retire they are typically coming from homes that are much bigger than the homes that they will be buying so if your home feels like it’s not all that spacious uh it’s gonna be a stumbling point for them they’re trying to fit their 3 000 square foot life into 1700 square feet you want to make your 1700 square feet or whatever it is look as big and spacious absolutely and then they can envision wow maybe i could take my china hutch and put this here yeah um that’s that which leads us to our second point if you’ve got a ton of furniture jammed in there pull some pieces up if you’ve got two end tables and a sofa table and a coffee table and huge sofas pull some of that stuff up pull it out it’s too much people think oh gosh i would never fit in here i can’t bring my stuff that is yeah and people don’t think about that they’ll have a small uh a small living area and his and hers big fat lazy boy chairs or something and they just put them side by side in front of their 50 000 square inch tv uh you know and that’s how you want to live that’s fine but those big chairs take up a lot of room and and you come in you say well this room only holds two chairs yeah yeah you know and they can’t they can’t envision for themselves so it’s always good to de-furnish yeah pull out some of the bigger pieces um and just go put them in storage uh just present it as open and as spacious as possible so that people can envision their pieces of furniture in there yes and if it’s too much furniture i’ve seen it time and time again because i take hundreds of buyers out a year if they go in a house that is heavily furnished with big big pieces big king-size bed four dressers it shuts them off they’re like uh yeah i can’t i can’t no this is not for me it’s too small the reality is it’s really not too small you just may have a little bit too much furniture more than once we have been out with buyers looking at homes and we show two homes that have the same floor plan yes and they will talk about how one of them is so much more spacious than the other same square footage you understand those homes are exactly the same they have but they can’t they they can’t that’s not that’s not the impression it was so much darker and it was just because there was too much furniture in the room that’s a really good point a lot of furniture too will also make a house seem much darker than it really is if you’ve got a lot of big pieces especially if it’s dark wood or this that in the other yeah it does tend to darken the home even if you’ve got your curtains open and blinds up so again just take some advice and just say okay i will remove some of these pieces and i’ll go put it in storage it will just save you some time and time on the market yeah because we’re always like let’s wrap it up let’s get this sold for you so you don’t have to have the torture of visits and showings and it can be hard to do that so we want to make it as easy and stress-free as possible so listen to mom and dad when we say please declutter and please remove some of this bigger furniture it’s not meant to be not an insult but it’s not meant to yeah it’s just to allow you to sell your home more easily and for more money you can get an extra buyer uh interested in your home uh that could mean tens of thousand dollars absolutely time on market is time that you might lose some money absolutely the more time you’re on that market the price could you know be affected yeah absolutely all right keep that in mind and uh we hope to see you soon i’d love to take you out and show you some declutter defurnished homes yeah that’s right i’d love to do that if we have somebody out there thinking about listing we’d love to come talk to you in person and help you in those steps to get ready to get on the market if you’re just looking for more information at this point whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between check out pickle411.com that is our information center everyone everything there is uh free and it’s also highly entertaining it can be finally i watch it all the time you watch yourself all the time absolutely good for you me and john travolta he takes me up in that plane of bits all over gosh okay well good for you i’m glad you enjoy watching it

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Antelope Hills

In this episode, we discuss one of Prescott's older subdivisions which is catching a lot of new attention lately.  It combines two great public golf courses, a relaxing clubhouse to meet friends, easy access to downtown, and a fascinating parade of private planes.  You too can live the life of John Travolta... maybe.  Come check it out!

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Restaurant List – December 2021

Here is a list of Prescott-area restaurants from our friends at Lawyers Title. Thought we would share…

Prescott Restaurants – December 2021

Look around on our site for videos covering most of these.

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Triple Creek

As fall takes hold, we've got the perfect venue for you that boasts a fabulous outdoor space overlooking a lush green space.  Add fabulous specialty drinks and a short walk to the all the new downtown action spots... it's a must-try.  So check it out!

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Crazy for Pickle Ball

As athletes grow older, they look for sports that are less demanding on the joints and more social.  For Baby Boomers, more and more that's Pickle Ball.  

In the episode we discuss this new craze, the facilities available in Prescott, and how Prescottonians are getting out of the house and into the kitchen.

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hello hello hello the beeps randall and diane bro here choose fickle lady in prescott arizona we’re your fellow helpful realtors eager to help you find a place here or eager we’re here to serve what can i say what can i say i like it yeah so we’re here to talk about something that is huge here and it may be huge where you are i’m not sure um but you know this is a big retirement town so a lot of folks come and now they can have the time of their lives no more work schedule no more commuting uh everybody’s worked hard and they’re like we are here to partay yeah so they’re looking for things to do and socialize and share time together and the thing that’s kind of taken off is pickleball pickleball well i i think pickleball has taken over the whole nation yeah it’s become very popular it’s a lot easier on the joints and and you know so um as we age you know it’s not quite so hard but you can still be active but without damaging yourself as we have done yeah and also too if you if you’re playing i have found that if you’re playing pickleball and the other players are much better than you you can still kind of have a game yes whereas if you’re playing tennis and the other person’s really good i mean it’s not going to be fun yeah it’s not fun so it’s it’s very social and very social and uh so a lot of people pick it up they have women’s pickleball they have men’s they have um men and women mixed doubles i knew there was a phrase for you i just was like yeah pickleball singles well i like it as as it’s also true in tennis uh when you play doubles it’s a lot easier yes you might have to cover half the court so we have the balls the same way i played singles once or twice a lot harder doubles is a lot more fun but we have a lot of friends who have picked up pickleball they love it they’ve like oh my gosh it’s become quite the social event for them and so in particular like we live in prescott lakes uh they have six or seven pickleball courts that’s how big it’s gotten and they keep adding more courts and so a lot of people here have joined the pickleball club and so they meet and they have all the way from the very beginners to advanced so don’t feel intimidated if you move here uh everybody’s super welcoming happy to teach you and you can as you grow you can bump up uh so it’s as competitive or as relaxed and fun as you want to make it absolutely so we tried a couple of times we’re just too busy and we’re not retired that and it’s hard for us not to curse it’s hard yeah i wasn’t gonna say it but they do have some nice rules everybody’s uh very uh gentlemanly and ladylike and i missed a couple of times and i said the s word you know and um so yeah that was very hard for me um but i would i would train myself if i had more time i would learn how to control that but so even if you don’t live in prescott lakes they have public pickleball courts uh off of willow uh creek and that off of that street they have public courts and lots of people join there so even if you’re not a resident of prescott lakes there’s plenty of other opportunity for you to play pickleball and those things are big too rumor is rumor is we had an old sears that closed in the shopping center and we have heard i think it’s pretty definite they are gonna they they’re working on converting the whole interior into indoor pickleball courts yeah which i think is pretty cool that’s like yeah that’s like yeah yeah the the [Music] shopping center thing is is in decline has been for at least you know they’re dying on the vine and it’s sad you know to see especially around christmas time you know shopping centers were such an important part of christmas and now they’re kind of dying on the vines so yeah i was wondering i wish someone would come up with a new use for these spaces and yeah a place where the community can come together and when i heard the pickleball i think it’s brilliant oh my god that’s brilliant because then if it’s too hot in the summer you can be inside if it gets chilly willy in the winter i mean i think that’s ideal yeah you do the food court thing and it’ll be open to the public and everything else so anyway if you are a huge pickleball player or you’re thinking about picking it up uh prescott is the town for pickleball it is huge and people just have so much fun meeting other couples other people and then you develop other friendships so it’s a great way to meet people so we highly recommend prescott for pickleball there you go yeah and even at prescott lakes they hire the national pickleball coach yeah there’s a national pickleball coach and he came to prescott lakes to give personalized instruction and uh classes yeah so it’s uh it’s a big deal here so anyway if you’re thinking about it or if you are already a devotee of pickleball this is the town for you yeah and the people could not be more fun oh yeah it’s nice it’s nice so that’s our tip of the day about pickleball if you want to learn more about pickleball more about prescott more about real estate there’s a place to go that is pickle 411.com that is our information center whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of free useful and highly entertaining information that you should check out because you should it’s all free you should it’s free get on that right now no charges to you yeah our wealth of information just flows just flows yeah and we like to share it with you okay you guys have a great day and we’ll see you next time take care bye

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Coolest Music Venue

Honky tonkin' is something that's better when a) it doesn't end with a "g" and b) you share it with friends.  If you find your group's grown pretty big now that you've rolled up more friends you've found along the way, here's a great spot to end the night.

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Hauled Water

Moving to a mountain town may bring to mind images of rugged outdoor living in remote forests... eating wild nuts and berries with the other animals. Well, dreams of getting away and off the grid are possible, but you'll need water. Here's how that works.

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well good afternoon hello peeps this is diane and randall bro yes i am the pickle lady here in prescott and this is my sidekick here he always makes sure the car is stocked with pickles that’s right because everywhere i go somebody’s like could i have some could i have something so uh he’s my little stock boy yeah and uh making sure he’s stuck in the van with pictures right he makes sure the inventory is up he’s like uh are we down on pickles time for you to get i’m gonna do production she that she’s i do all the production production i just stock the heat stocks and make sure hey i think you need to make some more yeah i’m like okay let me get right on that right on there but anyway pickle lady pickle lady that’s what that’s all about so if i see you or if you come visit you too because we’ll get some pickles but we’re here to talk about something interesting i had never heard of i’m from the deep south yeah it’s called hauled water yeah that’s how we call it that’s how we say h-a-u-l-e-d it’s like called gas except it’s water right exactly so halt water i’m like so i heard this term but it wasn’t i say hall they said hurled girls i can’t even say we’re not allowed to say that people in arizona have an accent because we’re not from here right yeah we’re the ones with i can’t do it it was like um anyway so somebody was saying i need to get um some hold the hold hold water and hold and hold hold on and i said i don’t don’t know what that they were like don’t you have the number and i’m like i don’t what is that could you say it again and they kept saying it the way they were hauled her and i said i’m so sorry i don’t know what that means and then i said could you spell it and then i said oh hold hard okay i got it i got it and so what that is is sometimes in some areas here because where we live we grew up in the suburbs and everybody was on city water and water whatever and things like that yeah it came from the tap um so here uh especially in some more remote areas up the mountains and everything you don’t you either have to have a private well or a shared well there’s no city you know they can’t get the the water to you i mean up a mountain so they’ll have uh wells and sometimes even that is not enough and the well may run low so in addition to that they will get hauled water ordered and that comes in giant what is it like two or five hundred gallons yeah i know more than that that yeah i think it tanks like two thousand gallons or something and so they’ll bring this giant plastic container that will sit on your property and that can be used for additional things or emptied into that well and that’s another way to get that water there yeah so it’s literally driven in a truck yeah and driven into the actual they literally call it yeah so if you have a well particularly if your well doesn’t produce that that much water quickly you know the the quantity is not good you’ll have a storage tank you get a storage tank so the well is constantly pumping water into the storage tank and you draw the water from the storage tank uh if you consume the water faster than your well as pumping into the storage tank well you’re going to have to top it off or eventually you’re going to run out and that’s hot water that’s what they do they’ll they’ll come out and they pour the water into your storage tank and uh i i it’s like i don’t know three or four hundred dollars to have the water hold out right and uh we looked at one house and particularly had two storage tanks so you’re looking at you know about 700 bucks to uh to fill up and uh the people who were selling the house there were just two people living there and i mean this part time yeah it was a weekend getaway yeah cabin but it so that was sufficient yeah for two people it worked fine the well produced enough that if there’s a shortfall there it’s not much so you might have to haul the water out once or twice a year yeah uh but our buyers wanted to use the property for an airbnb and that’s when four people come in like they will burn they would run through that water fast so a lot of times people will call us and they’re like i want a cabin in the woods and i want that these are things to think about um because it isn’t going to be on city water yeah and you will have to make sure your well doesn’t go dry and you need to consider if you want to use it as an airbnb that you have a very good producing well yeah that you won’t have to rely on halt water because that could get costly for you yeah well if you’re if the place that you’re again running with the with the uh scenario that you want to do in airbnb uh you don’t want to buy a big house because lots of people will go in there and use that water water yeah but if a small place that might work it might work you know if it’s just you you know you and your spouse and every now and then you have the kids in for a holiday you’re probably going to have to top up the tanks for the holiday uh but that might be doable you know it really depends on how much your wells producing how big your storage tanks are uh and how many people are going to be there so i put together like a little spreadsheet so yeah we as your agent if you’re interested in that we we’ve kind of learned some information yeah we now have a spreadsheet so when we look at how many gallons per minute is that well producing and we can tell you that’s going to be a problem or that’s great yeah you’re you’re done how many people yeah so it’s something as a realtor here in prescott you kind of have to be educated on um it’s kind of unusual we weren’t used to it coming from suburban areas and now we know what hauled water means even when they pronounce it a weird way now we get it so every day as i say living and learning or as my daughter sings that song all the time living and learning every day she says that every day yep she well it’s her song it’s her song it’s not not a not a popular one but not like a jay-z no no jay-z so yeah so that was something that we learned and are are now quite educated yeah so if you are coming here yeah and if you’re looking for some place remote particularly up the mountain uh you might be looking at hot water yep and uh and we can help you make a good decision there it’s it’s not necessarily a deal killer depends on um you know what you’re trying to do what you’re trying to accomplish so that is our little chapter on hold [Music] but i got it now so anyway i hope that this is a little tip for you if you’re thinking about living remotely things to keep in mind and to ponder upon yeah there are a lot of pieces and parts and if you want to learn more the place to go is pickle411.com our hub of free information whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of useful and highly entertaining information you need to know if you’re considering either buying or selling a home particularly here in prescott some people may argue with that about being entertaining but some people may not agree but hey we try hard i was entertained we entertain ourselves myself we entertain ourselves living and learning all day long living sometimes i’m learning lessons i don’t want to learn yeah there’s a lot of that yeah but that’s life yeah those are the ones we have to share that’s right i don’t know why that’s hilarious but it is it just makes more poor things more things more people yeah i heard water

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Golf Course Adventure

Golf has a lot going for it: beautiful grounds, the great outdoors, easy transportation...  The golf itself can sometimes be the worst part of the whole experience.  Well, as it turns out, you can enjoy all these things without actually swinging a club.  Check out our recent golf course adventure.

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that’s getting close getting close in he’s getting very close i’d like to get close to the leg as close as possible moving in sometimes it’s not well received moving in taking my opportunity to strike i need my space sometimes yeah it has been 35 years sometimes i’m like whoa and we haven’t filmed all of that no yeah there’s parts of it just parts of it yeah sometimes the girl needs her space trying to shake him it just won’t happen but anyway okay we forgot to introduce ourselves yeah you should do that this is diana randall bro she is the pickle lady you’re a brisket pickle lady here in prescott arizona you’re happy friendly helpful we are your happy friendly helpful realtors um we love nothing we love better than to bring people to our town and share with them the joy of what it is to live here it’s an amazing amazing town we’d love to show it off we’d like to talk about it we’d like to share we’ve been here five years we’d like to share our experiences and uh so that’s what we’re here well to some extent we can’t share experiences that you like to hear about now one in particular is golfing yeah i do not golf why why do you think they don’t want to hear that what why do you think they would not like to hear about golf they would oh they would but i can’t i can’t tell them much about the goal i mean i can tell them about the course we are not called but we’re not golfers not at all we thought we would we had an opportunity to participate in an event at the prescott lakes country club and uh and kind of get an inside view of what it’s like to be a golfer there is a golf cart parade there’s a golf cart parade and we’ve never been because we don’t golf we’ve never been able to see the whole you know all 18 holes so we thought hey let’s do this this would be fun so we decked out the the what do you call it golf cart thank you yeah we decked out the golf cart and of course green balloons and green streamers yeah because you know we’re sticking with the pickle thing yeah it’s very important to represent even on the golf golf course of course yeah yeah and it was uh it was a little windy so i think we lost super windy lots of balloon or two super windy but and a little chilly willy because that was fun but it was so we got on we hopped on our cart we drove around i mean we had the time of our lives we had a great time almost convinced us to become golfers yeah we just don’t have the time well about being on the golf course is everything except for the golf itself yeah you know it’s your outside gorgeous a beautiful day yeah we had great company we’re having fun with everyone around us and uh and it was obviously green because we’re on the greens and uh it was just a beautiful day to spend outside in nature and it was i tell you kudos to prescott lakes country club what a golf course what a golf course that’s quite expansive yeah i was like wow yeah it’s amazing to me yeah it took so long just to drive the cart around 18 holes 18 holes we had a good time without even stopping the putt or anything i mean we’re out there no no cutting simply driving simply driving but what was really cute was there a lot of homes that are built around the golf course and and they had their own parties and they were out on the deck and they were waving to the cards as they go you know and uh so it was quite the event yeah um and then we ended up back at the club and they had a lovely spread for us they absolutely did really get some kind of that bacon thing listen if anybody moves to prescott lakes yeah give us a call you gotta have their bacon and at their brunch yeah it’s like this thick cut oh my god it’s to die for and then they make um great um bloody mary’s yes and they stick that anyway stick the bacon in the blade we’re we’re heading off course here but it was good stuff it was awesome and so uh we had a lovely time and big tables and we all sat around with everybody who participated in the parade and it was just a nice way to to meet other people and chit-chat and have fun so i highly recommend it if you move to prescott lakes i’m not sure if uh capitol canyon does something similar which is another call of course yeah i don’t know if they do something yeah i don’t know maybe other clubs take their goals but prescott lakes can sure put on a good golf cart it was a lot of fun we had a lovely time so anyway if you move here and if you are a golfer you will be mightily impressed with the prescott lakes golf course that we don’t golf we thought it was beautiful and we do ride the cart we yeah we have a good time and we decorate the car we give you green balloons yeah prescott lakes country club gives a good golf cart parade we rate it a 10 out of 10. yeah that cart parade that was pretty cool and that was our first time traveling our first time doing that so we almost convinced us to maybe pick up the the old uh you know the golfing the golf the links the links is that what they call it yeah okay i know i don’t even know the words yeah but we have a lot of friends we have a lot of friends who golf here they love it and it’s a great social thing for for ladies and gentlemen which we are neither so that’s one thing about golf they do have really cool words they do have words like mulligan yeah and slicing yeah yeah approaching and yeah chipping on shipping off yeah what do you call it when somebody’s bumping into you ahead of time right chipping in chipping in yeah you’re chipping on randall has a lot of issues with chipping in yeah i get chipped on he gets chipped on a lot and uh that turns him off yeah so anyway i just like to ride the cart that’s not like normal no one was hitting into us that’s all i want to do it was it was cool so we wanted to share that with you we’ll have some pictures behind us as well that you can giggle about and uh we had a good time i wore green to represent right because i am the pickled lady but anyway uh so if you are thinking about moving here please give us a call if you’re thinking about listing give us a call the pickle lady and this guy we are ready to help you uh in your next steps uh you can find more information about us at pickle411.com right lots of free information lots of free buyers somewhere in between all free all useful just fascinating just faster goods just amazing prospecting mind blown mind-blowing the stuff that we offer you people is unbelievable unbelievable we try really hard we try hard to come up with some good stuff but i think it is important all joking aside it is important uh we try to give you a real taste of what it’s like here so i hope you enjoy we have fun making them and we have fun seeing people as we’re filming watching us and interrupting us it’s always a good time so that is all for today and we hope to hear from you soon cheers cheers bye

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Dry Gulch Steakhouse

Once again we plug one of our favorite Prescott haunts.  This one serves great steaks, good music, and... as it turns out, heart-felt patriotism.  Join us as we share a very special moment we recently shared with some good friends there.

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howdy folks hello peeps what’s happening with you today you like the way on your nuncian yes very good it’s like you went to elocution classrooms and abortion classes put stones in my mouth correct you’re like the guy in the king and the king’s speech yeah that’s me yeah yeah but you yeah yeah you’ve come forward i like that guy who’s the guy who plays the pirate too what’s his name jeremy something no the guy who plays his um oh yes i like him oh i’ll have to think about that anyway we digress we do digress she’s a pickle here to tell you what’s going on in prescott prescott real estate and just life in general what it’s all about yeah so we got an another restaurant we want to build yeah but i wanted to talk about it again in particularly today because every time i go i’m like oh this place is so much fun it’s so charming and so cute um it’s like a real western little restaurant um it’s the decor is very western it’s very kind of old-fashioned though a little hokey but it’s darling you know what i mean yeah just to be clear it’s dry gulch and it’s uh off of iron springs so it’s a little off the beaten path for tours so it’s mostly locals so you gotta look it up if you’re if you’re a tourist i highly recommend look it up dry gulch two words off of iron springs but it is cute as a button and you go in there and you they always have live music particularly on the weekend and there was a great singer he is amazing with his repertoire i mean he can play anything i’ll wait for the song yeah it’s amazing 200 songs and he’s by himself and he plays his guitar and he and he go i mean he can play anything from jim croche all the way to queen yeah i mean he covers the gamut of music so but good steaks really good steaks good cocktails um really good meal yeah and good times good atmosphere good value you know yeah uh without being too irritated but my favorite thing about it is but my favorite thing about it is it is um just every time you go in there it’s just everybody’s in there that’s i don’t know very patriotic i can’t explain it and you go in and everybody’s uh so in particular like the last time we were there yeah i was on 9 11 which was the 20th anniversary right i had to sit down because i was like i’m gonna cry i’m gonna have the ugly cry he’s saying proud to be an american and so he sings all kinds of songs but you know and so as he starts to sing it i think what really touched me was the entire restaurant stood up i’m getting chills right now and my tear up stood up and sang in unison yeah they did it was very tough the entire restaurant you talk about give you goosebumps and chills up your spine and they had people with their hands over their heart and they have an american flag and it was um just a beautiful moment just shared with local hometown folk and i thought this is why i love press kit yeah right yeah absolutely you know it’s a beautiful feeling such an antidote to all the infighting and everything we’ve seen yes it was very healing yeah very it was very healing it’s like are you getting teary eyed too the clint is that overclocked i mean it was it was one of those things that you had to be there oh yeah uh but when you were there we all felt uh just spirit of community spirit of community spirit of love of country spirit of yeah it was september 10th yeah it was like the day before it was um very nice starting to think about it again and i had not heard that song in quite some time right right back at the time when we were um you know together the country was united and it was a beautiful moment so when i think about prescott and when you’re thinking about prescott that’s something you need to keep in mind it’s uh it’s a cool town it is um and it was just a bonding moment and i’ve lived all over i’ve lived in texas i’m from new orleans i’ve lived in all kinds of baton rouge all kinds of towns um i only find that spirit here in prescott yeah more so than any other place yeah uh of just community and everybody’s you know has each other’s back yeah and uh we really enjoyed it so when i think of dry gulch now i think even highly even higher even more highly more highly um because of that shared experience absolutely so anyway we just wanted to oh and the food is really good yeah absolutely we got we always had a great time having a great time always good the staff is always fun super fun but this particular time just put it over the top over the top and we just wanted to share that over the top it was over the tire well i guess to go over the top you would have to go higher but yeah over the top i’m struggling with my words but anyway so we highly recommend it and we just wanted to share that special moment because i think it’s so representative of what preschool heart is about absolutely all right so try another another restaurant on our uh our many restaurants we review uh if you’re interested in more restaurants or just more information about prescott or real estate here go to pickle411.com that’s your information hotline whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between that’s where you go to get free useful and highly entertaining information that’s right and a shout out to dry gulch and to our good friends john and laurie yeah i know you’re watching who were with us that special night that was great and uh we all had a little boo hoo together but anyway hope to see you there one day absolutely cheers bye

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LazyG’s Skeleton Fest

Big shout out to LazyG’s Brewhouse for their parade of skeletons. Always great to see people embracing the Halloween spirit…

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Schedule Your Fun

Visiting Prescott is always a lot of fun, but it pays to plan in advance.  HOT TIP: Even if you aren't ready to buy... even if you're not sure this is the place for you... schedule some time with the Pickle Lady.  Here's why you'll be glad you did.

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here’s my new phrase i love to call everybody i call my daughters us chicken leg chicken leg chicken what’s up chicken legs what’s up chicken wing what’s up turkey leg and they’re like i don’t know i like that little draw you throw in there yeah yeah she’s the pickle lady diane bro i’m randall bro realtors and prescott and this is our informative video to help you buy sell or just have fun here in prescott arizona and in case you didn’t realize or you haven’t caught on yet um he’s the straight guy and i’m the he’s the wing man oh you think i’m yeah i’m the funny one i think you’re the one man you’re the chicken wing you’re the chicken wing man chicken leg i’m the leg i’m the chicken you’re the turkey leg anyway she’s trying to establish uh you know who’s who and his videos but anyway we are here to talk about something that actually makes me brings a tear to my eye makes me sad makes me cry and i really want to emphasize uh to those of you watching if you are planning a trip here and then you you arrive and you decide hey i think i want to see houses it’s very hard for any agent out there if you call five minutes before and say i’d like to go see i want to see this house and i’m right outside it right now x y and z and i listen most of the time i’ll throw my bra on i put my bra on my shoes i’m out that door and i’ll make it happen sometimes though i’m already booked with another client or we might have a plan we’re having a mammogram or something yeah you know i mean we do have lives unfortunately that’s a very weird thing yeah yesterday i was just thinking you you’re gonna call can you come show me well you know well not right now i’m being squished yeah and you ladies out there know what i’m talking about i’m being quick so we highly highly highly recommend if you are planning a trip give us a call i’ll put you on the calendar and then i’ll work around your schedule so your trip is not ruined and you can’t go see something or you have to wait a couple of days till we’re available yeah um nothing really bothers me more hurts my heart when it’s like i just i can’t i simply can’t i can’t make it um we appreciate that you are taking you know time uh uh money effort uh to get here right whether you’re flying or you’re driving and uh you know you’re spending money and you’re spending your time and want you to have a a good experience absolutely if you are not planning on buying anything that’s okay absolutely i mean we’re not expecting you to buy a house as soon as we see you we get the fact that you’re going to have to you’re going to want to see the town and make sure that this is where you’re going you’re going to want to settle right that’s fine as i always say what do i say i understand it’s a process it’s a process yeah we have absolutely no issue spending about five or six hours with you giving you a good tour of the town and previewing homes that fit your requirements and usually we end up with lunch somewhere yeah and we actually have a fun day yeah it’s a great time this isn’t oh i’m gonna take you to see three houses and i’m gonna kick you out of the car no we really go to great efforts and we want to give you that experience so if you kind of call within five minutes i can’t quite do that first of all also you need to know when we preview homes those are all scheduled appointments yes um you can’t just arrive and and the people will leave their house yeah it takes you know an hour or two to schedule all that up because in particular if the homes have uh sellers living in them right you know you gotta arrange all that that takes time to set that up and you gotta do all right this one’s gonna start at ten and end at eleven the next one’s gonna start geographically map it out know and we want to give you the of you ultimate experience we don’t want you to come in and well i can only show you this house because i can’t get you into any other homes right now so keep that in mind and the reason why i say this is some people say i just want to visit first and see what i think i can guarantee you’re going to love this time you’re going to love it yeah 100 and then you’re going to be here and you’re back damn i do kind of want to see more and some people say i’ll find the neighborhoods myself very difficult very hard to do when you’re not from this area and you don’t know the lay of the land and we know firsthand when we came to because we did it oh we’re online and we’re looking at homes and i thought we could do it you know when you find the ones that you think are nice and you drive over to see them and you find out oh i have no desire no i can’t live here yeah so we were you know we spent a day or so um looking around on our own before we were scheduled to meet with our real estate agents and uh what the next day they immediately took us to our neighborhoods like oh my god this is we didn’t even know this this is it this is what we’re looking for you’ve dialed in the frequency that i’m looking for exactly and we could do the same thing for you so and we want to do this for you and we want to have fun and of course you know i want to be prepared have my pickles ready everybody who goes out with us gets our famous pickles yeah and uh take a look at our date tours too we’ve got uh five or six different day tours lined up with an itineraries for you know if you’re a dog person these are the kinds of things that you can do with your dog if you’re a music person these are the music venues uh if you want to hit whiskey row you know there’s a day tour for that so we have a lot of preparation for you and we give you a huge binder that’s just loaded with all kinds of amazing information so i highly recommend book with us don’t just come in here cold we’ll be in advance we want to make it happen we want to give you a really really good taste of what it’s like to live here and present and have a good time and if you end up not moving here at least you’ll have a great little vacation and we’re fine with that if you’re not ready to buy how many people we have so many friends that came here three years ago and it took them three years to finally close yeah we don’t care it’s fine with us please don’t think and people will say i don’t want to waste your time it’s okay yeah that’s what we do that’s our job that’s our job we’re here to serve we’re here to take you and if it takes you three years it takes you four years it takes you whatever we’re okay with that so please don’t think you’re wasting our time we love doing it we enjoy doing it and it’s a lot of fun so when you’re thinking about visiting and you’re like maybe i don’t want to do that wrong answer just book the day and we’ll take you out for half a day and then you’re free to go do the rest of your visit however you want but we’ll really give you some good accurate and informative and uh info yeah informative information informative information action-packed action action-packed action and informative information and some chicken legs and some chicken chicken free free pickles no we don’t do free chicken but we do have our cars always always fully fully stocked with pickles and with snacks and with drinks for for you guys when we take this tour yeah it’s a good time it is a good time all right so that’s our little tidbit for the for the day if you’re thinking about visiting just book it with us in advance in advance and we’ll have a great day all right so cheers to you bye

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Denver Adventure

It's easy to forget just how close places are to you when you've got local jet service right here in Prescott.  Hear about how easy it was for us to get away for a quick weekend jaunt to Colorado and the wonderful adventures we found there.

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hello hello hello hey happy fall y’all back of all y’all we’re here it is here we’re so excited and fallen fall has arrived it really hasn’t fallen it has arrived yes um this is raynal and diane bro she’s the pickle lady i am the pickle lady today i’m in green i didn’t think about that oh you can’t wear that no let’s start over oh my god it’s gonna go right through them what up hello peeps i like yours like the 80s dance what is that the safety pants i’m raising the roof i don’t know what she’s thick lady my name’s randall we’re in prescott arizona we’re real estate agents over here to share information with you about prescott prescott real estate and just life in general just life in general sometimes we just like to talk more about life in general because it’s just more fun it’s entertaining and it’s just um we just have giggles yeah and case in point uh today we’re going to talk about our denver adventure yes the real connection this as uh prescott is that we flew out of the prescott airport yep and it was so easy oh my god it is so easy to have a denver adventure they got flights there every day and a little airport it’s so easy to just step on board it’s like having a private jet and it flies you there a couple hours later you’re in denver you’re in denver not even that really it’s like an hour and 40 minutes yeah yeah um so we had friends uh their daughter uh was married in uh colorado springs so a shout out to elizabeth and jim miller our friends from texas yes their daughter megan megan and who’s the husband was it nate nate yeah sorry megan i forgot we just sorry we met him for the first time and they just shook the hands with him but anyway um we were tickled to be invited and we went and oh my gosh i’m so excited this is one of the perks of living in prescott uh we are so amazingly like centrally located to all kinds of great places so for instance we discovered easy to hop on the jet get into denver so we could now we’ve discovered colorado springs we’re going back over like a three-day weekend yeah what was the name of the hotel uh the broadmoor house hotel stunning yeah absolutely one of the five-star hotels in the world oh it was so beautiful beautiful grounds yeah uh the wedding was gorgeous it was we’re gonna put some pictures up oh yeah so um have you and the mother of the bride oh yeah you and the bride right we had a great time she had a beautiful wedding shout out to megan good job um but anyway so i told randall my gosh this is so great we are so conveniently located to quick little jaunts yeah so if you need a quick getaway we have sedona we have tucson we have you know of course scottsdale uh vape it sounds like by the way oh yeah and jerome and jerome i mean quick flights to la and our flight to l.a uh go to denver and go to denver so we want to go we’re going to plan to go yeah we’re going back to denver and we’re going to go back to colorado springs and yeah see the cathedral of the gods there’s so much stuff easy peasy lemon squeezy uh trips to take yeah um that that you could just have some quick adventures oh and we found a partner in crime the pickle pickle shack oh we did we’re driving along a place called pickle shack well obviously we’ve got to stop it we must check out the pickle shark and we did yeah so if you find the pickle shack make sure you get the uh garlic that’s the the pickled garlic was amazing well for some people yeah for the rest of us that had it was good for me it was not so much for her not so much for me sometimes it was rough in that rental car yeah open up the windows yeah but so it was a lot of fun and so we wanted to share with you that yeah when you move to prescott you too can take some quick little fun weekend trips yeah and have a great time absolutely you know and not spend a lot of money no no and you know we are not used to anything in the midwest so for us we’re discovering all kinds of new things that we have no idea well where are we we’re in the west we’re in the west southwest we’re in the southwest midwest yeah the west whatever one of those those mountains and all that stuff you know it’s it’s it’s fun for us to discover it’s all brand new to us yeah so uh we’re having a good time learning all these new little places new places to yeah and people have lived out here for a while i mean to them it’s oh yeah you got to go here no big deal and we’re like how cool is it yeah but we’re discovering it’s just so easy just so easy so easy so easy though so want to share that with you guys and we want to say congratulations to megan and nate and happy happy future to you and jim and elizabeth thanks for an amazing wedding great set the bar super high for us you know for our daughters we’re a little scared now i don’t know if we can do that but it was a great time so we appreciate it all right guys see you soon

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