We just put some witchcraft on some sheet supply wood using a jigsaw and some paint to come up with this haunted Halloween silhouette scene with witches in a cauldron, and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back? Do you like to do a builder to make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week We're brewing up something crafty for the yard something spooky like a little witches silhouette scene with the cauldron Maybe a creepy tree If you guys have been following us for a while, you know, at least you should know that we always win the neighborhood Halloween house decorating contest So this year of course we're gonna add something out extra to our front yard So typically we've had everything on the house. We cover it in spiders We've got some really cool blow-ups, but we don't have much going on in the yard Well, two things happened one of the blow-ups popped. Yeah Just stop blowing up. It was a really cool blow-up castle. It was really cool So made noise head-spun. We've got a new idea to replace it this year And that's next week's video so if you something to look forward to but for this week We're gonna add some things to the yard. We don't have a lot going on in the yard We had this cool coffin that kind of fell apart last year. So a lot of rain last year Yes, I mean it rained the entire month of October Everything gets so I think that's why the blow-ups messed up. Yeah, but anyway, so we're gonna start with something new for the yard We're gonna like he said we're gonna do some black silhouette cutouts that we're expecting to be about Four feet and six feet for the trees. They're gonna be big. We got we got some big ideas So we're going big step one design Oh, you thought I was gonna say I gather all your supplies, but we don't even know what we need yet We know we want to go big But I know I don't want to go freehand either Although Garrett could freehand it I tried to tell him you could probably do this But I'm trying to make something that anybody can do Like myself because I cannot freehand I cannot draw but he can but we're gonna give you an idea We're gonna show you how to do this without having to know how to draw without having to be an artist So we knew we couldn't cut a stencil that big Four foot by whatever it's gonna be. We decided to go with a projector But I'm not gonna spend money on a projector for maybe a one-time project I couldn't think of another use for it. So we did a little research on some DIY projectors And we found some good ideas We took some things from here and there and we came up with what we think is a pretty good idea So the basic concept is you needed a box a light source and some kind of transparency It's really what it boils down to That easy no, it's not it's not that easy you think it is the box piece was easy short No affiliation we found a box that worked we cut a hole in it So the box is to cut out the residual light and then the hole is to kind of focus the light on your image There's the tricky part the image.  We'll go through then we try to transparency But it had some frost on it So again the weight diffused the light so much you couldn't see it and then we tried it on these little stickers I lost them and those worked. They were clear stickers But the image was so small by the time I got big it was blurry and we didn't have any clear Transparencies and I didn't want to go buy a pack of them So we saw where you could draw on some clear plastic wrap or even sandwich bags But again, that's free-handing and we weren't gonna try to freehand it So we ended up cutting little pieces all of our little pieces Like our witches.  There we just use some clear packing tape as our transparency Sluck it on there put it over the hole. So then we needed a light source seems simple, right? It wasn't that simple first first. We tried to flood light, but it was too diffused You could see the idea was look at all this light. It was gonna produce now then we tried a regular Whatever this is like. Yeah, something. I don't know. Yeah, then we tried an LED bulb. Nope. Can't get an image Then we tried to go with a halogen light For like one of those powerful lights, but it had all these little dots all over it. It was weird Yeah, yeah, that didn't work. So we tried a a big sunlight LED Corn cob thing No, couldn't tell what what it was. This is no joke. I kept going back in the house and finding new bulbs How about this one? How about this one?  So there was a bunch of images So different types of flashlights like a mag light had a single LED But there's something about the reflective material in here that made the image like get really blurry So finally we found this $7 flashlight At Walmart. It's a little Ozark trail. Ozark trail It's got a single LED No reflective material works great But a lot of trial and error So we've got our box We've got our little cutouts. I don't think I mentioned that these were cut out on our Cricut So we just use regular cardstock cut them right out on our Cricut Put them on the tape Put the tape over the hole and go down to the garage and now it'll project that image So yes another thing we need is a big dark room because we want to go four foot tall We need a large dark space. So we're gonna use the garage So once we get down there with our light source box and our transparency in place It was just a game of focus and you're trying to move the image closer further away from the wall to get at the right size And you're trying to move the light source closer and further away from the image To get the right size. It's just a game of focus. Yeah Just moving around the light source and the image until it looks about right and then we can start tracing it We're gonna trace it using these markers I think the biggest problem we're having is staying out of the light Step forward now. We're gonna make all of our cuts We're gonna put a pilot hole anywhere where we have to cut an interior spot Mm-hmm, and then we're going to just cut the entire thing out trying to stay on the outside of the black marker line With the jigsaw or something close to it. I have a feeling it's going to be It's a silhouette. It doesn't need to be perfect. That's it. Yeah, it will be fine Now we paint.  I don't know if you guys saw our social media post Garrett is sick Buddy's being a trooper and trying to get through this video So I might be doing this painting by myself in between cutting and painting. I had some chicken They did not agree with me. Yeah, I think it's really poisoning All right, that's enough. He's trying to break it before we ever get it installed. I am Step six now we install them. We're gonna use some zip ties and just zip tie them to our rails But on the outside, right? Yeah gonna lay these witches down Yeah on the outside the edges the paint got kind of thick so it might not be dry. Yeah Might not be dry. All right zip ties. Well, yeah zip ties. I have them right here So we cut the tree in half the trees in half so we can store them later on so I'm gonna take these little one and a half inch screws and Fence pick it and put them back together or just piece them together for now Step seven now. We're gonna put these LED lights around the backs of all the witches You know what I'm saying. You'll see what I'm saying Got this LED tape Can you guys hear that dog barking? This is why we don't film outside Then can you guys even see us? It's getting kind of dark now, but that's perfect for when we turn them on. What do you want the? Light the cord this side or that side guys think Came out pretty cool. I think the red really sets it off. Yes Makes the whole thing look spooky So the cutting was a little bit harder than I thought a little more challenging But the painting was super easy especially with that little trimmer brush Yes, that that's your line pad really made the painting go quickly a lot faster than the cutting But the time it was time well spent look how great this looks looks great now We need to add to the rest of our yard But we're out of time look what time it is It's way past time So we got to go so we will see you again next week where we'll do it building and make it again And I have absolutely nothing to balance Nothing anything's tied up. Yeah, everything's bolted down Tied down.  Oh, I got a witch hold on quick one which a Random which whoo, which is ready to fly away


Four days after the town's only water supply vanished without warning, crews have been working to provide the city of Wheelwright with a limited, temporary solution. For decades, Wheelwright's sole source of water has been a flooded, abandoned mine above the city. For unknown reasons, that source went dry on Sunday, leaving the roughly 400 customers of the Wheelwright Municipal Water Service without water. They're reliant upon their old deep mine. It sounds like it's not very good. I think it's probably created a fish or something that's lost all its water. Judge Hill has been facilitating efforts between Wheelwright, Southern Water District, Knot County Water and state officials to come up with both immediate and long-term solutions. Yesterday, the city tapped onto a backup system with Southern Water. But because Wheelwright has always had a gravity-fed system, pipes remain dry for about half of the city's residents living in higher elevations. The City of Wheelwright never did do anything as far as thinking that they might be without water where they would have the pump situation where they could pump on up to their tanks. They're going to try to get another pump and see if they can't reverse flow and pump it back up into the higher elevations of Wheelwright. And when they get that in place, we'll see how that works. We're feeding them right now. I don't know, probably 100 gallons a minute or something like that. I mean everything is staying charged, but we need to get a more permanent solution for that in the future. Today, workers are installing a new pump station behind the post office to get water to those customers. However, even when that project is complete, residents will still need to conserve water because Southern is only able to provide a fraction of the flow necessary to fully restore service. The search for a permanent water source could see the city purchasing water from Knot County. And they can do right now 200 gallons a minute. And they're taking about 150, but we'll probably make some changes over on the Knot County side. I've been talking with Ron Johnson, their engineer, and probably changed some pumps out where it can be up to 400 gallons a minute where they can have a permanent source of water that's playing from Knot County going through our system as well as their own system coming up 122. However, Judge Hale cautions that even under the best of circumstances a permanent fix to the problem is expected to be months away. Reporting in Wheelwright, I'm Ralph Davis for EKB News.


Next question is from B. Bowks. What is the best way to approach training obese clients? Yeah, okay, so obese clients, so we're talking about people who are in that kind of clinically obese, which by the way now is a pretty big percentage of the population now, but when you're training someone like this, consider that the psychological piece is far more important than the mechanisms that are involved with weight loss, okay? So obviously we know if they ate less and they moved more and they exercised that they would lose weight. That's obvious, but it's not even close to that easy, okay? You're dealing with someone who you have to completely get them to change their relationship to food, they have to change their relationship to exercise and how they are with their own body. That takes some time. So one of the first things I like to do is I like to incorporate strength training and I tell them they're not gonna lose any weight for at least a couple months. So for the first two months, we're not gonna lose any weight. My goal with you is to strengthen your body and get your metabolism to speed up a little bit. And I know if you get stronger and your weight doesn't change, then we probably have lost some fat and gained some muscle. Then when it comes to the diet, I like to try to add things before I take things out. So and why? Because it's different, it feels different.  So make sure that you hit that first. If you hit that, I don't care about anything else. But you know through doing that, that that'll get them to naturally wanna eat a little less anyway because of the satiety effects, for example, of protein. But I mean, in a nutshell, it's a very slow measured approach. It's not the, we're gonna get this weight off you because that's what you hired me for type of deal because you will fail in the long run. I mean, that's pretty much exactly how probably all of us go towards it. I'll add one thing on the exercise portion because when they would be with me, the goal would that I'm going to strength train like so. And strength training by the way, for this person could look vastly different, right? So sometimes strength training was holding their hand and then standing up and sitting down on a chair. Now I've also had obese clients that could still put a barbell in their back and actually get a pretty decent squat. So depending on where I'm gonna meet them wherever their level is for strength training and that we're gonna primarily focus on strength training with me. Then this is where, and I think I've brought this up a long time ago on the show, I used to get these colored dots. And a client like this, I used to love to do this where I'd put them, have them put it sporadically through the house on the refrigerator, maybe on their bathroom mirror, maybe by the TV. And when they saw this, I would get, they would do something. And every client was different, unique. Sometimes it was mobility work. Sometimes it was body weight squats. Sometimes it was a sit up or whatever. But I'd have like little things that are just 10 sets or 10 reps of something just to keep them moving and trying to implement just more movement in their day. Like a little reminder. Yeah, just a little reminder. When you see that dot, go do this. If you see that dot, go do that. Or encouraging them to walk more and move more. Normally people that are in this obese category, depending on how far we're talking, like if we're going all the way to morbidly obese, they're extremely sedentary. And so I just wanna find little ways that I can create more and not extreme ways.   No, things that I know that they'll continue on forever just saying, hey, this is what you'd normally do at this time. Let's add this. No, I love that. I completely do the same thing, but I didn't have like a system like that, which I think that's really smart. It was always just like what they could do after the shower or what they could do while they have the TV on instead of sitting down. Just trying to address a lot of normal tendencies and patterns that they usually are doing or they're going out to get food or what that looks like, how they could get more involved when actually making it at home. And so I spent a lot more time actually going to the grocery stores with them and walking through and really figuring out what type of decisions they were making and then how we could just modify one thing within that same mindset. Yeah, you have to appreciate that what you're asking the person to do is to change their life. This is not, I don't mean that in the lightest at all, right? The reason why somebody's obese is because of their life. That doesn't, that's just not the time they spend with you. That's everything, right? It's just how they are in the way that they live. You're asking this person to completely change that. That's what it would require for them to go from obese to lean. And so this is no small task. Anybody watching this right now, change your life completely and then make it stick forever. That's a very difficult thing to do. I don't care what it is you're asking yourself to do. So this is a very slow process you need to appreciate. And then I want to go back to what we've talked about with resistance training in regards to obese individuals. There's this myth that obese individuals have a lot of muscle and that they just need to do cardio. I don't need to get bigger, look how big I am. Lift weights, no, no, no. Studies are clear on this. Obese individuals have low muscle mass. Actually have very little muscle. They're actually underneath frail. In fact, osteopenia, bone loss is more common in the obese even though they're heavy. So there's this myth that no, don't lift weights because you're not trying to get big. You already probably have a lot of math. I've seen people say this like, oh, I don't need to build. You can see that I'm, you can see that I'm thick. The truth is these days, because we're so sedentary, everybody has low muscle mass. And people who are obese, especially when they start to develop insulin resistance, their body actually starts to get even weaker and they start to lose even more muscle. So the truth is strength- There's more pain and more problems. That's right, strengthen their bodies, build some muscle and that'll pay them dividends.