Welcome. This is Craig Thomas, your host on Much More on Medicine, part of Think Tech Hawaii's live stream series and assisted as always by our engineers Rich and Ray. My guest this morning is Dr. Will Scruggs. He's the chair of the emergency department at Adventist Health Castle. I almost said Castle Medical Center, but the name has evolved. It reflects the fact that Castle is part of a larger network, mostly on the mainland. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. We've invited Will here today because he is among other things. He wears many hats. Will let him tell you a little about them. But among other things, he is the legislative liaison for our emergency medicine group. And as such has been involved with both some successful pieces of legislation and looking at next year for some others. So I thought now is a good time to kind of summarize the notable events of this season and talk a little bit about a few of them and then talk about next year. Sounds good. You should say many failures too. Well, you know, that's how legislation goes. Absolutely. I've been involved personally over the years of some and don't be in a hurry if you're trying to get a bill passed this month.   Oh, anyway, it's true. Well thanks for having me. Oh, it's great. I'm happy you're here. So yeah, it has been an interesting session as always. I'm dominant primarily by the advocate our choice. Yeah, Bill, of course. So that's huge, honestly. It might as well start with that. That's huge in my mind. Well, the background is it's been 21 years. So speaking of timelines in the making, I believe were something like the sixth state to approve a medically assisted end of life procedures. And there's obviously also some, this is done internationally longer than 21 years. In fact, I don't know if you saw the story. There was a 104 year old Australian scientist who just flew to Switzerland because he was done but hadn't died and had medically assisted end of life in Switzerland with the last couple of weeks actually. I did. Yeah, it's certainly has been something that's driven the conversation as there's over the last few months is some of the things that the countries in Europe are doing even beyond kind of what we would consider physicians assisted suicide related to medical conditions. Right. So it's been fascinating to watch. Yeah, it is. And I understand it's polarizing. And clearly anything carried to extreme is risky. However, no action is also action in my opinion. And we're both emergency doctors. And we see this. I don't mean medically assisted end of life, although we may have seen some of that too. But we see people who have no reasonable prospects for anything but increasing misery followed by death. And that's awful to watch. And it's a difficult situation for everybody. The physicians involved want to want to be able to alleviate suffering. They want to help people want to give people choices. And frankly, they've been limited. And it should be said, I mean, there are good arguments on all sides. And personally, it's I supported this bill. And I grew up in Oregon when they were passed the first in the country, the first state in the country to pass their death and dignity bill. And it's really the bill that all the states, my understanding is, all the states have passed it since have based their legislation on. And part of that's because there's a good number of protections in their four part. Why don't you describe the both sort of the process and the protections a little bit? And then I have a story to tell you. Sure. So and I'm not I'm not an expert in this, but in the field. But my understanding in the process is there's a couple of waiting periods. The patient has to request it from their primary physician to be eligible. In the state of Hawaii, you have to be a resident of Hawaii. You have to have a terminal illness.  And it specifically a clue excludes age and other disabilities has to be this specific illness, such as cancer is going to kill you in the next six months. And you have to go to your primary provider and ask for a prescription. And the primary provider has to first provide you with a long list of information. You have to give your informed consent. You have to understand that we believe that if you take this prescription, it's going to kill you. It may not. You have to understand that there have been poor outcomes and unexpected outcomes related to this. You have to have another physician who's not affiliated with your primary physician also corroborate the diagnosis and your prognosis. You have to see a counselor either a psychiatrist, psychologist or a licensed counselor who can say that you don't have untreated depression. You can have depression, but it just can't be untreated or under treated. And then you have a waiting period. You have to submit a I believe it's a verbal request first and then I believe more than 20 days later you have to make another verbal request and you have to make a written request. And the written request has to be witnessed. It has to be witnessed by two people, one of whom could be a family member or somebody you know. The second person though cannot be a family member. They can't be anybody who's going to benefit from your death. So you can't be a part of their state or their will. And the idea being that you provide protection so we don't head down the slippery slope of euthanasia and try to address some of the concerns that people have related to others wanting to die. Exactly. And that seems like a reasonable process to me, sort of threading the needle between too difficult and too hard. Now, well I'm just going to tell you a story. Because I've been an emergency doctor in Hawaii since 1983. And early on in one of our more rural hospitals, obviously dying patient came in to see me. And I ended up calling his primary care provider who cared for him for many years. And that guy is actually now deceased, well the patient clearly, but also the provider. This was a long time ago and at the time he was probably about my age now. And I said, Bill, this guy, where are we headed here? This is not going to end well. He's miserable. He knows he says, ah Craig, I have a plan for this. I'm like, really? Because those doctors are like, oh we're going to do this, we're going to do that. It's going to be fine. There's a lot of evidence that doing too much near the end of the life is actually more often harmful than helpful even if the goal is prolonging life. And particularly if the goal is having a comfortable life. And he says, no, what I do is I, and I said I have done that in this patient already. I write a prescription for narcotic pain medicine. I caution the patient that taken in large amounts it can cause respiratory suppression or even death. It should be taken, you know, one every six hours is needed for pain, etc. And I give it to him. And he said, as far as I know, no one's ever used it, but at least they have the option. And this seemed actually wise to me. And I have to say that, well, I'll tell you what happened. One of my neighbors, we were friends at about that period of time and for the next about 20 years. And he's a little older than me. As a smart guy, we talked about lots of things, including what we didn't, didn't want done at the end of life. And for the record, will. I probably told you this before. I certainly don't want heroics. And if there's no hope, please help me slide away. This is in case I'm in capacity. I tell this to everybody. In fact, we can talk about that tattoo thing. Yeah, we should go there. Let's not go there quite yet. So anyway, we were no longer neighbors. And I hadn't spoken to him in no probably four or five years. And I get this phone call. And it says, this is won't say his name. How are you? I said, Well, I'm fine. How are you? And he says, I had a pain in my side. I ignored it for a few weeks. It got pretty bad. I went had a cat scan. I've got terminal liver cancer. Oh, and he said, Remember our conversations. I do. So I went over and we had a nice visit. He was bright yellow. He had lost probably 30 pounds. He was not a large man. And he was awake and alert and cheerful. And he said, Look, I don't know how my end is coming. I'm prepared for it. I've talked to my doctors. There's nothing to do. And I don't want to suffer. And I said, Well, I'll write your prescription for some pain medication. And you have to be careful. It gave him the same spiel I'd heard from my friend, the wise primary care provider country dot guy some years before. I wrote him the prescription. I don't think he used him. But I have no idea. And he passed on pretty quickly. He had clearly terminal disease. But it struck me at the time that we do a much better job with our four legged family members than we do with our two legged family members. Yeah. Thanks for sharing that too. And that's, and I say that because it's kind of an unsaid part of palliative care medicine, I believe, coming from two approaches, either from the physician who might put things into those terms. But patients are smart.  And they're smart enough to know what they can do with them. And that's one of the reasons I supported this bill is I think this provides some structure and hopefully some safety to this issue. I agree. You know, it's because what you said is reality. I'm sure that story I just told has happened many times. And we know that it actually happens in structured palliative care settings all the time too. So we should actually recognize it. And as you said, provide structure and safety. Right. I think the other thing that's hard for us in medicine to recognize is sometimes comfort is all we have to offer. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just it's hard to it's hard for us to own that verse geared up to we can fix this. It's hard for patients often to recognize it. That was not true of my friend. He knew his situation very clearly. But we owe it to people, I think to share the likely next steps. And we should recognize as in the rest of life, inaction is also action. Right. And I think we should give some voice to the other side of the argument too, because certainly there are people who make very reasonable arguments who disagree with this, would disagree with this conversation entirely. Absolutely. In fact, it's possible. So I'm on low college. That's true. And so we should say there are two things. The bill does provide protection for facilities and physicians who don't want to partake in this. And of course, I have no problem with a physician who says I don't want to be a part of this type of practice, or a facility doing the same thing. And there are there are protections within the bill saying the facility does not have to allow a provider at their facility to do this. And a provider at a facility who wants to be able to do this for the provider to say I want no part of this. And I think that's perfectly appropriate. Because there are a number of very reasonable arguments. I think the slippery slope argument related to this has some credibility to it. I think there are ethical arguments that do make sense to me that resonate with me about just dignity of life. And if you're willing to take it in any capacity, that you don't you don't believe in the dignity of life. And so I understand that I personally, I feel especially in medicine, if you have a situation where you have good arguments on both sides, I think it should be patient and provider choice in that case, as long as it's not going to harm somebody else. I agree. And when I said inaction is also action, I was specifically referring to the fact patients need to know what their likely prognosis in course is. And if there are choices and the fact that we could be wrong, when we make these prognoses, that's the likely outcome. But there are cases where people live years past terminal diagnosis and prognosis. I'm aware of at least one person who's been on and off hospice care for the last five years, she's doing pretty well. After the break, we're going to talk about a little more about end of life and maybe some unique ways of telegraphing wishes. And then we'll go on to some of their legislative issues. So we'll see after the break. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Hi, I'm Dave Stevens, the host of Cyber Underground every Friday here at 1pm on ThinkTechHawaii.com. And then every episode is uploaded to the Cyber Underground. That library of shows that you can see of mine on YouTube.com. And I hope you'll join us here every Friday. We have some topical discussions about why security matters and what could scare the absolute bejesus out of you. If you just try to watch my show all the way through. Hope to see you next time on Cyber Underground. Stay safe. Welcome back. This is Craig Thomas, your host on Much More on Medicine. And with me is Dr. Will Scruggs, the director at Adventus Health Castle Merge Department and our group's liaison to the legislature. And before the break, we were talking about the medically assisted dying bill that recently got signed, which honestly is the big medical bill of the recession. It led to something that's been a kind of hot topic recently in emergency medicine. And we got to talk about it. So because it's associated with a great photo which anybody who wanted to Google and find online, there is a and this has been a joke sort of an emergency medicine for many years. Hey, I don't want to be coded. So people talk about getting a tattoo on their chest that says do not resuscitate. Well, a guy did it. And this was not any little obscure tattoo. It's like about from here to here. Exactly what we're looking when we're doing chest impression. And it said do not resuscitate. In my understanding, it even had his signature on it. And guess what? He rolls into an emergency department somewhere. I don't know where it was on the mainland. And people look at that and they say, well, that doesn't look like an official living will. I don't see a post form. I don't I think we better resuscitate. And they did for a while. And then they sensibly got some ethicists involved and I think changed course. But it's generated a whole bunch of commentary. And before the break, we were talking about choices matter. And you can choose to resuscitate, you can choose not to resuscitate. But you have made a choice, you shouldn't be saying, oh, I just did the default. We resuscitate. Everybody doesn't matter. It's a safe thing to do. No, it's not. It has consequences also. So I'm like, well, until you get better evidence than a cat to on somebody's chest, I'm going with it. But we haven't talked about this. That's an interest. I would say I agree with it. If that's all the evidence you have. At the same time, I believe and listen to family members and I had a family member who came in a wife, child, father, mother who came in and said, yeah, he really believed that. And I think you should stop. I think I'd be okay with that. I'd be fine. But there is a permanence to death that, unfortunately, you can't confirm if do they still believe they, they don't want to be resuscitated. Did they do this when they were sick with cancer before?  There's too many questions to just accept that it face value. I think it's challenging. And I agree that you should always look for more information that are there for those out there listening to this, there are better ways. Get somebody with durable power medical attorney, get an advanced directive. If you're in a certain circumstances, get a pulsed form. But but in our line of work, I got to say, I would feel like somebody's playing a prank on me. I would, if I saw that, it would be hard. Well, with our morbid sense of humor, not to look around and wonder where the camera. Well, maybe the first thing is to get like an alcohol swab and see if it rubs off. But but in all seriousness, we're often faced with inadequate data. And lot not a lot of corroboration. And so that the airing on the side of when in doubt resuscitated back is entirely reasonable. Because as you say, if you don't, you've made up, you can walk it back later, you can almost always walk it back later and and withdraw care if you need to. Yes. But it's not that easy sometimes. True. So that was that's been the last month or six weeks circulating through the emergency literature and circles the topic. And I'm kind of on the side of if you really went to trouble, get tattooed. Sure, if somebody says, you know, guy is nuts, he changes mind. Or if it looks to you like a clearly self limited condition. Sure, I'd manage it. It looks like the progression of an untreatable condition. I probably wouldn't. Hopefully you'd have family with to share. Anyway, let's talk about some other well, firstly, anything to add to that. Otherwise, let's talk about it. I'm glad it's driven the conversation. It's an important conversation for us. It really is, you know, and actually, a plea, which is, let your friends know, let your family know, get the documentation, have a trusted person to speak on your behalf. Because the real question isn't usually an emergency department. The real question is a week later up in the ICU. Right. And having someone to help make decisions for you, if you can't, it's huge. Let's talk about other legislative items of the session and then maybe where we think there's opportunity for next year. Sure. So I think the other big one, at least in, well, nationwide in medicine is the opioid issue. And we did have a couple of bills last year than this year, working the way through the legislator, trying to address that as legislators are very understanding and we're concerned about this. It's a big issue in Hawaii, deaths from overdose involving opioids increased by, I think it was 30 some percent or 100 some percent. It was a significant amount of people, I think over on the order of 100 people died last year, as my understanding, related to opioid overdoses. Yeah, we had Dan Galanis here a few weeks ago and the numbers are a little unclear. But yes, the it's a multi-fold increase. It peaked in Hawaii, I think like 2014, 2015, but it hasn't gone down significantly. And compared to southeastern U.S., we're pikers. But sadly, well, I'm happy for us. I'm sad for them. But overall, you're right. It's a huge problem. In fact, a whole interesting topic in itself. I don't think we'll talk about how this might have had the roots laid years ago. Although maybe we should come back and do that sometime. Let's talk about the legislation that's trying to unwind. Yeah, so this year's legislation was SB 2646. And it essentially requires all physicians, when you write for a controlled substance, first you have to check the prescription drug monitoring program of the database. And just to explain what that is, it's a repository. Any controlled substance prescription that's filled in Hawaii, the pharmacy has to submit it to the PDMP. Any physician who supplies the medication from their office, they have to submit that to the PDMP. So in an ideal world, the physician, if a patient comes in and I'm going to write them a prescription for another controlled substance that might put them at risk for overdose or other complications, I can look up in this database, whether they've had recent prescriptions filled, look to see if somebody might be abusing medications, they might be overusing them, if they might be diverting them. There are some issues with the PDMP, as you all know, in working with it. But in general, it's a good repository for information. Some of the limitations include the fact that it takes seven days, it can be up to seven days before something gets on there. The military prescriptions, prescriptions filled on military bases or military institutions aren't there, it's a big deal for us in Hawaii. But how this bill would say we would have to check that database with a few exceptions, and the primary exception being for a prescription for three days or less, coming from an emergency department, basically, our emergency situation. But all other physicians would have to check that database. I think that's real progress and it circles to something we're going to talk about in a minute, namely information in general. The days, I hope, of seeing somebody at one emergency department and walking in the next day, hearing them give the story, oh no, I haven't been anywhere in a while, no, my shoulder pain is really acute, and it's the guy you saw yesterday. Maybe at the other facility? Happened to me a year ago. Several times at Waikawa and Castle. Yeah, yeah, well this was Waikawa and Kahuku, but same idea. Hopefully those days are nearly behind us. Just so everybody knows, I think the assumption among most people is that medicine is sort of like banks, information is readily available, it doesn't matter which branch you're at, etc., and sadly it's not true. No, it doesn't work that way, and it's complicated information, and you're dealing with complicated situation, too, with patients who often are really trying to alleviate their pain and suffering, maybe not going about the right way, but you want good information, and you have to be able to get there easily, and that's the big issue we've had with this, that's why I haven't supported the PDMP mandates, because it's not a system that's easily usable, and there are some holes in it. Now, the legislature, I think, did a nice job. They put a sunset clause in with this bill, for example, so in five years, unless they re-up it, it will sunset, and hopefully by then, we'll have the mechanisms in place that will, information will just kind of pop up for us, and we won't have to go hunt it down. You know what? Let's talk about information popping up. So, the back story to this is that, I think it was 2011 in Washington state, they recognized that there were a small group of people that were using emergency departments over and over again for a whole variety of reasons that could have been better served in other care settings. And initially, there was a rather draconian plan, I believe it was limiting patients to three ED visits a year. Well, that's fine if you're not sick, but if you're sick, it may not be okay at all. Or just worried that you're sick. Or just worried you're sick, which ultimately should be dealt in another setting, but I, but you got to figure out if they're sick first, and that's not always easy. They came up with something called EDIE, ED, Emergency Department Information Exchange, which my understanding has now been adopted in Washington, Oregon, is spreading through California. 13 other states also. So, it was a part of a larger process. They called it seven best practices. And the ED Information Change, it allowed for a quick dispersal of information to emergency providers primarily, and it's grown to other providers as well. It wasn't really limited to Washington State, just to give the credit to the people who put it together. It's now owned by Collective Medical Technologies at the time. It was put together by a social worker in Idaho. Which is awesome actually. Right, who said, I have all these care plans. How do I get this information out to people? And so, this is potentially a huge win. And something that at Venice Health Castle now has signed on to, and we hope Kaiser will soon. And eventually, hopefully the entire state, all hospitals in the state will have this. The idea being, as soon as somebody checks into our Emergency Department, I get some information about that patient if they're at risk for, if they have concerning features. If they've been to multiple emergency departments recently, if they have more than five recent prescriptions on the prescription drug monitoring program. And so related to the opioid issue, it gives us rapid access to information. It pops up right on our tracking board. At the hospital, it's one click and I get a one page summary about this information. Then I can go to the PDMP if I have other concerns and need more information. But it also provides more than just information related to opioids. It also provides care plans from other facilities. Most of the time that deals with patients who are on long-term care plans, who we want to treat their pain, but we want to do it safely. And usually, adding more medication from the Emergency Department is not a safe way to do that. No. Basically, if someone's going over and over again, something isn't getting solved. Right. The patient's not comfortable and we might be putting him at risk by adding more medication. Exactly. Let's hope the legislature takes this up next year. The cost is honestly pretty nominal. I went to the University of Washington over to Christmas holidays and went to the Emergency Department and watched this happen. It was awesome. So let me know how I can help push for this. And now is the time prep for the legislative season, because what gets set up now is what gets to become a bill in January. So listen, I'd like to thank you very much for coming on the show today. We should do this again. We should. Thanks for having me. Thanks. Thank you everyone. It's Craig Thomas, much more on medicine with guest Will Scruggs.


Welcome folks, we're at the Down Industrial Strait and now 227, Nazarkoff 125, S&P's down 37. Gold. Gold contract up about $5.90, trading at $19.63 an ounce. We have Silver down 8 cents, $22.64 an ounce, Light Sweet crude up 21 cents, $75.54 a barrel, notes and bonds. Down 25 ticks, trading $107.17, the third year up a full point, plus 29 ticks, two points at $112.29 and $king dollar, trading up 312 ticks, $105.904, Euro $106, yen trading out here at $151, British pound at $122 to $1 US dollar. We'll get over and take a look at the, let's go into the futures market first because you still get the whole IMF deal going, you get Powell going, he had a little hawkish speech there, no doubt about it. He talked more of the IMF than he did at the, you know, the last Fed meeting. That being said, what you have is that right now you're down at $35, $43.58 and take a look at this, you're going to need a lot more volume because if we take a look at this, what you're going to see. Okay, so right now you're banging out $56 million, but that the $56 million is going into $100 million, so this, you know, bottom line, yes, you got to pull back, no doubt about that and we can catch the chase, man, let's go over to the dollar, you know. The dollar, last two days failed, now you got inside the range. We'll take a look at this, you're going to see that right there, right inside the range. And I suspect we got inside the range as soon as Powell actually, it's that yapping. Yeah, I did. Yeah, you can see that. And as soon as the, there was parts of that speech that flat out he was saying that, yeah, which he didn't say in the Federal Reserve speech that, oh yeah, we're on this, we're going to tighten it, but if you do listen to that speech again, you're going to hear that right after he said that, he says, well, we don't know yet, you know, bottom line is that, you know, we'll see how this shakes out. If we go take a look at the note and bond market, right now you're pulling back on the 10th year with 1.8 million contracts versus 2.7. So you're going to need a lot more contract volume in order to break that down also.  And it was intriguing about that, of course, is that the dollar actually is up. You know, gold got down to 1948, rejected it. You're at 1963, you did 179,000 contracts. That's going against 270,000 contracts. Bottom line, gold's off to the races once again. Stay right there folks, come right back.


friends thanks for checking in today we're going to do a comparison with the new springfield armory echelon with the springfield armory xdm elite osp with the threaded barrel 5.28 inches now the echelon was released approximately three weeks ago it was met with high approval by most of the people who have shot it others have claimed to be in the middle they're not sure and others said that's just another nine millimeter but those who have shot it said that there's something about this gun that is super nice and some of the updated features is worth talking about but over here we've got the xdm elite i remember i received this and said i now have springfield's best polymer frame full size nine millimeter handgun right here the xdm elite osp flat dark earth threaded barrel love it i said it's a great gun but now they came out with the echelon so let's do a comparison we'll start out the echelon has a 4.5 inch barrel this has a 5.28 inch barrel so if we look at it like this we'll see there and lies the difference right there and then also from this shot you can see that the xdm elite on the right seems just a hair thinner with the slide but the barrel sticks out there because it's 5.28 inches the magazines are very good in both cases the xdm elite has a 22 round mag comes with two the echelon has a 20 round mag they are not interchangeable i know a lot of people would have preferred interchangeable mags they seem to have the same look geometry to it if you will but they're they're not interchangeable 20 round mags and a 17 round mag to 22 round mags you have to give it to the xdm for that you know 22 round magazines if we look at the grip the echelon took what they created with the helcat adaptive grip texturing very fine bumps that are a different height you can't necessarily see it but when you grip it it's very nice and it also comes with additional back straps and speaking of the grip which meets with the frame it is a modular frame and there is the serial number the xdm grip feels a little bit thinner also comes with additional back straps wider textured lines and well texturing in the back strap and the front strap i like this but i really love this that that grip texturing is so nice and it's all throughout everywhere you grip the handgun you're going to feel that adaptive grip texturing so in my estimation the echelon wins in that category now both these handguns are ambidextrous with the magazine release and the slide stop and a lot of people like to use their their trigger finger their middle finger on the opposite side some people use a thumb reach well you can do either way with both the echelon and the xdm elite because you have the slide stop and the magazine release on both sides although they look a bit different both handguns are ambidextrous now you may notice the xdm elite has a grip safety forces a high grip on the pistol i just don't see it as that big a deal they do not have that with the echelon i'm gonna give it to the echelon but i will mention the grip safety doesn't bother me i'm a 1911 guy and it just doesn't matter to me now the xdm has a flared bag well and it is removable but i see no reason to remove it i like it you know quick quick mag changes it just guides the magazine where it is supposed to go the echelon does not have that so i'm giving that one to the xdm the slide serrations with the xdm are wider cut they did that with the elite models all right and we'll show clear here wider cut pretty nice i have to say now what they did with the echelon was they made a trench cut and these are wide as well but when you grip this it's just sweaty hands wet hands i don't think it's going to make a difference and the reason it's trench cut you could see that it has that trench cut out in there and it actually is a nicer slide serration than the xdm both have a pick rail however the xdm has a three slot pick rail as where this has a four slot pick rail i think in either case you're going to be able to put whatever light laser you you want on there but that's worth noting the optic i have here is a hex dragonfly on the xdm elite and a trijicon r mr both are optic ready but what they did with the echelon with the v is system and that is called variable interface system is that they created a pen system that will use up to 30 different red dots and even more when you think about the variations they have them for the delta point pro the r mr the rmsc and all of the variations i think that is super cool as where this is a plate system and it's a very nice you know there there's no issue there but i like the adaptability that the echelon offers now the xdm elite has suppressor height sights and i think that's cool because it has a threaded barrel you throw a suppressor on there and the echelon offers that exact same thing but not with this setup this is the 4.5 inch barrel but it has a tritium front dot and a u notch rear sight much like the hellcat much like some of the other xdm elites just not this one because it has suppressor height sights i can't really rank who's better right there because it's irrelevant if you have a suppressor then all of a sudden it's relevant the trigger with the xdm elite it's called a meta trigger match enhanced trigger assembly very nice trigger breaks right at four and a half pounds it's that second click right there see that that second click all right i like it it's got the trigger bar safety in there but this echelon trigger i have it breaking right at five pounds it's a little bit wider has the trigger bar safety in there breaks at five pounds but that reset is just a little nicer i have to go with the echelon on that trigger guard little bit undercut with both hand guns they have the same look to it a little bit of texturing different types of texturing here we have my thumbs in the way a little more of a gritty texturing the adaptive grip texturing and over here we have the same type of texturing that mimics the grip in both cases so no no big issue there i think either way will suit the user just fine how about price this is very important this is for this model optic ready flat dark earth $733 and with 222 round magazines and optic ready and threaded barrel that's actually a really good price if you compare that with other models you'll see that that's not bad in this case with an optic played on here and without an optic you're looking at $679 so what they did here is create that optic system which i think is amazing and they priced it to sell at $679 it's ambidextrous it has a great trigger 20 and 17 round magazines all steel sights easy disassemble disassembling these hand guns is simple in both cases here we have the slide locked back with the xdm we're gonna push this lever upward and then off comes the slide no need to pull the trigger to remove the barrel i have to take that barrel cap off those threads so i'm just gonna leave it as is but as you can see it has a dual recoil spring steel guide rod nice easy disassemble and you just slack it back and push that lever down and there you go the edge line is different slides locked back you're gonna push this lever down instead of up it released a slide and then just pull it off the frame and here you can see a single captured recoil spring steel guide rod and the 4.5 inch barrel once again i'm not going to put it back or take it all out but all you have to do is put this in place and then rack it back lock it put that lever upward and it's just an easier and quicker disassemble process let's go ahead and get these guns on the scale we'll start with the xdm elite unloaded magazine inserted 32 ounces even here we have the echelon and we're looking at 27 and 5 8 so a little over two ounces heavier with the xdm but here are 20 rounds we'll keep it consistent with both 36 and an eighth ounce and with the xdm elite we're looking at 40 and a half ounce once again a little over two ounces heavier with the xdm elite so let's talk about the most important factor the shooting accuracy in my hands anyhow at the range with both these handguns when i got this xdm elite with the 5.28 inch barrel i said there there it is that's the one i want that's the polymer frame one i want in 9 millimeter have the prodigy love that i want this one with the 22 round mags in the longer barrel and i shot it and said that is phenomenal because i love the xdm models i really do i don't mind the grip safety i like to grip texturing and i like the four and a half pound trigger i like the way it shoots and the way it handles recoil and the control i have with it it just has been consistent for me but i said it was the best polymer frame handgun that springfield made until they released the echelon and i will tell you when i've taken this to the range on three or four occasions so far it's only been three weeks i love it i've shot the lights out with it and this is not to state that i'm a great shooter i'm not it's just that this gun just performs it's a it's a very nice shooting accurate well controlled handgun and i encourage you to shoot it especially if you're the type that says oh you know it's just another 9 millimeter whoop they do i encourage you to shoot it because it is really a nice overall pistol and very seldom do you just take a gun out of the case and just hit everything that you're aiming at typically you have to get a good feel for the gun this is just a natural shooter for me i love it i think it's uh i think i think they did a great job with it and i i know that it got reviewed very much and in many cases over reviewed and i played a role in that myself but however i do think the handgun is worthy very fine pistol right here with the echelon so my two favorite polymer frame striker fire 9 millimeter handguns from springfield around the table right now and if i had to choose one i'm going with the echelon doesn't mean i don't still have love for this if you like videos like this please subscribe and 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You know, we go to church to learn and to be in the presence of God when in reality they don't want us to know of our power. They don't talk about these things, at least in most of the churches I've been to, they don't.  So they don't talk about it. They don't talk about manifestation. They don't talk about miracles. They don't talk about these things. So we think that it's something of the past. It's something that we're not capable of and so we don't try and therefore we don't believe it's possible.


Hey, so today I take these tomatoes and plant them in this ground. Let's do it. Alright, that's done. So they're all in. Now what we're going to do is we're going to get some worm tea from my worm garden over there. And we're going to give them a little bit of a nutrient top up to help them get started. And that's a wrap. The tomatoes are in. But I just realized one small problem. So Rebecca asked me, what type of tomatoes were there? And I was like, I don't know, they're tomatoes. Beef steak. Beef steak select. I didn't really look at that when I got the salines. Beef steak aren't really my preferred tomato option. You know, we wanted to make some sauces and all that sort of stuff with them. And yeah, probably one of my least favorite tomato options. So I didn't really think about that. And then I found these seeds which I had and I didn't even open them. Which are the smaller cherry type tomatoes. This would be perfect. And these are amazing seeds as well. These are from Kawanga Gardens in New Zealand here. Which are all heritage, organic, growing, sustainable. They're probably the best quality seeds you can get. You may have seen a few other plants next to it. And there were some basil seedlings I had. They're still quite little. So I don't know if they're quite ready, but I've got so many seedlings. So I was like, I'll put them in now and see what happens. So yeah, that's it. We'll check back in next week and see how they go. Peace. So I was on a call and I heard the doorbell go but I couldn't take it because I was talking to the client. Anyway, I'm hoping it was a parcel because I'm waiting for a vacuum cleaner. As crazy as that sounds. And some supplements. So let's go have a look, see what was there. Great Lakes Collagen. Ignatium. Cochitam. Iding. Morty vitamins. Collagen. What was that? And then Lucky Last. I got some of this. I don't know how to say it. Sukenut. Sukenut. Sukenut. Sukenut. Sukenut. Sukenut stands for sugarcane natural. Sugarcane natural. There we go. Most unrefined sugar you can find outside of a sugarcane stalk. Excited. Today is the day. I'm going to try Folio. The God Pill as some call it. This is a product by the Neurohack. Like there are many good things about it. But not big on the... What do you call this? Neutropics. I've never really taken many things like this before. So today is the day. I'm going to open them up and follow the instructions. And yeah, I'll report back in with how I get on. So I just got back from my walk. Got my smoothie. And that means 45 minutes later. Plus food. Step two. So far so good. No noticeable changes or anything. But I think this is where the real magic happens. Because there's some big stuff in here. There's a lot of stuff in it. Anyway, I'll keep you all posted on how it will go. Alright, so it's been about an hour now. Since I took the step two. Definitely feeling something. So I have experimented with anoracetam. I definitely noticed something with that where it's sort of... You'd have this energy, so to speak. Like this brain energy. Like you want to do something. But I couldn't control it. Like it was too jittery. I'm starting to notice some of that energy, so to speak. Coming on now. So it'll be interesting to see if I can sort of control it. And you know, focus that in. Or if I'm just like a complete mess bouncing around the walls. I've got my juve. Red light device. Come check this out. You guys are going to love it. I don't even know if you can see me on there. So much red light. Red light in this room. Anyway, this is the juve panel. I'm going to turn it off for a moment. Here we go, you can see me better. Yeah, I mean if you don't know what red light therapy is, check out my article at AlexFegus.com. I'll put a link in the notes. But anyway, really cool stuff. So this is the juve panel. The 650 and 850 nanometer light. I'm literally standing behind it. Like so. On the side. I do the face with my mouth open for the teeth. I dropped my pants. I'm not going to do that for you guys, sorry. I dropped my pants and do the balls, the buttocks, the legs and all that. So, you know, it's a pretty cool device. Rebecca's been using it as well. So this place is like glowing like something got at Amsterdam here at night. Honestly, it's kind of funny. So yeah, just wanted to show you guys that. Oh, there's a jet. As you can see, we have a lot of spare water bottles. But we have a limited amount of backyard and garden space. So I just come up with an idea. Watch this. I'm going to do a water bottle. That's nice. That's compost. That's seedlings. Equal. Job done. I now have my own little portable hot house for seedlings. I don't know how well it will work, but it's worth giving it a shot. It's time for a quick garden update. Remember these guys? These are potatoes. I had them over in the concrete there, but I think it was getting a bit too hot. So I brought them out onto the lawn. I'm thinking of putting some brassicas in here. So I've got the kneading. The potatoes are planted a while ago. They're coming along pretty good now, huh? So a big change in the last week. Remember that vacuum cleaner that I was so excited about? It arrived. Why am I so excited about my vacuum cleaner? Because of this HIPAA 13 filter plus carbon filter. If you've got no idea why I'm excited about that, go read the article I wrote on flame retardants and white toxins make you fat and all be revealed. I'm off to vacuum. Hey guys. The garden is done. Work's done. Sun's out. But I've got enough sun. So it's that time of the day when I read. And this week I'm reading the paleocatiologist by Jack Wolfson. I was gifted this book. Thanks to the guys from Samina for that book. And yeah, I picked it up the other day. I was like, oh, let's look through this. But it's a really good read. Obviously I've read a lot about this sort of stuff. Like the issues with big pharma, with low fat diets, and all that sort of stuff. So it's a really good book because it's mapped out in an easy to read way. It doesn't go too heavy into the science and everything. But it does back all the claims up. But this is a good book to introduce someone to that because it takes a deep dive into the statin issues with statins, issues with big pharma, and how a lot of the, even things like a lot of the scans are doing CT scans and mammograms and all that sort of stuff. There's a lot of dangers with them. And then the benefits of doing these things are like tiny. The risk prevention is so low, a little, from doing this sort of test. But then there's a ton of side effects. So look, I'm really enjoying it. My favorite quote of the book is this. Once I find it, here we go. This is caused by too much of a bad thing or not enough of a good thing. I'll leave you with that. Bye. So I've got a bit of a problem. It's Friday afternoon, coming up to about one o'clock. And we're meant to be heading to Auckland in about 20 minutes. And I haven't even trained all week at all, nothing.  No, that's probably the wrong word. The world's shortest strength training session. This is something I've done before, used it when I was training for my real-fit competition. And you can check out the blog or the whole training log for that. It's utilizing super slow training, time under tension, explosive work, and isometrics. Once it's a failure, hit each body part once, four exercises done. It'll literally take me 10, 15 minutes max. This is time under tension, aiming for about 90 seconds. B is explosive, three to failure. And then C is isometric, static, hold. So I'm going to do chest, back, quad, and then hamstrings. First one down, hopefully. It gives you a bit of an idea of how it works. It's all about time under tension, producing the failure, no lockout. Then you do an explosive in the tank, which you saw was pretty lame. For me, I couldn't even get my hands off the ground. Then you do an isometric, just to really hold tension on the muscle. I need your help for this. That's all right. I'm really unfit. Oh, that's really hard. That was not nice. Yeah, so that's something different you can try. Obviously it's better if you're in a gym and you've got all the equipment. But you can make the... I mean, that's me for a week. If you've got any comments or feedback, tips or variant questions.


God's beauty is all around us, and my goal as an artist is to capture and interpret that beauty on canvas, and to take you, the viewer, along with me on this painting journey. And welcome to Painting Journeys. My name is Kitty Lynn Klisch, and once again we're going to journey across the canvas. I'm going to take you to the West. I think Wyoming. Yeah, the Grand Tetons. How does that sound? But first of all I want to show you what we did on our last show. I had visited the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Green Bay, and a red, brilliant red, tree peony, caught my eye, and I decided to just make it the start of the show, the start of the painting last segment. So I hope you did catch that. This is how it turned out when I took it back to my home studio and did a few little finishing touches on it, and little darks here, a few lights in some of the places on the leaves especially, and framed up of course it always looks really nice. So that was the tree peony from the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. And now today what we're going to be doing is when I traveled to Wyoming to the Grand Tetons, I was on a, I had actually gone to Yellowstone first, and we're going to visit Yellowstone on our next segment, but anyway I took a little bus tour, and the bus took me down, a little coach, 15 of us I think it was, and it took us down through Wyoming and all through the Grand Teton National Park, and when I was going by I saw this picture and I thought, oh my gosh, it is so desolated and so foreshadowed by these huge mountains that are up above it, and I thought I want to paint that, I want to paint that, I want to bring that to life.  I am using bristle brushes instead of the fine sable ones that I usually use, and the reason is that I want to get just a little more of a painterly feel for this particular piece. When you travel to the west it's a whole different atmosphere, it's a whole different feeling out there. It just makes you want to paint it in a looser, rougher style than what you ordinarily do, so that's what I'm going to try to do, and like I always say 50-50 chance, 50% chance of a mess or a masterpiece, so we'll go for it. Okay, I'm glad you're with me today. I'm really truly, truly glad you've joined, and I'm hoping that as we travel across this canvas that this will be an enjoyable journey for you, and a successful one for me in that I am able to bring all the things that I have in my mind and in my heart to fruition on my canvas. I think I want this a little more violet. I'm working with a rather limited palette today also, and that's not something that I normally do. I usually have more colors on my palette, but I'm trying very hard to tighten up a little bit, tighten up in some areas and loosen up in others. I want some color back there in that sky behind those mountains, and so I'm just right now bear with me please as I'm mixing up some different colors here that I would like to see in the sky. Let me see. It's a lovely trip going through the, I think we were on highway 89 coming down and the scenery just kept changing and changing, and you'd see long flat areas of like almost like what you would imagine high desert would be, and then you'd go through very forested areas, and of course there was the lake, Ginny Lake. That was a very pretty place, very, very pretty. We just, we traveled down, we actually went through three states. We started out in Idaho and went through the bottom part of Montana and then down into Wyoming where the Teton's are. So that was a lot of traveling when you think about it, three states in one day. I'm going to be with you in just a second here. I'm getting it, getting it just how I want it. You know normally I say that the most important part of the painting is the composition. Well as you can see I have the composition on here, and that was very easy to do of course because the composition is already laid out for me in the photograph. Now the artistic part comes in putting in color to bring it to life. Okay so let's see here how we're going to do this. I want a little bit of blue. I'm sorry about that knocking sound. I can't go in with a little bit of a lighter. It's just a bit too dark. Tighten this up a little bit. You know you always think you're really ready to go but there that worked. It helped. Good. That's always encouraging when something works. Alrighty and then we're going to go over here and we're going to go a little faster here. I just want to get this masked in because I have a lot of detail on this painting and I don't want to get waylaid with you know making the sky perfect.  I'll just throw that over there. Missy missy girl. All right let's see here. Let's get a little pink in here and perhaps a little bit of orangeish or reddish. There we go. I know you don't see that in the picture but like I said I want to put color in this. I want to make this sing. I don't want this to be all blue. Now I'll come back with my blue brush and I'll soften that a little bit so it doesn't look so garish. Now with those mountains in front of that that'll look really nice I think anyway. Yeah there. So who knows what's going on back there. It could be the sunrise. It could be the sunset. It could be a reflection of something happening on the other side of the mountains. Who knows. We don't care. Our goal is to just give us a nice painting that has some oomph to it. I like that. Okay now these mountains are really dark and when you see them in person I'm going to talk to you about that now a little bit. You know I have a photograph here of the of a closer view of the Tetons and they are very dark almost like it's they're almost like a slate gray and there's usually snow on them all somewhere in little pieces little places there's usually snow on them year round they're they're so tall they the altitude is so high the snow never seems to really completely melt so they are very dark and I have to stay true to that but I will put highlights on them to try to show you form the form the mountains themselves are stark and they look they look almost like they they're forbidding looking I would never want to go hiking on them there's just something about them that looks very forbidding to see here get this a little light maybe we'll have just a little bit of blue in here and as you can see now there again I'm trying to work fast my goal is to get this canvas covered for you today I want to get it covered so that you can at least see where I'm going I don't think this little top there is quite high enough there we go like this right in here this you probably can't see that but there's dark spots coming right in there there's one coming right down here it's a little darker and then this is a little darker on this side here okay and now then we are up on this one here it's kind of a bump and then as I follow him around and I'm not sure if those are trees up there or not I I believe that there is a line where the trees won't grow any higher when it comes to really tall mountains so don't think those are trees up there there I think they're just little rock out croppings and I do see ever so lightly a little bit of snow in some of the places here so I'll put just a little a little snow coming right in here and you see it's it's not it's not really white it's just kind of a lighter a lighter gray has a little softer look I've got to soften up those edges as I come down you know that photo that I showed you of the of the teatons you can see that they're quite intimidating at least I felt that they were okay now I'm seeing a little bit of a kind of a rusty look down in here it's coming up it's coming right in here it's even a little lighter almost a little like a pinkish look right there and darker behind it take a clean brush and put some of that snow on there in a couple spots let's see we've got some right in here and they're coming down there there's some in here now this is this is softer right in here and then it goes up and it gets darker it's getting darker and there's some outcroppings right in here and this one has got some funny shapes going on to it they're so unusual I don't know if there's any place in the United States that has mountains that look like these amazing and what is really amazing is the fact that somebody would actually you know be able to live out there because down in this area here it's almost desert like high desert with these big mountains in the background and you think my gosh how could somebody make a living I mean what did they what did they do what did they there it's all forsaken now abandoned but at one time or another families thrive there and live there what did they do they they must have had cattle of course and did a little farming and ranching but I mean I you know to think of people having the fortitude to sustain themselves in this type of of environment is just amazing to me that they could do that I'm in here on this one here too a little bit of green in this I think I've seen a little bit of green down in here there we go and this is lighter over here this comes down quite dark under here I guess I'm getting the feel that I wanted with these brushes they're kind of scratchy to me but I think I'm getting the feel there we go okay now we have and I'm I really am sorry but I don't know the names I was reading an article on this and I don't I don't remember the names of these different areas that that layer that come forward from the actual mountains to the what I would call foothills you know I don't know I know that each part of the mountain range has scientific name but I don't know what it is I usually don't know the names of things that I paint I'm not I'm not gifted with in you know a scientific type mind where I remember those sort of things I just remember how it made me feel when I saw it that is the my greatest reminder of where I've been is how did it make me feel what emotions did it make me arise in me because of what I was looking at okay all righty let's see here now this down in here that's got a little more green in it and it's green going down in here and I'm going to change brush and go to a brown brush make up some brown with my green and my red I love the nice burnt sienna look I can get by mixing equal parts of sap green and cad red light but I need to gray it so I better add a little bit of the blue gray it down a little bit because that's quite a ways away it's not like it's something that we're seeing up close so we we have to keep it you know distance so that it stays far away needs a little more red okay there we go all right here we go here and then this is coming down here and then I see where it's getting even a little bit lighter in here it's getting a little bit lighter and goes that goes up there and then this is kind of coming down here maybe that's too dark let's see here let's take some blue and put over it lighten that up a little bit there we go that's better mm-hmm and that's kind of coming down and then this is this is coming like so and then we have this this light thing right there and then the mountain is coming this way get the dark brush and go back into the dark and right in here we have a looks like a kind of a little outcropping comes like this and goes like that and then there we have some green dark green darker green much darker right in here okay a little more dark green in here too all right and then we have some green patches so that's we'll add a little blue to the green and they're coming down in here and right up in here nice I do believe that those look like little groups of trees but right now I'm just looking for shape I want to just put the the the shape on and not worry about the give you the impression of trees but not worry about making individual trees going for the larger shapes over here we have a little a little brighter green right in this area right in here and then that's coming down into here and then it goes darker I hope you can follow along with me as I'm sort of talking my way through this at the end of the day well it wasn't really the end of the day I guess it was pretty close to lunch time anyway we had made it to um Jackson Hole Wyoming and what an enchanting little western town that is I you just you wouldn't believe all of the the how how western I mean it's just like something right out of a movie it is just so really really unique and unusual compared to to what we our towns look like here and there was all these places selling saddles and and boots and you know all kinds of things that the Cowboys would use you know they have a a park there city park I've never seen anything like this in my life the whole the entrance way to the park each entrance way was made with an arch a huge arch I'm showing you the picture now it's a huge arch of elk antlers and that they have woven into these arches that are so huge that people can walk right through them and it's it's just amazing it's just it's really amazing and then in the center of the of the park is this is this statue of Knight his name I don't remember his name um but kind of escapes me but anyway I get I think he was one of the founders of the town but this statue was just gorgeous bronze and it had to be this you know like maybe two people high I mean it was just huge and beautiful and they had some other statues around town but that one was my favorite so that's why I wanted to show that one um to you there we go all right I don't know looks like mountains to me okay now then and this is trees so let's get those strokes going in a different direction so that we can have trees on there now we have some of this beautiful green that light green that we made we have some more of that over in here on this hill I cannot believe it my very handsome young cameraman just gave me the 30 minute signal meaning that we're halfway through the show already and I can't believe that but then I guess well I'm almost halfway through the picture so maybe I'm not too far behind I get so wrapped up and gabbing with you and painting and thinking everything that I lose all track of time so they have to watch me so they give me these little signals and uh and I have been known not to see them too so sometimes the poor guys stand in there with this little sign that says 30 minutes for a long time before I even notice I have a really good crew of guys here that work with me or that I work with however you want to put it okay maybe a little later right in here I'll take a smaller brush and I'm going to take some really dark make a really dark blackish green and make some little trees in here we see them everywhere and now there again now see I'm falling into the detail and you know that is a trap that a lot of artists will fall into they see that detail and they want to do the detail instead of working on those big shapes and getting their canvas covered but I want to give you something that is going to look a little like it's going to look before we leave so I'm going to go ahead and break the rules because rules remain to be broken that's where we have them isn't it so that we can break them I hope so I do all the time all right um okay now we have this very dark mountain that is or foothill that is covered with a lot of of trees it's a pretty dark mass I can't make it too dark because I want it to to show up um a little lighter because of the all the light that I have behind it there so I'm just going to come in here and just go and hopefully these will look like trees to you that will look like a I'm going to get starker as it goes down because we have the light against the dark I'll be putting some lights on there and that'll make those look a little more like trees put some darks in between there we go now these trees that are sticking up here I'll have to take my wipe out tool and wipe those out so that I can get them back on there working fast no because I want to get this covered still in with a dark green trying to create a look of trees behind here multiple trees growing the odd thing about this was and I wonder I wonder if this was like a place where ranchers would go out and stay when it was in use because there was no house no house no barns no other excuse me sign of civilization at all except for this one loan little you know and it could have been it could have been a place where horses were kept it could have been in place where people stayed inside and that was that was um that was it and and that's so surprising I mean so the only thing I can think of is that the house must have been behind a hill or something and or the ranch and this when they went out and rode because I you know they had some of those ranchers out there they have thousands and thousands of acres of land it's just amazing how much land they own and it's all open and undeveloped and they've just put a big fence around it and and made it so that they can let their cattle go out and graze you know and even at that how do you take care of the cattle you know I mean what a life I can't I can't imagine living that kind of life I would never have made a good farmer's wife or a good rancher's wife I'm just a softy what can I say I've never been able to slaughter the animals and I know that's a necessary thing but I don't even care that much for hunting I know some people love it but I'm probably making a lot of enemies right now but you know you do what you want to do and I do what I want to do I'm I'm I believe in hunting as long as it's for for a reason it's the trophy hunting that bothers me just to kill an animal for because you want its head on your wall I think that's really sad to take that life all right it seems to be coming along pretty good okay so now then down here we have a lot of of still more green but it's mixed now and it's a little redder and in some places and a little greener it's more of a grayed green it's not a bright green like we see here in Wisconsin that's for sure everything out there is a kind of a has kind of an orangey reddish cast to it so now I'm going to come behind here and I'm going to create these these trees that are in the foreground whoops it needs to be lighter kitty create these trees in the foreground here and there they go it could be a little bit greener let's see here maybe we'll try a nice different shade of green a little cooler green in there see if we can get some variation going here there we go all right and then this here there's darks in there and over in here we have some some bushes that are really rather purple other violet colored mixed in with the green that's real pretty anyway while we were in in Jackson Hall this I'm walking along and looking at all the sights I must have looked like a real true city slicker I you know was pretty amazed by it all and so this fellow comes along and he's got a state like a stagecoach I'll show you a picture of that too he was kind of cute and he thought I was kind of cute and so he was flirting and that was kind of fun but I no matter how much he flirted with me I did not get on his in his stagecoach I did not go for the okey-doke but they do they ride up down the streets hoping to get people to take rides on the stagecoach you know like I said it's a touristy type place but it's fascinating at the same time you've got to calm that purple down a little bit that's a little bit too much okay now it's all yellow greens coming in and I think probably the most frightening one of the most frightening things that ever happened to me happened to me on that trip the driver of our bus was a very um he was an elderly gentleman very kind very knowledgeable about the area and as we're driving back he would stop at scenic overlooks you know places picture opportunities in fact that's how I got all my pictures and so he stopped at this one place overlooking this big gully that must have been at least 150 200 feet down and it was there was a river below and he was telling everybody this is where a lot of people really like to take photographs and we all got off of the bus and we're all standing there taking photographs and the gravel on the side of the road was very loose and I just stepped there was somebody in front of me and I just stepped a little bit to the right onto this gravel and it was so dry and it was such a drop off that I swung around on my foot slipped and I swung around and I was going over the side of this canyon okay head first on my back and the other people that were taking pictures they were you know screaming and trying to help me and they just before I went completely over they grabbed me by my ankles and I'm not kidding it was like this and I was going fast you know I thought this is it I'm gonna go all the way to the bottom into the waterfall on my head you know and but these people grabbed me and like two three people because I mean can you imagine pulling somebody my size up like that and so anyway they grabbed me and they pulled me up I was really scraped up pretty badly but I and I you know the breath was taken out of me I was I was frightened I was very very scared um it was you know it was something I'll never forget and a lesson big lesson so anyway enough of that enough of my adventure I do have my adventures when I go places I don't know how it always happens but I do have my adventures now let me see here so needless to say there was a nurse along and so she dressed my wounds and they gave me some water to drink and they made me all the way back on the trip so everybody was very kind and I just I was so grateful to them that they were that they that they cared you know that they were watching that they saw what happened and that they reacted like they did because it was so scary and I did not go very close to the edge the rest of that trip even when we were in Yellowstone you know you just you forget you forget that you're out of your element okay I think this is looking it's looking okay I think some bright yellow on the tops of these right in here you show that they're coming down in here dancing around this little cabin I better not put it off any longer I just got the high sign that we have another 15 minutes so let's get that in there now I know it's a little redder than this and but I'm going to add that when I add the the look of the of the boards and and everything so I'm hurrying fast now I'm I don't want to waste any more time here I want to get this canvas covered you think I can do it huh I think I can do it I think I can do it I will do it I will get this canvas covered the show won't go over I have to get this canvas covered ready and then we've got some bright yellow green in the back right in here where this window is and there's a little light in here and there's a little board going across there okay that's good enough we'll make some little tree tops in here make it look a little more now then this right in here that's quite dark there um I think right here we've got a nice dark bottom for this tree right here lay that in this in on top I'll have to make some branches and stuff in there and see here I don't know if I've had the 10 minute or not have I had the 10 minute okay thank you who we're really counting it down now okay and then we have a really kind of a dried you can tell I'm going like crazy now we have some really dark trees coming out of here I don't think that's going to work you know what we're just maybe going to have to leave these dark trees out of our painting I don't think they're going to work maybe we'll have to make them lighter works better and I want a little more of a yellow green in the foreground here okay and then we had some little fence posts and so there was one here and here whoops too wide there and here and here okay and we'll go here and here and then there and there okay and then we'll put um a little bit of sage brush or whatever that is against the house right in here whoops oh no not that big gob put some little sage brush things in here and maybe there's some more over in here well I think I have certainly captured my intent of adding color to the scene we have some really bright yellow green right down in here it's probably some sort of sage brush or something okay and then maybe right in here and then this right behind the house looks like it needs to be a little darker right back in there yep there we go there we go okay and these edges aren't looking too good but that's okay and maybe I'll take just a little swipe of the the green and put it across here like so and all right maybe we'll take a little bit here of I want to just thin that down a little bit that doesn't look very nice like that okay and maybe I'm going to just take a little tiny bit of this and just kind of try to dance it around here to make this tree look just a little more alive okay and in here too right in here a little bit a little bit down in here more and a little bit over in here right I think that I better call it a day because they're all making signals at me that I need to stop and I don't want to I'm having way too much fun well there it is my journey to the Grand Tetons with a little lost um building I'm not sure what I'm going to name it you know overshadowed still waiting half gone whatever I'll think of something listen thank you so much for joining me on painting journeys and until we meet again um goodbye and take care this is Kitty Lynn Klisch with Painting Journeys we'll see you next time bye