April 17, 2025 • 15 mins
How do you find peace in a stressful world? This thought-provoking question sets the stage for an engaging episode of The Bama Brown Experience. Join Bama Brown and his co-host, Big Puma, as they delve into the therapeutic benefits of gardening and birdhouse building, exploring how these simple activities can bring tranquility and joy to our hectic lives.
In this episode, Bama Brown shares his personal experiences with gardening and birdhouse construction, highlighting the sense of accomplishment and relaxation these hobbies provide. He discusses the growing trend among young people in their 20s and 30s who are turning to flower gardening as a way to combat stress and connect with nature. Bama's insights are complemented by Big Puma's observations on the revival of interest in plants and flowers, particularly among his friends in San Antonio who have opened successful flower shops.
The episode also features memorable moments, such as Bama's humorous recounting of a woodpecker drilling a hole in a 4x4 post and his plans to build birdhouses from leftover lumber. Big Puma adds his own anecdotes, including his experiences with urban wildlife and the joy of identifying different bird species with his wife.
Bama and Big Puma's conversation is rich with personal stories and practical tips that resonate with listeners of all ages. Their discussion on the benefits of gardening and birdhouse building is both informative and inspiring, encouraging listeners to explore these hobbies for themselves.
Don't miss out on this heartwarming and insightful episode of The Bama Brown Experience. Subscribe now, leave a review, and share the episode with friends and family. Join Bama and Big Puma as they uncover the simple joys of connecting with nature and finding peace in a stressful world.
Tune in to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network and discover how you can bring a little more tranquility into your life.
In this episode, Bama Brown shares his personal experiences with gardening and birdhouse construction, highlighting the sense of accomplishment and relaxation these hobbies provide. He discusses the growing trend among young people in their 20s and 30s who are turning to flower gardening as a way to combat stress and connect with nature. Bama's insights are complemented by Big Puma's observations on the revival of interest in plants and flowers, particularly among his friends in San Antonio who have opened successful flower shops.
The episode also features memorable moments, such as Bama's humorous recounting of a woodpecker drilling a hole in a 4x4 post and his plans to build birdhouses from leftover lumber. Big Puma adds his own anecdotes, including his experiences with urban wildlife and the joy of identifying different bird species with his wife.
Bama and Big Puma's conversation is rich with personal stories and practical tips that resonate with listeners of all ages. Their discussion on the benefits of gardening and birdhouse building is both informative and inspiring, encouraging listeners to explore these hobbies for themselves.
Don't miss out on this heartwarming and insightful episode of The Bama Brown Experience. Subscribe now, leave a review, and share the episode with friends and family. Join Bama and Big Puma as they uncover the simple joys of connecting with nature and finding peace in a stressful world.
Tune in to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network and discover how you can bring a little more tranquility into your life.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, folks, Bama Brown from me. I heart podcast Network.
The Bama Brown experience is what you're listening to. Thousands
of you have been listening. We sure appreciate that. Along
with my partner a Little Ombre, the Big Cat, Big Puma,
and the you have just an incredible sports show already.
But I mean you're gaining listeners from our show over here,
(00:24):
and we love that. How do I get this show, Puma?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, we we appreciate the cross pollination that is taking
place here.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I know you say that that's not will say that FCC.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Doesn't have to worry about what we say here, not
nearly as much as just our corporate overlords. No, I've
had a couple of y'all that have told me and
made me aware that you found my podcast, our podcast
over here in San Antonio from listening here, So I,
as always, I appreciate it. I appreciate y'all riding along
on both. Anywhere you get your podcasts, just search for
(00:59):
the sports with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
One of the things that Boom, I'm gonna do this
is because I thought this was pretty cool. My wife
does this too, but you do y'all do a lot
of flowers, you in your roommate, your your beautiful wife.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I saw a survey that they were talking about
how many young people are starting to get into and
I'm not middle aged young. Everybody's young to me, but
twenties and thirties getting into flowers and getting into doing
doing flower gardens. And they just because they say, it's
very relaxing in this stress free or stressful world. And
you want to be stress free when you get home
(01:36):
and you have a flower garden. And they said that
the thing that people are using now, the hydranas and
the perennials, but using bold colors. They said colors was
the key to the whole thing. If people are doing
more and more of that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
God, every time I hear hydramas, I just think of
it's a wonderful life.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I mean, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Think there's another empressions. The problem with that is is
I like Pottersville a lot more than I did Bedford Falls.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It certainly looked way more fun.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Bookers fighting in the street.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you're telling me, if you're telling me, I got
to spend five minutes and one or the other, gimme Pottersville.
If you told me decades Okay, maybe we'll go back
to Bedford Falls.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean that makes a lot potter.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, you don't have to work with a big puma.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
He's a whore. Now I'm cut.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Right there, I.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Can I can buy into.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I hadn't thought about why my age group and younger, uh,
we're buying so many because like here in San Antonio,
I have three or four five friends that have opened
up flower shops and they're younger than me. It's they
do well. I mean they do incredibly well. Yeah, it's
it's weird. I guess it makes sense when you say,
(03:05):
you know, to combat the stressfulness of uh just modern life,
modern society, constant attachment to phones and technology and social media.
I mean it's uh we still you know, we still
like going to like the local tea garden, right, and
that's been I mean that's been around forever, so it's
not like a new.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Concept or anything. So it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I had just never really thought about why exactly it
seemed like plants and flowers were having such a revival,
because it's definitely there.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well part of the deal too. I was reading this
report they said that it's people are able to control it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's their own effort that they put in. They see
the results, you know, and it's a payoff, a real payoff,
not like work where you know, you do the job,
you get paid. But yeah, somebody else is making all
the money off of you, you know, because you're they're
on the company. A lot of people found this will
be uh. You know, you no bosses. It's just you
the earth, you know, and uh and getting the job done.
(04:08):
I think I just think it's uh for me. My
wife does it a lot, and I help her, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'll carry the fertile. I do all that.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I built the flower uh planners which are huge all
along our decks. We've got these huge.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Flower planners that I built.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I had a scrap lumber I had left over, so
I knew she would love to have in that and
and uh and that's her those are. They turn out
every year she has and they're beautiful, I mean, absolutely gorgeous.
Now my thing this year, I've got it. Like I said,
a lot of scrap lumber left over for when I
built these three rental houses. And I don't throw anything away.
I'm at pack rat. You know, I was poor when
I was a kid, and so it was poor when
(04:45):
I was adult. So you save every piece of wood.
But I'm thinking about building a bunch of bird houses,
oh you know, just in this and taking them to
the dripping stores, some of these dripping the stores that
are around here, and just giving them to them and go, hey,
so let's and donate the money to the library of
the bird place, you know or whatever. So but I think,
(05:05):
I think, to me, that would be a lot of
fun to build. And I got enough scrap lumber I
could probably build. And I'm not kidding, I could probably
build a hundred bird houses. And I'm talking, you know,
a two foot square birdhouse. That's how much lumber I
got left over in these.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, is one hundred birdhouses or one Playboy mansion bird house?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, you can have one one big. Now. My my
buddy Patrick McConaughey, Matthew's older brother, he lives down the
hill or he said, I was probably in there. He
had some big bird houses up on a pole and
a big round disc around it. And I said, that's
weird looking. Why why do you have that? Like a
pole goes up it's probably ten feet off the ground,
(05:45):
and there's a plate like, and it's two foot three
foot square, just a round plate. And he said, that's
so the snakes can't climb up the pole. He said
they will, He said, I still watch them. They'll go
straight up that pole and get in there and eat
the birds, eat the baby birds. So this is they
can't apparently get around, so you make the bird house
hard for the snakes to get into. So that's just
(06:06):
a tip that I learned from from Patrick. So I'm
gonna build a bunch of them and put I have
my shop, my car shop up there, and the backside
of it is in the trees and stuff, and it's
kind of quiet up there.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And I think I'm gonna line.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That whole back wall up high with these bird houses
and then give some away and you do let them
do whatever. But yeah, I just think that would be
a neat deal to have more birds, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Especially if you have all of the materials already. I
always see the uh not the not the snake deterrence,
but I always see the ones that have the squirrels
have the like spinning round base, so when a squirrel
latches onto it, it just starts spending them around and
they can't get to the bird seed to all the
(06:51):
food in there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I watched the one doing the bird seed. I watched
him come down and it was Tom Cruise squirrel. He
came down in his little back legs, you know, upside
it was eating upside down, you know. And I swear
what he was climbing down. And I was going, don't, don't, don't,
dn't dumb, don't. I just you just start doing that
automatically when you see something like that, but uh, get
you something like that. And I was gonna put I'm
(07:15):
rebuilding one of the decks right now. I got a
rebuilt one the other day, and I'm rebuilding the last
one on our house. They just rode it out and
there's one on each each side of our house. We've
got a big one in the back, but on the
sides in the front, and I'm rebuilding this last one.
But you know, have a little table, a little chair,
sit in and and you can read, you know, you
(07:36):
can sit there in the shade. You can hear the birds,
you can you can see your flowers. And I think
that's that's how you get peace, man.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think, yeah, I mean that sounds I was about
to say that sounds pretty pretty zinful. Uh just thinking
about it, are you someone that can actually like identify
the different types of birds or you just.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, we get a lot of a lot of
robins here, and uh uh, there's a lot of what
was it, I can't remember what the name of them is.
Just we get a lot of those kind of and
I've got to it's funny when I was building these houses,
these rental houses that I've build on my property for
the teachers and the fire and sheriffs. Uh so they're
very affordable, but they're peer and beam and i'd set
(08:21):
the I set the piers first, I just drill the
holes because this is basically I'm living on a rock
here and dripping springs. So I have my buddy coming.
He has a hole driller and he drills the holes
for me. And then I set the piers in there,
which were just four before posts, and a woodpecker had
had chiseled a hole in one of them all the
all the way through the four by four and it
was like about the size of your fist, a big
(08:43):
hole in it. And I had to dig that one
back out and I kept it, and so I have
that one up in the up in my uh, in
my shop, I have it against the wall up there,
just yeah, those by four posts with a hole in it,
you know.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Even here in the I mean I am in you know,
I'm stones from downtown San Antonio, live right in the
middle of everything here, and I've got a tree in
the backyard that has i mean, a woodpecker has absolutely destroyed.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And I also, I mean it's I kind of balanced
the thought of, like, I have a woodpecker that lives
in my backyard in the middle of a top twenty
populated city in the US, So how how can I
really be it? I'm getting some urban wildlife, so not
the worst case the My wife has recently bought one
(09:29):
of these Birding Texas bird Identify our books. We go, Yeah,
so when we go camping or anything like that, you know,
she she gives me hell because, uh, you know, back
in my boy scout days, at one point I earned
the Birding Merit badge, and now at this point I
(09:50):
can't I can't tell you much different. I mean, a
robin or a blue jay. Sure, I can identify in
a cardinal, yeah, yeah, exactly, but anything after that we
end up turning to the book, and I it's one
of those deals where I didn't think I would enjoy
it as much as I have. Yeah, So like that's
(10:10):
why when you're saying, you know, you're sitting on that
back porch at the table just relaxing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Might not be a bad uh, might not be a.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Bad investment to get you one of those Identify Her books,
because we've had a lot of fun trying to actually,
you know, figure out what we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The other one we get is a bunch we get
a bunch of hummingbirds here.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's fun to just on how they're holding and they're
just staying in place and and getting the uh and
getting the wherever they get from the plants. You know,
it's fun to watch them watch them do that. But
you would think and just like you said, you can't
imagine being just enjoying it as much as you do.
But there's something about, you know, what we do. We're
(10:51):
always doing stuff in the public and a lot of
there's a lot of action and activity going on when
you're on the radio and stuff. And then when you
can get away and just be pea. That my other thing,
and I'm giving some serious serious spot to it's some
bee hives. I've got a spot. I have nine acres
there and dripping springs, and I bought back when you
could afford nine acres. It was four thousand dollars an
(11:13):
acre when I bought land and dripping springs. It is
now valued at according to tax records, one hundred thousand
dollars an acre. I'm like, the taxes are just I mean,
it's just unbelievable. But fortunately we've had a good run
and until you know, it's but anyway, I was able
to build these rent houses down there. But there's a
(11:33):
spot from underneath our house. We're on like a cliff,
so you can see out, you know, in the view
in the valve out out in the hill country. But
there's a spot and I mean it's one hundred feet
wide and it goes for several you know, I would
say one hundred yards where I could place quite a
few bee hives and have the have the bees come,
you know, And so I was thinking that might even
(11:54):
look into that. I don't I don't know how you do.
The mainness, you have to pay somebody. You suppose to
get a tax break. But I don't know if that's
true or not. But I think if there's a friend
of mine, his wife does it and I was talking
to her about and they would pay him, but they
would come and service.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It, you know, maintenance on it. I don't want that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't want anything to do with it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I don't think it's too I don't think it's too
cumbersome financially because I've got a buddy who does it
and makes his own uh you know, he's a he's
a park ranger back in my hometown, works for a
state park back up there. And he he's got a beehive,
you know, a whole one of those whole contraptions. You know.
(12:36):
It's because when I think a bee hive, I think
of like, you know, beehive hanging off of a tree,
and yeah, I know, yeah, and he's got them all
housed in there. But he gets I mean, he gets
fresh honey out of that thing regularly. And I have
you know, I put honey on every like, honey on
fried chicken, honey in my coffee, honey on anything, honey
(12:58):
on pizza, makes everything better.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And getting like.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
His raw natural wild honey, it might be worth the
hassle of looking into it a little further because I
think you could.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's you're gonna get more value.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You're gonna get more benefit to your life out of
having bees than you would having bird houses.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, well I was thinking about, you know, both of them.
It's because I as I've getting more and more spare time.
You know, one time when I was building, when I
was building the house, I originally built the house next
door and then sold it and built this house. We
wanted this property because it had the view, but next
door I had just the floor that I'd hear and
beam and sow the floor. And I'm standing on the
(13:39):
floor one day and I'm in the out of the country.
This is before anybody moved out here by us, and
I hear a weed eater and I go, my god,
that's the loudest weed eater I've ever heard. And I
look and it was a swarm of bees coming up
through the valley, and it was it was it had
to be a half million, I would guess. I mean,
(14:00):
it was just that black cloud like you say in
a cartoon. And know they didn't make an arrow and
come after me, but they were they were fifty feet
off the ground and all I could think to do
because we were living in a trailer while I was
building this house, and so I was like, I couldn't
make it to the trailer, all right, got I figured
they'd sting me. So I just duck down and froze.
(14:22):
And they went over and it was so loud it
hurt my ear. That's how loud their buzz was when
they went and they were like just a big black
cloud that went on for it was probably I'm gonna
see one hundred feet long by maybe twenty feet square,
just and they were just they were a swarm of
bit I never see anything like it in my life.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You know, like Hughey's flying right over you, Yeah, in
the delta.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But it was so loud it hurt my left ear.
I was like, but I didn't cover my ear because
I was like, oh, I can't move, you know, just froze.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I figured that if I did, they would try to
run or something. They may come out. I didn't know,
you know, what I was doing. But anyway, I know
this wasn't much of a show, but it was just
a lot of ideas and things to think about the
things that I know you do and I do. We're older,
but we're not. You're younger half my.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Age, aren't. You're thirty nine. I think right now.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I am the same age as the Florida Gators head
basketball coach.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's amazing too.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, I'm still old.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, and see I'm sixty seven. But it's interesting if
we have the same things to relax, that's pretty cool. Well,
you're listening to the Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart
podcast network.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Give us a listen.
Hey, folks, Bama Brown from me. I heart podcast Network.
The Bama Brown experience is what you're listening to. Thousands
of you have been listening. We sure appreciate that. Along
with my partner a Little Ombre, the Big Cat, Big Puma,
and the you have just an incredible sports show already.
But I mean you're gaining listeners from our show over here,
(00:24):
and we love that. How do I get this show, Puma?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, we we appreciate the cross pollination that is taking
place here.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I know you say that that's not will say that FCC.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Doesn't have to worry about what we say here, not
nearly as much as just our corporate overlords. No, I've
had a couple of y'all that have told me and
made me aware that you found my podcast, our podcast
over here in San Antonio from listening here, So I,
as always, I appreciate it. I appreciate y'all riding along
on both. Anywhere you get your podcasts, just search for
(00:59):
the sports with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
One of the things that Boom, I'm gonna do this
is because I thought this was pretty cool. My wife
does this too, but you do y'all do a lot
of flowers, you in your roommate, your your beautiful wife.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And I saw a survey that they were talking about
how many young people are starting to get into and
I'm not middle aged young. Everybody's young to me, but
twenties and thirties getting into flowers and getting into doing
doing flower gardens. And they just because they say, it's
very relaxing in this stress free or stressful world. And
you want to be stress free when you get home
(01:36):
and you have a flower garden. And they said that
the thing that people are using now, the hydranas and
the perennials, but using bold colors. They said colors was
the key to the whole thing. If people are doing
more and more of that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
God, every time I hear hydramas, I just think of
it's a wonderful life.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I mean, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Think there's another empressions. The problem with that is is
I like Pottersville a lot more than I did Bedford Falls.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It certainly looked way more fun.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Bookers fighting in the street.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you're telling me, if you're telling me, I got
to spend five minutes and one or the other, gimme Pottersville.
If you told me decades Okay, maybe we'll go back
to Bedford Falls.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean that makes a lot potter.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, you don't have to work with a big puma.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
He's a whore. Now I'm cut.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Right there, I.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Can I can buy into.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I hadn't thought about why my age group and younger, uh,
we're buying so many because like here in San Antonio,
I have three or four five friends that have opened
up flower shops and they're younger than me. It's they
do well. I mean they do incredibly well. Yeah, it's
it's weird. I guess it makes sense when you say,
(03:05):
you know, to combat the stressfulness of uh just modern life,
modern society, constant attachment to phones and technology and social media.
I mean it's uh we still you know, we still
like going to like the local tea garden, right, and
that's been I mean that's been around forever, so it's
not like a new.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Concept or anything. So it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I had just never really thought about why exactly it
seemed like plants and flowers were having such a revival,
because it's definitely there.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well part of the deal too. I was reading this
report they said that it's people are able to control it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's their own effort that they put in. They see
the results, you know, and it's a payoff, a real payoff,
not like work where you know, you do the job,
you get paid. But yeah, somebody else is making all
the money off of you, you know, because you're they're
on the company. A lot of people found this will
be uh. You know, you no bosses. It's just you
the earth, you know, and uh and getting the job done.
(04:08):
I think I just think it's uh for me. My
wife does it a lot, and I help her, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'll carry the fertile. I do all that.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I built the flower uh planners which are huge all
along our decks. We've got these huge.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Flower planners that I built.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I had a scrap lumber I had left over, so
I knew she would love to have in that and
and uh and that's her those are. They turn out
every year she has and they're beautiful, I mean, absolutely gorgeous.
Now my thing this year, I've got it. Like I said,
a lot of scrap lumber left over for when I
built these three rental houses. And I don't throw anything away.
I'm at pack rat. You know, I was poor when
I was a kid, and so it was poor when
(04:45):
I was adult. So you save every piece of wood.
But I'm thinking about building a bunch of bird houses,
oh you know, just in this and taking them to
the dripping stores, some of these dripping the stores that
are around here, and just giving them to them and go, hey,
so let's and donate the money to the library of
the bird place, you know or whatever. So but I think,
(05:05):
I think, to me, that would be a lot of
fun to build. And I got enough scrap lumber I
could probably build. And I'm not kidding, I could probably
build a hundred bird houses. And I'm talking, you know,
a two foot square birdhouse. That's how much lumber I
got left over in these.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, is one hundred birdhouses or one Playboy mansion bird house?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, you can have one one big. Now. My my
buddy Patrick McConaughey, Matthew's older brother, he lives down the
hill or he said, I was probably in there. He
had some big bird houses up on a pole and
a big round disc around it. And I said, that's
weird looking. Why why do you have that? Like a
pole goes up it's probably ten feet off the ground,
(05:45):
and there's a plate like, and it's two foot three
foot square, just a round plate. And he said, that's
so the snakes can't climb up the pole. He said
they will, He said, I still watch them. They'll go
straight up that pole and get in there and eat
the birds, eat the baby birds. So this is they
can't apparently get around, so you make the bird house
hard for the snakes to get into. So that's just
(06:06):
a tip that I learned from from Patrick. So I'm
gonna build a bunch of them and put I have
my shop, my car shop up there, and the backside
of it is in the trees and stuff, and it's
kind of quiet up there.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And I think I'm gonna line.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That whole back wall up high with these bird houses
and then give some away and you do let them
do whatever. But yeah, I just think that would be
a neat deal to have more birds, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Especially if you have all of the materials already. I
always see the uh not the not the snake deterrence,
but I always see the ones that have the squirrels
have the like spinning round base, so when a squirrel
latches onto it, it just starts spending them around and
they can't get to the bird seed to all the
(06:51):
food in there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I watched the one doing the bird seed. I watched
him come down and it was Tom Cruise squirrel. He
came down in his little back legs, you know, upside
it was eating upside down, you know. And I swear
what he was climbing down. And I was going, don't, don't, don't,
dn't dumb, don't. I just you just start doing that
automatically when you see something like that, but uh, get
you something like that. And I was gonna put I'm
(07:15):
rebuilding one of the decks right now. I got a
rebuilt one the other day, and I'm rebuilding the last
one on our house. They just rode it out and
there's one on each each side of our house. We've
got a big one in the back, but on the
sides in the front, and I'm rebuilding this last one.
But you know, have a little table, a little chair,
sit in and and you can read, you know, you
(07:36):
can sit there in the shade. You can hear the birds,
you can you can see your flowers. And I think
that's that's how you get peace, man.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think, yeah, I mean that sounds I was about
to say that sounds pretty pretty zinful. Uh just thinking
about it, are you someone that can actually like identify
the different types of birds or you just.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, we get a lot of a lot of
robins here, and uh uh, there's a lot of what
was it, I can't remember what the name of them is.
Just we get a lot of those kind of and
I've got to it's funny when I was building these houses,
these rental houses that I've build on my property for
the teachers and the fire and sheriffs. Uh so they're
very affordable, but they're peer and beam and i'd set
(08:21):
the I set the piers first, I just drill the
holes because this is basically I'm living on a rock
here and dripping springs. So I have my buddy coming.
He has a hole driller and he drills the holes
for me. And then I set the piers in there,
which were just four before posts, and a woodpecker had
had chiseled a hole in one of them all the
all the way through the four by four and it
was like about the size of your fist, a big
(08:43):
hole in it. And I had to dig that one
back out and I kept it, and so I have
that one up in the up in my uh, in
my shop, I have it against the wall up there,
just yeah, those by four posts with a hole in it,
you know.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Even here in the I mean I am in you know,
I'm stones from downtown San Antonio, live right in the
middle of everything here, and I've got a tree in
the backyard that has i mean, a woodpecker has absolutely destroyed.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And I also, I mean it's I kind of balanced
the thought of, like, I have a woodpecker that lives
in my backyard in the middle of a top twenty
populated city in the US, So how how can I
really be it? I'm getting some urban wildlife, so not
the worst case the My wife has recently bought one
(09:29):
of these Birding Texas bird Identify our books. We go, Yeah,
so when we go camping or anything like that, you know,
she she gives me hell because, uh, you know, back
in my boy scout days, at one point I earned
the Birding Merit badge, and now at this point I
(09:50):
can't I can't tell you much different. I mean, a
robin or a blue jay. Sure, I can identify in
a cardinal, yeah, yeah, exactly, but anything after that we
end up turning to the book, and I it's one
of those deals where I didn't think I would enjoy
it as much as I have. Yeah, So like that's
(10:10):
why when you're saying, you know, you're sitting on that
back porch at the table just relaxing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Might not be a bad uh, might not be a.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Bad investment to get you one of those Identify Her books,
because we've had a lot of fun trying to actually,
you know, figure out what we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The other one we get is a bunch we get
a bunch of hummingbirds here.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's fun to just on how they're holding and they're
just staying in place and and getting the uh and
getting the wherever they get from the plants. You know,
it's fun to watch them watch them do that. But
you would think and just like you said, you can't
imagine being just enjoying it as much as you do.
But there's something about, you know, what we do. We're
(10:51):
always doing stuff in the public and a lot of
there's a lot of action and activity going on when
you're on the radio and stuff. And then when you
can get away and just be pea. That my other thing,
and I'm giving some serious serious spot to it's some
bee hives. I've got a spot. I have nine acres
there and dripping springs, and I bought back when you
could afford nine acres. It was four thousand dollars an
(11:13):
acre when I bought land and dripping springs. It is
now valued at according to tax records, one hundred thousand
dollars an acre. I'm like, the taxes are just I mean,
it's just unbelievable. But fortunately we've had a good run
and until you know, it's but anyway, I was able
to build these rent houses down there. But there's a
(11:33):
spot from underneath our house. We're on like a cliff,
so you can see out, you know, in the view
in the valve out out in the hill country. But
there's a spot and I mean it's one hundred feet
wide and it goes for several you know, I would
say one hundred yards where I could place quite a
few bee hives and have the have the bees come,
you know, And so I was thinking that might even
(11:54):
look into that. I don't I don't know how you do.
The mainness, you have to pay somebody. You suppose to
get a tax break. But I don't know if that's
true or not. But I think if there's a friend
of mine, his wife does it and I was talking
to her about and they would pay him, but they
would come and service.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It, you know, maintenance on it. I don't want that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't want anything to do with it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I don't think it's too I don't think it's too
cumbersome financially because I've got a buddy who does it
and makes his own uh you know, he's a he's
a park ranger back in my hometown, works for a
state park back up there. And he he's got a beehive,
you know, a whole one of those whole contraptions. You know.
(12:36):
It's because when I think a bee hive, I think
of like, you know, beehive hanging off of a tree,
and yeah, I know, yeah, and he's got them all
housed in there. But he gets I mean, he gets
fresh honey out of that thing regularly. And I have
you know, I put honey on every like, honey on
fried chicken, honey in my coffee, honey on anything, honey
(12:58):
on pizza, makes everything better.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And getting like.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
His raw natural wild honey, it might be worth the
hassle of looking into it a little further because I
think you could.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's you're gonna get more value.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You're gonna get more benefit to your life out of
having bees than you would having bird houses.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, well I was thinking about, you know, both of them.
It's because I as I've getting more and more spare time.
You know, one time when I was building, when I
was building the house, I originally built the house next
door and then sold it and built this house. We
wanted this property because it had the view, but next
door I had just the floor that I'd hear and
beam and sow the floor. And I'm standing on the
(13:39):
floor one day and I'm in the out of the country.
This is before anybody moved out here by us, and
I hear a weed eater and I go, my god,
that's the loudest weed eater I've ever heard. And I
look and it was a swarm of bees coming up
through the valley, and it was it was it had
to be a half million, I would guess. I mean,
(14:00):
it was just that black cloud like you say in
a cartoon. And know they didn't make an arrow and
come after me, but they were they were fifty feet
off the ground and all I could think to do
because we were living in a trailer while I was
building this house, and so I was like, I couldn't
make it to the trailer, all right, got I figured
they'd sting me. So I just duck down and froze.
(14:22):
And they went over and it was so loud it
hurt my ear. That's how loud their buzz was when
they went and they were like just a big black
cloud that went on for it was probably I'm gonna
see one hundred feet long by maybe twenty feet square,
just and they were just they were a swarm of
bit I never see anything like it in my life.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You know, like Hughey's flying right over you, Yeah, in
the delta.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But it was so loud it hurt my left ear.
I was like, but I didn't cover my ear because
I was like, oh, I can't move, you know, just froze.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I figured that if I did, they would try to
run or something. They may come out. I didn't know,
you know, what I was doing. But anyway, I know
this wasn't much of a show, but it was just
a lot of ideas and things to think about the
things that I know you do and I do. We're older,
but we're not. You're younger half my.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Age, aren't. You're thirty nine. I think right now.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I am the same age as the Florida Gators head
basketball coach.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's amazing too.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, I'm still old.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, and see I'm sixty seven. But it's interesting if
we have the same things to relax, that's pretty cool. Well,
you're listening to the Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart
podcast network.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Give us a listen.
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