In this episode we interview Wayne Cooley, the inventor of Universal - The Deck of the Future. Wayne created this deck in 1977 and goes into detail as to how he came up with the deck, what it was meant to be, how it was manufactured, and how it has been incorporated in the books by his son Trevor H. Cooley.

If you are interested in purchasing a deck you can contact Wayne directly at [email protected]

Each deck is $5 plus shipping.

You can also learn more about the deck and learn how it was incorporated into Trevor's books at www.trevorhcooley.com/universal-card-deck/

Charlie gives us a little bit of history of pencil manufacturing in the US.

Pencils we discuss:

Blackwing

Musgrave

Moon Products

General Pencil Company

Pencil renaissance:

-gave Musgrave their renewed vigor

-many stationary shops shut down after covid

Charlie tells of his disdain for #2 pencils

Children’s pencils

Erasers

Sharpeners

-NJK

-KUM

-M+R

-Blackwing

YouTuber Reviewer:

Always Analog

Wood and Graphite

CotC Episode 30- Pivoting Through Life’s Changes

Join Jessica as she reflects on changes in plans in life and emergent situations. This is a short episode brought to you after some unexpected situations for the Cole family this past weekend. Jessica shares ways she has been able to help herself self-motivate and self-regulate with unexpected happenings.

Some of the main keypoints:

1. Know your priorities/goals.

2. Take care of those priorities first, if there’s people involved care for the health/safety of those involved first.

3. Recognize and name your emotions/feelings.

4. Then create a plan and take care of it.

We all have unexpected life situations that happen. Try to mitigate your stress before these situations happen by becoming more prepared. Examples: Simplify your home/schedules, know those priorities, know ways to take care of your own maintenance issues, be willing to learn how to take care of things yourself.

Find more or contact Jessica and Charlie at www.colesonthecoast.com

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CotC Episode 29- Homestead Happenings 7

Chickens

-extended chicken run

- 3 get out, one lays an egg in the blueberry bush

- selling eggs to 2 individuals per week

-Set up automatic Watering system

-one Roo with missing feathers on his neck

Worms

-Alive and well

House

-trimmed oak trees out of some of the blueberry bushes

-trimmed camellia bush off the house

Family

-Everyone got terrible pink eye

- Then all kids got a cold

Jo turned 5

Caspar turned 3

Camping trip with the big 3

-C broke our lantern 1 hour before we left

-we learned how to put a tarp over the tent for rain/dew protection

Jessica had a wedding gig and a full lesson schedule

Van

Charlie started woking on replacing the Fan

Car

Charlie replaced the back brakes

Washing machine

Charlie fixed a sensor

Charlie put in an RO filter

-install electrical outlet

-instal RO filter

Reason for trading out the Berkey…

Baby broke it, Jess tired of worrying about it.

Now we need a back up

Kitchen

Jessica cooked beef tongue for the first time

-not bad, kids wouldn’t eat it though

Charlie did the best smoked ribs and pork butt to date

Bartering

-we bartered some rendered tallow for beauty berries for jelly

-need to redo jelly again, made a good syrup

Computer

- bought a much better computer that makes it easier to podcast/research

Homeschool

-joining a Coop

-Jessica is going to teach a drum circle