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You know, Bex, if we all kind of find new to half of it, as they would say, it's never at all. Honestly, sometimes when you start to dig and they uncover things, it's quite incredible the information you can find, that's for sure. My sister, some years ago, started to do some kind of research around the family tree and everything else, but she kind of hit a brick wall at one point, and I said, no, maybe it wasn't a brick wall, but just to end it up with some difficulties and be a little bit more extra effort, and I think she kind of thought, I'm just not going to bother. But no big skeletons were uncovered at that point. So on my father's side, I do have some relatives on my father's side who believe that they were relatives, or at least there was some kind of tentative link to some very, very healthy people up in Aberdeenshire, and I'll not mention the names of anything. Anyway, they were kind of considering they were just about to go to court, because they did believe that a very strong case. I never knew the full details. All I knew was that they would end up being kind of inheriting quite a big estate, at least one big estate up in Aberdeenshire, if that was the case, but it never did go to court. But that was many, many years ago. I don't know if anyone's still working on that one. Maybe I'll pick it up. Hi, hi. There we go. Anyway, Bex, thanks, thanks so much. Well, you take care. You're definitely approaching it the right way, just in your stride, and you're not looking for anything in particular, so therefore you won't get disappointed. All you can do is get surprised, and maybe even some good, good stuff comes from it. Great stuff. Thank you, Bex. You take care. Always good to chat to you about dogs as well. I appreciate your experience and everything else, and it's very, very helpful. So thank you again, Bex, and have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe, stay well. OC 73 to M7KNO. I'm going to see what's happening with William out there in Oakhurst, Texas. He's also known as November 5, Golf Lima Oscar. William, welcome, sir. Great to see you again. How are you? The mic is yours. This is repeater station Kilo. Hi, I'm Heidi Graham, N5G over the net. Just happened to catch up myself, glance over the clock, and realize, hey, I can say hey to Graham. It's been a while. I guess I can say happy Halloween to you, too. Anyway, we're talking about dogs, making me reminisce a bit about a couple of my, a couple of dogs I had, especially since my wife and I got married. The first one we had when we got married, it was a, it was a mixed breed. It was Husky and what we call a cow dog or a Cattahoula cur, and they instinctively herd cattle. Well, she never got a chance to herd cattle, but we could sure use it or herd children. She would make those kids go where they were supposed to go, and heaven forbid if they started running through the house, she would slow them down. She'd make them behave. She even played tackle football with the boys, and she'd get her tackles in. And the other one was an old, let me start thinking, was an old, an old retriever who was a wanderer. And she was older than the other dog, couple of the dogs we had at the time. And she took over their training. She started teaching them how to act. In fact, one day one of them barked at our pastor who came up, and she reached up, slapped him in the face with her paw, put her paw in the middle of his chest and shoved him back and gave him this look like, who the heck do you think you barking at? But she corrected him. So, yeah, I believe that about golden retrievers. Most of the dogs I've had, any kind of training I did was just about communicating with them, talking to them, and I got one we had, she went to fairs, and the first one I talked about the mixed breed, the catahoule cur and husky. She went with us to fairs and festivals and stuff like this. We'd set up our tent. We'd walk away from the tent and tell her, no one here doesn't belong here, and we were gone. We had a little, some friends who were right next to us in and out all the time during the day. We weren't in the tent. The man went to check on our tent. The man opened the flap to check on the tent, and he backed up and his daughter said, but I want to pet Daisy. Her name was Daisy Bear. He said, you can pet Daisy when they get back. Right now, Bear is on duty. He said all he saw was teeth and fur. She wasn't going to let him in that thing. He would have been in and out all day long. As soon as we got back, she was friendly as anything with him. Back at you.