Learn the English Terms "spaced out" and "space cadet"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English term spaced out.

Now you can have things spaced out.

You can see these trees here are spaced out.

When Jen and I planted those willow trees years

ago, I think they're about three paces apart.

We spaced them out.

You can also see along my driveway here the little markers

so people don't drive in the snow are spaced out.

But when you say someone is spaced out,

it means that they're not paying attention.

It means that things are happening in the world

and they are not aware of what's happening.

They're kind of thinking about other things.

They're a little bit spaced out.

So two meanings.

One meaning that things are set out in an

orderly fashion the same distance from each other.

When we put plates on the table, they're spaced out.

And then it can also mean kind of daydreaming

a lot and not really knowing what's going on.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the term space cadet.

This isn't used a lot anymore, but you might

hear it in an older tv show or movie.

When you say someone is a space

cadet, it means that they again aren't

really aware of what's happening around them.

A student who's sitting at the back of class

and doesn't know there's a test or quiz that

day could be called a space cadet.

Oh, that person's such a space cadet

they never know what's going on.

So to review, when things

are spaced out, they're orderly.

When a person is spaced out, they are not orderly.

They're kind of disoriented and

unaware of what's going on.

And if you call someone a space

cadet, it simply means that they don't...

they're not really aware of

what's happening around them.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from MRfisheri.

Nice sunglasses, coach Bob.

And then my reply.

Thanks, I like them too.

So these sunglasses have lasted a while.

I'm quite happy that I haven't lost them.

I haven't sat on them.

Sometimes I leave sunglasses on the

seat in my van. Again,

as all of you know, I buy

cheap sunglasses from the dollar store.

So I'm just very happy that these have lasted so

long and they work well on days like this.

This would have been a great day for an eclipse.

Unfortunately it was a little cloudy yesterday.

Today it's just

bright sun.

It's a beautiful day.

You can see I'm outside in my short sleeved shirt.

So that is a big change from a few weeks ago.

It's definitely... feels like we're jumping ahead

to summer instead of having spring.

So hopefully it cools off a bit now, but it

is nice to feel the sun on my skin.

It's nice to be outside and just enjoy the day.

Jen is loving it because she's getting lots of

work done on the flower farm and I will

be helping her as well a little bit.

Anyways, as I was mentioning in my other video, my busy

time was last week and a little bit of this week.

It's slowly coming to an end and

hopefully life just goes back to normal.

I did notice this though.

One of my kids must have put

extra weights on the basketball net.

The basketball net fell over a few weeks ago, in

the wind and it's not quite a circle anymore.

I'll have to straighten that out when summer comes and

it looks like in order to prevent that from happening,

this bottom is filled with sand so it should be

heavy enough to prevent it from falling over.

But perhaps....

Well, it was really windy.

I don't see any damage other

than the bend like nothing's broken.

So that's good. Yep.

So I'll just have to straighten that out in the

summer when I'm more in farm work mode.

The basketball net counts as part of the farm.

Anyways, thanks for watching. See you in a couple days

with another short English lesson. Bye.