S2:E16 Tips for Summer Hosting Without The Stress

 Have you ever invited people over and then immediately regretted it because now you have to clean the house, prep the food, and then in some kind of Olympic sport, have it already before your first guests arrive. And let's note someone's always a little early. Yeah. I've done it. I think we've all done it.

In today's episode, we are talking about summer hosting, how to prep your space, make your guests feel welcome and involved, and how to actually enjoy time with people who you have invited into your home instead of stressing over the details From quick ways to fluff up your house to our favorite, no fuss, entertaining tips, as well as the items that we keep on hand for those last minute drop-ins!

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Have you ever invited people over and then immediately regretted it because now you have to clean the house, prep the food, and then in some kind of Olympic sport, have it already before your first guests arrive. And let's note someone's always a little early. Yeah. I've done it. I think we've all done it. In today's episode, we are talking about summer hosting, how to prep your space, make your guests feel welcome and involved, and how to actually enjoy time with people who you have invited into your home instead of stressing over the details From quick ways to fluff up your house to our favorite, no fuss, entertaining tips, as well as the items that we keep on hand. For those last minute drop-ins, we are sharing what works for the three of us. Oh, and for the record, if you invite me over and there's sauerkraut on the table, this is not a warning, it's a promise. I'll stay for seconds and maybe thirds. Let's get into the podcast.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 1:59

today's episode we are discussing, well, Stuart, now you're the one that came up with this idea, so I feel like you, you're the one that should discuss this or you should like describe what we're discussing.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 2:08

just thought about, some are entertaining in how to do different design techniques using indoor outdoor, using fresh floral, fake floral, using, just setting the mood for summer entertaining while using some design skills as well. There we are.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 2:27

I like it. Do y'all do a lot of summer entertaining?

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 2:31

I had an ice

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 2:31

Ice.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 2:35

Uh, yeah, we do, we do more summer. So it feels like in winter we just hibernate, so we really don't do anything in the winter. But yeah. Yeah, we've got, um, people coming over in a couple weeks for another something, which is good. Um. You know, the idea is I keep coming back to this broken record that every three months you, you should, uh, kind of purge a little bit and deep clean just a little bit. if you

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:02

You kind of

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:03

your house

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:04

restate

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:05

quarter, that kind of makes you do that. And like, again, everybody that's listened to us, um, this, but. Start at your

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:15

front door,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:16

start at your

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:17

front

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:17

start at your

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:18

front.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:19

And uh, I always go like, if nobody ever, ever walks into your door, at least they's in your front door. And like, please do not judge me when I, I tell you this, but I was, I was polishing the door handle last night at

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:32

Oh God. Oh, good lord.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:35

I know, I know, I know. Um, but, um,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:41

I

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:41

it's

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:41

was

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:41

so hot.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:42

so shocked

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:42

I was watching Mean Girl murders at 10 30 last night,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:45

I was watching Dallas cheerleaders.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 3:48

Well, that's.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:50

which is, which is a good series, by the way. We

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:53

It is.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:54

documentary.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 3:54

Uh, it, it is an interesting little, I don't know, one of the girls got us involved in it at the store and she's convinced that she's gonna learn how to do the dance to it this weekend, so she has a long weekend, so, yeah.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 4:06

Well.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 4:15

Well, I'd have waited to clean that handle after you painted.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 4:18

Okay, good point. And somebody else in my life said the same thing because it's, you know, lock a Baldwin, uh, lock and about 20 years old and she looking pretty tired, pretty rough, right?

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 4:29

Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 4:30

And so it was so tired looking. I didn't know if it was gonna come back to life, and I didn't know if I had to replace it. I needed to clean it to see if I could clean it, I needed to start figuring out which one I wanted to make, you know, fit the holes and all that stuff and get replaced. So that was it. I was really cleaning it to see fault that I'd have. Bald. came back and she's beautiful and she looks, uh, not as good as new, but um, it's fine. And I love the fact where you stuff it, but you see the bras through and. see this common theme of, you see her wrinkles, right? You see her use, you see the, the flaws

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:16

The

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:16

the, the marble. Well, this is the,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:18

the

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:18

I won't, the flaws, I'll

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:19

I'll say,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:20

of it. And I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:21

and I cleaned her up last night, like, well, that's

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:23

a lot

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:23

a lot of money. I don't

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:25

because

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:25

have sign.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:26

she

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:26

She looks hot.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:27

And so, uh, get you some,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:29

um,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:29

Brass

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:30

polish out there.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:31

whatever stuff I used. Um, anyway,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:34

I cleaned it last night because our, our,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:36

our

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:36

our porch is so hot

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:38

during

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:38

during the day,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:39

and it just

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:39

the radiation

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:40

that

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:40

that I can't stand it.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:41

And it, it was, it

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:43

Finally.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:43

down at the end o'clock last night. That's a real story. That's why. And then the sun, the

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:48

Sun's

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:48

by 6 30,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:49

seven

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:50

in the

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:50

in the morning. So,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 5:51

if I'm clean, I have to do midnight.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:54

Well,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:54

well, let's get off your porch.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:55

patio.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 5:58

That's where I like to hang out.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:00

I know that's where we are all the time too.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:03

So

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:03

switching

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:04

over.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:04

a patio, let's say you are having guests over, or even just family or, or you just want it fresh. So

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:11

So what is.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:12

you know. winter's

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:14

Over.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:16

coming to a close summer's here. What are you gonna switch out to kind of freshen that up? I mean, are you gonna get some different cushions? Are you gonna get maybe, maybe throw something to table in and get some candles? Maybe just some ferns. Just some greenery. So how, how do you freshen up that space for entertaining that's not gonna break the bank, but makes it look light and airy.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 6:44

Well, when we talk about effortless decorating, that's me because, uh, for this, because I don't do shit. So for us, when we worked in the backyard, like we did a lot of investment in like plants and, and, and things like that. So we'll do our, our, our pots with flowers and stuff, but we have a beautiful,, old teak table, so it feels like you're in the middle of Hamptons, um, back there. So I don't do table skirts or anything like that. Um, but what I will do is I always like to have. A set of like melamine dishes, something that I know that my guests can use, that they're not gonna be worried about breaking. Not that our, our plates are anything fancy by any means. They're not. They're, they're from Target. Um, and we bought them when we did the kitchen in like 2017. Um, but they always, people feel uncomfortable. So I always like to have things there that people can use that they don't feel like they're gonna shatter or break.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:41

Well, but melamine dishes, that's a good thing because they're relatively inexpensive.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:46

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:47

Lots of patterns, lots of

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:49

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:50

of styles

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:51

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:51

a little pop. And you can get some for every season, not just summer,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:55

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 7:56

out, however you're gonna use that space. So it's a, I think it's a good, a good pop. We just actually bought some more melamine dishes for the side porch when people come, because like you just said, I'm not going to drag out stuff that's gonna break.'cause it's a brick paver

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 8:12

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 8:13

it's like, well. It's just gonna be there and we got kids running around and you know, all that kind of stuff too. So it's, but people are like, oh my God, those are so pretty. I was like, well, got'em on clearance,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 8:26

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 8:27

know.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 8:28

Well, you know, I think when, when it comes to entertaining in the summer, there's two, there's two versions of entertaining, right? There's the actual having an event or like having a, a planned something, which sounds like what you're gonna have like in a couple weeks between, and then there's like the unexpected, like people pop over. So I have like one set. Yeah, I always have tools or things I try to do for like the last minute pop-ins. And then may I do, like if we're, if we're, if we are having a planned something, like I'll take our lanterns outside and I'll take like those kinds of things, make it feel a little more homey out there. Um, but I do like the easy things like I'll take out lanterns and, uh, candlesticks and, and easy things like that just because, uh, well when I'm lazy. Um, but two, because we. I like for it to be all the plants and plantings outside. I don't do too much to fluff it up. But you know, you, you mentioned cushions. The, for some reason pillows outside are like my little like, um. My little se not secret obsession, but it's like they make me giddy. I don't know why. It's the most random thing, but I love getting new pillows for outside and maybe it's'cause I buy cheap ones'cause I know they're just gonna be destroyed

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 9:45

I couldn't tell if Dwayne had frozen or if he's just

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 9:47

I.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 9:47

quiet. I didn't know what was going on.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 9:51

No, no, no. Well, um, pillows for, for, for me inside the house is the same thing on the outside, on the porches are, that's how you, uh, switch it out. And it, it goes from, spring pillows to summer pillows, and the summer pillows are blue and white. And we just finished with the 4th of July, and they had a little. 4th of July, pillow too thrown into the mix and those go away and just keep switching the pillows up. You know, we,'cause we have a lot of rocking chairs and swings and things. So we, uh, that, that, that

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:21

That is

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:22

up with pillows.'cause it gives a lot of personality, but just

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:25

exactly what you both are saying.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:27

it is,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:28

You don't have to work that hard. You just have to acknowledge

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:31

that, you know,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:32

you know

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:33

Uh, and I back to

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:35

this

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:36

about clean, clean, clean, which sounds like what. To how clean it, because

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:44

Right.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:44

go

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:45

out.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:45

portion it be dirty. Right.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 10:47

get the cobwebs out from under your chairs. Right.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 10:54

We, we live out in the country. You know, I don't know if, it doesn't matter if you're in the country or not. Uh, for whatever reason, the, the birds just want to land on the porch and shacked upon things. And I'm like, you do know there's about 14 billion trees out there that you can live in, and I won't bother you, but yet they'll go sit on the rocking chair and poop, right.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:12

'cause it's pretty

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:14

Well, it's pretty, but then

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:16

The

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:16

is you have to go out there and wipe it down. Make sure it's ready. Because invariably it's

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:21

is that

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:22

that in, when you have people coming unexpectedly, it's like always mom

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:27

would say you

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:27

have your house clean because, uh, you never know who's gonna

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:30

show up

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:30

the same thing with Right, if, if I'm not, I'm not preaching, but it's like will just kind of. Do it weekly, just wrap your wipe your chairs, chairs down weekly or

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:41

biweekly

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:41

every once in

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:42

once in a while.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:43

if it piles up every two months, you are like, uh, well it's

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:46

Gonna take half a day clean. Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:48

Right? If you just kind of

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:49

You just kind of stay on

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:51

And it

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:51

it. It also is whenever somebody walks to the front porch, front sleep, that's the first thing to see.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:55

It's,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:55

It's, it's really 10 minutes worth of work

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 11:58

every

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 11:58

Saturday walking out,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 12:00

as

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:00

as opposed to

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 12:01

half a

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:02

today, you don't stay on it. Well, because.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:04

an outdoor room, you might not use your dining room every day, but you're gonna vacuum it every week when you vacuum the rest of the house. So just ke keep on wiping and it's weeping. Yeah.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:14

So you all are fortunate in the, in the sense that you all have porches. We don't have a porch. Everything we have is fully exposed, like there's no cover. So it's like the gates of hell. No matter where you are, you're out there and we got some umbrella. I got this really large umbrella and it, you know, it's fine, but you know.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:36

Well, we need to design you a pergola.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:39

Well, you know, we've thought about out there where the little living area is, um, that like the, the, where the sofas and the chairs are. That to, um, maybe do like a pergola there. Um, and they had something at like one of the big box stores, uh, that had like a Louvre top that would,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:57

Mm-hmm.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 12:59

I thought, oh, that would be good, but it was a certain size and I don't think it fit. Um, but the other thing is that. Uh, that little, that's like on a deck. We, we raise it up, we put treks for the floor, um, but surrounded on three sides by horn beams, uh, which create like a very private, well area, like a shield. Yeah. And so I don't want, I don't wanna take away from those, so I don't, I. We just wait to go out. Truthfully, most of the area that we usually, unfortunately just'cause it does get so damn hot and humid. And listen, I am not a skinny person. I'm chunky monkey. And um, although I have, I have lost some weight and I am cold all the time now. Um, but it's still hot outside and I don't like humidity. Ooh. It's just awful. Um, and so like if it, if it's really nice out and it's in the evening, we'll eat dinner out in front of, uh, in our little outdoor. In eating area, but I mean, we hardly ever go outside when we don't have company'cause it's just too damn hot.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:00

Yeah.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:02

And then when we do want to go outside, it's like in the spring when it's not, you know, not the gates of hell. Right? But then inevitably that's when we're always starting to travel. Um, and it never fails like we travel when we have the best weather here, always we're always gone.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:15

Right.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:16

And then we get back and then it's like, oh, it's 95 degrees today and never fails.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:23

you

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:23

So you mentioned.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:24

and pillows. So do you all ever, let's say it isn't just a casual drop by from some friends or family that, you know, you're having 10 or 15 people over for a whatever, a mixer. Do you all ever rearrange your seating areas or is everything always in the same spot?

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 14:44

It's usually all in the same spot. If I plan it out a little bit,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:47

Like

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 14:48

we did

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:49

something, uh,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 14:50

it was just the four of us. It was just

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:51

just four US, Chloe and the kids

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 14:53

Very unusual si circumstance for

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:55

from Mother's Day

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 14:56

a

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 14:56

a couple months ago.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 14:57

And uh, I, we have

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:00

I, we have a little patio set,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:02

And

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:02

and I, and

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:03

mule and it's

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:03

it's just a little

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:04

table, four chairs, and I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:06

I took it out the side yard

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:07

it under the tree. Now look, this sounds like, you know, you didn't, but

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:11

sort,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:11

a point,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:12

but I. Literally we have lanterns, like you mentioned, those ter,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:15

and storage, and

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:16

and they

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:16

get pulled out and they get

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:17

get pulled out. They get put on the street at the front porch.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:19

we have, I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:20

I actually took

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:21

and hung

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:21

about four, five other green trees. Put that uh

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:25

Uh,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:26

table set there,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:27

what we had

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:27

lunch that day.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:29

And, um, I guess I'll, I'll, I'll pivot to, yeah, that was quite a bit, a little effort right in away, you know, it took me a good hour to get all that out there at least, but I.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:43

all.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:44

particularly Kathy will never forget that moment. Matter of fact, she's like, uh, just

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:49

Just before Father's Day,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:50

said, uh, she said, I don't know what I'm gonna do for Father's Day. She said, you kind of said, said a,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:55

different level

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:56

She

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 15:56

said,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 15:57

know what I'm gonna do for you. And I said, no, no, no, it's not a competition. I said,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 16:00

don't about it.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 16:01

And I said, this was our joy.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 16:03

So the reason I that is.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 16:05

memory probably will never be forgotten because that was extra effort. so. It goes back to living in your house and how you live in it. Just keep re-imagining. It's the same thing living at your house on the outside. And no, I'm not gonna move furniture every single time. But if you have the opportunity and you have the space, not everybody does, right? But if you have the opportunity, look at those. Um. Op, uh, options to, to, to things up a little bit. On the 4th of July, a, an oak tree that's in our side yard. And I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 16:44

I

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 16:45

personally planted that oak tree over 20 years ago when we built the, the house. that

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 16:51

that tree actually

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 16:52

a pot on our pool deck that was in the above ground pool. Uh, in Lexington tree. And I literally. Pod, it's a pin oak. Uh, what a beautiful oak tree. In my head I was like, well, the next person that lives here will enjoy that tree. Well, two years ago it had gotten big enough that we were able to sit under there and again, table and chairs and all the stuff, and have a picnic under that tree. And um, that was joy. Right.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:24

And it's always

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:24

look at

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:25

at your yard

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:26

an

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:26

an,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:27

Jeremy, you, your, your

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:29

your space might be a little tight back,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:31

know, you, you don't have wiggle room, but you

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:33

do have incredible front yard,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:35

I ain't gonna do it.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:37

but can you imagine under what

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:39

that beautiful tree out in the corner of your

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:40

the,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:41

his

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:41

Uh, the

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:42

the G go? Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:43

Hmm.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:43

Eagle tree

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:46

for

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:46

for your purposes.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:47

as

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:47

Large as the largest oak tree.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:49

seen. I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:50

Swear I've seen

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:52

A

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:52

a eagle tree

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:53

and it's absolutely stunning. I can

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 17:55

I can only imagine

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 17:56

having, uh, a dinner under that tree one evening.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:00

Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:01

I will

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:01

Also

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:02

that you're in a pretty

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:03

hot neighborhood. Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:05

and you're on the corner, right?

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:08

Oh, that's when you just wave to people

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:11

well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, his neighbors.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:18

Oh.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:20

They call him the Gaber, right? puts lights out and makes his yard twinkle at Christmas.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:26

then I

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:27

gives away,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:28

sit there and toast everybody as they go by.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:33

put your calf 10 on and get your melamine dishes. And you sit out there and you have the best dinner you can under the tree. So

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:41

fall like confetti.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:42

Yeah. You know,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:44

So.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 18:44

we,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 18:46

I'm probably not going to do it every time, but that effort that you put out won an incredible memory you could create, and it goes back to what you did as a surprise for Stuart, that, you know, we went to your um, house. Was it last year? Now rip How long ago? We went to a surprise wedding is what it was.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 19:05

Uh,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 19:06

outside in the lawn, and again guys, you have to understand this house that he lives in is just this beautiful piece of Kentucky history and behind it, it the. The lawn kind of slightly rolls down to this amazing pond in the back. And there's horses frolicking and there's geese and there's fish jumping and all this crap. And we had

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 19:29

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 19:47

but falls coming. start getting

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 19:50

Getting ready, start

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 19:51

um, to prepare for things, but be

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 19:54

outside, underneath,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 19:55

or in your

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 19:56

or in your front yard.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 19:57

This, this

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 19:57

This, this is a sidebar,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 19:59

But

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 20:00

but kind of works in the

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 20:01

way in

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 20:03

that.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 20:03

what you have, there was a little bit older lady that came in a few weeks ago and she had moved back here from Florida and she, her, she, she's getting older. Her, her husband is, um, stages dementia. Uh, so her children are here, so, you know, she's had to rewrite her life again. Well, she had lived in a 55 plus community for the last 20 years she said, I miss my girls. And I had cocktails every night and we'd be out, out on somebody else's like, nah, of course. You know, I can just imagine the golden girls out there.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 20:35

She said, you know, and I love,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 20:36

And she

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 20:37

she said,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 20:37

everybody is

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 20:38

is so friendly.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 20:39

old wave. And they, they'll speak to you, but then they just go on. And I said, what do you mean? She said, well, they're nice, but she said, I miss my friendship. And she said, I miss my cocktails with my friends and my girls. And I said, how long you been married? And she said, I dunno, about 50 years. And I said, how'd you get that boyfriend? I don't know. I said, you lifted that skirt up just a little bit. Throw it off a little bit didn't you? I said, you don't get anything unless you advertise.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 21:09

Well, Lord have mercy say. And I said, you sit up that garage door and put you a lounge chair out there and an extra one puts you a cocktail table out there and drinks

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 21:20

and says, we'll, uh, serve drinks for free.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 21:24

And I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 21:24

I.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 21:24

guarantee somebody will show up and you will have the best conversation and you will meet some new people. And it goes back to truthfully, if you want it first, you have to ask for it. You have to go for it, right? But it also is using the tools that you have and sit on that front lawn, sit on the outside, Jeremy with your, uh, cal 10 and wave at your peoples. Um, but and be outside. Be outside.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 21:51

You know, we joke that and we love our neighborhood, um, but if we're outside, we know that it's gonna take three times as long to do anything because so many people are gonna stop by and like, talk about this and that and everything. And it, it never, well, they just, people are very friendly and they just, I don't know.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 22:08

you

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 22:09

I mean, I love her neighborhood.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 22:10

a bucket of wine on

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 22:13

Well, I don't, I don't drink one.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 22:15

what? You're like, you know what? If we're gonna stand here for 30 minutes, let's have a cocktail.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 22:21

There you go. Advertise a little.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 22:24

Yeah, we wouldn't be able to have dinner in the, in the front and dryer tree because we'd never be able to get past that. A booze bo, because the people stop about the check. Yeah. You know, when we did the landscape lighting, like we, the lighting guy was like, God, I wish this tree was in your backyard.'cause we could like, you know, replay it up so much more and you'd be able to use it. And I'm like, I know, but we do love our tree. As I look at it now, mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 22:49

Okay, so we've been outside for a while. Let's walk in. So. Ginormous,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 22:57

Uh.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 22:57

arrangement, uh, in a front for you that's, you know, become seasonal. So I've kind of, um, taken it apart and we've had sold these branches for years. It's called blooming branches. So I just leave the magnolia leaves in there that we've sold for years and years and years. And I got and branches in this Big V that's come from the yard and I just add these, uh, branches to it. Freshen it up. And again, it keeps it from getting dusty all the time. Uh, you know, if it sits there for a year and a half, it's like, oh, this crap dusty. So if you take it

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 23:26

Apart. Gotta shake it off a little bit.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 23:28

Um, rightfully

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 23:30

Yeah. Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 23:31

at least it moves the dust around a little bit.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 23:32

clean it.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 23:33

I put those blooming branches in. And it really, uh, it, it lightens it up and it looks like I just went and cut, um, things. And then

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 23:41

Sometimes I'll add.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 23:42

green hydrangeas, like we have real lime loaf hydrangeas in the front yard, but you know, we sell fake, uh, uh, lime loaf hydrangeas, or green hydrangeas at least. And I'll, uh, use those, Jeremy, and, and people will ask, I know, I'm sure they ask if you'll post those hydrangeas and.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 24:02

I'll put'em in the show notes. Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 24:03

people.'cause they'll ask me, uh, later what it's about, uh, what they look like, because that's a good summer way to change up

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 24:09

So,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 24:10

Mine happens to be in a foyer, but like you, you could do that for your, Jeremy, for your kitchen island. Right. That's, that's how, because you have these pretty white bases. Do you switch those out for seasonally?

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 24:23

Uh, no. Well, usually not oddly enough though, I just switched it out to, for a, uh, because I really wanted to use white snowballs in the kitchen and, um.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 24:34

Is it the long, long branch ones

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 24:35

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I switched out to that, and so I now have a, a big green, uh, vase that's in there. That they're in, but yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Hydrangeas. Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 24:46

and it's just like you said about making it fresh. Like you know, a couple weeks ago when we had the little ice cream social at the house. I set everything up in the dining room and the, the dining room table usually is all set all the time. All I did was take that stuff away I elevated the flower arrangement and just layered different tablecloths and gave it a whole new look just for that party. know, so it's, I didn't buy anything different. I just pulled stuff outta drawers and rearranged and remapped it. that's an, I think a easy, quick tip too, whether it's your kitchen table, your dining room table, your front entry table, you can just mix it up, layer it a little bit, put pull what is in those drawers and make it fresh.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 25:32

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 25:34

Mm-hmm.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 25:34

Just a little bit of fluffy.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 25:35

say this, you, Stuart are a good entertainer because, um, I was running around trying to find the ice cream and you say outside, I say that in a good way, in that that walked in the house felt very comfortable. Being in your house. it goes back to, I don't, who says that you'll tell me, Jo, uh, let them, and I was wanting to help

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 25:58

You.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 25:59

I just wanted to help you get things because you, you, you were gonna, you know, of course Little Miss Alley took everybody on the tour of the house. Um, but you also, people were asking you about the house and you needed to kind of be there. And so we were other people helping kind of get some things out. And I was like, that's the best thing. It's like, let them

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 26:15

Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 26:16

them. Because people come in and they ask, is there anything I can do to help You? Always most of the time say, oh, no, no, I don't wanna be a virgin. I don't

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 26:26

I don't wanna,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 26:26

you. No. Go over there.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 26:28

if they ask.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 26:29

they're doing it because they want to be

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 26:31

Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 26:31

it.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 26:31

Right,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 26:32

And who is it? Um, who's the chef? Um.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 26:39

Anna, uh, until your child.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 26:44

Julia Childs, thank you. she would always encourage her people to be part of the process of cooking and chopping and being there. And I, I've always loved that, right? It's like if you're running around and people can sense you're not quite ready or there's still a few things to get done. They're just standing there and it's like, Hey, would you help me? Would you get this out? I don't think that's a bad thing. I really don't. I feel like it encourages you to be part of the party. Part of that is that then it starts taking stress off of you because then you feel like you have to have everything perfect. Everything has to be ready, everything has to be go, and it's like, no. If you are looking for perfection in that regards, you are never gonna open your house, are you? You are never gonna let people come. You're never gonna let them be there because you, you think I can't get ready. And it's like, like, you know what? If, if it's not perfect, that's okay. Let'em come on in.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 27:39

right

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 27:40

I will sell Right The bird, take the bird poop off the.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 27:44

off the, off the chair? Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 27:51

Or somebody's right there.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 27:54

Well, and particularly like, like you said, coming into, into our house is, can be intimidating walking in that front door, but that's why I tried to greet everybody there and be like, just walk around, explore, do whatever. You know? I mean,'cause people are, people are innately nosy. Anyway, no matter who you are. So any party I have, well, you get what you find. I, I think the only rule I said to anybody in that house was don't talk to the dogs they were put up in their houses and that's their safe spaces. You can walk in the room, you can walk around, you can do stuff, but just ignore them like they're not there because once you start, lord have mercy, you know, then they yy, yappy, yy. But,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 28:51

But, um.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 28:51

that is part of entertaining. You're opening your house for people to enjoy it. So if somebody

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 28:57

Somebody catches something.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 28:58

well they're gonna touch, they're gonna touch it. Don't get your panties in a wad, you know, you can clean it later. You know, you can vacuum after they're gone. the side door, hand prints later, you know, that's just, that's just what it is. If you're opening your house for a party, that's where it ends.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 29:17

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 29:19

let it go.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 29:20

Yeah. You know, I used to, when we, uh, moved into this home and we would have people over, I always wanted everything to be perfect, right? Like always be really, uh, paranoid. And my husband's still like this to some point, but, um, like, you know, everything's clean and, and when I say cleaning, I mean pristine, uh, and in its place and all the food to be prepared when everybody gets here and, and, and all that. And. I have, and I don't know if it's because of I'm tired age or I just don't give a shit. Um, but now it's much more of like, um, and I think a lot of us can identify with that, but it turns it into you hosting an event to having people in your home. To be together, right? Like, that changes the whole purpose of it. And so we love to have, like, if we, we will always have a charcuterie, uh, board. Of course, all of our friends love us, love we love us some meats. Um, and listen, I have no problem schlepping that out and being like, Hey, help me put this together. Put the fruit on it, wash the fruit, like, you know, things like that. And it, it does make it feel like people, it's the, it's that communal time versus. Come to my home for this event. I guess we'll say it that way. And I much prefer those because that, I mean, I think most of the time you have the people at the home, at your home that you care about the most. Like those are the people that you don't care if they see the, you know, the, you know, cat hair in the corner or you know, whatever it is. Like if it's there. Um,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 30:49

the rocking chair though.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 30:51

and they called clean the rocking chair. Well, you know.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 30:53

right? Because if, if I'm gonna have an event, hire a caterer. Yeah.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 30:58

Yeah. Yeah. I'm going, yeah. Yeah. Time.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 31:00

if I'm gonna have you over to bring addition pay for my wedding food, come on over.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 31:09

You know, we, you asked earlier if we rearrange furniture and things like that on the outside. We are fortunate enough that in our situation when we did seating and stuff outside, we have. We have a lot of seating outside to entertain people. And I don't find for us, when we have people that come over, uh, we invite more than what we've got to see to see people. Not that it limits us'cause that we don't feel like that does that, but if we were to have, you know, 20 people over, um, for the outside, like we'd probably like rent some tables or something just so people would have some room to, to sit in the lower yard or whatever. But, um, we don't really, we, we try to keep it like at capacity. I don't know. We just, growing up, our family was never that kind of person that had like 30 people over

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 31:55

Right.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 31:56

I, you know. Um, but you know, I do have some, um, tricks, or not tricks, but some tips of things that I do that, that help us always stay prepared as far as like, for entertaining.'cause I always want, want people to be, um. Comfortable and, and, and things like that. So we always, during especially the warmer months, um, we have a fire pit and it's one of my favorite places to, to go. So I always make sure I have firewood always, just because if we could decide to go out and have, enjoy the fire pit, um. And then w I'm always, when we have a, we have our, an alcohol selection, I guess, down in our, in our bar, but I always have, um, I guess they're like the, like gallon jugs, or, no, they're half gallons, I guess of like, we're gonna say like, um, some kind of lemonade. Um, you know, we can get like strawberry lemonade or regular lemonade or watermelon or like what that, and because a lot of those are easy just to mix with like a little bit of bourbon. And then you've got like a little bourbon lemonade and they're delicious. So I always have those in case somebody stops by'cause they're just something really easy and they're kind of fresh and light. Um, just to have, just to go out. And I, going back to the fire pit, I always have the little, um, packets of, um. They're little like I don't know what they are and they're probably horrible for the environment. God help me. Um, but they're little packets of like chemicals or colors or something and you throw it in the fire and then it turns your fire into like multicolored little things. I dunno. It's just fun, you know? It's just so it Oh yeah. And it, we had never heard of it. One of our, uh, a mother of our fr one of our friends got a son when we first got the fire pit. Um, and you have to do it after. Well, okay, so this is the other thing. We always have stuff to make s'mores always. Um,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 33:43

Huh.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 33:44

because it, because if, if, if we go out and we fire pit, it never fails somebody else's more. And so I will go to, uh, the grocery store and I will get, um, I like to be a little bougie, if you can imagine it. I know. So when it,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 34:00

Yeah.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 34:01

to the chocolate. I will get an assortment of like, chocolate bars. And so some of them will be like the, you know, the regular like Hershey chocolate, but then I'll also get like the symphony, uh, which is like a bou or like, you know, uh, more, uh, Belgian chocolate. I don't remember what kind, but it's, it's a more European chocolate, so it's, it's just different. But I'll get like three, three different kinds so people can like, choose their, um, adventure because I always like the dark chocolate. So I will have dark chocolate of mine, but we'll always have, uh, graham crackers and marshmallows just in case.'cause it never fails.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 34:34

this conversation shifted to is, is about summer and light and entertaining and keeping your house fresh, but it is also what we're kind of morphing into is opening your doors and getting people in your house because it's again, this joy of, of, of, of sharing. one of the things I always feel like, what, what you're telling is I do something.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 34:58

Mm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 34:58

we love. It's not hard to make a s'mores. It is just not one thing that I think people make mistake on when they do have people over they're cooking and they're cooking things that's hard to make,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:10

Mm. Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:11

know, they've never made it before.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:13

Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:13

Don't

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:14

your recipe out on me. Don't try your recipe out on me. Mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:17

Right.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:17

Mm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:18

know what, I grew up very, very southern and in Appalachia and the, my fallback

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:25

Is

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:26

mashed potatoes sauerkraut and cornbread and soup beans. Right. You like, well, not everybody loves that. You know what? And you can have a good, uh, uh, if you know how to make some good pinto beans.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:53

That's one of those things

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:54

that you can have ready

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:55

makes

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:56

for a

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 35:57

that's one.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 35:58

over for dinner. Uh, you know, Dennis, our, uh, our, our buddy that makes a pottery, he, he's, uh. coming over and I knew he, he knows

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:07

He loves that. Well, I,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:10

I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:10

I can go out and have to start grill,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:11

up or everybody else said, well start the grill up first.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:14

don't have a cover place to,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:15

a grill, so it's out. It's not as easy for me

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:17

mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:18

to fix that, by the way. Uh, but that'd be another, another store for another dollar. Uh, but the Crock pot's our friend,

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:25

one is,

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:25

is. Use the, use the

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:28

you

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:28

that you

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:29

know that you're comfortable, right?

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:31

So Jeremy just said, I am

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:33

comfortable

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:34

with uh, chacuterie boards right. That's my fallback. Don't be entertaining, keeping your house light and airy and getting people in here, and then stress out about what you're feeding people or

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:48

mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:48

to serve Duck a l'orange. Now

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:52

Do what you know. Do what you know.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:55

it

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:55

Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 36:56

easy.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 36:57

bark, daddy's vegetable dip, some pretzels, some cheese, and some bourbon, and

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:02

Let,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:02

to go.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:05

we

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:05

had.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:06

a company dinner a number of years ago in this lovely Jane.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:09

Jane's

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:10

She lives way out in the country in Cynthiana, on the most idyllic

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:13

Place

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:14

and, uh, this beautiful

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:16

farmhouse

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:17

And I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:17

I had the idea because I did love her house

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:20

and I

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:21

I knew that she

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:22

to play house

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:23

and

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:24

people to

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 37:24

drive country.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 37:25

and to experience her life would be interesting. Right? And so a number of our employees went out there. We, and it was a potluck. She. Drinks and whatever, but you know, not to make her do everything. We brought the thing, so Stuart brought the most delicious and I was like, oh my gosh, lasagna. That's a lot of work. That is a lot of work. like, at him working so hard. And that lasagna's good. So I had a piece and I ate another piece. I.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 38:01

Mama Micheli family size.

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 38:10

Not only is.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 38:14

I mean, I might have added a little extra cheese on top, but other than that, I didn't do nothing. No.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 38:24

No, and listen. Now it's nine 40 in the morning and now I want sauerkraut you mentioned. Now I'm like, shit. Now I gotta figure out how to have that for lunch.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 38:33

ready to eat my biscuit. It's not, it's not the

dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 38:44

I.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 38:47

You know, I didn't, I didn't think that I liked sauerkraut when I was little. Um, well, because mom would fix it for my dad, of course. You know, it stinks up the house. Like if you,

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 38:55

Oh, it

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 38:55

uh, um, and, but now I don't smell it, so I don't, I don't know if my sense of smells gone or I just, I don't know, you know, Hey, you know, maybe COVID, maybe I've got long haul. I don't know. It is what it is, but. Well, listeners, I hope that maybe you gained a futile insights today about entertaining the summer, and we hope that you schedule something to have some friends over that you care about the most, and that you're able to do it in a way that doesn't stress you out and everybody's happy and you're getting to spend the time with the people you love, right? So that's, that's part, get, get rid of the, get rid of the bird peep. And if you invite me over, make sure you have, um, sauerkraut so. And as always, we'll be back next Wednesday with a new episode. If you haven't downloaded our mobile shopping gap, HouseFloral, you can find it on all the app stores for your phones, and we will see you next week. Thanks.

stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 39:49

Bye.

jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_090312 39:49

Bye