July 9, 2025 • 40 mins
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 peopleover and then immediately
(00:02):
regretted it because now youhave to clean the house, prep
the food, and then in some kindof Olympic sport, have it
already before your first guestsarrive.
And let's note someone's alwaysa little early.
Yeah.
I've done it.
I think we've all done it.
In today's episode, we aretalking about summer hosting,
how to prep your space, makeyour guests feel welcome and
(00:23):
involved, and how to actuallyenjoy time with people who you
have invited into your homeinstead of stressing over the
details From quick ways to fluffup your house to our favorite,
no fuss, entertaining tips, aswell as the items that we keep
on hand.
For those last minute drop-ins,we are sharing what works for
the three of us.
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Oh, and for the record, if youinvite me over and there's
sauerkraut on the table, this isnot a warning, it's a promise.
I'll stay for seconds and maybethirds.
Let's get into the podcast.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (01:59):
today's episode we are discussing, well,
Stuart, now you're the one thatcame up with this idea, so I
feel like you, you're the onethat should discuss this or you
should like describe what we'rediscussing.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (02:08):
just thought about, some are
entertaining in how to dodifferent design techniques
using indoor outdoor, usingfresh floral, fake floral,
using, just setting the mood forsummer entertaining while using
some design skills as well.
There we are.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (02:27):
I like it.
Do y'all do a lot of summerentertaining?
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (02:31):
I had an ice
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (02:31):
Ice.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (02:35):
Uh, yeah, we do, we do more summer.
So it feels like in winter wejust hibernate, so we really
don't do anything in the winter.
But yeah.
Yeah, we've got, um, peoplecoming over in a couple weeks
for another something, which isgood.
Um.
You know, the idea is I keepcoming back to this broken
record that every three monthsyou, you should, uh, kind of
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purge a little bit and deepclean just a little bit.
if you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (03:02):
You kind of
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:03):
your house
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (03:04):
restate
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09 (03:05):
quarter, that kind of makes you do that.
And like, again, everybodythat's listened to us, um, this,
but.
Start at your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (03:15):
front door,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:16):
start at your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (03:17):
front
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:17):
start at your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (03:18):
front.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:19):
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 mewhen I, I tell you this, but I
was, I was polishing the doorhandle last night at
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (03:32):
Oh God.
Oh, good lord.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:35):
I know, I know, I know.
Um, but, um,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (03:41):
I
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:41):
it's
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (03:41):
was
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:41):
so hot.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (03:42):
so shocked
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (03:42):
I was watching Mean Girl murders
at 10 30 last night,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (03:45):
I was watching Dallas
cheerleaders.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:48):
Well, that's.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:50):
which is, which is a good series, by
the way.
We
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (03:53):
It is.
stuart_1_07-03-202 (03:54):
documentary.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (03:54):
Uh, it, it is an interesting little,
I don't know, one of the girlsgot us involved in it at the
store and she's convinced thatshe's gonna learn how to do the
dance to it this weekend, so shehas a long weekend, so, yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (04:06):
Well.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (04:15):
Well, I'd have waited to clean that
handle after you painted.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (04:18):
Okay, good point.
And somebody else in my lifesaid 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_09031 (04:29):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (04:30):
And so it was so tired looking.
I didn't know if it was gonnacome back to life, and I didn't
know if I had to replace it.
I needed to clean it to see if Icould clean it, I needed to
start figuring out which one Iwanted to make, you know, fit
the holes and all that stuff andget replaced.
So that was it.
I was really cleaning it to seefault that I'd have.
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Bald.
came back and she's beautifuland she looks, uh, not as good
as new, but um, it's fine.
And I love the fact where youstuff it, but you see the bras
through and.
see this common theme of, yousee her wrinkles, right?
You see her use, you see the,the flaws
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:16):
The
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:16):
the, the marble.
Well, this is the,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:18):
the
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:18):
I won't, the flaws, I'll
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (05:19):
I'll say,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:20):
of it.
And I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:21):
and I cleaned her up last night,
like, well, that's
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:23):
a lot
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (05:23):
a lot of money.
I don't
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (05:25):
because
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (05:25):
have sign.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:26):
she
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:26):
She looks hot.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:27):
And so, uh, get you some,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:29):
um,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (05:29):
Brass
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (05:30):
polish out there.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09 (05:31):
whatever stuff I used.
Um, anyway,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (05:34):
I cleaned it last night because
our, our,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:36):
our
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:36):
our porch is so hot
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (05:38):
during
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (05:38):
during the day,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:39):
and it just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:39):
the radiation
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:40):
that
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (05:40):
that I can't stand it.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:41):
And it, it was, it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (05:43):
Finally.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:43):
down at the end o'clock last night.
That's a real story.
That's why.
And then the sun, the
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (05:48):
Sun's
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:48):
by 6 30,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (05:49):
seven
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:50):
in the
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (05:50):
in the morning.
So,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:51):
if I'm clean, I have to do
midnight.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (05:54):
Well,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (05:54):
well, let's get off your porch.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (05:55):
patio.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (05:58):
That's where I like to hang out.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (06:00):
I know that's where we are all the
time too.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (06:03):
So
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0 (06:03):
switching
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (06:04):
over.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (06:04):
a patio, let's say you are having
guests over, or even just familyor, or you just want it fresh.
So
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (06:11):
So what is.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (06:12):
you know.
winter's
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (06:14):
Over.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (06:16):
coming to a close summer's here.
What are you gonna switch out tokind of freshen that up?
I mean, are you gonna get somedifferent cushions?
Are you gonna get maybe, maybethrow something to table in and
get some candles?
Maybe just some ferns.
Just some greenery.
So how, how do you freshen upthat space for entertaining
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that's not gonna break the bank,but makes it look light and
airy.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (06:44):
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 thebackyard, like we did a lot of
investment in like plants and,and, and things like that.
So we'll do our, our, our potswith flowers and stuff, but we
have a beautiful,, old teaktable, so it feels like you're
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in the middle of Hamptons, um,back there.
So I don't do table skirts oranything like that.
Um, but what I will do is Ialways like to have.
A set of like melamine dishes,something that I know that my
guests can use, that they're notgonna be worried about breaking.
Not that our, our plates areanything fancy by any means.
They're not.
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They're, they're from Target.
Um, and we bought them when wedid the kitchen in like 2017.
Um, but they always, people feeluncomfortable.
So I always like to have thingsthere that people can use that
they don't feel like they'regonna shatter or break.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (07:41):
Well, but melamine dishes, that's a
good thing because they'rerelatively inexpensive.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:46):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:47):
Lots of patterns, lots of
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:49):
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:50):
of styles
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:51):
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:51):
a little pop.
And you can get some for everyseason, not just summer,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:55):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:56):
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 somemore melamine dishes for the
side porch when people come,because like you just said, I'm
not going to drag out stuffthat's gonna break.
'cause it's a brick paver
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (08:12):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (08:13):
it's like, well.
It's just gonna be there and wegot kids running around and you
know, all that kind of stufftoo.
So it's, but people are like, ohmy God, those are so pretty.
I was like, well, got'em onclearance,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (08:26):
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (08:27):
know.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (08:28):
Well, you know, I think when, when it
comes to entertaining in thesummer, there's two, there's two
versions of entertaining, right?
There's the actual having anevent or like having a, a
planned something, which soundslike what you're gonna have like
in a couple weeks between, andthen there's like the
unexpected, like people popover.
So I have like one set.
Yeah, I always have tools orthings I try to do for like the
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last minute pop-ins.
And then may I do, like ifwe're, if we're, if we are
having a planned something, likeI'll take our lanterns outside
and I'll take like those kindsof things, make it feel a little
more homey out there.
Um, but I do like the easythings like I'll take out
lanterns and, uh, candlesticksand, and easy things like that
(09:12):
just because, uh, well when I'mlazy.
Um, but two, because we.
I like for it to be all theplants and plantings outside.
I don't do too much to fluff itup.
But you know, you, you mentionedcushions.
The, for some reason pillowsoutside are like my little like,
um.
My little se not secretobsession, but it's like they
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make me giddy.
I don't know why.
It's the most random thing, butI love getting new pillows for
outside and maybe it's'cause Ibuy cheap ones'cause I know
they're just gonna be destroyed
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (09:45):
I couldn't tell if Dwayne had
frozen or if he's just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (09:47):
I.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (09:47):
quiet.
I didn't know what was going on.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (09:51):
No, no, no.
Well, um, pillows for, for, forme inside the house is the same
thing on the outside, on theporches are, that's how you, uh,
switch it out.
And it, it goes from, springpillows to summer pillows, and
the summer pillows are blue andwhite.
And we just finished with the4th of July, and they had a
little.
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4th of July, pillow too throwninto the mix and those go away
and just keep switching thepillows up.
You know, we,'cause we have alot of rocking chairs and swings
and things.
So we, uh, that, that, that
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (10:21):
That is
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:22):
up with pillows.
'cause it gives a lot ofpersonality, but just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (10:25):
exactly what you both are saying.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:27):
it is,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (10:28):
You don't have to work that hard.
You just have to acknowledge
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (10:31):
that, you know,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (10:32):
you know
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:33):
Uh, and I back to
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (10:35):
this
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (10:36):
about clean, clean, clean, which
sounds like what.
To how clean it, because
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (10:44):
Right.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:44):
go
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (10:45):
out.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (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, itdoesn'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 uponthings.
And I'm like, you do knowthere'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 rockingchair and poop, right.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (11:12):
'cause it's pretty
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:14):
Well, it's pretty, but then
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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 (11:21):
is that
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (11:22):
that in, when you have people coming
unexpectedly, it's like alwaysmom
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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_07-03-20 (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, butit's like will just kind of.
Do it weekly, just wrap yourwipe your chairs, chairs down
weekly or
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (11:41):
biweekly
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:41):
every once in
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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_07-03-2 (11:46):
Gonna take half a day clean.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (11:48):
Right?
If you just kind of
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (11:49):
You just kind of stay on
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (11:51):
And it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (11:51):
it.
It also is whenever somebodywalks to the front porch, front
sleep, that's the first thing tosee.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:55):
It's,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (11:55):
It's, it's really 10 minutes worth of
work
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:58):
every
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (11:58):
Saturday walking out,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (12:00):
as
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (12:00):
as opposed to
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (12:01):
half a
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (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, butyou're gonna vacuum it every
week when you vacuum the rest ofthe house.
So just ke keep on wiping andit's weeping.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (12:14):
So you all are fortunate in the, in
the sense that you all haveporches.
We don't have a porch.
Everything we have is fullyexposed, like there's no cover.
So it's like the gates of hell.
No matter where you are, you'reout there and we got some
umbrella.
I got this really large umbrellaand it, you know, it's fine, but
(12:35):
you know.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (12:36):
Well, we need to design you a pergola.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (12:39):
Well, you know, we've thought about
out there where the littleliving area is, um, that like
the, the, where the sofas andthe chairs are.
That to, um, maybe do like apergola there.
Um, and they had something atlike one of the big box stores,
uh, that had like a Louvre topthat would,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090 (12:57):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (12:59):
I thought, oh, that would be good,
but it was a certain size and Idon't think it fit.
Um, but the other thing is that.
Uh, that little, that's like ona deck.
We, we raise it up, we put treksfor the floor, um, but
surrounded on three sides byhorn beams, uh, which create
like a very private, well area,like a shield.
(13:20):
Yeah.
And so I don't want, I don'twanna take away from those, so I
don't, I.
We just wait to go out.
Truthfully, most of the areathat we usually, unfortunately
just'cause it does get so damnhot and humid.
And listen, I am not a skinnyperson.
I'm chunky monkey.
And um, although I have, I havelost some weight and I am cold
(13:41):
all the time now.
Um, but it's still hot outsideand I don't like humidity.
Ooh.
It's just awful.
Um, and so like if it, if it'sreally nice out and it's in the
evening, we'll eat dinner out infront of, uh, in our little
outdoor.
In eating area, but I mean, wehardly ever go outside when we
don't have company'cause it'sjust too damn hot.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (14:00):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (14:02):
And then when we do want to go
outside, it's like in the springwhen it's not, you know, not the
gates of hell.
Right?
But then inevitably that's whenwe're always starting to travel.
Um, and it never fails like wetravel when we have the best
weather here, always we'realways gone.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (14:15):
Right.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (14:16):
And then we get back and then it's
like, oh, it's 95 degrees todayand never fails.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (14:23):
you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (14:23):
So you mentioned.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (14:24):
and pillows.
So do you all ever, let's say itisn't just a casual drop by from
some friends or family that, youknow, you're having 10 or 15
people over for a whatever, amixer.
Do you all ever rearrange yourseating 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_07-03-20 (14:47):
Like
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (14:48):
we did
jeremy-guest413_1_07 (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_07-03-20 (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_07-03-20 (14:55):
from Mother's Day
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (14:56):
a
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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 (15:00):
I, we have a little patio set,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:02):
And
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:02):
and I, and
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:03):
mule and it's
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (15:03):
it's just a little
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (15:04):
table, four chairs, and I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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, youknow, you didn't, but
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (15:11):
sort,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:11):
a point,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:12):
but I.
Literally we have lanterns, likeyou mentioned, those ter,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:15):
and storage, and
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:16):
and they
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:16):
get pulled out and they get
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:17):
get pulled out.
They get put on the street atthe front porch.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:19):
we have, I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (15:20):
I actually took
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:21):
and hung
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (15:21):
about four, five other green trees.
Put that uh
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:25):
Uh,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (15:26):
table set there,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:27):
what we had
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 abit, a little effort right in
away, you know, it took me agood hour to get all that out
there at least, but I.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (15:43):
all.
dwayne_1_07-03-202 (15:44):
particularly Kathy will never forget that
moment.
Matter of fact, she's like, uh,just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (15:49):
Just before Father's Day,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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, saida,
jeremy-guest413_1_07- (15:55):
different level
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:56):
She
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 nota competition.
I said,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 (16:03):
So the reason I that is.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (16:05):
memory probably will never be forgotten
because that was extra effort.
so.
It goes back to living in yourhouse and how you live in it.
Just keep re-imagining.
It's the same thing living atyour house on the outside.
And no, I'm not gonna movefurniture every single time.
But if you have the opportunityand you have the space, not
(16:27):
everybody does, right?
But if you have the opportunity,look at those.
Um.
Op, uh, options to, to, tothings up a little bit.
On the 4th of July, a, an oaktree that's in our side yard.
And I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (16:44):
I
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_ (16:45):
personally planted that oak tree over 20
years ago when we built the, thehouse.
that
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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, thenext person that lives here will
enjoy that tree.
Well, two years ago it hadgotten big enough that we were
(17:14):
able to sit under there andagain, table and chairs and all
the stuff, and have a picnicunder that tree.
And um, that was joy.
Right.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (17:24):
And it's always
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:24):
look at
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (17:25):
at your yard
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:26):
an
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (17:26):
an,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (17:27):
Jeremy, you, your, your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (17:29):
your space might be a little tight
back,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (17:31):
know, you, you don't have wiggle room,
but you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (17:33):
do have incredible front yard,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:35):
I ain't gonna do it.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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_07-03-20 (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_07-03-202 (17:42):
the G go?
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (17:43):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (17:43):
Eagle tree
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:46):
for
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (17:46):
for your purposes.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:47):
as
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (17:47):
Large as the largest oak tree.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (17:49):
seen.
I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (17:50):
Swear I've seen
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:52):
A
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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_ (17:55):
I can only imagine
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (17:56):
having, uh, a dinner under that tree one
evening.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (18:00):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:01):
I will
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (18:01):
Also
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:02):
that you're in a pretty
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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_09031 (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 hisyard twinkle at Christmas.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (18:26):
then I
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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 youhave the best dinner you can
under the tree.
So
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (18:41):
fall like confetti.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (18:42):
Yeah.
You know,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:44):
So.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (18:44):
we,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:46):
I'm probably not going to do it
every time, but that effort thatyou put out won an incredible
memory you could create, and itgoes back to what you did as a
surprise for Stuart, that, youknow, we went to your um, house.
Was it last year?
Now rip How long ago?
We went to a surprise wedding iswhat it was.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (19:05):
Uh,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (19:06):
outside in the lawn, and again guys, you
have to understand this housethat he lives in is just this
beautiful piece of Kentuckyhistory and behind it, it the.
The lawn kind of slightly rollsdown to this amazing pond in the
back.
And there's horses frolickingand there's geese and there's
fish jumping and all this crap.
(19:28):
And we had
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (19:29):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:47):
but falls coming.
start getting
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (19:50):
Getting ready, start
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:51):
um, to prepare for things, but be
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (19:54):
outside, underneath,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:55):
or in your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (19:56):
or in your front yard.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (19:57):
This, this
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (19:57):
This, this is a sidebar,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:59):
But
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (20:00):
but kind of works in the
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (20:01):
way in
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 fewweeks ago and she had moved back
here from Florida and she, her,she, she's getting older.
Her, her husband is, um, stagesdementia.
Uh, so her children are here,so, you know, she's had to
rewrite her life again.
Well, she had lived in a 55 pluscommunity for the last 20 years
(20:26):
she said, I miss my girls.
And I had cocktails every nightand we'd be out, out on somebody
else's like, nah, of course.
You know, I can just imagine thegolden girls out there.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (20:35):
She said, you know, and I love,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (20:36):
And she
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (20:37):
she said,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0 (20:37):
everybody is
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (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 mycocktails with my friends and my
girls.
And I said, how long you beenmarried?
And she said, I dunno, about 50years.
And I said, how'd you get thatboyfriend?
(21:00):
I don't know.
I said, you lifted that skirt upjust a little bit.
Throw it off a little bit didn'tyou?
I said, you don't get anythingunless you advertise.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (21:09):
Well, Lord have mercy say.
And I said, you sit up thatgarage door and put you a lounge
chair out there and an extra oneputs 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 (21:24):
I.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0 (21:24):
guarantee somebody will show up and you
will have the best conversationand 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 toolsthat you have and sit on that
front lawn, sit on the outside,Jeremy with your, uh, cal 10 and
(21:46):
wave at your peoples.
Um, but and be outside.
Be outside.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (21:51):
You know, we joke that and we love
our neighborhood, um, but ifwe're outside, we know that it's
gonna take three times as longto do anything because so many
people are gonna stop by andlike, talk about this and that
and everything.
And it, it never, well, theyjust, 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_ (22:09):
I mean, I love her neighborhood.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (22:10):
a bucket of wine on
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (22:13):
Well, I don't, I don't drink one.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (22:15):
what?
You're like, you know what?
If we're gonna stand here for 30minutes, let's have a cocktail.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (22:21):
There you go.
Advertise a little.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (22:24):
Yeah, we wouldn't be able to have
dinner in the, in the front anddryer tree because we'd never be
able to get past that.
A booze bo, because the peoplestop about the check.
Yeah.
You know, when we did thelandscape lighting, like we, the
lighting guy was like, God, Iwish 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 dolove our tree.
(22:46):
As I look at it now, mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (22:49):
Okay, so we've been outside for a
while.
Let's walk in.
So.
Ginormous,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (22:57):
Uh.
dwayne_1_07-03-202 (22:57):
arrangement, uh, in a front for you that's,
you know, become seasonal.
So I've kind of, um, taken itapart and we've had sold these
branches for years.
It's called blooming branches.
So I just leave the magnolialeaves in there that we've sold
for years and years and years.
And I got and branches in thisBig V that's come from the yard
and I just add these, uh,branches to it.
(23:18):
Freshen it up.
And again, it keeps it fromgetting dusty all the time.
Uh, you know, if it sits therefor a year and a half, it's
like, oh, this crap dusty.
So if you take it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (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_09031 (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_09031 (23:32):
clean it.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (23:33):
I put those blooming branches in.
And it really, uh, it, itlightens it up and it looks like
I just went and cut, um, things.
And then
jeremy-guest413_1_07- (23:41):
Sometimes I'll add.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (23:42):
green hydrangeas, like we have real
lime loaf hydrangeas in thefront yard, but you know, we
sell fake, uh, uh, lime loafhydrangeas, or green hydrangeas
at least.
And I'll, uh, use those, Jeremy,and, and people will ask, I
know, I'm sure they ask ifyou'll post those hydrangeas
and.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (24:02):
I'll put'em in the show notes.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (24:03):
people.
'cause they'll ask me, uh, laterwhat it's about, uh, what they
look like, because that's a goodsummer way to change up
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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 foryour, Jeremy, for your kitchen
island.
Right.
That's, that's how, because youhave these pretty white bases.
Do you switch those out forseasonally?
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (24:23):
Uh, no.
Well, usually not oddly enoughthough, I just switched it out
to, for a, uh, because I reallywanted 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 (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 weeksago when we had the little ice
cream social at the house.
I set everything up in thedining room and the, the dining
room table usually is all setall the time.
All I did was take that stuffaway I elevated the flower
arrangement and just layereddifferent tablecloths and gave
(25:10):
it a whole new look just forthat party.
know, so it's, I didn't buyanything different.
I just pulled stuff outtadrawers and rearranged and
remapped it.
that's an, I think a easy, quicktip too, whether it's your
kitchen table, your dining roomtable, your front entry table,
you can just mix it up, layer ita little bit, put pull what is
in those drawers and make itfresh.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (25:32):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090 (25:34):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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 wasrunning around trying to find
the ice cream and you sayoutside, I say that in a good
way, in that that walked in thehouse felt very comfortable.
Being in your house.
it goes back to, I don't, whosays that you'll tell me, Jo,
(25:56):
uh, let them, and I was wantingto help
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (25:58):
You.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (25:59):
I just wanted to help you get
things because you, you, youwere gonna, you know, of course
Little Miss Alley took everybodyon the tour of the house.
Um, but you also, people wereasking you about the house and
you needed to kind of be there.
And so we were other peoplehelping kind of get some things
out.
And I was like, that's the bestthing.
It's like, let them
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (26:15):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (26:16):
them.
Because people come in and theyask, 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_ (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 (26:28):
if they ask.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (26:29):
they're doing it because they want to be
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (26:31):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (26:31):
it.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (26:31):
Right,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (26:32):
And who is it?
Um, who's the chef?
Um.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (26:39):
Anna, uh, until your child.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (26:44):
Julia Childs, thank you.
she would always encourage herpeople to be part of the process
of cooking and chopping andbeing there.
And I, I've always loved that,right?
It's like if you're runningaround and people can sense
you're not quite ready orthere's still a few things to
get done.
They're just standing there andit's like, Hey, would you help
(27:06):
me?
Would you get this out?
I don't think that's a badthing.
I really don't.
I feel like it encourages you tobe part of the party.
Part of that is that then itstarts taking stress off of you
because then you feel like youhave to have everything perfect.
Everything has to be ready,everything has to be go, and
it's like, no.
If you are looking forperfection in that regards, you
(27:27):
are never gonna open your house,are you?
You are never gonna let peoplecome.
You're never gonna let them bethere because you, you think I
can't get ready.
And it's like, like, you knowwhat?
If, if it's not perfect, that'sokay.
Let'em come on in.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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_09031 (27:54):
Well, and particularly like, like you
said, coming into, into ourhouse is, can be intimidating
walking in that front door, butthat's why I tried to greet
everybody there and be like,just walk around, explore, do
whatever.
You know?
I mean,'cause people are, peopleare innately nosy.
(28:15):
Anyway, no matter who you are.
So any party I have, well, youget what you find.
I, I think the only rule I saidto anybody in that house was
don't talk to the dogs they wereput up in their houses and
(28:39):
that's their safe spaces.
You can walk in the room, youcan walk around, you can do
stuff, but just ignore them likethey're not there because once
you start, lord have mercy, youknow, then they yy, yappy, yy.
But,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (28:51):
But, um.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (28:51):
that is part of entertaining.
You're opening your house forpeople to enjoy it.
So if somebody
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (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 afterthey're gone.
the side door, hand printslater, you know, that's just,
that's just what it is.
If you're opening your house fora party, that's where it ends.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (29:17):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (29:19):
let it go.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (29:20):
Yeah.
You know, I used to, when we,uh, moved into this home and we
would have people over, I alwayswanted everything to be perfect,
right?
Like always be really, uh,paranoid.
And my husband's still like thisto some point, but, um, like,
you know, everything's cleanand, and when I say cleaning, I
mean pristine, uh, and in itsplace and all the food to be
(29:42):
prepared when everybody getshere and, and, and all that.
And.
I have, and I don't know if it'sbecause of I'm tired age or I
just don't give a shit.
Um, but now it's much more oflike, um, and I think a lot of
us can identify with that, butit turns it into you hosting an
event to having people in yourhome.
(30:06):
To be together, right?
Like, that changes the wholepurpose of it.
And so we love to have, like, ifwe, we will always have a
charcuterie, uh, board.
Of course, all of our friendslove us, love we love us some
meats.
Um, and listen, I have noproblem schlepping that out and
being like, Hey, help me putthis together.
Put the fruit on it, wash thefruit, like, you know, things
like that.
And it, it does make it feellike people, it's the, it's that
(30:28):
communal time versus.
Come to my home for this event.
I guess we'll say it that way.
And I much prefer those becausethat, I mean, I think most of
the time you have the people atthe home, at your home that you
care about the most.
Like those are the people thatyou don't care if they see the,
you know, the, you know, cathair in the corner or you know,
whatever it is.
Like if it's there.
(30:49):
Um,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (30:49):
the rocking chair though.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (30:51):
and they called clean the rocking
chair.
Well, you know.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (30:53):
right?
Because if, if I'm gonna have anevent, hire a caterer.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 weddingfood, come on over.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (31:09):
You know, we, you asked earlier if
we rearrange furniture andthings like that on the outside.
We are fortunate enough that inour situation when we did
seating and stuff outside, wehave.
We have a lot of seating outsideto entertain people.
And I don't find for us, when wehave people that come over, uh,
we invite more than what we'vegot to see to see people.
(31:30):
Not that it limits us'cause thatwe don't feel like that does
that, but if we were to have,you know, 20 people over, um,
for the outside, like we'dprobably like rent some tables
or something just so peoplewould have some room to, to sit
in the lower yard or whatever.
But, um, we don't really, we, wetry to keep it like at capacity.
(31:51):
I don't know.
We just, growing up, our familywas never that kind of person
that had like 30 people over
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (31:55):
Right.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (31:56):
I, you know.
Um, but you know, I do havesome, um, tricks, or not tricks,
but some tips of things that Ido that, that help us always
stay prepared as far as like,for entertaining.
'cause I always want, wantpeople to be, um.
Comfortable and, and, and thingslike that.
So we always, during especiallythe warmer months, um, we have a
fire pit and it's one of myfavorite places to, to go.
(32:19):
So I always make sure I havefirewood always, just because if
we could decide to go out andhave, enjoy the fire pit, um.
And then w I'm always, when wehave 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 oflike, we're gonna say like, um,
(32:43):
some kind of lemonade.
Um, you know, we can get likestrawberry lemonade or regular
lemonade or watermelon or likewhat that, and because a lot of
those are easy just to mix withlike a little bit of bourbon.
And then you've got like alittle bourbon lemonade and
they're delicious.
So I always have those in casesomebody stops by'cause they're
just something really easy andthey're kind of fresh and light.
Um, just to have, just to goout.
(33:05):
And I, going back to the firepit, I always have the little,
um, packets of, um.
They're little like I don't knowwhat they are and they're
probably horrible for theenvironment.
God help me.
Um, but they're little packetsof like chemicals or colors or
something and you throw it inthe fire and then it turns your
fire into like multicoloredlittle things.
(33:25):
I dunno.
It's just fun, you know?
It's just so it Oh yeah.
And it, we had never heard ofit.
One of our, uh, a mother of ourfr 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 otherthing.
We always have stuff to makes'mores always.
Um,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (33:43):
Huh.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (33:44):
because it, because if, if, if we go out
and we fire pit, it never failssomebody else's more.
And so I will go to, uh, thegrocery store and I will get,
um, I like to be a littlebougie, if you can imagine it.
I know.
So when it,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (34:00):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (34:01):
to the chocolate.
I will get an assortment oflike, chocolate bars.
And so some of them will be likethe, you know, the regular like
Hershey chocolate, but then I'llalso get like the symphony, uh,
which is like a bou or like, youknow, uh, more, uh, Belgian
chocolate.
I don't remember what kind, butit's, it's a more European
chocolate, so it's, it's justdifferent.
But I'll get like three, threedifferent kinds so people can
(34:23):
like, choose their, um,adventure because I always like
the dark chocolate.
So I will have dark chocolate ofmine, but we'll always have, uh,
graham crackers and marshmallowsjust in case.
'cause it never fails.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (34:34):
this conversation shifted to is, is
about summer and light andentertaining and keeping your
house fresh, but it is also whatwe're kind of morphing into is
opening your doors and gettingpeople in your house because
it's again, this joy of, of, of,of sharing.
one of the things I always feellike, what, what you're telling
(34:55):
is I do something.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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 Ithink people make mistake on
when they do have people overthey're cooking and they're
cooking things that's hard tomake,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (35:10):
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (35:11):
know, they've never made it before.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (35:13):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (35:13):
Don't
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (35:14):
your recipe out on me.
Don't try your recipe out on me.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (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 andthe, my fallback
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (35:25):
Is
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (35:26):
mashed potatoes sauerkraut and
cornbread and soup beans.
Right.
You like, well, not everybodyloves that.
You know what?
(35:49):
And you can have a good, uh, uh,if you know how to make some
good pinto beans.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (35:53):
That's one of those things
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (35:54):
that you can have ready
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (35:55):
makes
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (35:56):
for a
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (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, heknows
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (36:07):
He loves that.
Well, I,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:10):
I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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_07-03-2 (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 (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 ourfriend,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (36:25):
one is,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:25):
is.
Use the, use the
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (36:28):
you
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:28):
that you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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_0 (36:33):
comfortable
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:34):
with uh, chacuterie boards right.
That's my fallback.
Don't be entertaining, keepingyour house light and airy and
getting people in here, and thenstress out about what you're
feeding people or
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (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_07-03-2 (36:55):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (36:56):
easy.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (36:57):
bark, daddy's vegetable dip, some
pretzels, some cheese, and somebourbon, 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_07-03-20 (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_0903 (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_07-03-2 (37:13):
Place
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (37:14):
and, uh, this beautiful
jeremy-guest413_1_07- (37:16):
farmhouse
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (37:17):
And I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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_ (37:21):
I knew that she
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (37:22):
to play house
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (37:23):
and
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (37:24):
people to
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 employeeswent out there.
We, and it was a potluck.
She.
Drinks and whatever, but youknow, not to make her do
everything.
We brought the thing, so Stuartbrought the most delicious and I
was like, oh my gosh, lasagna.
That's a lot of work.
(37:46):
That is a lot of work.
like, at him working so hard.
And that lasagna's good.
So I had a piece and I ateanother 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, butother than that, I didn't do
nothing.
No.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (38:24):
No, and listen.
Now it's nine 40 in the morningand now I want sauerkraut you
mentioned.
Now I'm like, shit.
Now I gotta figure out how tohave that for lunch.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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_07-03-202 (38:47):
You know, I didn't, I didn't think
that I liked sauerkraut when Iwas little.
Um, well, because mom would fixit for my dad, of course.
You know, it stinks up thehouse.
Like if you,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (38:55):
Oh, it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (38:55):
uh, um, and, but now I don't smell
it, so I don't, I don't know ifmy 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 thatmaybe you gained a futile
insights today aboutentertaining the summer, and we
(39:17):
hope that you schedule somethingto have some friends over that
you care about the most, andthat you're able to do it in a
way that doesn't stress you outand everybody's happy and you're
getting to spend the time withthe people you love, right?
So that's, that's part, get, getrid of the, get rid of the bird
peep.
And if you invite me over, makesure you have, um, sauerkraut
so.
And as always, we'll be backnext Wednesday with a new
(39:38):
episode.
If you haven't downloaded ourmobile shopping gap,
HouseFloral, you can find it onall the app stores for your
phones, and we will see you nextweek.
Thanks.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (39:49):
Bye.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (39:49):
Bye
Have you ever invited peopleover and then immediately
(00:02):
regretted it because now youhave to clean the house, prep
the food, and then in some kindof Olympic sport, have it
already before your first guestsarrive.
And let's note someone's alwaysa little early.
Yeah.
I've done it.
I think we've all done it.
In today's episode, we aretalking about summer hosting,
how to prep your space, makeyour guests feel welcome and
(00:23):
involved, and how to actuallyenjoy time with people who you
have invited into your homeinstead of stressing over the
details From quick ways to fluffup your house to our favorite,
no fuss, entertaining tips, aswell as the items that we keep
on hand.
For those last minute drop-ins,we are sharing what works for
the three of us.
(00:44):
Oh, and for the record, if youinvite me over and there's
sauerkraut on the table, this isnot a warning, it's a promise.
I'll stay for seconds and maybethirds.
Let's get into the podcast.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (01:59):
today's episode we are discussing, well,
Stuart, now you're the one thatcame up with this idea, so I
feel like you, you're the onethat should discuss this or you
should like describe what we'rediscussing.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (02:08):
just thought about, some are
entertaining in how to dodifferent design techniques
using indoor outdoor, usingfresh floral, fake floral,
using, just setting the mood forsummer entertaining while using
some design skills as well.
There we are.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (02:27):
I like it.
Do y'all do a lot of summerentertaining?
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (02:31):
I had an ice
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (02:31):
Ice.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (02:35):
Uh, yeah, we do, we do more summer.
So it feels like in winter wejust hibernate, so we really
don't do anything in the winter.
But yeah.
Yeah, we've got, um, peoplecoming over in a couple weeks
for another something, which isgood.
Um.
You know, the idea is I keepcoming back to this broken
record that every three monthsyou, you should, uh, kind of
(02:58):
purge a little bit and deepclean just a little bit.
if you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (03:02):
You kind of
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:03):
your house
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (03:04):
restate
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09 (03:05):
quarter, that kind of makes you do that.
And like, again, everybodythat's listened to us, um, this,
but.
Start at your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (03:15):
front door,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:16):
start at your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (03:17):
front
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:17):
start at your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (03:18):
front.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:19):
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 mewhen I, I tell you this, but I
was, I was polishing the doorhandle last night at
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (03:32):
Oh God.
Oh, good lord.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:35):
I know, I know, I know.
Um, but, um,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (03:41):
I
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:41):
it's
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (03:41):
was
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (03:41):
so hot.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (03:42):
so shocked
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (03:42):
I was watching Mean Girl murders
at 10 30 last night,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (03:45):
I was watching Dallas
cheerleaders.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:48):
Well, that's.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (03:50):
which is, which is a good series, by
the way.
We
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (03:53):
It is.
stuart_1_07-03-202 (03:54):
documentary.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (03:54):
Uh, it, it is an interesting little,
I don't know, one of the girlsgot us involved in it at the
store and she's convinced thatshe's gonna learn how to do the
dance to it this weekend, so shehas a long weekend, so, yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (04:06):
Well.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (04:15):
Well, I'd have waited to clean that
handle after you painted.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (04:18):
Okay, good point.
And somebody else in my lifesaid 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_09031 (04:29):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (04:30):
And so it was so tired looking.
I didn't know if it was gonnacome back to life, and I didn't
know if I had to replace it.
I needed to clean it to see if Icould clean it, I needed to
start figuring out which one Iwanted to make, you know, fit
the holes and all that stuff andget replaced.
So that was it.
I was really cleaning it to seefault that I'd have.
(04:53):
Bald.
came back and she's beautifuland she looks, uh, not as good
as new, but um, it's fine.
And I love the fact where youstuff it, but you see the bras
through and.
see this common theme of, yousee her wrinkles, right?
You see her use, you see the,the flaws
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:16):
The
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:16):
the, the marble.
Well, this is the,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:18):
the
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:18):
I won't, the flaws, I'll
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (05:19):
I'll say,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:20):
of it.
And I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:21):
and I cleaned her up last night,
like, well, that's
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:23):
a lot
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (05:23):
a lot of money.
I don't
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (05:25):
because
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (05:25):
have sign.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:26):
she
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:26):
She looks hot.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:27):
And so, uh, get you some,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:29):
um,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (05:29):
Brass
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (05:30):
polish out there.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09 (05:31):
whatever stuff I used.
Um, anyway,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (05:34):
I cleaned it last night because
our, our,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:36):
our
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:36):
our porch is so hot
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (05:38):
during
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (05:38):
during the day,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:39):
and it just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (05:39):
the radiation
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:40):
that
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (05:40):
that I can't stand it.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:41):
And it, it was, it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (05:43):
Finally.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:43):
down at the end o'clock last night.
That's a real story.
That's why.
And then the sun, the
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (05:48):
Sun's
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:48):
by 6 30,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (05:49):
seven
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:50):
in the
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (05:50):
in the morning.
So,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (05:51):
if I'm clean, I have to do
midnight.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (05:54):
Well,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (05:54):
well, let's get off your porch.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (05:55):
patio.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (05:58):
That's where I like to hang out.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (06:00):
I know that's where we are all the
time too.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (06:03):
So
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0 (06:03):
switching
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (06:04):
over.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (06:04):
a patio, let's say you are having
guests over, or even just familyor, or you just want it fresh.
So
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (06:11):
So what is.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (06:12):
you know.
winter's
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (06:14):
Over.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (06:16):
coming to a close summer's here.
What are you gonna switch out tokind of freshen that up?
I mean, are you gonna get somedifferent cushions?
Are you gonna get maybe, maybethrow something to table in and
get some candles?
Maybe just some ferns.
Just some greenery.
So how, how do you freshen upthat space for entertaining
(06:37):
that's not gonna break the bank,but makes it look light and
airy.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (06:44):
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 thebackyard, like we did a lot of
investment in like plants and,and, and things like that.
So we'll do our, our, our potswith flowers and stuff, but we
have a beautiful,, old teaktable, so it feels like you're
(07:06):
in the middle of Hamptons, um,back there.
So I don't do table skirts oranything like that.
Um, but what I will do is Ialways like to have.
A set of like melamine dishes,something that I know that my
guests can use, that they're notgonna be worried about breaking.
Not that our, our plates areanything fancy by any means.
They're not.
(07:26):
They're, they're from Target.
Um, and we bought them when wedid the kitchen in like 2017.
Um, but they always, people feeluncomfortable.
So I always like to have thingsthere that people can use that
they don't feel like they'regonna shatter or break.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (07:41):
Well, but melamine dishes, that's a
good thing because they'rerelatively inexpensive.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:46):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:47):
Lots of patterns, lots of
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:49):
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:50):
of styles
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:51):
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:51):
a little pop.
And you can get some for everyseason, not just summer,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (07:55):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (07:56):
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 somemore melamine dishes for the
side porch when people come,because like you just said, I'm
not going to drag out stuffthat's gonna break.
'cause it's a brick paver
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (08:12):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (08:13):
it's like, well.
It's just gonna be there and wegot kids running around and you
know, all that kind of stufftoo.
So it's, but people are like, ohmy God, those are so pretty.
I was like, well, got'em onclearance,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (08:26):
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (08:27):
know.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (08:28):
Well, you know, I think when, when it
comes to entertaining in thesummer, there's two, there's two
versions of entertaining, right?
There's the actual having anevent or like having a, a
planned something, which soundslike what you're gonna have like
in a couple weeks between, andthen there's like the
unexpected, like people popover.
So I have like one set.
Yeah, I always have tools orthings I try to do for like the
(08:50):
last minute pop-ins.
And then may I do, like ifwe're, if we're, if we are
having a planned something, likeI'll take our lanterns outside
and I'll take like those kindsof things, make it feel a little
more homey out there.
Um, but I do like the easythings like I'll take out
lanterns and, uh, candlesticksand, and easy things like that
(09:12):
just because, uh, well when I'mlazy.
Um, but two, because we.
I like for it to be all theplants and plantings outside.
I don't do too much to fluff itup.
But you know, you, you mentionedcushions.
The, for some reason pillowsoutside are like my little like,
um.
My little se not secretobsession, but it's like they
(09:33):
make me giddy.
I don't know why.
It's the most random thing, butI love getting new pillows for
outside and maybe it's'cause Ibuy cheap ones'cause I know
they're just gonna be destroyed
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (09:45):
I couldn't tell if Dwayne had
frozen or if he's just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (09:47):
I.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (09:47):
quiet.
I didn't know what was going on.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (09:51):
No, no, no.
Well, um, pillows for, for, forme inside the house is the same
thing on the outside, on theporches are, that's how you, uh,
switch it out.
And it, it goes from, springpillows to summer pillows, and
the summer pillows are blue andwhite.
And we just finished with the4th of July, and they had a
little.
(10:11):
4th of July, pillow too throwninto the mix and those go away
and just keep switching thepillows up.
You know, we,'cause we have alot of rocking chairs and swings
and things.
So we, uh, that, that, that
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (10:21):
That is
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:22):
up with pillows.
'cause it gives a lot ofpersonality, but just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (10:25):
exactly what you both are saying.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:27):
it is,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (10:28):
You don't have to work that hard.
You just have to acknowledge
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (10:31):
that, you know,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (10:32):
you know
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:33):
Uh, and I back to
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (10:35):
this
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (10:36):
about clean, clean, clean, which
sounds like what.
To how clean it, because
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (10:44):
Right.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (10:44):
go
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (10:45):
out.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (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, itdoesn'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 uponthings.
And I'm like, you do knowthere'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 rockingchair and poop, right.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (11:12):
'cause it's pretty
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:14):
Well, it's pretty, but then
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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 (11:21):
is that
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (11:22):
that in, when you have people coming
unexpectedly, it's like alwaysmom
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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_07-03-20 (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, butit's like will just kind of.
Do it weekly, just wrap yourwipe your chairs, chairs down
weekly or
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (11:41):
biweekly
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:41):
every once in
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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_07-03-2 (11:46):
Gonna take half a day clean.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (11:48):
Right?
If you just kind of
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (11:49):
You just kind of stay on
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (11:51):
And it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (11:51):
it.
It also is whenever somebodywalks to the front porch, front
sleep, that's the first thing tosee.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:55):
It's,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (11:55):
It's, it's really 10 minutes worth of
work
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (11:58):
every
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (11:58):
Saturday walking out,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (12:00):
as
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (12:00):
as opposed to
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (12:01):
half a
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (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, butyou're gonna vacuum it every
week when you vacuum the rest ofthe house.
So just ke keep on wiping andit's weeping.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (12:14):
So you all are fortunate in the, in
the sense that you all haveporches.
We don't have a porch.
Everything we have is fullyexposed, like there's no cover.
So it's like the gates of hell.
No matter where you are, you'reout there and we got some
umbrella.
I got this really large umbrellaand it, you know, it's fine, but
(12:35):
you know.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (12:36):
Well, we need to design you a pergola.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (12:39):
Well, you know, we've thought about
out there where the littleliving area is, um, that like
the, the, where the sofas andthe chairs are.
That to, um, maybe do like apergola there.
Um, and they had something atlike one of the big box stores,
uh, that had like a Louvre topthat would,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090 (12:57):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (12:59):
I thought, oh, that would be good,
but it was a certain size and Idon't think it fit.
Um, but the other thing is that.
Uh, that little, that's like ona deck.
We, we raise it up, we put treksfor the floor, um, but
surrounded on three sides byhorn beams, uh, which create
like a very private, well area,like a shield.
(13:20):
Yeah.
And so I don't want, I don'twanna take away from those, so I
don't, I.
We just wait to go out.
Truthfully, most of the areathat we usually, unfortunately
just'cause it does get so damnhot and humid.
And listen, I am not a skinnyperson.
I'm chunky monkey.
And um, although I have, I havelost some weight and I am cold
(13:41):
all the time now.
Um, but it's still hot outsideand I don't like humidity.
Ooh.
It's just awful.
Um, and so like if it, if it'sreally nice out and it's in the
evening, we'll eat dinner out infront of, uh, in our little
outdoor.
In eating area, but I mean, wehardly ever go outside when we
don't have company'cause it'sjust too damn hot.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (14:00):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (14:02):
And then when we do want to go
outside, it's like in the springwhen it's not, you know, not the
gates of hell.
Right?
But then inevitably that's whenwe're always starting to travel.
Um, and it never fails like wetravel when we have the best
weather here, always we'realways gone.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (14:15):
Right.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (14:16):
And then we get back and then it's
like, oh, it's 95 degrees todayand never fails.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (14:23):
you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (14:23):
So you mentioned.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (14:24):
and pillows.
So do you all ever, let's say itisn't just a casual drop by from
some friends or family that, youknow, you're having 10 or 15
people over for a whatever, amixer.
Do you all ever rearrange yourseating 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_07-03-20 (14:47):
Like
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (14:48):
we did
jeremy-guest413_1_07 (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_07-03-20 (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_07-03-20 (14:55):
from Mother's Day
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (14:56):
a
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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 (15:00):
I, we have a little patio set,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:02):
And
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:02):
and I, and
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:03):
mule and it's
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (15:03):
it's just a little
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (15:04):
table, four chairs, and I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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, youknow, you didn't, but
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (15:11):
sort,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:11):
a point,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:12):
but I.
Literally we have lanterns, likeyou mentioned, those ter,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:15):
and storage, and
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:16):
and they
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:16):
get pulled out and they get
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (15:17):
get pulled out.
They get put on the street atthe front porch.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:19):
we have, I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (15:20):
I actually took
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:21):
and hung
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (15:21):
about four, five other green trees.
Put that uh
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:25):
Uh,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (15:26):
table set there,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:27):
what we had
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 abit, a little effort right in
away, you know, it took me agood hour to get all that out
there at least, but I.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (15:43):
all.
dwayne_1_07-03-202 (15:44):
particularly Kathy will never forget that
moment.
Matter of fact, she's like, uh,just
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (15:49):
Just before Father's Day,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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, saida,
jeremy-guest413_1_07- (15:55):
different level
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (15:56):
She
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 nota competition.
I said,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 (16:03):
So the reason I that is.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (16:05):
memory probably will never be forgotten
because that was extra effort.
so.
It goes back to living in yourhouse and how you live in it.
Just keep re-imagining.
It's the same thing living atyour house on the outside.
And no, I'm not gonna movefurniture every single time.
But if you have the opportunityand you have the space, not
(16:27):
everybody does, right?
But if you have the opportunity,look at those.
Um.
Op, uh, options to, to, tothings up a little bit.
On the 4th of July, a, an oaktree that's in our side yard.
And I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (16:44):
I
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_ (16:45):
personally planted that oak tree over 20
years ago when we built the, thehouse.
that
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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, thenext person that lives here will
enjoy that tree.
Well, two years ago it hadgotten big enough that we were
(17:14):
able to sit under there andagain, table and chairs and all
the stuff, and have a picnicunder that tree.
And um, that was joy.
Right.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (17:24):
And it's always
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:24):
look at
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (17:25):
at your yard
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:26):
an
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (17:26):
an,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (17:27):
Jeremy, you, your, your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (17:29):
your space might be a little tight
back,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (17:31):
know, you, you don't have wiggle room,
but you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (17:33):
do have incredible front yard,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:35):
I ain't gonna do it.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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_07-03-20 (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_07-03-202 (17:42):
the G go?
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (17:43):
Hmm.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (17:43):
Eagle tree
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:46):
for
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (17:46):
for your purposes.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:47):
as
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (17:47):
Large as the largest oak tree.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (17:49):
seen.
I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (17:50):
Swear I've seen
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (17:52):
A
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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_ (17:55):
I can only imagine
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (17:56):
having, uh, a dinner under that tree one
evening.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (18:00):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:01):
I will
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (18:01):
Also
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:02):
that you're in a pretty
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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_09031 (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 hisyard twinkle at Christmas.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (18:26):
then I
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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 youhave the best dinner you can
under the tree.
So
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (18:41):
fall like confetti.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (18:42):
Yeah.
You know,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:44):
So.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (18:44):
we,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (18:46):
I'm probably not going to do it
every time, but that effort thatyou put out won an incredible
memory you could create, and itgoes back to what you did as a
surprise for Stuart, that, youknow, we went to your um, house.
Was it last year?
Now rip How long ago?
We went to a surprise wedding iswhat it was.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (19:05):
Uh,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (19:06):
outside in the lawn, and again guys, you
have to understand this housethat he lives in is just this
beautiful piece of Kentuckyhistory and behind it, it the.
The lawn kind of slightly rollsdown to this amazing pond in the
back.
And there's horses frolickingand there's geese and there's
fish jumping and all this crap.
(19:28):
And we had
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (19:29):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:47):
but falls coming.
start getting
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (19:50):
Getting ready, start
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:51):
um, to prepare for things, but be
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (19:54):
outside, underneath,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:55):
or in your
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (19:56):
or in your front yard.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (19:57):
This, this
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (19:57):
This, this is a sidebar,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (19:59):
But
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (20:00):
but kind of works in the
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (20:01):
way in
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 fewweeks ago and she had moved back
here from Florida and she, her,she, she's getting older.
Her, her husband is, um, stagesdementia.
Uh, so her children are here,so, you know, she's had to
rewrite her life again.
Well, she had lived in a 55 pluscommunity for the last 20 years
(20:26):
she said, I miss my girls.
And I had cocktails every nightand we'd be out, out on somebody
else's like, nah, of course.
You know, I can just imagine thegolden girls out there.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (20:35):
She said, you know, and I love,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (20:36):
And she
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (20:37):
she said,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0 (20:37):
everybody is
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (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 mycocktails with my friends and my
girls.
And I said, how long you beenmarried?
And she said, I dunno, about 50years.
And I said, how'd you get thatboyfriend?
(21:00):
I don't know.
I said, you lifted that skirt upjust a little bit.
Throw it off a little bit didn'tyou?
I said, you don't get anythingunless you advertise.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (21:09):
Well, Lord have mercy say.
And I said, you sit up thatgarage door and put you a lounge
chair out there and an extra oneputs 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 (21:24):
I.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0 (21:24):
guarantee somebody will show up and you
will have the best conversationand 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 toolsthat you have and sit on that
front lawn, sit on the outside,Jeremy with your, uh, cal 10 and
(21:46):
wave at your peoples.
Um, but and be outside.
Be outside.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (21:51):
You know, we joke that and we love
our neighborhood, um, but ifwe're outside, we know that it's
gonna take three times as longto do anything because so many
people are gonna stop by andlike, talk about this and that
and everything.
And it, it never, well, theyjust, 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_ (22:09):
I mean, I love her neighborhood.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (22:10):
a bucket of wine on
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (22:13):
Well, I don't, I don't drink one.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (22:15):
what?
You're like, you know what?
If we're gonna stand here for 30minutes, let's have a cocktail.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (22:21):
There you go.
Advertise a little.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (22:24):
Yeah, we wouldn't be able to have
dinner in the, in the front anddryer tree because we'd never be
able to get past that.
A booze bo, because the peoplestop about the check.
Yeah.
You know, when we did thelandscape lighting, like we, the
lighting guy was like, God, Iwish 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 dolove our tree.
(22:46):
As I look at it now, mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (22:49):
Okay, so we've been outside for a
while.
Let's walk in.
So.
Ginormous,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (22:57):
Uh.
dwayne_1_07-03-202 (22:57):
arrangement, uh, in a front for you that's,
you know, become seasonal.
So I've kind of, um, taken itapart and we've had sold these
branches for years.
It's called blooming branches.
So I just leave the magnolialeaves in there that we've sold
for years and years and years.
And I got and branches in thisBig V that's come from the yard
and I just add these, uh,branches to it.
(23:18):
Freshen it up.
And again, it keeps it fromgetting dusty all the time.
Uh, you know, if it sits therefor a year and a half, it's
like, oh, this crap dusty.
So if you take it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (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_09031 (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_09031 (23:32):
clean it.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (23:33):
I put those blooming branches in.
And it really, uh, it, itlightens it up and it looks like
I just went and cut, um, things.
And then
jeremy-guest413_1_07- (23:41):
Sometimes I'll add.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (23:42):
green hydrangeas, like we have real
lime loaf hydrangeas in thefront yard, but you know, we
sell fake, uh, uh, lime loafhydrangeas, or green hydrangeas
at least.
And I'll, uh, use those, Jeremy,and, and people will ask, I
know, I'm sure they ask ifyou'll post those hydrangeas
and.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (24:02):
I'll put'em in the show notes.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (24:03):
people.
'cause they'll ask me, uh, laterwhat it's about, uh, what they
look like, because that's a goodsummer way to change up
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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 foryour, Jeremy, for your kitchen
island.
Right.
That's, that's how, because youhave these pretty white bases.
Do you switch those out forseasonally?
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (24:23):
Uh, no.
Well, usually not oddly enoughthough, I just switched it out
to, for a, uh, because I reallywanted 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 (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 weeksago when we had the little ice
cream social at the house.
I set everything up in thedining room and the, the dining
room table usually is all setall the time.
All I did was take that stuffaway I elevated the flower
arrangement and just layereddifferent tablecloths and gave
(25:10):
it a whole new look just forthat party.
know, so it's, I didn't buyanything different.
I just pulled stuff outtadrawers and rearranged and
remapped it.
that's an, I think a easy, quicktip too, whether it's your
kitchen table, your dining roomtable, your front entry table,
you can just mix it up, layer ita little bit, put pull what is
in those drawers and make itfresh.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (25:32):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090 (25:34):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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 wasrunning around trying to find
the ice cream and you sayoutside, I say that in a good
way, in that that walked in thehouse felt very comfortable.
Being in your house.
it goes back to, I don't, whosays that you'll tell me, Jo,
(25:56):
uh, let them, and I was wantingto help
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (25:58):
You.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (25:59):
I just wanted to help you get
things because you, you, youwere gonna, you know, of course
Little Miss Alley took everybodyon the tour of the house.
Um, but you also, people wereasking you about the house and
you needed to kind of be there.
And so we were other peoplehelping kind of get some things
out.
And I was like, that's the bestthing.
It's like, let them
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (26:15):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (26:16):
them.
Because people come in and theyask, 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_ (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 (26:28):
if they ask.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090 (26:29):
they're doing it because they want to be
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (26:31):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (26:31):
it.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (26:31):
Right,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (26:32):
And who is it?
Um, who's the chef?
Um.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (26:39):
Anna, uh, until your child.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (26:44):
Julia Childs, thank you.
she would always encourage herpeople to be part of the process
of cooking and chopping andbeing there.
And I, I've always loved that,right?
It's like if you're runningaround and people can sense
you're not quite ready orthere's still a few things to
get done.
They're just standing there andit's like, Hey, would you help
(27:06):
me?
Would you get this out?
I don't think that's a badthing.
I really don't.
I feel like it encourages you tobe part of the party.
Part of that is that then itstarts taking stress off of you
because then you feel like youhave to have everything perfect.
Everything has to be ready,everything has to be go, and
it's like, no.
If you are looking forperfection in that regards, you
(27:27):
are never gonna open your house,are you?
You are never gonna let peoplecome.
You're never gonna let them bethere because you, you think I
can't get ready.
And it's like, like, you knowwhat?
If, if it's not perfect, that'sokay.
Let'em come on in.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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_09031 (27:54):
Well, and particularly like, like you
said, coming into, into ourhouse is, can be intimidating
walking in that front door, butthat's why I tried to greet
everybody there and be like,just walk around, explore, do
whatever.
You know?
I mean,'cause people are, peopleare innately nosy.
(28:15):
Anyway, no matter who you are.
So any party I have, well, youget what you find.
I, I think the only rule I saidto anybody in that house was
don't talk to the dogs they wereput up in their houses and
(28:39):
that's their safe spaces.
You can walk in the room, youcan walk around, you can do
stuff, but just ignore them likethey're not there because once
you start, lord have mercy, youknow, then they yy, yappy, yy.
But,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (28:51):
But, um.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (28:51):
that is part of entertaining.
You're opening your house forpeople to enjoy it.
So if somebody
jeremy-guest413_1_07-0 (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 afterthey're gone.
the side door, hand printslater, you know, that's just,
that's just what it is.
If you're opening your house fora party, that's where it ends.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (29:17):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (29:19):
let it go.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (29:20):
Yeah.
You know, I used to, when we,uh, moved into this home and we
would have people over, I alwayswanted everything to be perfect,
right?
Like always be really, uh,paranoid.
And my husband's still like thisto some point, but, um, like,
you know, everything's cleanand, and when I say cleaning, I
mean pristine, uh, and in itsplace and all the food to be
(29:42):
prepared when everybody getshere and, and, and all that.
And.
I have, and I don't know if it'sbecause of I'm tired age or I
just don't give a shit.
Um, but now it's much more oflike, um, and I think a lot of
us can identify with that, butit turns it into you hosting an
event to having people in yourhome.
(30:06):
To be together, right?
Like, that changes the wholepurpose of it.
And so we love to have, like, ifwe, we will always have a
charcuterie, uh, board.
Of course, all of our friendslove us, love we love us some
meats.
Um, and listen, I have noproblem schlepping that out and
being like, Hey, help me putthis together.
Put the fruit on it, wash thefruit, like, you know, things
like that.
And it, it does make it feellike people, it's the, it's that
(30:28):
communal time versus.
Come to my home for this event.
I guess we'll say it that way.
And I much prefer those becausethat, I mean, I think most of
the time you have the people atthe home, at your home that you
care about the most.
Like those are the people thatyou don't care if they see the,
you know, the, you know, cathair in the corner or you know,
whatever it is.
Like if it's there.
(30:49):
Um,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (30:49):
the rocking chair though.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (30:51):
and they called clean the rocking
chair.
Well, you know.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (30:53):
right?
Because if, if I'm gonna have anevent, hire a caterer.
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 weddingfood, come on over.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (31:09):
You know, we, you asked earlier if
we rearrange furniture andthings like that on the outside.
We are fortunate enough that inour situation when we did
seating and stuff outside, wehave.
We have a lot of seating outsideto entertain people.
And I don't find for us, when wehave people that come over, uh,
we invite more than what we'vegot to see to see people.
(31:30):
Not that it limits us'cause thatwe don't feel like that does
that, but if we were to have,you know, 20 people over, um,
for the outside, like we'dprobably like rent some tables
or something just so peoplewould have some room to, to sit
in the lower yard or whatever.
But, um, we don't really, we, wetry to keep it like at capacity.
(31:51):
I don't know.
We just, growing up, our familywas never that kind of person
that had like 30 people over
stuart_1_07-03-2025_0903 (31:55):
Right.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (31:56):
I, you know.
Um, but you know, I do havesome, um, tricks, or not tricks,
but some tips of things that Ido that, that help us always
stay prepared as far as like,for entertaining.
'cause I always want, wantpeople to be, um.
Comfortable and, and, and thingslike that.
So we always, during especiallythe warmer months, um, we have a
fire pit and it's one of myfavorite places to, to go.
(32:19):
So I always make sure I havefirewood always, just because if
we could decide to go out andhave, enjoy the fire pit, um.
And then w I'm always, when wehave 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 oflike, we're gonna say like, um,
(32:43):
some kind of lemonade.
Um, you know, we can get likestrawberry lemonade or regular
lemonade or watermelon or likewhat that, and because a lot of
those are easy just to mix withlike a little bit of bourbon.
And then you've got like alittle bourbon lemonade and
they're delicious.
So I always have those in casesomebody stops by'cause they're
just something really easy andthey're kind of fresh and light.
Um, just to have, just to goout.
(33:05):
And I, going back to the firepit, I always have the little,
um, packets of, um.
They're little like I don't knowwhat they are and they're
probably horrible for theenvironment.
God help me.
Um, but they're little packetsof like chemicals or colors or
something and you throw it inthe fire and then it turns your
fire into like multicoloredlittle things.
(33:25):
I dunno.
It's just fun, you know?
It's just so it Oh yeah.
And it, we had never heard ofit.
One of our, uh, a mother of ourfr 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 otherthing.
We always have stuff to makes'mores always.
Um,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (33:43):
Huh.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (33:44):
because it, because if, if, if we go out
and we fire pit, it never failssomebody else's more.
And so I will go to, uh, thegrocery store and I will get,
um, I like to be a littlebougie, if you can imagine it.
I know.
So when it,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (34:00):
Yeah.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (34:01):
to the chocolate.
I will get an assortment oflike, chocolate bars.
And so some of them will be likethe, you know, the regular like
Hershey chocolate, but then I'llalso get like the symphony, uh,
which is like a bou or like, youknow, uh, more, uh, Belgian
chocolate.
I don't remember what kind, butit's, it's a more European
chocolate, so it's, it's justdifferent.
But I'll get like three, threedifferent kinds so people can
(34:23):
like, choose their, um,adventure because I always like
the dark chocolate.
So I will have dark chocolate ofmine, but we'll always have, uh,
graham crackers and marshmallowsjust in case.
'cause it never fails.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (34:34):
this conversation shifted to is, is
about summer and light andentertaining and keeping your
house fresh, but it is also whatwe're kind of morphing into is
opening your doors and gettingpeople in your house because
it's again, this joy of, of, of,of sharing.
one of the things I always feellike, what, what you're telling
(34:55):
is I do something.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (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 Ithink people make mistake on
when they do have people overthey're cooking and they're
cooking things that's hard tomake,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (35:10):
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (35:11):
know, they've never made it before.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (35:13):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (35:13):
Don't
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (35:14):
your recipe out on me.
Don't try your recipe out on me.
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (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 andthe, my fallback
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (35:25):
Is
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (35:26):
mashed potatoes sauerkraut and
cornbread and soup beans.
Right.
You like, well, not everybodyloves that.
You know what?
(35:49):
And you can have a good, uh, uh,if you know how to make some
good pinto beans.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (35:53):
That's one of those things
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (35:54):
that you can have ready
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (35:55):
makes
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (35:56):
for a
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03- (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, heknows
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025 (36:07):
He loves that.
Well, I,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:10):
I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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_07-03-2 (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 (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 ourfriend,
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (36:25):
one is,
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:25):
is.
Use the, use the
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (36:28):
you
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:28):
that you
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-20 (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_0 (36:33):
comfortable
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (36:34):
with uh, chacuterie boards right.
That's my fallback.
Don't be entertaining, keepingyour house light and airy and
getting people in here, and thenstress out about what you're
feeding people or
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03 (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_07-03-2 (36:55):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_09031 (36:56):
easy.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (36:57):
bark, daddy's vegetable dip, some
pretzels, some cheese, and somebourbon, 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_07-03-20 (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_0903 (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_07-03-2 (37:13):
Place
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (37:14):
and, uh, this beautiful
jeremy-guest413_1_07- (37:16):
farmhouse
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (37:17):
And I
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2025_ (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_ (37:21):
I knew that she
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_090311 (37:22):
to play house
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (37:23):
and
dwayne_1_07-03-2025_0903 (37:24):
people to
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-2 (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 employeeswent out there.
We, and it was a potluck.
She.
Drinks and whatever, but youknow, not to make her do
everything.
We brought the thing, so Stuartbrought the most delicious and I
was like, oh my gosh, lasagna.
That's a lot of work.
(37:46):
That is a lot of work.
like, at him working so hard.
And that lasagna's good.
So I had a piece and I ateanother 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, butother than that, I didn't do
nothing.
No.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (38:24):
No, and listen.
Now it's nine 40 in the morningand now I want sauerkraut you
mentioned.
Now I'm like, shit.
Now I gotta figure out how tohave that for lunch.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_09031 (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_07-03-202 (38:47):
You know, I didn't, I didn't think
that I liked sauerkraut when Iwas little.
Um, well, because mom would fixit for my dad, of course.
You know, it stinks up thehouse.
Like if you,
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (38:55):
Oh, it
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (38:55):
uh, um, and, but now I don't smell
it, so I don't, I don't know ifmy 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 thatmaybe you gained a futile
insights today aboutentertaining the summer, and we
(39:17):
hope that you schedule somethingto have some friends over that
you care about the most, andthat you're able to do it in a
way that doesn't stress you outand everybody's happy and you're
getting to spend the time withthe people you love, right?
So that's, that's part, get, getrid of the, get rid of the bird
peep.
And if you invite me over, makesure you have, um, sauerkraut
so.
And as always, we'll be backnext Wednesday with a new
(39:38):
episode.
If you haven't downloaded ourmobile shopping gap,
HouseFloral, you can find it onall the app stores for your
phones, and we will see you nextweek.
Thanks.
stuart_1_07-03-2025_090312 (39:49):
Bye.
jeremy-guest413_1_07-03-202 (39:49):
Bye
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