Home improvement and more with Gary 11/15/2025

Ron and Gary chat about the yard, garden, in and around the home and more.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson in
his time for the Little Home Improvement from the Man,
the myth, the legend, the most listened to Home IMPROVEMN
show host in the entire world, ladies and gentlemen. His website,
Gary Sullivan online dot com, the one the Only Gary Sala.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Mister Wilson.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Saw some hollow Santa clauses.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh, hollow chocolate Santa's.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
They're out already on this. As soon as the uh
Halloween candy was gone, other stuff came in right behind it,
So you bought a bunch of them. I'm sure I
haven't yet, but you never know. You were you disappointed
when you found out that the Farmer's Almanac was no
longer going to be in print after twenty twenty six?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, yeah, I was. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Why do you read the Farmer's almondacs?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I used to, and maybe that's why it's going out print. Huh,
but not so much anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, let me ask you this, because I think there's
a little confusion here. Oh, did you read the Farmer's
Almanac or the old Old Farmer's Almanac?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I used to read the Old Farmer's Almanac. I don't
know what I've read recently, whether it was the original
or the non original.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Which one is the original?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
The yellow cover one?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Which one is that I that's the old one. Well,
see that's where I think people are a little bit confused.
The Old Farmer's Almanac was founded in seventeen ninety two,
which it's the little yellow book that features the founder
Robert Thomas and of course Benjamin Franklin, two hundred and
thirty four years old and going strong.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
So that's what I would call the original. That is
the one is the other one yellow?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Also here's and the other one's two hundred and some
years old, but this one's a little older. And I
come to find out because I did little researches to
make sure. When these were all published back then, there
were several almanacs that were out at the time.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Almanacs were big.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
They were big, and so there were there was the Farmers,
there was the Old Farmers there and there were multiple
almanacs that were still out there, some of which are
still around today in very small publications. But the one
that I probably most familiar with, and I get their
emails every week. They do a weekly email and updates
it's kind of fun. Is the old Farmer's Almanac, which

(02:27):
is from seventeen ninety two, the original Farmer's Almanac?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Hmmm, well, I'm still confused.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
So is it going to be a cold winner? Or
Farmer's Almanac was another one of that was out there
at the time.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
See, every you know, it just gets confusing, doesn't it. Yeah,
just beat us, you know, like our color of the year,
you know what I mean, it's nice. It was a
nice little Pantone. Once a year, one company tells you
what the color of the year, and then all of
a sudden we had color of the month. We had
everybody named Bob has this color of the year. And
can you even tell me what the twenty twenty sixth

(03:09):
color of the year is by Pantone? No? Yeah, see
now it's not even news. No.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
And what's funny is I when I get I sent
you you and I talked about this probably a month
ago that somebody told me about Benjamin Moore's two or
three other you know, pain companies had their colors, right,
I saw nothing about the Pantone and that was it.
So I don't know, did it is it? Maybe? Is
it losing?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's no no, they produced. They came out with it.
I missed it. And it's called transformative teal.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Transformative teal.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's kind of a cool looking teal. I mean, if
you're into teals, right.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
If you like teals. Yeah, I remember there was a
color several years ago that you and I boat just said, Oh,
I forget about that really months It's like, you've got
to be kidding.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, I think like a universal khaki or something. I
think that's what it was. No, I don't know rage
ever became a color of the year, but that was
the big buzzerword. As we transformed from gray, we started
throwing beige in, and beige was it had a short
little blurb on the screen in the last probably seven

(04:23):
or eight years where we came up with it were grayish.
I didn't come up with it. That's what people That's
what designers were calling grays. It's like, what do you
mean gray? What I mean?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I thought you came up with that.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, let the I let the real thinkers think. But
transformative teal. And it's weird too, because every color of
the year by different thing. They're not even in the
same color grouping, So how can it be the color
of the year. Yeah, you know, we got one his teal,
and then the next guy comes out to Mocha moose,

(04:58):
and another gue comes out and it's an all off
white and it's like, well, come on, I.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Think I think one was I'm drawing was a Mocha
something last.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Year, I think, or this year actually twenty twenty five
was Mocha miss or Mocha moose. It was kind of
like a it's like earthy tone. It was like the
color of a chocolate milkshake.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah. Yeah, See bees like earthy tones.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I learned that this morning.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Earthy tones.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
They like the earthy tones. Who's they the bees?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
All bees like hers?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So you know, well you see most bee hives are white, Yeah,
to reflect the heat in the summer tone. Yeah, and
maybe they just thought he's liked them white. Maybe now
we're starting to see multiple colors out there. Oh and
so my question was do they have a favorite color,
And it wasn't really when it comes to painting it,
but they do like the earthy colors more. And the
earthy colors don't get heat up quite as much in

(05:55):
the summer, but they helped to warm it up a
little bit more in the.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Winter, so it's kind of like they're heating system in
their air conditioner.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yes, those little bees are so smart bees? Are they are? They?
Did you know that they can take their wings and
pull them, disengage them really so that they buzz in
a different So they buzz just well, they buzzed, just
a buzz to he create the heat. Because if they
were engaged in their shoulders, then they would fly and

(06:22):
then they hide, would just fly away. I'm just kidding
you on that, but but they would anything. They would
fly if they if they were had the wings on normally,
because that's how they fly.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
So you should write a book called a bees me complicated.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Not me, but the queen bee should somebody should.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh, you could write a book the ant doctor. He
had all these facts about ants.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
You were you'd be talking yeah, but when he was on,
you'd be talking ants for a month. You probably were
great at a party. Oh yeah, by the way, did
I tell you about these? Uh?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Why? My favorite story is if there's a lot of
heavy rains and the bee population is just getting swamped,
the queen, not the bee. The queen ant will get
all the male worker bees and they're all male arms
create a raft and the queen ant will sit on

(07:19):
top of them. They'll float away to dryer land and
start their new colony.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
And I asked what ant did you involve in an
interview for that time?

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Who did you talk to? You talk to?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Do you have their phone number?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Are you gonna talk about Almen Brumen today?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I am Ron. We're even going to talk about paint,
paint disposal and all kinds of good tips and cleaning
for the holidays.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Thank you so much. I'll make it easy, mister Gary Sullivan,
Garysullivan online dot com. Thank you, sir, you bet all right.
Thanks all our colers, Thanks to our sponsors, Thanks of
course to uh Danny Glease and our producer, because without
Danny Glease, none the stuff that happens. So Danny, as always,
thank you so much for all that you do. Now
do yourself a favor. Keep planting those trees, keep planting
those native plants. Get out there and start doing the

(08:06):
holiday ports. Pots and your containers. Keep pamper your worms.
You can still keep adding organic manner, be poll friendly
and pollinator polite, Get the kids involved with gardening, and
by all means making the best weekend of your life,
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