Love & Best Dishes: Floral Arranging with Bubbles & Eddie | How to Make Flower Arrangements

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Uploaded: 2026-07-14T13:26:00+00:00
Duration: 17 min 16 s

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- Hey y'all, I'm so excited about this next video.
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We're not cooking a thing,
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but we are gonna put together
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some beautiful flower arrangements.
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Bubbles came in from Albany
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and she and Phil's son
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just bought the wholesale florist in Albany, Georgia.
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And it's been there for years and years.
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And y'all, it is the only wholesale florist
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within a 90 mile circle.
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So Harrison, I know you're gonna do so well,
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and I'm already impressed
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about what you've learned about flowers.
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So continued success.
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And he sent me over two big buckets of flowers
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with Bubbles.
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And so Eddie and Bubbles are gonna make flower arrangements.
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They come with buckets.
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I don't know where they're gonna put 'em.
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But anyway, look for unusual containers in your house
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to make an arrangement.
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Now, I want you to look at this.
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This was an old spittoon
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and I think the person that I bought this from
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told me that it was in like the train station
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or something like that, where
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(mouth spitting)
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people, will go by
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(mouth spitting)
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spit in tobacco
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or put their cigars.
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So it's two pieces.
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And Eddie took the spit part out
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and he's going to put the arrangement in the bottom.
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So how neat.
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I love this old spittoon.
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And I think Bubbles is gonna make Aunt Peggy an arrangement,
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you know, in something like that.
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So y'all have a good time.
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Enjoy.
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- [Susan] You might need to call 'em,
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I don't think they're coming. - I know.
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- Do y'all need help bringing them buckets?
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- [Susan] I think they got 'em.
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- [Paula] Now y'all make Harrison proud, okay?
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- Yes. - [Paula] All right.
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Let me ask y'all this.
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Do y'all have any tips to put in the water
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to make these last longer?
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Somebody said a aspirin I think one time.
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- You know, I mean, I've read a bunch of different things
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and I've seen online people have done
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different things like some people.
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- [Paula] Tulips.
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- I feel like vodka or something even.
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Aspirin or sugar.
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- [Bubbles] They sell something.
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- I think when they did the test
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to show like the different flowers,
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just leaving them alone kind of did the thing.
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- [Paula] Okay. Eddie, you need to bump your partner.
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- I'm passing calls this filler.
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It's got a botanical name, but I don't know what it is.
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Do you Eddie? - [Eddie] I don't.
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- Harrison, I'm so impressed
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that he knows all these flowers by name.
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And there's a lady down there, her name, we call her Mika.
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But anyway, she would've taped this vase
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with clear florist tape,
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so that the roses would all stand up.
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- [Eddie] Made a grid? - Yeah, make a grid.
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- [Paula] Oh, oh, okay. - Yeah.
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- [Paula] On the top.
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Yeah. That's a great tip.
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This is what I'm- - And you can do scotch tape.
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- This is the things that I'm wanting
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for y'all to share with us,
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because I would never have thought about
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making a tic-tac toe with tape on top.
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- [Bubbles] And never put the leaves under water.
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- [Paula] Okay.
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Another good tip.
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And do y'all think any of the solvents or things,
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the tips that they say you can put in plant,
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I mean, that you could put in the water,
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is gonna help them last any longer?
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- I don't know, they say if you put a penny in tulips,
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that it'll keep the tulips standing up straight.
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- [Paula] What will?
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- A penny, if you put
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a penny in the- - [Paula] How?
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- It'll keep 'em closed up.
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- [Paula] Have you ever heard that one Eddie?
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- No. No.
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- Vodka does it too.
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- [Paula] Well, Eddie put a lot of tulips
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in here in the kitchen.
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- Yeah. I mean, the tulips,
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I usually just try to keep them trimmed.
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It's like the tulips keep rowing.
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- [Paula] Yeah. - After you cut 'em. So
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- [Paula] Yeah.
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- I try to cut 'em every day.
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And that seems to, huh?
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- [Paula] Yeah.
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- Harrison also showed me the other day,
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if you've got a rose that looks kind of,
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or anything that's got the petals on the one disc,
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if it pop, you can't hear it, but it sort of pops.
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- [Paula] Oh yeah, I heard that that pop.
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- If not, don't use it.
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I mean, you can use it, but it's gonna go fast.
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- [Paula] Yeah. So he doesn't wanna sell stuff
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- Nuts - [Paula] On its last leg.
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- He's very particular.
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- [Paula] I think you told me he even delivers.
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- He delivers.
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- [Paula] Because there's so many small towns
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around from Albany.
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- Hmm. You figure in 90 mile radius, she's.
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- [Paula] Yeah. That's a beautiful rose
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now that Eddie's trimming.
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- Yes.
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- [Paula] What kind of rose is that?
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- A pink one.
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- A baby pink one.
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- He took me in the cooler and you know, said,
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"Pick out what you want."
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So we just fixed our little buckets.
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But these are like garden roses.
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They got the thorns.
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- [Paula] Those are long stem ones.
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- Yeah.
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(scissors clanking)
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- So. - [Paula] Aunt Peggy
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is going to love those roses.
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Oh, now look what Eddie just did.
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- [Bubbles] Oh, wait.
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There's something you could do, like.
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- [Paula] He just did it.
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(Susan laughing)
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Watch what he did.
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- [Bubbles] Makes it look like a painted
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- Watch.
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- Up so now been if you got, got like.
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Then it kind of just opens it up.
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I think if you pinch off some of the
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outer side ones, it helps too.
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- [Paula] Aha. Well, that's a neat trick
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because they're prettier
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when they - Open up.
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- [Paula] Yeah, when they open up a little bit.
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So Eddie, what are you doing over here?
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- Well, Paula, you know,
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you've got so much copper in the kitchen.
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Paula wants a nice little arrangement
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to go on the counter set.
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- [Paula] Yes.
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- Initially the pink looks great with the copper
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- [Paula] Pink looks beautiful with the copper.
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- And if there's a bruise,
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I was always scared to touch
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the flower.
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You know, if there's a bruised petal, just peel it off.
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- [Paula] Yeah. Yeah.
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- So Susan, I get so many comments,
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Eddie, talking about how pretty the pink looks with copper.
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I get so many comments on that picture.
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- [Susan] Jim, pan and Bri.
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He wants to come and do another something.
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- [[Paula] Well, we won't have to do it.
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I thought that picture,
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not cause that - Jazmines
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- [Paula] With me in it.
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But the colors in his technique is,
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the colors are insane.
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It's so beautiful.
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- Well, oddly, I mean, since we've hung that there,
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you have worn tremendous amount of coral or pink.
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- [Paula] Oh, really?
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- And it looks like you're wearing the same outfit
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that you're in there.
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But I mean, that was done. - [Susan] Years ago.
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- That was done over 10 years ago.
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- [Paula] Was it? - Yes.
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- [Paula] Listen, how did you?
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(Bubbles speaking in foreign language)
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- No. So.
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And this is my 10th year.
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- [Paula] Happy anniversary.
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What can I get you for our anniversary?
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Some roses.
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(Susan laughing)
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We're gonna get Eddie some roses.
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- Pink rose is my favorite.
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- [Paula] When is your anniversary?
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- March 25th.
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My birthday is actually the day I signed.
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- Are you serious? - Yeah, it'll be
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10 years March.
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- [Paula] Eddie I didn't know that.
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Poor thing I left him by himself.
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I was out on Fridays.
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Poor thing.
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I said, please let him still be there when I get home,
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because I wanna meet him.
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I had met you once. - Where were you?
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- Yeah, we had already met.
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- Were you in there after?
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- She was on a book tour finishing up a book tour
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when I got into town,
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so I think I had about a week and a half
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before she actually got there.
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And I remember about first, - Well the storm rolled in
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- The first day.
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She was starting "Positively Paula."
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And I mean it was like, yeah,
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when she first got back from the tour,
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she was starting "Positively Paula"
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and I had people ringing the bell at the gates.
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I had camera crew coming in.
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I hadn't really seen her yet.
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And finally she came in the kitchen.
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I don't even know that she even remember what I looked like.
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- Oh, look at this one, he's so soft.
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- [Paula] Aha. Oh yeah, he died.
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But I have a hard time throwing him away.
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- [Paula] Well press him in a book.
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- No, I mean, just stick him in a single vase.
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- [Susan] So someone else can throw it away?
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- No, you know, one of my closest friends
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in the whole world passed away
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and as I was leaving,
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I just reached over and took a rose from her casket
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and I still have it.
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You know, I put it in a book and pressed it, dried it out.
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Eddie, share some tips with us.
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What is your goal when you start
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to put a flower arrangement together?
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What is the first step for you?
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- Well that's, you know, unless
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like this is a big container.
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So starting with something like this
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that's really large. - [Paula] Okay. So
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- Kind of gives you the base to kind of like
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having what they call a frog
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or you the grid. - Taped grid.
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- [Paula] That white rose in there is beautiful.
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- A kind of holes are- - [Paula] Yeah. Yeah.
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And I love stuff with a lot of green on it.
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But these will open up and be so pretty,
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won't they? - Oh you know,
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there's a lot of flowers on there that open.
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- The star gazers,
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the penguins are the ones that smell so good.
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- Yes. - The other lilies
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- [Paula] Don't smell. - Uh huh.
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- But the star gazers.
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- [Paula] Isn't that's strange.
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- And watch out with these little stamens right here.
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- Yes. - Woo. You got
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a white little house?
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- Yes.
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- And it went- - [Paula] What is that?
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Let me see it.
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- A stamen.
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- [Paula] Oh oh oh.
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That's in the center of the flower.
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- [Eddie] They will stain your clothing
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and your hands. - [Paula] And your hands.
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Wow! Offered hands adventure.
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But your clothes, no ma'am.
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Well this is going in trash.
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- Help me here Eddie I need a grid.
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You know, had to use scotch tape one time.
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- [Paula] That's what I would use.
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What do you say?
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- They make a little, what is it the fourth roll?
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- That's it.
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- It's the phone bill roll.
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And they make it in green,
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like - Yeah. Different colors.
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We're gonna need Edward.
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- [Paula] Eddie, you need something?
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It's right in the center.
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- Well that's mine.
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- [Paula] Are all the blooms gone?
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Oh, you going add more roses. Yeah.
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(scissors snipping)
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But I like the green accent.
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Beautiful.
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Hmm. Something smells good.
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What are you cooking?
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(scissors snipping)
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- Bacon and eggs.
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- Hmm.
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- Bacon and eggs.
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- Bacon and eggs.
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- [Paula] I got quiche in the oven.
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- Oh, okay.
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Eddie get over here.
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It's falling off.
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(scissors snipping) (scissors clanking)
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- [Paula] I'm looking for - The grid really does help.
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I've used scotch tape before.
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I didn't have that other one.
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- [Paula] That's what, that's what I would use.
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That's what I'd have to use.
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- Next time I come I'll bring you
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a dwell of, what do you call it?
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- [Paula] Of the real stuff? - Yeah.
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- [Paula] Okay. Eddie, I don't know if she can
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use any of this.
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I was looking for some like soft,
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green things to go
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with her roses.
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- That's a nice album.
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- [Paula] This is pretty,
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- It's got like a little yellow flower
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but it's on the end.
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- Did you get that at the florist?
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- I got no- - [Paula] No.
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We always just buy bundles.
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Does somebody want this?
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- Oh yeah.
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- [Paula] I'll put it right there.
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- So this one's for Aunty Peggy, right?
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- [Paula] Yeah.
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- It wont last long I'm afraid in the heat.
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(Susan laughing)
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- She doesn't like it. - I don't go along with that
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- Definitely baking bread over there
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- [Paula] Bless her heart.
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- A little sweet.
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- She looked good last night though.
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I mean she was very alert
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and looked great.
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And the sitter is so nice.
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- [Paula] Yeah. I love Kim.
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Kim left today to go to Athens
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to spend the weekend with her grandchildren.
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She's got two little grand boys.
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That looks much better.
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Little light and air.
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Like the thistle.
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The thistle.
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Do you want these- - Do they open up?
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- No it's just a purple.
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- [Paula] Do you work these baby red roses Eddie
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to work in there?
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- I don't think she's got too much more space in here til.
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- It's really tight.
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- [Paula] These are little.
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- Those are sprites.
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- [Paula] Okay. You can call it whatever you want.
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- We are going to my bucket list,
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we're going to Holland
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and Edward. - [Paula] I know.
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- I got in the circle.
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I got an article the other day.
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- [Paula] Isn't that the bag lady event
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you're going to miss? - Yes.
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7 million to us.
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I can't wait.
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Harrison said, "Do you think you could find me
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"at wholesale over there?"
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I said, "I was gonna be there long enough.
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"I promise you."
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- But I don't think I'm - [Paula] Alright.
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So let's say the name one more time of Harrison's.
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- It's Tristate Wholesale Florist.
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(paper ruffling)
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- [Paula] Tristate.
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- Should you be in the Albany area.
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- [Paula] Yes. - [Susan] Yes.
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- [Bubbles] Or the surrounding area.
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- And about the wholesale florist.
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But it's a long ride probably to Atlanta.
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This is gonna be the next closest fence.
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- I think there's one in,
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oh y'all are part of the place of Savannah.
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90 mile radius.
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- Yeah, we huck on here. - I mean
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but you know what he said,
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I was proudly there was a one of the floors
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in tristate which is about what,
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hour, hour and a half.
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- [Paula] 45 minutes. Yeah. - In the holiday.
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They had a death.
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You know you die have bowls.
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We loaded that truck and coffee went.
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Yeah. I mean.
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- [Paula] Well in order to be successful.
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- You gotta combat those customers.
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- [Paula] You sure do, 'cause - They don't.
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- [Paula] That's what puts bread on your table.
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- Aha.
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- So see it makes me nervous me touching it.
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- Show us above, there you go.
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- See that's pretty.
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(Paula laughing)
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- [Susan] You did good.
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- I get intimidated
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touching Eddie's work.
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- [Susan] And yet you do.
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- Yes.
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I think they're beautiful.
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And I've made milli bed.
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Come and stand by your,
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- [Bubbles] I'm stand by my creation?
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- It is your creation.
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- Harrison's also lucky, that he's got his wife, clever.
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I mean when they have a party or something
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or a teacher thing, she just whips it right up.
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- [Paula] That's great.
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They're beautiful.
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So hopefully y'all enjoyed watching them do their thing
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and we got some good tips outta y'all today.
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- Yes. - Yeah.
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- Griz. - Uh uh.
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Aspirin, vodka.
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(Paula laughing)
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- Nip, nip.
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- Yes.
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So thank y'all so much for doing those arrangements
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- Aunt Peggy's gonna be surprised.
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- I know she's going to love it.
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Because I love that one.
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So love and best dishes to all of y'all out there
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and happy flower making.
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(hands clapping)
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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