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Love & Best Dishes: Garden & Pool Update - For those who have followed along on the renovation, Paula gives an update of her grounds and garden in bloom and a peek at her nearly-completed pool!
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(engine rumbles)
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- You ready?
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Ready Eddie?
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(engine rumbles)
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Well, Eddie and I are outside today.
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It's only supposed to be in the eighties today
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so we got a little reprieve from real bad heat.
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Don't we, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yeah, the rain kinda cooled us off a little bit.
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- Yes, but it's supposed to do the same thing
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again this afternoon, it's supposed to,
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the bottom's supposed to fall out.
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So Eddie has been out gathering up plants.
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So it's working out perfectly.
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If we can get 'em in the ground
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and then the rains come, you know.
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So I've been wanting to show y'all
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we've almost finished all of our projects.
0:53
I still got a few more that I don't have quite right
0:56
in my mind yet, as far as how I want to do it.
1:00
But I tell you these guys,
1:04
and I believe in giving kudos
1:06
to people that take their job seriously
1:10
and work hard and really try to please their customer.
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And there's a couple of guys at ATA Landscaping
1:20
and it's Todd and Allen, and they've done all
1:23
the landscaping in the yard and it looks beautiful,
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beautiful, beautiful.
1:29
And hopefully we got a lot of perennials, I hope Eddie.
1:32
So they'll just keep coming back and coming back
1:35
and filling in.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, most of them are.
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- And I want y'all to take a look at that beautiful pool.
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Ira, I met this young man, his name is IRA
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and he's with Aqua Blue Pools.
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And he did a fabulous job on this pool.
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I think it's beautiful.
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And they helped me go through things
1:58
and try to keep things at a minimum cost, which is,
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it ain't my first rodeo.
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So I don't wanna spend a bloody fortune, but
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and Mike Small, if you live anywhere near Savannah
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and you're looking for a landscape architect
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Mike Small is very, very good.
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He laid all this out.
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And so we kind of just go
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by his drawings.
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So I have to tell you, Eddie has done an incredible job.
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There's nothing that he can't do.
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In fact, I can't wait to take y'all into my bathroom.
2:42
There was this wallpaper I wanted so bad y'all
2:45
and Eddie came to me and he said,
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"Paula that wallpaper's a thousand dollars a roll."
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I said, "well, you just get the hell outta here.
2:55
"I can't afford that."
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He said, "I know, who can?"
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But he said "Here's our other option,
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"I can paint that wallpaper on your walls."
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So he got started, can't wait to show y'all,
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can't hardly wait.
3:13
So you ready to get out, Lu?
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We finally got our gates y'all
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so I don't have to worry now about the dogs.
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We can let them out
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and I don't think they can get out.
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So far so good.
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And Lulu loves to get outside this fence.
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Doesn't she, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] She does, I don't know what's out here
3:36
that she wants to go see, but--
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- You know me either
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but she'd rather be outside this fence than anywhere else.
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So I just love our entrances and our exits, Eddie.
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I think it's so beautiful.
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And we decided to, you know, use just a minimum amount
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of brick because brick is expensive
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and brick layers, they get a pretty good fee
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for their craft.
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So just a minimum of brick here with our iron gates.
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But I want y'all to notice,
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Eddie and I was at Seventh Heaven a few months back.
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And Joe, let us go out into this big,
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what would you call a garage or--
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- [Eddie] His stash.
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- Yeah, his stash. (laughs)
4:32
And he told us "go, y'all go back there and look."
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And Eddie and I went back there and what did Eddie spot?
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He spotted these four seasons
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statues and they're beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
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Fall, winter, spring, and summer.
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So we got one, two, three, four.
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I think the other one's up here, isn't Eddie?
5:00
Yeah. Yeah.
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It's over here and I think we did a good day's work, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] Those were. - When you spotted those.
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- [Eddie] Yeah. - [Paula] So stately looking
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aren't they?
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- [Eddie] Those were a great find.
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- [Paula] Yeah.
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And I feel like we got a good price.
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I feel like Joe gave us a good price.
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Don't you?
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- [Eddie] Oh yeah.
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Joe, Joe actually has some great prices at his place.
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- I think he does too.
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In fact, I'm hankering to go see Joe. (laughs)
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I might need a Joe Seventh Heaven fix. (laughs)
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All right, Lu, get back up here.
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- [Eddie] Come on, Lu.
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- Y'all this orange tree right here bears oranges
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like you would not believe.
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(Eddie whistles)
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Look, it's already got, come on Lu.
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Lulu get up here.
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Come on, come on. Go, go.
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(Eddie laughs)
6:04
So I love hydrangeas y'all
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and I love monkey grass.
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I especially like this form of monkey grass
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which I have no idea what it is either.
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- [Eddie] It's called Liriope.
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- [Paula] Liriope, well, I like it.
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It's not like that cheap looking monkey grass.
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Do you know what I'm talking about? (laughs)
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- [Eddie] Yeah, there's--
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- To me it's just cheap looking monkey grass
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but this looks just real sturdy.
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And look at that tree right there.
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We, when we were cleaning the property,
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you know I walked out here and I did not realize
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because there was so much around this particular tree
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and it's a palm tree.
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It's a
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- [Eddie] Well, it had, it's like a Sago.
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- [Paula] Yeah, it's a Sago Palm.
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- [Eddie] It had so much growth around it.
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It was really--
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- We couldn't see it.
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And when we got everything cleaned out around it
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I don't like Sago palms
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but I adore that particular palm right there.
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It's so beautiful.
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I've never seen one get to be that big,
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have you Eddie?
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- [Eddie] No, no.
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- Never, never.
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And you have to be careful
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with Sago palms around your animals
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because there is a male Sago and there's a female Sago
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and the female Sagos
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produce a sweet orange berry
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almost like the size of a plum.
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And they're very poisonous to dogs, very poisonous.
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And they appeal to the dogs
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because they're sweet and they just taste good.
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So if you have Sago palms in your yard
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and you see these orange fruits
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just know that it could really hurt your animals.
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But I love hydrangeas y'all.
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I just think hydrangeas are beautiful.
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And when they start getting crispy and crunchy,
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you can cut 'em like around 7:00 AM in the morning
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before eight o'clock and just let 'em dry out
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and they're beautiful.
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We put 'em all through the Christmas tree
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at Christmas time and on the mantle,
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just everywhere you can find a spot.
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So beautiful.
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And when I lived on
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Abercorn street downtown
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in my little pre-Civil war house
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out in the side garden, there was a tree
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and it was the most beautiful tree I've ever seen.
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And in February it bloomed
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and it was like a school bus yellow.
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And it was the same color as the doors on my house.
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And I never knew the name of it,
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but I got Todd and Allen and and Mike
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to figure out what the name of that tree was.
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So we put three on this property.
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So hopefully one day it'll be big enough
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to just be like school bus yellow.
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- [Eddie] I think what is it? Caspian?
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I think that's--
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- Cassia?
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- [Eddie] Cassia, yes, Cassia.
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- Yeah, it's amazing how nobody knew what it was, you know?
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And we've got our, our,
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what kind of roses are those?
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I know it just as well.
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- [Eddie] These are the, is it ever bloom?
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- No. What kind are they called?
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- [Eddie] Knockouts. - Knockouts.
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Knockout roses.
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And these are butterfly plants, y'all
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and the butterflies love these.
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And sometimes I'll come out
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and see some big old Monarch butterflies
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getting them some sweet juice from the flowers.
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Look at this butterfly plant right here, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, this one is kind of going by a little bit.
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It was all purple about three weeks ago.
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- Yeah, it was and it was beautiful.
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That's a Japanese Magnolia right there
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and it too is a winter blooming plant
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and so we'll have something to look forward to
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in the winter, along with all the citruses
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all of those are Meyer lemon,
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orange, tangerine, and grapefruit.
11:03
Love, love, love.
11:05
What is that pink bush back there?
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I can't see that far away, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] That's the crepe myrtle.
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- Oh it is.
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(Eddie chuckles)
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I love crepe myrtles.
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We, Todd and Allen just planted six crepe myrtles
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coming into the driveway for us.
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And I love the white.
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I love the white crepe myrtles.
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Now these are both, one is a lavender
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up here and one is a peach, right?
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- [Eddie] Yep.
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- And there might even be a white one stuffed in there.
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I see something white up there.
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It is Eddie. - Yeah,
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yeah that's in the neighbor's yard.
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- Yeah. And what, okay.
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Look, see, the trees are already loaded.
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I'm not so crazy about this kind of grass.
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Are you, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] I mean, I think it's pretty
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when you do have a lot of it.
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- [Paula] Yeah.
12:07
- [Eddie] I think they'll get bigger.
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I like it when it starts starting purple.
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- Yeah.
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Now look, these are liking the sun down here.
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And I said, I wasn't putting azaleas in this yard
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and you know, it's just not a Southern yard
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without a few azaleas is it?
12:27
So Eddie and I broke down and realized that
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we were gonna have to put a few in.
12:35
And those will be all white, too.
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Won't they?
12:38
And aren't they the double bloom, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yes, these are no,
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these are the traditional--
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- Oh, they are?
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- [Eddie] You know, they'll just bloom in the spring.
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Now the ones you did in the center over there
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are the double bloom mixed in with the roses.
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- Yeah, look at all the fruit on the ground
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over here, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, those are grapefruits
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that did not get picked. (laughs)
13:06
- Jamie came out here the other day.
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He was fixing some kind of drink
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and he said, "Momma, you got any grapefruit?"
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And I said, "well, out on the tree."
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So he came out here and got him some grapefruit.
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Eddie, I don't believe there's anything wrong with this one.
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I'm so proud of the way Michael's garages turned out.
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He was going to build one huge garage
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which I was not happy about.
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I didn't think it was necessary.
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And (laughs) some of the neighbors spoke up
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and they didn't like the idea either.
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So Michael found out that
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he doesn't need anybody's approval
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to build a building under 900 square feet.
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So he wound up building three buildings
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and I think it looks incredible, just incredible.
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I think it would've looked real strange
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if he had had a one garage bigger than a house.
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Don't y'all, don't you Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yeah, yeah this is much better.
14:22
- So he's got some neighbors to thank
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for this looking so good.
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Come on, Lu, let's go.
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Y'all these stones are from another walkway
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that we had in the backyard
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when we first built this house in 2004,
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2003 and 2004.
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And so we were able to use these and bring 'em up here
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and I just love them.
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I love the different shapes
14:52
and just they're so pretty snuggled in
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among the pretty green grass.
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And I love this swimming pool.
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I love it so much.
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We had them put in...
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- [Eddie] A swim against jet.
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- Yes, a jet that is very powerful.
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Michael stood in front of it yesterday,
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day before yesterday when we were in it Eddie
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and it almost took his swimsuit down. (laughs)
15:30
And I mean, it's powerful.
15:33
And of course we got the little sunning deck
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for the young children that will be,
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'cause we've got four, five,
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five under four.
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Yeah, so that'll keep them safe there.
15:51
And the next project that I want to do,
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and then I feel like I can take a breath
15:56
and say, "okay, I'm finished."
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I want to build some kind of arbor over there
16:04
so that we could have tables and chairs
16:08
because this pool is probably perfect for a swimming pool.
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There is no shade.
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And most people when there in the pool
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they wanna be out in the sun.
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So I've just got to figure that out.
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If any of y'all have any good ideas,
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please share 'em with us.
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I think it would be real pretty.
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Like I said, I have it in my head, but it's just not,
16:39
it's just not knocking me over the head yet.
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You know what I mean?
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And these days, things have to knock me,
16:45
slap over in my head.
16:48
I love the elephant ears we went with, Eddie.
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Back here I kind of wanted a tropical look
16:57
to kind of go with the pool.
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And we've put in, I love the variegated ginger.
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Hopefully it'll like it back here, Eddie.
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And the Bird of Paradise,
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look at this Eddie, it's blooming.
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- [Eddie] Yeah.
17:22
- Look at that beautiful Bird of Paradise.
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That one's already come and gone.
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That's lady bird's colors, isn't it?
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- [Eddie] Yes.
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- And I put in a diving board and Michael said
17:40
"that is a piece of crap diving board."
17:45
And I said, "I know, but they got rules, you know?"
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- [Eddie] Well, you know, it's funny
17:49
because you know, when you said you wanted to do
17:51
a diving board Ira thought you were crazy.
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- He thought I had lost my mind.
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- [Eddie] Nobody does diving boards.
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He said that.
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- They don't, they don't.
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He said he had only the whole time
18:02
he's been in the pool business, only three,
18:04
he's only installed three.
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Well, count me up as Dodo number four. (laughs)
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Look how pretty this is back here, Eddie.
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I just think it's just beautiful.
18:22
I sure would hate to have to cut down that Magnolia tree,
18:24
but I don't know what else to do.
18:29
what I would like to come off of there for a shelter.
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If y'all got any ideas, please help us.
18:40
(laughs)
18:42
I think it's fixing to start raining, Eddie.
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- [Eddie] All right, let's go cook.
18:46
- [Paula] Okay.
18:50
Okay, baby.
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