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Who's Driving - Surviving Hurricane Helene S2 E36
What happens when the comforts of modern life are snatched away by an unforeseen natural disaster? Join us as we explore the relentless aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which left us grappling with power outages and disrupted plans. Ending on a playful note, we leave you with a riddle about where fish stash their cash, reminding us all to find joy and laughter, even in trying times.
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Oh, the car is parked, the garage door is closed and no one is driving anywhere. It is time for another episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley.
Speaker 2:Turner and I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business. These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.
Speaker 2:Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:Stephen, are you here?
Speaker 2:I am here.
Speaker 1:Stephen is here. So, oh my gosh, it has been the craziest. I guess it's been 10 days, now 11 days. We're not driving anywhere. We're not driving anywhere, but we're here. So Stephen's joining me remotely. Stephen is still without power. You're on day 10 of no power. How's it going?
Speaker 2:That is correct. I'm on day 10 of no power and we have been wearing the same three outfits for 10 days. But you know I'm not, seriously, I'm not. We are so blessed we didn't have any major damage at the loft. We lost a few huge trees, but you know nothing on the building, so nothing major and we're so lucky compared to so many people. So I feel bad to even remotely complain. But you know, it's just tough. It is tough being out of your home period. For whatever the reason.
Speaker 1:And luckily you've had a place to go with power. But let's back it up. So let's back it up. Rewind to 10 days ago, when this hurricane, helene, was coming through. We got to back up and relive the week. I think is what we have to do, because we have to talk about. We had so much going on, so it was never supposed to be this bad for us. We were supposed to get a lot of rain, which you know. We haven't had rain in a while, so that we weren't worried about that. We knew there would be a little wind. We've had in the past hurricanes either blow through when they come from the east coast of South Carolina, and we've had them follow the similar direction from Florida and you know we'll get some. It'll be a little gusty, we'll get a lot of tropical rain Gets extra humid or something if it's coming from Florida.
Speaker 1:The flash flooding yeah, we might get a little minor flash flooding. You know our local little creeks and stuff overflow, Nothing crazy.
Speaker 1:Very minor, yeah no nothing crazy so when they were saying, you know, this hurricane was going to come through our area. It was just like normal when we've had this in the past, like oh, but this one's supposed to have a lot of rain, sort of thing, but really no concerns. And so we were scheduled here at the farm to have dinner in the dahlias and we were like, oh it's. You know, we were watching the weather all week. We're like this tropical storm's going to. You know, it should be a tropical storm by the time it gets to us. It's going to blow through, it's going to rain, but it's going to be pretty on Saturday, no big deal. And so it all went to shit.
Speaker 2:after that I guess you can say A hail and a handbasket.
Speaker 1:So Friday morning is when it got really bad. Thursday evening, friday morning. But I woke up. The wind was so loud, it was crazy, and I'm sure, like at the loft, you have those, your thick bricks, so you may not have heard it, you know as much as we did.
Speaker 2:But it was really weird.
Speaker 1:I woke up Friday morning around 530 because of the wind was so loud. But I went outside and the wind maybe this was like the start of the worst of the wind, I guess. It was like up high that's what I kept telling Daniel, because he got up right after me I was like it's so crazy windy and the tops of the trees were blowing, but like down on the porch or anywhere on the ground it wasn't windy. So I was like, well, maybe it's going to be these gusts, you know, just the air movement, and then it'll be fine, because at the time it wasn't that crazy, it was just really loud.
Speaker 1:And then about an hour later is when everything started falling branches everywhere power out the whole thing. So I mean, of course we had to, you know, cancel the dinner in the Dahlias because we had no power, no food, nothing. And it was crazy, as you know, because you got up as well. We called each other and you're like we're going to go ride around and check on the retail stores and see if there's damage at the retail stores and that sort of thing. And so I think we both kind of got out about the same time, like around 10ish, 930 something and the storm. It had stopped raining but it was still very windy, but no one was out yet and we were calling each other and that sort of thing but oh my gosh, the damage. And I know North Carolina got so much worse but the damage here it was just crazy to drive around and see because Greenville has so many, you know, old trees and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2:It's definitely the worst storm we've had in my lifetime here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I've never seen anything like it, honestly.
Speaker 2:Well, and you and I, if you remember, about 10 years ago, right after we bought our condos in Hilton Head, we were there. I do not remember the circumstances, but I'm sure there was a story. You and I were there by ourselves, I think we were working on the condos, and a tropical storm came in and I thought that was bad. You know that that? Let me know. I never wanted to be there during a hurricane or anotheres or something the way it felt to me like when I went out in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It was just. The wind was so different than anything I'd ever experienced.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really was. It was just crazy and of course, everyone probably knows by now. We all lost power. So we lost power at the retail stores, the warehouse, our house, your house, and you're still without power. I cannot believe we got our power back before you did here at the farm. I am just shocked. So I think they forgot about you. I don't know what's going on with you.
Speaker 2:I, you know, I bought that loft going on nine years ago and I bet you, until now in nine years, I have maybe been without power for three days total in nine years. Right Combined Right. And you know, because we're right downtown, we're close to the hospital, I mean, we're just in the hub of everything and you're on the main, a main road, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, main, you know, yeah, main highway, and you know no power. Evidently, we are on a grid of the older neighborhood across the street that has tons of huge trees, yeah, and so now they have a lot of damage, yeah, so, um, you know, there's town, there's new town, homes right beside of us, and they got power back like three days ago.
Speaker 1:yeah, that's crazy I do feel like one thing I was telling daniel, and I don't know how any of the I don't I'm just making this up in my head but I cause I don't know how any of the electrical system works or whatever but they have called in all of these linesmen, I mean thousands, like there's different hubs throughout our town, like one right by our warehouse I've showed it on. I mean right by our house at a warehouse. I've shown on stories where they set up a huge like linesman area and they have trailers for them to sleep in. And there's one at a high school right down the street from us. The Greenville Mall has the same setup. I feel like it because it's such a wide spread thing and maybe because they're calling in linesmen not from our area, they're not turning on a section until the whole section is up and running. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:Like I, feel like when we normally have a storm.
Speaker 1:If a tree were to go down on a line here, they would get on whatever section they could, and then there might be a small section that's still out. But I feel like what they're doing is clearing the whole section and then turning it on. So, however long it takes so like with the neighborhood with old trees, they're still cutting those up and it's like everyone has power or no one has power. It's kind of for that little grid or section, because normally our road is off the main highway too, like our farm is maybe what? A 10th of a mile off the highway.
Speaker 1:And normally, if we had a storm and the power went out, ours would come back on but say, right past our house, going further away from the highway, might still be without power for a day or something, but this time they didn't turn ours on until our whole road was ready to go. Does that make sense? I don't know. So I feel like it's taken a little longer than just turning on little sections, but it's probably safer that way when they're trying to process and get so many lines up and that sort of thing Definitely.
Speaker 2:And you know I would rather be inconvenienced for a few more days than it be safe. I don't want anyone else hurt by any means. Right, in the end? It just makes us appreciate it all. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:So back up to the weekend, once we finally got everything you know, like, okay, this has happened, we've assessed it. So here at the farm, Daniel and I spent like two days literally. There was like one Home Depot open, there was one Lowe's open, and we spent two days going back and forth. Because Daniel we still don't know when we were trying to process this when he bought a generator, but it was in the last few months or maybe it was last winter he bought a generator but it was still in the box.
Speaker 2:I think it was last winter.
Speaker 1:Like we had never used it and it was still in the box. But he at the time thought he bought everything like the cords and everything that he needed to. You know, run the generator that he needed to. You know, run the generator specifically for the flower workshop because it's you know, it's prime fall season, dahlia season, and he ships all across the country and takes flowers to Charleston which wasn't affected by the you know storm and it's their wedding seasons and all that. And he's like I got to get my flower coolers working so I can save the flowers and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1:So we spent literally two days going back and forth trying to get the generator working because we didn't have, like the right adapters. And I guess I mean, if you listen, I would. If you do not have a generator and you have a house where you can have a generator I'm not talking a whole home generator, I'm just talking a portable generator Get one, get one for your Christmas present, get one, save up a dollar a month until you can get one. I would highly recommend getting one because it's crazy when you don't have power for so long. It was really a lifesaver.
Speaker 1:So, after two days of not having the generator, and what I was going to add to that is also go ahead, call an electrician before you need it and get them to install the right easy way adapter so that you can just plug it in and not miss a beat is what I would do. But after two days of us not being able to get it and we're like it should work because he bought a big generator that should power like the whole workshop and everything, but it wouldn't. So on, I think it was on Sunday I was like you know what you should do? You should call electrician right now. I said no one has power, so I doubt they're busy right now. Like I feel like they'll be busy next week when power starts coming on and people need repairs to you know their lines or maybe their circuit box or something like that, and I was like, but no one has power right now, so call them now.
Speaker 1:And we called randomly like one person they didn't't answer. We called the second person and they had an electrician here in literally like 35 minutes, um, and he hooked up the generator. Uh, for us he kind of rigged it for the first night, which we, we didn't care, we were like whatever and then the next and he got it working and then the next morning he came back and fixed it properly, um, but oh my gosh, what a lifesaver and a lesson is. Go ahead and have that that connection in the generator before you need it, because it just gets crazy if you're ever in the situation where you truly need it because they all the generators instantly sold out and that sort of thing. So, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And if you have a big generator for your house, you need to. You need to make sure you need to get it serviced, you know, every 18 months or so, and make sure it's good. Yeah, because, uh, you know they should be. They should be clicking on one at least once a month to run for a minute, but um, you're saying like you know, I know the automatic, like natural gas home, the whole home generator.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you need to make sure you get it serviced, because all kinds of very small things fuses and different things can go out and you don't realize it because you're not using it and then when you need it, it's not gonna work yeah, and what a bummer that would be to have that not work.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah so we ended up. So he got um the electrician, got the workshop, um, when I mean, it is correctly done proper switches and there's a plug. So now, when the power goes out, all we have to do is pull the generator out and plug a plug, flip a switch in the fuse bot or circuit box and then plug the cord in and you're good to go and it will power. It will the one he has for the um workshop will power everything. I mean all the lights, coolers, everything. So that's awesome. So we're also now on their list to come add that connection to our house as well, so that we can do that.
Speaker 1:But it got so busy you couldn't do that for our house and we did end up, thankfully, because we were without power seven days. You're on day 10. But seven days for us we had no power. And the thing is here at the farm that even makes it a little worse is we're on a well, so we don't have water. You know if we don't have power either. So luckily the workshop the flower workshop has its own well, so we were able to get buckets of water so that we could flush our toilets in the house. I mean, it was like camping, for sure toilets in the house.
Speaker 2:I mean, it was like camping for sure. So the generator in the workshop powers the well pump.
Speaker 1:The workshop has its own well, so we have three wells on the property.
Speaker 2:Right, that's what I'm saying. So the generator powered that pump.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh yes. So we were able and that was the other thing we were trying to get the generator on for the coolers but also for the water, because he you know Daniel has greenhouse, you know that's covered and all the plants needed water in there. And so we're like we need the well, we need the cooler. It was very stressful trying to get that done, but yeah, so we didn't have water in our house but we did have it in the workshop and luckily we had a refrigerator in the workshop too. So we were without power totally Friday, saturday and to Sunday evening, and so we moved all of our food. We were able to save most of it. Some of it we weren't, but out to the workshop once. We moved all of our food we were able to save most of it. Some of it we weren't, but out to the workshop once we got that going as well.
Speaker 1:But then our neighbor, luckily, was at Home Depot. I think he had come down, I don't know what, for he had talked I wasn't here. He had talked to Daniel and they were talking about generators or whatever, and he was the next day at I think this was like Tuesday maybe. Um, he was at Home Depot and they had just gotten in a truckload of generators. So he bought one, cause he was in, then brought it to us and it's like, if you want to buy it, you know he just bought it and we just paid him for it. Um, or he's like, or I can return it. And so he bought a generator as well that we bought from him that then we could plug in things for our house.
Speaker 1:We didn't have the connection like we did with the electrician for our house, but we were able to plug in our coffee maker. You know the important things the coffee maker, a fan and I strung lights throughout the house. And I strung lights throughout the house. I used cafe lights because you know they're LED now, so they don't take a lot of power, those type of lights. So, yeah, we had that. That was a good idea.
Speaker 1:So I strung lights through our house. It was very quaint and cozy. And then we had a fan that would run in the bedroom and the coffee maker plugged in off of the generator, because that one it was a little bit smaller generator. But uh, we, like I said, we didn't have the connection, so we just had to run extension cords to it. So, oh my gosh, it was just a crazy. When you're in the middle of that is such a crazy feeling of like, when will it return? Well, like you're still in it. When will it return to normal? Because even you, you have a place to go right now and you're staying there, um, but you want to be back in your own home.
Speaker 1:You know, it's like Exactly it's.
Speaker 2:It's not the same, it is. And listen, we are so, we are so blessed to be able to just move into friends a friend's home and have everything we need. You know, and you know I decorated this house so it kind of feels like maybe a kind of like a vacation home we own. Yeah, because I did pick everything out and so I feel very comfortable here. But you know you still don't have all those little things Right In your own, true own space. Yeah, you're still living out of a bag.
Speaker 1:I have to talk. This just dawned on my little brain here. Well, first of all, you're staying at let's talk about that. You're staying at Mark and Tina's house, who are our franchisees. Who's opening their store in Savannah, which is opening this week We'll talk about that in a minute but you help them design and decorate this house that you're in, or whatever. But we've talked about it. They have bidets and we've talked about how they've said oh, you can come over and use our bidet, or whatever, and you're like that's weird.
Speaker 1:Well now that you're staying there, have you tried the bidet?
Speaker 2:No, I feel like that is. So. I personally, this is just me. You know I'm crazy and I'm OCD. I would not want anyone using my bidet in my master bath.
Speaker 1:Is it still too personal?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1:You don't want to get a little dookie splatter on their thing or something.
Speaker 2:They told. They said you need to try it. You need to try it. I just can't. I just can't. I feel like that's right up there with going in Mark's underwear drawer and wearing around his underwear. I just can't do that. You just can't. I don't know. It feels just a little too invasive.
Speaker 1:But they're not even there right now.
Speaker 2:They wouldn't even know, I know, I don't. I know, I know.
Speaker 1:That is funny. I can't do it. I was hoping you'd tell me about it, that it was this life-changing experience.
Speaker 2:According to them and everybody else that has one, it will change your whole world. And I am going to get one, but you know I've got to get the electrical done and that kind of whatnot. Yeah, but you know I think anything because I just like to. You know this is really TMI, but you know, after, after, go boo-boo, I like to shower.
Speaker 1:Well, that's like a mini shower.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because sometimes that's just not in the day's plan to take a whole you know whole shower. I know.
Speaker 1:Don't you hate when you're like, oh, it's not going to happen today or something you know?
Speaker 2:or you have to take the shower and then as soon as you get out of the shower, you're like no, yeah, I mean it's just the way it is, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Okay, so back to our week. The other very stressful part. I feel like this is a I just I don't want this to be a downer of an episode or anything but I feel like I had people like seriously wanting to know what happened.
Speaker 1:No, but you know we it's what happened, so we're just sharing it. But the worst part, even living without electricity, is our stores and our warehouses were down. Warehouse and stores were down and out of business. Now that's some stress. And I think the added stress to all of that was also like at our house we didn't even have cell service. I don't know why. There is a cell tower that we can see from our house and we get amazing cell service, but if the power goes out, I don't know if they need to change their generator or their backup battery or what on this tower, cause it used to. If our power went out, we would still have cell service, and now if the power goes out, after about four hours or so, it the tower goes down too, and we don't have cell service.
Speaker 2:So we couldn't even use our phone. You know what you need to do.
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 2:You need to contact I'm being serious. You need to reach out to Verizon. You need to reach out to AT&T, to everyone, and see if they would like to rent a little spot of land on your property for a tower. Well, there's one so close I don't think they'll do that a little spot of land on your property for a tower.
Speaker 1:Well, there's one so close. I don't think they'll do that. I mean because they're-.
Speaker 2:But they're other company. Yeah, I don't know. See, I have relatives that do, and it's nice income.
Speaker 1:It's a couple thousand dollars a month. Yeah, I heard you get paid good money for that. Yeah, yeah, it's nice, I heard you get paid good money for that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's nice. It's nice little mailbox money if you're not, you know, if it's not too invasive on you, right?
Speaker 1:So, yeah, we weren't able to even have cell service here, so we had to drive miles away before we could get cell service. So we were literally disconnected. Even when you would try to call, sometimes it would show that I missed your call, or you would call and I would be like hold on, and I would try to go out in the driveway and stand somewhere and try to get a signal.
Speaker 2:Or I just started texting, call me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then see, and that might come through, like hours later it would just all of a sudden ding, and I'd be like hours later it would just all of a sudden ding and I'll be like, oh, got a text, now let me go drive down the road or whatever, and so having the businesses closed and then no cell service, no internet, no anything, it just felt.
Speaker 1:It feels, if you're ever in that situation, just very like everything's ending because you can't even you know I couldn't even work on the website or answer emails or get in touch with anything or anybody, and that's a long time when you're trying to run a business and that that sort of thing, and it was just so stressful.
Speaker 2:It was a challenge.
Speaker 1:It was definitely a challenge, challenge.
Speaker 2:But I mean I'm just blown away and so saddened just by what this hurricane did to western North Carolina.
Speaker 1:I know which is so close to us. By the way, I mean the Asheville thing that you're seeing. That is literally what an hour 45 minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like yeah 45 minutes to that area and then the Biltmore more, like the built more village. The flood is maybe like right at an hour or whatever, and that's right by, like I was just right by there, um, last week when I went and picked up pumpkins uh, it is like literally right by there, which is crazy. I did ask someone that was from there. I was like is that area okay, like where I went and picked up the pumpkins and stuff, and they, they were like yeah, because it's, it was you know up higher, and they were saying they were actually using that as one of their staging areas for you know, all the rescue and stuff for there.
Speaker 1:But oh my gosh, it is crazy to see, you know, these mountain towns. And I think the other thing that people don't realize is mountain towns. And I think the other thing that people don't realize is, you know, asheville is getting a lot of attention because it's a bigger city too, and then you're hearing about, like Chimney Rock and Boone, but there's all of these small, tiny communities that were completely affected too or gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's terrible it is, and it's just mind-blowing to me when I see the images of places that we've been and visited and that are just literally right up the road from us, and how devastating that is. I just can't even imagine. Did you see? I meant to send it to you, or maybe I did. I don't think I did. Did you see? You know, one of our favorite places to go for like antiques and stuff in Asheville is the tobacco barn, which we've shown on Instagram several times the antique tobacco barn. Did you see that it is completely gone? I mean, the structure is still there, but everything inside of it was just washed away. The walls were washed away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and atomic furniture. Remember the retro 60s furniture store right down the street? It's there, but the whole store is full of mud where the river just busted through.
Speaker 1:Oh it's terrible. You know, the river just busted through. Oh it's terrible, it is.
Speaker 2:I just, I just cannot even process like how that, how that all came together and happened and that sort of thing which is crazy and what has blown me away is how the what you don't realize how powerful the water is until you look at a piece of steel. Right that that is the pressure from yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know I saw some of the images afterwards on I don't know social media or something, and it was. You know, it was like whole houses that were just floating down the river. I mean, it just lifted them up and it was like a whole house and it's like how can that be? And then to see you Like how can that be? And then to see, you know, just solid steel bridges just bent and I don't know it's crazy, it's just crazy, oh, my goodness. Well, we did getting into towards the end of the week, we finally got power back at the retail stores, got those back open. We got power at the warehouse, got that up and going.
Speaker 1:And just a reminder I said this on my stories support your small businesses, whether you are near one that had to close or shopping on their website from across the country and I'm not just saying our small business, I mean we appreciate your support each and every day and so many of you do support us. But don't forget your small businesses in these areas that have been affected. When they open back up, go shop. If you again are across the country, a lot of them have websites you can order from. If you don't need anything, go buy a gift card from them that you can use later. There's so many ways to support these small businesses because I was talking about it in my stories A lot of people. If you're not in a small business, especially for home decor, well, really, anything.
Speaker 1:This time of year, we're going into fourth quarter and that's the busiest time across the board, across the country, for small retail businesses, because you either have holiday decor, you have gifts, whether it's clothing, any and all of those. You know fourth quarter is the busiest time of the year and we've just come out of the summer months, which is typically, unless you're in a tourist area, the summer months are typically your slowest time of the year because everyone's been on vacation or their kids are at home, so they're just not shopping as much. And so to be coming out of that time of the year for small business but not into the busy, busy season yet it is the timing is, you know, really funky for small businesses. You're trying to get in your holiday inventory and your gift inventory and you're paying for that up front and then to have that, you know business interruption is pretty crazy. So just don't forget your small businesses, and even if you're not near one that had to close down for something.
Speaker 1:You know, like I said, you can support online as well. It's very important. But with that we were able to so something that we were able to do, a positive we bumped up our Christmas launch online at the Nested Fig to this past Thursday. So we were like, what can we do, you know, to get people excited, get back open, and so we were going to originally launch Christmas on Tuesday of this week and then we bumped it up so that we could, you know, like I said, get people excited. We were able to start shipping again and that sort of thing, and I just have to say a huge thank you to everyone who shopped with us, because you really helped us launch our Christmas collection and get it going again.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, and it was, it was fun. I think everybody needed that. I needed that Right. I needed that boost of positivity, you know, and just the interaction.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was, it was a little, some normalcy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was just so good. Yeah, like you said, it was good to know that people were still there for you, because it does feel like when you're so disconnected and everything is going wrong, your power's out, you're fussy because you know it was hot, You're worried about the business side of it. It just felt good for people to show up for us and that makes you feel good. And then just to have that interaction and they were excited for it, that made us feel good. So thanks to everyone.
Speaker 2:Put me in a much better mood. I know that, just just getting back to a little normal.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, absolutely, and so I guess the other thing that happened during all of this was shipments got delayed for the Nested Fig Savannah, which was supposed to open this past Thursday, october was that been third, I believe? But shipments got delayed because they were in the process during the hurricane, but they have arrived now. So the Nested Fig Savannah, our first franchisee store, is set to open Tuesday.
Speaker 2:Yes, which is the day this episode will come out. We had shipments on I-40.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Not good. Not good, which is crazy, because I-40 is gone in section in that section or sections, but it's made it there now, and so that was. You know. It's exciting that that's finally. I can't believe the day is here, it's finally going to open and you went down there right after the storm Went down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, went down there for Dylan and I went for a day and a night, you know, and then came back, you know, just to see where they were at. I'm glad we did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well, at the time you didn't know that the furniture was, the shipment was going to be delayed. You were still thinking it was going to open on Thursday when you originally went, but on the way down there is when you found out eh, it's not going to happen. But y'all still went and checked on the store and everything. And it's looking so gorgeous. Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited, oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 2:I mean, they have just done a phenomenal job. Yeah, it's beautiful. I'm a little jelly. I'm a little jelly, you know, because I'm like you know, I kind of want it to be mine, but you know, it will always be a part of ours, right, you know, that's OK. And you know, when you're in this kind of business and it was that way even in McDonald's, you know you build a new store, or a friend builds a new store and you're like, oh, I'm a little jealous, it's so new and pretty. But you know, that's just the way it goes.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, but I'm glad See this has our name on it, so it's good that it would be a problem if I looked at it and went a little jealous that it wasn't ours.
Speaker 1:I know, because then it'd be like oh, we didn't execute this, right. Yeah, so it is beautiful and I'm so excited. So the day that this episode comes out we're recording on Sunday, this is going to come out on Tuesday is the opening day of the nested fig. Savannah and Steven and I will both be there. We're headed down on Monday, we'll be there Monday evening and we'll be there for the opening on Tuesday and I believe we're going to do a live sale from there on Tuesday, right, if it all works out.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, because we're also, I guess are we coming back on Tuesday.
Speaker 2:Are we coming back on Wednesday? When are y'all coming? We're coming back. We're coming back Tuesday night.
Speaker 1:Okay. So I guess we'll come back on Tuesday, but we're going to try to work in a live sale from there because you know they have a lot of similar products there that we have and that we have at the warehouse and we want you to see it with us as well. So we'll give you a little tour of that store and do a little live sale from there on Tuesday. So make sure you join us inside the Nested Fig app for that. If you don't have our app yet, I'll put it down in the show notes below the link to it. But all you have to do is go to your app store for your phone or tablet, search the Nested Fig and you can get our app there and watch our lives there. And if you've missed it, like I said, if you don't have the app, or maybe you had other things going on last week we launched our Christmas collection.
Speaker 1:We did a day of live sales on Thursday. We did one on Friday. We're going to get two in today so you can go see our Christmas collection there and watch those live replays. I really love the lives, whether you join us live or watch the live replays, because you get to see the items up close and we try to, you know, throw out suggestions on how you can style it and use the item and that sort of thing too. So make sure you have our app and join us in the live sales. Oh my goodness, go ahead. I had a.
Speaker 2:I had a riddle for you.
Speaker 1:Oh, a riddle, let's hear it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, where do fish keep their?
Speaker 1:money. Fish keep their money. Um, where do fish keep their money? Oh money, I have no idea. In a riverbank. That's funny. That was a good one. Yeah, riverbank. Oh my gosh, didn't think of that. What if they live in a fish tank, though? Then there's no riverbank.
Speaker 2:Well, there's no riverbank. I guess they don't have money. I don't guess they do oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:So the good news is everything is getting back on track for us, and um savannah's gonna open on tuesday so I think that kind of catches up our week in a in a brief recap.
Speaker 1:There was a lot more agony and stress in there, but we did also get to have last night dinner in the Dahlias and that was the first time we've had a public event here at our farm. We had right around 80-something people join us and it was amazing, stephen made it to the dinner in the Dahlias. I know you were very not in the mood for it coming into it, but you said it was good, right.
Speaker 2:It was good and it wasn't that I didn't want to do it or anything.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, it's been such a stressful 10 days, I know, and then to come to a dinner party you're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:But it did put me in a normal state of mind. I mean, dylan and I both said it was good to do it because it kind of kicked off a little more normalcy, right, and he's just wrecked because we can't be at home. But I'm like you know, we're in a gorgeous house, we have air conditioning and power and TV, so it will happen whenever it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 1:I know last night when we were having the dinner in the dahlias, a couple of different people were like told me they got power while they were here. So they were excited too, because several people that came to the dinner still didn't have power. They're like we still don't have power, still don't have power. But a couple of them were like oh, I got a message that we got power. So I was like that's, that's awesome. So it is slowly getting back to normal for everyone.
Speaker 1:But Daniel did such an amazing job. I know he was stressed heading into the dinner with the Dahlia's just because we've never had, you know, people on the farm for that type of event and pulled something like that off. And it was kind of one of those things. We were all geared up for it last week, which, just being the first event in general was stressful enough, but then it had to get postponed. So he had to, you know, regroup, get in touch with, you know, the party rental, the caterer, the caterer that was doing the hors d'oeuvres, like all these different moving parts to get it rescheduled for this week. Added, you know, that little extra stress. But after everyone got here last night, I mean, and it was gorgeous, the weather was gorgeous and to see everyone just having so much fun, so many people were like we really needed this. Like not just for you and Dylan, like you said, it helped bring back normalcy, but it did for a lot of people.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it was that it went off so well and it just looks so gorgeous. We got pictures back today from the photographer and it's amazing.
Speaker 2:Although there's none of you in the whole photography thing. I know Are you shocked.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Well, we had been working and I knew Dylan was sweaty, I was sweaty, you know, it just wasn't, and we were wearing our refugee um no power clothes. Yeah, so your lululemons and something yeah, we were not in the. We were not in the photo.
Speaker 1:Photo uh taking mode I knew exactly when I flipped through them. I was like he was not intentionally not in any of these photos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when she came around, I was like, if we had been like dressed normal, prepared, I would have so loved to have had some professional pictures.
Speaker 1:But you know, next time, Next time.
Speaker 2:Next time. Well, next time, next time.
Speaker 1:It's time to sign off of here. I can't even say it's time to pull over, because we ain't driving nowhere, but it's time to wrap this episode up. That's just a quick recap. We'll be back with our funny upbeat next week I hope next week, but it is important to recap what's been going on, because we didn't have an episode last week because we couldn't record anything, we couldn't upload anything, um, and I had something do anything, nothing, just nothing.
Speaker 1:it was miserable, but I'm so glad we're back and, um, we'll get back on our normal routine after uh, this, but make sure you're following along on Instagram I have Stephen's Instagram and everything down below in the show notes as we get Savannah open this week and to see what else is going on.
Speaker 2:We're here, but we're back.
Speaker 1:We're here, we're back. Everything's going to get back to normal. Slowly. Businesses are back running, so we're excited.
Speaker 1:We have really busy next few months coming up. I mean, there is pretty much something every weekend from now until mid-december, between like every day we have something. Yes, it's crazy and it always gets like this this time of year, but uh, you know, between getting the retail stores ready for Christmas and everything with that. So it's going to be a fun next few months, as it always is for the holiday season, and we'll be here for you. All right, we're going to sign off. Thanks guys, and we'll see you next week. Bye y'all, bye-bye.