Chris and Peyton talk Going Yard, honeymooning and the Rose Bowl Parade.
Mark: And you are back inside MyFixitUpLife, and I want to go outside.
Theresa: Outside?
Mark: Outside.
Theresa: You want to go outside and play?
Mark: I want to spring, hah, spring out of here.
Theresa: You want to spring out of here. I do like that. I remember when I was a little kid and I used to call my friends on the phone and say, “Do you want to go outside and play?”
Mark: Oh, I used to love that. I used to go knock on kids’ doors. “Hey, can Tommy come out and play? Can Joey come out and play?”
Theresa: Yeah, you gotta play.
Mark: And of course our question now is, to Chris and Peyton Lambton from HGTV‘s Going Yard, can you come out and play?
Chris: I can come out and play, but only till the street lights come on.
Theresa: Well, Peyton has to come out and play, too, because I think Chris and Mark will probably do some ridiculous things that I probably don’t want to be involved in. I need someone to giggle with.
Peyton: We just turn our head and let them do whatever they’re gonna do.
Theresa: Yes. And just stand back, in the safety zone.
Mark: And it’s a good thing that the street lights will come on, ’cause we may have to build in some safeguards from ourselves.
Peyton: That’s right.
Chris: That’s very true, Mark.
Theresa: Well, I’m really excited because you guys have the second season of Going Yard that is premiering on HGTV, and I am really super psyched to watch the premiere. I’m out of my mind ready to watch all of the new episodes.
Chris: I can’t wait to see it either. It means that spring is coming, and it means that these trees are going to start getting some leaves on them, and we’re going to start working outside again. I can’t wait.
Theresa: Well, and you’re probably, you know, all the fans are going to be inspired by all the projects and all the things to do this spring. I’m wondering what you guys are doing at your own house to get ready for spring, get the yard ready for spring.
Peyton: I am so glad you asked that. Because I was just ragging on Chris yesterday about how it’s time for cleanup in our yard. Like, you know, he works all day in everybody else’s yard, and ours is always the last one to get any work done.
Theresa: That sounds a lot like our house.
Chris: I’m not gonna . . .
Mark: I like to get the lawn mowed by July.
Chris: Exactly. I’m not going to pay myself to work in my own yard, so I always put that last. But, I mean, in all fairness, I worked out there the other day. We have a lot of ornamental grasses, so I cut, I gave those all a nice haircut, raked up the beds a little bit. I cut down some limbs that I’ve been looking at over the winter that needed to come down. I actually brought the Christmas tree to the dump last week, so that was a step in the right direction. So we’re moving.
Mark: Nice. Nice.
Theresa: We just actually took down our last Christmas decorations last week, too. So, we’re with you.
Peyton: Our yard was turning into Sanford and Son. I mean, it was like the brown Christmas tree in the front yard. People were stopping by, asking if we were having a yard sale.
Theresa: And you hear like that theme song, duh, duh, duh, nuh. Duh, duh, duh, nuh, duh, nuh, duh. Duh, duh, duh, nuh.
Mark: Duh, duh, duh, nuh, duh, nuh, duh, da.
Theresa: Yeah, we hear that sometimes too.
Chris: Well, I mean, in all fairness, the weather hasn’t cooperated. So you think, when it starts getting warm and sunny, you actually get inspired to start cleaning out your yard and getting everything ready. But we’ve had snow, I mean, same as you guys. We’re supposed to get snow again tomorrow night. So it doesn’t make me feel spring when there’s still snow on the ground, and there’s still traces of snow. You know what I mean?
Mark: Holy smokes. But despite all that, where you live, do you have flowers like the early season crocuses and daffodils starting to poke through, or not yet?
Chris: Yeah. The crocuses are out. You get those nice purple flowers. We were doing cleanups all day today, because it’s good to get all the leaves and stuff out of the way. Because you see the daffodils are, all they’re waiting for is a couple days of high 50s, and they’ll just start popping. You’ll see those nice yellow flowers. So it’s a good time to get out there and clean out those beds and get the flowers, you know, ready for spring.
Theresa: Ah, I think I hear your wife saying, “That is a good time of year to be doing that, Chris.”Peyton: Yes. I love when he wants to work in our yard.
Mark: Chris, all that means is you need more machinery.
Theresa: Oh.
Chris: Ah.
Mark: We get blowers and people to run them, and you just dust storm, and then come mulch it all.
Chris: And you know, there’s something therapeutic. I had the backpack blower on all day today, and it’s kind of therapeutic. Get the headphones on. And it’s pretty relaxing. Ah. You know, you can just kind of tune out your brain and just blow the leaves around the yard. It’s kind of a nice thing to do.
Theresa: Well, and I just have to know. Is there anything about the new season of Going Yard on HGTV that you guys can preview for us. Are you guys all doing projects in Cape Cod, or are you going anywhere around the country.
Peyton: We did 10 episodes on Cape Cod, and had to go out to the West Coast toL.A. for the last three. We were getting into late October. The ground was starting to get colder, and there wasn’t much color left on theCape. So we stretched it as long as we could. But I am so excited for everybody to see season 2. The projects were on a whole different level. We had huge yards that we were working with on the Cape, so that was definitely a challenge, trying to real everything in, make it practical for these families so that they can have a space to enjoy, but also a space that they can maintain that wasn’t too overwhelming for them.
Theresa: So in any of the episodes that you did for the new season, did you guys go home to your house and say, “You know what? We should really do that at our house?”
Chris: I think that really every episode, I was like, ooh, where can I put that in my yard. Or I want, now that I’ve done it a few times, I’m like, I want this in my yard now. And I think that, you know, viewers are going to take away exactly that from every episode. Honey, I want that raised planter in my yard. Honey, I want that water feature. Or, can we enlarge our deck? You know, I think everyone’s going to have a fun idea out of every episode.
Mark: That’s awesome. If I take it too seriously, my yard will be a sculpture garden of Going Yard build outs and sections. Well, I can’t fit that whole thing in here, so let’s just make half of it.
Theresa: Yeah, it would be kind of funny.
Chris: Exactly.
Theresa: I think that you’d have one little feature for every single episode. So it would be, it would be quite a sculpture garden.
Mark: Yeah.
Chris: I like the sound of that.
Mark: Yeah, if you’re crazy.
Theresa: Well, you are a little crazy.
Chris: One of my favorite parts about the season is that I get to work with my brothers, my dad, all my best friends. I mean, we have some surprise guests in certain episodes as well, that you’ll have to tune in and see. So it’s fun. I get all my people working with me, which makes it even better.
Peyton: And your wife, hello
Chris: Well, that’s a given.
Mark: Yeah, we’ve seen the beginnings of the episodes with you guys rolling out on the job site and checking it out and trying to figure out what the plan is. So, yeah.
Theresa: Well, you guys have been married for about a year. You finally, took your honeymoon vacation in January to Hawaii. How was that?
Peyton: Oh my gosh! It was so amazing. I’m really glad that we waited to take our honeymoon until we had time, first of all, and then second of all, when it was the dead of winter here on the Cape. It was so wonderful to get some sunshine and heat, and just have a couple of weeks to relax.
Theresa: And you’ve been travelling around, too. I saw that you guys have been doing some appearances at home shows and other places, too. Now what kinds of questions are fans asking when you guys are going out and, you know, speaking and everything about how to do, how to landscape and yard tips and stuff like that?
Chris: I think the biggest question now is that people are trying to grow their own veggies and herbs in the backyard. Because, you know, cooking for yourself is big now, and growing your own veggies is big. So people are asking about, how can I get my tomatoes really lush and big? Raised planters are a big question. So, I see like sustainable living backyards. I call them home farmers. I call myself a home farmer. I think that’s kind of a big thing. So everyone’s got some questions about how to get the most out of their yard.
Mark: Oh, that’s really cool. My answer to that would be to go to a restaurant that has really lush tomatoes.
Theresa: Yeah. Mark would just go to Whole Foods every day.
Mark: Speaking of growing plants, the Rose Bowl Parade Plant Extravaganza, and you were there.
Chris: Oh, man, that was ridiculous. The coolest part about that was definitely the day before the parade, where we got to walk around and actually walk on and touch and just see the amount of detail and hard work that goes into each and every one of those floats. They are 100% covered in organic material. That’s ridiculous, the amount of work that goes into this.
Mark: I guess I’ve always had this question, and it’s just coming to mind now, because you’re the only one I can ever ask. How do you attach a flower to a truck? How do they do it?
Chris: And nothing is . . . Everyone who works on these, they’re volunteers. They’re not getting paid. And they love it. They fly in from all over the United States to volunteer their time to work on these floats, which just boggles the mind again.
Mark: Unbelievable.
Theresa: Wow.
Chris: So you see these ladies who are like, ladies and men, and they have just hands of glue. One person will glue a whole area, and then somebody else comes in and with gloves on just takes like . . . They use poppy seeds. They use sesame seeds. They use, you name it.
Mark: Oh my gosh.
Chris: They’ll just take, they’ll takes clumps of it and just smoosh it against the glue until enough sticks on.
Theresa: Another thing, too, about it that blows my mind, is that they only have a few days to actually decorate those floats, because it’s organic material. So you have to do it very close to when they’re going to be displayed. So they’re just working crazy hours, just smooshing those flowers and seeds and all that stuff into those floats. It blows my mind.
Mark: And I have to confess, too, and I’m interrupting a little bit. But really the main image in my head is more dominated by Larry, Moe, and Curly, and a bucket of some kind of weird glue that says “Glue” on it, and yeah. Maybe we should stop there. So how was the Rose Bowl Parade?
Theresa: Oh my goodness gracious.
Mark: How was the actual sitting there and going through and getting to appreciate the finished product of all the work that you saw happen.
Chris: Well, you’re sitting there, and you’re watching mobile art just drive by. And like these finished products are just, they’re beautiful. And knowing the amount of work that goes into them, it was just cool to see firsthand, and one of those experiences that I will never forget. When the Air Force bomber came overhead at the very beginning. That, I don’t even know if you watched it live, but I was like screaming. Like the three of us were up there like, “Oh my God! It was amazing!” It was just one of those things that I will never, ever, ever forget.
Mark: Wow.
Peyton: I was really impressed with the amount of people and how early they start camping out. We were staying at a hotel that was right in downtown Pasadena, and people were setting up tents and camping out for like two days in advance.
Theresa: Two days?
Mark: Holy smokes. To get a good seat right by the side of, you know, the edge of the road?
Chris: Yeah. They would sit on the sidewalk with chairs.
Peyton: And like tape an area. I don’t know exactly what the rules are. But there was tape on the ground. There was sidewalk chalk. I guess you just mark out your area, and people leave you alone.
Theresa: That is incredible.
Mark: Sounds like a snowstorm inBoston where the old ladies put their garden chairs out in their garden spots. Nobody park here.
Chris: You can’t park in my spot. I dug it with the snow we got.
Mark: Well, we have to drive ourselves into a break. So check out ChrisLambton.com, or Chris and Peyton @chrislambton13 on Twitter, and Chris Lambton on Facebook.
Theresa: And check out Peyton and Chris on Going Yard HGTV. We have to go to break, and we’ll be back in just a minute with more MyFixitUpLife.
Chris: Thanks guys.
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