The Door Episode | Drift Off with Cozy, Meandering Talk

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Marco Timpano and Nidhi Khanna explore doors, doorbells, doormats, and everyday home routines in a relaxed, low-stimulation discussion perfect for bedtime listening. From the subtle etiquette of knocking versus ringing a doorbell to the personality of a welcoming doormat, this episode transforms familiar household details into a cozy and calming experience.
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Doors, Knocks & Wreaths | A Gentle Chat with Marco Timpano and Nidhi Khanna - Episode 14
Marco Timpano: Welcome to the Insomnia project. Sit back, relax and listen. As we are about to have a conversation about the mundane, one thing we can promise is that our conversation will be less than fascinating. So you can feel free to just drift off. Thank you for joining us. We hope you will listen and sleep.
Marco Timpano: I'm feeling a little breathy today
I'm your host, Marco Timpano.
Nidhi Khanna: And I'm your co host, Nidhi Khanna.
Marco Timpano: I'm a little bit breathy today.
Nidhi Khanna: Nidhi. Are you?
Marco Timpano: Yeah. I think I'm fighting something so I can feel it. You know when you can feel things in your, in your, in your voice? That's how I'm feeling today.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, you made that wonderful ginger tea, so hopefully that will do.
Marco Timpano: You like it?
Nidhi Khanna: I enjoy ginger tea so that's.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, it can be a little bit strong. Like I think I over steeped mine. I think I need to lightly steep the ginger D because it was a bit peppery.
Nidhi Khanna: See, I love that.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: I love it when it's over steeped.
Marco Timpano: One of the interesting things about Nidhi is whenever we go to a restaurant, one thing she'll always do when the food comes, she'll always be like, do you have some hot sauce? Can I get some hot sauce? Before she even tastes it, there's got to be hot sauce on the table.
Nidhi Khanna: I really, I evaluate my restaurants based on their hot sauce selection.
Marco Timpano: Oh, really? What is a faux pas if I
Nidhi Khanna: ask for hot sauce and they give me Tabasco?
Marco Timpano: No, Not a good scene.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, it's not a good scene. Or Frank's even worse.
Marco Timpano: Really?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: What if they bring you a little tray of different sauces? That works.
Nidhi Khanna: I'm very impressed by that.
Marco Timpano: All right, so there, you know, there you go. If Needy comes in, have your tray of sauces ready.
Nidhi Khanna: There you go.
Marco: Do you prefer to knock or ring a doorbell
Marco Timpano: I wanted to talk to you about doors.
Nidhi Khanna: Let's do it, Marco.
Marco Timpano: So first of all, what kind of door do you have at your house? Is it a metal door or wooden door?
Nidhi Khanna: You know, that's a good question, actually. So I want to say it's like. It's like a fire door because I live in an apartment.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: So it's, I'm assuming a wooden door, but I could be very wrong. No, because it's a fire door.
Marco Timpano: But the door that leads to your apartment is a fire door.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: But not like your typical fire door like you would find in office. Right, but it's. Don't apartments have to have like a special type of door?
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's a great question. I don't know. My door is a metal door.
Nidhi Khanna: Is it?
Marco Timpano: Yeah, it's a metal door because we have a magnet on it. And, my preference is a wood door because. Do you prefer to knock or ring a doorbell? Nidhi, what's your preference? Like when you approach a friend's house or a stranger's house that you need
Nidhi Khanna: to contact, I usually first look for a doorbell.
Marco Timpano: So you prefer a doorbell?
Nidhi Khanna: I don't know if it's that I prefer it. It's more of. It's what I'm accustomed to. So it's habitually what I would look for, but I would love to have like a door knocker or something.
Marco Timpano: I think your door is a wooden door.
Nidhi Khanna: Is it?
Marco Timpano: I think it's. Now that I think of it because I'm like. I was just about to say I've haven't been to your apartment, but I. So have we recorded the last episode there?
Nidhi Khanna: Yes. And, well, I think the front door is definitely a wooden door. Front door, like the front door leading into the corridor.
Marco Timpano: See, I think that's the black one. I think that's a metal door. I think your door is a wooden door. You know how you can find the. Easily find this out is knock on the door when you go home and see how it feels, right?
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, yeah. I wouldn't be able to tell you that way.
Marco Timpano: Do you have one of those things that you look out.
Nidhi Khanna: No.
Marco Timpano: What are they called?
Nidhi Khanna: A peephole.
Marco Timpano: Peephole? Yeah. You don't have one?
Nidhi Khanna: No.
Marco Timpano: M. You should get one.
Nidhi Khanna: Like, I live in a house, right.
Marco Timpano: So I have one now. Do you. Do you. Would you use a peephole? Because Amanda uses it. I don't really use it.
Nidhi Khanna: I don't use it. Also, the doorbell for. For the house that I live in doesn't work. So in order for you to, For me to open the door, you would be contacting me.
Marco Timpano: I see.
Nidhi Khanna: So I would know who's at the door.
Marco Timpano: Okay. And what if you're expecting a package?
Nidhi Khanna: I don't really expect packages.
Marco Timpano: Okay, fair enough. You need to get more packages delivered? I think so.
Nidhi Khanna: I guess so.
Marco Timpano: What about. Have you ever seen those door. I guess they're called knockers and stuff that have different kind of like. And like a woodpecker that knocks or like a little bear's paw. I don't know, lion, or something. M. What do you think of those?
Nidhi Khanna: I think. I mean. Okay, so door knockers, for me, can be really cool. Like if they're, like a family treasure of some sort or like. Wow.
Marco Timpano: What kind of families do you know that have family crafts like that?
Nidhi Khanna: Just, you know, if you're, like, own a castle in England or something.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: A door knocker. Oh, like that. It would knock like that. Correct.
Marco Timpano: My goodness. I, just knocked my glasses.
You can't have a doorbell without a door knocker
Nidhi Khanna: We hope we didn't just wake everyone up from their slumber.
Marco Timpano: I'm sorry about that.
Nidhi Khanna: If you have just woken up, we're talking about. We're talking about door knockers. so, yeah, if you have, like, a castle, you kind of. You can't have a doorbell. You have to have a knocker. That would be very.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: I think there's some, like. Like the house that we used to have in Montreal.
Marco Timpano: Was it a castle?
Nidhi Khanna: It was not a castle, but it was like an old kind of Victorian home. So, like, a door knocker was very much a part of the, look and feel of, the house.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: I think if you were to have.
Marco Timpano: What did your door knocker look like?
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, I can't even remember.
Marco Timpano: Was it just.
Nidhi Khanna: It was like a metal.
Marco Timpano: Was it just a ring or was it.
Nidhi Khanna: I, think it was a ring.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: I didn't use the door knocker that much because I never went to the first. I never went to the front door. I always went to the back door. but, like, if you have, like, a modern house, I feel like a Door knocker would be really, I don't know, out of sorts.
Marco Timpano: But then I've seen some like, cool door knockers.
Nidhi Khanna: Novelty ones.
Marco Timpano: No. Even just like, interesting shapes or like.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Depending on the, the way your house looks, you could have something that reflects the neighborhood or your home. For example, I'd like to get one at the cottage that's kind of like beachy. Whether it's a starfish or.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, nice.
Marco Timpano: I don't know.
Nidhi Khanna: But that would go with the cottage. Right?
Marco Timpano: Like I'm not nobody really. The interesting thing is nobody knocks on the door at the cottage.
Nidhi Khanna: No, exactly.
Marco Timpano: Right. You just kind of come in. If you have guests, I guess they could knock, but generally speaking, you would have the door open and people would come from the front door.
Nidhi Khanna: And when you knock, like when you're knocking on a door using a door knocker, how many knocks do you do?
Marco Timpano: Okay, so if I use my fist.
Nidhi Khanna: A fist?
Marco Timpano: No.
Nidhi Khanna: What do you call punching your.
Marco Timpano: No, but like if I'm not using. If I'm not using a knock or a proper knocker, if I'm just knocking with my hand.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, I see. Okay. Okay.
Marco Timpano: What would you call that? Like a clenched hand?
Nidhi Khanna: Sure.
Marco Timpano: So if I'm knocking with my hand on the door, I think I knock three times.
Nidhi Khanna: Knock.
Marco Timpano: Knock, knock. If I'm using a door, like a brass door knocker, I think twice. Bang, bang.
Nidhi Khanna: That sounds about right.
Marco Timpano: I don't know what the, what the etiquette is with regards to that. Niddy's going to look it up.
Nidhi Khanna: I don't know.
We painted our door yellow because it was feng shui themed
I'm going to ask now, is there
Marco Timpano: a particular color that you like for your door?
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, that's a good question.
Marco Timpano: Because we painted ours yellow.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, why did you choose?
Marco Timpano: Because I was like looking into like feng shui colors and I don't know, we just wanted to paint it. I think it was a, it was kind of like an off white and we were just like, let's paint it an interesting color or something like that. And I don't know how we determined yellow. I think maybe Amanda picked it. I don't think I was like fighting too hard.
Nidhi Khanna: well, it is supposed to be a very calming, color.
Marco Timpano: I don't know. I don't know what to be. I really don't know why we picked yellow, but we picked yellow. I think red is a good luck color for doors in feng shui. That's why you'll often see homes with red doors.
Nidhi Khanna: It's also easy to like make it distinct because not many people have a red door. So I'm the house with the red door.
Marco Timpano: Right. You know, I think there's more homes than you think that have red doors.
Nidhi Khanna: Really?
Marco Timpano: Yeah. Now that I said that, you take a look when you're like, jogging or driving and see, see how many red doors you see.
Nidhi Khanna: I will do that now, you know
Marco Timpano: what we did at my mom's place is we put in a keyless lock. Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: How does that work?
Marco Timpano: So basically you still have a key for it, but you can access it with a series of numbers. So you just kind of like type in like a keypad. Right. And you type in the number, whatever it is, let's say it's 1, 2, 3. And it'll unlock the door, which is great. When you have a lot of things in your hand, you can just type in the number and it opens it up. Nidhi to install this, it was a nightmare. You know, when you get instructions in something you've purchased and they don't, they aren't clear. And you would think that a company that offers, you know, a product that requires installation nowadays would have a website that would explain it. Right. Luckily, there's a whole bunch of YouTube videos out there that people like us put on the net. So thank you to those people who decide to put how, to set your keyless store lock. Because we were able to figure it out. Only because of that. Because the instructions were far too convoluted, for us to figure that out.
I recently put together a box using IKEA instructions
What about a doormat? Do you have doormats in front of your place?
Nidhi Khanna: I do, but I just want to go back to the instructions for a moment.
Marco Timpano: Oh, sure.
Nidhi Khanna: Because I recently put together, using IKEA instructions, a box essentially.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: For my living room.
Marco Timpano: And is it the one I saw the other day? The one that I said, this is really nice. You said, I got it from ikea, that you have like your candles and.
Nidhi Khanna: No, this was in the study room where the desk that you gave me is. There's three box type things there now. And, to put together these very simple boxes took me like an hour. Because the instructions. Because you know how IKEA instructions don't
Marco Timpano: have words, they just have that little stick guy or.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. And the pictures. Right. And so. So I had to Google it online to figure out. Apparently there's a common problem with this box because you have to make sure that the side that you put in last is the correct one, otherwise the thing won't fit.
Marco Timpano: Oh, so it's one of those, like, if you get it in the wrong way. It's not gonna work.
Nidhi Khanna: yeah, if you put the wrong side up, last. It'll just be a mess and then you'll ruin the entire thing.
Marco Timpano: No.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marco Timpano: Did you solve. Were you able to.
Nidhi Khanna: I was able to solve it and then it was a breeze. Sure. You know, it was one of those. Oh, IKEA moments.
Marco Timpano: It's one of those things, you know, we were. We were discussing life hacks, you and I, and there's a life hack that says when you're doing a IKEA assembly or some sort of assembly project, to have a, muffin tiny to put the different screws and bolts in. So that. Because, you know, oftentimes you'll get something that has different types of screws that you're gonna have to use one type in one area of the thing you're putting together and another type, and it'll have nuts and bolts and things that you might need. Well, you put them in the different sections of the muffin pan and you'll know where they are so you're not scrambling to look for them. I thought that was a great.
Nidhi Khanna: That is a great life hap.
It really depends on what your intention is when you're knocking
Mark, I'm just looking at knocking etiquette.
Marco Timpano: Oh, so there is such a thing?
Nidhi Khanna: There is, and it really depends on what your intention is when you're knocking. Okay, so if it's sort of like a general access knock, you're really looking to, knock your knuckles four times.
Marco Timpano: Oh, four.
Nidhi Khanna: So if you're just trying to get, ah, access to room, it's a General knock. It's 1, 2, 3, 4. And you're supposed to, For those of our listeners who are musically inclined, it's supposed to be in a straight eighth note pattern.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: Do you know what that means?
Marco Timpano: No, not quite, but I don't either.
Nidhi Khanna: so it would be like a clock, clock, clock, clock. There's an extra knock there. But if it's an inquisitive knock, like,
Marco Timpano: you know, are you home or something.
Nidhi Khanna: Are you home? And you're expecting a response from the person on the other side or something like that, then you're supposed to do it in odd numbers. Okay, so three knocks or five knocks.
Marco Timpano: Oh, interesting.
Nidhi Khanna: but, yeah, so it's almost always, And it's done. Both those knocks are done with your knuckles. Okay, so that's an interesting one versus an expected knock. you don't need to be as polite with your knocking because the person's expecting you.
Marco Timpano: Okay, so I'm coming to your house to record a podcast. You're expecting me. So how many times do I knock?
Nidhi Khanna: So you still knock about like three times, similar to the inquisitive knock, but with more emphasis.
Marco Timpano: Like I'm here. Boom, boom, boom.
Nidhi Khanna: Yes. Or, most commonly people will just do a simple two knock pattern because it's expected.
Marco Timpano: So you're. The person knows.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, it's like knock, knock. so that, that's, that's pretty much basic knocking etiquette.
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Marco says his smoke detector started beeping constantly before the holidays
Marco Timpano: What about doorbells? Do you ring it just once and stand back and wait how long before you ring it the second time?
Nidhi Khanna: That's a good question. I usually anywhere from like 5 to 15 seconds. Okay, right. Because.
Marco Timpano: Well, it depends on the doorbell because now they, you know, there was a time. I know my mother in law just installed doorbell that would. You could have different chimes. so she had like Christmas and then she changed it to New Year's and it has like the bells of Westminster and like it has.
Nidhi Khanna: How long does the bell take to ring?
Marco Timpano: Well, let's just say, you know, you're listening to a tune by the time all is said and done.
Nidhi Khanna: But I think it also depends on whether or not, you know, the person's at home.
Marco Timpano: I like the ding dong.
Nidhi Khanna: You know that simple, simple, simple ding dong. I like that. And if you know the person's there and you keep ringing, I feel like that's a little excessive. But if you're not sure, as a person home, I would ring maybe twice. Three times max.
Marco Timpano: See, we have a problem with our doorknob. Our door, our doorbell. Because you can only hear it on the main floor. So if we're all the way upstairs and you ring the bell, I won't hear it. So make sure you call or you keep ringing because good to know. Sometimes I'll be upstairs and I'll be like, was that the doorbell? And then by the time I come down, there's a note on the door that I now have to pick up the package at post, office. And I'm like, oh, I missed it. You know what I mean?
Nidhi Khanna: I feel like there's got to be a life hack for, or a way to make that easier. Like the delivery of.
Marco Timpano: There should be. There should be something where you can like you get a text.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. Or you can track it in real time. Is it at your door or something? Gps type of locator on the packet now.
Marco Timpano: So your doorbell doesn't work at your place.
Nidhi Khanna: No.
Marco Timpano: Are you planning to get it fixed?
Nidhi Khanna: I think I need to change the batteries or something.
Marco Timpano: Oh, so it's a simple thing that you.
Nidhi Khanna: I think so.
Marco Timpano: Okay. I can help you with that in case. We'll take a look.
Nidhi Khanna: Thank you. Also put my smoke detector back.
Marco Timpano: Oh, you should have that working.
Nidhi Khanna: It. It required. So here's the issue with the smoke detector, slash carbon monoxide detector. M. Right before the holidays a few weeks before the holidays, it started to beep, but it was beeping so infrequently that I thought I was just hearing things.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: And then it started to beep and beep and beep. And then a woman's voice started to come on every 20 minutes, saying, battery low change batteries. Wow.
Marco Timpano: You have a very sophisticated, except, Marco.
Nidhi Khanna: It did this all night long between the beeping and the woman's voice. Now, the problem with all of this is that I am five foot three.
Marco Timpano: Oh, no.
Nidhi Khanna: And my ceiling is very high.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: And the step stool that I had cannot reach it. So I spent the whole night in this, like, state of, I think, torture, because they must use this type of torture on people, trying to fall asleep and being woken up by this beeping every time. Which means that it's really great if there is a problem, because you're gonna wake up to the slee. Sound of this alarm. Not so great if you're just trying to get through the night.
Marco Timpano: So what did you do?
Nidhi Khanna: Well, I had to. So what we need. What I needed was a, proper ladder. Now I don't have a proper life. So I called my landlord, and they were like, well, we can send someone, but it's going to cost you $150.
Marco Timpano: I have a ladder.
Nidhi Khanna: Because you're really responsible, once you get into the unit, of changing the batteries in the carbon monoxide or the. The. The smoke detector.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: So, one of my friends came over, and, I live right across from a, almost like a warehouse type of, building.
Marco Timpano: I think they re.
Nidhi Khanna: They salvage wood and create furniture and stuff. So he went across the way, was like, hey, can I borrow your ladder? And actually, they said, sure. And so, he brought the carbon dioxide. I mean, he brought the smoke to. He turned. But he's six foot. He's just over six feet.
Marco Timpano: Right?
Nidhi Khanna: And even with the ladder, really almost couldn't get it because of the angle of the ladder had to be in such a way that the rung that he had to stand on to reach the, smoke detector wasn't. Was almost just out of reach.
Marco Timpano: Oh, no.
Nidhi Khanna: Because of the angle.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: So he finally got that, and then we brought it down, and it was like, okay, great. Now we all just need a drink, and so let's go.
I had to replace my smoke detector because my ceilings are so high
And as we're going out the. Out of the house, the smoke detector beeps, again. And it was like this mad, like, moment where everyone was like, oh, my God, no, no, we can't. So, we took the batteries out And I had to replace it. So now I have the batteries to replace it, but I don't have a ladder and I don't have the height to actually replace.
Marco Timpano: But does it have to be in that spot or can it be positioned elsewhere?
Nidhi Khanna: I don't know.
Marco Timpano: Like, is it stuck on the wall
Nidhi Khanna: or is it removable? No, no, it's like it is removable, but it's stuck on the wall. You, where else are you going to put it?
Marco Timpano: Some of them are like detachable. Right. That are kind of screwed into a plate that holds it into the ceiling or whatnot.
Nidhi Khanna: So probably that's it.
Nidhi Khanna: So you mean I can just put it anywhere?
Marco Timpano: Where is the actual smoke detector now? Is it in its place or is it off its place and. Oh, it's sitting on, sitting on it on a table or something, let's say. Right?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, underneath the sink.
Marco Timpano: Okay. Now do you insert the batteries into the unit that's underneath the sink? Then you could probably place that anywhere you want.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh really?
Marco Timpano: Yeah, most likely, like, because the higher it is. Now I'm no fire expert on fire chief, but you want to keep it high because the smoke will billow up and you don't want it, let's say above your stove.
Nidhi Khanna: Right.
Marco Timpano: Because otherwise if you're cooking something, it'll. It'll go off.
Nidhi Khanna: Right.
Marco Timpano: So that's why you tend to put it somewhere, somewhere high in the middle of your apartment or whatnot.
Nidhi Khanna: Right, yeah, that makes sense.
Marco Timpano: And so you could put it somewhere that's a little bit more accessible to you.
Nidhi Khanna: The problem is that all my ceilings are so high that there would be no other than in the kitchen on top of the refrigerator. There would be no place for me to put it that would be that high.
Marco Timpano: I'll figure it out. Okay, we'll figure something out.
Nidhi Khanna: Perfect.
Marco Timpano: But right now, are you smoke detector less?
Nidhi Khanna: Yes.
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's not good.
Nidhi Khanna: No.
Marco Timpano: Okay, we'll figure this out, listeners. Stay tuned to that.
What do you think of doormats? I love them personally
But I wanted to ask you about doormats.
Nidhi Khanna: Yes.
Marco Timpano: What do you think of doormats? I love them personally and I wish we had more. In this house we have like three or four. We change with the seasons. Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, oh, okay. For your outdoor.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, for the outdoor.
Nidhi Khanna: I use it only really in the winter for my boots.
Marco Timpano: Right. I'm talking about, I like the ones outside that say welcome or beware of dog. And part of it's kind of like looks like it's been bitten or something.
Nidhi Khanna: What are the three that you have I have a.
Marco Timpano: There's a summer one that I think is some sort of beach scene, but I think it's made its way to my cottage. I have a plaid. Blue plaid one that I guess would be our winter one.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, a blue plaid one.
Marco Timpano: Like, it's a light blue. I think it's out there right now.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: And then I have, I think one that we got rid of that was a green. A green one that said something on it. I don't remember. But I like. I like doormats.
Nidhi Khanna: Do you. What do you like about them?
Marco Timpano: I don't know. They're just like. They can be funny or they can be like classic or.
Nidhi Khanna: What do you think that. Do you think it says something about the people living in the place? Oh, like personality wise?
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I think so. I think it can. It can express your personality at the door.
Nidhi Khanna: I think so too. I mean, mine's a very utilitarian one.
Marco Timpano: Okay. But, no, let me ask you this. What about wreaths and things like that hung on the door?
Nidhi Khanna: I didn't grow up with it, so I never did it. But I would totally hang a wreath on my door.
Marco Timpano: We have. We grew up just around the holidays, like around Christmas, hanging them.
Nidhi Khanna: Right, right.
Marco Timpano: And then I was at one of these, like, houseware type stores, you know, that have. They have a section for clothes and a section for beauty and a section for home. Well, when I tend to go to those and Amanda's trying on clothes, I'll go to the home section. M. And I found this really beautiful wreath that had colored eggs around it. So it was an Easter themed wreath.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: But it was really pretty and it was on sale, so I bought it and I've used it now for three or four years. And then. So do you know the town of Schomburg now?
Nidhi Khanna: Dale Boyer is from.
Marco Timpano: Exactly. From Schomburg. So Schomburg has a Christmas. I can't believe I'm talking about Schomburg Christmas because really I should be talking about this with Dale, but she comes up quite a bit on our show. Do you know?
Nidhi Khanna: She does. She does.
Marco Timpano: We have to have her back.
Nidhi Khanna: We do.
Marco Timpano: So, I was at Schomburg Christmas, and it's like this little town that has a little Christmas market and they do a little parade and it's kind of a rural community. So the parade is like a lot of tractors that have Christmas lights on them and whatnot. So we're walking down the little town square, going into various shops. And you know me, I like to pick up various knickknacks and things. And they had these, they look like, you know, those red, red cranberry type berries that you see around Christmas time. They're. It's not holly berries, but they're bigger berries. Well, they had this, this big cluster of them. And they kind of looked like, candied apples. You know, candied apples have this really sort of shine and redness and whatnot. So it was a bunch of little cranberry size circles that were coated in this, you know, look like candy apple red. So it looked very, very festive. And I remember spending, I think it was $36 for it. And this was a while back, knitting. I was like, this is a lot of money for something that you hang on the door. And I was kind of like, am I really gonna spend 36 bucks on this? And it was with Dale. And she's like, hm, you'll probably really like it. And I'm like, I do really like it. Yeah. And I go, and it'll remind me of Schomburg. I've used it every year since then. It must, must be 10 years that I have it. And I love, taking it out every time. It looks so great on the door because it's so vibrant. Vibrant.
I'm looking for a summer and spring door wreath
And you know, you can buy these type things at your local hardware store and whatnot around, around the holidays, but they don't have. This one's really well made and it's really red.
Nidhi Khanna: Handcrafted?
Marco Timpano: No. I don't know if it's handcrafted, but it's just one of those ones that you, you know, you can tell the quality of it and it's lasted. And so that began my sort of, door wreath,
Nidhi Khanna: you know, fascination.
Marco Timpano: Fascination. And now I'm looking for a summer and spring door wreath. Amanda puts one up that I really don't like.
Nidhi Khanna: Does she know you don't like it?
Marco Timpano: She likes it, but I think it looks, I don't like the way it looks. It's like a summery one. It's kind of like, It's like this, you know, that kind of. How do you describe this? Like wickery. It's like a wickery, wood. Like thin pieces of straw. Wickery wood. I don't know what you call this. I'm sure there's a term for it. And it's kind of like folded in kind of a
Nidhi Khanna: heart shape.
Marco Timpano: No, not a heart shape, but like a. This shape.
Nidhi Khanna: Like a. Oh, like a knot, like
Marco Timpano: a. Ah, like a ribbon, Like a cross. And it's got A few little flowers. Flowers mixed into it. I don't like it.
Nidhi Khanna: What would you like in a summer wreath?
Marco Timpano: I don't know. Something summery. I don't know. I need to find. I need a good suggestion of a summer wreath. And I know that you can go to, like, Michaels and places, and there they even have, like, a workshop where they show you how to make wreaths.
Nidhi Khanna: I was going to say, like, you're so crafty and artistic that, like, you could just make your own.
Marco Timpano: I guess. I guess I just have to sort of sit and do a door wreath for the summer that I like.
Nidhi Khanna: So I'm looking at some wreaths right now. And what's interesting, like, I like. So there's this wreath here that isn't a circular wreath, because most wreaths are circular. I think that's kind of cool for the summer. Something different. Yeah, a little bit.
Marco Timpano: My spring wreath is the eggs. So I just need a good summer. I need a summer wreath.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. Yeah. Well, it does make. It does make a home. Like a good first impression.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: There you go. First impression.
Marco Timpano: Well, there you go.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, again, you can be like, I'm the one with the wreath on the door in summer.
Marco Timpano: I like that you use it as, like, a distinctive marker for your home.
Nidhi Khanna: I do, I do, I do.
Marco Timpano: Well, on that note, we'll have to let you know what summer wreath I find when I get one that I like or I design one. Until then, thank you for listening. We hope you enjoyed this episode on Doors and any Smoke alarm.
Nidhi Khanna: As always, we are produced by Drum Cast Productions that I've been recording in Toronto, Canada. So until the next time, we hope you listen and sleep.