Preparing for the First Hard Freeze in Appalachia | Cleaning the Chimney, Cutting Wood, & Harvesting
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2022
- We're expecting the first hard freeze of the year here in the mountains of Appalachia and we're trying to tie up all the lose ends before winter arrives for good.
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Matt doing the chimney cleaning made me think back 30 some years when my son (also named Matt) had a chimney sweep business. He was a career firefighter, so heights and fire were second nature. He found a tuxedo coat and top hat in a second hand store to wear and he always presented the lady of the house a red rose. 😂
Thanks for sharing your lovely day with us. ❤
Love that 😀
Such a special thing for your husband do. A tuxedo and rose. 🙂🙂
I meant son.
That is so sweet of your son!🌹
that is great :)
Too many people don't know what they're missing out on...the satisfaction from doing for yourself and appreciating nature's gifts. Thanks for sharing 🤗❤️❤️
I can sit for hours and listen to the both of you talking. I think you 2 are the most real people on RUclips. You live a very rewarding life. The best folks in the world are country folk.
I wish we were gettin some cold weather 😢 Humid as heck up here in Boston
I TOTALLY AGREE! Sweetest people ever I love them its the most peaceful part of my day ❤💥🙏💥
It's amazing how everything you and your family do is so much like my people in Kentucky did. I could close my eyes and swear I was listening to kentucky folks. My father used the word directly all the time. We moved north when I was nine but daddy and my stepmother still talked like that. We always had garden food even after we moved and cornbread or biscuits. I am so glad I found your Chanel, It's like being back home.
So glad you enjoy our videos 😀
My grandma in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri used that way of pronouncing directly. We moved to Central Missouri when I was 12 and I never heard it pronounced that way.
I know what ya mean. I love this channel because it’s like visiting the past with my mamaw and papaw. Our family all came from Kentucky and the food, talk, ways of living so much the same❤
My great grandparents / parents of my grandpa came from Anderson Kentucky, we used to have to catch the Ferry to go over the rest of the way. I don’t know if you ladies from Kentucky remember the old IGA was at over there, their house was just within inches away from there. It looked old on the outside but, it sure was beautiful on the inside!
Raised in Arkansas - 'drectly' and di-rectly were both commonly used - It wasn't until I started school and learned to read that I figured out it was actually 'directly' - it was like figuring out a puzzle for me!
We knew what it meant any which way!
You are so fortunate that Matt is such a knowledgeable “handy” man! You all seem to work so well together. Blessed life!
My granny always made green tomato relish with those end of season not yet ripe tomatoes
They are great for that 😀
i love how Matt is warming up to the camera! Videos are always a treat when he lends his quiet demeanor
Same here. I listened to every word they said while they were sitting there -- from the "Coppertone popsicle" to "dreckly vs. DIE-reckly" to them "useless ole pine trees" that he ain't gonna pay anyone to cut the tops out of.
Matt def adds to the channel in a great way. Lol he's a "bee charmer" like Idgie in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes!
@@pk33617 exceptional reference!!!
I’m anxious to see how you and Matt will take a break when it’s too cold for popsicles. Maybe a hot chocolate break. 😊
I just love listening to y'all talk about your work and your life. Y'all are the sweetest. I also have learned so much about the ways of Appalachia. So interesting! Thank you for sharing so much with your viewers.
Thank you so much!
Y'all make me miss Granny so much. I go on about my life but when I hear you talk about language, and you say things she did...it trembles my heart...another of her sayings. It makes me slow down for a minute & be grateful for her. Bless y'all.
I'm glad we remind you of her 😀
It never gets old seeing you two together, it's a heartwarming sight. I can tell you why there are so many bees around the Deer Hunter....it's because he's so sweet!
My momma and my daddy, said “directly “. I love watching you so much because you are just like family. What a blessing. Thank you both, so much. ♥️🙏
You are so welcome 😀
Me too, Grammy B!
Hello from central Texas! I love y’all’s popsicle talks! It sounds like my people talking. We’re a huge family of Czechs that settled here in the late 1800s. Just plain country folks with simple tastes and a huge love for God and country. Thank you for sharing your family with us…some sanity in this world gone cuckoo. If enough of us remember how good most people are and how good the simple life is, we have a chance to keep the donkey out of the ditch. ❤
So glad you enjoy our videos!!
I feel like we had a porch visit. A good porch visit. The first frost is always a bitter-sweet event. Godspeed to you all!
It’s a great pleasure to hear y”all talk about your life with us. You two are so happy together. Tipper you done well with your garden this year too. I miss seeing the turning off the leaves.
Thanks so much 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia you’re welcome
Your the beginning of my day Thanks
I can hear my grandma as plain as day, telling me, "Tell your mama, I'll be there directly". Dang, I miss her....and mama, too. Fall is my favorite time of year and today this video is the first real excitement of it all to come. Real nice video. Matt is a very good commonsense man, hard worker with a good size sweet streak. I'm just very happy you two found each other. Blessings for sure.
It’s just life & I’m not being sad. My husband could do anything & repair things that were broken. We had a wonderful life together & I didn’t realize how much he did around the house. My George is with the Lord now . I so enjoy seeing you work together. Keep up the fun & thanks for sharing your life❤️💛
He sounds wonderful! So glad you had him and that you know where he is now 😀
🥰You two are a very impressive couple..you are an enormous example of how you can live simply with great abundance...
Thank you Mary 😀
"Taste Just like Coppertone" 🤣, Matt's Hilarious. Y'all had a Great garden this year and looks like the Fall garden will be nice also! 🙂🙋♂️
😀 He is silly! Thank you 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Tipper, that Malabar spinach of yours is still growing just like gangbusters. I noticed the blooms still on your pepper plants. . .it's a shame that the cold weather is gonna make them die back.
Matt is right, you sure did pick a good mate in him. I wish I could've found a happily ever after soul mate like you did.
Your home is cozy and neat as a pin. Y'all are so gracious to let us viewer's into your beautiful home so often through your videos. I especially like being in the kitchen where all the great cooking is happening.
Thank you so much!
Your channel would fit perfectly in the prepper community, here in south Texas the leaves are starting to turn into their fall colors as well, love your channel ma'am.
Thank you-so glad you enjoy our videos 😀
I love watching y’all. It brings back fond memories of spending time with my family in the Smoky Mountains in TN. Your videos bring me peace and I appreciate all the knowledge you share. You and your family are such a blessing to all of us ❤️
Thank you for the kind encouraging words 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia you’re welcome!
Tipper every time you talk about Gainesville Georgia you make me homesick . I live in Illinois now but I worked at Northeast Georgia medical center for 22 years. I lived in Flowery Branch for 30 years. I sure miss my Georgia home
I guess what you guys have is what I wished I had grown up with. I would have felt more at home if my mother had ever calmed down. She was so high-strung. Dr. Tried to give her Valum when she was young she took one pill and said "I want to be in control and this pill makes me loopy." I would have preferred Loopy rather than having to walk on eggshells day in and day out. So keep up the beautiful family videos you guys are great people never forget that. I am a gentle soul and my Grandmother and I was so close it was the only reason I stayed home until she passed when I was 17. She was my saving grace to be honest.
I'm glad you had your grandmother!!
I am too she made me who I am today Tipper. So thankful God gave me a Good Grandmother to watch over me.
I always like the early autumn days when it is frosty in the morning, air seems fresh and less insects is always welcome, thanks to Tipper and her hubby ❤️ 😘 😊 😀
Thanks for visiting 😀
How great it would be to "sit a spell " and have a chit chat with yall. My Dad is in his last years and has worked hard all his life and raised 10 kids; 9 girls and 1 boy. He now rolls in the wood for his 1st fire. His knarled hands can no longer pack it in. His hard working hands are forever in my memory. Battered and bruised but always loving. I enjoy listening to your memories of pap.
Your dad sounds wonderful!! A whole lot like Pap 😀
Mrs Tipper picked a lot of peppers to pickle 🤣.. Love y'all take care and stay warm ❤️
I did 😀 Thank you for watching!
It’s a good feeling when you can get so many things done in the same day. I’m like that myself it gives you a good feeling of relief, an accomplishment. Things that you know will have to be done, sometimes we dread, but when they’re done were so relieved
I love that Matt said “people that say directly are my mind of people”!!
We use that word all the time
Like - we will be over there directly
I love to be around “my kind of people” too!!
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“Things I’ve either grown or killed” This is so true. Not everything you do is a success but worth trying.
I love that giddy laugh you have from time to time when you are with Matt and talking to him. In this video, I noticed it at the beginning. I guess since I watch your every video I am beginning to pick up on some things. Yall obviously love each other very much and even after all these years, you still have that spark and love. That’s a rarity this day and age. Im so happy for yall.
He knows how to do so much and I can see in his smile he loves you. I see it with your daughters.
Yall are so blessed.
Having said that, it’s just another bonus for now and generations to come. To be able to show how life can truly be.
Thank you for all you share with us Tipper (and family).
Ask Matt if he’s ever heard this about keeping chimneys clean;
You throw an aluminum beer can i to the fire every now n then. I guess it’s the same with soda can. Somehow it creates something to get rid of the sutt or creosote buildup. As I say, I’ve heard it, but don’t know if it works. Definitely don’t know HOW it works.
We had a really bad chimney fire when I was about 13 in our cabin. It was in the pipe that came up from basement from stove and then at wood cook stove in kitchen. So scary! A miracle the house didn’t burn down!
You never can be too carful. The only other I’ve ever had was up here and I was alone and shut off the vents to the fireplace and of course the smoke was in house but it put it out.
Thank you Sandra!! I do love him! I've never heard him mention the can trick so I don't think he's heard of it 😀 That must have been scary!! Papaw's caught on fire one time when we were courting. Matt was able to get it put out before any damage was done thank goodness.
Id give anything to have a fireplace. I have a grandpa bear fisher wood stove that I have for my “one day home”. I don’t know… it sits here. Id have a fire for sure! Meanwhile, i havent turned on my gas stove yet. Im like y’all, I wake up cold but know it’s gonna warm up, and it does. I know what you’re talking about with the in between weather.
Your story of the old man working, and your comments about having a work ethic reminded me of something that happened years ago. There was in our church a family of farmers, all born and raised on the family farm. Dad, his son and grandson. The son had been to town, so was away for several hours by the time he came back home to discover his dad on the barn roof doing some repairs. The Dad and son got into a bit of a heated debate over who should be up there doing the job. The son declaring he should be the one as Dad was too old to be climbing around on the barn roof. Telling this story to the folks in church brought a few chuckles. Bear in mind, the son was in his early 70's and Dad was in his 90's and you'll see the humor.
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Matt's chimney cleaning made me think of my dad and uncle cleaning the chimney at Granny's house. The would select the right size cedar tree, tie it tight to a long rope and one guy on the roof and the other on the hearth would pull on the rope till the cedar had scrubbed out the soot. As a kid I found this very entertaining.
Love that! I will share that memory with Matt 😀
I'm envious of those that can work. I'm disabled and I don't have a day without pain. I think that's why I enjoy your videos. I can't work. But, it's so rewarding watching you work like I want to.
I'm sorry for your pain!! Thank you for watching 😀
Seeing ya'll working in the garden at the end of the season brings good memories! My dad used to say "the garden's played out" and we knew what we had to do. It's satisfying to take in the last harvest and settle in for winter. Bless you all!
It really is 😀 Thank you Kathy!
I thank you for these final glimpses of gardens and houses with chimneys, as we are all headed for a premature, slow, and painful death in an apartment complex in a man-made desert.
A man who can do all that AND can clean out y'all's chimney? That's what I call a GOOD CHOICE (when you chose to marry) ! 👏🏼 🤗 Both of you are so capable, I'm always admiring of and inspired by your example. Thank you Tipper and Matt!
You are so nice-thank you 😀
It is such a blessing to have a wonderful mate that you all have, you with a good husband and him with a good wife!! So much fun & good times, companionship, someone to talk to!! Helpmate!
It really is 😀 Thank you!
Watching this video was sort of bittersweet. Seeing your garden drawing to an end as mine is doing leaves me longing for another season.
Your talking about phrases and words used such as " drekly" remi ded me of my grandma in the Ozarks of Missouri. She said it so often ie," we'll go to the garden "drekly" she also used the word commence so often, such as Now don't commence, whi h she said when my sister and I squabbled. I loved her language and more now than ever since I'm 73. I hope that language is never lost.
The reference in todays video about choosing a mate... I think you both are so perfectly paired. I wait for your videos.
So glad you enjoy our videos!! I love that language too 😀
I am going to miss these garden videos! I love watching you both work in the garden and your sit down chats after.
So glad you enjoy them 😀
Time for hot chocolate, instead of popsicles
Thank you for not filling every second with talk. I enjoyed sittin with you.
I will always drop back by to help you all celebrate Appalachia..Wish I could drop by for an actual visit..The Pressley family are good people! 💕
Thank you 😀 We appreciate you!!
Just doing kitchen stuff, making bread, doing dishes, I love just having you two in the background prattlin' on about stuff . Thank you once again for keeping me company
Our pleasure!
I’ve been busy watching all my through hikers finishing up the Appalachian Trail at Mount Katahdin in Maine ! Most everyone has made it , still a few to summit yet and I’m following several south bounders !!!!
The trail totally changes people for the better!!! I’ve done the Georgia part , it’s all so beautiful!!!!!
You and Matt remind me so much of my husband and myself - 20 years ago! Now I have to hire someone to clean our chimney though we try to do as much as we can ourselves. Our gardens are now all raised beds because I can't bend over so much any more, but we still enjoy getting out daily and working our beds.
I loved this! Thank you both!
Love to light up our fireplace and be outside with the smoke smell wafting through the air. Something very ‘homey’ and comforting about it all. 💝
My Grandmas both used to say drecly. I was born in a very small town in Oklahoma. We were not city people by any means. I miss that small town. It was a wonderful place to grow up. When I go home to visit, my kids and Grandkids are so surprised that we are related to everyone. The Grandgirls talk about how many cousins that they discover they have. LOL!
Love that!
My Mamma and Pappa said 'directly' all the time. it is one of the words that i use all the time and never really thought about it until now. i'm 66 so they were born in the early 1900 and Pappa's family was from Western North Carolina.
Your nasturtium are still hanging in and looking lovely!
We just had our chimney cleaned and loaded up on wood for the winter, but we won’t start a fire until it’s cold during the day and the night. We have electric heat too but we turned the AC off the first night it was cold and have had the windows open since.
Our wood stove will heat our whole house throughout the winter and we save so much money during the winter by not having the electric heat on.
I love this time of year the best. 😊
My grandparents always used the word directly. I still use it occasionally.
Thank you Keith 😀
I love seeing you two working side by side helping each other!
Every so often I come across one of your older videos that I haven't watched completely. Today, this one showed up, so I watched it. We had a fireplace in the home where I grew up. About every 10th fire, we threw a handful of rock salt (which we had on hand for the winter to treat the sidewalk) onto the fire. This removed a great deal of the creosote throughout the season and, therefore, the chimney did not require extensive cleaning each year. It really worked!
Tipper, your patience with the few personal and frankly, a couple of rude questions and comments is ... amazing. THANK YOU ⚘ for these great videos and the fun 'shorts' that come up on Facebook.
We appreciate you 😀
Yes! My mama would say ‘drectly’ when I’d ask when we were going to do somethin’. As a child, I knew it meant pretty soon. It was years before I understood that drectly was directly ☺️
I think it's wonderful how you all work together and keep the home fires burning.🙂👍
I still use directly a lot. My Granny used it so often and I think I hear her words coming right out of my mouth so often.
Matt is handsome Tipper! Mine gets better looking the older he gets. I love your conversations at the end of the videos! 🍁🍂
Sure wish we could clone multi-talented Matt, a modern Renaissance Man. His many skills are sorely needed everywhere.
So relaxing to listen to the rustling of the leaves and the chirping of the crickets.
Tipper l love when you and your husband tell us stories sitting in front of the camera. When Corue & Katie do it too. It's nice.
I'm so glad -thank you!
My father in law was helping me put up a barn. He asked, "you like to work? I like to work. I was born to work." He had too, following an old team of horses with a plow, so galled from sweat and heat that a can of Mexana Heat Powder was all that would give relief, helping every neighbor that he could, refusing to sit under an air conditioner in his old age for fear it would make him soft. "I guess it's alright. Can't say I relish it but I like to see things accomplished and I like knowin" I had a hand in it." He said, " you know I like home too. You know, if you stay home you know you're always welcome." The older I get the more I realize, that aside from the jokes, Charlie was a wise old man.
I am a new subscriber and watching and listening to you talk it is like being back home with my grandma and grandpa when they were busy doing chores. I lost both of them in May two days before my birthday. Thank you for just being here. You're family has made me feel better on hard days.
I'm sorry you lost them!! Happy we remind you of them and good times 😀
I always feel better after I watch one of your videos.
I like your vest and it looks especially good over that russet orange shirt.
My daddy was one of those always working types. Outside of working at his paid job, he'd be in his shop building something or inventing something, or he'd be working in the garden. At night he'd work at fixing busted TVs and stereos and cameras. I don't remember my folks ever hiring anyone to do anything. Whether it was electrical, plumbing, roofing, automotive, masonry or whatever, Daddy did it himself. He built our house himself.
And then I went and married another one. My husband always had a project in his hands. If we went to stay with relatives for a visit, after a few hours he'd get antsy. The smart ones would ask him to fix something and then he'd settle down and be happy as a clam. Any time he'd be upset or worried, he'd prune trees. If none of ours needed pruning, he prune the neighbors' (with their blessing).
So glad you enjoy our videos!! And that you've been blessed with people who can fix anything 😀
Look right behind your left shoulder! Your hoop style green house is a perfect place to hang your pepper plants. What you & Matt should look into for early plantings and frost protection if your crops is hoop style portable green houses. As long as your have the hoop frame work, it’s just a matter of setting it up, and tarping 40 to 60 mmm plastic.
If there is a military resale place by ya, please check out their web pages. You can get hoop style field tents that have fully open up, so you let the sun on, and you can close up all of some of the sections when the temps drop protecting the plants from the frost. We use them on the farm. It’s seems to work.
Wonderful day spent preparing for the winter! I carried in wood last week and had my chimney cleaned late spring of this year. I don't so heights, plus I have a steep roof system.
Yesterday, Saturday, I had my first fire in the stove. Love getting it ready and then run outside to watch the smoke come out of the flue.
Thanks for sharing once again!
Yay for the first fire 😀
My husband done got the chimney cleaned out and are enjoying the cozy warmth of chilly mornings. Love your channel I to love that calm country life. Finished up some beef bone broth this morning. Continue your lovely videos
Once at the end of the season my older sister had us younger kids pick everything that was left in the garden and she made and canned vegetable soup. It was so delicious that winter.
Yay! Still warm enough for a popsicle moment. This is what Matt should have gotten after the truck dash adventure.
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Thank you both, so much
That’s a lot preparation! Thank you Tipper and Matt.😊🇨🇦
I enjoy your videos so much especially when you sit down for a break, eat your fruit bars & just talk with us. I have learn so much from you. Thank you
I'm so glad! 😀
My Mama used the word "dreckly" often. In my mind I always thought it meant "in a few minutes" or "in a little bit". All southerners and country people from all over seem to do things in a similar way and use the same language in the same way. There are amazingly so many similarities between Mississippi and Appalachia. Really did enjoy this video. I remember doing things at the last minute right before the first frost ad y'all are doing.
Thank you Robert 😀
I’d like to see a day in the life of Matt at work I bet he’s super talented what a fine gentleman you got for yourself Tipper great marriage such a nice pleasure for me to watch you both work kindly side by side on his days off thanks for sharing your lives with us
Dreckly is a Cornish word meaning will be done in the future but with no specific time. It does not mean directly.
Thank you Papaw 😀 That explains the 2 different ways of saying it 😀
Thats the way my parents meant it. "Ill get to it, sometime".
You can always dry the peppers 🌶 too by putting a thread through them and hang them in a sunny dry spot of your kitchen.
Also I freeze them without washing them.
You guys are the cutest couple! I just love listening to you guys and watch your play and work with each other. 😊
😊 thank you
I think I've commented before on one of your language videos, Tipper, that my daddy would often answer with just one word, Terrectly with a t, when asked when he would be back home. It was his vague way of saying "after awhile," or "sooner or later."
Your videos are an inspiration.
I feel blessed to live where we have distinct seasons
Love your channel. Im 58 and was raised in Southwest Virginia Coalfields. Dickenson County Va. I am a coal miners daughter. I have lived that life and miss it so. Chocolate gravy and all the good cooking. My grandfather was one of the McCoys of Hatfields and McCoys from Kentucky. Bless yall
So glad you enjoy our videos 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia oh im so excited you responded. Im such a fan. I live now in Bristol Tennessee and so miss the mountains...
I liked just listening to you two, chat about stuff. My wife and I aren't that comfortable and we have been together 38 years. I envy you guys. this may sound funny but your sweet.
I still use the word "Dreckly " My family has always said it. I'm from W.Va .Love your videos. I watch it and remember all your recipes I grew up eating, and I usually make it the next day. So now I'm the greatest cook in the world. Thank you.
😀 Thank you Mary!
I love this time of year. The colors your vlog shows the beautiful fall light. Thanks
I love the quite time with the coconut Popsicles! Love your lifestyle. Thanks for sharing!!!
My dad used to say "directly" often. I heard myself say it a while back. I didn't even mean to say it, it just flew out of my mouth so easily. We are Hoosiers & many of your ways are our ways too. :) And like you folks, we don't pronounce the "t" in directly.
Watching your videos takes me back to my childhood. Such great memories. I have reached that time in my life where I can't do the things I used to do and it is really hard to accept sometimes. Thanks for your videos.
You all good folks.
y'all so much fun . blessings everyone .
Thank you 😀
So relaxed and enjoyable, you two sharing talk after working hard. I was out putting my own garden to bed today, harvesting the green tomatoes before the frost and taking down the plants for compost pile. And feeling the afternoon sun on my back though it was cool out. Wonderful life.
My mom is 75 and mows her own grass, tills her garden with a hand tiller, and could absolutely outwork most 25 year olds. I doubt I could find a teenager who could keep up with her.
I hope I'm like her Jason 😀
Love you Two !!!!! Thank you for all your wisdom .. and family stories ... love it !!!!
Thanks for watching!
I thoroughly enjoy listening to you and learning about different ways and familiar experiences we share. I'm in the foothills also but in Virginia. Your family is very creative and seem to be very close. I hope the best for you all.
It's starting to look like fall there with the leaves starting to change. Your popsicle breaks are enjoyable, thanks for sharing with us. There's a lot of preparation for a new season & you're getting a lot done. 🌾🍂🍁😊
I enjoyed this video soooo much, especially the last several minutes of your ice cream break! I loved your chat, a lot. You really got a lot accomplished and you will be ready for chilly weather with all your vegetables gathered. Matt has the chimney cleaned and lots of wood chopped! I’m sure you’ll be ready for chilly weather!
As always, another wonderful video and conversion with you and Matt.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Love this thank you for sharing.
Matt the flowers and garden go hand and hand keep the pollinators happy they will keep you happy. 😊
I really love the way you and Matt Reminisce
A good life. Good for ya' all.
You and Matt sitting there pondering.. nice, heartwarming
Thank you 😀