Outshine owes you a sponsorship, Tipper! After watching your first few popsicle talks earlier this summer, we bought a box of Outshine frozen treats for the first time in decades. We've been buying them regularly, ever since. Reading through the comments, it's clear that many other viewers have done the same. I think the buzzword is that you are an "influencer". Outshine needs to take notice. With nearly 200,000 subscribers, you're an advertising force to reckon with. Free Outshine Frozen Fruit Bars for the Pressleys!
I agree 100%. After watching her videos over this past summer, I bought several different flavors for us to try and we loved them all. My favorite is the coconut.
Fall and airish weather, the changes, it all signals the cozziness of home. It was always my favorite time of year to visit my grandparents in southeastern Kentucky. Snuggly warm in their old farmhouse, sitting around the coal stove at night and then crawling into bed. Sleeping on feather beds and pillows, and under all handmade quilts. Its memories and a dream now. The ultimate peace existed in that place. I miss them and those times more than words could ever express.
I have those same memories, big ol' feather bed and how big and round my eyes were when they explained to me what those large ceramic pots under the bed were used for. hahaha But those days were beautifully simple. The only trouble that came up were from each individual creating that trouble for themselves.
Watching this video made me think about people who may think living like the pioneers sounds so romantic don't realize how hard the pioneers really had to work! Watching Matt cut the wood with the ax...whew!!!😊
Just when I think I can’t possibly love another of Celebrating Appalachia’s videos any more than I already do -here comes this video --the sound of the ax and then the saw and the greenery and Tipper and Matt calm but hard working ways and then the popsicle talks -now I can start my day happy and imaging the smell of fresh wood and soil and ….popsicles --Much thanks for this 🪵 🌳 💐
I enjoy watching your channel. It takes me back to childhood visiting my grandma’s sister. She had a farm, and there was always something to do. From getting food out of the garden to feeding the cows, and the pigs and chickens. Plus she had grapes and an apple orchard. I had the time of my life there. It’s all gone now. Every one has past, and the property was sold. Now there are townhomes 😢
I’m with Matt, 30 in the morning and 50 all day would be great to work in. I worked outdoors year round building homes and remodeling and the hot weather wasn’t a lot of fun. I enjoy your popsicle conversations. All the best from Cape Cod!
A few years back, we started going out to the Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area here in VA to do what us suburban folk call primitive camping. After that first weekend there, we were overwhelmed by how relaxed we felt. It truly was an emotional, mental, and spiritual tune-up. Now, getting away from this area and camping out in the deep woods has become a necessity.
The Yellow Squash is called a "Spaghetti Squash" here in NY! You'll see to cook on the inside it's stringy like spaghetti! So happy you guys are feeling better!
Just love you two! You are wonderful together. You have done a wonderful job raising your lovely birthday girls. I am blessed every time I am able to watch your videos. God bless you and yours!
Love watching you and your family!!! Thanks for sharing your life!! I am from Kentucky and my grandparents had a farm in Busseyville Ky. I can relate to all of your videos!!! ❤
You two are amazing folks. It's so nice to hear your familiar talks. There's real love there and seeing that gives us all a taste of what love should be. Thank you for sharing your life with us. It's very special. God bless you all.
Love those first clear and fresh days. Matt cracks me up! You can see that he loves being home with you and the girls and is totally content. Good feeling! Tipper thanks so much for sharing this content! Thank you!
My grandparents never owned an air conditioner as long as Pop-pop, who passed in 1986, was alive. Through the hot summer nights, they slept the best they could with the windows open, but screened to keep the insects out. When the weather turned, as it now has, Pop-pop would say it was good sleeping weather. In cold weather, they slept under layers of blankets and comforters as the upstairs bedrooms were unheated. In the parts of the house that were heated , they used kerosene space heaters. In those days, kerosene was called coal oil.
Fall is my favorite time of year. Great weather to be outside in the God's beautiful, natural world. Enjoyed "sitting" with y'all this evening. God bless.
Two jobs ago, the place had a homebrewed log splitter made from the hydraulics from a small bulldozer and powered by an ancient Continental engine....you could bust big logs with it An electrician's knife has a dull blade.. it's for taking insulation off without damaging the wire, especially stranded. I can do without Summer....hot to me, is 75°.... that's a maximum. Fall and early Spring are my favorite times of the year. My grandparents heated with wood and coal....start on wood, then use coal. For coal, the stove has to be firebrick lined. This video reminds me of family back in the '70s....
Yall are fabulous - so honest & real & heartfelt - I've lived in NorthWest Tennessee over 40 years - raised on a dairy farm in South Dakota . Even though I'm a "flatlander', my memories & life in rural America are so similar in so many ways - love that you cherish & preserve this essential way of life as I do!
Love geetin’ wood as a family. We heat our home all winter on the dead trees we harvest. We go out for the day and load up our ‘76. Hot, tiring but oh so satisfying. We pray every time we return - to express our gratitude for the provisions the forests provide. We bond and work together- & spend weekends splitting wood with mauls & stacking. Matt is onto something with how much it taxes the body to do it, but it’s a healthy work out for sure. We don’t go to gyms or run on treadmills, but a good wood haul is worth it’s weight in physical fitness. We are so grateful to God for the ready resources we partake of. All the best to you & yours. ♥️
Wow, I know that was hard work splitting by hand, but you were almost as fast as the splitter. So nice to see you explaining things to your Daughter. Beautiful family, beautiful land.
I'd never had squirrel until I married my husband. He'd grown up in the woods hunting and fishing. He's taught me a lot too. One of our favorite meals is It Moved Soup. Whatever he'd bring home would go in the soup pot with a bunch of veggies and we'd have a wonderful supper.
You and Matt are a winning team, always working and communicating together. I hope that wood splitting machine is going to help Matt out more with that chore. My shoulders were hurting just watching him sling that ax and making contact with that wood.
When Matt talked about eating squirrel and dropping some dumplings in it and that that was mighty fine eating., he ain’t wrong. Squirrel soup and dumplings yes sir! Held many squirrel to get skinned and rabbit. Sounds like home to me.
I love your videos. Matt, thank you for your patience & tender teaching when it comes to the girls. I wish more dads were as encouraging & loving with their daughters in raising them & talking to them. We should all love our children for who they are & not for who we want them to be. You two are such wonderful parents who have their priorities right. I love your chats together after a long hard day of work. Hugs!
Love y'all! Please encourage your husband to take care of his back and use the splitter...my husband's back injury as a paramedic and firefighter eventually lead to his death 💔😢
I want to tell u how much I appreciate & love ur Sunday music. My Episcopal church tries to offer a wide range of music so I’ve suggested the organist the organist to find a time to listen to the Sunday program. U know I grew up in the country in WV & I heard all these songs but not for about 65 years but the minute I heard Ur Dad &Paul sing “On the Jericho Road” today I was transported back to that church that my Mom & I went to every single Sunday until I graduated from High School & left the area. Thank u so much.
I so look forward to the popsicle break💖💖💖..now that it's cooln off I can haul wood from the woods to cut up for firewood..planting more string beans,carrots,onions & sweet potatoes slips..dehydrated hot peppers & cylantro...can't wait for some rain..we have had none this week..used all water in the rain barrels..we have to make sure stuff has plenty of mulch to make it through the dry spells.. everyone be safe & blessed🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
I like it when you can sit outside with good friends and family and just be near together. and in between talking just listening to the quite as mother natures sighs over us. Drink in the peace with each other near, it goes right down to your bones .May the Good Lord bless and keep you and all of us good plain folks. Happy birthday and many more to your girls. Fried green maters, hot biscuits and crispy bacon and a swirl of sorghum syrup is what I call hog heaven.
We used to pick all our green tomatoes and place them on cardboard in our basement and they would ripen slowly all fall. Once we wrapped them in newspaper but found that was not really necessary. We would sometimes have ripe tomatoes until Christmas. Our basement was not heated but maintained a reasonable temperature year round.
I was getting ready to pull up the beets, radish,turnips and carrots I'd planted all in my stock watering container. None grew except for greens!!! But I found my carrots were growing!! Harvested one four inches!!! Did my happy dance!! Also found a few turnips!!! Yeah. Harvested my third cabbage and my first of six celery. Have flowers on all my eggplants. Peppers galore! Both green and yellow banana
I was thinking that Matt would get his fried green tomatoes. He deserves them after splitting all that wood! I'm really glad you're both feeling better! Listening to Matt talk about eating the squirrels made me think of my father. When I was little, we lived in the woods, and my father hunted and fished all the time. He loved squirrel and rabbit. My mother always made stew out of them.
Enjoy that cool weather. We waiting to see where this hurricane is going to hit us at. From what they're showing I'm going to get some of it, no matter which area it hits. Yay!
Chit chattin over popsicles is a real nice thing to do. We all grew up fishing, shooting squirrels, rabbits, turkey, pheasant, prairie chickens, duck and of course deer. We were poor but so was everyone else. There were 9 of us boy cousins with 3 uncles that did outdoor stuff together, It was just what we did as an extended family and we loved it. Wouldn't change a thing - best at childhood ever. You all still live that way and I wish I had never left it. You have been blessed. Who else loves where they live, so much, that they wouldn't trade it for the world. The best things in life can't be bought, no matter how rich you are and much of what you can buy isn't worth much of anything at all. The best to you and yours.
Collect up your biggest tomatoes, wrap'em in newspaper and put'em under the bed. Get the others and fix Matt some fried tomatoes. The green ones you can ripen on your window sill. Ours are still producing but for as many worms as we pick off there's always another and we throw away 3 for every one we pick. Now it's a race to see if we get cabbage or beets before a hard freeze gets them. Hog killin' time comin', huh?
I wonder if the term "airish weather" was originally "Irish weather" since Ireland is usually cooler and damper than what you normally have and also many of the original settlers were from Ireland and it reminded them of the weather back home. 🤔
I love the end of summer August into all of September. The greenery is old green and the sky is a brighter blue ,the air has a gold tint. Even where I live in west Texas. We hardly have a true fall. End of hot summer beginning hot fall, yet the air has that golden glow for the beginning of fall. I grew up in northwest Arkansas and late summer and all fall was my favorite time of the year. The first wood smoke smell from a wood burning stove or fireplace and finally the night flight of geese. Most time they would fly in day, but once in awhile we would hear them at night. Mom would think they were lost and fret over them. Ahh, the memories. Love your life .Thank you for sharing. Oh, my grandfather split wood for yrs. Axe and block.
Tipper, my husband and I have been doing the same kinds of work! A couple of weeks ago my husband, our daughter, and I were loading some split wood into our truck so we could move it to the wood shed. I kept feeling like I should warn our daughter to be careful and not throw a piece of wood and hit the back glass of the truck. I finally told her to be careful. About 1 minute later, my husband threw a piece which skidded up the edge of the bed of the truck and bounced into the back glass, shattering it. FUN! ; ) Fortunately, our insurance covered it and it was replaced. We've been splitting and stacking wood and I've been bringing in and preserving the last of things from the garden and orchard. Our various peppers don't want to stop. We're going to have to put the garden to bed this week (remove weed fabric, cattle panels, etc. and get ready for it to be plowed...) because we need to butcher chickens and turkeys by the 22nd of October. My husband took our window AC units out this weekend and cleaned stove pipes for the wood stoves....realized we needed a replacement baffle board on one of the stoves, so I got that ordered. This week we plan to order beef for the freezer and pork belly for smoking bacon soon, now that it's cooling down. I can't wait to smell the smoke house!! I'm sorry to hear that you all have been sick. Glad you're on the mend! God bless.
Here is a great idea I will share with you! We use it all the time! So when you buy your seed packs, and then arrive. You lay them all out on your table, take a picture of each pack! Print them out, and laminate them. Then use the large size tongue depressor sticks, if you can find at the garden, tractor supply store garden sign sticks, spikes. We used old tent stacks we found at the local consignment shop. What ya do is clip the seed packs to their sticks and enjoy planting. Hope this works out.
My favorite season living in the mountains is the winter. I like the colo and snow. I grew up in the Smokey Mountains in Maggie Valley N.C. back in the 50s and 60s. So many things to do and the mountains sort of talk to you. So peaceful and soothing. In the summer we would dam up the creek and make us a swimming hole. Fishing in the crick, looking for Jack in the pulpit and ramps. Pealing big sheets of mice, looking under rocks at the reservoir for shinks, skimming rocks on Johnathan creek and many many more things. I sure miss those days. Such a awesome part of my life. If I could live my life over again I would have never moved away from there. I really love your videos. I makes me think of all the great times of growing up in the Smokies.
As soon as Matt started talking about eating squirrel, I thought "I bet that it would go well with cornbread!", and my suspicion was soon confirmed. An idea for a future video!
I'm a little south of you, Tipper, but the cool weather even made as far south as Birmingham. It's been so nice at night - you can take a deep breath! the humidity has dropped and it feels so nice. Our air conditioner went out on us last week during that last heat wave and we're still waiting for repairs. So this cool weather is very welcome at our house! Reminds me of when I was a kid and we didn't have air conditioning. Fans blowing in every room and windows open and front & back doors open all day and night! I feel like I'm camping out! Good to see y'all - feel like we just had a good visit with you and Matt. God bless.
I do so agree about being outside. I miss the days that I could take my boys and go camping. I'm sure I told you before but I spent the most wonderful vacation I've ever had for 3 weeks under a homemade tent at Pine Creek up near the Appalachian trail. It was wonderful just to be with my boys that long. And I too love food cooked outside. And if you just take a sandwich and go to the woods it just seems to taste so much better.. it too has been very cool here a couple of mornings, got down to 42. We just now finally got a really good rain. And now it's really cool outside. I live on the North Side of the Mountain also so by now there's no sunshine hitting the house until late late afternoon and then just for about an hour. But it's to be expected. It is the fall of the year and we're headed toward winter. But we've got that beautiful season of the beautiful foliage that comes around in October. And the power goes out on my Mountain a lot. But I have several lamps and I have two fireplaces one in each end of the house so my son Cuts wood for me so we will be okay. Really did enjoy the video from Saturday I just love watching you and Matt talk to each other. Hold on tight it's so precious. I miss my husband so very much. And I'm sure your mom misses your dad. My mom and dad were married 72 years and I know when my mother died my dad was just lost. But anyway thank you for sharing your life with us.. Tipper, I hope you know how much you sharing your life with us means to me. I really enjoy these videos. So glad you're feeling better.:-)
Your simple and soul soothing conversation(s) about life , nature, simple wants and family are most refreshing to me and please know that I thank and admire you for reminding me to enjoy and appreciate the beauty and fulfillment of country life every chance I get…. despite all the modern conveniences and advancements in technology . May the Good Lord always bless and keep you and yours safe. Thank you so much.
We would have squirrel stew when those critters would get into our pecan trees after the nuts ripened. Squirrel tasted good all fattened up on pecans! 😄
I sure enjoyed this video today! Ive been a follower of your blog since the girls were little and you built them a "fort" on granny's porch because it was raining! My folks grew up in north Arkansas and I feel so comfortable when I watch your videos. Matt makes me think of my youngest son, they raised his rent just as his room mate left so he took his tent and went camping on a buddy's land for 6 months. He'd send me pictures of his supper over the fire.He still went to work every day. I was proud he could do that. Keep the videos coming and God bless!!
The fried tomato conversation was funny. I have had eggplant do exceptionally well this year and have made all kinds of recipes. One night for supper my husband said, "could we just have fried eggplant?" Lol Why these "popsicle" conversations mean so much, I don't know. But they do. And thank you.
I try and save seeds from any volunteer, I figured if it is strong enough to reproduce itself in my climate that would be a good thing to encourage. You may end up with a Tipper's melon after a few years that grows well in the Appalachian mountains!
The do it the old school way! All you need is para cord, your knife, a leather man, and a branch of wood to make a spin bow, and make a drill stick, and a fire block. You sent up your soon bow have your spar nest ready. Breech shaving, branch shavings so when you spin up a friction Amber you can transfer it to your shavings nest. It takes practice.
My husband would squirrel hunt, and would cook it by dipping the pieces in egg then coat it in flour seasoned with S&P, then fry it in some crisco. It is so tasty that way!
I haven't had squirrel gravy since granny died back in the late 70s. I had never thought of puttin' dumplins in the pot 🤦♀️ Gran would put the meat in a pot of water and simmer it a long time (until tender) then take the bones out and she would cook lard & flour in a skillet and add that to the pot of broth and cook it until it was gravy and we ate it over biscuits, cornbread and even light bread. What ever was handy. My husband's mamaw cut a squirrel into 4 pieces and fried it like chicken. Neither one of us has eaten squirrel since our maternal grandmothers passed on.
Watching Matt splitting wood brings back good memories of when I was much younger. Early eighties my dad and I would help our Yugoslavian neighbor with his firewood, (his mom would visit and only cooked over a fire). We hand split an 8’ wall around his backyard which was a half acre. I was 11 years old and had a blast. Buba burned through it in a few months. Thanks for your videos.
My dad used to hunt squirrels when I was a kid and my mom would fry them like chicken and we would have squirrel with mashed potatoes. My dad would always warn us to be careful in case he missed some bird shot when he was cleaning the meat.
Love all your videos!!! So comforting to hear your stories of past times and Appalachian history...My Grandparents had a sustainable homestead and I spent a lot of my time there as we lived a 1/4 mile up the road...We all learned valuable life skills spending time there...I just took 2 loaves of homemade bread out of the oven and finished making 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies before that...I've been making bread since I was 12...I live in the city now and I do miss sitting out on the porch in the evenings listening to the summer sounds without car noise and I miss hearing roosters crowing and clucking chickens...I hang onto my memories to get through these crazy times...I could not eat a squirrel...They are just too cute...My Grandparents talked about eating Pigeon for Christmas dinner during the war...hard times were had then...that year my Grandparents made their children's toys as well.
This is added to my favorite popsicle talks in the garden. There have been several that really struck a fond note with me. Your crickets are chirping in the background again and I can tell autumn is near. Really enjoy Matt talking about/showing his knives. Did he say that is a Mora Black Garberg ? His splitting wood , especially with a splitting maul by hand brings fond memories too. For years I cut and split my own mesquite and blackjack oak and stacked it for winter. Each one has a very distinctive and sweet aroma when split and burned also. Makes the house smell so fine as does the woodpile. The blackjack oaks have changed color here maybe a little earlier than normal for central Texas. The monarch butterflies have started drifting through on their migration South as of yesterday , a sure sign of coming autumn. Really enjoyed today's show. Glad yall are feeling better and wish the girls happy birthday for me. Regards and best wishes.
I am so jealous!! We are still in the 90's. We use to say Grandma would walk around with her mouth wide open taking in the first cool front! I think I do the same! I'm watching that hurricane that might be heading your direction later next week. It might put off my trip plans, which makes me so disappointed. Just have to wait and see. I'm like Matt, the first time I feel a cool front go thru I am ready to cut wood. Passing down Matt's knowledge to Katy is priceless. I am so thankful my dad did the same with me. Breakfast in the woods is so much better! So is coffee. I agree Tipper, a Winter time of year 70 degrees is cooler than a 70's Summer degrees. HA Well at least it feels that way!
We had fried squirrel last night. Bernie will take old squirrels and pressure cook them for 12 minutes, take them out season and flor, then fry them. They are delicious! Last week he made squirrel, tomato, corn and okra stew, it too was delicious.
If you can find the breech trees in your area their bark is amazing for making fire start bundles! Any type of trees where the bark peels off as paper works best! Matt, if you have wood planners, or routers at work the shavings from them are awesome to create wood starter bundles. With a steel survival spark stick. On the spine side of your knife their is a way to mill it so you have a working edge to strike your fire starter stick with! So you don’t dull your knife edge.
Enjoyed this video Miss Tipper! Thanks for the knife lesson Mr. Matt and yes being outside cookin over an open fire out in nature definitely helps us connect with GOD as well as ourselves. Wild game is very tasty food. Thank y’all for sharing! 😇🙏🏻👍🏻❤️🙌🏻
When the air is clearer the sun feels hotter if you're right in it. That's also why the shade feels cooler. It's that lower humidity that makes the difference.
My daddy used to make awesome squirrel gravy. We would have squirrel gravy biscuits and sweet potatoes on the side. I went hunting with him and help him clean them. People has made fun of me for saying that I liked daddy’s squirrel gravy but it was some good eatin’!
I really enjoy seeing and hearing about your life and how ya'll live in Appalachian. So laid back and peaceful..away from traffic, cities. Thank you for sharing yourself and your family. 🙏❤
I love the 2 of you.It brings back child hood memories from back in kentucky when I was young I was raised in ohio but my roots came from ky.I love the old ways an love every thing you 2 talk about.Thank you what a joy it brings to me each morning.
Time to get y’all some Tommy Copper lower back, and Ab shorts so you have the support you need thru out the day to get your work down! Yup we spilt wood all the time! We forest manage all the fallen trees, haul them to the wood pile! Then spilt them up! We try to have ten cords of wood to start the winter season!
Wonderful visit today, Tipper and Matt. I can't stand spiders either, Tipper....to the point that I didn't use much mascara because 1) my lashes were long and thick enough and 2) mascara added to them made them look like spider legs! lol The false lashes some women wear today make think of fly swatters. I'm thinking Matt is a fine a man as you are a woman. What a great pair you are! Thanks for the visit.
I love Tipper and Matt's popsicle talks!! 😊🤗💜💜
I'm so glad 😀
Me too.
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Y’all I had to go buy da gum popsicles after their talks 🤦🏼♀️😂
@@livinglife8333Me, too. 😁
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After watching your first few popsicle talks earlier this summer, we bought a box of Outshine frozen treats for the first time in decades. We've been buying them regularly, ever since. Reading through the comments, it's clear that many other viewers have done the same. I think the buzzword is that you are an "influencer". Outshine needs to take notice. With nearly 200,000 subscribers, you're an advertising force to reckon with. Free Outshine Frozen Fruit Bars for the Pressleys!
😀 Thank you Roland!!
I agree 100%. After watching her videos over this past summer, I bought several different flavors for us to try and we loved them all. My favorite is the coconut.
@@meloniemurillo2885 Coconut. Ah, yes, Matt's sun tan lotion!
I recently tried the chocolate OUTSHINE. It was pretty good! Kind of like a fudge pop.
@@phyllispitts6656 We've been buying fruit flavors, Phyllis. We love them. I'll keep an eye out for chocolate. My wife would love those.
Fall and airish weather, the changes, it all signals the cozziness of home. It was always my favorite time of year to visit my grandparents in southeastern Kentucky. Snuggly warm in their old farmhouse, sitting around the coal stove at night and then crawling into bed. Sleeping on feather beds and pillows, and under all handmade quilts. Its memories and a dream now. The ultimate peace existed in that place. I miss them and those times more than words could ever express.
It makes me feel like that too 😀
I have those same memories, big ol' feather bed and how big and round my eyes were when they explained to me what those large ceramic pots under the bed were used for. hahaha But those days were beautifully simple. The only trouble that came up were from each individual creating that trouble for themselves.
Watching this video made me think about people who may think living like the pioneers sounds so romantic don't realize how hard the pioneers really had to work! Watching Matt cut the wood with the ax...whew!!!😊
It was a hard life 😀
Chopping wood is such a hard job.
@@pattytheseeker8902 We used to say chopping wood warms you twice.
Just when I think I can’t possibly love another of Celebrating Appalachia’s videos any more than I already do -here comes this video --the sound of the ax and then the saw and the greenery and Tipper and Matt calm but hard working ways and then the popsicle talks -now I can start my day happy and imaging the smell of fresh wood and soil and ….popsicles --Much thanks for this 🪵 🌳 💐
So glad you enjoyed it!!
Catie talking with her dad is so nice. Matt is such a CAN DO kind of guy. They all are. Love the popsicle talks too. Love all the videos. 💕
First time seeing this video.
I LOVE this channel. So refreshing and comforting in a time of madness in our country. Thank you Tipper and Matt 😊
I enjoy watching your channel. It takes me back to childhood visiting my grandma’s sister. She had a farm, and there was always something to do. From getting food out of the garden to feeding the cows, and the pigs and chickens. Plus she had grapes and an apple orchard. I had the time of my life there. It’s all gone now. Every one has past, and the property was sold. Now there are townhomes 😢
I'm glad you've got those good memories 😀
I’m with Matt, 30 in the morning and 50 all day would be great to work in. I worked outdoors year round building homes and remodeling and the hot weather wasn’t a lot of fun. I enjoy your popsicle conversations. All the best from Cape Cod!
Thank you 😀
Happy Birthday Pressley Twins! ❤️
Thank you 😀
I love living in southern Appalachia too and I’m glad I’ve found someone who appreciates our heritage as much as I do.
A few years back, we started going out to the Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area here in VA to do what us suburban folk call primitive camping. After that first weekend there, we were overwhelmed by how relaxed we felt. It truly was an emotional, mental, and spiritual tune-up. Now, getting away from this area and camping out in the deep woods has become a necessity.
Time spent with Tipper and Matt is always a pleasure. Thank you folks for the nice visit.
The Yellow Squash is called a "Spaghetti Squash" here in NY! You'll see to cook on the inside it's stringy like spaghetti! So happy you guys are feeling better!
I was thinking that's what it looked like 😀
So glad I found this channel! It’s my way of visiting the mountains again. God bless your beautiful family
Thanks so much 😀
Good to see you all are feeling better! Fall is here as well and we are rushing to make up for a wicked monsoon season.🍁
Thank you for watching 😀
Just love you two! You are wonderful together.
You have done a wonderful job raising your lovely birthday girls. I am blessed every time I am able to watch your videos.
God bless you and yours!
Love watching you and your family!!! Thanks for sharing your life!! I am from Kentucky and my grandparents had a farm in Busseyville Ky. I can relate to all of your videos!!! ❤
You two are amazing folks. It's so nice to hear your familiar talks. There's real love there and seeing that gives us all a taste of what love should be. Thank you for sharing your life with us. It's very special. God bless you all.
Thank you so much!
Love those first clear and fresh days. Matt cracks me up! You can see that he loves being home with you and the girls and is totally content. Good feeling!
Tipper thanks so much for sharing this content! Thank you!
We do too 😀 Thank you!
My grandparents never owned an air conditioner as long as Pop-pop, who passed in 1986, was alive. Through the hot summer nights, they slept the best they could with the windows open, but screened to keep the insects out. When the weather turned, as it now has, Pop-pop would say it was good sleeping weather. In cold weather, they slept under layers of blankets and comforters as the upstairs bedrooms were unheated. In the parts of the house that were heated , they used kerosene space heaters. In those days, kerosene was called coal oil.
Fall is my favorite time of year. Great weather to be outside in the God's beautiful, natural world. Enjoyed "sitting" with y'all this evening. God bless.
Thank you Sam 😀
Two jobs ago, the place had a homebrewed log splitter made from the hydraulics from a small bulldozer and powered by an ancient Continental engine....you could bust big logs with it
An electrician's knife has a dull blade.. it's for taking insulation off without damaging the wire, especially stranded.
I can do without Summer....hot to me, is 75°.... that's a maximum.
Fall and early Spring are my favorite times of the year.
My grandparents heated with wood and coal....start on wood, then use coal. For coal, the stove has to be firebrick lined.
This video reminds me of family back in the '70s....
Jan thinks y’all should save the popsicle sticks to write on for marking your rows in the garden 😊
We should 😀
Yall are fabulous - so honest & real & heartfelt - I've lived in NorthWest Tennessee over 40 years - raised on a dairy farm in South Dakota . Even though I'm a "flatlander', my memories & life in rural America are so similar in so many ways - love that you cherish & preserve this essential way of life as I do!
Love geetin’ wood as a family. We heat our home all winter on the dead trees we harvest. We go out for the day and load up our ‘76. Hot, tiring but oh so satisfying. We pray every time we return - to express our gratitude for the provisions the forests provide. We bond and work together- & spend weekends splitting wood with mauls & stacking. Matt is onto something with how much it taxes the body to do it, but it’s a healthy work out for sure. We don’t go to gyms or run on treadmills, but a good wood haul is worth it’s weight in physical fitness. We are so grateful to God for the ready resources we partake of. All the best to you & yours. ♥️
Wow, I know that was hard work splitting by hand, but you were almost as fast as the splitter. So nice to see you explaining things to your Daughter. Beautiful family, beautiful land.
Glad you liked it!
I'd never had squirrel until I married my husband. He'd grown up in the woods hunting and fishing. He's taught me a lot too. One of our favorite meals is It Moved Soup. Whatever he'd bring home would go in the soup pot with a bunch of veggies and we'd have a wonderful supper.
It's good to see you two feeling better! Here in central Texas we're still in the nineties. Happy your weather is getting cooler! Thanks God bless
You and Matt are a winning team, always working and communicating together. I hope that wood splitting machine is going to help Matt out more with that chore. My shoulders were hurting just watching him sling that ax and making contact with that wood.
When Matt talked about eating squirrel and dropping some dumplings in it and that that was mighty fine eating., he ain’t wrong. Squirrel soup and dumplings yes sir! Held many squirrel to get skinned and rabbit. Sounds like home to me.
I love your videos. Matt, thank you for your patience & tender teaching when it comes to the girls. I wish more dads were as encouraging & loving with their daughters in raising them & talking to them. We should all love our children for who they are & not for who we want them to be. You two are such wonderful parents who have their priorities right. I love your chats together after a long hard day of work. Hugs!
God how I love these beautiful, normal people living in the great Appalachia. Love to hear the word the air is airish. I hope heaven has Mts.
That concerned look at Matt’s face! It’s all good work out! With a fab popsicle treat reward!!! Get Some!
That splitter sure is easier on your back! Fall is coming! Life is the mountains is wonderful! There is a nip in the air, fall is upon us!
Love y'all! Please encourage your husband to take care of his back and use the splitter...my husband's back injury as a paramedic and firefighter eventually lead to his death 💔😢
I'm so sorry Julia!! Thank you for watching 😀
I want to tell u how much I appreciate & love ur Sunday music. My Episcopal church tries to offer a wide range of music so I’ve suggested the organist the organist to find a time to listen to the Sunday program. U know I grew up in the country in WV & I heard all these songs but not for about 65 years but the minute I heard Ur Dad &Paul sing “On the Jericho Road” today I was transported back to that church that my Mom & I went to every single Sunday until I graduated from High School & left the area. Thank u so much.
I so look forward to the popsicle break💖💖💖..now that it's cooln off I can haul wood from the woods to cut up for firewood..planting more string beans,carrots,onions & sweet potatoes slips..dehydrated hot peppers & cylantro...can't wait for some rain..we have had none this week..used all water in the rain barrels..we have to make sure stuff has plenty of mulch to make it through the dry spells.. everyone be safe & blessed🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
I like it when you can sit outside with good friends and family and just be near together. and in between talking just listening to the quite as mother natures sighs over us. Drink in the peace with each other near, it goes right down to your bones .May the Good Lord bless and keep you and all of us good plain folks. Happy birthday and many more to your girls. Fried green maters, hot biscuits and crispy bacon and a swirl of sorghum syrup is what I call hog heaven.
We used to pick all our green tomatoes and place them on cardboard in our basement and they would ripen slowly all fall. Once we wrapped them in newspaper but found that was not really necessary. We would sometimes have ripe tomatoes until Christmas. Our basement was not heated but maintained a reasonable temperature year round.
Granny loves to do that each year 😀
❤❤❤ Thank you all
I was getting ready to pull up the beets, radish,turnips and carrots
I'd planted all in my stock watering container. None grew except for greens!!! But I found my carrots were growing!! Harvested one four inches!!! Did my happy dance!! Also found a few turnips!!! Yeah. Harvested my third cabbage and my first of six celery. Have flowers on all my eggplants. Peppers galore! Both green and yellow banana
Yay!!
My Dad's favorite word when cooler weather came around was the word " airish". I use it in memerance to my Dad.
Great invention the wood splitter
I was raised up on squirrel with gravy and biscuits and so much more.I hope y'all have had another good day today.
Thank you Donna!! We have had a good day. Hope you have too 😀
I was thinking that Matt would get his fried green tomatoes. He deserves them after splitting all that wood! I'm really glad you're both feeling better! Listening to Matt talk about eating the squirrels made me think of my father. When I was little, we lived in the woods, and my father hunted and fished all the time. He loved squirrel and rabbit. My mother always made stew out of them.
Enjoy that cool weather. We waiting to see where this hurricane is going to hit us at. From what they're showing I'm going to get some of it, no matter which area it hits. Yay!
We are just loving it 😀
Chit chattin over popsicles is a real nice thing to do. We all grew up fishing, shooting squirrels, rabbits, turkey, pheasant, prairie chickens, duck and of course deer. We were poor but so was everyone else. There were 9 of us boy cousins with 3 uncles that did outdoor stuff together, It was just what we did as an extended family and we loved it. Wouldn't change a thing - best at childhood ever. You all still live that way and I wish I had never left it. You have been blessed. Who else loves where they live, so much, that they wouldn't trade it for the world. The best things in life can't be bought, no matter how rich you are and much of what you can buy isn't worth much of anything at all. The best to you and yours.
Thank you 😀
Collect up your biggest tomatoes, wrap'em in newspaper and put'em under the bed. Get the others and fix Matt some fried tomatoes. The green ones you can ripen on your window sill. Ours are still producing but for as many worms as we pick off there's always another and we throw away 3 for every one we pick. Now it's a race to see if we get cabbage or beets before a hard freeze gets them. Hog killin' time comin', huh?
I wonder if the term "airish weather" was originally "Irish weather" since Ireland is usually cooler and damper than what you normally have and also many of the original settlers were from Ireland and it reminded them of the weather back home. 🤔
Maybe so 😀
Nothing like fried squirrel with squirrel gravy and homemade biscuits.
Yum 😀
I love the end of summer August into all of September. The greenery is old green and the sky is a brighter blue ,the air has a gold tint. Even where I live in west Texas. We hardly have a true fall. End of hot summer beginning hot fall, yet the air has that golden glow for the beginning of fall. I grew up in northwest Arkansas and late summer and all fall was my favorite time of the year. The first wood smoke smell from a wood burning stove or fireplace and finally the night flight of geese. Most time they would fly in day, but once in awhile we would hear them at night. Mom would think they were lost and fret over them. Ahh, the memories. Love your life .Thank you for sharing. Oh, my grandfather split wood for yrs. Axe and block.
Tipper, my husband and I have been doing the same kinds of work! A couple of weeks ago my husband, our daughter, and I were loading some split wood into our truck so we could move it to the wood shed. I kept feeling like I should warn our daughter to be careful and not throw a piece of wood and hit the back glass of the truck. I finally told her to be careful. About 1 minute later, my husband threw a piece which skidded up the edge of the bed of the truck and bounced into the back glass, shattering it. FUN! ; ) Fortunately, our insurance covered it and it was replaced.
We've been splitting and stacking wood and I've been bringing in and preserving the last of things from the garden and orchard. Our various peppers don't want to stop. We're going to have to put the garden to bed this week (remove weed fabric, cattle panels, etc. and get ready for it to be plowed...) because we need to butcher chickens and turkeys by the 22nd of October.
My husband took our window AC units out this weekend and cleaned stove pipes for the wood stoves....realized we needed a replacement baffle board on one of the stoves, so I got that ordered.
This week we plan to order beef for the freezer and pork belly for smoking bacon soon, now that it's cooling down. I can't wait to smell the smoke house!!
I'm sorry to hear that you all have been sick. Glad you're on the mend! God bless.
Yall have been busy!! I love this time of the year. Preparing for winter is a comforting feeling somehow 😀
This is my favorite time of the year. No heater no AC… just Perfect❤️☺️
So nice 😀
Here is a great idea I will share with you! We use it all the time! So when you buy your seed packs, and then arrive. You lay them all out on your table, take a picture of each pack! Print them out, and laminate them. Then use the large size tongue depressor sticks, if you can find at the garden, tractor supply store garden sign sticks, spikes. We used old tent stacks we found at the local consignment shop. What ya do is clip the seed packs to their sticks and enjoy planting. Hope this works out.
Sister....brother mat...Yes indeed...Yes indeed...Squirrel gravy...Come on now....cornbread...grits,Collards,sweet tea.....I appreciate Y'all....Lord Guide Y'all..Lord keep Y'all...,Lord bless Y'all....Walt🍉🍊🍈🍇🥒🌶🍐🍏🍎🍅🍓🍒🍑🥝🍍🍌and Hellmann's mayonnaise 😊
My favorite season living in the mountains is the winter. I like the colo and snow. I grew up in the Smokey Mountains in Maggie Valley N.C. back in the 50s and 60s. So many things to do and the mountains sort of talk to you. So peaceful and soothing. In the summer we would dam up the creek and make us a swimming hole. Fishing in the crick, looking for Jack in the pulpit and ramps. Pealing big sheets of mice, looking under rocks at the reservoir for shinks, skimming rocks on Johnathan creek and many many more things. I sure miss those days. Such a awesome part of my life. If I could live my life over again I would have never moved away from there. I really love your videos. I makes me think of all the great times of growing up in the Smokies.
Wonderful memories! So glad we remind you of them 😀
As soon as Matt started talking about eating squirrel, I thought "I bet that it would go well with cornbread!", and my suspicion was soon confirmed. An idea for a future video!
I'm a little south of you, Tipper, but the cool weather even made as far south as Birmingham. It's been so nice at night - you can take a deep breath! the humidity has dropped and it feels so nice. Our air conditioner went out on us last week during that last heat wave and we're still waiting for repairs. So this cool weather is very welcome at our house! Reminds me of when I was a kid and we didn't have air conditioning. Fans blowing in every room and windows open and front & back doors open all day and night! I feel like I'm camping out! Good to see y'all - feel like we just had a good visit with you and Matt. God bless.
Always Enjoy whatever your doing, but think My favorite times are You & Matt s popsicle & talk times about whatever. ENJOYED TODAY'S!!
Yay! Thank you!
I remember life before log splitters. We had a hedge row of Osage Orange trees… Decades later and my core muscles are still solid😂
We have always used airish!! I love my heritage!
I do so agree about being outside. I miss the days that I could take my boys and go camping. I'm sure I told you before but I spent the most wonderful vacation I've ever had for 3 weeks under a homemade tent at Pine Creek up near the Appalachian trail. It was wonderful just to be with my boys that long. And I too love food cooked outside. And if you just take a sandwich and go to the woods it just seems to taste so much better.. it too has been very cool here a couple of mornings, got down to 42. We just now finally got a really good rain. And now it's really cool outside. I live on the North Side of the Mountain also so by now there's no sunshine hitting the house until late late afternoon and then just for about an hour. But it's to be expected. It is the fall of the year and we're headed toward winter. But we've got that beautiful season of the beautiful foliage that comes around in October. And the power goes out on my Mountain a lot. But I have several lamps and I have two fireplaces one in each end of the house so my son Cuts wood for me so we will be okay. Really did enjoy the video from Saturday I just love watching you and Matt talk to each other. Hold on tight it's so precious. I miss my husband so very much. And I'm sure your mom misses your dad. My mom and dad were married 72 years and I know when my mother died my dad was just lost. But anyway thank you for sharing your life with us.. Tipper, I hope you know how much you sharing your life with us means to me. I really enjoy these videos. So glad you're feeling better.:-)
Thank you Yuvonda! We so appreciate you 😀
Your simple and soul soothing conversation(s) about life , nature, simple wants and family are most refreshing to me and please know that I thank and admire you for reminding me to enjoy and appreciate the beauty and fulfillment of country life every chance I get…. despite all the modern conveniences and advancements in technology . May the Good Lord always bless and keep you and yours safe. Thank you so much.
We would have squirrel stew when those critters would get into our pecan trees after the nuts ripened. Squirrel tasted good all fattened up on pecans! 😄
I sure enjoyed this video today! Ive been a follower of your blog since the girls were little and you built them a "fort" on granny's porch because it was raining! My folks grew up in north Arkansas and I feel so comfortable when I watch your videos. Matt makes me think of my youngest son, they raised his rent just as his room mate left so he took his tent and went camping on a buddy's land for 6 months. He'd send me pictures of his supper over the fire.He still went to work every day. I was proud he could do that. Keep the videos coming and God bless!!
Thank you Carolyn! We appreciate you 😀
It's heavy labor at Tipper's house today.
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The fried tomato conversation was funny. I have had eggplant do exceptionally well this year and have made all kinds of recipes. One night for supper my husband said, "could we just have fried eggplant?" Lol Why these "popsicle" conversations mean so much, I don't know. But they do. And thank you.
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I try and save seeds from any volunteer, I figured if it is strong enough to reproduce itself in my climate that would be a good thing to encourage. You may end up with a Tipper's melon after a few years that grows well in the Appalachian mountains!
I'd eat fried squirrel and gravy in a heartbeat. My grandpa and I squirrel and rabbit hunted way more than we deer hunted. I love it.
Good to see you all are feeling better! Thank you!
Thank you James 😀
I feel like Matt and Tipper are just sitting and shooting the breeze with me...
Love that 😀
Really enjoyed this video and the rooster in the background. A beautiful day in the mountains.
Matt keeps getting better looking all the time.
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The do it the old school way! All you need is para cord, your knife, a leather man, and a branch of wood to make a spin bow, and make a drill stick, and a fire block.
You sent up your soon bow have your spar nest ready. Breech shaving, branch shavings so when you spin up a friction Amber you can transfer it to your shavings nest. It takes practice.
In the previous millennium we filled film canisters with sawdust and poured in enough kerosene to soak in and kept them handy as firestarters.
Thank you for sharing that David 😀
I think squirrel meat is awesome!
You two are absolutely adorable!!
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My husband would squirrel hunt, and would cook it by dipping the pieces in egg then coat it in flour seasoned with S&P, then fry it in some crisco. It is so tasty that way!
I haven't had squirrel gravy since granny died back in the late 70s. I had never thought of puttin' dumplins in the pot 🤦♀️ Gran would put the meat in a pot of water and simmer it a long time (until tender) then take the bones out and she would cook lard & flour in a skillet and add that to the pot of broth and cook it until it was gravy and we ate it over biscuits, cornbread and even light bread. What ever was handy. My husband's mamaw cut a squirrel into 4 pieces and fried it like chicken. Neither one of us has eaten squirrel since our maternal grandmothers passed on.
Watching Matt splitting wood brings back good memories of when I was much younger. Early eighties my dad and I would help our Yugoslavian neighbor with his firewood, (his mom would visit and only cooked over a fire). We hand split an 8’ wall around his backyard which was a half acre. I was 11 years old and had a blast. Buba burned through it in a few months. Thanks for your videos.
My dad used to hunt squirrels when I was a kid and my mom would fry them like chicken and we would have squirrel with mashed potatoes. My dad would always warn us to be careful in case he missed some bird shot when he was cleaning the meat.
I wish it would cool off a bit here still 92 in Corpus Christi!
I hope you get some cooler weather 😀
Love how you two talk to each other and enjoy life.
Thank you 😀
Every stroke of Matt's ax hit right where he wanted it.
😀 He's got lots of experience LOL Thank you for watching!
Love all your videos!!! So comforting to hear your stories of past times and Appalachian history...My Grandparents had a sustainable homestead and I spent a lot of my time there as we lived a 1/4 mile up the road...We all learned valuable life skills spending time there...I just took 2 loaves of homemade bread out of the oven and finished making 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies before that...I've been making bread since I was 12...I live in the city now and I do miss sitting out on the porch in the evenings listening to the summer sounds without car noise and I miss hearing roosters crowing and clucking chickens...I hang onto my memories to get through these crazy times...I could not eat a squirrel...They are just too cute...My Grandparents talked about eating Pigeon for Christmas dinner during the war...hard times were had then...that year my Grandparents made their children's toys as well.
This is added to my favorite popsicle talks in the garden. There have been several that really struck a fond note with me. Your crickets are chirping in the background again and I can tell autumn is near. Really enjoy Matt talking about/showing his knives. Did he say that is a Mora Black Garberg ? His splitting wood , especially with a splitting maul by hand brings fond memories too. For years I cut and split my own mesquite and blackjack oak and stacked it for winter. Each one has a very distinctive and sweet aroma when split and burned also. Makes the house smell so fine as does the woodpile. The blackjack oaks have changed color here maybe a little earlier than normal for central Texas. The monarch butterflies have started drifting through on their migration South as of yesterday , a sure sign of coming autumn. Really enjoyed today's show. Glad yall are feeling better and wish the girls happy birthday for me. Regards and best wishes.
That is the name of the knife 😀 So glad you enjoyed this one!
And the popsicle! A signr that all is right with the world!
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I am so jealous!! We are still in the 90's. We use to say Grandma would walk around with her mouth wide open taking in the first cool front! I think I do the same! I'm watching that hurricane that might be heading your direction later next week. It might put off my trip plans, which makes me so disappointed. Just have to wait and see. I'm like Matt, the first time I feel a cool front go thru I am ready to cut wood. Passing down Matt's knowledge to Katy is priceless. I am so thankful my dad did the same with me. Breakfast in the woods is so much better! So is coffee. I agree Tipper, a Winter time of year 70 degrees is cooler than a 70's Summer degrees. HA Well at least it feels that way!
Thank you!! I hope you get some cooler weather 😀
We had fried squirrel last night. Bernie will take old squirrels and pressure cook them for 12 minutes, take them out season and flor, then fry them. They are delicious!
Last week he made squirrel, tomato, corn and okra stew, it too was delicious.
That stew sounds yummy! We will have to try it 😀
Oh I love love the smell of fire place smoke in the cool air. Makes me feel safe and blessed.
I love it too 😀
If you can find the breech trees in your area their bark is amazing for making fire start bundles!
Any type of trees where the bark peels off as paper works best!
Matt, if you have wood planners, or routers at work the shavings from them are awesome to create wood starter bundles. With a steel survival spark stick. On the spine side of your knife their is a way to mill it so you have a working edge to strike your fire starter stick with! So you don’t dull your knife edge.
Enjoyed this video Miss Tipper! Thanks for the knife lesson Mr. Matt and yes being outside cookin over an open fire out in nature definitely helps us connect with GOD as well as ourselves. Wild game is very tasty food. Thank y’all for sharing! 😇🙏🏻👍🏻❤️🙌🏻
Thank you Pastor Lon! I know you all like being outside as much as we do 😀
I love the companionship of people who have been together for a long time..
When the air is clearer the sun feels hotter if you're right in it. That's also why the shade feels cooler. It's that lower humidity that makes the difference.
My daddy used to make awesome squirrel gravy. We would have squirrel gravy biscuits and sweet potatoes on the side. I went hunting with him and help him clean them. People has made fun of me for saying that I liked daddy’s squirrel gravy but it was some good eatin’!
I really enjoy seeing and hearing about your life and how ya'll live in Appalachian. So laid back and peaceful..away from traffic, cities. Thank you for sharing yourself and your family. 🙏❤
Our pleasure!
I love the 2 of you.It brings back child hood memories from back in kentucky when I was young I was raised in ohio but my roots came from ky.I love the old ways an love every thing you 2 talk about.Thank you what a joy it brings to me each morning.
You both make me laugh every time you have one of your chats! 😂
Time to get y’all some Tommy Copper lower back, and Ab shorts so you have the support you need thru out the day to get your work down! Yup we spilt wood all the time!
We forest manage all the fallen trees, haul them to the wood pile! Then spilt them up!
We try to have ten cords of wood to start the winter season!
Wonderful visit today, Tipper and Matt. I can't stand spiders either, Tipper....to the point that I didn't use much mascara because 1) my lashes were long and thick enough and 2) mascara added to them made them look like spider legs! lol The false lashes some women wear today make think of fly swatters. I'm thinking Matt is a fine a man as you are a woman. What a great pair you are! Thanks for the visit.
Use those popsicles sticks to mark your veggie you plant. That’s what my Mama used.