Finding Joy In The Simple Things! Shopping, Baking, Taking Tea By The Fire
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Hello, friends! Please join me today as I bake bread, plant seeds, and enjoy Afternoon Tea by the fire. Recipe for the French Sandwich Bread is linked below!
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Kevin Lee Jacobs
Box 742
Valatie, NY 12184
I love when Kevin taste tests his baked goods. Am I the only one who waits in anticipation for that signature head nod and smile! 😀
Yes! I wait for it, too! Every time!
It’s a must at this point!!!! Love it too! 💜☮️
Yes me too 😊
Kevins signature that says it all without a word!
No, you aren't the only one. Regards from Argentina.
Good morning Kevin, with all the sadness going on lately, I find that watching your videos gives me so much peace and relaxation, so thank you for all that you do for all of us. Greetings from California ❤
Same here, best of luck Irene be safe out there!
Sending you
Alles gute😊
At the end of these videos when you thank us viewers, I must admit that lately that kindness really hits me emotionally. 😭😭😭😭
You're too kind, Kevin.
Thank you ❤
Kevin, I know I am not the only one who feels like you are our new best friend. We can tell how much you appreciate your fanbase. So, thank you for that. Thank you also for all the hard work you put into your videos every week to share with your friends. We appreciate it!
Thanks, Kevin, for all you do to brighten our days. Your videos are so uplifting to me.
Your video is a breath of fresh air in a very unstable world - thanks so much from Newfoundland, Canada
As a devoted Canadian follower, I ditto this sentiment, and wish the best for both of our countries! Peace and Love
Same from Québec.
A lovely video on a chilly rainy day. And we all wish we lived with you!!
lol, when he said that I thought "we should start a compound". His home and videos are so lovely
This is why I enjoy your channel-because you find JOY in the simple things! It is especially calming and delicious to sit at your table...no matter what you serve.
Dear Mr. Jacobs,
such troubled times here in Germany. Thanks for your videos. It brings me calm and peace.
❤for us here in the US as well. Each day brings another traumatic announcement of another piece of our government collapsing 😢
I'm so grateful for the oasis named KEVIN❤😊
@gloriarangott8803 ❤
@@gloriarangott8803 Be of good cheer, since Jan 20 things are looking up for us.
I am also watching and enjoying Kevin from Germany. Sometimes I get homesick, when I watch.
@@gloriarangott8803 Take heart, dear, things are looking up for us in US since Jan 20.
my favorite place to find joy is in your videos, Kevin! happy friday!
Kevin my cousin has jam and bread for his tea everyday. He is 89 years young and he calls it his farmers tea. We're in North West (Cumbria) UK so perhaps you are harking back to a tradition of farmers from centuries ago. x
Again today was a rotten day......and Voila Kevin is here to cheer me up and make me feel life is not rubbish mess but pretty, innocent, tasty and colorful.......where is life is still slow and simple and every little thing is beautiful and appreciated
You are such a sweetheart, Kevin. Oh, and, a wonderful educator!
Thank you Kevin for inviting me into your home. What a wonderful day!!! I am now craving bread ..thanks for that. It was fun watching you plant your new seeds. As always, a glimpse of the furry family and the warmth of a fire ..can't beat that
I learned SO MUCH from you today, Kevin! Warm to hot water to moisten peat-based soils, adding vermiculite to soil to increase water retention, vermiculite sprinkled atop a pot to stop algae formation…
I’m so glad I stopped by your kitchen today!!!
Oh, Kevin! I adore your gentle soul! I wish I could live a similar life! ❤
Your channel brings me so much joy. Thank you for sharing peace and happiness to our YT community 💕
Kevin is my daily meditation! Love ALL your videos so much!!
Watching your video has made me antsy for spring and gardening. I love to see your African violets. It reminds me so much of my grandma. She had a golden hand with African violets. Her window sills were a rainbow of colors and they made your heart smile. She also grew wonderful roses, they smelled like heaven. Thank you for starting me on this trip down memory lane.
My grandma, too!
My Grandma had the most beautiful African violets and begonias!
Kevin, i think it's much more appropriate for me to thank YOU for your time, positive energy, and wonderful soul ...we appreciate everything you bring behind the camera each week..❤❤❤❤
I know how to fold a business letter! When I was in college in the 80s, the secretary (Betty) of my major's department taught me how. That may have been the most useful thing I learned in college. LOL. Betty was feisty!
Oh, I just know that all of us want to move right in there and live at your house and help you with the gardens and taste the food with you and bake and cook and see the snow and beautiful upstate New York and all the seasons of life with you, Kevin! As an added benefit we get to see all the pets and play with them and go shopping to all the wonderful farm markets in your area. Oh, life is rich and full and good and kind up there by you!!!
Just received my valentine gift box yesterday. I love it. Thank you for these calming videos in very disturbing times. Drinking a cup of my new special coffee from the box!
Just ordered over $200 worth of plants and seeds from my favorite catalog, Select Seeds, a female owned business. My holy grail is getting sweet peas to bloom here in NE Ohio where summers are so hot and humid. Gotta start them earlier this year.
Well yes
It’s me again 🐝
On my next off day I will bake the beer 🍺 bread in the Dutch oven.
Can’t wait 😊
The tulips in the kitchen are even prettier - now that they are more "open". I enjoyed watching Kevin make this arrangement in a different video.
Kevin, could you put out more videos. I think your videos help my anxiety so so much. I’ve watched them all several times. I hope you can. Especially needed for those currently under attack and don’t feel safe. I pray for the hurting hearts and hope that those folks can find solace here thank you Kevin. You’re appreciated.
I love your videos Mr.Jacobs you have so much class ! I enjoy watching your home and everything you do ... Regards from Washington State.
I think we all wait for Kevin’s smile and taste testing. I always look forward to my friendship time with the wonderful man.💐
I bought that bread pan several years ago and have been afraid to use it. Now that I’m craving bread-naughty Kevin-I’m going to give it a shot this weekend. Fingers crossed!
Dear Sir, you brought back memories for me of my Grandmother, born in 1888. She grew and had numerous varieties of African Violet’s. She was in an African Violet Club for year’s. They must have been very popular year’s ago. I have one of the wrought iron, glass shelved stands she had them on. I also remember she saved coffee grounds and egg shells, mixed together well, to put on top of the planting soil to fertilize ❤ Thank you for the MEMORIES 💕🙏🙏
My grandmother also had glass shelves across the kitchen window filled with African Violets.
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My GiGi had a large number of African Violets. They performed beautifully for her. My sister still has some of them. I've never had good luck. I also loved her Lipstick Plant.
Dear Kevin, I enjoy watching your videos! Thank you!
Kevin, your videos bring us so much joy here in Florida. Being born and raised in the Midwest, your videos remind me of all of the things I loved and miss about the north. Thank you so much for sharing, keep making videos!
🌞🩷🌸🪻🌸🩷🌞
Ready for Spring
Your videos are like an anticipated gift! I so look forward to Fridays and Sundays and all you have to share with us. Thank you! ❤
Kevin, thank you for allowing us to spend the day with you, it was truly enjoyable!
Another wonderful “Time with Kevin”! I was encourage to try making the French Sandwich Bread. How do you store the loaf after baking? Thanks again for a lovely visit to your home❤
It’s rainy here today. Great time to have a visit from my neighbor KLJ!
What a lovely room to enjoy a spot of tea and homemade bread. Tell Avery we missed her.
Here on the Texas Gulf Coast I have started my tomato seeds. As a Master Gardener I also grow tomatoes for our spring plant sale. They call me the Tomato Queen. 😂
Thank you dear Kevin for this wonderful video - it is simply delightful. I have made this bread and it is beyond anything I have ever tasted. I look forward to your inspiring videos and usually watch them on Saturday mornings. So grateful to you for the great kindness of sharing what you do and inviting me into your beautiful home. I love seeing Goldie , Binky and darling Avery - they are precious. My best greetings and warmest regards to yourself, your spouse and to Lizette, and please would you be so kind as to hug dear Avery, dear Binky and dear Goldie and at the same time please whisper to them that they have an admirer in Cape Town, South Africa. My gratitude also to Lizette for the beautiful quality she brings to the videos, thank you.
Hi Kevin! So great to watch another video! I just love those moments seeing Goldie and Binky on your stairs. They’re so precious! Shout out to beautiful Miss Avery, too! The bread looks delicious!
Kevin your such an inspiration. Love watching your videos. Blessings from the UK
Hello Kevin!
I just want to say Thanks GOD! for beautiful souls like YOU ❤️
We learn a lot from your baking and planting seeds. You've planted the seed of love and peace through your videos I literally LOVE all of them! ..God bless you and ALL Our Wonderful Community..We need peace and relaxation and your contribution is very appreciated 🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As always, very enjoyable.
Thank You.
Thank you, Kevin,for these optimistic and supportive videos.Stay safe! Stay with us!❤ Greetings from Kazakhstan ❤!
I would love to visit you. We can cook, have tea, sing and you play piano, enjoy the fireplace with delightful conversation.
My garden has lots of broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce. Then bread looks yummy 😋 Always fun to hang out with you Kevin ❤
It's been a long week so your video is such a blessing. I also loved seeing your adorable cats playing together.
Mr. Jacob’s, your videos are absolutely wonderful! You are very talented and creative and your food looks so scrumptious! I hope you never get tired of sharing your joy and talent with your devoted fans. God bless you ❤
Honestly, wish you were my neighbor! I need to make another loaf of French sandwich bread soon! You are so right about it being the best. Kevin, you do a LOT of gardening! Consider investing in Proptek seed starting trays. These trays encourage root growth and prevent root wrapping. They're also VERY strong and will last for years. I bought my first one in 2016, and I'm still using it. Yes, the cost more, but you won't believe how great they are. I have 6 of the 162 cell trays, and a 330 cell tray for starting onions. They are game-changers! Why start onions in a 330 cell tray? You get a better root system, and because of the cell design, you can remove them without damage and plant your seedlings easier.
I felt productive getting 2 banana bread loaves baked, but Kevin is a dynamo, I see. Well done, Kevin 🪴 🌱 🌿
❤ With sincerest gratitude I thank you for the peace, politeness and joy you bring to us all each week!
I really enjoyed "our" afternoon together, Kevin! I love having you all to myself from my recliner. I make sure I have a snack with me.
What lucky cats to live in such a beautiful and large space! I so enjoyed seeing the French loaf. I worked with a French Chef and it was a fantastic experience!! The kitchen was tiny and many busy evenings he would tell me “ we danced well together this evening “! I loved it so much and it was just before I earned my degree and started teaching ❤ You would have been a customer at their lakefront restaurant Le Maribel! He taught me so much as you do as well.🙏🏼
That smile tops everything else..the loaf pan, napkins by Gloria and your planting seeds all are too good to watch. Thank you and have a great weekend..
I have a cat identical to Goldie. 🥰 Thank you for another calm moment. Very few lately. So it was a blessing to have the time to watch. 💜☮️
Thank you so much Kevin, I really enjoyed this relaxing video and I can't wait to start seed planting! Missed Avery's sweet face looking up at you adoringly !
We all wish we could be your guests dear Kevin. Your Home is so beautiful and cozy and you are such a lovely host as well as great cook!
Oh kevinnnnn I’m so excited!!! Good blessed morning to you toooo!!!! And I can assure you,,, I’d love to live there with you two also,,, or at least once or twice a month,,, I live in Lewisburg Pa,,, so I’m not to too far away!,,, lol lol,,, I adore watching when you cook the most,,, YET,, I love the household chores too bc it get my ‘LAZY BONES’ gone and encourages meeee to get movin!, lol lol,, there’s never been a video I’ve watched on the Utube that I haven’t le as ended something new,, you are simply n perfectly a very special GENUINE GEM in my life,,, Sunday was the two year mark that I lost my only family,,, my son,,, there simply are no words,,,, so perfect timing for your next video,, I just n love you Kevin,,, which seems strange to me bc I’ve never met youuuuu and as far as Lizette?,,, I’ve all ready imagined what she looks like!! lol lol lol,, im seeing a brunette of med height n medium frame,,, that is as lovely and as genuine as you are!,, am I close to being correct???? Lol lol,, again Kevin,, Thank you dear soul for all you do,,,🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Спасибо, Кевин! Сегодня я вновь наслаждалась твоим видео! У меня появилось желание заняться разведением цветов. И обязательно испеку такой же вкусный хлеб по вашему рецепту. Здоровья вам с Лизетт и процветания! ❤
Vielen Dank Kevin, ich sehe Ihnen aus Deutschland 🇩🇪 zu und bin im,er wieder begeistert von den Köstlichkeiten aus Ihrer Küche, die wunderschöne und stilsichere Deko und vor allem von den süßen 🐈🐈🐕sind es zwei Kätzchen und ein Hund ?
If I lived there with you I’d eat all your bread and you’d kick me out !!😂. Love you Kevin.
Oooh, aaah! I llove the coffee pot. I used to have a smaller version and I miss that little beauty.
Vielen Dank für Ihre Zeit lieber Kevin, in all Ihren Videos steckt so viel Liebe und Güte...es ist eine Freude zuzusehen und zu lernen.Ich muss sagen ich habe den französischen Toast riechen können 😊❤Liebe Grüße aus Germany
So comforting to watch these videos.
Wau, snapdragons! Very beautiful! Especially the white one! I love snapdragons. Thank you, Kevin, for sharing your day with us ❤️
What a wonderful afternoon with Kevin and it is so good that I can smell that bread!!!
Beautiful care of your violets, nurturing new ones and giving them warm light.
I had to laugh when you said, “I wish you lived with me.” I told my husband after watching one of your videos, “I wish I lived with this man.” He looked at me like I was crazy of course! Now I can tell him that you said the same to me! 😂 ❤
Thank you for the lovely video.
I have been a fan for several years and TRULY enjoy each and every one of your videos. You make me believe I can plant a garden, bake bread, make a souffle 😮 etc because of your detailed, approachable instructions and continual encouragement. I especially appreciate when you honestly report you forgot to add an ingredient. The way you persever and cheerfully move on punctuated the fact you are just like us (well almost😊) and we can do these things as well.
Good morning Kevin! I’m so glad that I got home from doing my errands to greet you today! I’m excited to see what you have for us today!❤❤ I bought seeds today also! I love seeing the seed racks show up in the stores!
Kevin, you are an absolute delight to watch. Thank you.
Thank you Kevin, for this wonderful vlog. I loved looking at your beautiful antique teapot and the purple & white tulips and could almost smell that delicious looking bread. Happy February!
Isn't Johnny's Seeds a superior vendor of growing supplies? I have never been disappointed with their products.
They are the best! Renee's Garden has great seeds too.
@paulahawkins3786 Thanks! I'll check Renee's Garden right noow.
Hi Kevin just a handy hint tulips keep growing their stems whilst in the vase. You can cut them off a little and replace them back in your vase with fresh water. You will get a lot longer out of your tulips. tulips❤
Kevin it would be lovely to see more of the region you live in with some adventures into the countryside.. 🥰
Do re mi, jam and bread. I love it! That bread looks so yummy especially with the homemade strawberry jam. Mmmm. Hot tea by the fireside. I think I can smell the french bakery. Fun to see how you can propegate the violets. I didn't realize that was possible. That is a nice area you created in that window for plants and seedlings. It does make me think of spring and gardens. Thank you for the video. Take care, and enjoy your weekend. See you in the next episode. ♥️🍞🍓💐🫖🌷🌿🌸🎵🎶
Dear Kevin, I thank you so much for your videos 🙏They give me calm and relaxation and thanks to you, I feel like baking and cooking again : your recipes are so delicious ! I love this wonderful musique with the piano at the beginning , so cool and relaxing … I look forward your news videos … Thank you for all the things you give us 🙏God bless you 😊💝🌺
What would we ever do without the respite from being with you. Thanks Kevin. 👍
Hi, Kevin. Thanks for the video.
Good morning Kevin, it’s always a delight to spend time with you.
Enjoying my coffee in front a fire here in rainy Nor Cal ❤
I had a busy day yesterday so I am just enjoying this delightful episode now. Starting the seeds…the promise of spring, just what we need right now. Tea time bread, butter and jam made my mouth water. Thank you Kevin🇨🇦❤️
Hello Kevin. It is 4.00 am in Australia i am having a night where sleep is evading me. I am so very glad to be spending time with you now. Much love your friend from Australia xx.
Nice video, Kevin! Those tulips are amazing too!
Good morning Kevin, a most delightful video!! Most relaxing and lovely music, not too loud I might add. The bread baked beautifully and I hope the seeds germinate well. Have a happy day.
🥳 Kevin,
A new episode of my favorite RUclips person
How exciting
I’m watching it now
Having a bad cold 🤕
And need to hear your soothing voice and see what you are up to today.
Best wishes 🤧🐝
And stay healthy
I was feeling a bit on edge b/f your video; now I am so peaceful. Thank you for your calming video!!
I have tomato seeds starting here in my bedroom. It's too cool in the other rooms of this huge 1840 house, so the seeds are safe and cozy with me.
What a lovely visit…. I learned about African Violets, how to bake a beautiful French bread, and we drank Irish tea with beautiful piano music playing in the background. A perfect moment of luxury. I think we can all agree that homemaking is a great art form.❤❤❤
Yellow Morning.
I saw you pop up yesterday and wanted to watch, but was simply too busy at the time. But not to worry, I am here now catching up.
we are starting a grow room this year and using your ideas also try smashing the butter inside the wrappings- then it doesn't get ground into the wooden board (learned from my Italian MIL who lived well into her 90's) she always said - just do it the way I do -and I did lol
Americans are so spoilt for choice with everything!! I love your videos, thank you.
Such a great video-so much information and easy demonstrations from which to complete so many useful and enjoyable activities, not to mention I can almost smell the wonderful French sandwich bread baking!!!!!
How I love this video. Preparing your flowers for the garden. A fireside afternoon tea with freshly baked bread and homemade jam. Sounds like bliss!
30% of us remembered to like so far. Pretty good.
Kevin, I wish I could live with you too. I think my stomach would be happy and I could listen to your piano playing and love on Avery. That bread looked amazing!
What a busy day! Thank you for all the wonderful ideas. You are multitalented and so generous with imparting your knowledge to us. 🥰 Judie
It is 31 of January and sure is early to start any seed planting ! We in Minnesota can’t plant any thing out side until 5-15 . It would be too cold 🤷🏼♀️I learn a lot about violets today hopefully I will remember all your good tips