My Life in Appalachia 15
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Along with celebrating and preserving Appalachian heritage and culture I'm always hoping to shine a light on the good life that I live in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. I hope you enjoy this peek into my life in Appalachia.
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Background music: "Engagement Waltz" by Ben Wilson; "Midnight on the Water" by The Pressley Girls.
Fiddle tune played by The Pressley Girls: "Wilson Holler" written by David Kaynor.
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It is a sign of the times that make many a heart yearn for the scenes of a simple life: color that paints the plants, fruited flowers that feed, sons and daughters that listen, and a grateful heart that thanks their Creator.
In a world that has seemingly gone crazy lately, these videos become more and more precious. So refreshing is it to watch something so relaxing and beautiful, and the song at the end was just the perfect touch. God bless!
Your intro was so hauntingly beautiful, bringing back suppressed childhood memories of the crickets, cicadas, and tree frogs singing in perfect harmony outside of my bedroom with windows raised. We did not have AC back then and would listen to the woods sounds to put us to sleep while waiting for each gust of breeze to cancel a portion of the heat the house held from the day sun.
I hope you write. I was hoping there was more....when your words stopped. If you don't write please consider it. You're talented. 👍
Beautifully said ! I want that as an option on my sound machine
We set our back porch at night, similar crickets, tree frogs, cicada. Sings to sleep the night
@@peacefulwife5199 I do not write professionally, but scribble thoughts from time to time. Thank you for the compliment.
I thought maybe it was going to be Appalachian ASMR, love those crickets.
You live in the midst of the cries and songs of the night. Oh how my heart longs to lay under an open window and fall asleep once again under Gods own musical of the stars............. real stars
Little bits of heaven right there.
We live the same in SE Kentucky. Silver Queen is our favorite corn too. Thanks for sharing with the rest of the world.
The flaux was my ma maws favorite flower every time I see them I think of her. Her yard was full of those flowers. I have a picture sitting right in the middle of them. Thank you for a wonderful memory. Such beautiful scenery. I will always love the mountains.
Phlox?
These are my favorite videos! Just living a good mountain life is to be treasured and hearing your girls making music is a perfect way to end the day! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoy it!
I never get tired of watching these. And the music is awesome too.
Thank you Rick!
I just love these videos. It's truly so peaceful. Thank you
Well,where to begin,it was all good.The scenery there is just spectacular, along with all the beautiful music,delicious home cooking,and especially spending some quality time with The Pressley Family. My donkeys love the corn husks and corn stalks too.Tell the Girls, I got me some twins now,Momma Deer brought her Babies out the other morning in the pasture field. Tipper, Thank You So Much For Being So Gracious With Sharing Your Love For Appalachia 🙂.
Thank you Donald! I bet those twins are just precious 🙂
It is good to see that there is still some real people left in this world. Until I watched your video I was about to believe the life as I new it was gone.Thank you for posting your video's
Them cicadas will put me to sleep making all that racket
.oh lord .tomatoes ,biscuits ,sausage and gravy. Man thats a nice spread.
Wonderful video Tipper. Appalachia looks like heaven to me. Thank you for sharing.
I love your “My Life” series 🥰. I love the wild Phlox and Red Bee Balm, beautiful !👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
AWWWW TIPPER IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU,,I LOVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR CHANNEL ,YOU BRING SO MUCH JOY ,,MEMORIES OF FAMILY TIMES ,,TIPPER YOU ARE A TREASURE,✨♥️✨😊 I ADORE YOU ,,STAY ON THIS JOURNEY OF REACHING AND TEACHING US ABOUT OUR HISTORY ,,MY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN WILL UNDERSTAND APPALACHIA TALK AND WAYS,,BECAUSE OF YOU,,, YOUR JOURNEY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND 70,000 OTHERS SO FAR ,,,I KNOW YOU WILL REACH 1,000,000 SUBSCRIBERS ,BECAUSE YOUR CHANNEL AND INFORMATION ON YOUR CHANNEL IS TIMELESS,,,✨❤️✨🙏🏼
LB-you are so nice-thank you for your support! We appreciate you 🙂
Oh Ms Tipper your introduction took me back to my grandmas front porch swing almost thirty years ago. How I miss those sounds. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed the sound 🙂
For me, there is no better life. Where the old ways still rule, people still respect their elders, show common courtesy to others, "honor thy father and mother", and you get backhanded away from the table for not cleaning off the molasses knife before sticking it in the butter when "makin up a sop". Now Miss Tipper, you know that neighbor done growed them ears. Don't correct you're Appalachianisms... LOL! ;o) That's why we're here!
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I agree with you totally. That is how it should be
Got some of that flower blooming out front now too. Beautiful shots. We are surely blessed to live in such a wonderful place ❤️
When you’re playing music around 7 minutes and showing the mountains…it sure makes me blue to see my grandparents again. I don’t think I’ll ever quit missing them. They’ve all been gone since 2002.
I miss mine too Rhonda. Thank you for watching!
Only part of our dinner will be "celebrating Texas" this evening (but I am cooking it while I write this. Summer yellow squash, a Texas staple during this time of year, but it isn't specific to the state, just my wife and I love it. Cooked with about half a yellow onion, a few garlic cloves, tomato paste all sauteed in about 2 TBSs each of olive oil and butter.Then the squash and then about half a can of diced tomatoes, salt and pepper and about half a cup of water. No idea if will be good, making it up as I go along, but I think it will. It already smells good. Mexican rice as the starch (that certainly goes well in Texas) and the non-Texas thing, a couple of cod fillets. I'm the retired one in the house, so I try to make dinner when I can, because my wife is still working for a living. Thanks as always for sharing y'all's vignettes of life in Appalachia!
Sounds like a great meal 🙂
Those are the sounds I hear every night now!! And I’m woken up by the early birds every morning, but your garden is
amazing and truly special- I try to purchase all my fruit and veggies locally so I get that home grown flavor, and of course the music is beautiful and I love to hear your girls sing, thank you!!❣️
Thank you Donald! I bet those twins are sweet 🙂
What a rich, beautiful life you folks live. Your garden is wonderful.
I noticed you use Kerrygold butter. Me too, it’s the best. Great video.
Cheers from Northern Utah.
Thank you Tom 🙂
Irish butter. Good.
Horses love corn shucks. Your place reminds me of my mother- in-law's property. Every time I go over there, I think that she (and you) own a little bit of heaven. You are so blessed to have a great family... a husband and children who love the Lord...and I think He has blessed your faithfulness with beautiful bountiful land.
Y'all are awesome and your appreciation for family and home has captured my heart. Keep up the cool videos. Your enjoyable.
Absolutely love u folk!! What Sweet beautiful memories u bring to my soul. Thank you.
Bravo ladies on ur music!👏👏👏
♥️🙏
Thank you!!
Who is David Kaynor?
Your channel is the best. You folks seem so nice. Your garden and land is so beautiful. The kids sing and play. I swear, y’all (wanted to use some of your terminology) are just the definition of wholesomeness , resourcefulness , grace and beauty.
Thanks so much 🙂
A much needed respite from a world gone mad, Thank you ♥
The sound of catydids. Is so Peacefull in the late evenings I set out on,my porch with cup a coffee Somtimes and just look out at the stars and listen to the catydids. Me and my old dog. It's what. I like about summers. Y'all take care you here,., ps I call that flox too. Not much up on flowers. But my grandmother used to love wild flowers. Had,em all over her place she would save seeds. And plant them around about her place. She's up in glory land now. I Spect she's a got a garden there too,,, god bless y'all,,,
I spect she's got beautiful blooms too 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia
I imagine heaven as being full of all kinds. A purdy. Stuff, just being with our lord and savior. Will be quite a blessing,,, take care,,,Y'all
Katie really feels the music! She and Corie are such amazing gifts! So sorry to hear of David Kaynor passing from Lou Gehrig's disease! I have a brother in law dealing with the same disease and it is indeed hard! God rest David's soul!
I love biscuits and gravity! I get odd looks sometimes when I eat them though because I put sugar on them. Sometimes called Okie Puddin'. It takes a surprising amount is sugar before they start to taste sweet.
I like to BBQ corn on the cob. I soak the in ice water over night or at least a few hours. Then pull back the husk and remove the silk. Add butter, salt, and whatever else you like. Pull a strong off the husk and use it to tie the husks closed. Toss 'em on the BBQ.
Loved everything about this video!…very relaxing to hear the sounds of nighttime in the mountains…the food looked delicious, too…take care..and yay, you’ve gotten 70k subscribers now…I hope it keeps on growing!
Brenda
Thank you Brenda 🙂
Tipper, thank you so much for showing the world how truly captivating Appalachia really is. My favorite sound is night sounds, but due to the times in which we live I do not leave my window up at night. I so enjoy them when I forget to go to the mailbox and have to go at night. Somehow they are not as deafening nor quite as beautiful as they seemed when I heard them growing up. Matt is so talented and is sure a jack of all trades. I learned this following your blog through the years.
Thank you Shirley! I hope you have a good day 🙂
Your videos make my heart smile!
So glad you enjoy them 🙂
My favorite family. It's so much like the life I lived in Tennessee growing up. Scowling love of Jesus, family, hard work, fun, and the added videos of Appalachean culture. Love you all. I am 80 so appreciate it so much.
Enjoyed the video a ton...my gosh ...breakfast sure did look goooood.
That is the most relaxing sound to me ever, the sound of the night.
I'm so glad I found your channel and your website. Your videos are great! And the music from all of you is fantastic! Takes me way back in years to a time that is often missed. God Bless y'all
I'm glad you found us too Tyler-thank you!
Since finding this channel I've been thinking a lot about hitting the Appalachian trail.
Don’t come north. Nothing here is wholesome or good or Godly….Well no the landscape is astounding. And many of the people outside of the cities are decent, God-fearing people. What you see here is different.
Every minute of this video made me smile. Thank you.
Your "My Life in Appalachia" series of videos are my favorites. What type or brand of hat is Deer Hunter wearing? I think it looks great. Always enjoy seeing good food spreads on the counter in the kitchen. This was great to watch.
Thank you! That's an old Stetson Matt has had for at least 30 years 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia Okay thanks. It fits his persona in a very Hemingway manner. :)
I love the night sounds. As a little toddler & young child my folks took us 4 kids camping in a tent in the woods in Northern Mich. I so well remember these sounds as the campfire went to embers & we all settled in the tent. We always hear Whippoorwills & even a few times deer snorting out in the field. Thank you for sharing this. I really love it.
Beautiful garden! Love that fat wood fire starter and that great music!❤️👍🏻
My favorite part is seeing the meals that you make. They look delicious. Such hearty meals for such hard workers.
😊 thank you
I’ve heard a many old person say here “ We were poor but we had plenty to eat” back in the thirties. Also heard some say they had to eat songbirds they took with slingshots they were so hungry.
I worked 3-11 at the nursing home , so after all patients were fed and it was quiet time , at night , no doctors visiting , I’d sit and listen to the ones that had a story to share , a sweet lady in her late 80’s , just her and I in her room , had a lot of interesting newspapers clippings, she told me , just because is listen , that her uncle John Wilkes Booth , said he came back to north Mississippi, up around Guntown , stayed in her attic , only came out at night … etc , these people are a wealth of info , thank you
I love the sounds of the night, it takes me back to my childhood. I would love to have some fresh from the garden tomatoes again but they just don't grow very good out here in the desert. Thank you for sharing a bit of your life with us, it makes a little homesick.
Wonderful music Katie and Corie! I love it. Such talent and beauty. Thankyou both. 🙏❤️
What a lovely video. It obvious of your love of Appalachia and all that that entails. Such a refreshing site to come to….always uplifting…always informative….and always entertaining. Thank you🙂👍🏻and then the heavenly music….perfect
Glad you enjoyed it!
My corn shucks go into large brown compost bags, picked up by city and composted in large, very large rows at the municipal landfill. You can go and get all you want. Also they chip all wood in the municipal area and you can get free chips. It’s great they don’t just bury it like they used too, or incinerate anymore. Costs us a little in taxes but I think worth it
Our town offers "all you can haul" compost, also. But impossible to know if herbicides and pesticides were used before it was picked up:(!
Love your videos waiting on my new CD thanks for the insight into your daily lives. Keep them coming.
So glad you enjoy them Gordon 🙂
I needed this! Thank you again from Seattle 🥰
Makes me proud. All that y’all do, the beauty, the intelligence, the pure joy. Love it!
Thank you Robert 🙂
Agree with another poster the first 4 minutes was gold….and that breakfast! Love the bean trellis idea. Your videos are wonderful.😊
So glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely gorgeous! I love all of this. Baby rabbits and a mama deer and her baby hiding on our place. Shhh don’t tell where fawn is. Nothing better than everything growing this time of year.
I just love your videos. This one was so calm and peaceful. When I was little I loved listening to the bullfrogs. They put me to sleep.
NY crickets are loud tonight. We have phlox in shades of pink to lavender and white with a pink eye. Your bee balm is beautiful!
Thank you Nan 🙂
Don’t have all this in Texas. Beautiful beautiful
Beautiful...start to finish. Thank you! Love from SC, Jane
Tipper, that is a stunning video! I can't pick one part and say I like it best ...I like the whole thing...so peaceful! I know this a true picture of how you live because I am here and part of it and I love it!
I love the sounds of nature in these videos
Nice finish.warms my heart.
Oh the bees look like they are right here with me.
That sound...i miss that terribly......Thank You For Sharing....Lord Bless Yaw
We have pink, purple and white flaux this year too
Tipper, the My Life in Appalachia videos are so wonderful. I like the sounds of beans hittin the pan as they are picked, the bee 🐝 sounds and the birds!
Blessings,
Allison 🌼
Awesome video! Thank you, family.
Our pleasure!
What a great life in such beautiful country.
Thank you 🙂
As Phil Robertson says and has said, Our Divine Creator has put everything in place for the land to provide if we pay attention and learn! God Bless
I swear I have had so much pleasure in watching several of your videos today/night. And it always makes me feel like I'm a kid again visiting my cousin out in the country. Thanks for taking me back to those fond memories.
I'm so glad!!
First time I have ever seen someone online make their gravy the way my family makes it...a little more brown! YUM
Missed this one somehow. Very relaxing in these troubled times to see the peace and harmony of family life in the garden and kitchen . Really enjoyed Matts campfire cooking . Please ask him to tell us more about his hat. It's a very fine classic. ATB to all.
Looks like a feast! love the music playing along with these video, Must be Paul!
We call it phlox in CT. I have some in my backyard and they do grow where thry want to and quite tall 5' as well. Have never noticed a fragrance but will check. Mine are the same color.... your yard gardens are wonderful!
Once a male friend brought a bunch to me with roots attached. It wasn't quite how I was raised to accept flowers, so I was a bit taken aback, but they were a beautiful shade of mauve none the less, and looked beautiful in my vase. They grow wild where I live in BC. It was a romance that didn't work out, so maybe the roots were telling.😅
That’s what we call it in S Central PA. My mom loved that stuff.
So good to hear the girls play. They are very talented. Love watchin Matt in the woods. Making a fire and drink a coffee and eat something to keep from getting unhungry.. Love your videos. Im so much at home when i watch these videos.. God bless..🇺🇸🌹❤️
I enjoyed the music so much. Thank you for identifying that flower I know what's growing. Your Pink Bee Balm is huge compared to mine. I learn so much from you. Thank you.
Lovely video.love outside scenes.i live in apt.so this is food for soul. E blessed
What a lovely peaceful video. Don't we all need that. What are the dark pink flowers that the bees love so much? And my husband Buz would love that Blueberry Upside Down Cake as he is a blueberry fanatic. I will have to make it and surprise him. Yall have taught me so many things. I see that 'rich pine: Matt is using for the fire. That was a new thing for me when you first showed it. And as always sweet music from the girls. God Bless yall.
Thank you!! That flower is bee balm 🙂
I put blueberries in my cornbread and my Joe just loves it… I sprinkle some sugar on top so it has a little crunchy crust… with butter? Try it if y’all love blueberries like we do♥️☮️😘
Great video that shows a look into y’all’s life’s. Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful. I miss my mountain home so bad.
great vedio keep up the great work yall
i miss makin a garden aint made one since dad passed away 3 years ago
Not long ago, my husband entertained friends who have been city dwellers for years. Their families left farm life when our guests were in high school, which eventually led to their getting together. Their visit lasted well into the evening and after supper we retired to our screened in porch. On the farm we take for granted sights and sounds of the country. Our guests commented that they had not heard crickets and tree frogs in years. Today, I am thankful for the wonders of farm life. We have grown rattlesnake beans for years-delicious!
This one video brought back such wonderful memories. You live an awesomely, beautiful life and I know you love it as much as I miss it.
We shucked our corn on the back porch. Put down a sheet to sling the shucks on. My grandmother always had quilting bees, however you spell it. They were big affairs. She made quilts for the whole family. My mother made most of our clothes when we were little. We ate squirrels and rabbits regular also quail.
Happiest time of my life was in rural Arkansas. Country is actually like U showed, quite loud. Peepers crickets, your accent home canned food, Southern cooking** okra, green tomatoes, cornbread and biscuits swimming holes, riding our mule ( old Jeff) , playing guitar with our friends, home brew beer and soda pop, home raised pork,chickens and ducks, the wonderful spring water chopping wood forheat, cooking on the wood stove. . almost 45 years ago and I still dream of those days.
So glad you enjoy the videos Cleta 🙂
Oh I miss the nature sounds, color, smells of Va. Blue Ridge mountains❣️
I always hate when your videos end. I enjoy them that much. Thank you!
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Such a beautiful thing. Thank you for sharing your time with us
Wow. From upstate NY. May the Good Lord bless you and keep you. Thank you so much.
Beautiful!!
Nice one to watch just before heading to work… peaceful. I like Matt’s hat towards the end, I’ve got a few similar to that I like to wear if not wearing a ball cap and they wear really good! Got to put up some silver queen myself when I get off today! Pretty vegetables and pretty fiddle and guitar music at the end!
Just lovely!
Great gardening. Great music, Thank you! ❤️
love to have a mess of chanterelles, just havent had the time to go look for some. id be in heaven on that little stream and in those woods
What a beautiful and peaceful video. A welcome thing in today’s world. Please keep them up, because we sure do appreciate them!
Thanks for sharing. So much to be grateful for. Nice and pleasant life.
That was awesome, I loved every bit of that! Looked just like my life over the mountain here in east Tennessee!
My grandpaw McCoy liked hickory cane corn to make his moonshine with.
Ahhh the Whipoorwill. Another great country sound.
I only less than 100 miles from my old homeplace that I still own but your videos remind me so much of home that it feels more like 1000. Someday I will return. 😎
Beautiful highlands! Garden, food, and ending with the wonderful music! Thank you Matt for reminding us of survival skills. Wonderful!