Hiding from the Cold: Percolating Coffee & Sharpening Blades
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- The bitter cold is still in southern Appalachia. Instead of getting out in it Matt and I have stayed close by the woodstove.
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I love all you post, and the girls are a blessing to watch.
I have been percolating coffee for years in my 1960's 4-cup Corning Ware cornflower design percolator. I find the taste of percolated coffee much nicer than filter or any other kind. Percolating gives a much smoother and richer tasting cup of coffee. I prefer Kenyan coffee beans, which I grind myself. Stovetop percolating fills the house with the wonderful aroma of fresh brewed coffee too.
Those beans sound great 😊
@@CelebratingAppalachia They sure make a real good cup of coffee those Kenyan beans.
I have the Cornflower percolators too. Works great!
I love the Starbucks whole bean in the black label I think it is a reserve, I grind just before I use it. I buy it at trade day flea market lol sounds crazy but a bag at Starbucks is about $20 and I buy it for $3 and it is in date .
I think that the glass thingy is replaceable if necessary.
We used an electric percolator for years and would fly through the first pot before work and often make a second pot. But, we found we were wasting a lot over time and decided to switch to a Keurig. Last year we had a crew in to waterproof our basement. It was very cold that day, so we decided to make coffee for the guys when they arrived. The Keurig only makes single cups, so it would have taken too much time. Therefore, we pulled out the percolator and made a full pot. The one young man couldn't have been more than 23 or 24 years old and he was completely baffled. He had never seen a percolator in his life. We actually had to explain what it was and how it was used.
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Haha! Cute, huh?
Isn't that something, I love all the old stuff..
One of my favourite memories is waking up at my Great grandma's house, sitting at her table and watching the water come up through the little window on the top of the percolator on her stove. The smell of that coffee and of bacon frying will always take me back to that safe wonderful place. Thanks so much for showing us how it's done Mr. Matt & Ms. Tipper! Love from Memphis!~
Love that memory 😊
OOOOOoo same here. I am also not a coffee drinker, but the taste and smell of old fashioned percolated coffee is 100 times better than drip coffee ☕💓
My mom would brew coffee the same way and I also remember seeing the coffee bubbling through that glass bulb at the top.
I remember asking her if I could have a cup, as I wanted to be like the adults, you know how kids are.
She would load it up with sugar and milk. Tasted like a hot coffee milkshake. 😂
It’s how I first developed a love of coffee. I don’t put the milk and sugar in it anymore, though. 😉 😂
@@richardpowell1772 Leave the sugar out and coffee makes a great treatment for hyper-activity in children. My son is in his 40s now, but when he was a child he was badly hyper. I refused to give him drugs, but coffee, with full caffeine, and sesame seeds that I would put over and in everything possible, worked fantastically! I have recommended it many times and every mom had a great experience using them on their child.
@@richardpowell1772 My Great Grandma would pour a little of her coffee in her saucer and drink it out of the saucer, because it was too hot to drink from the cup. I've never seen anyone else do it like that and she'd give me coffee too! I was probably 8 or so and she'd put lots of milk in it and sugar and wanting to be like her, I'd drink mine from the saucer too. That percolated coffee is really good, the taste is a lot less bitter. Not sure where you're from but I'm from Memphis/North MS (so was my MeMaw).
As someone who grew up in a large city with executive parents that worked 24/7…this is stuff I never got to see.Learning about an axe is great❤Loving the new content
Thank you 😊
I just ordered your book can't wait to get it.when you were talk about growing up the things you did it reminded me of the summer when I was out of school I would go to the North Georgia Mtn.and stay with my aunt go to creek bring back water and lots of other things I look back on those days and think what a blessing it was those were the goog days thankful to GOD!!!!!😅
@@shirleydeschenes2759 Thank you!! I hope you enjoy the cookbook!!
My daddy had an electric percolator. Y’all stay warm! My husband says that all those Starbucks coffee’s and lattes instead are not manly coffee. He drinks his coffee the same way Matt does. Straight up black coffee.
My late husband loved to sharpen blades better than anything and that pot of coffee was always on the fire when we were camping. smells so good.I Miss him. This warmed my heart. Thank you for sharing.
We used to have an elderly who had a mobile sharpening business. He had a very old green truck that he would drive around the neighborhood ringing a bell to let everyone know that they could come out with whatever they needed sharpened. We also had a milkman who left the glass milk bottles in the milk box. In the Summer, he would add ice to the box. My husband remembers a rag man who would call out “Ra-aags”, and people would take out their old worn out fabric things to him. Things are so different now.
My Dad did this for as long as I can remember. Even after the new ones came out. I can still remember the smell every morning. Thank you Tipper and Matt for taking me back down memory lane. Your family and the girls, feel like my family now.❤️
One of the things I love about you is how much you take pleasure in simple things. Matt’s love for his coffee is beautiful.
My dad left me his perk it was also my grandfather’s. It has a glass bubble with its replacement. God was I lucky! I can’t find none like it. It makes the best coffee you could ever buy or brew. Any body who has never had coffee from a perk. I’ll pray for you.😊 great video guy thanks.
What a treasure!
Matt does a great job giving tutorials. Thank you for sharing Tipper and Matt.
So glad you enjoyed it 😊
I was brought up old fashioned, an old soul since I was A kid. I enjoyed the old timers when I was young. Listening to them was more entertaining than T. V. The old time ways was being sure footed in life and their skills were honed to accuracy. The virtue of their lives was the Good book, hard work and honesty. Enough said , have a good old fashioned day.
Oh my, when Matt checked the sharpness by shaving his arm, it brought such memories of my dad. His pocket knives were always razor sharp. He had several knives that were so thin from sharping over the years. He used a whetstone . He said a dull knife was a dangerous knife. Miss him so much. Curious Binks was so cute. Have a great week and stay warm.❤❤
Y'all are so precious together. Surely blessed...❤
Matt drinks his coffee like my husband liked his. He called it truckers coffee ☕ It was just a might bit to strong for me though. The old percolator and knife 🔪 sharpening sure brings back fond memories. My Father in-law had ways like Pap. Your videos are such a blessing to me. Y'all stay warm 🥶 Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕❄️
I have such sweet memories with my Granddaddy percolating coffee. Smelled wonderful and as a little girl my coffee was mostly milk.😊
Just love watching yall.
A wonderful family !!
It’s cold here in Michigan. I come from Pikeville Kentucky originally so myself and all my family are definitely Appalachian. I’m very happy and proud of it just like you all are I love hearing and listening to all your things you have to say about Appalachia the cooking the girls I just love Cory and Katie so much your whole family’s been a very big blessing to me and such a hard time in my lifeFebruary will be one year that I lost my husband he would have been 60 years old but
I'm so sorry you lost him!! Glad you enjoy our videos! We appreciate you 😊
I'm in McCreary and my step mom is from Pikeville
Sorry for your loss.
Oh yes, a wet stone is what he uses. He has one in my flower pot on the front porch…to sharpen knives…he is 87 and I am 85 years old. He still works at a trucking company, but he retired from his main job at 80 years old as a heavy equipment, like trucks and what ever…was the best in 7 county’s around here… good Christian Man.
Growing up it was very common for my family to use a percolator. We continued to use the percolating method even when Mr. Coffee became popular.
Tipper and Matt…..you two make an excellent team. So glad you all can work together.
Thank you 😊
I've tried all kinds of coffee pots, but my favorite is a plain pour over. Brews the coffee slow and delicious.
I have two gransfors bruk axes. They are so well made and keep an edge. High quality steel. Well worth the money. Matt sure sharpens a knife the right way in my opinion!
Hope Granny is doing well.
Thanks for sharing.
I’m with Matt on the black coffee. Maxwell House, Original Eight O’clock, or Folgers. Also I prefer hot coffee straight out of a percolator. There is both a flavor and a temperature difference with percolator coffee. Further, Matt and I both are proud to have a custom fixed blade knives hand crafted by Spirit of the Outdoors, Justin Peden over in Mississippi. I bet our knives had origins in the same wood saw blade. I really enjoyed this conversation featuring Matt. Thanks for sharing. - Tennessee Smoky
So glad you enjoyed it!!
There is something so comforting about seeing a percolator blurping that coffee up into that glass knob. I have several percolators and while I drink drip coffee, I know I can perk some whenever I want to if for no other reason than to watch it perk. It brings back good memories.
The smell of percolated coffee, there ain't nothing like it. I appreciate Matt's knowledge and personal preference on sharpening blades. I don't care for those electric sharpeners. Looking forward to seeing the big garden property in the near future. Love y'all, God bless
I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a teenager. In the south, some people had the coffee going all day. I make my coffee strong too, like Matt.
Grandma always said that if the hens quit laying, she'd put the axe in the hen house. Motivation! At one time I had a Pyrex percolator.s Even the stem was glass. I've forgotten what happened to it. I think it disappeared when the kids came along. My Norwegian grandma made boiled coffee in a porcelain pot. You could stand a spoon in it. The aroma of it boiling on a wood cookstove would lift you right out of bed in the morning. Love y'all.
Mama & Daddy used a stove top percolator or dripolator for many years, but eventually got a Mr. Coffee. They liked the percolator for camping, on the campfire, or in the camper. They all will make coffee. They used JFG because it was made near them in Knoxville. Good coffee! This video was great! I have a long whet rock that has two different grits. It seems to work okay. It's good to see Bink winding around amongst youins😊
My Momma sharpened all my kitchen knives. She passed away in 2023. I didn't know how to sharpen a knife so I've been cutting with a dull knife for years. Thank you, Matt. Now I can sharpen my knives myself
My mom had a kitchen knife for 50 plus years that was very thin by the time she passed away. I wish I had that knife, just because of the memories of her using it most of my life.
I enjoyed every minute of the video. I told my wife she could buy me a Granfors Bruk Hunters Axe for our 54th anniversary next Tuesday, and if she ordered it right now it will be here just in time. 🤣she told me hunting season was over.
Mom-mom percolated Eight O'Clock coffe from the A & P store and, in cold weather, served it to everyone old enough for both dinner and supper. I will never forget the day I saw a big white coffee cup and saucer had been placed on the table beside my plate for the first time. Like your daddy, Pop-pop always sat in the same chair before the T.V. in the dining room, with Mom-mom's wood rocker right beside it, and he had sat in rocker in the kitchen when he was in there. I can see those two rooms in my mind exactly as they were so many years back through imaginary tears of longing and loss, but also sweet comfort and joyous remembrance.
Love those memories 😊
I have been drinking black coffee all my life everyday used an old percolator for years like my granddad and my Dad my Mom and Dad always had coffee on the smell of coffee as long as I can remember I still have coffee on all the time I like it Blessings to every one watching good stuff like this This is life at the best
My momma and stepfather had a GE electric percolator which would start at a time you would choose. They would “set the percolator “ the night before so the coffee would be ready the minute their good feet hit the floor in the morning. My momma could have her coffee while sitting at her dressing table fixing her hair and makeup for work. Memories! 🥺
My Daddy always made very strong coffee in a percolater, and he would drink that stuff all day.🙏❤️🙂
Love those memories 😀
Man after my own heart Matt doesn’t know it yet but after I watch your videos at night I spend the next hour or more watching knife and axe videos lol
As a 50 Year old woman I took up carving wood figures and had to learn to sharpen my knives also. Like Matt, I started with one that showed me the angles until I quickly learned what it was on my own by feel.
I made a fire in my daughters fire pit on July 4 th she said my momma the pioneer woman and I said no I just watch celebrating Appalachia and learned from it. Thank you Matt!
Love that 😊
I grew up watching my dad percolate coffee. Coffee tastes so much better cooked that way. I still have his.
Thank you ❤ I enjoyed learning about coffee peculators and the knife and ax sharpening too - I
Am a born raised city girl so I
Learned slot 👍
'Ooowee! That'll put hair on your chest and sparkle in your eyeballs!' Matt drinking strong, black coffee would've brought out the remarks from my city relatives. My mountain family would've asked for seconds!
I'm 53 and my mama always percolated her coffee and I never really paid attention to how she did it. Then of course the electric ones came into play. Now I want a percolator coffee pot! Thanks Matt for reminding me and showing us how to use it.
My parents had a percolator when I was growing up. I used to make the coffee for them at times. I have always loved the smell of coffee but never acquired a taste for it. My grandparents on both sides of the family had percolators. After I became an adult and moved on, my parents went to Mr Coffee. ☕😃
That's sweet about your memories of your daddy testing the sharpness on his arm. I never heard of that. And I love how Binks randomly has been making special appearances. ♥️🐱 Stay warm!
Yes, you can always tell when a man has sharpened his knife because he will have a bald spot on his arm. It's sharp when it will shave hair.
Good afternoon folks, now that is a man's cup of coffee. Thanks for the great video. Take care.
I remember, when visiting my grandparents in Tennessee, to waking up to the best smelling and tasting coffee in the world. I’ll never forget it. Honestly, it was so smooth. Thanks for sharing. Great memories. 😊😊😊
Thank you Matt, you touched my heart today. My Grandfather sharpened his tools with a wet stone and a strop, I always liked to watch him. He also drank black coffee made in an enamel percolator on top of our coal stove. Wife of James
So glad you enjoyed this one 😊
Yes! Another black coffee drinker! I love my coffee black as well. So did my mom. It’s the best, especially on cold winter mornings! I knew there was a reason I liked you, Matt! Lol!😅
My Mama would have been 95 in October. I remember well waking up to the smell of coffee perking on the stove. I actually still have that same little metal coffee pot and occasionally ill pull it out and use it. Good morning again from cold, icy North Mississippi.
I remember percolated coffee, growing up in East Tennessee. It smelled so good. I remember my mother giving me some coffee to play with in my tea set, as a child. It was common for children to have a little bit of coffee, while growing up. Babies were sometimes given biscuit dipped in sweetened coffee. It was called “soakee” All of the things I have seen in your videos is so familiar to me. The food is the same as I ate growing up. The south is a beautiful place, and I still have relatives in Tennessee. We moved to the Midwest in the ‘60’s. My mom and dad and 12 children.
My great grandma always had two percolating pots. One for coffee and one for leftover biscuits. Don't know how she did it. It did not matter how many had came by to see her and got a biscuit; there was still at least one biscuit in there! 😆 May Jesus continue to bless you and your family
My mom used a percolator like that for a long time, till she got an electric percolator, then later when Mr Coffee makers came out she got one of them. My mother in-law ask us to find her an old percolator to use on her stove, but she failed to tell us she asked her other son to get her one too. Now she has two, but she says her glass top stove eyes are to big and she can’t use them, but she’s going to hold on to them anyway. 😂 Fun hanging out by video with y’all. Always fun and interesting conversations.
I live in the same house I was born in, my daddy used to sharpen knives on the back step, the groove is still there.
Well, I skipped the knife sharpening part but came back for the coffee and Tippers drink. Glad I did cause I cracked up when Matt used the term drawtail. Gosh my Mom probably hollered that out a dozen times a day when we were growing up in the Ozark hills, Had not head that in years. Thanks for the memories. Sorry I did not see the coffee perking. Mom always made coffee on the stove like that
It’s hard for us old folks to realize that younger folks don’t know how a percolator works as this was our only method for coffee making when I was a girl and young woman. I was probably in my 40’s when the Mr Coffee came along. We now have worn out one Keurig and we are now using a different brand of kcup coffee maker. I did buy a stainless steel percolator too. I used to have the Melitta drip maker, which I did like also. In our camping gear, up in the attic, we have the aluminum percolator! Haha. So we are all set. 😉
Man! the Ol Percolator! My dad and Gradad been percolating Coffee this way since I can remember.
The smell and taste I always loved it more than any other way.
Before I was adopted I was about 3 years old and still remember the smell of Coffee Fried Eggs and refried beans at 4am. Typical West Texas breakfast we call (Huevos Rancheros…Ranch Style Fried Eggs) the smell of percolating coffee brings back so many good memories.
Grandad was hard at it in the kitchen! He always percolated his coffee. I’ll never forget the smell of eggs and coffee in the morning. Dad still did this growing up. He still loves Percolating coffee.
Thank you Wyatt 😊
I remember my Grandma Myrtle using her little metal coffee pot with a clear top. I loved to see the coffee jump up in the little topper. It smelled so good when my sister and I would spend the night. Grandma Myrtle and Paw paw John lived near the zoo. I was always hoping a little monkey might get free and I could catch it. Crazy the ideas children have, huh? I like my coffee like my daddy’s mama though. Grandma Beat and I like our milk with a little coffee in it.🤣🤣🤣 🐒 ☕️🤣🤣🤣
My grandpa loved his perculator coffee the smell was wonderful. My dad swore by the perculator he said the Mr Coffee maker never got the coffee hot enough. He liked his coffee boiling hot. We still have my dads perculator and use it on occasion. My dad was a knife sharpener friends neighbors would have him sharpen their knives and axes. He was very good at it. Good memories ❤
My grandpa owned a laundry service in the 60s and 70s. Both my parents drove for him and since I was the one that would disappear and couldn't be found I had to go with them to the laundry until they dropped me off at school (kindergarten). Like Matt, I hated school.
As soon as I got to the laundry they would make me a watered down coffee from a big percolator with cream and sugar in a glass kraft peanut butter jar with a screw on lid. I still swear to this day that the coffee had a peanut butter taste even though it was probably washed hundreds of times.
But no coffee from the age of 5 ever tasted the same as percolated.
I'm with you Matt,I bought a perculater a year ago I love the coffee muck better then a Mr.Coffee
Thank you Rita 😀
Percolator coffee is great! Eight O’Clock is what my husband likes, so that is all we buy. Matt is a very smart fella in so many ways. I love you all. Thank you for sharing your lives with us. God bless you all.
Thank you 😊
I have a Corning-ware percolator that belonged to my grandmother. I use it, occasionally. I bought an espresso machine that makes great coffee. However, I like the sound and smell when using the percolator and it makes me happy to know that it belonged to my grandmother. Thanks for the knife sharpening lesson. There’s a lot more to it then I thought.🇨🇦❤️😀
The bail handle makes that coffee maker even more useful.
The Gransfors Bruks axes are nice. I’ve got a collection myself.
In Cajunland where I live, they used to get up in the dark and roast the beans, then grind them in a wall-hung grinder prior to brewing. An elder lady I know used to have that chore to do when she was a little girl. On her honeymoon, she told her new husband, he'd have to make the coffee because she never wanted to have to make coffee again. I have two white enamel 2-piece drip pots bought at antique shops. They are pricey. I make camp coffee. Just put coffee into a pot of water and bring to boil, then fast pour into thermos to keep it hot.
"Makes my teeth itch".....lolol! I remember an episode of One Day at a Time where I think Bonnie (mom) is hungover, and says "My hair hurts and my teeth itch". I've not heard that saying since. Hysterical!
I love some simple, hot coffee with a little cream. Thanks for sharing your blade sharpening skills. God bless y’all! ❤️😀
My parents came to visit us one time many years ago and he reminds me a lot of Matt. He made the comment that he wished he would have brought his knife sharpener stuff with because my knives weren’t sharp enough for him. Lol.
Love that 😊
I appreciate the sharpening demo, Matt. My husband always sharpened our knives with a set like yours, but I didn't pay enough attention. My dad always sharpened kitchen knives across a crock. It works, but I can see why this is a better way.
I’m from the era of percolated coffee. I always new the “filter” piece as Matt referred to it as the “basket” that the grounds went in. Same thing though. It does the filtering too. It takes knowing how long to perc it according to strength you like it. It smells so good perking! Not everyone made “good” coffee in those days, lol! Thanks, Matt! For the knife sharpening too! I have the old good steel knives, not those stainless steel ones.
Those apples look delicious :-)!
I loved what Matt said at the end of video about Binks and his shirt!
Sure enjoyed your visit. There was a Man in Wi. born with out arms and he made his living sharping blades, he had to eat with feet and drive too. God Bless.💕& 🙏🙏'ers. Jean
We have enjoyed some of Matt’s coffee and it is delicious! I also put butter in my coffee each morning along with MCT oil; it’s called bulletproof coffee 😉. I have to have cream in mine and Lon is straight black; sometimes with a little honey in his. Stay warm 😇
Thank you Robbie Lynn 😊
I have used a stainless steel electric percolator with the fancy glass top. for years now. I love to see the coffee as it perks and also the wonderful smell, that is the same as my Nana did many years ago. Her breakfasts were so fancy and lovely. She went out of the way to make things special.
I remember the old percolators. Coffee was so much better in them. I need to find one again for myself. Awesome memories of coffee in one of those. 💙
I loved hearing the percolator in my grandmother's kitchen - it was a big day when she got an electric percolator one year for christmas -but she saved that one for special occasions and kept using her stove top one until she passed away in the late 70s. I use a percolator myself now when camping
30Fand 20mph wind scares you back inside? We just had about 1' of snow and had to shovel it in -7F HIGH temp. With the wind chill it felt even colder, hypothermia in 10 minutes were the warnings. AMATEURS!
I really appreciate your "tutorial" videos. I hope it's ok to say that you guys are a bit like surrogate parents to me. I'm learning things from you that I should have learned in my youth, but my parents were too lost to teach us. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❤💐
So glad you enjoy them!! Thank you 😊
Bless your heart. Your comment just kind of grabbed me by the throat and brought tears to my eyes. Praying tonight for all the children of "lost" parents. May the Lord bless you with a lifetime of pure love and happiness. ❤🙏❤
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We do have a person who sharpens knives in our little town once a week. He’ll teach you how to as well. It’s such a nice service and I’m planning to learn. I’m with Matt-black coffee, especially first thing in the morning or for me when on a road trip is wonderful.
I remember my grandparents using a percolator every morning and the coffee smelled amazing! I think they let me have some though , like another viewer, it was mostly milk. And, my dad always sharpened knives that way and tested them on his arm. Your videos allow us to connect to the past and the present. Thank you and God bless
We drink eight o clock coffee We grind are own. And we perck. You’re right Matt it’s better.
My husband likes strong coffee and I tried to convince him to get a Percolator and he thinks it would be to much bother. Matt filled the whole basket with coffee for not the full pot of water, that must of been strong. It is good you show these basic teachings on your channel, it amazes me how young people do not know how anything works.
4 degrees here in North Central WV this morning. I hate the cold 😅....... Been here 65+ years. Great video! Thanks for sharing! 😊 Stay warm & safe. 😊
Thanks Matt for showing us how to make percolating coffee
Matt talking about how good his coffee was made me think "It's so good ya can't sit still to drink it."
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We were watching Matt make his coffee and when he was saying he likes it black I hear my husband say that's the way I like mine, I guess I'm boring too. 😆
Coffee pots are the best. Mine is from a long time ago and is made from aluminum and I love it. I grind my beans and that is what makes the best coffee, fresh ground beans. My bride bless her heart does not like it at all but she tolerates my old timey ways.
Thank you, Miss Tipper and Mr. Matt...stay warm...
Matt - I've been into knives and axes since I was a kid. Appreciate you discussing your techniques. Here's a thought: for years I didn't know the proper technique for splitting wood, let alone using a regular axe for chores around the house. I bet everyone would appreciate watching you demonstrate how to use an axe for various activities. For years I didn't know the difference between a regular axe vs. a wood splitting axe. Keep up the great work. Never saw those hand sharpeners either. Here's to an early Spring! Love you, too, Tipper!!
It is interesting to watch the process of sharpening Matt's tools. Regarding winters, from Michigan, we used to get snow by November and not see grass til Spring. Now, we'll get dumped on, then it will warm up and melt, dumped, melt. It is weird.
Matt you right coffee taste better in a boiling pot on a wood stove i sure miss the good old days
Hi Tipper & Matt, it's definitely cold & windy here in Connecticut ! We had a snow storm last week! This video brought back memories of my parents,aunts & uncle using their peralators to make their coffee. The smell was amazing! My Dad used to sell cords of woods in his retirement years. He did that till he was 80 yrs. old. He had the neatest cords of wood piled up.😊He always had smaller pieces for campers! His customers loved him! I remembered him sharpening his axe & keeping his chain saw in good repair. 😊
I love my black coffee, but I will enjoy the sweetness of specialty lattes from coffee shops :)
Having multiple ways to make coffee is one of my life priorities. Back in 2021 we were without power for three days. This event allowed me to see where my weaknesses were in my preps and a way to make coffee was one area that I identified. I now have a percolator, two press including an aeropress and the Stanley press. I also have a small electric kettle that I can use with the generator power to boil water. I can go a day without food, but my life and the lives of others are at risk if I go too long without coffee 😂
I agree with you about the winter weather. It’s certainly not the same as it used to be. I’m in central/ noVA and our winter thus far has been fairly mild and will continue to be for the foreseeable forecast. I really enjoy the colder weather and snow!
It's pretty cold here too, but not as cold as they said it would be. I'm grateful for that because it's drizzling and would have turned to ice. Well some good news today. They held a contest for a new church emblem since we split off from the United affiliation pf the Methodist and just became just Methodist. But anyway they held a contest for the new emblem and mine won! There were all sorts of entries but mine was just a simple rugged cross out of wood with a drape over it. I will send you a picture. So I guess it will be there forever now. So I was excited about that. I remember as a kid we were in NC at some store that had gifts and such. Dad let us pick out a souvenir and I found a knife with a beaded holder I fell in love with. I wanted to whittle..haha. I loved sharpening it each time I used it. Wish I had it today, but it was pretty much worn down. As always --thanks for the memories! I could smell Matt's coffee all the way here. Yep he likes it strong. haha Have a great week and prayers for Granny!
I like how you built your own house 🏡 and all the good wholesome sharing. Praise Almighty God. All his love to you all. ❤
Thank you so much!
My parents always used a perculator. One time I picked up a enamal perculator at a flea market for next to nothing....cheap. We live in the country and when we lose the electric, I use the perculator. Matt, Eight o'clock is also my favorite coffee to use. It's cold and snowy here in PA also, and keeping the woodstove going is a chore, but throws good heat and saves money as the oil furnace doesn't kick on as often.
"Im just kind boring, and thats what i like" 💯
Matt, no woman in that house, starting with Tipper is looking down on you. You are two of the hardest working people I know. I've known a, "few," not many. My dad used to drive around with a friend and look for down tree's. Talk to the owner of the property and most the time go out there with chain saws and bring it home. I bet you've got some neighbor's who would be happy to get some dead wood off there property.😊😊
Wonderful idea on marking your ax handle for measuring, never thought about doing that! We have watched ya’ll for several years now and really enjoy watching your show. We watch the girls vlog as well, ya’ll did a great job raising them. Thanks for sharing, we love the cooking shows too. Have a wonderful week. God bless ya’ll!
Thank you so much 😊
I remember my dad sharpening knives. Thanks for bringing back that memory.