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I love all these stories . I was bored one day and couldn't find nothing on TV, and I just tried one of these stories on TH-cam and I love every one of them.
I grew up on a farm 60s-70s. I belonged to 4-H. So we grew vegetables and my sister and I sewed something for the fair. We did photography. So many things I’m sure I have forgotten about. I loved the county fair. Have a great day.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Yes I did. I miss it. But unfortunately we can’t do anything about growing older and moving on. I have wonderful parents also. I always felt bad for the children that I knew that didn’t have it as good. Don’t take me wrong. We grew up on a farm. We all worked around the house and farm. We weren’t catered to. I had a man tell me not so long ago. When he was the manager of a small town fast food restaurant he hired farm kids often. They were the best workers.
I used to make biscuits, several mornings a week, and I'd make our children, then grandchildren sausage gravy, always with sage sausage. Our children also liked a dish I made called Farmbreakfst, made with pan fried potatoes, in bacon grease , Vidalia onions, peppers, a pound of bacon, and set eggs, covered with good cheddar.. Each morning, the children and their friends, loved eating just about everything, be it pot roast, roast pork loin, fried chicken, along with biscuits.
My maternal grandma still cooked on a wood stove in the early 60's. We little ones took turns standing on a cane chair having the job of dropping dumplings into the large cast iron pot of boiling water. The food that came from that kitchen was wonderful and rich. Can close my eyes and taste those homemade biscuits.
I live in a small town in Ohio that is home to the only remaining independent fair. Its similar to the one granny was talking about. We still do all of the critter judging and canning and vegetable judging. We even have an antique tractor/equipment show and an old steam powered and tractor powered saw mill and a bunch of the farmers get together and build something using the old way of doing it. I absolutely love it. I moved here from north Alabama and we had county fairs but it was mostly rides and games. I prefer my small town fair. Y'all come and see us in Richwood, Ohio.
Most of the channels I listen to as potcasts while doing chores . This channel I cannot but sit down to as I don't want to miss out on the lovely pictures. Those old folk were a blessing to the young generation for passing down all those entertaining stories . Thanks and greetings from Belgium.
There was *NOTHING* like hearing Grandma's stories! I wouldn't go to sleep without hearing something about Grandma's life growing up in Germany and how she escaped. I wish I'd appreciated them more and wrote them down. Decades later I can't remember them all, or most, sadly. Anyhow, hearing this story reminded me of that. Plus, honestly, who doesn't love a county/town fair? We still have them, though they're sadly dissipating. Thanks as always JD for bringing us another heartfelt story. ❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️
😊 I'm actually working on a cross stitch project to enter into the county fair this year! I love going to the fair and work all year on fun projects to enter.
@13:17 - - "... and assumed a listening attitude, for even as young boy, I knew to pay close attention, when a Master Story teller was speaking..." and so it is when "The Appalachian Stroytell" weaves his memories for us ... Thank You
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I love your stories - - down to earth - - a variety of tales - - imaginative (so unlike so many other current creators who seem to be lost in the computer game land of fighting, horror, limited life experience, etc.)
Hey from Memphis. My parents were from a small town in west Tennessee. On one of our monthly trips ‘back home’ us kids were put to work shelling purple hull beans. That evening we went to the county fair and I remember almost half the kids had purple thumbs! 😂
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I finally subscribed today. Your videos are so easy on the ears reminds me of playing on the floor of grandma’s house while the grownups caught up or told old tales.
This story takes me back to the Cass and Clay county fairs, plus the Red River Valley Fair in Minnesota and North Dakota. Great memories. Thanks for painting such wonderful "word pictures", JD.
Thank you Michael. I enjoy really stretching out and showcasing word painting thru spoken words from time to time without emphasis on video elements, instead painting a picture in the listeners mind. This was one of those stories.
Makes me think we had grannies of similar ways, thanks for sharing, and bringing that sweetness to my day. I truly hope you know your worth and that you treat yourself accordingly, goodness knows the world won't! God bless
Dear JD, thank you for another stimulating and detailed memory. I love them so much, and I close my eyes and I am there. I love the how the journey to and from the fair was cherished by the family. From Ruth in England x
J.D. you made my day. This story brings back memories of our two girls growing up in a small rural town. In summer they lived for our county fair. Entering photos, food, crafts, showing sheep, the chicken parade, riding pony races, and the 2 day horse show. Relatives came to stay the week. My MIL made beautiful crafts to sell. It was so wonderful. Bless you for keeping Appalachia alive and stirring lovely memories.
Hi JD. I hope you're doing well. That part of the story about the biscuits took me back to my childhood and my Grandma's biscuits and fried chicken on Sunday's. I can remember it like yesterday. I miss the old timey fairs too. Take care brother.
Everyone of these stories like this makes me miss my grandparents. But I particularly miss my mother’s mother. That woman raised me as much as my parents and seemed never to be out of stories.
Thanks JD, I could listen to you sharing Granny’s stories for hours, I can see the whole story in my minds eye, even had a chuckle with Granny at the antics of horses and riders 🤣 Blessings from Tasmania Australia 😊
That's a very entertaining,, exciting and enjoyable 😊 story! The best part recalling friends adventures that are near and dear to the heart. Gone but not forgotten, they still live in our hearts. ♥️
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Thank You, It's a good day when I see a notification from your stellar channel. I know that fun adventures are about to begin. May God Bless You and Yours Always. Have an Awesome Day. 💯 😊
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller You're Welcome Friend, Everytime I picture that horse 🐎 running faster than the wind round and around I cry with laughter. Your word's paint a memorable picture. God bless you and yours.
Love your stories!! Always loved going to the fair in my area. I live in Kingsport. I enjoyed the fair at night the most. Granny tells some wonderful stories. The horse racing story was awesome. I could almost see Granny in my mind’s eye laughing til the tears rolled down her cheeks.😂 Keep up these beautiful stories. They are comforting as well as entertaining. 💜 Ferris wheel 🎡.
I could take Granny's place thinking or telling of those stories that I've lived. I've never been in the Appalachians, went through once while taking a train to Maryland from these flatlands. I grew up along the front range of Colorado. And my adult life has been led on these Plains. My point is, no matter where you live, the stories told of living past times have always fascinated me. And in my older current age, I've got a few myself. I just love yakkin' with folk, especially those older than I. Anyway, I think I can say I've been in both those folks shoes, just from growing up and listening. However, the Appalachian stories are the best out of all I've done or heard. Thanks, JD for sharing. 😊
Mornin' JD! Today's story brings back memories both good and bad but memories nonetheless! Times have changed, as have most folks and it's been a minute since I visited a county fair but it took me back to when I wore a younger man's clothes and I was full of mischief! Thanks for helping me look way back, friend, and I'll see ya again soon!
I'd love to know the fair as granny did. I haven't went for 20 ish years and have no desire anymore. It's just not what it should be. Have a great night JD. Thanks for the story.
Loved it! Other than my Daddy and three more of his siblings, were the old ones. I sure do miss those stories us children use to get out of the elderly. Now the young ones listen to us. Love to hear all those yarns, some were true, others a bit of truth in them. Thanks for sharing JD👍
Really enjoyed the Granny story. My grandma always had her whole back yard turned into vegetables and fruit plants. She made jam and apple butter each year and a time or two to entered the canned goods at the fair. And thinking of the county Fair, brings back some memories. When I was 8 or 9 years old in 1965, the county fair had a “greased pig catching contest “. I dreamed of entering the contest. But actually didn’t being as I was kind of younger. But…….it sure sparked my “pig catching imagination” for a few hours! Great story and memories.
Thank you for this video. I listened to it again; and. it didn't mess up the second time. Here is something else not done anymore. When I was younger (sometime in the spring or early summer) Hardware Stores used to advertise and host a Free Pressure Cooker and Pressure Canner Clinic. This isn't done anymore. Good luck at finding and buying replacement seals and safety fuses for any Pressure Cooker or Pressure Canner today. They have to be replaced every year, if you use them
Wow, I had forgotten about that, I remember them setting those up and they would even have an automatic bean sheller. It blew my mind to watch them dump beans in it and in seconds they were completely processed. I stood there as a little boy and said "dad, would you look at that! I wish we had one of those!" He said, "aw, we don't need one of those, besides I already have a bean sheller at home!" as he nudged me with his elbow and gave me a wink. I had forgotten about that memory until I read your post about the pressure cooker. Thank you for that
That was fun... I never heard about our fair being that wild... ☺️ Last time I went it seemed pretty tame. Thanks for sharing another time of your childhood 😎👍
Morning JD, another great story that brought back sweet memories. I loved county fairs and carried it over to my own kids. Now it's the state fairs for me. Y'all stay safe out there my friends 🙏
My father in Law made the biscuits, every Sunday. I miss those breakfasts. I miss his big loud laugh, my in laws were just like parents the way they took me in and taught this city girl, all the country ways. I later learned that my mohter and sister in law had bets on how long I would last.
I remember a better county fair when I was a kid.. It was during cool eather month... I love butter beans. I never tried planting them. nteresting and a fantastic ideal... I'm gonna try it in a planter, wish me luck..😊 I am visually impaied.. Your channel is the most interesting program I've ever had a chance to get acquainted with, thank you so much I appreciate it..❤
Hello JD! Fairs are not what they used to be when I was a kid. No wooden roller coaster either or both sides of the fair was going and now it’s only on one side. Going to the Pizza Palace after the fair. That is the best pizza and onion rings around. Orange Julius was next door with the coolest big orange for a sign. That was great times. Have a blessed day!
She is correct about the County Fairs. I quit attending any County Fairs. I don't think anyone who now attends (or works) at the County Fair has ever seen a real County Fair. The old County Fairs was a place to compare, learn, listen, buy new stock, buy new seeds, buy new tools, and visit with people we didn't get to see very often. TRAP is the best name for the County Fairs held here today. They are only held to get your money. A bottle of water will cost you over a dollar. NOTE: The sound track messed up on this video (after an ad). The sound is so fast that I did not understand what was being said (from just before the horse racing on).
probably a TH-cam glitch, I watched it after reading your comment and it played fine. maybe give it another try and let me know if its still causing issues. Thanks!
My papaw had peach, pear, persimmon, and paw paw trees.. not to mention hickory walnut and chestnut trees.. with his garden, and if he caught a groundhog down in the holler, there was no need to go to the walmart.. we had meat and all the vegetables we needed.
The last good fair I’ve been to was in 2008. It was tiny in a small town I was working in. They had a chainsaw competition you could enter for 10$. I won a brand new 600$ saw. It was fun. Kids had a blast.
Granny is right October is best to have the county fair. I remember the picnics and hayrides and all the games like three leg races and tug a war with men falling into the mud. Today it's all about making money with $25 entry fees and then you have to pay for the rides too. It just doesn't feel like a community any more, sad 😞
😂😂😂 Reminds me of when I learned that a can of biscuits was called Whop Biscuits. She said they called them that because you Whop them on the counters edge." 😂😂😂
OMG I was just talking about the 7-up Biscuits the other day. Is that what you're talking about when you say "Soda Biscuits"? They're so good. Moist. They keep longer than a regular biscuit.
Only thing I like better than snake stories is one that involves horses, which for many years since my childhood played a major part in my own life. One time I was out bareback going cross country when something spooked the green filly I was riding. She spun around and took off for home like lightning. I was hanging half off her and would've ditched except she was going like the wind and I'd have fallen right under her hooves. Y'see, I wound up with my right foot hooked over her withers, both legs and arms locked around her neck, and my face tight up against her left ear. The fact that I kept screaming "Save me, Jesus!" at the top of my lungs did nothing to slow her down. I rode home at least a mile in that situation, and every one of the few neighbors on our road came out to see. They teased me plenty about it too, later on. But when the terror wore off, I decided to be proud bc most people wouldn't have survived. I was also fortunate that the filly didn't decide to take another sharp turn or skid to a halt somewhere, bc that road had been packed down like concrete over the years. So maybe Jesus did hear me that day. He would've had to be deaf not to.
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I love all these stories . I was bored one day and couldn't find nothing on TV, and I just tried one of these stories on TH-cam and I love every one of them.
Glad you are here make yourself at home
Love these stories💖
Thank you Joan!
I never tire of Granny's stories.
Thank you Melissa!
Me too x
Always loved the fair. The best corn dog. Got to see Jerry. Clower and got his a autograph ❤
That's awesome! I grew up on Jerry Clower
Nothing better than waking up at noon, making breakfast..ehh no lunch I guess..and then finding a brand new video from your favourite storyteller
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I'll bet attending that fair would have been better.
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Is granny Tollette your granny which side of the family is your mum or dad’s …?
I grew up on a farm 60s-70s. I belonged to 4-H. So we grew vegetables and my sister and I sewed something for the fair. We did photography. So many things I’m sure I have forgotten about. I loved the county fair. Have a great day.
You had a great childhood
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Yes I did. I miss it. But unfortunately we can’t do anything about growing older and moving on. I have wonderful parents also. I always felt bad for the children that I knew that didn’t have it as good. Don’t take me wrong. We grew up on a farm. We all worked around the house and farm. We weren’t catered to. I had a man tell me not so long ago. When he was the manager of a small town fast food restaurant he hired farm kids often. They were the best workers.
Love this!
Thank you Karen!
Thank you, JD. Awesome video brother.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you Raymond, have a blessed day brother
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller TH-cam, my brother🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I used to make biscuits, several mornings a week, and I'd make our children, then grandchildren sausage gravy, always with sage sausage. Our children also liked a dish I made called Farmbreakfst, made with pan fried potatoes, in bacon grease , Vidalia onions, peppers, a pound of bacon, and set eggs, covered with good cheddar.. Each morning, the children and their friends, loved eating just about everything, be it pot roast, roast pork loin, fried chicken, along with biscuits.
That’s some mighty fine eating
My maternal grandma still cooked on a wood stove in the early 60's. We little ones took turns standing on a cane chair having the job of dropping dumplings into the large cast iron pot of boiling water. The food that came from that kitchen was wonderful and rich. Can close my eyes and taste those homemade biscuits.
This was a mighty good n I love country fair compatitions
Thank you!
Granny had it right about the difference between fairs of the past and modern day ones. Good clean fun back then.
Enjoying on Saturday night I so love your stories ❤
Thank you Tammy ❤️
Oh I missed this one Better late then not for one of your great stories
Thank you 😊
I live in a small town in Ohio that is home to the only remaining independent fair. Its similar to the one granny was talking about. We still do all of the critter judging and canning and vegetable judging. We even have an antique tractor/equipment show and an old steam powered and tractor powered saw mill and a bunch of the farmers get together and build something using the old way of doing it. I absolutely love it. I moved here from north Alabama and we had county fairs but it was mostly rides and games. I prefer my small town fair. Y'all come and see us in Richwood, Ohio.
Thank you for sharing that
Most of the channels I listen to as potcasts while doing chores . This channel I cannot but sit down to as I don't want to miss out on the lovely pictures. Those old folk were a blessing to the young generation for passing down all those entertaining stories . Thanks and greetings from Belgium.
Oh thank you so much for that that just made my day greetings from the mountains of East Tennessee my friend
Me too 😅😂
Spoiling us on a Saturday! Again. Thanks
So glad to have you here for the Saturday stories, my friend thanks for stopping in
Man, that story had me laughing out loud! Thank you kindly for sharing h it.
Thanks so much Wade. Glad you enjoyed it brother. Hope everything’s going well in your neck of the woods.
The good ole days and wonderful memories
Yes sir
Another great story JD, thank you!!
Thank you, so much have a blessed day, my friend
Nothing like a good horse story. ❤
glad you enjoyed it my friend!
What a great story JD! I just love listening to Granny tell her stories! Blessings always my dear friend!! ❤️😊✝️
Thank you Betty!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller You are very welcome! ❤️😊✝️
There was *NOTHING* like hearing Grandma's stories! I wouldn't go to sleep without hearing something about Grandma's life growing up in Germany and how she escaped. I wish I'd appreciated them more and wrote them down. Decades later I can't remember them all, or most, sadly. Anyhow, hearing this story reminded me of that. Plus, honestly, who doesn't love a county/town fair? We still have them, though they're sadly dissipating.
Thanks as always JD for bringing us another heartfelt story. ❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️
Thank you!
Good morning and happy Saturday! Thanks JD!
Morning Robbie!
I remember once hearing my great granny say "nothing better than a fine horse accept for a well trained team of draft mule's" I reckon she was right!
yup!
😊 I'm actually working on a cross stitch project to enter into the county fair this year! I love going to the fair and work all year on fun projects to enter.
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@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thanks 😊
@13:17 - - "... and assumed a listening attitude, for even as young boy, I knew to pay close attention, when a Master Story teller was speaking..."
and so it is when "The Appalachian Stroytell" weaves his memories for us ... Thank You
Thank you for noticing that line! It was written with purpose
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I love your stories - - down to earth - - a variety of tales - - imaginative (so unlike so many other current creators who seem to be lost in the computer game land of fighting, horror, limited life experience, etc.)
❤Thank you❤
Thank you Rebekah! Have a blessed day my friend
What a cool topic for a video.
Thanks Scully!
Great story.
Thank you Edward
Thank you, JD. Your stories never disappoint, but these are my favorites. God 🙏 bless 🙏.
Love reminiscing about granny
Hey from Memphis. My parents were from a small town in west Tennessee. On one of our monthly trips ‘back home’ us kids were put to work shelling purple hull beans. That evening we went to the county fair and I remember almost half the kids had purple thumbs! 😂
Ive had that purple thumb, and usually the tip of my nail was sore and soft too!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I finally subscribed today. Your videos are so easy on the ears reminds me of playing on the floor of grandma’s house while the grownups caught up or told old tales.
This story takes me back to the Cass and Clay county fairs, plus the Red River Valley Fair in Minnesota and North Dakota. Great memories. Thanks for painting such wonderful "word pictures", JD.
Thank you Michael. I enjoy really stretching out and showcasing word painting thru spoken words from time to time without emphasis on video elements, instead painting a picture in the listeners mind. This was one of those stories.
Makes me think we had grannies of similar ways, thanks for sharing, and bringing that sweetness to my day. I truly hope you know your worth and that you treat yourself accordingly, goodness knows the world won't! God bless
Thank you so much for that comment Rhonda really brighten my day
Dear JD, thank you for another stimulating and detailed memory. I love them so much, and I close my eyes and I am there. I love the how the journey to and from the fair was cherished by the family. From Ruth in England x
Thank you so much Ruth! Greetings from the mountains of East Tennessee ❤️
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I'm right with you through these captivating stories x
J.D. you made my day. This story brings back memories of our two girls growing up in a small rural town. In summer they lived for our county fair. Entering photos, food, crafts, showing sheep, the chicken parade, riding pony races, and the 2 day horse show. Relatives came to stay the week. My MIL made beautiful crafts to sell. It was so wonderful. Bless you for keeping Appalachia alive and stirring lovely memories.
What great memories thank you so much for sharing them. I love this story and I’m glad you took time to watch it.
These stories are excellent. Grannies stories are the best. God bless you and yours.
Thank you so much. Have a blessed day.
You’ve made us laugh and think about the time when our grannies were still alive. We will never see their like again. ❤️
They were special women and I sure miss that woman
Hi JD. I hope you're doing well. That part of the story about the biscuits took me back to my childhood and my Grandma's biscuits and fried chicken on Sunday's. I can remember it like yesterday. I miss the old timey fairs too. Take care brother.
I miss those biscuits too brother
Great little story, so funny. Thank you for sharing this with us 😂😂😂
Thank you Judy, hope you are having a great Saturday
Everyone of these stories like this makes me miss my grandparents. But I particularly miss my mother’s mother. That woman raised me as much as my parents and seemed never to be out of stories.
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Thanks JD, I could listen to you sharing Granny’s stories for hours, I can see the whole story in my minds eye, even had a chuckle with Granny at the antics of horses and riders 🤣
Blessings from Tasmania Australia 😊
Thank you Victoria! One day im gonna put out a compilation of her stories, she was a master storyteller
Wow JD, now that is something to look forward to. You were very blessed to have such a wonderful granny 😊
I love these stories. Awesome job J.D. God bless you and your family and all the folks that listen to your stories also. ❤
Thank you Mary ❤️
JD, dang it Son, you’re an old soul! I so enjoy hearing your stories! God Bless Ya!
Even as a boy, I was told I was an old soul
That's a very entertaining,, exciting and
enjoyable 😊 story!
The best part recalling friends adventures
that are near and dear to the heart.
Gone but not forgotten,
they still live in our hearts. ♥️
Well said Victoria! Always a joy and blessing to read your comments. Have a blessed day!
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Thank You,
It's a good day when I see a notification from your stellar channel.
I know that fun adventures are about to begin.
May God Bless You and Yours Always.
Have an Awesome Day. 💯 😊
Phenomenal Granny story. I hope I will tales of remembrance to share with my family as they grow. ❤
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Great story Jd
Thank you Randle
Thanks J.D. great story God bless!!✌️🇺🇲
Thanks so much, brother. Hope you’re having a fabulous weekend. The weather is gorgeous here in East Tennessee.
@@TheAppalachianStorytellersame here in central Ohio!!✌️🇺🇲
A great story, JD. Your Grannie sounds a awfully lot like my Grannie. Full of stories, love and wisdom and always busy doing something.
yes ma'am. Always busy. Never idle.
It's wonderful to hear a story from a
Master Storyteller that brings tears
of laughter.😂
Thank you so much, my friend. Glad this story bless your heart. Have a blessed day.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller
You're Welcome Friend,
Everytime I picture that horse 🐎
running faster than the wind
round and around I cry with laughter.
Your word's paint a memorable picture.
God bless you and yours.
@@Jean-us6ow Thank you!
Love your stories!! Always loved going to the fair in my area. I live in Kingsport. I enjoyed the fair at night the most. Granny tells some wonderful stories. The horse racing story was awesome. I could almost see Granny in my mind’s eye laughing til the tears rolled down her cheeks.😂 Keep up these beautiful stories. They are comforting as well as entertaining. 💜 Ferris wheel 🎡.
Thank you Vikki! Have a blessed Saturday
I been on a few horse rides like you described there ol brother..fine story..God bless ya'll
Preciate you brother
I could take Granny's place thinking or telling of those stories that I've lived. I've never been in the Appalachians, went through once while taking a train to Maryland from these flatlands.
I grew up along the front range of Colorado. And my adult life has been led on these Plains. My point is, no matter where you live, the stories told of living past times have always fascinated me. And in my older current age, I've got a few myself. I just love yakkin' with folk, especially those older than I.
Anyway, I think I can say I've been in both those folks shoes, just from growing up and listening.
However, the Appalachian stories are the best out of all I've done or heard.
Thanks, JD for sharing. 😊
Thank you Robert! Have a blessed day and thanks for sharing!
Mornin' JD! Today's story brings back memories both good and bad but memories nonetheless! Times have changed, as have most folks and it's been a minute since I visited a county fair but it took me back to when I wore a younger man's clothes and I was full of mischief! Thanks for helping me look way back, friend, and I'll see ya again soon!
Thanks Scott, hope ya'll have a great weekend brother
Enjoyed as always, JD
Thanks so much John!
I love listening to your stories!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you ❤️
Thank you for the morning uplifting story. I think I smiled the whole time.
aww, thank you Janet! That makes my heart happy
I'd love to know the fair as granny did. I haven't went for 20 ish years and have no desire anymore. It's just not what it should be. Have a great night JD. Thanks for the story.
Me too Rusty, it so much different now
I always enjoy these heart warming stones of yours. Thank you for sharing em with us. ❤
Thank you! Have a blessed day!
Stay blessed 🙏😇🍁
you too Marion
So many story's left untold even by people I've known.
Loved it! Other than my Daddy and three more of his siblings, were the old ones. I sure do miss those stories us children use to get out of the elderly. Now the young ones listen to us. Love to hear all those yarns, some were true, others a bit of truth in them. Thanks for sharing JD👍
Really enjoyed the Granny story.
My grandma always had her whole back yard turned into vegetables and fruit plants. She made jam and apple butter each year and a time or two to entered the canned goods at the fair. And thinking of the county Fair, brings back some memories. When I was 8 or 9 years old in 1965, the county fair had a “greased pig catching contest “. I dreamed of entering the contest. But actually didn’t being as I was kind of younger. But…….it sure sparked my “pig catching imagination” for a few hours!
Great story and memories.
Thanks for sharing those memories
I love your stories
Thank you Janet!
Incredibly eloquent. Story telling is such a beautiful art. Thank you!
Thank you so much, my friend. I really appreciate it when people understand the poetry in these stories.
Thank you for this video. I listened to it again; and. it didn't mess up the second time.
Here is something else not done anymore. When I was younger (sometime in the spring or early summer) Hardware Stores used to advertise and host a Free Pressure Cooker and Pressure Canner Clinic. This isn't done anymore. Good luck at finding and buying replacement seals and safety fuses for any Pressure Cooker or Pressure Canner today. They have to be replaced every year, if you use them
Wow, I had forgotten about that, I remember them setting those up and they would even have an automatic bean sheller. It blew my mind to watch them dump beans in it and in seconds they were completely processed. I stood there as a little boy and said "dad, would you look at that! I wish we had one of those!" He said, "aw, we don't need one of those, besides I already have a bean sheller at home!" as he nudged me with his elbow and gave me a wink. I had forgotten about that memory until I read your post about the pressure cooker. Thank you for that
Loved it! Thank you, JD.
Thank you so much. This is a great story.
That was fun... I never heard about our fair being that wild... ☺️ Last time I went it seemed pretty tame. Thanks for sharing another time of your childhood 😎👍
Thank you Kathy! Hope you have a fabulous weekend my friend
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Thanks JD...Same to you
Love these stories 🙏🏾
Glad you like them!
This is nothing better when you are depressed than hearing a storyteller such as yourself. Good afternoon JD and family.
Thank you, Pam. I hope your day gets better. Have a blessed one, my friend.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you sooooo much. Just hearing a reply from you makes my weekend. You are truly a friend to me. Love Pam.
Hope he brings you the same sense of peace he carries to me. God bless
@@rhondaturner2254 thank you Rhonda. God Bless and sending love to you.
I love the stories with Granny.
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Another great one JD! Saturday morning Appalachian storyteller is better than cartoons when I was a young’n. Thanks a bunch.
aww man, I appreciate that so much! Thank you!
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Granny is right the fair is not as good as it once was, as she said to early and to hot
Makes so much sense about goin to the Fair in October 😁👍🏽
I wonder when they changed it to Summertime 🤔
I love the stories you tell.
Thank you Jane!
I like turtles AND biscuits! Love that word.
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I really want to go and see a County Fair like this 😊
those were the days!
Morning JD, another great story that brought back sweet memories. I loved county fairs and carried it over to my own kids. Now it's the state fairs for me. Y'all stay safe out there my friends 🙏
Morning big iron, I love those state fairs too brother
My father in Law made the biscuits, every Sunday.
I miss those breakfasts. I miss his big loud laugh, my in laws were just like parents the way they took me in and taught this city girl, all the country ways.
I later learned that my mohter and sister in law had bets on how long I would last.
my dad made biscuits too! He called them "Cathead Biscuits" and they were big as your fist. One biscuit was an entire meal by itself!
I remember a better county fair when I was a kid.. It was during cool eather month... I love butter beans. I never tried planting them. nteresting and a fantastic ideal... I'm gonna try it in a planter, wish me luck..😊
I am visually impaied.. Your channel is the most interesting program I've ever had a chance to get acquainted with, thank you so much I appreciate it..❤
Thank you so much!
Hello JD! Fairs are not what they used to be when I was a kid. No wooden roller coaster either or both sides of the fair was going and now it’s only on one side.
Going to the Pizza Palace after the fair. That is the best pizza and onion rings around. Orange Julius was next door with the coolest big orange for a sign. That was great times.
Have a blessed day!
You said it Willow! Have a blessed day
Just love these! You da best, thanks JD❤
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She is correct about the County Fairs. I quit attending any County Fairs. I don't think anyone who now attends (or works) at the County Fair has ever seen a real County Fair. The old County Fairs was a place to compare, learn, listen, buy new stock, buy new seeds, buy new tools, and visit with people we didn't get to see very often. TRAP is the best name for the County Fairs held here today. They are only held to get your money. A bottle of water will cost you over a dollar. NOTE: The sound track messed up on this video (after an ad). The sound is so fast that I did not understand what was being said (from just before the horse racing on).
probably a TH-cam glitch, I watched it after reading your comment and it played fine. maybe give it another try and let me know if its still causing issues. Thanks!
My papaw had peach, pear, persimmon, and paw paw trees.. not to mention hickory walnut and chestnut trees.. with his garden, and if he caught a groundhog down in the holler, there was no need to go to the walmart.. we had meat and all the vegetables we needed.
You should tell the story of the pound gap massacre. It involved my family/moonshine, and one bad man
I put it in my future story ideas folder. thanks for the suggestion
Great to hear it said as biscuits. Biscuits are not cookies... Cookies are cookies and biscuits are biscuits
Well, said my friend thanks for tuning in
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller You're welcome. I have been binging quite a few videos, as you can tell
The last good fair I’ve been to was in 2008. It was tiny in a small town I was working in. They had a chainsaw competition you could enter for 10$. I won a brand new 600$ saw. It was fun. Kids had a blast.
Awesome
Granny is right October is best to have the county fair. I remember the picnics and hayrides and all the games like three leg races and tug a war with men falling into the mud. Today it's all about making money with $25 entry fees and then you have to pay for the rides too. It just doesn't feel like a community any more, sad 😞
absolutely true!
Have you got the recipe for those panfried biscuits?
Sound delicious, I'd like to make some☺️💕
I actually just my dads recipe for what he called “cat head” biscuits
Good morning Jd
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😂😂😂 Reminds me of when I learned that a can of biscuits was called Whop Biscuits. She said they called them that because you Whop them on the counters edge." 😂😂😂
exactly!
Yeah and the old men going to the hooch cooch show 😊
OMG I was just talking about the 7-up Biscuits the other day. Is that what you're talking about when you say "Soda Biscuits"? They're so good. Moist. They keep longer than a regular biscuit.
Yup! That’s the biscuits!
I can't see that guy's picture without thinking about him being a land thief that cant be trusted.
Yummy Grub 😊
Only thing I like better than snake stories is one that involves horses, which for many years since my childhood played a major part in my own life. One time I was out bareback going cross country when something spooked the green filly I was riding. She spun around and took off for home like lightning. I was hanging half off her and would've ditched except she was going like the wind and I'd have fallen right under her hooves. Y'see, I wound up with my right foot hooked over her withers, both legs and arms locked around her neck, and my face tight up against her left ear. The fact that I kept screaming "Save me, Jesus!" at the top of my lungs did nothing to slow her down. I rode home at least a mile in that situation, and every one of the few neighbors on our road came out to see. They teased me plenty about it too, later on. But when the terror wore off, I decided to be proud bc most people wouldn't have survived. I was also fortunate that the filly didn't decide to take another sharp turn or skid to a halt somewhere, bc that road had been packed down like concrete over the years. So maybe Jesus did hear me that day. He would've had to be deaf not to.
that sounds like a heck of a ride for sure!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller - One I don't care to repeat. I love my Jesus and all, but I don't want to meet him that way. :p
Do you know how many Breakfasts i have had of cornbread in milk in the morning. Yesterdays cornbread for breakfast is not too bad. Just saying.
My papaw Coy always had cornbread with milk... every day
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I was just joking. Have a good day, and that was a pretty good story.
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