Donnie i am 67 years old my daddy was 48 when i was borned he worked 33 years in the mines. I live in southeastern Kentucky flat lick. I love what you are doing.
Donnie, I'm 73 now, your videos really take me back. My Gramdma over in Clinchport, VA lived to be 98. She lived alone the last 20 years of her life, heated with the kitchen stove and a coal fireplace. Cut kindling up into her 90s. My Granddaddy in Duffield heated his old-timey country store with an old potbelly stove. Man, that thing would get red hot! Thanks for another fine video. We can tell you put a lot of work into them. Stay warm.
Hey Donnie, I have a friend that lives about a mile up the road. He has a summer kitchen with a wood cook stove in the yard for his wife, and two wood cook stoves in the house. His wife sure knows how to cook and bake with those old stoves. Yes, they are all antiques.
after watching your videos I never realized how old fashioned my family grew up. Now I wonder how my mom made the best homemade bread in our stove. when I look back I realize how money poor we were but felt so rich from mommas love as we were the only ones in our town that lived like us and had a outhouse. your friend patty
Great memories! My Grandpa Gregory would not allow an indoor bathroom for the longest time. He didn’t think that was sanitary. A wash-up basin and pitcher of water in the hallway was fine enough for him.
What a fond childhood memory this video brings back. I could not wait to go stay with my grand parents on their old farm. House was built in 1887, would sleep on an old iron feather bed with a hand made quilt heavy enough to sink a battle cruiser. Pawpaw would wake me up early to help him with the cows and when we was done memaw would have baked up some biscuits, and we would step through that back kitchen door to this warm and wonderful smell and those biscuits. Some of the best memories from my childhood are from my times around that breakfast table in that old farmhouse.
My Dad heated our house with an old Warm Morning coal stove all the way up until the last year he lived. I'll always remember how good that stove felt on cold mornings
I am 77 years old , I remember very well my Mamaw's old wood burning kitchen stove. I can remember hearing her in the kitchen stoking it with wood before daylight when I was a child. I would still be in bed. Before long you could smell the aroma of sausage or bacon and I would get up and watch her . She would also be making buicuits, she pinched them off and rolled them between her hands. She also would make the best gravy. Oh how I wish I could go back to that special time, well I at least have my memories. ❤😊. Thank you Donnie, this started my day with a wonderful memory. ❤
This is exactly as I remember it too! I am also in my 70’s … but when I was about 5 yrs old I too remember the old iron cook stove that Mamy would cook on. 🌸
My Grandparents had a wood burning stove...the food tasted so good ...we would use kindling and a bellow to help get the fire going.... Those old stoves with their detail and all were beautiful... Thank you for the video Brother.
I remember going to my grandparents when I was young and they had a old wood stove but I never knew how it worked until now. Thanks for the lesson!! God bless you Mr Donnie!!
Well at 71 I still heat my home with an old Buck stove. And on occasions like New Year day the wife fixes our traditional beans and cabbage and put a ham in a Dutch oven and I'll wrap some big ole potatoes in foil and put in by the fire , boy there ain't nothing tastes any better and we're set for the good fortune for the new year. Now that we've gotten older we invested in a pellet stove as a backup such as at night so as I don't have to get up during the night if I don't want to but old habits still gets me up and will stoke up the wood burner. Just ain't nothing more cozier. Speaking of stoking up the stove it's been about 5 hours now and it's time to stoke it up and put on some tea ☕. Well kinfolk y'all have a blessed day and happy New Year. Thanks Donnie for that bit of history, I still look at the new stoves every time I'm around the area Amish store it's always a fun place to shop.🙏
@@kurtarron6482we go to Columbia Kentucky to the Amish community and shop and there's a great restaurant called the Bread of Life that if you're ever that way I recommend you treat yourself you'll want to go back
My grandmother always cooked on an old wood stove in her kitchen. She lived in a 2 story farmhouse built in the 1800’s by my g-g-grandfather! That stove cooked the best food you could ever eat!!!! I miss those days so much. ❤️
I remember well the old cook stove. It was used well up until mid 1980’s as the only cook stove in the house. All heat was wood. No central air. Lord I miss those days!! Love you, brother. God bless you and your family.
I remember a cold Thanksgiving morning at my grandparents farmhouse that had a Warm Morning in the living room and one in the kitchen. Grandma had an electric stove by the time I came along but those pot belly stoves were for heat. Grandma's rocker sat in the kitchen by the stove and I cozied up in it. That morning my aunt came in with her tiny new baby and handed him to me and I was in awe. I rocked him and kept him warm.
My Great Gramma, cooked and heated with her wood stove for all of her life, she never even had an electric stove. She lived to the age of 101 years old and passed away in 1991. I remember as a young boy going to visit with her many times, my Granpa, who was her son would take me with him sometimes to visit with Great Gramma. My cousin, who is her grandson still has her wood stove in his shop building today. This video brought back some wonderful memories of my childhood.
My childhood was nothing like yours and I love hearing of how it once was. This is how I like learning history...about regular people who were really quite amazing!! Thank you Mr Donnie.
I lived in California and we had all the.modwrn convinces but my dad grew up like this and was getting the the wood by himself at about 8 and was splitting it at 10.
Good morning Mr. Laws. I sure enjoyed watching! When I was a kid my Pa and Granny lived in a four room house that he built. They didn’t have running water, but they carried it in the old water pails. They heated the house with an old Warm Morning coal stove. He worked at the Box factory in Chatsworth Ga. Building boxes and pallets for shipping. He would get the end pieces and scraps where he squared the boards and burned these along with coal to heat that old house. Great memories! Thank you Sir! He also taught me to love the Lord. He showed himself to be a pattern of good works! I appreciate you and what you stand for!🙂❤️✝️ I also consider you to be a pattern of good works and a great light!
Thats amazing! I always wished I had GOD fearin parents. They seemed so much more lovin. I would see folks at church seemed real and lovin, but mine were far from it. But they did make us go to church for face sake. I am thankful for that now. You are a great light too, and I thank ya. GOD bless ya
This was so good to wake up too and watch. Im 48 years old, live here in Alabama and even at 48 i remember my great grandparents had a stove like this and it just felt so comfortable. Even my grandparents had a little heater that didn't warm the whole house too good, they used space heaters a lot. But I can tell you this much, i miss it and I miss them. Always felt at home, never felt like you weren't wanted. Only thing I can think that will even be close to those old feelings again is Heaven. Happy New Year 🎊 and God Bless 🙏🏻
Loved this, cousin Donnie! My mother cooked for years on a kerosene stove, but when we went to grandmother's, we ate from a wood-burning stove. My grandmother made a lot of shortening bread, and it was tops! She churned her own butter, and that shortening bread, topped with that butter, would absolutely melt in your mouth! At eighty years old, now, I doubt I'll ever eat another meal from a wood-burning stove, but the memories are mighty sweet. Wishing you and yours Shabbat Shalom, dear cousin. G-d bless each and every one, and please continue to pray Psalm 122:6.
Thanks for the memories Donnie. It is said that my mother was born premature so they laid her in a shoe box on the oven door of grandma’s old wood cook stove to keep her warm and alive.
Food cooked on mothers and my grandma's old stoves made it worth all the coal and stove wood we carried into the kitchen. Thank you, Donnie, for sharing some of my favorite childhood memories. Stay warm, safe, and blessed.
My grampa got grammaa really nice wood/coal stove. Most the women in the family cried when it was sold. Lots of great meals were cooked on there by Gramma and then by my aunt Sarah after gramma passed. Wonderful video! Take care!
Donnie thank you for the memories. The best meals I ever had was nanny cooking over that beautiful old wood cook stove. Gravy and biscuits strawberry jam or huckleberry jam we picked when we went up the mountain. Or a pan of fried chicken and fried taters. And how I remember washing dishes on that old stove. Oh how I wish I could do that again. Those were the best times in my life. Keep doing what you are doing. Thank you for everything
I'll be 34 in January. Born and raised in Mississippi. This year, I'm moving to my little spot in the Ozarks and I fully intend on getting an old wood stove. And I'm gunna use it as long as I can. I'll do my best to keep them alive.
what memories! I remember so well! Now we adjust an electronic on the wall and heat comes up out of the floor! I hope todays people realize how well they have it! Thanks for this video!
of happiness to remember my mammy cooking on her old iron stove. (in your video. There’s one like it at the 7:07 minute mark). Although it was hard work to keep one going, especially on cold days, I sure wish I had one of those stoves. On my Dad’s side of the family they had a big coal stove that heated the whole house. I was there one day when a coal truck came with a big load of coal and poured it down the coal chute in through the basement opening. Something about your channel makes me yearn for the old simple days. Thank you 🙏
That sure brought back some memories! We used to make toast like that on top our stove. Couldn't afford no toaster . But it sure was good. Thanks Donnie.
My heart also!.... I'm sitting here right now with my 1917 Home Comfort Model AC wood and coal kitchen cook stove heating this place on January 3rd 2025
I am 77 now and Donnie you lived like I did, I remember living with my grandparents and they used wood stoves and I am thankful for the experience they gave me and I still cut my own wood and heat and cook in my workshop on a old stove and my wife and I also make sure our grandchildren and great grandchildren experience it with us, thanks for sharing another great video and take care.
Thanks, Donnie. My family had a pot belly wood stove at the cabin long ago. Also, my friends grama had a wood cooking stove with the hot water tub attached. And like you said, nothing tastes better than food cooked on a wood stove. ❤
In the winters of 77 and 78, I was a kid. We had a Fisher wood stove for heat. For both of those winters, we had long-lasting power outages. We used that stove to melt water for toilets and heat it for baths and to cool with. I also had a relative with a coal stove. Now THAT was heat. He got his coal out of a bank from a hill behind his house.
Having a wood cookstove experience is a great lasting memory ! I baked , and baked more... Really delicious results! A microwave oven, and electric coffee brewer were used on the side. Thank you Donnie, enjoyed this presentation !!!
Thank you Donnie! Both of my Mamaws cooked on wood stoves. I don't know how they controlled the temperature! They were excellent cooks! Those were the days ❤️
Thank you again Donnie. I can see my grandparents in Rhea z county , Tennessee feeding the kitchen stove wood. I have also seen there old potbelly coal stove turn so hot you could just about see through it. It became a transparent orange. Your post always take me back to when I was a child in the 50-60s at my grandparents home where everything was from the 1800s and very early 1900s. Boy I love the journey to those days Donnie. God bless you in 2025. Love ya my friend
I have burnt wood all my life. I cooked many a pots of brown and white beans on my wood stove. Boy their aint nothing like the taste. My grandma had a wood burning cook stove , but she didnt cook on it, she cooked on a propane stove. We cut our on wood. Great video' Donnie. Thank you for sharing this with us. Love your channel❤
the youngin's probably thing that was 100's of years ago, for us old men, wasn't really that long ago. thanks for your videos, makes me time travel back a few years.
My grandmaw had home comfort wood cookstove in the kitchen and a wood heater in the living room. I would love to have one more meal off of that stove. Im in Western North Carolina not many people burned cole over here. Thanks for bringing back great memories
Mr Donnie, my grandmother had a iron stove that she cooked on and use the heat to warm the house. In winter we would open the oven door and rest our cold feet on it and dry our gloves and socks also. In the fifties we had a furnace in the cellar that used coal. My Dad would feed it before he went to work. I liked to watch the coal being delivered through the cellar window by a Shute. Takecare, God Bless, stay warm❤.
We heat with a wood stove up here in NW Montana. We have a heat pump/electric furnace, but rarely use it. It’s nothing for us to use five or six cords every winter. We had a 4 day power outage a few winters ago, and cooked our meals on our wood stove. Great video, Donnie!
I remember a lot of my elder kin Folks had wood burning stoves and fireplaces. All the way down here in Central Florida. Love the smell of the wood smoke.
Thank you for another wonderful history video. My great grandma had a wood cook stove and I had biscuits and gravy that was cooked on it. That was the best biscuits and gravy I ever had eaten. God bless you Donnie and your family
Good morning Donnie. They sure are some beautiful stoves. We used a coal stove to heat the house growing up and there would always be a pot of soup staying warm on top. Our stove was round and kind of looked like a barrel with legs. It would pump out lots of heat and there were vents in the ceiling that would allow heat to go up stairs to the bedrooms. That sure did bring back memories of my childhood. Thanks for sharing, Your friend Louise.
Thank you Donnie, just what i needed before i drive from Virginia back home to Alabama. I will be sleeping over in Bristol Virginia tonight, close to your stomping grounds and The Ridge. God bless you my friend
Good video! I did get to see these stoves being used by my great grandma and grandma while mom back at home used modern electric or gas its just what my grandmothers wanted they didnt want modern stoves.
Good morning Mr. Donnie I can remember my great grandparents having one of them old stoves in their house even up into the ninety's using it just to heat with but they upgraded eventually. I was scared to death I was gonna walk by it and burn myself. It's very interesting how they still used it that long. Thank you for sharing and I hope you have a wonderful and blessed day ❤
Oh Donnie! What a great video of the past! I remember my grandparents had a wood cook stove & I loved it! Mama forbid me to be in the kitchen near the cook stove……but when mama wasn’t lookin grandma would motion for me to come in & she’d let me put a stick of wood in the stove on top!! Then my mom would notice I was in there and she hollered for me to come back in the living room and my grandma would say she ain’t bothering nothing leave that child alone. I will never forget those memories in those days.
Hey Donny, when I was in my 20s I rented a little stone/wood cabin that had 3 stoves! One of them was a beautiful cookstove😍. I worked in the restuant on a Ski mountain so I wasn't home much but, when I had company we cooked hamburgers and fries and I even cooked a Turkey when it was -60🥶! Wouldn't that pile have been welcoming 🎉. I've split and stack a many of cord of wood myself 💪🔥! Thanks 😊. JO JO IN VT 💞☃️
Back in the 1960's we lived in my grandma's old farm house while we built our new home an had a coal burning pot belly stove, an we still have it. Also my neighbor has a old wood buring stove that he uses sometime. I don't remember what kind it is but it's big with the thermonter in the oven door an is a light green color.
Donnie have you ever watched The Early American and Frontier Patriot you tube channels? A couple lives off the grid in a cabin and they depict what it was like to live in the early 1800's. Justine does her cooking in a fireplace using recipes from that time period. She's very good at it. Lord knows how she's able to to cook her meals during the summer 🥵🌡️
Good morning Mr Donnie i remember those stove's my mother cooked on a fireplace then we moved to a house and had a wood heater and she would stand me up on a box and taught me to cook on it i miss those days God bless you thanks for the memories
My name is Buddy Barrett and i truly do love all your videos . So plesae keep em coming , im 62 years old and my daddy had a pot belly stove in our old bard that sometimes he would cook us boild and fried peanuts and other special treats . What a memory . Thank you sir !
Great video thanks for sharing this with us it gives me some wonderful memories my grandma cooked on a wood cook stove and heated with wood I have helped cut a lot of wood I remember the first heater she had was a warm morning we had to go out side to the coal pile with the bucket and carrie. In some pieces of coal for the heater. Then later on she got a stove that burnt more wood.. for a long time she would have to cook and everything in the front room they only had a one room house. Then later they built a little kitchen on the back.then she got her cook stove.i remember her telling me about her cooking over the fire place when she was younger. But that was some good food and you could load that heater up at night and stay so warm . I remember the old out house and the bucket under the bed 😅 we got water from the well I know that for a while I thought my name was get wood or get water 😅.. if you had a good quilt on the bed and a good fire you were good and warm 🙏 I remember that my father said that he slept on a strawtick mattress. Thank you for your hard work making these videos and keeping these wonderful things alive. I hope you stay safe and warm they're calling for cold weather and snow and high winds on the way this weekend.. God bless you and throw a log on the fire for us.
I vaguely remember Grandma's wood cook stove. Back when Daddy was growing up, they not only cut wood for the fireplace and cook stove, they cut flue wood to cure tobacco with. I remember those Warm Morning heaters although most people around here that had them burned wood in them. I hope y'all are having a great new year Donnie and that this year will be much better for you than last year was.
We have used a Fisher Mama bear in our house since 1978. It's goin this morning. Get up b4 dawn. Spread the coals out. Throw some wood on em and crack the vents open. In a few minutes it goes to chuggin 😊😊😊
I am 61 and I do have a wood cook stove. It not as old as I would like. But it gets the job done. Yes I cut my wood with a chain saw but I do split it my a axe. I have a wood splitter but until I can't chop it by hand I'm not using it. God Bless Loved this video.
Thank you for this video...I live in maine, 54 years old...I grew up splitting , stacking, and carrying firewood. There are so many times the power goes out, I'll never live anywhere without a wood stove. Last year we used the oil fired furnace, with a short supply of firewood ( emergency use). We spent around $2300. In oil, and our light bill around $400. Per month 4 months of winter...This year we use our woodstove, it's alot of work that must be prepared for...no convenient switch to heat the house using a wood stove..alot of work, but the most coziest home ever...it's only 9° here...but it's so nice and warm in shorts and a T shirt!!!!
This warms the heart what you do Donnie.As I sit here in Michigan my wood pile looks just like those in your pictures,only I get to cover it with a big plastic tarp.T he temperature hit close to 50 degrees recently and I had bugs coming out of my wood in the house and flying around my lamp as the woodstove was burning.The old timers were so honest because they were to poor and hard working to mess around with trouble.
I miss the meals cooked on them ole stoves. Wernt no better taste. Thank you so much for sharing this my awesome mountain brother. God bless you Donnie 🙏💙
We we had a wood, cookstove and heating stove. Then at the other house we lived in we had a coal stove. Then we went to the coal oil stove. It sure is warmer heat than the heat we have today. Thank you for sharing.😊
Donnie i am 67 years old my daddy was 48 when i was borned he worked 33 years in the mines. I live in southeastern Kentucky flat lick. I love what you are doing.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless the Coal miner.
My husband is 74 and grew up in Central Indiana. His grandparents had a coal furnace and he remembers helping to shovel coal.
@momkatmax awesome my friend ❤️
My grandma made the best biscuits and fried chicken on a wood stove. I've never tasted any better thanks and God bless
That's awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing ❤️
Donnie, I'm 73 now, your videos really take me back. My Gramdma
over in Clinchport, VA lived to be 98. She lived alone the last 20 years of her life, heated with the kitchen stove and a coal fireplace. Cut kindling up into her 90s.
My Granddaddy in Duffield heated his old-timey country store with an old potbelly stove. Man, that thing would get red hot!
Thanks for another fine video. We can tell you put a lot of work into them. Stay warm.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing your memories! 🙏
Hey Donnie,
I have a friend that lives about a mile up the road. He has a summer kitchen with a wood cook stove in the yard for his wife, and two wood cook stoves in the house. His wife sure knows how to cook and bake with those old stoves. Yes, they are all antiques.
Awesome my friend. That is really cool 😊
after watching your videos I never realized how old fashioned my family grew up. Now I wonder how my mom made the best homemade bread in our stove. when I look back I realize how money poor we were but felt so rich from mommas love as we were the only ones in our town that lived like us and had a outhouse. your friend patty
Great memories!
My Grandpa Gregory would not allow an indoor bathroom for the longest time. He didn’t think that was sanitary. A wash-up basin and pitcher of water in the hallway was fine enough for him.
Thanks for sharing your memories. You were very fortunate to have those experiences. 😊
I'm fifty three and we burn wood just to help out the heat pump from working so hard and yes.... keeping wood cut is a job. Great video Donnie.
Thanks so much for sharing, my friend! God bless you🙏
What a fond childhood memory this video brings back. I could not wait to go stay with my grand parents on their old farm. House was built in 1887, would sleep on an old iron feather bed with a hand made quilt heavy enough to sink a battle cruiser. Pawpaw would wake me up early to help him with the cows and when we was done memaw would have baked up some biscuits, and we would step through that back kitchen door to this warm and wonderful smell and those biscuits. Some of the best memories from my childhood are from my times around that breakfast table in that old farmhouse.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing your memories! 🙏
I love a wood stove. Thank you for sharing this.
Your very welcome my friend 😊
My Dad heated our house with an old Warm Morning coal stove all the way up until the last year he lived. I'll always remember how good that stove felt on cold mornings
That's awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing 👍
I am 77 years old , I remember very well my Mamaw's old wood burning kitchen stove. I can remember hearing her in the kitchen stoking it with wood before daylight when I was a child. I would still be in bed. Before long you could smell the aroma of sausage or bacon and I would get up and watch her . She would also be making buicuits, she pinched them off and rolled them between her hands. She also would make the best gravy. Oh how I wish I could go back to that special time, well I at least have my memories. ❤😊. Thank you Donnie, this started my day with a wonderful memory. ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this memory my friend. I am so glad this brought back some great times for you ❤️ your very welcome. God bless you 🙏
This is exactly as I remember it too! I am also in my 70’s … but when I was about 5 yrs old I too remember the old iron cook stove that Mamy would cook on. 🌸
Best days of my life spent setting close to my granny’s wood stove I sure miss them days brother. We’re the last of a dying breed my friend.
Thanks so much for sharing your memories, friend. 🙏
Very interesting to learn the old ways of cooking and heating their homes.
That's so true my friend. Thanks for sharing 👍
@@donnielaws7020 it’s snowing in bluff city I know you got to tend to your stove
My Grandparents had a wood burning stove...the food tasted so good ...we would use kindling and a bellow to help get the fire going.... Those old stoves with their detail and all were beautiful...
Thank you for the video Brother.
That is awesome my friend ❤️
I remember going to my grandparents when I was young and they had a old wood stove but I never knew how it worked until now. Thanks for the lesson!! God bless you Mr Donnie!!
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you 🙏
God bless you Donnie. You're an AMAZING story teller. Keep them coming. 😊
Thanks so much for watching my friend. God bless you. 🙏
Well at 71 I still heat my home with an old Buck stove. And on occasions like New Year day the wife fixes our traditional beans and cabbage and put a ham in a Dutch oven and I'll wrap some big ole potatoes in foil and put in by the fire , boy there ain't nothing tastes any better and we're set for the good fortune for the new year. Now that we've gotten older we invested in a pellet stove as a backup such as at night so as I don't have to get up during the night if I don't want to but old habits still gets me up and will stoke up the wood burner. Just ain't nothing more cozier. Speaking of stoking up the stove it's been about 5 hours now and it's time to stoke it up and put on some tea ☕. Well kinfolk y'all have a blessed day and happy New Year. Thanks Donnie for that bit of history, I still look at the new stoves every time I'm around the area Amish store it's always a fun place to shop.🙏
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this and your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome 🙏
That sure sounds nice. I not been to a good Amish store since I was in IN. Like steppin back to the past. Awesome
@@kurtarron6482we go to Columbia Kentucky to the Amish community and shop and there's a great restaurant called the Bread of Life that if you're ever that way I recommend you treat yourself you'll want to go back
My grandmother always cooked on an old wood stove in her kitchen. She lived in a 2 story farmhouse built in the 1800’s by my g-g-grandfather! That stove cooked the best food you could ever eat!!!! I miss those days so much. ❤️
Thank you friend for sharing this 😊
I remember well the old cook stove. It was used well up until mid 1980’s as the only cook stove in the house. All heat was wood. No central air. Lord I miss those days!! Love you, brother. God bless you and your family.
I hear you my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. 😊 God bless you. ❤️
Thank you Donnie ! What ever you do' Do not stop your videos!!
Thank you friend. God bless you 🙏
Donnie, you are a national treasure!
Thank you friend. God bless you 🙏
Oh just love hearing about this old cooking stoves and how they cooked take me back to the good ole days
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing. So glad you enjoyed it. God bless you 🙏
Absolutely my buddy your welcome so much happy to be sharing sure did enjoyed enjoys it God bless you too buddy 🙏
I remember a cold Thanksgiving morning at my grandparents farmhouse that had a Warm Morning in the living room and one in the kitchen. Grandma had an electric stove by the time I came along but those pot belly stoves were for heat. Grandma's rocker sat in the kitchen by the stove and I cozied up in it. That morning my aunt came in with her tiny new baby and handed him to me and I was in awe. I rocked him and kept him warm.
What a great story about a warm Thanksgiving morning! 😊
My Great Gramma, cooked and heated with her wood stove for all of her life, she never even had an electric stove. She lived to the age of 101 years old and passed away in 1991. I remember as a young boy going to visit with her many times, my Granpa, who was her son would take me with him sometimes to visit with Great Gramma. My cousin, who is her grandson still has her wood stove in his shop building today. This video brought back some wonderful memories of my childhood.
Thanks so much for sharing your memories of your Great Gramma. God bless you 🙏
My childhood was nothing like yours and I love hearing of how it once was. This is how I like learning history...about regular people who were really quite amazing!! Thank you Mr Donnie.
Thanks so much for watching my friend. God bless you 🙏 your very welcome my friend 😊
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I lived in California and we had all the.modwrn convinces but my dad grew up like this and was getting the the wood by himself at about 8 and was splitting it at 10.
Good Morning Donnie ✨☕☕✨. Thanks for sharing
Good morning my friend. Your very welcome 🙏
Good morning Mr. Laws. I sure enjoyed watching! When I was a kid my Pa and Granny lived in a four room house that he built. They didn’t have running water, but they carried it in the old water pails. They heated the house with an old Warm Morning coal stove. He worked at the Box factory in Chatsworth Ga. Building boxes and pallets for shipping. He would get the end pieces and scraps where he squared the boards and burned these along with coal to heat that old house. Great memories! Thank you Sir! He also taught me to love the Lord. He showed himself to be a pattern of good works! I appreciate you and what you stand for!🙂❤️✝️ I also consider you to be a pattern of good works and a great light!
WOW thanks so much for sharing this with your memories my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome 🙏
Thats amazing! I always wished I had GOD fearin parents. They seemed so much more lovin. I would see folks at church seemed real and lovin, but mine were far from it. But they did make us go to church for face sake. I am thankful for that now. You are a great light too, and I thank ya. GOD bless ya
This was so good to wake up too and watch. Im 48 years old, live here in Alabama and even at 48 i remember my great grandparents had a stove like this and it just felt so comfortable. Even my grandparents had a little heater that didn't warm the whole house too good, they used space heaters a lot. But I can tell you this much, i miss it and I miss them. Always felt at home, never felt like you weren't wanted. Only thing I can think that will even be close to those old feelings again is Heaven. Happy New Year 🎊 and God Bless 🙏🏻
Thanks so much for sharing those memories my friend! God bless you 🙏
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I remember those old pot belly stoves and coal piles in the yard. Good memories.
Donnie, I absolutely love these kind of videos and you ,do them so well !! Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching my friend. 🙏 Your very welcome 🙏
Loved this, cousin Donnie! My mother cooked for years on a kerosene stove, but when we went to grandmother's, we ate from a wood-burning stove. My grandmother made a lot of shortening bread, and it was tops! She churned her own butter, and that shortening bread, topped with that butter, would absolutely melt in your mouth! At eighty years old, now, I doubt I'll ever eat another meal from a wood-burning stove, but the memories are mighty sweet. Wishing you and yours Shabbat Shalom, dear cousin. G-d bless each and every one, and please continue to pray Psalm 122:6.
Thank you so much for sharing your memories, cousin! 🙏 your very welcome. God bless you 🙏
Thanks for the memories Donnie. It is said that my mother was born premature so they laid her in a shoe box on the oven door of grandma’s old wood cook stove to keep her warm and alive.
Wow! That's incredible, thanks for sharing that. God bless you 🙏
This took me back to when I was a child.
Awesome my friend ❤️
We have an iron cook stove, just in case the power goes out.. And a cast iron heatin' stove. Love em. Thanks Donnie ! GOD Bless you and yours.✝
That's awesome my friend. God bless you 🙏
Food cooked on mothers and my grandma's old stoves made it worth all the coal and stove wood we carried into the kitchen.
Thank you, Donnie, for sharing some of my favorite childhood memories. Stay warm, safe, and blessed.
Thanks so much for sharing those memories my friend! God bless you 🙏
My grampa got grammaa really nice wood/coal stove. Most the women in the family cried when it was sold. Lots of great meals were cooked on there by Gramma and then by my aunt Sarah after gramma passed.
Wonderful video! Take care!
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing your memories.
Thanks Mr Donnie. Sure brings back memories for me. I ate many a biscuits out of my granny's old coal cook stove. There's nothing better. Take care
Thank you for sharing your memories my friend 😊
Donnie thank you for the memories. The best meals I ever had was nanny cooking over that beautiful old wood cook stove. Gravy and biscuits strawberry jam or huckleberry jam we picked when we went up the mountain. Or a pan of fried chicken and fried taters. And how I remember washing dishes on that old stove. Oh how I wish I could do that again. Those were the best times in my life.
Keep doing what you are doing. Thank you for everything
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. Your very welcome. God bless you 🙏
I'll be 34 in January. Born and raised in Mississippi. This year, I'm moving to my little spot in the Ozarks and I fully intend on getting an old wood stove. And I'm gunna use it as long as I can. I'll do my best to keep them alive.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing 😊
what memories! I remember so well! Now we adjust an electronic on the wall and heat comes up out of the floor! I hope todays people realize how well they have it! Thanks for this video!
Thank you friend. God bless you. ❤️
Love your videos taking me down memory lane Donnie. Thank you for keeping them alive ❤
I appreciate you watching my friend. God bless you 🙏
Another awesome video from the worlds best narrator god bless you Donnie I love your old soul
Thanks so much for watching my friend. God bless you 😊
I remember so well those old stoves they got the job done.
Awesome my friend ❤️
Thank you so much, Donnie for this history! I absolutely love hearing of the past.
God's blessings on you!
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you 🙏
of happiness to remember my mammy cooking on her old iron stove.
(in your video. There’s one like it at the 7:07 minute mark). Although it was hard work to keep one going, especially on cold days, I sure wish I had one of those stoves. On my Dad’s side of the family they had a big coal stove that heated the whole house. I was there one day when a coal truck came with a big load of coal and poured it down the coal chute in through the basement opening. Something about your channel makes me yearn for the old simple days.
Thank you 🙏
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you 🙏
That sure brought back some memories! We used to make toast like that on top our stove. Couldn't afford no toaster . But it sure was good. Thanks Donnie.
Thanks so much for sharing your memories, friend! 🙏
When your talking Wood Cook Stove, your speaking to my heart.
Awesome my friend ❤️
My heart also!.... I'm sitting here right now with my 1917 Home Comfort Model AC wood and coal kitchen cook stove heating this place on January 3rd 2025
Puryear TN here. Love your channel. God bless ya brother.
Thank you my friend. God bless you too 🙏
I am 77 now and Donnie you lived like I did, I remember living with my grandparents and they used wood stoves and I am thankful for the experience they gave me and I still cut my own wood and heat and cook in my workshop on a old stove and my wife and I also make sure our grandchildren and great grandchildren experience it with us, thanks for sharing another great video and take care.
That's awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this 😊 God bless ❤️
My alarm clock for school was my mom shaking the ashes out of the bottom of the Warm morning stove😂
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Donnie. My family had a pot belly wood stove at the cabin long ago. Also, my friends grama had a wood cooking stove with the hot water tub attached. And like you said, nothing tastes better than food cooked on a wood stove. ❤
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks so much 🙏
In the winters of 77 and 78, I was a kid. We had a Fisher wood stove for heat. For both of those winters, we had long-lasting power outages. We used that stove to melt water for toilets and heat it for baths and to cool with. I also had a relative with a coal stove. Now THAT was heat. He got his coal out of a bank from a hill behind his house.
That is a great story. Thank you for sharing. 👍
Having a wood cookstove experience is a great lasting memory ! I baked , and baked more... Really delicious results! A microwave oven, and electric coffee brewer were used on the side. Thank you Donnie, enjoyed this presentation !!!
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you 🙏
Thank you Donnie! Both of my Mamaws cooked on wood stoves. I don't know how they controlled the temperature! They were excellent cooks! Those were the days ❤️
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you again Donnie. I can see my grandparents in Rhea z county , Tennessee feeding the kitchen stove wood. I have also seen there old potbelly coal stove turn so hot you could just about see through it. It became a transparent orange. Your post always take me back to when I was a child in the 50-60s at my grandparents home where everything was from the 1800s and very early 1900s. Boy I love the journey to those days Donnie. God bless you in 2025. Love ya my friend
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories 😊
Many years ago we had wood heaters, that was the best heat to have but it sure was a lot of work. Thank you Donnie for this look back in the past. ❤️
Thank you friend. Your very welcome. God bless you 🙏
I have burnt wood all my life. I cooked many a pots of brown and white beans on my wood stove. Boy their aint nothing like the taste. My grandma had a wood burning cook stove , but she didnt cook on it, she cooked on a propane stove. We cut our on wood. Great video' Donnie. Thank you for sharing this with us. Love your channel❤
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing. Your very welcome. God bless you 🙏
the youngin's probably thing that was 100's of years ago, for us old men, wasn't really that long ago. thanks for your videos, makes me time travel back a few years.
Thank you friend for sharing. God bless you 🙏
Hey buddy thanks a memory from the past !!
You're very welcome my friend. God bless you 🙏
My grandmaw had home comfort wood cookstove in the kitchen and a wood heater in the living room. I would love to have one more meal off of that stove. Im in Western North Carolina not many people burned cole over here. Thanks for bringing back great memories
Thank you for sharing your memories. 🙏 Your very welcome my friend 😊
Yes sir I remember those days I miss them Donnie good show God bless Dan from Arkansas
Thank you friend for sharing. God bless you 🙏
Mr Donnie, my grandmother had a iron stove that she cooked on and use the heat to warm the house. In winter we would open the oven door and rest our cold feet on it and dry our gloves and socks also.
In the fifties we had a furnace in the cellar that used coal. My Dad would feed it before he went to work. I liked to watch the coal being delivered through the cellar window by a Shute. Takecare, God Bless, stay warm❤.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing your memories!🙏
We heat with a wood stove up here in NW Montana. We have a heat pump/electric furnace, but rarely use it. It’s nothing for us to use five or six cords every winter. We had a 4 day power outage a few winters ago, and cooked our meals on our wood stove. Great video, Donnie!
That's awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing.
I remember a lot of my elder kin Folks had wood burning stoves and fireplaces. All the way down here in Central Florida. Love the smell of the wood smoke.
Thanks so much for sharing that! ❤️ God bless you my friend 🙏
Hi Mr Donnie… my grandma had a wood stove for heat. I do remember. This was fun to listen to. Thanks so much. God bless. 😊
Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you 🙏 your very welcome my friend 😊
I remember that cooking ❤
Thank you for another wonderful history video. My great grandma had a wood cook stove and I had biscuits and gravy that was cooked on it. That was the best biscuits and gravy I ever had eaten. God bless you Donnie and your family
Thanks so much for sharing that memory my friend! 🙏 your very welcome 🙏
Alabama here yah hear. Respect going with out , because now I feel like I have e too much. I heat my home only with a fire place and love it.
Thanks for sharing your experience, my friend. 😊
My grandmother bought a wood stove about 1960 it was a light green color I remember when she baked sweet potatoes in it .
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing that memory! ❤️
Thanks again!!
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you 🙏
Good morning Donnie. They sure are some beautiful stoves. We used a coal stove to heat the house growing up and there would always be a pot of soup staying warm on top. Our stove was round and kind of looked like a barrel with legs. It would pump out lots of heat
and there were vents in the ceiling that would allow heat to go up stairs to the bedrooms.
That sure did bring back memories of my childhood. Thanks for sharing, Your friend Louise.
Thanks for sharing those memories Louise, God bless you. 🙏
Thank you Donnie, just what i needed before i drive from Virginia back home to Alabama. I will be sleeping over in Bristol Virginia tonight, close to your stomping grounds and The Ridge. God bless you my friend
Awesome my friend, safe travels home! God bless you!
Good video! I did get to see these stoves being used by my great grandma and grandma while mom back at home used modern electric or gas its just what my grandmothers wanted they didnt want modern stoves.
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend ❤️
I like those old stoves
Wish I had one now ❤
Thank you friend 💓
This is a great video and takea me back to my dads stories
Good morning Mr. Donnie I can remember my great grandparents having one of them old stoves in their house even up into the ninety's using it just to heat with but they upgraded eventually. I was scared to death I was gonna walk by it and burn myself. It's very interesting how they still used it that long. Thank you for sharing and I hope you have a wonderful and blessed day ❤
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you 🙏
Oh Donnie! What a great video of the past! I remember my grandparents had a wood cook stove & I loved it! Mama forbid me to be in the kitchen near the cook stove……but when mama wasn’t lookin grandma would motion for me to come in & she’d let me put a stick of wood in the stove on top!! Then my mom would notice I was in there and she hollered for me to come back in the living room and my grandma would say she ain’t bothering nothing leave that child alone. I will never forget those memories in those days.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you 🙏
@ You are very welcome Donnie my friend!
@bettyfeliciano7322 OH thaks so much for the Christmas card my friend. God bless you 🙏
@ oh, you are very welcome. It was probably late but that’s my fault Christmas. Just kind of snuck up on me for some reason this year.
@bettyfeliciano7322 God bless you 🙏 ❤️ 💖 ♥️
Them ole stoves are almost gone long forgotten times but the finest cooking
That's for sure my friend. Thanks for sharing 👍
Good mornin’ sir. Thanks for another installment. I’m hungry now haha. Have a great day.
Good morning my friend. God bless you 🙏
I still dream of the beans and corn bread Mammaw would cook on her wood stove. Thanks, Donnie, for sharing a great memory. Blessings in the New Year.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories ❤️
Hey Donny, when I was in my 20s I rented a little stone/wood cabin that had 3 stoves!
One of them was a beautiful cookstove😍.
I worked in the restuant on a Ski mountain so I wasn't home much but, when I had company we cooked hamburgers and fries and I even cooked a Turkey when it was -60🥶!
Wouldn't that pile have been welcoming 🎉.
I've split and stack a many of cord of wood myself 💪🔥!
Thanks 😊.
JO JO IN VT 💞☃️
Thanks for sharing your memories! You've got a great story there, JoJo.
Back in the 1960's we lived in my grandma's old farm house while we built our new home an had a coal burning pot belly stove, an we still have it. Also my neighbor has a old wood buring stove that he uses sometime. I don't remember what kind it is but it's big with the thermonter in the oven door an is a light green color.
Thanks so much for sharing your memories my friend! 🙏
Donnie have you ever watched The Early American and Frontier Patriot you tube channels? A couple lives off the grid in a cabin and they depict what it was like to live in the early 1800's. Justine does her cooking in a fireplace using recipes from that time period. She's very good at it. Lord knows how she's able to to cook her meals during the summer 🥵🌡️
WOW thanks so much for sharing this my friend.
Good morning Mr Donnie i remember those stove's my mother cooked on a fireplace then we moved to a house and had a wood heater and she would stand me up on a box and taught me to cook on it i miss those days God bless you thanks for the memories
Thank you so much for sharing those memories my friend. God bless you. 🙏
My name is Buddy Barrett and i truly do love all your videos . So plesae keep em coming , im 62 years old and my daddy had a pot belly stove in our old bard that sometimes he would cook us boild and fried peanuts and other special treats . What a memory . Thank you sir !
Thank you Buddy for sharing your memories. God bless you 🙏
Great video thanks for sharing this with us it gives me some wonderful memories my grandma cooked on a wood cook stove and heated with wood I have helped cut a lot of wood I remember the first heater she had was a warm morning we had to go out side to the coal pile with the bucket and carrie. In some pieces of coal for the heater. Then later on she got a stove that burnt more wood.. for a long time she would have to cook and everything in the front room they only had a one room house. Then later they built a little kitchen on the back.then she got her cook stove.i remember her telling me about her cooking over the fire place when she was younger. But that was some good food and you could load that heater up at night and stay so warm . I remember the old out house and the bucket under the bed 😅 we got water from the well I know that for a while I thought my name was get wood or get water 😅.. if you had a good quilt on the bed and a good fire you were good and warm 🙏 I remember that my father said that he slept on a strawtick mattress. Thank you for your hard work making these videos and keeping these wonderful things alive. I hope you stay safe and warm they're calling for cold weather and snow and high winds on the way this weekend.. God bless you and throw a log on the fire for us.
Thank you for sharing your memories of your Grandma and those great times. God bless you 🙏
Boy do l remember that food was so good
I vaguely remember Grandma's wood cook stove. Back when Daddy was growing up, they not only cut wood for the fireplace and cook stove, they cut flue wood to cure tobacco with. I remember those Warm Morning heaters although most people around here that had them burned wood in them. I hope y'all are having a great new year Donnie and that this year will be much better for you than last year was.
Thank you so much for sharing those memories my friend! God bless you 🙏 Thank you so much for your prayers.
My Grandparents had those in their farm house. Thanks again for the memories Donnie!
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome 🙏
We have used a Fisher Mama bear in our house since 1978. It's goin this morning. Get up b4 dawn. Spread the coals out. Throw some wood on em and crack the vents open. In a few minutes it goes to chuggin 😊😊😊
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing 😊
Another warm walk down memory lane. Thank you Donnie
Thanks so much for watching my friend. God bless you 🙏 your very welcome.
I'm sorry, thank you Mr Donnie. I appreciate you ❤
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you 🙏
I am 61 and I do have a wood cook stove. It not as old as I would like. But it gets the job done. Yes I cut my wood with a chain saw but I do split it my a axe. I have a wood splitter but until I can't chop it by hand I'm not using it. God Bless Loved this video.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thank you for this video...I live in maine, 54 years old...I grew up splitting , stacking, and carrying firewood. There are so many times the power goes out, I'll never live anywhere without a wood stove. Last year we used the oil fired furnace, with a short supply of firewood ( emergency use). We spent around $2300. In oil, and our light bill around $400. Per month 4 months of winter...This year we use our woodstove, it's alot of work that must be prepared for...no convenient switch to heat the house using a wood stove..alot of work, but the most coziest home ever...it's only 9° here...but it's so nice and warm in shorts and a T shirt!!!!
WOW thanks so much for sharing this my friend ❤️ it really makes a difference. God bless you 🙏
Thanks for this great video. I'm 71 and have many good memories of both my grandmother's old cookstoves.
Thank you so much for sharing those memories my friend! God bless you 🙏 your very welcome 🙏
This warms the heart what you do Donnie.As I sit here in Michigan my wood pile looks just like those in your pictures,only I get to cover it with a big plastic tarp.T he temperature hit close to 50 degrees recently and I had bugs coming out of my wood in the house and flying around my lamp as the woodstove was burning.The old timers were so honest because they were to poor and hard working to mess around with trouble.
Wow, thank you my friend. God bless you. Stay warm up there.
Definitely the good old days, the warmth and coziness of the family kitchen, good food and warmth of heart and soul. Thank you🤎
You’re very welcome! It’s those memories that really warm the heart, isn’t it? 🙏
@ sure is🤎
I miss the meals cooked on them ole stoves. Wernt no better taste. Thank you so much for sharing this my awesome mountain brother. God bless you Donnie 🙏💙
I hear ya my brother. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you Jared. Your very welcome 🙏
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS MR DONNIE ❤ WE HAVE ONE STILL❤ I LOVE IT❤ NOTHING BETTER ❤
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you 🙏
We we had a wood, cookstove and heating stove. Then at the other house we lived in we had a coal stove. Then we went to the coal oil stove. It sure is warmer heat than the heat we have today. Thank you for sharing.😊
Thank you so much for sharing your memories 😊
You're right... cornbread from the wood stove can't be beat! 🤤
Thanks Donnie for bringing back good memories 👍🎉
Thanks for watching my friend. God bless you 🙏 your very welcome 🙏