Pushing Through and Getting Things Done in Appalachia
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- We've been feeling puny but found the strength to push through some much needed garden chores. Being out in the wonderful Appalachian Mountains helped us feel better.
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I like that you two are so in tune with each other that there is no need for constant chatter. You can work side by side, just content to harvest from the earth with the one you love.💚
Nothing wrong with eating cornbread every day. More power to Mountain folks.Thanks for showing us how to live a quiet simple life.
'Pushing through' ... truer words were never spoken about being exhausted from Summer work and garden burn-out, yet you all just 'getterdun'. Inspiration, for sure!
Thank you 😀
Sorry to hear you’ve been sick. Hopefully, next week will be better for y’all.
Thank you Rhonda!!
Hi Tipper, tell Matt he looks WAY younger without a beard and or a mustache. Hope you guys are feeling better. God Bless.
Thank you John! I will 😀
Digging out the potatoes looks fun! Like finding treasure. And my personal motto is “ eat cornbread with every meal when you don’t have biscuits”.
I tried your recipe for the Buttermilk pie. My husband has declared it a national treasure!!! He also informed me that I am not to miss any of your videos. He gets tickled listening to you as you use so many phrases that I use. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
That is so wonderful 😀 Thank you!
@@CelebratingAppalachia according to my husband you are the lovely lady who needs a thank you!!! He also likes to say you must be a fine lady indeed to be married to a man named Matt. (My husband is a Matt too) I also made your blackberry dumplings, sooooo good!!
@@gscrafty4801 😀That is too cute!
I love hearing all the crows in the background while you talk about what you all are doing. Love your channel.
They sure were busy 😀 Thank you!
I was chuckling out loud when Matt said "they get shot 15 times, they go hold up in a cave and as long as they've got bacon and coffee they make it." That's the truth. 😅. I hope y'all have a great week.
Sorry to hear y’all have been under the weather! Rest easy, so you can heal up faster! Ginger & local honey with lemon! Truly healing!
My mom grew up on a farm and they ate what they grew...when when she was older she liked radishes on bread and butter..they were sliced thinly.😊
I love to dig potatoes just the way Matt did. It is like digging for treasure.
My Dad will be 95 tomorrow, September 19th. He’s been a bit under the weather too. I was taking him to dinner tonight but storms are coming so thought it best to wait till next Sunday. Praying for both of you 💕🙏🙏
I hope he has a wonderful birthday 😀 Thank you!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your daddy, dear. Hold him tight, parents are precious 💖
From western mountains of Virginia, please tell your Dad to have a wonderful, happy birthday. God you you.
Happy Birthday to your Dad. I pray he gets well soon.
@@paigewilliams983 Aw, Thank you so very much. I WILL tell him 💕🙏🙏
I could sit and watch y’all talking and eating popsicles all day, somehow you remind me of my southern roots. It’s hard to explain the appeal to someone who isn’t from the south.
Oh my gosh, my father used the word “epizoodic” when one of our family members would be ill.
Hope you two continue to recuperate.
It's a great word! Thank you 😀
Mom taught me to cook white beans at 8 years old, then boiled eggs, cornbread, bacon, sausage, and finally frying pork chops and chicken. This progression was from 8-12 years old then she had me pick a cake recipe out of the pioneers cook book. I chose angel cake and she explained the directions as I went along but had me do it all, it turned out really well. All this to say, my dad required a meat, potato and bread at every meal. Cornbread was on the table every night and biscuits for supper. Canned biscuits were not allowed. In the summer I loved having fresh radishes, onions and tomatoes added to our meals. Growing up on a farm and the hard work it took, as a kid I thought I couldn't wait to get off the farm. As a young adult, I missed the fresh vegetables and convenience of having the grocery store in the back yard.
I didn’t put out a fall garden this year. The summer garden just really did me in this year so I needed a rest. I still have peppers growing so I’ve being canning hot peppers and chopping up sweet peppers to put in freezer. Your fall garden has done really well. Y’all will have some good eatin come this winter.
I picked the last two peppers in the garden today
Thank you Christine! Glad your peppers did so good 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I am sorry y’all been sick and thankful y’all are feeling better. Blessing 🙏🏻
I’m so sorry to hear you’ve both been sick. My love and prayers and praying for the lord to bring you both back to great health 💕🙏🙏
We so appreciate that-thank you 😀
My husband spent a lot of time in the hospital the last few years he was alive. Anywhere from 6-7 stays every year...in hospital. Our preacher who married us in 1986 said at his funeral that he would have to time his parting prayers for the commercial breaks during Gunsmoke. It was my David's favorite western.
Funny, it was my Daddy's favorite too. He used to tell people he had to watch Gunsmoke on his wedding night before he would go to bed!
My husband watched westerns every day up at the barn office. He had his leg amputated years ago and passed away June 2021. He was a logger like his daddy.
I'm sorry you lost him! When I talked to Granny today she was watching Gunsmoke 😀
I love you two sitting there with popsicles just sitting there talking. My favorite part is when you ask Matt how long he thinks it is until frost, and then he looks at his watch. Hahaha 😄
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I just started working at an orchard a few months ago and they always had green tomatoes to sell. One day I was talking to a customer and she was telling me how much she loved our green tomato batter mix. She said that they had been cutting the tomatoes in cubes and fried them that way and the tomatoes fried up so much evenly and how delicious they were. I’ll need to try that next year but you all can try it this year since you still have tomatoes growing! 🤗❤️
I've never thought about frying them that way-thank you 😀
Somebody has been watching Brenda Gantt chanbel. My uncle peeled some big cucumbers, cut them lengthwise 2 or 3 times and cut out the seeds
Cut into shorter pieces and fried them.
In meal. (Sorry my hand neuropathy is acting up).
@@kathybruce100 it looked fine to me, I’ll be praying you feel better
Sorry to hear y'all aren't feeling well. You two should just take a break. Pack up a good lunch and go enjoy a mountain picnic together. You definitely deserve it. The garden and grass will still be there when you get back. Praying for y'all to get well and to have a blessed week , 🙏💕🤗
A spoon or 2 of honey in the morning does wonders when the chills are trying to set in. Nice to see another popsicle chat with y'all. I hear more Bluejays and Cardinals mostly in the garden videos than any others. Feel better and thanks for sharing this
After being so sick I don't know how you had the energy to work in the garden! I sure hope you feel better soon, I miss you!
My honey and are are feeling your pain with that cold. It has kept us down all week. So glad to have y'all for company this week. Hope you have recovered well! God bless!
Sorry to hear you've been sick too Tina! Hope you both are back to normal soon 😀
When you just sit there in silence is wonderful. “Silence is golden...” or “When you say nothing at all”. I have a song for every situation. Thank you for sharing.
😀 I like silence
I really enjoy these popsicle chats, like the cold weather fireside chats when I was growing up
"Probably a her, for doing a lot of fussing". Matt cracks me up!
Nice haul of beans, Tipper. Hope you two feel better soon!
He is a hoot 😀 Thank you Roland!
Mom-mom would take new potatoes, walnut size and smaller, scrap the skin off with a paring knife and fry them in an iron skillet, on about medium heat. She would, every so often, move them around in the skillet so they developed a brown crispness all around. She called them fried whole potatoes. Definitely a top-five dish from her culinary repertory.
My grandmother used to fix green beans, new potatoes, and ham. I could eat my weight in that. Corn bread every meal? Yes, please! 🥰
Matt & Tipper, Thank you for sharing your amazing journeys in each video! Bravo Zulu on be truly amazing parents!!!
You are a lucky woman, your husband is a good man to help do the gardening when he has time. I know this because my husband helps me also. Not too many men do this. I give the credit to his mother and how she raised him. Love all your videos, keep them coming. I still learn alot about growing different vegetables and different methods from you. BLESS YOU BOTH.
My chickens absolutely love the greens of a radish
Ours like them too 😀
Sometimes I just like listening to the background noises of your country life, it reminds me of my old Ohio home. One of the good things about gardening is you learn from year to year what works and what works better. Some late summer tomatoes sounds really good to me.
You reminded me of the dreaded "lie-down rests" my mother used to make my siblings and I take when we were young. We weren't required to go to sleep, but we had to stop playing, or even reading, for an hour or so in the afternoon. Of course, it was Mom who needed the break even if we kids didn't!
I love listening to the two of you talking.
I made my first tomato pie yesterday. It was so good. Love me some tomatoes.
Matt is right about those western. They could hide out in a cave and make through so many situations. When I was in second grade I read all my Daddy's Louis Lmour books. I loved them.
I hope y'all get to feeling better soon. Have a blessed evening
We love those old books too 😀
My Daddy used to say he'd like to have one of those guns they used in the cowboy shows- they never ran out of bullets 😁😁
@@CelebratingAppalachia I actually named my little Yorkiepoo after a Sacket brother. I wanted to name him William Tell but my husband wanted his middle name to be after am old blues musician Robert Johnson. His name his Tyrel Johnson Pogue lol
Louis L'Amour is one of my dad's favorite authors too.
Love how you guys have a popsicle together when you break. I spent several hours Saturday at the community garden cleaning and packing veggies to be distributed to the soup kitchen, food bank , women's shelter and other places . Ive never seen squash as big!! I really enjoyed. We have the largest community garden in the United States . Woman's Day did an article on it several years ago. The gentleman who started it has since passed. We knew him. He lived around the corner from my parents. Very nice man. I think I'll continue to go. Good fresh air!! Thank you for your great videos. God bless!! 🥰💖🙏
That sounds wonderful! And how kind of you to help 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia thank you for the reply🥰💖🙏
Thanks for the smiles. I really enjoyed this. I like you two. You're a treasure.
God bless all here.
Praying you get your strength back and you feel better soon. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.
Those colds are knocking us over, but my wife makes the best chicken and vegetable soup 🍲. I swear it gets you through.🙏❤️
Really enjoyed the crickets chirping softly in the trees and grass while you and Matt talked today. Seems like the closer we get to cooler nights or cold weather the softer they chirp, as if they know what is coming. Maybe they are chirping in every show but today was especially plain. In the summertime the locusts in the trees are especially standouts. And then most every outdoor show I watch the calls of the crows can be heard , but not today. Hope the both of you get to feeling better soon. This beautiful time of year is too pretty to be feeling down.
My mom used make creamed baby potatoes when I was a kid, so good!!!
Get a piece of ginger a couple inches, slice it into a saucepan put about 4 cups of water boil it for about 5 minutes. Turn it off & let it come to room temperature, take out the ginger, put honey in a cup, however much as you want, heat up water & pour in cup. Sip on it a couple times a day
Hi Tipper and Matt! So glad you are feeling better! I had the Creepin' Crud about a month ago, not fun! Also nice to see you two back together for the "Popsicle Chronicles", wasn't the same without you both in your last video 🙂 I also really like fried green tomatoes but have never had any home made, only at restaurants. Maybe Matt will get some this year, I hope, lol 🙂 It was about 85 degrees out here up in the DC area today, but still felt like Fall, I am so looking forward to Fall this year, I enjoy it more and more as I have gotten older. The fresh clean cooler air is so pleasant.. I have started to decorate inside a bit with Fall decor, got a new house plant and and working on some knitting for Christmas gifts. Enjoy the upcoming week and God bless and keep you and the family!
Thank you!! We are looking forward to fall to 😀
Made 12 pints of salsa yesterday with all the tomatoes onions and hot peppers. Were only half way on my tomato harvest! The green house is prolific but the outside are running long.
I love canning season.
That is wonderful 😀
@@ktmcc4360 I really love canning, too. The process is relaxing to me and it brings a great sense of satisfaction. Tomorrow is expected to rain, so we've planned a full day of canning. I'm looking forward to it!
Love your popsicle chats! Hope you both feel stronger soon.
Thank you!
I particularly love listening to y'all after your garden chores and when you're enjoying your refreshments. It's takes me back to my youth and is a comfort. I hope you're both feeling better soon.🖖
Thanks so much 😀
I hope y'all are fully recovered. As for the cornbread comment, I could eat cornbread everyday...
fresh out the oven, day or two old, mixed in a glass of milk, reheated then buttered with Sorghum molasses.
I love the peaceful quietness and the sound of the crickets. You’re so blessed.
I hope you're both feeling better soon. And I agree, being outside in the fresh air always makes you feel better. Don't push yourselves too hard, get those afternoon naps, and have plenty of cornbread. And bacon and coffee!
Thank you for sharing your garden with us.
Four gallons of pole beans?! Wow! 😀 I like hearing the crows & I think I heard a rooster. Those radish greens look tasty. Like you, I like the regular round radish. That's a good way to grow potatoes. Cornbread! One can live on it. 😀 Suntan 'sicle. Those 'sicles look like they'd be soothing if you're feeling puny. Hope you are feeling better. It's always a pleasure to go along with you in your garden. 🌱
For your strawberry you can use a cattle watering tub, and use the milk jug green house container to protect your plants while they take roots. Then when the weather turns warmer remove the green houses and watch them grow as you water & care for them!
Two things in this video got me to a thinking. The first thing was talking about using a tarp to harvest your potatoes. If you're growing potatoes in grow bags and you have a wheelbarrow you could make a square frame out of scrap lumber and attach chicken wire or something similar to the bottom of it and set it across the wheelbarrow and pour everything in the grow bag in it and the dirt would fall through to the wheelbarrow and leave the potatoes on top and then you would just have to move the dirt from the wheelbarrow back to the grow bags. The other thing was when you mentioned having cornbread a lot and that got me to a thinking of my grandma that lived in Jackson county because every time we went to her house she ALWAYS had a cake of cornbread made to go with supper.
Prayers for a speedy recovery for you both!
To keep healthy during changing seasons, a great pot of chicken soup with dumplings is always good.
So great food remedies, use some of your grown garlic cloves, and local sourced honey! You will ferment your garlic cloves in your honey!
Get better soon. You are such a beautiful couple. Jesus keep you both. Thanks again.
We just got back home to FL from beautiful TN. We had a wonderful time, and the weather was so perfect. We love the mountains.
Pushing through is a great motivator sometimes. Hope you feel better soon.
I just got back to California from a 5 day trip out to Asheville NC, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and Bristol TN. Tipper it was breathtakingly beautiful. I talked about your channel to my husband and grandkids all the way. The food, the sweet people, and the beautiful views!
Glad you had a great trip 😀
I love Zinnia flowers! My grandmother use to grow them all the time!!
Happy y’all are on the mend. Congratulations on the excellent bean harvest!
Thank you . I love this. You fill my soul.
So happy you're both on the mend. Praying you both keep getting better and stronger. Thank you for sharing a bit of your day!
God bless you two. May you both get to feeling better soon.
"Pushing through", that is what I'm going to try to do tomorrow. For the last three and a half weeks I have been down. I went with my sister-in-law to a new little pizza place up in Del Rio and after I got home I was so sick at my stomach. Absolutely miserable. And several days before that I had told my sister-in-law that she needed to look at a place on my back cuz it was really bothering me. Well we both forgot it. That was on Friday. So by the next Tuesday the place on my back was burning hurting itching I was miserable. Come to find out I had shingles. And I honestly believe that is one of the worst pains I've ever been through in my life. They seem to be drying up right now or at least I certainly hope so.
As for eating cornbread every meal, I'm sitting here now watching you guys with a bowl full of soup beans and fried cornbread and hot Chow Chow and a big glass of water. Liked seeing all the potatoes you dug up that's great. I tried to grow some potatoes im grow bags this year, I didn't get a handful. I don't know what I did. I did it just like my mama had showed me. Of course she had them in the ground she didn't have grow bags there was no such thing. I didn't have a lot of tomatoes like I usually do. Anyway I enjoy watching you guys from Spring to harvest and even with your fall Garden. Thank you for everything you do to share your life with all of us. It makes my life better
Prayers you all feel better real soon.
You two are a delight together.
When I was a kid we did eat cornbread at least once a day... and sometimes twice. Biscuits were for breakfast and sometimes supper too. Light bread was kind of a make-do thing when you were too tired to cook. Yeast breads were usually reserved for Sundays with company and big holidays
Your voice sounds hoarse! My hubby enjoys watching you and your hubby working the garden beds. Inspiration!
Hope you both have a speedy recovery!
Thank you 😀
Thank you for the visit Tipper. I hope you're both all better soon.
Thank you Robin!!
Prayers for you guys, hope you are feeling better today, don't overdo,God bless ☮️
Hi Tipper & Matt
Always nice to see you two in the garden
I could tell in your voice you were under the weather …
My papa passed away 17 months ago and I will always think of him when I watch Gun smoke reruns or like you mentioned GS &
Pops came to my thoughts ❤
Love all those old westerns 👍
I could eat corn bread every day I love it too
Or biscuits that’s what we grew up eating 😁papa loved to crumble his and add milk to it ,Mamaw loved to eat hers with buttermilk 😋
Well you guys get better soon 🌸
Best wishes
Brenda
In Michigan we use old tractor tires stacked up to plant our potatoes in. It works great.
Hi Mrs. Tipper and Mr. Matt, your garden looks great! Sorry you guys are not feeling so good! Hope you're all better soon! Thanks for sharing your pretty garden with us! I might try that kiddy pool strawberry idea next year. Have a great nap! God bless!
Thank you Cathy 😀
I'm always running outside picking all my tomatoes during the first snow. I want the tomatoes to stay on the vine till the last possible moment...here in Montana it can snow anytime, usually end of September.
Sending healing thoughts your way 😊
Hi Tipper, I love radishes too. I can sit with a handful and a bit of salt and crunch away. The red ones are usually "French Breakfast but this year I found one of the seed companies were doing mixed variety. There were red long ones, round purple ones and white all with a slightly different flavour. I have strawberries too which I now grow on a raised bed but for a few years I grew them like some of the professional growers. I had a couple of lengths of rain guttering up on some trestles. Drilled drainage holes down the bottoms and off I went. It worked well for me as I have a big slug problem like Corey. The fruits hung over the edge so got plenty of air round them and just needed a feed when watering. I don't like chemicals so I use seaweed plant food and I use blood, fish and bone . When you were talking about Japanese beetle reminded me of when I used to grow lilies and we had lily beetle. At the time I used to have my grandaughter from school and her two friends from next door so I used to pay by the dead beetle and it kept them occupied for half an hour.
Prayers for the both of you.
Totally agree about the nap thing, so hard to do when young and so easy to do when older, unbelievable difference! I just could not stand having to take a nap when a child, made no sense to me! We're going to go from 84 one day to 60 the next this week up north.
Afternoon nap? Haha! Since my retirement in 2018, I have taken a serious nap every day. Checked with my sister and she does as well. We are serious about our naps. We take our contacts out and we put our pajamas on!!!! LOL Love a good hard nap! Makes the rest of the day go so much better.... 😀
I knew an old man years ago who would pull his tomato plants up right before the first frost and hang them upside down in his unheated basement. They would slowly ripen through the fall.
it was good to see you in the garden. sorry you are feeling poorly. I empathize as I broke my arm about a month back. I did have some cool crops already in the ground so all isn't lost. missed some canning opportunities 😪 sending blessings your way from southern WV.
Sorry to hear you broke your arm! Hoping it heals quickly 😀
Good video I could hear the crickets 🦗 singing in the background it was so relaxing hearing them and you talking to us 😊
Glad you enjoyed 😀
I always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
It’s funny you mentioned the bees, it was 43 degrees here in Maine yesterday morning and I found bees sleeping inside pumpkin blossoms for cover and warmth! 😊
Honeoye strawberries are an absolute favorite of ours. They are prolific, and self polinating in zones 3 through 8, have exceptional flavor, are great for eating fresh, freezing, and for jams, and jellies. This one is hard to beat.
Enjoyed you Guys Gathering your Harvest from your Garden! Hope you Guys Feel better soon! Have A Blessed Day!
Thank you Debbie 😀
Sorry you are not feeling well!! hope you feel better soon!!
Sorry that y’all have been sick, praying y’all are better soon. 😇🙏🏻 That’s a nice harvest of beans y’all got there. Way to push through to get the job done. I’m with Matt on not spending most of our time INSIDE, being outside in nature along with some good ole sunshine ☀️ is the best medicine and therapy there is. Bacon, Coffee & a Hammock up the creek on the mountain sounds like the place to be for me. Oh and don’t forget the bow in case the bear shows up. 😊👍🏻 ❤🙏🏻
Thank you Pastor Lon 😀
You two have inspired me to have a small garden next year. Although I'll be 72 tomorrow I still want to try it. I had and still have tomato plants but wish I had more veggies. Hope you guys get to feeling better.
Hope y'all feel well very soon. Don't overdo. Cornbread with each meal is delicious. My in laws always had a pan of cornread made and covered over for the next snack or meal. Cornbread with beans and potatoes sound delicious! Bless Matt with the flu! Scary! I had it one time badly. My thing when someone was sick was to always have water or juice by them. I was so sick that my mind knew to drink but I couldn't figure how to pick up the glass. Stay well this fall and winter. 🧡🧡
I hope y’all feel better soon. 🙏🏾
Sorry you have been puny. Summer colds seem the worst. Daddy used to make us kids a hot toddy when we were sick. Of course mama had Black Draught, and 3 S Tonic. She would also put Vick's Vapor Rub on us and inside our nose! Gosh that was worse than being sick! lol lol Praying you two get better. One of the ladies in church would make what she called garden scramble. When the garden started playing out she'd mix okra, onions, squash, green tomatoes cut up together and rolled in cornmeal and flour and fried. Gosh it was good, of course she had cornbread with it. We eat a bit of cornbread ourself. We love cornbread and milk in the evening when you get just a bit hungry. When I can I like to take a corner piece hot out of the oven with real butter and honey. Mama didn't let me do that when I was little- you'll spoil your supper- but now I can do it 😉 So glad your garden is holding up, your experiment really did well. You'll be able to plan ahead so you can do it again next year. I been chittering like that Squirrel y'all were talking about, lol I caught that Matt 😁 Enjoyed the visit. Stay safe and GOD bless
I admire that sluggish bumble bee on your flowers...Much like you and Matt, he is tired, and ready for a nap, but he knows he needs to push through to keep his family fed throughout the winter months. People underestimate the importance of bees. Here in Germany, beekeepers actually rent out their hives to farmers during the spring months to ensure their crops are properly pollinated. They haul the bee hives into farmers fields, set them up for a few months, and let them do their work. The beekeeper gets a small fee from the farmer, and he gets to keep the honey (which he can sell) while the farmer is guaranteed good pollination of his crops. I think that's so smart!
When we were kids, if we went out to play in cooler weather, mama would tell us to put on a sweater or we'd end up with "you-gag-dye-flippsy of the glow hole"! 😂 I never questioned any part of that even when she'd say that to me when I was older! Lol! I've said that to my son & grandson and you talk about getting funny looks & questions??!! I just told them I didn't know, it was something my mama said! I think I may be going thru that now...been feeling a little puny myself. I don't get outside much at all, wish I was able to. Hope y'all feel better soon! Hugs and blessings from VA! 🦋🌻
Love that saying Debbie 😀
Sorry that you two are sick ,, yes health is wealth,,xx
Listening to the two of you eases my soul. Reminds me of my family down in southern Ohio. So calming.
Me, too!
I enjoy watching your videos, they remind me of my parents and their relatives. However, they have both been gone since 1990. My Mom's family was from North Carolina and parts of Tennessee. Good memories. Thanks for your videos.
So glad you enjoy our videos and that we remind you of family!!
I look for your videos. They are wonderful.
Hope yall will feel better soon. When he didn't feel good my daddy used say he was feeling punk! I miss my mom and dad.🌻
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