The quality of your videos are outstanding. I can see from the earliest ones how much you have improved over the years. In this one you tell a complete story with no words and still teach us.
John this channel has gone from being a commercial for your store to Emmy Award winning material. Great cinematography and story telling. I'd love to see a Townsend's movie
I remember when the vids were mostly "Here's an old-timey recipe, you can buy the ingredients from our online store". Now it's full on historical documentarianism.
@@s1ider You guys are getting what the National Weather Service told us we would be getting. We had a bit of sleet last night and off and on today, but mostly we just have had rain. It's been turning to ice on the back window of my car, but so far not on the driveway, the sidewalk, or the streets. The frozen stuff mostly went north of us. Sorry you're getting hammered.
@@MayorMcheese12 at least they don't have to worry about the local natives getting rowdy and deciding to come a pillaging like them early pioneers had to contend with when they settled on the frontier
6 of the most soothing minutes i have had all day. Rarely now do you just see a few people get together, put in hard work on a passion project and just let the act of service speak for itself. Everything here was perfection, the music, the edit the subject. Thank you for bringing us a calm during a storm.
They are doing very well, in those days it could take 10 or 20 years to build up a farm from scratch, build a bake oven, add barns and outbuildings etc.
Dang, I got a little misty there. The atmosphere of being on the frontier, working and living on the lonely plain in the cold of winter... amazing. I hope you don't abandon the "lesson" style videos entirely, but these are art. It brings a whole different dimension. Well done. (Viewers from 11 years ago must be agog.)
Every time I see that there's a new homestead video, I wonder if it will be a short movie or film, telling a dramatic story. You have really raised the bar when it comes to content quality and presentation...simply outstanding!
I know we've got the music as an accompaniment, but always what strikes me is the silence that such an existence usually had - no radio, tv or internet in the background, and maybe no musical instruments. Unless one had family and children running around of course. The need for personal and community interaction was literally a life saver.
Musical instruments were more common then you think. Not big pianos and stuff, but little stringed instruments or small woodwind instruments were fairly common. You look after an instrument and it can last multiple generations.
@@MrBooblo086 yes it is, if you don't have the grocery store people would die of starvation they don't even know where food comes from, so you saying it's good to be weak is very foolish and stupid comment.
Seeing you lay down by fire and going to sleep brought back forgotten memories from my childhood. A Kalamazoo stove heated the kitchen and the fireplace heated the rest of the house. I thank you for dusting off those long forgotten and now pleasant memories.
Mom was glad to be rid of the big Kalamazoo and get a Monkey-Ward gas range, but I missed the way that old monster would heat the whole kitchen and dining area, even if I had to split and feed it...Had a water heater on the side and a warming box on top, she was a black beauty! One 9"ring was in three circular sections w/lift eyes in each. You could pull the 3" center and get the coffee going right quick open to the flames. Guess it was a lot more work for Mom, but it made some amazing corn bread...
5:52 I learned when camping to not sleep head towards a fire. Sleep with feet facing. Your nose and ears are cold but you dont get choked out with smoke or stray embers lighting your hair or clothes on fire. Though, they are inside by a fireplace im sure its fine. There's no gusts
If you are going to cover the whole floor, save the ash from the fire because is the perfect filler for the brick gaps: it's thin and easily go between bricks, and also is an anti-insects and similar animals due to his high alkalinity. Just drop it on the floor and mess around with a broom.do it for multiple days and walk around the floor. When it's done bricks will not move and the floor will seems a unique layer.
I'm not sure why, but a simple, wordless, comforting video like this, of a bunch of people working hard but harmoniously towards a common purpose, was exactly what I needed today. Thanks so much Mr. Townsend.
Neat! In my country people used to make bricks out of "mud" they are called "kirpich", people used to build whole houses out of them due to lack of other material.
Did you see the videos of making the bricks from clay dug on site, and baked with a wood fire? He tells how in the old days they made them on site by the thousands to build houses.
This is some of the most wonderful content on TH-cam, it helps me to appreciate the strength, ingenuity and resourcefulness of our ancestors. Thank you for this.
If you mix wood ash with lime you can create a VERY strong mortar to lay bricks and make them more solid. You have to find a tool to work the mortar though because it will eat the skin off your hands if you handle it too long. There's also an ancient roman method for obtaining lime (if you live near the ocean). You can fire sea shells if you make a permanent kiln from the already fired bricks you burn the seashells until all the impurities are burnt off. Then crumble them to powder, mix it with water and your wood ash (romans used volcanic ash from Mt. Etna and Vesuvius alongside volcanic rock for aggregate).
@@ronteal2195 A lot of the old chimneys were built by homesteaders who didn't have the knowledge or skill to incorporate a smoke shelf in the chimney, without one heat loss up the chimney is increased and the possibility of a downdraft blowing embers and ashes out into the room is increased. But it is not absolutely necessary.
I really liked the change in this video. No talking, no commentary, just a slow gentle guitar and scenes of life in the 1700's. It shows the three essentials: Shelter, Warmth, and Food.
Thank you, John and crew, for your outstanding work. Thank you for telling an entire story without speaking a word, for all your hard work, and.... Just helping make things seem like it's all going to be okay
Ten years from now, a 10 bedroom, two story granite chalet with 200 acres of oak pollard grove and apple orchard with a 10,000 square foot pole barn to store the acorn/apple fed pigs and the home distillery for the winter - all to accentuate this new brick fireplace, of course! LOL All kidding aside, this channel has continuously impressed with the cinematography improvements. The down the chimney shot was EPIC! Keep it up lads!
John, I watch your all’s videos for a number of reasons. First one is I feel like I’m connecting more with my ancestors, and seeing how they lived via your guys’ reenactment and interpretation. Second reason being that your videos are just so pure. The lack of modern technology and convenience just seems to help bring us back to a much simpler time when our foods weren’t processed or genetically modified, and relying upon your community was truly a necessity and not something we should take for granted. And thirdly, you guys make it seem possible to do these things that I never really considered being able to do myself. Building a log cabin with both a fireplace and chimney is amazing. You guys are incredible, and you should be proud of yourselves. I love your videos. Keep it up.
Best. Channel. Ever. Interesting, educational, great people on and behind the screen, and absolutely completely totally POSITIVE content. No negativity or politics or divisiveness. God bless you all for your work and keep them coming!
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. Such elemental human needs being satisfied needs no words. Knowing the work that went into making those bricks made it even more satisfying.
Mr. Townsend, please never go away. It is channels, such as this, that helps bolster my, sometimes flagging belief, that there are far more good decent people in this country than not.
The level of dedication to the authenticity of this project is absolutely remarkable. Thanks to all of you involved in the making of these outstanding videos!
What I love about this is that the basic technology for creating a homestead and then a village is thousands of years old. Iron tools make it easier, but even those are thousands of years old. Hard work and a little knowledge is all it really takes. These homesteads and villages are the stepping stones for cities and human civilization. Even the clay bricks you have made are a technology that is almost as old as civilization itself.
James Townsend....the man to know if the power grid ever goes down for a long period of time. I grew up on a farm in a very rural part of the country (as in, I was literally 8 years old before we got running water in my grandparents house). I like to think I could survive and I probably could for awhile. But, people like this man have forgotten more than I know. I would have to survive off my memories. This man lives this lifestyle. Modern life has it's good points, but, there is something to be said for simple pleasures as well. You inspire me sir to share what I know (tho little it is compared to your knowledge) with my grandchildren. To pass on those things my grandparents shared with me. Thank you for your content and for sharing your own journey and may you always have nutmeg.
Nothing more needs to said when you sit around an open fire on a cold winters day with friends in a backwoods cabin, eating and sleeping. The music is appropriate to the mood.
I have watched this channel off and on for over a year, normally for the historical cooking aspect. I have to say, this was the best video yet!! Keep up the great work! Outstanding!!!!!!!!
On a side note. Really love your content. It's shoot so beautiful and also a great pleace to know abour a period that set the fundations of what USA is today. Thank you for your work.
You can really feel the impact of the improvement. Well done. For a moment, youre transported back to a time when every single one of us had ancestors that struggled like this and persevered. Had they not, we would not be. What joy and elation these tiny blessings must have been. Thanks for continuing to share with all of us.
This may be my favorite video of yours. It's like a culmination of all the time we've spent together, seeing it fall into place and understanding with having to speak.
So much said with out saying a single word. Reminds me of when I was learning to sign so that I could communicate with the deaf. One thing we had to do was tell a story with out speaking. In a noisy hectic world sometimes no words are necessary to be heard. I myself have been trying to get back to my own roots of a simple country girl from a small town. My husband and i have been slowly trying to turn our own little homestead. I like your channel for the historical value. There is so much to be learned from history. Times may not have been any less complicated but life was more simple and straight forward. Something I feel we could all get back to.
This channel is such a breathe of fresh air. Not because of the recipes ( which are enjoyable), or the nutmeg, but because it is a reminder of what men were like when the were free. There were no scrying stones in men’s pockets tethering them to an imaginary digital existence. There was simply the comfort of a warm hearth, hot food, true friendship, and joy of hard work.
I have enjoyed the homestead series more than I thought I would have! Especially, the way you show the changes to the home like adding the bricks to the hearth and repairing the roof. Very inspiring and it really allows viewers to experience some of the challenges people faced while trying to survive!
Beautiful just beautiful! I really do love this channel they help me to understand what my grandmother and great-grandmother were talking about and it's really cool! 👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👌👌
@@cat-le1hf grill pill is for people who already know all the problems, stopped caring, know the world is going to burn, and are just gonna laugh while it collapses.
Back in those days peoples minds were so little stimulated by their simple lives... they saw ghosts often around them. The spirits of the dead found it hard to hide from the bored living
I've been watching you guys for years now. I always enjoy the wealth of knowledge that john exudes in every video. He truly loves doing what he's doing. As a hobby blacksmith I very much enjoy the history. It's a valuable thing to know how we got here and what men and women had to do in their daily lives to make do and survive. This video is so relaxing and tells a story without words and the guitar is so relaxing and one is taken back to a simpler time of making to make do and enjoying the simplicity of hard work, friends and the reward of a piping hot meal and a rest to finish the day. Love all the videos, keep it up John and all the folks there!!!
I think I'm using this video for whenever I get another anxiety attack or I just need a mental reset, the music and sounds of the video are probably some of the most neutral yet calming I think I've seen from a non-ASMR video (although I'm sure this could be classified as unintentional ASMR)
Way to go in the music Caleb❤️ it’s beautiful ..
What is a Caleb?
@@jtjjbannie Caleb made the music for the video ~ he’s part of the video team
@@angellewis1815
AHHH!
Thanks for responding....
You read my mind 🤯
Change ur chords more quietly... Less squeeking
The quality of your videos are outstanding. I can see from the earliest ones how much you have improved over the years. In this one you tell a complete story with no words and still teach us.
These videos are a soothing balm for the soul.
Whenever I watch one I dare to dream again.
Indeed
I didn't even notice that there were no words... lol.
John this channel has gone from being a commercial for your store to Emmy Award winning material. Great cinematography and story telling. I'd love to see a Townsend's movie
As long as Disney doesn't buy them I'm fine with this future
@@DecodingDoom * Disney has entered the chat *
The editing is wicked good.
I remember when the vids were mostly "Here's an old-timey recipe, you can buy the ingredients from our online store". Now it's full on historical documentarianism.
He has a store?!
The cinematography level of this channel is through the roof
or down the chimney
I see what you did there.
Had to turn the audio off, but great otherwise.
@Hunter be careful when you say "most" because there are hundreds of thousands of creators out there
That might make the inside of the cabin wet.
The spirit of the channel is captured in this episode and not one word was ever spoken. Perfection.
What a lovely, soothing video for a gloomy winter day like today.
80° and sunny in south florida, dunno what y’all are complaining about.
Omaha is getting really snowy right now.
@@grendelum Subfreezing here in the midwest. Glad I'm not in FL!
@@s1ider You guys are getting what the National Weather Service told us we would be getting. We had a bit of sleet last night and off and on today, but mostly we just have had rain. It's been turning to ice on the back window of my car, but so far not on the driveway, the sidewalk, or the streets. The frozen stuff mostly went north of us. Sorry you're getting hammered.
Yeah. For us it has been a mix of freezing rain and sleet. ALL day long!
I can only imagine how satisfying it must be to get a good night's sleep beside a fire and inside a house you built with your own hands.
I'm sure it's very cold bit aye if you got the fire and a lot of blankets you're probably set
@@MayorMcheese12 at least they don't have to worry about the local natives getting rowdy and deciding to come a pillaging like them early pioneers had to contend with when they settled on the frontier
@@warbossgrotsmasha23 lol I suppose
Was it the natives who were on the Alfonso or were they just defending their land that was made and treated by the worst enemy possible
@@MayorMcheese12 He's said the cabin is impressively well insulated. Even a small fire can keep it warm.
This channel is like a breath of fresh air in a hectic world
*Self-sustainability ASMR*
Amin.
Yes it is
Couldn’t agree more
Amen
My best friend died today. Thank you for posting this video. Watching it gave me a few moments of peace.
Sleep tight little Townsend, may your dreams be warm and full of nutmeg.
Lol
Aw-wwwww.
All dreams with nutmeg are warm and cozy.
a comment worth itis weight in panned golden nuggets
6 of the most soothing minutes i have had all day. Rarely now do you just see a few people get together, put in hard work on a passion project and just let the act of service speak for itself.
Everything here was perfection, the music, the edit the subject. Thank you for bringing us a calm during a storm.
Can’t wait to see how the homestead looks when it’s finished (but with a homestead is it ever finished 😁)
We slavs have a saying, if you have a house/homestead there is always something to do/repair, but this is the beauty of it!
From my experience? Nope,farms are never finished. You just end up leaving a mess of projects for the next person in line.
😉👍🏾
They are doing very well, in those days it could take 10 or 20 years to build up a farm from scratch, build a bake oven, add barns and outbuildings etc.
I think we can call it finished when the two story center chimney post and beam colonial with obligatory pole barn are completed.
Dang, I got a little misty there. The atmosphere of being on the frontier, working and living on the lonely plain in the cold of winter... amazing. I hope you don't abandon the "lesson" style videos entirely, but these are art. It brings a whole different dimension. Well done. (Viewers from 11 years ago must be agog.)
Most of my my ancestors came to America in mid 1600s-early 1700, it's kind of a window into what their life was like.
Mine, also, through the northern colonies. I would have been a terrible colonial
Every time I see that there's a new homestead video, I wonder if it will be a short movie or film, telling a dramatic story. You have really raised the bar when it comes to content quality and presentation...simply outstanding!
Sometimes silence (or ambient in this case) express more than words! Great video.
Not a word spoken until five minutes in and even then it’s not directed at the viewer. Still makes an amazing Video! Great Job
I know we've got the music as an accompaniment, but always what strikes me is the silence that such an existence usually had - no radio, tv or internet in the background, and maybe no musical instruments. Unless one had family and children running around of course. The need for personal and community interaction was literally a life saver.
I sing to myself all the time when I'm doing stuff. I imagine people were the same back then. :)
Musical instruments were more common then you think. Not big pianos and stuff, but little stringed instruments or small woodwind instruments were fairly common. You look after an instrument and it can last multiple generations.
That was lovely. You said so much without saying a word.
Yes. Great video. Understood every word. Virginia
We must admire our ancestors who endured. They were strong people or we wouldn’t be here. Thank you.🙏🏻
we are weak
@@MrBooblo086 yes it is, if you don't have the grocery store people would die of starvation they don't even know where food comes from, so you saying it's good to be weak is very foolish and stupid comment.
Seeing you lay down by fire and going to sleep brought back forgotten memories from my childhood. A Kalamazoo stove heated the kitchen and the fireplace heated the rest of the house. I thank you for dusting off those long forgotten and now pleasant memories.
Mom was glad to be rid of the big Kalamazoo and get a Monkey-Ward gas range, but I missed the way that old monster would heat the whole kitchen and dining area, even if I had to split and feed it...Had a water heater on the side and a warming box on top, she was a black beauty! One 9"ring was in three circular sections w/lift eyes in each. You could pull the 3" center and get the coffee going right quick open to the flames. Guess it was a lot more work for Mom, but it made some amazing corn bread...
I remember sleeping in front of the fire as a kid with my cousin at our grandmother's house
@@mikeskelly2356
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I'm VERY impressed with John's fire starting skills.
I grew up watching Bear Grylls. I would make the same fire. :P
Charcloth is a severely underrated fire starter. Easy to make, lasts forever, and made from trash
5:52 I learned when camping to not sleep head towards a fire. Sleep with feet facing. Your nose and ears are cold but you dont get choked out with smoke or stray embers lighting your hair or clothes on fire.
Though, they are inside by a fireplace im sure its fine. There's no gusts
Falling Floor: Kind of like not turning your back to the ocean I guess...
I thought the same. I'd rather have cold head but warm and cozy feet
@@LindaCasey what does that mean? I've never heard that before
@@SteelyDanzig Many people get injured, killed or swept out to sea by turning their backs to the ocean and unsuspecting waves getting them.
I'd be more worried about sleeping that close to the fire after eating all those beans....
If you are going to cover the whole floor, save the ash from the fire because is the perfect filler for the brick gaps: it's thin and easily go between bricks, and also is an anti-insects and similar animals due to his high alkalinity.
Just drop it on the floor and mess around with a broom.do it for multiple days and walk around the floor. When it's done bricks will not move and the floor will seems a unique layer.
ash from the fire goes to make soap :D
Can't believe the music is in-house. Incredible job. Creative chimney shot too!
I'm not sure why, but a simple, wordless, comforting video like this, of a bunch of people working hard but harmoniously towards a common purpose, was exactly what I needed today. Thanks so much Mr. Townsend.
Neat! In my country people used to make bricks out of "mud" they are called "kirpich", people used to build whole houses out of them due to lack of other material.
Did you see the videos of making the bricks from clay dug on site, and baked with a wood fire? He tells how in the old days they made them on site by the thousands to build houses.
But what I want to know is did they used to build them while squatting and wearing Adidas tracksuits?
@@dimesonhiseyes9134 and drinking vodka
@@mrdanforth3744 I may have missed this, but will search, because now im interested!
@@dimesonhiseyes9134 Hehehe, you are a man of culture as well!
This is some of the most wonderful content on TH-cam, it helps me to appreciate the strength, ingenuity and resourcefulness of our ancestors. Thank you for this.
Sometimes the best words spoken are the ones not spoken at all.
this video is pure teamwork and brotherhood. 3 men coming together working hard to create something amazing. absolutly beautiful content
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You all seem like the best of friends doing this together. Lots of fun times but also hard and rewarding work. So cool!
Thank you, I and the dog slept in front of the fireplace in camp many times when I was a kid,, you brought back some good memories
Fun fact: I like the sound od those old fashioned bricks scraping along each other.
This video takes your cinematography to a new level. Marvelous story telling without a word spoken!
If you mix wood ash with lime you can create a VERY strong mortar to lay bricks and make them more solid. You have to find a tool to work the mortar though because it will eat the skin off your hands if you handle it too long. There's also an ancient roman method for obtaining lime (if you live near the ocean). You can fire sea shells if you make a permanent kiln from the already fired bricks you burn the seashells until all the impurities are burnt off. Then crumble them to powder, mix it with water and your wood ash (romans used volcanic ash from Mt. Etna and Vesuvius alongside volcanic rock for aggregate).
I was having a pretty awful day then I sat by the fire with you all and feel so much better now. Thank you🤗
glad you're feeling better, Townsends always helps me too
This is one of my favorite video so far. No talking, no messing around. Just hard work, tasteful music and beautiful photography.
I love how you took a video about using bricks and made it into a really awesome piece of art that tells the story without saying a word.
It's unbelievable how relaxing this is.
They even sound like "Real" bricks, "Clinking" together.
Am enjoying anything that happens there at the cabin, thank you...
That moving shot down the chimney was awesome! Great work!
Yep, always wondered what Santa Claus saw when he came down the chimney? Jon laying bricks, of course!
Aren't you supposed to have a smoke shelf in that chimney?
@@ronteal2195 Great big flat rocks are rare there...
@@ronteal2195 A lot of the old chimneys were built by homesteaders who didn't have the knowledge or skill to incorporate a smoke shelf in the chimney, without one heat loss up the chimney is increased and the possibility of a downdraft blowing embers and ashes out into the room is increased. But it is not absolutely necessary.
As for someone who's been living in a tropical country his whole life, living like this would mean the world to me. Very simple and cozy 🥰
I really liked the change in this video. No talking, no commentary, just a slow gentle guitar and scenes of life in the 1700's. It shows the three essentials: Shelter, Warmth, and Food.
Thank you, John and crew, for your outstanding work. Thank you for telling an entire story without speaking a word, for all your hard work, and.... Just helping make things seem like it's all going to be okay
Your channel is a balm to everything. Thank you for this.
Ten years from now, a 10 bedroom, two story granite chalet with 200 acres of oak pollard grove and apple orchard with a 10,000 square foot pole barn to store the acorn/apple fed pigs and the home distillery for the winter - all to accentuate this new brick fireplace, of course! LOL
All kidding aside, this channel has continuously impressed with the cinematography improvements. The down the chimney shot was EPIC! Keep it up lads!
Some of the best stories can be told with no words at all. Delightful.
Absolutely fantastic fellows! Take care and God bless.
I am honestly so happy you guys make videos, this was really profoundly beautiful. Thank you
John, I watch your all’s videos for a number of reasons. First one is I feel like I’m connecting more with my ancestors, and seeing how they lived via your guys’ reenactment and interpretation. Second reason being that your videos are just so pure. The lack of modern technology and convenience just seems to help bring us back to a much simpler time when our foods weren’t processed or genetically modified, and relying upon your community was truly a necessity and not something we should take for granted. And thirdly, you guys make it seem possible to do these things that I never really considered being able to do myself. Building a log cabin with both a fireplace and chimney is amazing. You guys are incredible, and you should be proud of yourselves. I love your videos. Keep it up.
Looking forward to seeing this homestead in the final envisioned state. Looks amazing so far, keep up the great work!
Anyone that has a homestead will say that is the truth.
Best. Channel. Ever. Interesting, educational, great people on and behind the screen, and absolutely completely totally POSITIVE content. No negativity or politics or divisiveness. God bless you all for your work and keep them coming!
This is remarkably beautiful. The cinematography, the attention to the detail, and especially the music. I am overwhelmed, and inspired.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. Such elemental human needs being satisfied needs no words. Knowing the work that went into making those bricks made it even more satisfying.
For some reason, I found myself getting all choked up watching this. It is deeply moving to me. Beautiful.
Mr. Townsend, please never go away. It is channels, such as this, that helps bolster my, sometimes flagging belief, that there are far more good decent people in this country than not.
I can't imagine how cold that mud must have been
I was thinking the same thing.
Yep, pretty brutal, all right. My arthritic fingers hurt in sympathy.
Woulda dried the hands out and made them all rough too
@@mokaplittle6543 There should be a piece of lard or suet in the pantry for that :)
I live in South Dakota, and have done similar work. Your fingers are icicles when it's over.
Gorgeous video. One of the best I have seen in a long while.
Townsends has the awesome ability to make an incredible video without saying a word. None too common.
Love it, love it, love it. No voice over; no need for voice over. Just the sound of work and the satisfaction of the work.
I have edited tons of videos on my channel and I have to say this was beautifully done. Video and music just flowed so well. I loved it
The level of dedication to the authenticity of this project is absolutely remarkable. Thanks to all of you involved in the making of these outstanding videos!
Awesome video! Looks great. You all did an amazing job. Kudos to Aaron for great cinematography.
How are you doing 😊😊😊😊
There's just something sublimely peaceful and wholesome about this entire channel.
So amazing. I watched you make those bricks! Can’t say enough good things...
How are you doing 😊😊😊😊
Everything about this video and this channel on general makes me happy..
I got unreasonably excited when I saw this in my feed.
What I love about this is that the basic technology for creating a homestead and then a village is thousands of years old. Iron tools make it easier, but even those are thousands of years old. Hard work and a little knowledge is all it really takes. These homesteads and villages are the stepping stones for cities and human civilization. Even the clay bricks you have made are a technology that is almost as old as civilization itself.
"You've come far Pilgrim..."
"Feels like far."
"Were it worth the trouble?"
"What trouble?"
@Nunya Business mine too
What movie?
Love this film.
James Townsend....the man to know if the power grid ever goes down for a long period of time. I grew up on a farm in a very rural part of the country (as in, I was literally 8 years old before we got running water in my grandparents house). I like to think I could survive and I probably could for awhile. But, people like this man have forgotten more than I know. I would have to survive off my memories. This man lives this lifestyle. Modern life has it's good points, but, there is something to be said for simple pleasures as well. You inspire me sir to share what I know (tho little it is compared to your knowledge) with my grandchildren. To pass on those things my grandparents shared with me. Thank you for your content and for sharing your own journey and may you always have nutmeg.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures brothers while I am in quarantine here in snowy Syracuse NY
Making something with your hands is so satisfying. ♥️
Nothing more needs to said when you sit around an open fire on a cold winters day with friends in a backwoods cabin, eating and sleeping. The music is appropriate to the mood.
I have watched this channel off and on for over a year, normally for the historical cooking aspect. I have to say, this was the best video yet!! Keep up the great work! Outstanding!!!!!!!!
On a side note. Really love your content. It's shoot so beautiful and also a great pleace to know abour a period that set the fundations of what USA is today. Thank you for your work.
like how he doesn't even need to say a word. so peaceful and the culmination of months of work
very cool!
I really appreciate how things are progressing. This video is great. Thanks for the excellent quality content. Cheers!
My wife, baby daughter, and I are stuck far from home since the pandemic. This gives us a window back to better days. Thank you.
that was just wonderful. after a long day at work to come to your cabin for a pipe and a well deserved rest. fantastic
You can really feel the impact of the improvement. Well done. For a moment, youre transported back to a time when every single one of us had ancestors that struggled like this and persevered. Had they not, we would not be. What joy and elation these tiny blessings must have been. Thanks for continuing to share with all of us.
"Imma get on the thatch roof in the snow so we can get a down the chimney shot"
Don't do it!
Imma do it.
I wish I was part of the Townsend family. A good day's work laying the bricks you made by hand, then a hot meal by the fireplace.
This was shot and edited magnificently, very beautiful and tranquil.
This may be my favorite video of yours. It's like a culmination of all the time we've spent together, seeing it fall into place and understanding with having to speak.
The best things aren't said at all.
This was truly refreshing! Cheers to the new year
So much said with out saying a single word. Reminds me of when I was learning to sign so that I could communicate with the deaf. One thing we had to do was tell a story with out speaking. In a noisy hectic world sometimes no words are necessary to be heard. I myself have been trying to get back to my own roots of a simple country girl from a small town. My husband and i have been slowly trying to turn our own little homestead. I like your channel for the historical value. There is so much to be learned from history. Times may not have been any less complicated but life was more simple and straight forward. Something I feel we could all get back to.
This is such a great series of videos. To celebrate, im going to turn on my heater, open a can of soup, and microwave my dinner.
This channel is such a breathe of fresh air. Not because of the recipes ( which are enjoyable), or the nutmeg, but because it is a reminder of what men were like when the were free. There were no scrying stones in men’s pockets tethering them to an imaginary digital existence. There was simply the comfort of a warm hearth, hot food, true friendship, and joy of hard work.
This is pure tranquility in an insane world... well done! 🙏🌺
How are you doing hope you're having a wonderful day?
I have enjoyed the homestead series more than I thought I would have! Especially, the way you show the changes to the home like adding the bricks to the hearth and repairing the roof. Very inspiring and it really allows viewers to experience some of the challenges people faced while trying to survive!
Sometimes, no commentary is the perfect commentary.
Its great and admirable that you guys have set out to build something of your own like this.
Beautiful just beautiful! I really do love this channel they help me to understand what my grandmother and great-grandmother were talking about and it's really cool! 👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👌👌
Really makes you appreciate the work that went into these old houses that are rotting down all over the country.
How are you doing 😊😊😊
No politics, no Twitter, no riots, just John and the gang eating beans by their new fireplace. Ahhhh....
@@paddyotterness BASED
these colonials EATIN BEANZ!
@@cat-le1hf grill pill is for people who already know all the problems, stopped caring, know the world is going to burn, and are just gonna laugh while it collapses.
Back in those days peoples minds were so little stimulated by their simple lives... they saw ghosts often around them. The spirits of the dead found it hard to hide from the bored living
I was just thinking of bacon and beans about an hour ago...
Great work, great videos.
❤👍 that was very enjoyable. Hard work for y"all but relaxing for us. The strumming from Ryan sets the mood. The videography is superb 👌 👏
I've been watching you guys for years now. I always enjoy the wealth of knowledge that john exudes in every video. He truly loves doing what he's doing. As a hobby blacksmith I very much enjoy the history. It's a valuable thing to know how we got here and what men and women had to do in their daily lives to make do and survive. This video is so relaxing and tells a story without words and the guitar is so relaxing and one is taken back to a simpler time of making to make do and enjoying the simplicity of hard work, friends and the reward of a piping hot meal and a rest to finish the day. Love all the videos, keep it up John and all the folks there!!!
Loooove this stuff. My favorite part of the channel. I just wish the episodes were longer.
That was the perfect video. Only thing I found missing was a cup of coffee by the fire with my pipe.
A barrel full of building bricks is why Paddy's not at work today.
The sick note
I think I'm using this video for whenever I get another anxiety attack or I just need a mental reset, the music and sounds of the video are probably some of the most neutral yet calming I think I've seen from a non-ASMR video (although I'm sure this could be classified as unintentional ASMR)