It is a sign of the times that make many a heart yearn for the scenes of a simple life: color that paints the plants, fruited flowers that feed, sons and daughters that listen, and a grateful heart that thanks their Creator.

In a world that has seemingly gone crazy lately, these videos become more and more precious. So refreshing is it to watch something so relaxing and beautiful, and the song at the end was just the perfect touch. God bless!

Little bits of heaven right there.

Your intro was so hauntingly beautiful, bringing back suppressed childhood memories of the crickets, cicadas, and tree frogs singing in perfect harmony outside of my bedroom with windows raised. We did not have AC back then and would listen to the woods sounds to put us to sleep while waiting for each gust of breeze to cancel a portion of the heat the house held from the day sun.

@peacefulwife5199

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you write. I was hoping there was more....when your words stopped. If you don't write please consider it. You're talented. 👍

@aliciamott1396

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said ! I want that as an option on my sound machine

@d.g.n9392

2 жыл бұрын

We set our back porch at night, similar crickets, tree frogs, cicada. Sings to sleep the night

@jmcfaddenb

2 жыл бұрын

@@peacefulwife5199 I do not write professionally, but scribble thoughts from time to time. Thank you for the compliment.

@ARolls-dd2zd

2 жыл бұрын

I thought maybe it was going to be Appalachian ASMR, love those crickets.

You live in the midst of the cries and songs of the night. Oh how my heart longs to lay under an open window and fall asleep once again under Gods own musical of the stars............. real stars

We live the same in SE Kentucky. Silver Queen is our favorite corn too. Thanks for sharing with the rest of the world.

I just love these videos. It's truly so peaceful. Thank you

The flaux was my ma maws favorite flower every time I see them I think of her. Her yard was full of those flowers. I have a picture sitting right in the middle of them. Thank you for a wonderful memory. Such beautiful scenery. I will always love the mountains.

@rebeccajones9735

2 жыл бұрын

Phlox?

I never get tired of watching these. And the music is awesome too.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rick!

These are my favorite videos! Just living a good mountain life is to be treasured and hearing your girls making music is a perfect way to end the day! Thanks for sharing!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Them cicadas will put me to sleep making all that racket .oh lord .tomatoes ,biscuits ,sausage and gravy. Man thats a nice spread.

It is good to see that there is still some real people left in this world. Until I watched your video I was about to believe the life as I new it was gone.Thank you for posting your video's

Well,where to begin,it was all good.The scenery there is just spectacular, along with all the beautiful music,delicious home cooking,and especially spending some quality time with The Pressley Family. My donkeys love the corn husks and corn stalks too.Tell the Girls, I got me some twins now,Momma Deer brought her Babies out the other morning in the pasture field. Tipper, Thank You So Much For Being So Gracious With Sharing Your Love For Appalachia 🙂.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Donald! I bet those twins are just precious 🙂

Wonderful video Tipper. Appalachia looks like heaven to me. Thank you for sharing.

I love your “My Life” series 🥰. I love the wild Phlox and Red Bee Balm, beautiful !👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Only part of our dinner will be "celebrating Texas" this evening (but I am cooking it while I write this. Summer yellow squash, a Texas staple during this time of year, but it isn't specific to the state, just my wife and I love it. Cooked with about half a yellow onion, a few garlic cloves, tomato paste all sauteed in about 2 TBSs each of olive oil and butter.Then the squash and then about half a can of diced tomatoes, salt and pepper and about half a cup of water. No idea if will be good, making it up as I go along, but I think it will. It already smells good. Mexican rice as the starch (that certainly goes well in Texas) and the non-Texas thing, a couple of cod fillets. I'm the retired one in the house, so I try to make dinner when I can, because my wife is still working for a living. Thanks as always for sharing y'all's vignettes of life in Appalachia!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great meal 🙂

Got some of that flower blooming out front now too. Beautiful shots. We are surely blessed to live in such a wonderful place ❤️

I love biscuits and gravity! I get odd looks sometimes when I eat them though because I put sugar on them. Sometimes called Okie Puddin'. It takes a surprising amount is sugar before they start to taste sweet. I like to BBQ corn on the cob. I soak the in ice water over night or at least a few hours. Then pull back the husk and remove the silk. Add butter, salt, and whatever else you like. Pull a strong off the husk and use it to tie the husks closed. Toss 'em on the BBQ.

Oh Ms Tipper your introduction took me back to my grandmas front porch swing almost thirty years ago. How I miss those sounds. Thank you so much!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the sound 🙂

What a rich, beautiful life you folks live. Your garden is wonderful. I noticed you use Kerrygold butter. Me too, it’s the best. Great video. Cheers from Northern Utah.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom 🙂

@primeaardvark646

2 жыл бұрын

Irish butter. Good.

Horses love corn shucks. Your place reminds me of my mother- in-law's property. Every time I go over there, I think that she (and you) own a little bit of heaven. You are so blessed to have a great family... a husband and children who love the Lord...and I think He has blessed your faithfulness with beautiful bountiful land.

For me, there is no better life. Where the old ways still rule, people still respect their elders, show common courtesy to others, "honor thy father and mother", and you get backhanded away from the table for not cleaning off the molasses knife before sticking it in the butter when "makin up a sop". Now Miss Tipper, you know that neighbor done growed them ears. Don't correct you're Appalachianisms... LOL! ;o) That's why we're here!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@larrysmith6499

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you totally. That is how it should be

Y'all are awesome and your appreciation for family and home has captured my heart. Keep up the cool videos. Your enjoyable.

My favorite family. It's so much like the life I lived in Tennessee growing up. Scowling love of Jesus, family, hard work, fun, and the added videos of Appalachean culture. Love you all. I am 80 so appreciate it so much.

Katie really feels the music! She and Corie are such amazing gifts! So sorry to hear of David Kaynor passing from Lou Gehrig's disease! I have a brother in law dealing with the same disease and it is indeed hard! God rest David's soul!

When you’re playing music around 7 minutes and showing the mountains…it sure makes me blue to see my grandparents again. I don’t think I’ll ever quit missing them. They’ve all been gone since 2002.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I miss mine too Rhonda. Thank you for watching!

The sound of catydids. Is so Peacefull in the late evenings I set out on,my porch with cup a coffee Somtimes and just look out at the stars and listen to the catydids. Me and my old dog. It's what. I like about summers. Y'all take care you here,., ps I call that flox too. Not much up on flowers. But my grandmother used to love wild flowers. Had,em all over her place she would save seeds. And plant them around about her place. She's up in glory land now. I Spect she's a got a garden there too,,, god bless y'all,,,

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I spect she's got beautiful blooms too 🙂

@duaneholcomb8408

2 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia I imagine heaven as being full of all kinds. A purdy. Stuff, just being with our lord and savior. Will be quite a blessing,,, take care,,,Y'all

Loved everything about this video!…very relaxing to hear the sounds of nighttime in the mountains…the food looked delicious, too…take care..and yay, you’ve gotten 70k subscribers now…I hope it keeps on growing! Brenda

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Brenda 🙂

Absolutely love u folk!! What Sweet beautiful memories u bring to my soul. Thank you. Bravo ladies on ur music!👏👏👏 ♥️🙏

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@sharonharrison3611

Жыл бұрын

Who is David Kaynor?

A much needed respite from a world gone mad, Thank you ♥

Enjoyed the video a ton...my gosh ...breakfast sure did look goooood.

AWWWW TIPPER IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU,,I LOVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR CHANNEL ,YOU BRING SO MUCH JOY ,,MEMORIES OF FAMILY TIMES ,,TIPPER YOU ARE A TREASURE,✨♥️✨😊 I ADORE YOU ,,STAY ON THIS JOURNEY OF REACHING AND TEACHING US ABOUT OUR HISTORY ,,MY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN WILL UNDERSTAND APPALACHIA TALK AND WAYS,,BECAUSE OF YOU,,, YOUR JOURNEY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND 70,000 OTHERS SO FAR ,,,I KNOW YOU WILL REACH 1,000,000 SUBSCRIBERS ,BECAUSE YOUR CHANNEL AND INFORMATION ON YOUR CHANNEL IS TIMELESS,,,✨❤️✨🙏🏼

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

LB-you are so nice-thank you for your support! We appreciate you 🙂

Wonderful music Katie and Corie! I love it. Such talent and beauty. Thankyou both. 🙏❤️

I love the sounds of the night, it takes me back to my childhood. I would love to have some fresh from the garden tomatoes again but they just don't grow very good out here in the desert. Thank you for sharing a bit of your life with us, it makes a little homesick.

Your "My Life in Appalachia" series of videos are my favorites. What type or brand of hat is Deer Hunter wearing? I think it looks great. Always enjoy seeing good food spreads on the counter in the kitchen. This was great to watch.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's an old Stetson Matt has had for at least 30 years 🙂

@scottsodyssey2485

2 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia Okay thanks. It fits his persona in a very Hemingway manner. :)

Your channel is the best. You folks seem so nice. Your garden and land is so beautiful. The kids sing and play. I swear, y’all (wanted to use some of your terminology) are just the definition of wholesomeness , resourcefulness , grace and beauty.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙂

Beautiful garden! Love that fat wood fire starter and that great music!❤️👍🏻

As Phil Robertson says and has said, Our Divine Creator has put everything in place for the land to provide if we pay attention and learn! God Bless

Looks like a feast! love the music playing along with these video, Must be Paul!

Tipper, thank you so much for showing the world how truly captivating Appalachia really is. My favorite sound is night sounds, but due to the times in which we live I do not leave my window up at night. I so enjoy them when I forget to go to the mailbox and have to go at night. Somehow they are not as deafening nor quite as beautiful as they seemed when I heard them growing up. Matt is so talented and is sure a jack of all trades. I learned this following your blog through the years.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Shirley! I hope you have a good day 🙂

I worked 3-11 at the nursing home , so after all patients were fed and it was quiet time , at night , no doctors visiting , I’d sit and listen to the ones that had a story to share , a sweet lady in her late 80’s , just her and I in her room , had a lot of interesting newspapers clippings, she told me , just because is listen , that her uncle John Wilkes Booth , said he came back to north Mississippi, up around Guntown , stayed in her attic , only came out at night … etc , these people are a wealth of info , thank you

Since finding this channel I've been thinking a lot about hitting the Appalachian trail.

@primeaardvark646

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t come north. Nothing here is wholesome or good or Godly….Well no the landscape is astounding. And many of the people outside of the cities are decent, God-fearing people. What you see here is different.

That is the most relaxing sound to me ever, the sound of the night.

Every minute of this video made me smile. Thank you.

I love the night sounds. As a little toddler & young child my folks took us 4 kids camping in a tent in the woods in Northern Mich. I so well remember these sounds as the campfire went to embers & we all settled in the tent. We always hear Whippoorwills & even a few times deer snorting out in the field. Thank you for sharing this. I really love it.

Those are the sounds I hear every night now!! And I’m woken up by the early birds every morning, but your garden is amazing and truly special- I try to purchase all my fruit and veggies locally so I get that home grown flavor, and of course the music is beautiful and I love to hear your girls sing, thank you!!❣️

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Donald! I bet those twins are sweet 🙂

My corn shucks go into large brown compost bags, picked up by city and composted in large, very large rows at the municipal landfill. You can go and get all you want. Also they chip all wood in the municipal area and you can get free chips. It’s great they don’t just bury it like they used too, or incinerate anymore. Costs us a little in taxes but I think worth it

@kathya739

2 жыл бұрын

Our town offers "all you can haul" compost, also. But impossible to know if herbicides and pesticides were used before it was picked up:(!

I'm so glad I found your channel and your website. Your videos are great! And the music from all of you is fantastic! Takes me way back in years to a time that is often missed. God Bless y'all

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found us too Tyler-thank you!

Oh the bees look like they are right here with me.

Your videos make my heart smile!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoy them 🙂

Tipper, the My Life in Appalachia videos are so wonderful. I like the sounds of beans hittin the pan as they are picked, the bee 🐝 sounds and the birds! Blessings, Allison 🌼

Absolutely gorgeous! I love all of this. Baby rabbits and a mama deer and her baby hiding on our place. Shhh don’t tell where fawn is. Nothing better than everything growing this time of year.

Missed this one somehow. Very relaxing in these troubled times to see the peace and harmony of family life in the garden and kitchen . Really enjoyed Matts campfire cooking . Please ask him to tell us more about his hat. It's a very fine classic. ATB to all.

I needed this! Thank you again from Seattle 🥰

First time I have ever seen someone online make their gravy the way my family makes it...a little more brown! YUM

Not long ago, my husband entertained friends who have been city dwellers for years. Their families left farm life when our guests were in high school, which eventually led to their getting together. Their visit lasted well into the evening and after supper we retired to our screened in porch. On the farm we take for granted sights and sounds of the country. Our guests commented that they had not heard crickets and tree frogs in years. Today, I am thankful for the wonders of farm life. We have grown rattlesnake beans for years-delicious!

My favorite part is seeing the meals that you make. They look delicious. Such hearty meals for such hard workers.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😊 thank you

@stephenpickard3150

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard a many old person say here “ We were poor but we had plenty to eat” back in the thirties. Also heard some say they had to eat songbirds they took with slingshots they were so hungry.

Happiest time of my life was in rural Arkansas. Country is actually like U showed, quite loud. Peepers crickets, your accent home canned food, Southern cooking** okra, green tomatoes, cornbread and biscuits swimming holes, riding our mule ( old Jeff) , playing guitar with our friends, home brew beer and soda pop, home raised pork,chickens and ducks, the wonderful spring water chopping wood forheat, cooking on the wood stove. . almost 45 years ago and I still dream of those days.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoy the videos Cleta 🙂

Makes me proud. All that y’all do, the beauty, the intelligence, the pure joy. Love it!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert 🙂

Love your videos waiting on my new CD thanks for the insight into your daily lives. Keep them coming.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoy them Gordon 🙂

Agree with another poster the first 4 minutes was gold….and that breakfast! Love the bean trellis idea. Your videos are wonderful.😊

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it!

I just love your videos. This one was so calm and peaceful. When I was little I loved listening to the bullfrogs. They put me to sleep.

I love the sounds of nature in these videos

Great video that shows a look into y’all’s life’s. Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for sharing these clips from your life in Appalachia. Love this country and its people. It was home to my ancestors. They left me a rich heritage. Thanks also for the music at the end.

This one video brought back such wonderful memories. You live an awesomely, beautiful life and I know you love it as much as I miss it.

Beautiful highlands! Garden, food, and ending with the wonderful music! Thank you Matt for reminding us of survival skills. Wonderful!

Such a beautiful thing. Thank you for sharing your time with us

Beautiful...start to finish. Thank you! Love from SC, Jane

So good to hear the girls play. They are very talented. Love watchin Matt in the woods. Making a fire and drink a coffee and eat something to keep from getting unhungry.. Love your videos. Im so much at home when i watch these videos.. God bless..🇺🇸🌹❤️

Thank you for this really relaxing video. I loved all the flowers, the katydids and the big old bees! The food looked so delicious, and your fresh picked tomatoes, beans and squashes looked very yummy. I love corn on the cob, I just don’t care for cleaning all the stubborn tassels that seem to hide in the sink even after I have cleaned the sink several times! You are very smart to do it outside! I so enjoyed hearing Ben play “The Engagement Waltz”, and especially hearing your Dad’s voice at the end of that song. Katie and Corie did an excellent job on their hauntingly beautiful tune. I love the heavenly smell of phlox. The more phlox there are, the more magical the smell! Those bees reminded me of when I would work in my flower beds in Iowa, right next to me would be the big fat black and yellow bees hard at work gathering pollen. I loved how the bees and I would work together for hours, and never be afraid of each other, sometimes even working on the same flower. I think bees are fascinating. Much more fun to watch then ants! Everything about this video was peaceful, including Matt in the woods with his campfire. Funny thing, the a/c kicked on here as Matt was building his fire. I was actually getting chilly here in my house, but watching that campfire warmed me up a little! Your blueberry upside down cake looked scrumptious. Thank you for this video! Donna. : )

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Donna! I like working by the bees too 🙂

NY crickets are loud tonight. We have phlox in shades of pink to lavender and white with a pink eye. Your bee balm is beautiful!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nan 🙂

What a lovely video. It obvious of your love of Appalachia and all that that entails. Such a refreshing site to come to….always uplifting…always informative….and always entertaining. Thank you🙂👍🏻and then the heavenly music….perfect

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Tipper, that is a stunning video! I can't pick one part and say I like it best ...I like the whole thing...so peaceful! I know this a true picture of how you live because I am here and part of it and I love it!

I come on over to this one again for another listen mostly but I open my eyes from time to time and the sights are mighty fine too. Like that fiddle and banjo and that big 'ol bee...and the rifling through leaves for beans...and the shuckin'... it all was a blessing to my ears.

Love the way this makes me feel. The mountains, the home growing and cooking and the music to top it off. As always love it!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Nice finish.warms my heart.

Thanks for sharing. So much to be grateful for. Nice and pleasant life.

I swear I have had so much pleasure in watching several of your videos today/night. And it always makes me feel like I'm a kid again visiting my cousin out in the country. Thanks for taking me back to those fond memories.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad!!

What a beautiful and peaceful video. A welcome thing in today’s world. Please keep them up, because we sure do appreciate them!

Tipper, I just LOVE your "stuff"! It so soothing to just watch anything tour family comes up with. Thanks So Much!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

I grew up in Appalachia in the countryside outside Morristown, TN. Listening to your introductory sounds flooded my mind with memories of those beautiful sounds heard outside my bedroom window during summer nights as a child. Your work is tremendously appreciated and takes me back to my most wonderful childhood.

Beautiful music and singing and beautiful girls. Thank y’all so much. God bless y’all.

Great gardening. Great music, Thank you! ❤️

We shucked our corn on the back porch. Put down a sheet to sling the shucks on. My grandmother always had quilting bees, however you spell it. They were big affairs. She made quilts for the whole family. My mother made most of our clothes when we were little. We ate squirrels and rabbits regular also quail.

We have pink, purple and white flaux this year too

I've seen a few of these videos. They are fantastic in many ways. I personally think it's a treat to learn from. Besides the very special contents, the folks in these videos are just so very real! NOTHING fake here. The food is to die for, and the areas where these wonderful videos have been taken are just "bliss". Thx for sharing all these wonderful things!!!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Wow-thank you so much 🙂

I enjoyed this video so much! What a joy to live in Appalachia.

I can't tell you how beautiful this video is. It left me with a deep sense of peace. Tree frogs make a racket at night! The music was sublime. My garden is also booming. Cherokee Tomatoes too, sweet and delicious! You are Blessed and a Blessing. Godspeed.

That was awesome, I loved every bit of that! Looked just like my life over the mountain here in east Tennessee!

Your videos reminds me of when I was growing up we had 4 big garden spots that fed my family that lived next door . I miss those times

Nice one to watch just before heading to work… peaceful. I like Matt’s hat towards the end, I’ve got a few similar to that I like to wear if not wearing a ball cap and they wear really good! Got to put up some silver queen myself when I get off today! Pretty vegetables and pretty fiddle and guitar music at the end!

That intro was everything and very relaxing hearing nature like that ❤️ oh my how I miss breakfast like yours grandmother mom aunt Betty cooked meals like this when we visited summer vacation.

Don’t have all this in Texas. Beautiful beautiful

Beautiful. I miss my mountain home so bad.

I enjoyed the music so much. Thank you for identifying that flower I know what's growing. Your Pink Bee Balm is huge compared to mine. I learn so much from you. Thank you.

That sound...i miss that terribly......Thank You For Sharing....Lord Bless Yaw

Tipper your garden is absolutely gorgeous!

Loved this video!! Deep South Homestead grows rattlesnake beans, as well, and they just rave about how good they are. ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️

What a beautiful video, thanks I needed to watch that.