I don’t watch tv so RU-vid is my entertainment. This is a great story. I was glued to my phone from start to finish. RU-vid needs more people and channels like yours.
I give a huge amount of respect for you keeping your family history and preserving it the way you did! Restoring the family farm house, where most would have leveled and built a new house! My family had a family farm that was 4 generations owned, once some cousins inherited it, the farm was instantly sold to a developer and bulldozed! So I really respect what you have done and love the videos!
@@mattdaniels3655 I doubt anyone knew their intentions. In fact since there was more than one cousin they may have done it that way so each could get their share and get on with the life they preferred to farming. Who knows ?
I too live on a bicentennial farm. My aunt was a local historian, so I also have these story’s of my family from days gone by. I am in the process of restoring the circa 1870 farmhouse that she left to me. It’s tough scratching out a living in agriculture, but we’ve enjoyed not being caught up in the rat race for these last16-17 years. I just commented to let you know this video didn’t fall on deaf ears, I can relate emencely. Keep up the good work!
What I like, is the fact he is living in a house and on land that had belonged to his family for such a long time. There is a connection. I live in a house which was my parents country retreat for 50+ years. My daughters spend their summers and many other vacations there and they are both truly attached to the house because there is a bond. Its wonderful to have roots
You have a great voice and attitude for people to model their life by. Your life experience can be used to measure your own life and gain a new perspective in life. Keep it up, people need this type of video.
My dad grew up on a farm that my grand parents had until I was 5. the older I get the more I cherish those memories. I insisted helping my grandpa carry what ever he was feeding out to the animals from the house. The smell of the corn growing, my grandmas amazing cooking. Those memories are gold! The virtues they expressed in their daily lives resonate and fill me with reflection. I miss that farm terribly.
Pete, I’ve been watching your channel for a couple years now. The first hook was the story you told about redoing your house. I consistently watch your new videos and enjoy them so much. Lately, YT has been suggesting older videos, such as this gem. You are an excellent storyteller. Much love to you and your family…. From upstate SC!!!
I never thought I’d be so enthralled in someone else’s family. Interesting story though. I saw another comment about how family is just that, family. My great grandmother was a opioid addict in her later years, my grandparents are democrats, my other grandpa passed up a job as crew chief for one of Richard Childress’s teams, and my moms a failed Marine drop out. No family is perfect, and no matter what you want or do, family is family and it’ll always be like that.
You say your grandparents were Democrats like that is a bad thing. My Republican grandfather was in the KKK in Wyoming in the 1930s. He was opposed to all the Catholic Italian immigrants who had come to Wyoming to work in the mines. His youngest daughter married the son of one of those immigrants who became an aerospace engineer. My grandfather had 2 ancestors on the Mayflower, one on his mother's side and one on his father's. You never know how someone will turn out.
My dads parents had 80 acres across the street from my grandfather’s parents farm in northern lower Michigan. Not quite 90 miles south of the mackinaw bridge. Both of those farms are completely gone now. The best memories of my childhood are from those farms; however, my dad and his three brothers all grew up and moved to the lower parts of Michigan to get jobs in the automotive plants which are also gone now. I’m so sad that after three generations it’s all gone. Farming is in my blood though, I live on a small hobby farm with chickens and gardens. My youngest grandson says he wants to grow up to be a farmer, who knows, maybe. I am greatly blessed by your channel, what your family has accomplished by holding onto that heritage is phenomenal, a blessing that can never be replaced.
I am a new subscriber. I want to say how touched I was by your & your grandfather's relationship. I'm sorry he died that way and while you were still so young. But you & your wife have lived a life that would have made him proud.
Thank You for your honesty while sharing your family history. Your humor and honesty is what keeps me watching each video. Thank You. I makes me know after seeing you and your wife during cow 🐄 videos, that cows understand and react to them being called by names, just as one would call a dog. Wow. It hurt me to see Sammy have to go, you explaining his history. Except for the cartoons I use to see, you are the only person I have seen who pets and has affection of caring towards a hog and it’s babies. You and wife definitely have a love for preparing food for others to eat given by God. Again, thank You.
This is not just a story of your family, but it's the story of America's first settlers. Well done. This youtube channel will be an artifact for your family generations to come.
Thank you so much for sharing the beautiful story of your family. Family history is such a gift and should be shared and celebrated. I appreciate you didn’t try to whitewash details of people’s lives but showed their humanity.
That's awesome that you're family has lived in the same place for that long! My brother and I will inherit the farm that our maternal great grandfather bought in the 1950s. It's now only 5 acres due to our grand parents getting divorced. We hope to lease or buy back the other 75 acres of the original 80 acre plot to farm ourselves.
I'm from South Carolina...I found your site a couple of weeks ago and I am hooked..I started from your first video and am almost to the end..You are the ducks bill in my humble opinion..I have laughed and cried with your videos..I am also a Nurse like Hillary, and am still working part time..I retired in 2013 (for 3 weeks..lol) and realized that it just wasn't for me and went back to work..Just turned 74 this past May..You have a beautiful family and farm..I especially enjoyed your home remake..you are very talented and patient..please keep the videos coming because I look forward to the next one..Keep those cows mooing...thank you so very much..JoAnne Moody Cusaac
I really enjoyed this episode. I did the same with my grandfather and grandmother. I always wanted to buy the farm, but never had the money. The farm was the oldest homestead in our county. I have a lot of great memories from my youth being on the farm. Thanks for sharing your memories and me reliving some of mine!
What an awesome story. Sadly , we don`t have stories like that here in Ukraine, cause almost 100% of successful farmers were enjailed , deported to Syberia or simply killed by USSR government. All those family lines lost their roots. USSR was oriented to make people faceless, rootless bolts in Big Country`s machine... So great to hear your story . I really hope your kids will keep the farm and pass it to theirs. God Bless You, guys!
I believe family history is just totally interesting and that family is important. I especially listening to all of my older family members tell about themselves. My dad died at 94, my mom at 86. I appreciate your family history and your interest and work to preserve it. Thanks for the story. Love storytelling. Keep up the good work.
I love hearing about your family history I enjoy everything you do you know you just you just get a smile on your face all the time your eyes even smile you and Hillary are very very lucky and so are your children
Hey Pete, you're family history is very interesting, you''ve kept this alive for you're children, you've done a great job, this has been very nice, keep it going.
Pete, I'm always excited when I find someone like you who really knows and appreciates their family history. I am a Miller and have many ancestors through the ages who were Millers. My daughter and I began researching my family history in about 1982. and we have never been able to say we are finished. There is always much more to learn. Like your family, we had our scandals and interesting events take place. One of my ancestors was a veteran of the war of 1812. Most of the Miller line came from Scotland. (The Scottish spelling was Millar) My great, great grandfather built an ice business by cutting and storing blocks of ice taken from the Missouri River near south Omaha. When he wasn't working with ice, he also had a 160-acre farm he homesteaded in Sarpy County, Nebraska near the Platte River just south of SAC air base (Offutt Airbase in Omaha. I don't think you and I are connected through any of the Miller line. As we know, Miller's a dime a dozen. But I always greatly enjoy hearing about others family history. Thanks for sharing that with us. Your videos are always entertaining and educational. You and Hillary are always a hoot to watch.
I love history. When I drive by barns or old farm houses I imagine the farm active and busy with people and tractors. I am going to the library to search about the 5 acre farm we bought a year ago. The house we live in was built in 1970 but we know there was something else because the barn is much older and there is a foundation behind our house where a little home could have been.
Great story. I spent the first nine years in a rural environment, and then we moved to Southern California. Oceanside, California, to be exact. Culture shock! At age 16 and 17 I spent those Summers on the farm, and bailed hay and drove tractors, combines, and trucks. I was in the best shape of my life. Many of my relatives are buried in the same cemetery just outside of a Kansas farm town. This is just a very brief glimpse. I am married to a California girl and did not move back to the farm. My brother and I sold it, and now here I am on one acre and a view of an inland city located in Northern San Diego County. Your mechanical skills and good judgement have stood you in good stead and make all the difference. And a wonderful wife. Mine is not bad either, just not a farm gal.
I could listen to your family history over and over. My goes back much like yours except my ancestors came from Finland and settled on Lake Superior as fisherman in the late 1800’s
You are very entertaining for sure Pete. I bet you are making more per year on you tube then you ever made in your old life. I just hope they don't mess up a great thing for you and your family. You oldest daughter is a teenager that parents always embarrassing her, but she will find out how wonderful a profitable farm. You are the gold standard of transition to what makes life worth listening to. Neal
Seriously this tale will be a wonderful movie. You tell the stories in a way that is very interesting to listen to. I really enjoyed all of the videos I've seen. My mother had 11 brothers and sisters. I have tons of cousins and I could feel the times when the adults were playing bridge and telling all the stories when they grew up.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. My family came fro Scotland and settled in Huron County Ontario in The 1850’s. I to read the records of their struggles. Your family was a 100;years ahead of mine. Thanks for sharing. 👍
I love family history! The checkered part just makes it more interesting! Thanks for sharing. I grew up in the house my father and grandfather were born in.
Family is very important to me as obviously, it is to you too. I come from a small island named Chios in the Northern Aegean sea in Greece where my family has been since 1674. After growing up in Brooklyn NY, I have moved back to Greece with my family and have slowly been digging into our family history. My people have been seafarers and are spread all over the world so looking at actual documents is a rare thing for me. I'm almost jealous of you for having written family history as I have had to literally cross oceans to find mine. It is a wonderful thing though... Knowing where your family tree has taken root and grown somehow gives you `a more "rounded" view on life. Living there, where people know your name is invaluable! I've enjoyed the video very much! Thank you for sharing!
Lar.... you are not just a farmer. More than that. A philosopher, artist, yogi and totally some thing like a bombshell. ## Much more to learn from you 😀. ... A legend in the neighborhood of their farm is that Wash Loomis' last words predicted violent death to any non-Loomis person who tried to own their farm. Other legends speak of Wash Loomis' ghost appearing, portending death to someone, and of spectral horsemen riding the roads on October nights for revelry where the Loomis farm once stood. ( Wikipedia on Loomis gang)
Just seeing this great story Pete , definitely can relate I'm a 7th generation Texan , not farming but my family was some of first 150 families in Texas enjoyed listening to yours .
I watch all of your current videos and have for a while. This popped up from years ago and of course I watched it. I love genealogy so this was a great video for me and now I appreciate the love you have for your farm. Thank you!
Pete I absolutely loved your family history. I wish I know where I come from but living in another country does not help to find my past. I only hope your kids will carry on.
HI there Pete. Thank you for being so courageous to share with us your personal family history. It is incredibly interesting to me to hear of the varied journey of life your forbear have gone through to end up where you are now doing the same thing on the same land. That to me is amazing! Thank you very much!
My grandma did about the same she had 80 acers and raised goats and once had some long horn steers and horses down in Yuma AZ , anyway love hearing your family story..
Pete, Very interesting to hear about your family history. I'm sure your ancestors would be very happy with you and how you are running the family farm.
From the time i got your channel,I have always wanted to know a little something more about you,and this said it all. The first time I listen to your words, and looked at the way you did things,I saw a life beyond normal bloom through you, I saw something extraordinary. Your history has made me to rethink my life. I need to go back and try to piece together my family tree factor.
Great channel we very much enjoyed the story congratulations it’s refreshing to hear of your hard work and your successful transition to the life you want .I visited 5 states in the USA in 2010 and loved your country and genuine people I met. Much love and blessings to you your wife and you children ❤️🇺🇸🙏🏻🦘
What an interesting video. It was great hearing your family background and the memories you shared about your grampa. I hope your children will have similar memories with your dad. It's important to have roots. The deeper the roots, the stronger the tree.
Just minutes before I saw the title of this video, I thought to myself I wonder what you and your farms history is. Well now I know. Thanks for that, and I really enjoyed hearing it. Buck
Loved your family story, Pete. I hope it goes into more detail in your book that I have ear-marked on my wish list to get soon. Family stories are like fingerprints... we all have them but no two are alike. Yet... we all have the same kind of dramas peppered throughout the many lives that run through our history. I love these stories. Thank you for sharing yours. Every part was interesting and moving.
What a great history! Lovely that you can have such a storied and long history on a family farm! Our farm is just over 100, and holds the tales of a few families. We try to give the most respect to the original family, though, as they are the ones that built it.
