Preparing for the First Hard Freeze in Appalachia | Cleaning the Chimney, Cutting Wood, & Harvesting 

Matt doing the chimney cleaning made me think back 30 some years when my son (also named Matt) had a chimney sweep business. He was a career firefighter, so heights and fire were second nature. He found a tuxedo coat and top hat in a second hand store to wear and he always presented the lady of the house a red rose. 😂 Thanks for sharing your lovely day with us. ❤

Too many people don't know what they're missing out on...the satisfaction from doing for yourself and appreciating nature's gifts. Thanks for sharing 🤗❤️❤️

I can sit for hours and listen to the both of you talking. I think you 2 are the most real people on RU-vid. You live a very rewarding life. The best folks in the world are country folk.

You are so fortunate that Matt is such a knowledgeable “handy” man! You all seem to work so well together. Blessed life!

My granny always made green tomato relish with those end of season not yet ripe tomatoes

It's amazing how everything you and your family do is so much like my people in Kentucky did. I could close my eyes and swear I was listening to kentucky folks. My father used the word directly all the time. We moved north when I was nine but daddy and my stepmother still talked like that. We always had garden food even after we moved and cornbread or biscuits. I am so glad I found your Chanel, It's like being back home.

I just love listening to y'all talk about your work and your life. Y'all are the sweetest. I also have learned so much about the ways of Appalachia. So interesting! Thank you for sharing so much with your viewers.

I’m anxious to see how you and Matt will take a break when it’s too cold for popsicles. Maybe a hot chocolate break. 😊

i love how Matt is warming up to the camera! Videos are always a treat when he lends his quiet demeanor

It never gets old seeing you two together, it's a heartwarming sight. I can tell you why there are so many bees around the Deer Hunter....it's because he's so sweet!

My momma and my daddy, said “directly “. I love watching you so much because you are just like family. What a blessing. Thank you both, so much. ♥️🙏

Y'all make me miss Granny so much. I go on about my life but when I hear you talk about language, and you say things she did...it trembles my heart...another of her sayings. It makes me slow down for a minute & be grateful for her. Bless y'all.

I feel like we had a porch visit. A good porch visit. The first frost is always a bitter-sweet event. Godspeed to you all!

Hello from central Texas! I love y’all’s popsicle talks! It sounds like my people talking. We’re a huge family of Czechs that settled here in the late 1800s. Just plain country folks with simple tastes and a huge love for God and country. Thank you for sharing your family with us…some sanity in this world gone cuckoo. If enough of us remember how good most people are and how good the simple life is, we have a chance to keep the donkey out of the ditch. ❤

It’s a great pleasure to hear y”all talk about your life with us. You two are so happy together. Tipper you done well with your garden this year too. I miss seeing the turning off the leaves.

Your channel would fit perfectly in the prepper community, here in south Texas the leaves are starting to turn into their fall colors as well, love your channel ma'am.

I can hear my grandma as plain as day, telling me, "Tell your mama, I'll be there directly". Dang, I miss her....and mama, too. Fall is my favorite time of year and today this video is the first real excitement of it all to come. Real nice video. Matt is a very good commonsense man, hard worker with a good size sweet streak. I'm just very happy you two found each other. Blessings for sure.

🥰You two are a very impressive couple..you are an enormous example of how you can live simply with great abundance...

It’s a good feeling when you can get so many things done in the same day. I’m like that myself it gives you a good feeling of relief, an accomplishment. Things that you know will have to be done, sometimes we dread, but when they’re done were so relieved

How great it would be to "sit a spell " and have a chit chat with yall. My Dad is in his last years and has worked hard all his life and raised 10 kids; 9 girls and 1 boy. He now rolls in the wood for his 1st fire. His knarled hands can no longer pack it in. His hard working hands are forever in my memory. Battered and bruised but always loving. I enjoy listening to your memories of pap.

Thank you for not filling every second with talk. I enjoyed sittin with you.

I love watching y’all. It brings back fond memories of spending time with my family in the Smoky Mountains in TN. Your videos bring me peace and I appreciate all the knowledge you share. You and your family are such a blessing to all of us ❤️

"Taste Just like Coppertone" 🤣, Matt's Hilarious. Y'all had a Great garden this year and looks like the Fall garden will be nice also! 🙂🙋‍♂️

I always like the early autumn days when it is frosty in the morning, air seems fresh and less insects is always welcome, thanks to Tipper and her hubby ❤️ 😘 😊 😀

Mrs Tipper picked a lot of peppers to pickle 🤣.. Love y'all take care and stay warm ❤️

I thank you for these final glimpses of gardens and houses with chimneys, as we are all headed for a premature, slow, and painful death in an apartment complex in a man-made desert.

I love that giddy laugh you have from time to time when you are with Matt and talking to him. In this video, I noticed it at the beginning. I guess since I watch your every video I am beginning to pick up on some things. Yall obviously love each other very much and even after all these years, you still have that spark and love. That’s a rarity this day and age. Im so happy for yall. He knows how to do so much and I can see in his smile he loves you. I see it with your daughters. Yall are so blessed. Having said that, it’s just another bonus for now and generations to come. To be able to show how life can truly be. Thank you for all you share with us Tipper (and family).

Just doing kitchen stuff, making bread, doing dishes, I love just having you two in the background prattlin' on about stuff . Thank you once again for keeping me company

Your story of the old man working, and your comments about having a work ethic reminded me of something that happened years ago. There was in our church a family of farmers, all born and raised on the family farm. Dad, his son and grandson. The son had been to town, so was away for several hours by the time he came back home to discover his dad on the barn roof doing some repairs. The Dad and son got into a bit of a heated debate over who should be up there doing the job. The son declaring he should be the one as Dad was too old to be climbing around on the barn roof. Telling this story to the folks in church brought a few chuckles. Bear in mind, the son was in his early 70's and Dad was in his 90's and you'll see the humor.

I guess what you guys have is what I wished I had grown up with. I would have felt more at home if my mother had ever calmed down. She was so high-strung. Dr. Tried to give her Valum when she was young she took one pill and said "I want to be in control and this pill makes me loopy." I would have preferred Loopy rather than having to walk on eggshells day in and day out. So keep up the beautiful family videos you guys are great people never forget that. I am a gentle soul and my Grandmother and I was so close it was the only reason I stayed home until she passed when I was 17. She was my saving grace to be honest.

Every so often I come across one of your older videos that I haven't watched completely. Today, this one showed up, so I watched it. We had a fireplace in the home where I grew up. About every 10th fire, we threw a handful of rock salt (which we had on hand for the winter to treat the sidewalk) onto the fire. This removed a great deal of the creosote throughout the season and, therefore, the chimney did not require extensive cleaning each year. It really worked!

Tipper every time you talk about Gainesville Georgia you make me homesick . I live in Illinois now but I worked at Northeast Georgia medical center for 22 years. I lived in Flowery Branch for 30 years. I sure miss my Georgia home

“Things I’ve either grown or killed” This is so true. Not everything you do is a success but worth trying.

Matt is handsome Tipper! Mine gets better looking the older he gets. I love your conversations at the end of the videos! 🍁🍂

Matt's chimney cleaning made me think of my dad and uncle cleaning the chimney at Granny's house. The would select the right size cedar tree, tie it tight to a long rope and one guy on the roof and the other on the hearth would pull on the rope till the cedar had scrubbed out the soot. As a kid I found this very entertaining.

Your home is cozy and neat as a pin. Y'all are so gracious to let us viewer's into your beautiful home so often through your videos. I especially like being in the kitchen where all the great cooking is happening.

It’s just life & I’m not being sad. My husband could do anything & repair things that were broken. We had a wonderful life together & I didn’t realize how much he did around the house. My George is with the Lord now . I so enjoy seeing you work together. Keep up the fun & thanks for sharing your life❤️💛

I love that Matt said “people that say directly are my mind of people”!! We use that word all the time Like - we will be over there directly I love to be around “my kind of people” too!! 😊

Seeing ya'll working in the garden at the end of the season brings good memories! My dad used to say "the garden's played out" and we knew what we had to do. It's satisfying to take in the last harvest and settle in for winter. Bless you all!

I am going to miss these garden videos! I love watching you both work in the garden and your sit down chats after.

I will always drop back by to help you all celebrate Appalachia..Wish I could drop by for an actual visit..The Pressley family are good people! 💕

You and Matt remind me so much of my husband and myself - 20 years ago! Now I have to hire someone to clean our chimney though we try to do as much as we can ourselves. Our gardens are now all raised beds because I can't bend over so much any more, but we still enjoy getting out daily and working our beds.

My husband done got the chimney cleaned out and are enjoying the cozy warmth of chilly mornings. Love your channel I to love that calm country life. Finished up some beef bone broth this morning. Continue your lovely videos

It is such a blessing to have a wonderful mate that you all have, you with a good husband and him with a good wife!! So much fun & good times, companionship, someone to talk to!! Helpmate!

We just had our chimney cleaned and loaded up on wood for the winter, but we won’t start a fire until it’s cold during the day and the night. We have electric heat too but we turned the AC off the first night it was cold and have had the windows open since. Our wood stove will heat our whole house throughout the winter and we save so much money during the winter by not having the electric heat on. I love this time of year the best. 😊

I am a new subscriber and watching and listening to you talk it is like being back home with my grandma and grandpa when they were busy doing chores. I lost both of them in May two days before my birthday. Thank you for just being here. You're family has made me feel better on hard days.

Watching this video was sort of bittersweet. Seeing your garden drawing to an end as mine is doing leaves me longing for another season. Your talking about phrases and words used such as " drekly" remi ded me of my grandma in the Ozarks of Missouri. She said it so often ie," we'll go to the garden "drekly" she also used the word commence so often, such as Now don't commence, whi h she said when my sister and I squabbled. I loved her language and more now than ever since I'm 73. I hope that language is never lost. The reference in todays video about choosing a mate... I think you both are so perfectly paired. I wait for your videos.

I still use directly a lot. My Granny used it so often and I think I hear her words coming right out of my mouth so often.

I'm envious of those that can work. I'm disabled and I don't have a day without pain. I think that's why I enjoy your videos. I can't work. But, it's so rewarding watching you work like I want to.

I think it's wonderful how you all work together and keep the home fires burning.🙂👍

I’ve been busy watching all my through hikers finishing up the Appalachian Trail at Mount Katahdin in Maine ! Most everyone has made it , still a few to summit yet and I’m following several south bounders !!!! The trail totally changes people for the better!!! I’ve done the Georgia part , it’s all so beautiful!!!!!

Tipper, your patience with the few personal and frankly, a couple of rude questions and comments is ... amazing. THANK YOU ⚘ for these great videos and the fun 'shorts' that come up on Facebook.

I loved this! Thank you both! Love to light up our fireplace and be outside with the smoke smell wafting through the air. Something very ‘homey’ and comforting about it all. 💝

I love seeing you two working side by side helping each other!

Your nasturtium are still hanging in and looking lovely!

Yay! Still warm enough for a popsicle moment. This is what Matt should have gotten after the truck dash adventure.

Yes! My mama would say ‘drectly’ when I’d ask when we were going to do somethin’. As a child, I knew it meant pretty soon. It was years before I understood that drectly was directly ☺️

So relaxing to listen to the rustling of the leaves and the chirping of the crickets.

My Grandmas both used to say drecly. I was born in a very small town in Oklahoma. We were not city people by any means. I miss that small town. It was a wonderful place to grow up. When I go home to visit, my kids and Grandkids are so surprised that we are related to everyone. The Grandgirls talk about how many cousins that they discover they have. LOL!

What a pleasure to share your life ...and chores....and see what nice people you are. Stay well

Once at the end of the season my older sister had us younger kids pick everything that was left in the garden and she made and canned vegetable soup. It was so delicious that winter.

Look right behind your left shoulder! Your hoop style green house is a perfect place to hang your pepper plants. What you & Matt should look into for early plantings and frost protection if your crops is hoop style portable green houses. As long as your have the hoop frame work, it’s just a matter of setting it up, and tarping 40 to 60 mmm plastic. If there is a military resale place by ya, please check out their web pages. You can get hoop style field tents that have fully open up, so you let the sun on, and you can close up all of some of the sections when the temps drop protecting the plants from the frost. We use them on the farm. It’s seems to work.

Tipper l love when you and your husband tell us stories sitting in front of the camera. When Corue & Katie do it too. It's nice.

Sure wish we could clone multi-talented Matt, a modern Renaissance Man. His many skills are sorely needed everywhere.

My Mamma and Pappa said 'directly' all the time. it is one of the words that i use all the time and never really thought about it until now. i'm 66 so they were born in the early 1900 and Pappa's family was from Western North Carolina.

A man who can do all that AND can clean out y'all's chimney? That's what I call a GOOD CHOICE (when you chose to marry) ! 👏🏼 🤗 Both of you are so capable, I'm always admiring of and inspired by your example. Thank you Tipper and Matt!

I enjoy your videos so much especially when you sit down for a break, eat your fruit bars & just talk with us. I have learn so much from you. Thank you

Love you Two !!!!! Thank you for all your wisdom .. and family stories ... love it !!!!

You guys are the cutest couple! I just love listening to you guys and watch your play and work with each other. 😊

I always feel better after I watch one of your videos. I like your vest and it looks especially good over that russet orange shirt. My daddy was one of those always working types. Outside of working at his paid job, he'd be in his shop building something or inventing something, or he'd be working in the garden. At night he'd work at fixing busted TVs and stereos and cameras. I don't remember my folks ever hiring anyone to do anything. Whether it was electrical, plumbing, roofing, automotive, masonry or whatever, Daddy did it himself. He built our house himself. And then I went and married another one. My husband always had a project in his hands. If we went to stay with relatives for a visit, after a few hours he'd get antsy. The smart ones would ask him to fix something and then he'd settle down and be happy as a clam. Any time he'd be upset or worried, he'd prune trees. If none of ours needed pruning, he prune the neighbors' (with their blessing).

Wonderful day spent preparing for the winter! I carried in wood last week and had my chimney cleaned late spring of this year. I don't so heights, plus I have a steep roof system. Yesterday, Saturday, I had my first fire in the stove. Love getting it ready and then run outside to watch the smoke come out of the flue. Thanks for sharing once again!

I’d like to see a day in the life of Matt at work I bet he’s super talented what a fine gentleman you got for yourself Tipper great marriage such a nice pleasure for me to watch you both work kindly side by side on his days off thanks for sharing your lives with us

I just adore you two! Thank you again for inviting me into your lives! Like yourselves in those parts, I'm headed for that thermostat real soon! God Bless you all! Seattle kin 🙏🏽♥️

Love your channel. Im 58 and was raised in Southwest Virginia Coalfields. Dickenson County Va. I am a coal miners daughter. I have lived that life and miss it so. Chocolate gravy and all the good cooking. My grandfather was one of the McCoys of Hatfields and McCoys from Kentucky. Bless yall

My grandparents always used the word directly. I still use it occasionally.

I still use the word "Dreckly " My family has always said it. I'm from W.Va .Love your videos. I watch it and remember all your recipes I grew up eating, and I usually make it the next day. So now I'm the greatest cook in the world. Thank you.

Love to watch you work in your garden and take your popsicle break. Fall is on the way. Stay safe & God bless

My Mama used the word "dreckly" often. In my mind I always thought it meant "in a few minutes" or "in a little bit". All southerners and country people from all over seem to do things in a similar way and use the same language in the same way. There are amazingly so many similarities between Mississippi and Appalachia. Really did enjoy this video. I remember doing things at the last minute right before the first frost ad y'all are doing.

A beautiful finish to summer! ❤️

I just ran across your channel and the girls channel and the blind pig and accorn. You live in God's country!! I am enjoying your videos so much!! May God continue to bless you and yours and thank you for sharing the preciousness of your life in Appalachia.

Watching your videos takes me back to my childhood. Such great memories. I have reached that time in my life where I can't do the things I used to do and it is really hard to accept sometimes. Thanks for your videos.

I really love the way you and Matt Reminisce

I enjoy your videos very much…I love the end of this one especially how you guys are just sitting outside because I like hearing the leaves rustling in the trees and the bug noises in the background…I also like how your just talking naturally and not needing to fill all the space with words…it’s very nice and relaxing to watch ❤️ God Bless you guys from an old fashioned California girl

I enjoyed this video soooo much, especially the last several minutes of your ice cream break! I loved your chat, a lot. You really got a lot accomplished and you will be ready for chilly weather with all your vegetables gathered. Matt has the chimney cleaned and lots of wood chopped! I’m sure you’ll be ready for chilly weather!

Yeah he’s a keeper! He’s happy at home and not sleeping around. Watched your canning video! Never heard of a habanada pepper! Definitely want to try those! Thanks!

Love this thank you for sharing.

You can always dry the peppers 🌶 too by putting a thread through them and hang them in a sunny dry spot of your kitchen. Also I freeze them without washing them.

Stay safe Matt and Tipper

Yall are hard working folks! That was funny Matt smiling at the camera 😅 Good to see him smile 😊 Yall have a pretty home!

I absolutely am spellbound watching you and Matt discuss language while eating. Your videos are priceless❤️

I love the quite time with the coconut Popsicles! Love your lifestyle. Thanks for sharing!!!

Y'alls place is set up.... You have done a great job!! 😊👍

We just had our first fire last night.We been gathering everything up like squirrels. We have had several frosts,and was down to 32 last night.Its like summer just turned off,but I guess it's that time of year.I dread every year when Doug has to climb on the roof.You all have a blessed week.

I saw the Smokies in October. Stunning beauty 😊

Matt-you and my husband and older son have that same dream of just hunting and fishing for a living. While there are some advantages to modern times, I would love to.go back and live like the Ingalls family (with all their knowledge, of course. I'd probably die if I lived that way now.) I remember her writing a couple of different times about how comforting and pretty it was to see their food harvest stored for the winter. It seemed like a feeling of security.

If you pick your green Tommy Toe tomatoes and put them in a paper bag, they will slowly ripen. Thought there might be a cool corner in that busy basement for one paper bag. ;>) I've had fresh salad tomatoes for New Years doing that. (Just don't forget to peek in the bag once in a while!) Love your videos, Tipper. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful home and sweet family with all of us.

I love traveling through the mountains during the early Fall and see Gods country in color. I really love the Fall. Your place is so pretty 🤗

I always say dad thanks for the work ethic i have a hard time calling in sick lol im getting older now and cant do what i used to but i still keep going and we cant find help even with good qages people just dont want to work anymore

"I'll be there directly." Tennessee valley and eastern Kentucky talk, and my family spoke like that. Those bees and wasps love me two. I thought it was something I at on a regular basis. Mosquitoes love my mom. They would eat her up and never touch anyone else. We thought it was from bananas or tomatoes, because a day never past that she didn't have one or the other, or both. Bugs love me, too. Every time we walked thru the door after being outside, we would bring in a bug or two on our clothes or person. Love how you two shuffle thru subjects. Our family does the same. Thank you for sharing time with us.

The fruits of your labor 😊