cAvEman tv || homestead

[@GlenStoner]

My great-great Grandfather was a homesteader up in the Peace Country many many years ago. Did he arrive there seeking adventure, fame and prosperity..? No, it seems him and his brother had been a little too adventurous, infamous and prosperous on the wrong side of the law back in Black Jack Missouri so they got run out of town. They thought best to get as far away as possibly before the townsfolk decided to run them both to jail so northern Canada is where they ended up. There's more tales to tell as the generation came along but I'll save that for the next fireside chat. Best of Christmas and the New year to you and your family, Cheers..!

[@dv87]

The best KZbin tradition is right here.

[@madwilliamflint]

It REALLY is.

[@kbjerke]

LOVE these fireside storytimes. Merry Christmas!!

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Merry Christmas, pard!

[@robertwestrom6878]

When I look back, it is incredible what my parents accomplished with the little they had.

[@backwaters3105]

Whoa!

[@user-bg2ct4dy5k]

These are fantesticle!!! Keep it up!

[@matsonmiles3015]

I’m 64 and I saw the old way of living as I grew up. Not that I lived the “hard life” that every generation before mine did, as was the only way to live then. But I, no, WE of that time, were right there in between the comforts of electricity and plumbing in the average family home, and going out to the pump to get water to carry inside or to make water after a walk to the outhouse. Gram pop and Grammy didn’t have a furnace or a refrigerator, so we kids stocked wood for the wood stove and corncobs for the cook stove. And when Grammy cooked, I ran to the spring house for milk and butter or whatever else she needed. I think we are the last generation to have real knowledge of how people used to live. We have seen SO many changes in our lifetimes. I often consider as I look into the display cabinet of my collection of home items from the turn of the century, that it serves as a tribute to life before novocaine and penicillin. Pappy was born the year 1900. Grammy and he had 15 children and raised 12 or 13? ( I never met them all) Yep, the world is a completely different place now.

[@fastjeffy]

Happy winter solstice to those who celebrate. We’re one day nearer to budding woods and blooming gardens

[@jimkleinert7310]

Beautiful story, told by a great story-teller. Thanks so much. Now we know where your resourcefulness comes from.

[@douglasmayherjr.5733]

Thanks for the stories. You and your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Pretty relaxing watching the timber burn.

[@sm1ty]

I'm starting to look forward to these christmas stories every year.. Merry Christmas Bud!

[@peterparsons7141]

Many years ago I started to do some very back country hunting with some new to me at that time Quebecois boys , from Across the river. These guys maintain the hunt camp, and fishing trip traditions the way I remember them as a kid in Newfoundland and similar in many ways. The biggest thing that won me over right away was the evening campfire stories. Well rehearsed, told with meticulous detail and enthusiasm. The telling commands everyone’s complete attention even though most have heard the stories many times and knew all the details. Let’s hope oral tradition is maintained, and story telling never grows old.

[@danielboughton3624]

Horses at 6, dirt bike and driving at 8, running a chainsaw at 9 and splitting wood to cook/heat. We just heated the house enough to take the edge off Had chickens, a garden, milked a neighbor's cows. The nearest family with kids lived miles away. I worked later in life with a guy from Wyoming. His mother's plan for summer vacation was to hand him a bedroll and rifle and say "see you in the fall".

[@lonhoschar1943]

What a great ol' story!! When i was a small kid, I used to love to listen to my grandparents tell of the times they had growing up and as young adults. I still love to listen to those types of stories. You do a mighty fine job of storytelling!! I can almost see that homestead!! LOL!!

[@AdamosDad]

Moms' family came over from England on a sailing ship in 1622, Dads on a ship in 1858 they were from Scotland. I could go on about our history, but like most folks that came to this great land it wasn't an easy life but it got better as they worked for a better life for their children as we work our asses off for ours. I enjoyed this edition of Homestead on cAvEman tv

[@libertyman3729]

Reminds me when we only had the radio and the funny papers to entertain us young folks. Bless 🇺🇸

[@elementjoe]

That spirt is needed now more than ever. Merry Christmas.

[@mattvollmer]

Been around here since the beginning. Feeling old and grateful as fug. Merry Christmas. Keep on keepin on.

[@MrPaw45]

cAvEman tv, an excellent way to while away a few minute on a cold windy evening. I do like these fireside story times.

[@greatestytcommentator]

Hurrah! My stump is pulled.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Huzzah!

[@harrywalker968]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 fk mate. i wish you were my friend, to talk to.. we need people like you.. i hate this sht were in.. life is a fkn lie.. ausie. 66.. brain of a 16 yr old, never say die..watched all your vids.. best was.. '' how come you know so much..'' '' aaaahhm.. read books..''... were supposed to be advancing the human race.. not, de advancing it.. another scotch i think.. ausie. s.a. moonta..

[@harrywalker968]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 problem today, which, im a victim, ish.. is, you push a button, it turns up.. no work, no hassle, no sweat.. its a trap..

[@harrywalker968]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 sad.. fkn sad.. damn hard.. this should be taught in schools.. real history.. marry xmas, forever.. fk im nearly crying, 66, fk...

[@SUMTlNGW0NG]

I grew up in rural southern michigan. I worked every summer for a farmer that was my 3rd or 4th cousin or something. Too little to pick up a bale of hay, drive a tractor. Can barely pickup a bale of hay, stack em up in the flat bed. Finaly big enough to throw a bale, follow the baler and throw them from the ground onto the truck/flat bed. Now his son does it all with one machine, not any cheaper than hiring some summer laborers but none of the kids today will do the work.

[@mo12duck34]

My momma's first baby's head froze to the wall of the log cabin in northern Sask. she went on to have 17 more...she had twins at 46, I'm the last. All she knew was work and suffering.

[@erbterb]

She liked f the most. No kids without lots and lots of f.

[@robbbenedict]

Brutal. And yet, everyone kept on trying to live. The struggle is real.

[@douglidz2944]

Nothing better than story time with uncle Bumble.

[@rdouthwaite]

Love me some CAvEman TV. Cheers to you Uncle BF, Babydoll and the little 'uns from a very breezy Shetland Islands..

[@libertyman3729]

Wow, Your from a place people dream about . God Bless 🇺🇸

[@rdouthwaite]

@libertyman3729 I'm FROM Yorkshire (so valid comment 😉) but been here in Shetland for nearly 13 years, it's an incredible place to live.

[@taco1333]

You are a national treasure sir!

[@MrCollinsliam]

Glad to be joining!! Thank you for another video. Always a highlight of my day

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Cheers!

[@michiganporter]

Bless you bud, ya make a old salty fella take a minute to say love ya ma! Heaven is a nice place with her in it I'm sure.

[@peterparsons7141]

My feet were warm, and now my soul has warmed a little. Thank, Merry Christmas. Keep them coming .

[@showyourworkingout2023]

Mums are the best.

[@mats852]

Made me relax for 4:47, now back to grinding my teeth

[@bigreddodge]

Even my own dog has gone commercial. But this... This is my favorite thing about Christmas time. Thanks again, brother. Happy holidays to you and your kin.

[@StabilityMan]

Thank you and have a very Merry Christmas. Keep the wonderful stories coming.

[@davidchang2015]

I love these winter stories by the fire side

[@JoMaABC]

Thanks, Unc. it's not just about the story, it's why it is told too.

[@RobbyMaQ]

My great grandmother had a job as an assistant/grunt baker in the King's castle shortly after her mother died, and her father took the 6 other siblings to Canada around the Niagara Falls region. He was a drunk, and wound up in the pen. When my great grandmother got word that all of her siblings were going to foster care, she up and quit her job, moved to Canada, and rounded up all the brothers and sisters to take care of them. To this day, all of the family reminds us just how special our great grandmother was, for keeping the family together. I had never heard this story until after she had passed, and it was my first introduction to the old adage "Don't judge a book by it's cover". Tough as nails she was, despite my whipper snapper self thinking how skinny and frail she had always appeared to me.

[@asbestos111cgl]

Been waiting 12 months for this, thank you

[@garyotterson6100]

Thanks pal. Lovely story

[@cobblehillmartin1]

A brief gift on the shortest day of the year. Nice one.

[@chupacabra3331]

It’s important and it’s humbling hearing these stories of how people lived long ago. And I think it’s important to know, we are no different than they were. Sometimes I think kids and adults alike think someone born in 1890 were a different species. The things you want in your life are all attainable, maybe not immediately, but through will, discipline and drive over time. So I say, discover or rediscover this within yourself. All the power is there, seek it.

[@timort2260]

It's always nice to catch the caveman tv on

[@Flap999]

Never got a sense of the family I came from, this is outstanding. 🙏🏻

[@MichaelHiggins1]

I picked up this book because of this series, so good!

[@rudispruell883]

AmigoBuddyDude, I love these! I don't know the sources of these stories, but they are great, and I thank you for sharing them. The fire is nice, too!

[@funkyzero]

We were a very money poor family when I was growing up. We grew most of our own food and livestock, scratched by on yard sale clothes and barely running junk cars, house entirely heated by wood... etc. Even so, I can't even imagine how tough it was for the real OG's when simply getting through a winter without starving was a major accomplishment. It would be doubly impossible for a single woman not having the back to slave with mules, sleds, and cross-cut saws just to generate firewood enough to keep from freezing to death. there was no complaining either because like everyone else, you did it, or you died. The simplest and most unforgiving of math of all

[@kylefleming2171]

Loving the caveman tv Remember you can’t keep the wolf from the door from the inside

[@PrincipalAudio]

Mothers are the best.

[@gusser2121]

Flavours of "The Vinyl Café"

[@COM70]

This is my new religion. Enjoying the sermon. Happy Christmas from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@richardlincoln8438]

Storytime watching Caveman TV is a gift precious beyond measure AvE. Thank You very much. Best Wishes to You, Your Family and Friends for the Holiday Season !

[@madwilliamflint]

I was disappointed out of all proportion that this video ended. Always a genuine pleasure. o7

[@Raven_96001]

This is awesome I wish there was an episode a month all year.

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

Mothers nurture the family, working hours most men would complain about whilst they eat the fresh food on the table not thinking about the time their spouse spent preparing it after her long day at one or more paid jobs. She gives council learning and nurses the kids and when she has a moment she is doing laundry and house keeping. My mother did so much for me and our family with not one word of complaint. With deep regret it is too late for me to thank her... Boys and girls this Christmas hear yourself say "Thank you"

[@brianwalker5843]

Merry Christmas, I'll never complain about a 10 hr shift again after that story.

[@nickbalzer9783]

That's a real gut check thank you Sir!

[@mundanestuff]

I would do nearly anything to get these stories out of my grandparents. One set, mom's mom's family, were coal miners from the 1800 on right off the boat from Eastern Austria to Eastern Pennsylvania. Digging coal in a one horse town. Mom's dad's family came from the steppes of Ukraine and settled in middle Pennsylvania. Grandpa was a truck driver in the 1920s and 30s but turned a coal delivery route into a coal business. Changed his name to sell more coal. Just about chopped his left leg off taking a tire off a wheel on an old truck with the backside of an axe when the rim split and launched tbe other half and the tire and the axe out at a mind bending speed. It was over in an instant, no more tire, no more wheel, no more axe and a foot long gash in his shin. He was back on the route the next day, of course. Can't let something small as nearly losing a leg slow you down.

[@joeg7755]

The company I work for, if one is involved in a fireside chat, that person usually get terminated. I am so glad these are just stories, I was getting a little worried.

[@cosmopezzolla996]

Can't be sure why, but that may have been my favorite one so far! Took the edge off my nerves for me. Merry Christmas to you and the family. Thanks for the vigeo

[@beneagles007]

Every time I even entertain the thought of slacking off on my place, I remember how hard those that came before us must’ve worked to build what we have today. Despite what media may show, even some of the poorest hardest working people like myself can still make a fine life for themselves when they just put forth at least a valid effort. Never give up

[@BP-in5pn]

To appreciate, respect and understand the past is what truly makes the future better.

[@anthonybroom]

Penguin farming is good in the Falklands I was told...

[@mundanestuff]

I've had penguin before. Took forever to get the feathers out from between my teeth. Seems it wasn't a Brazilian penguin.

[@anthonybroom]

@@mundanestuff Brazilian penguins fall over backwards watching planes going over them, just like any other penguin. Feathers or not..

[@fredwoods9326]

Thank you for bringing some sanity back to this world.

[@ECL..]

She raised a good man too

[@clark9992]

My grandparents left the States to homestead in Alberta. Shortly after my father was born, my grandfather got very ill. A local Masonic lodge contributed funds to enable him to go to the Mayo clinic in Minnesota. The clinic couldn't help, and he died there. Unlike the lady in the story, she moved with her kids back to the States.

[@wlrIII]

Happy Christmas to you and yours, Uncle B!

[@jayclark5912]

Going to be 5 degrees in CT tonight. I'm sitting in front of my wood stove for story time. I actually visited my moms grave today. She raised 4 on her own. She did the best she could. She raised 4 somewhat well-rounded gen X'ers.

[@TraceyAllen]

My 82 year old stepmom still lives in the mountains, in a log cabin with just wood heat. She is quite a woman.

[@SpaceSailor-tu3vl]

Enjoyment the piece of mind a well auditoria the calm of a fires warmth

[@jjr8996]

How did we get so soft? Your fireside stories warm my soul sir. I also love your inspirational talks when the "bastards" and "doldrums" of winter try to steal you away. Merry Christmas AvE

[@Paulman50]

I have a super 8 movie of my farther running a hillside plow with a two horse team when he was 10 years old, 1934.

[@Mozarkian]

The sheep spends its life fearing the wolf, yet in the end it is the shepard that leads it to the slaughter.

[@davidingram9668]

Keep doing this. I love it

[@stuartpickles6907]

Penguin meat is cheap up north, but down here in SW Missouri, it's $300 a fillet.

[@fisheatinweasel]

Merry Christmas, Uncle B.

[@Shaun.Stephens]

Those were the days, when you could claim a homestead. I've worked most of my life and am still renting the house I live in.

[@hbracerx]

Thanks for a good listen. Merry Christmas!

[@RustyorBroken]

This feels like culture.

[@gsxrmh]

Doing my ribeye steak and mushroom sauce with thick cut triple cooked chips, listening to you while having a beer, then whiskey is beautiful 😍

[@dereksstuff8395]

Great stuff mister. Greetings from the Adirondacks

[@s3l1m35]

This is as real as KZbin can get, Gets you in the feel goods I tells ya.

[@floodo1]

You’re doing pretty good for being 129 yrs old ❤️

[@milldawgj9598]

Wolves have always been at the door. All that changes is what they are dressed as.

[@amped5234]

Great story.

[@raydrew3]

Awesome story Uncle

[@Michaels_Coffee]

2.0? You ok man? Roger that. My biggrudgins

[@Yourname942]

if AvE was 10 in 1905... he is 119? Looks very strong and young for a 119 year old :)

[@PrincipalAudio]

Add 10 years to that. :) 1905 to 2024 is 119 years (if someone was 0 years old).

[@BlackCatCoffeeCompany]

That would be 51 in AvE years.

[@MrBigShotFancyPants]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.

[@ColeMacjewski]

The keep saying its all on fire i say the gravel pit and the dairy farm are the places to be plenty to do plenty to learn

[@beardysam2052]

The Falklands?! That’s a hardy stock

[@twocvbloke]

When times were simpler and men were not needed... :)

[@davidingram9668]

Read a land remembered by Patrick D Smith. Im from old Florida and this would be amazing in your cadence.

[@GAIS414]

Don't make em like they used to. Merry Christmas bud!

[@howardgalloway5606]

Good story, uncle.

[@shubus]

Disappointed! Fully expected AvE to show up with a Christmas tree made of pipe wrenches.

[@jeffmassey4860]

"It was a quiet week in Alberta,out here on the prairie." IYKYK...

[@instruments332]

Garrison Keillor reference? 0:17

[@augustallen2735]

But the friendly farmer kindly lets me graze upon his grass, for a fee mind you, though, and here's the kicker, he uses that fee to buy me rich, fattening slop! Mmmmm, slop.

[@Justalong7969]

Storyteller like my grandpa, when I was just a lad.

[@mikehensley78]

Happy Holidays!!!

[@trenchtownrock]

Must be getting close to Christmas 🎄

[@tomj708]

2:55 flashed AvE in Stones "Sympathy" lol

[@MBitter]

Any chance there would be a source to these stories? As someone from the prairies, these last two stories sound like the rest of the book would be an interesting read.

[@allanjgray1]

quite wonderfull