Living In Tune With Nature 🌱 || Springtime in the Smoky Mountains

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Spring showers bring May flowers, but that ain’t all. They also bring rapidly rising lake levels, busier work schedules, good opportunities to clean up and start fresh… Oh, and LOTS of shedded Akita fur. 🙃 Thanks for joining us for a week in the life on our floating cabin dream home in the Smokies.
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[@davesitzes9857]

Hey Brandon, Sarah and Miss Bear. We love your channel. We have watched every video from the beginning. We are so envious of your wonderful life and adventures. At our age (60's) we don't have your energy but we can live vicariously through you three. one day we hope to get over your way (we live in Missouri) and maybe even visit you three. We ordered some bling sauce this morning. We hope you have and wish you continued success with your adventure, thanks for sharing.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

What a wonderful comment! Thank you so much. Really appreciate yall! Would love to get the chance to meet you if you do make it out to this neck of the woods one day. 🙌

[@deelnickole65]

The way bear looked back at you after that river crossing she was like i got it mom 🤗💜

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

I know right?! 😅🥰 she’s too cute

[@timmorin69]

Great video as always guys! Just commenting to try to help that algorithm. Y'all deserve way more subscribers than you have!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Really appreciate ya!! 🙌🙏

[@DunstanW]

Soooooo waiting for you all... 👋🏾 hope you had a great week 0:49

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

You da best!!!

[@RedMercuryBluesBand]

Wow! Some great video shots in this episode!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!!

[@Wandering_whatsnext]

Thanks to Bling Sauce for supporting this channel.

[@janetf23]

As soon as I saw that stump my heart yearned for it! Like a fire, (or Iko!) I could just stare at it for hours❤‍🔥

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Wasn’t it beautiful!? If we had more dock space we might’ve considered it for our house! 🤩

[@skjoiner]

Love the sauce.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Can’t beat it! 💪

[@johnbellrose9165]

Western North Carolina is so beautiful. That rushing water is so calming

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

A very special corner of the world! 🙌

[@vonheise]

I think that moving in the larger house and selling your current one is a great idea! It might be further from the ramp and marina though...

[@teresaslovingcare4444]

Thank you for all you do for the environment. Spring is coming!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Bring it on! 😍

[@ericlohr6036]

HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY!!.... early morning watch of your post! We have 3 Golden Retrievers.... my Jeep originally came with a black interior... now it is sorta... almost white with dog hair. I clean it.... 4 days later..... it looks like it was. lol... and dog slobber like you mention.... yes... worse than snot.... now multiple it by 3X.... lol. Love 'em anyways! God=Dogs!!! I'll need to check out Bling Sauce ! Have a great day today guys!!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Happy easter to you & the pupperoni’s 🦮💓!!! Hahaha yes the hair covering everything never ends does it. Leather seats do help with that, vs fabric seats. Iko’s hair is forever all over my floor mats though 😆 but yes! We love em to death anyways !! 💞 Cheers Eric!

[@keithl6249]

Fun hike! Thanks again for cleaning up more trash. As often as you guys pick up trash, you might want to try some Niffty Nabbers.. I really like them for picking up trash, saves on touching weird trash and less bending over.. Niffty Nabbers and a 5 gallon bucket.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

One of our buddies has some we borrow when we do our adopt a mile! Would probably be worth getting some for ourselves haha. Thanks Keith!!

[@andrewsimckes5748]

My friend's Akita sheds twice a year January to June & July to December

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

EXACTLY 😆👏

[@bethgahring6676]

Thanks for bringing us along for adventure time! Iko was so ready for that hike. She looked back at you, like "Really, mom? I have got this!" Your neck of the woods is absolutely amazing and so relaxing! I love it so much! I hope those people at Fontana Lake appreciate what you do for the environment. ❤ Have a great week my friends!😊

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

So glad you enjoyed! Yesss it’s such a special corner of the world!! We love it. Thank you!

[@rayforsythe5533]

Hey guys, great video. I really enjoyed seeing the back of Eagle Creek with that much earth showing.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Isn’t that wild!? Whole other world. Thanks Ray!

[@melanie2846]

Hey Sarah and Brandon, and Miss Bear, too! Wow, that piece of quartz was beautiful! How fun to look for treasures on the banks. My boys, when they were little, would have loved that. Love the Trillium…we had just a couple of them when we bought our property years ago. Haven’t seen any for a long while, now. Iko looks beautiful, sporting her new spring/summer coat! The birds will be happy to recycle her winter one! 😀. Excited to see the progress on the other cabin, next video. Y’all take care and we’ll see ya next week!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Springtime is so exciting isn’t it 😻 thanks so much!! See you again in just a few days!

[@patriotcynthia7849]

I remember those days of playing in the river. The frog eggs will be present in a few weeks. Then you’ll have tadpoles. And then the croaking begins. 🐸 I’m going to have to try the blingsauce on my Cars. Good to see you guys and the lake rising. . Happy Sping!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

I quite enjoy the croaking!! Reminders that life is all around. Bring on spring! 😍 yesss bling sauce is the best. Have no doubt you’ll enjoy it!

[@tinyshedcrafts3974]

Brandon's final comment would actually make great sense. Swap the locations of both houses, move into the bigger home, and sell your smaller one. A brand new, purpose built floating home has to be more valuable than a refurbished one, surely? Win/Win...

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Financially it would indeed make great sense! The thing is… we SO love our home 🥲 Naturally! Since we built it for ourselves we made everything exactly like we’d want it. This place we are working on will be wonderful no doubt, but it sure would be tough to give up the dream home we made specifically for ourselves! Grrr.

[@casid9929]

I found that Spray Away FOAM works on dog snot. Don't care for smell but worth putting up with it.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Nice!!

[@scottmmagby7057]

Enjoyed your video!! Little miss Iko seems to be a real good boat rider. But my ? is has she ever jumped out of the boat when your cutting across the lake, she seems to be a very happy girl. Ya'll do a good job at keeping everything looking good and well maintained! Look forward to your next video!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

She has not! Thankfully 😆 she gets pretty upset if her face gets wet so she doesn’t ever jump off boats, she’ll only slowly wade into the water from the bank lol. Thank you!! 🙏

[@darlene4232]

Thanks again to All for keeping that lake clean

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

You bet!!

[@TerryFalan]

T&C hoping you two have a great week and we’ll join you next Friday for the ceiling install!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Can't wait! 😁

[@ptwhd]

Thanks for sharing 😊😊😊

[@sharonoldham4374]

Bling sauce sounds fantastic and results look awesome. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

We sure do love it!! Thanks for watching! 🥰

[@leonagann5161]

You guys make my week! We have a corgi that sheds like sweet Iko. She is in her winter “blow” getting the hair off, I do the same, let her hair go in the yard. The birds love it! Have a wonderful week and have some great adventures!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

It’s the circle of life! 🐶🕊️ haha thanks so much!

[@sarameitner6770]

Iko has that perfect bear face - and is such a delight. Did you get her collar stuff worked out okay? Thanks for sharing the river area - fascinating.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

We did! new tags new Bear 💃🏼💓 Glad you enjoyed!

[@shawndonohoe2789]

I'm in Canada but I keep seeing/hearing about feral hogs. Seems like an easy food source to me so whats the deal?

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Well they are problematic of course because they’re invasive and destroy a lot of native vegetation, trails, peoples yards, etc. But the reason it’s tough to control them thru hunting alone is, for one thing, because their reproduction rate is insane. It’s hard to keep up! And in our particular scenario here, most of our forested land around the lake is federal land so they can’t be legally hunted there. Which is kind of ironic because the park service has people whose entire jobs are hunting hogs. If they opened up the park for hog hunting for the public, the problem would be taken care of a lot quicker no doubt - but unfortunately the park service doesn’t have the personnel or resources to be able to monitor/enforce that hogs are the only thing being hunted. So they just keep the hunting in-house I guess.

[@theprairierose4613]

We had an Alaskan Malamute and all the bird's nests around were built with his fur.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

🥰 I love that. circle of life, nothing is wasted!

[@barbarafuhrman7395]

Living my dream your very blessed❤❤

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

We are blessed 🙏 thank you!

[@bill944]

That was a nice walk up the river. Very pretty!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Glad you enjoyed! We sure did ☺️

[@CoriNagy]

I love your back yard. TFS ❤❤❤

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Tough to beat. 🙏😍 thank you!

[@Dixienell]

I’m trying to find the stuff ya’ll used on your cars and boats. I thought it was green sauce, but, what I found was Bling sauce. Please help! And thank you.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Bling sauce is the brand! Green sauce is one of the products that bling sauce makes, it’s a good all purpose cleaner for most surfaces on both car and boat! We also use Bling Sauce’s conditioning sauce to protect the seats on both car and boat

[@Dixienell]

@@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses Thank you so much. Sometimes I think that at 77 I just need to quit, but then just keep trying. Sending love and blessings.

[@TABrown-xh7xc]

How long before the lake is full?

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Should be up by Memorial day!

[@tylerdiedrich1947]

Love the channel so much ! Im looking to order bling sauce for my classic ski nautique ! what's a good regiment I need to order ! I will use your code!

[@tylerdiedrich1947]

@keepingafloatwiththejoneses

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Aw thank you!! We probably use the conditioning sauce & the green sauce more than anything 🙌 If you get nothing else, at least get the conditioning sauce for your seats & try to use it a couple times a month! You’ll be amazed. The green sauce is great if you have any mildew or mold anywhere, as well as just for general cleaning on almost all your surfaces (vinyl, fiberglass, carpet, bimini canvas, etc). then the hot sauce for waxing if you’re into that!! 🧽

[@chandrasutton4669]

Thanks for sharing!!!😊🎉❤

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

You are so welcome 🤗 thanks for watching!

[@nanoresmith2697]

Iko is just so darn cute! 🤗

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

She is! 🥹💖

[@Pam-ik3zu]

Hey Brandon & Sarah 😊

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Howdy howdy! 😃

[@staceygiometti9680]

So Beautiful!🤗

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

💙🙏

[@spudrubble]

Shame people dump so much trash.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Seriously!!

[@darlene4232]

Beautiful

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@richardwasserman]

I'm in cardiac intensive care. Your video cheered in me right up.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Oh my goodness!! I am so sorry to hear that, but so happy to hear the video was of some help. Sending you all the best wishes and good vibes for a speedy recovery. You can do this!! 💪💪💪

[@richardwasserman]

@@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses I'm home and doing really well.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Oh thank goodness!! We’ve talked about you a few times actually. So glad to hear this!

[@meganfrancis2414]

Aloha from Maui. We would LOVE to get to know if/when you know of any homes available to purchase on Fontana Lake. Something we could see us doing now or in the future. Mahalo

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

We are selling one currently! Don’t know if you’ve seen any of our other recent videos but we’ve been renovating it since last fall & it’ll be turn-key ready in just a few weeks!

[@meganfrancis2414]

Awesome! Yes we are following and anxious to get more information and maybe ☺

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Feel free to email us at [e-mail] for pricing and other details if you’re interested! 💙💙💙

[@meganfrancis2414]

@@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses 👌

[@shemamabell-irving2671]

My dog Lily loves Iko so much she watches with a ball in her mouth and talks with her mouth full. So cute.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

That is SO cute! 🥹

[@JohnRandolph_TheDigitalWave]

😎

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

⚓️🤝