Planting Fall Turnips, Scary Dolls, & Dreaming is Part of the Fun

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@evelynmiller5336]

I still love dolls and I will be 90 in December. I always got one for Christmas. I was going to be 13 in December so I told Mother that I didn’t’ need a doll that year. Come Christmas morning there was this beautiful doll under the tree. My Mother said “I passed by this doll and she said to me, TAKE ME HOME TO YOUR LITTLE GIRL.” I STILL HAVE THAT DOLL. I also have the little wicker rocker that I got for my first birthday. Oh the sweet memories that goes through my mine when I see those things. I love all of your and Matts videos. Enjoy your grandsons.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that so much 😊 thank you for sharing!!

[@livvyweimar7362]

This was so good. I love Matt's idea to create a little cabin for him and the grandsons. Talk about positive male bonding! I absolutely love it!!!❤❤❤

[@KimOpperman]

I have not watched the whole episode yet, but I was going to suggest a cabin.

[@jillakison3638]

I love how Binks always loves being with you all when you are outside. He loves being around you, and especially Matt. He seems so happy that he has family. Katie was soo good to tame him from being a feral cat to being a family pet. ❤️🐈‍⬛️

[@sarachesterfield9028]

I can't imagine how you ever gardened without Binks. He is so happy to be out there with you. He's in his happy place. Your plants look great.

[@Una...]

I love watchin him ghost around through the garden, sniffin, and what not 😅

[@txsjohnny]

@@sarachesterfield9028 Y’all’s gardens do look mighty fine! I’m so proud of all your hard work!

[@carolynpurser7469]

Binx on patrol. He's such a beautiful cat. Enjoy hearing the cute stories of when the girls were little. It'll be fun to see what mischief Ira and Woody get into.

[@shenry4485]

Matt wanting to celebrate with pie and ice cream. The conniving little look on his face made me laugh.😂

[@aprilcarmen2492]

Tipper, We played outside all day as kids because Momma told us to go out and get out from under foot. Such good times, we found the best places to play.

[@mflynnnj1]

While I was just peacefully watching your hubby hand till & you doing your thing, I thought you all are just so so blessed ~with Granny & your brother so close by, Katie & Ira with you, & Corie & Austin & Woody just over there. If you are ever having a bum day, thank the Lord for that! You folks really are my kind of people --I know this channel has a bunch to do with Appalachia, but that family component, mixed with the love of Jesus is why I'm here. And your cooking keeps my mouth watering! -much love to you green thumb folk ~Mary & fam in NJ

[@mflynnnj1]

ps --happy "retirement" anniversary Matt!

[@sippingtea4743]

I prefer your show to any tv show

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Oh you are so kind! Thank you 😊

[@mhelen7360]

Enjoyed watching everything that went on in the garden as you and Matt work together so seamlessly, and especially enjoyed one of your fun-nest chats yet. That Matt is a bona fide mess! ♥️

[@milatulgetske7073]

I love the background noises, the bugs, the birds, the creek, when I hear those, it reminds me of visiting my grandmother and playing in the woods.

[@bunny5543]

It was fun watching you and Matt tonight. I especially enjoyed Matt's pranks and stories. 😂 It's a blessing to be able to enjoy your simi-retirement years. I wish you both many, many more!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😊

[@JoFields-mh2ze]

I grew up without air conditioning too, and as the saying goes, “You will never miss what you’ve never had”

[@benitastevens612]

Love to hear all the games we use to play out side.

[@coupyk.2810]

Happy Happy Birthday, Tipper! I hope you have a wonderful day! I am so happy that you were born! You've made some really difficult days turn around. Your videos are so calming and sweet. Thank you so much for letting us see your life. It's such a wonderful opportunity to dream of home. Sweetest of Birthdays to you :D ~Kelly~ (Colorado)

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

You are so kind! Thank you 😊

[@valariejones6597]

Those boys are going to have so much fun with Matt! Can’t wait to see or hear about it!! Such a good grandpa.

[@benitastevens612]

Love to mix greens. Kale and collard are my favorite…I have mixed wild greens with all the other greens, like dandelion, dock, oh my how I would love to go picking with my mother again…we would have a skillet of fried potatoes, pot of pinto beans, greens, slice tomatoes & cucumbers, chow-chow and corn sticks a bowl of butter and a blackberry cake with Carmel icing and a big glass of milk. Yummy! ..

[@tierneyyoung9333]

That doll story was the best!! So funny!

[@pattyebricker4924]

I am totally amazed that anything would grow in that gravel you guys call soil. AMAZED!

[@TerrieAllred2023]

Happy one year anniversary, Matt! The garden is gorgeous!

[@cindatribble1495]

I love listening to the nature in your videos! The birdsong is lovely.

[@pennieobrien204]

Happy 1 year retirement Matt! I have 3 more years and I can't wait!

[@debnhim8353]

Too funny about the big doll. 😆🤣 Matt…you’re funny! Good stories about when y’all were youngsters. ☺️

[@cmsirish]

Matt deserves employee of the year 😊

[@homelifewithlinda1985]

We had the same childhood playing with cousins outside till we were made to come in...wading creeks, damming up brooks with mud and watching water eventually bust thru...frozen tag and hidenseek and weenie roasts...catching lightning bugs...smelling fresh cut grass or smoke from fire...Kids today don't know what they r missing

[@juliayoung537]

I absolutely love y'all and love how Binx is trying to help 😂❤! Prayers for everyone 🙏

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😊

[@txsjohnny]

@@juliayoung537 Binx is the best! Luv him! I have a black cat named Salem. 🐈‍⬛

[@BrendaPeek-e5p]

Tipper sitting here watching you and Matt I could listen to you all day I just love it it reminds me of me and my little brother he’s gone now and I miss him alot.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I’m sorry you lost him.

[@mckait]

I love seeing Binks in these videos. She's so beautiful and fun to watch

[@carlapickard6579]

Congratulations on your anniversary!!! One year post retirement and being able to work full time together. Matt just seems so much happier.

[@jaybee766]

I loved those stories of playing in the summertime! 😂 Corrie under the carpet made me laugh out loud - I can picture her probably giggling the whole while. Hahaha

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊

[@barabaraboyer8740]

Happy Anniversity Matt. What a year!

[@heavenbound-1957]

Tipper it was such a pleasure to meet you yesterday, you my friend have a pure warm-hearted spirit about you. Must be why watching you and your family calm me and bring me joy. Looking forward to reading through the cook book and serving up the recipes.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you! Wonderful to meet you too 😊

[@lindamcgee3651]

Y'all reminiscing about your childhood days and other times is something that I could listen to all day long. Matt's story about his Daddy actually leaving his cousin hiding until they come back home, Matt's big doll story with the girls .... I guarantee there's never a dull moment in your family. Pranksters 😅 Thank you for sharing another great video. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🌄

[@meloniemurillo2885]

As kids we would build forts and have pinecone battles, lol. When you got hit by one, boy did it hurt but we would still play it, because it was fun. We would also play hide and seek and red rover. We would also dam up the creek and swim in it. Thank you for bringing those wonderful memories for me.

[@BarbaraCooper-qg2bn]

When you told the story of Corie hiding in the rug I laughed until I thought I'd be sick. Tipper you are so funny!

[@Kimber-zn6jd]

The feeling and the look of a freshly tilled garden is so nice.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

It is 😊

[@Dave-ty2qp]

I just stumbled across your channel, and decided to watch. Very good content. I can't begin to express how relaxing it has been to just sit and listen to a couple talk abput nothing yet everything at the end of the work day. It's like having old friends over for a chat. Thank you.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@deborahhopkins7763]

Oh Tipper, I loved baby dolls also. I still do. I wanted my lil granddaughter to love them as much as I do. One time she did get the doll out that we had gotten her for Christmas and she was pushing her around in her doll stroller, and I asked her how her baby was and her reply was “ She isn’t my baby, I’m just baby sitting”LOL 😂 Naomi just hasn’t ever cared for them. She loves Barbie’s, I adored my dolls and I would make a play house out in my Grandfathers woodshed because it would be empty in the Summer because the wood had been used to heat their house during the Fall and Winter. Such fun days.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊

[@brendageorge9245]

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate Matt not having Plumber butt . Seriously

[@garybrunet6346]

We’re on vacation. Watching your videos is being integrated with my vacation. I’m addicted to celebrating Appalachia! 🙂🙂🙂❤️🙏🇨🇦

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Gary! Hope you have a great time 😊

[@csnanny1882]

My parents cut their cabbage when the heads got big and then just left the cabbage in the ground . They had cabbage over and over. Because cabbage is one of the winter plants that love cold weather. Collards and mustard greens are another plant that loves winter. I am 87 and just can’t believe all that I remember about their garden. How is grannie doing with her garden. She is really strong. Bless her heart.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That is great! Her garden is rebounding after the rain and deer 😊

[@CarolynBuckler-k3c]

I loved playing with dolls and playing house. I had three little sisters and we all loved our baby dolls!

[@kathy.7475]

Same here. Loved my dolls and playing house with my three younger sisters.

[@JoFields-mh2ze]

We made houses out of cardboard boxes that we dragged to our house, from a furniture store close by. We cut out windows, and used string for a curtain rod and hung cloth on it for curtains!! Sometimes, if we were lucky we could get two or three boxes, and put them end-to-end, and made a whole house! We loved making our mud pies too. They dried real fast in that hot summer sun in Tennessee. Best years of our lives. 😍🙏🏻

[@DancingWatersAnCoFOB]

Tipper, my Granny pulled up the WHOLE cabbage, INCLUDING the root, all in one piece, then put them in the root cellar in a bucket with sandy soil covering the root. She'd water it a tiny bit if it began to look wilted. They kept all winter that way, like FRESH from the garden.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That is amazing 😊

[@GeorgiasGarden]

Hey Tipper. I received your cookbook yesterday. WOW it is really beautiful, and so full of fantastic recipes. I can’t wait to dive in more. Love the pictures old and new. A very quality cookbook.

[@susieminor3536]

I ordered it yesterday, I can't wait to get it!

[@CindyMobley]

@@susieminor3536where do you order it from?

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Oh thank you 😊

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Look for a link in the description 😊

[@Elohimfollower]

Just got mine also! Looking forward to bringing southern Appalachia into this Michigan kitchen

[@robinhaupt9119]

So glad you're getting rain. Thank you for sharing the garden update Tipper and Matt.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Our pleasure!

[@normakibler]

I laughed out loud when Matt said" well how many of them are going to plant" Tipper I get it the excitement of planning is so much fun. Keep keeping it real. Love your channel.

[@StuartMaynard-zb5tr]

Matt, I was tickled when you brought up your one year anniversary of retiring. I'm happy for you both, but I know from experience what that means to you. I still celebrate (quietly) my retirement date of 07/02/2016. Retirement is totally underrated. I ain't had a moments regret. You won't neither I reckon. Thanks for sharing.

[@bethjohnson8234]

Love your garden…your home is beautiful….love those steps ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you so much 😊

[@CindyEvans-yq6np]

So glad you all have started to get rain we still are in an extreme drought here in the panhandle of west va our garden has burned completely up praying for rain from Debby

[@tracymcgrath1192]

Tipper, I met Luke Duke 😂 one of my best friends was in the musical Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters on broadway in nyc. We went to his dressing room. He had glossy pics of he and Beau with that Hazard car. Very very gracious 🫶🏻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊

[@joanndeland7969]

Congratulations Matt .Retired 1 yr ago .🎉

[@Tonytherf]

Hey guy's, it's hard to believe that August is here. And Matt being retired from working for the man for a year already. I enjoyed hearing about playing hide and seek and going down memory lane. It reminded me of my childhood. God bless y'all and continued prayers.

[@Bradwick1]

Hilarious story about the big doll! Would love to hear the kids recollections of the time it came to life! lol! 29:55 "Animalympics" was the cartoon.

[@debbiehills2928]

🎉❤happy birthday today tipper!😊😊❤❤

[@natalieshuburte9484]

I would love to see a video of Matt & Austin building a cabin for the boys ❤

[@wandagordon6453]

I so enjoy watching your gardening videos! Love you sweet people! God bless y’all! 😀❤️🙏🏻

[@kathyroberts5870]

hoopie hide. Reminds me of a little man that was in the hospital with my Grampa. He said when they were kids that's what they played back in the days of the long hoop skirts their mothers and Grandmothers wore . He said one of the kids found the other when he ran out from under his grandmothers skirt, "He said Ha ha I found you ". He said the other one hollered "You wouldn't have found me if Granny hadn't gassed me".

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊

[@ClaudiaThomas-c7d]

😂😂😂

[@deannacoker2166]

Yes Laff-Olympics!! All the characters...Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Huckleberry Hound...on and on!!

[@debbiemorgan6701]

Yes, that's it. I remember watching it.

[@terrycowley966]

Oh my goodness! I am the youngest of 10 and was aggravated unmercifully as a child. Matt's stories about the doll and the little girl playing hide and seek really resonated. I'll laugh about that for the next few days😂

[@ShelbyBunten]

Tipper and Matt I sure enjoyed hearing about when you all were little what youns played and Matt doing that to the doll to scare Corie and Katie he's a sight I seen my friend Binks in the garden just really enjoyed way you work just all of it you both are a blessing ❤️ Shelby

[@btrixie60]

You see Matt's wheels turnin about the spot for him and the grands. I laughed till I cried about the live doll. Bet Corey and Katie's eyes got big! And the carpet hump, oh my my sides hurt!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😊

[@KathysTube]

I 😂 when Matt confessed to scaring the girls with the doll! I enjoyed the visit😊👍

[@cathybrubaker9705]

I’m 66 and had my first tomato sandwich yesterday. I could not believe how good it was!!

[@RealSB83]

It is truly a beautiful morning in the southern mountains ⛰️ of Appalachia. Thanks for sharing your stories. God bless.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Our pleasure!

[@pennieobrien204]

it's so fun listening to you guys reminisce. Matt and my husband would get along great. He's quite mischievous as well

[@edwardgilmore5595]

I love the greens 😊

[@PepperplacewithShawna]

Thanks, Tipper and Matt. It's back to hot and humid here in the Tennessee Valley. Tomatoes are finished. I'm hoping for late green beans. This was not a great year for my garden. I hope the fall garden does better. ❤

[@karenwallace9099]

Wonderful work. I may be one of those people who would love to see Matt take the camera and go fishing for an afternoon. Or evening. Sit or stand on the bank. I think it would be very very nice. 🎣

[@EuleneWages4644]

There is nothing like Fresh garden food.🥒🌽🍅🫐🥦🫑🥕🥔❤❤❤❤❤

[@ThePaPappy]

Nothing better than turnips, potatoes, and onions fried up in a cast iron skillet ! 😋

[@johncreviston4972]

I made Miss Cindy's pie. It was heavenly!!! Thanks for sharing. I will make that again and maybe with peaches, and I want to try pears! I'll let you know how they turn out.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Yay 😊

[@michellebryant4730]

Laugh Olympics; I had a Baby Alive. I got her for Christmas 1974, I was in first grade.

[@rhondalampe6676]

Hey There Tipper, Yep hide n- seek we always played- & I do remember those fans - also to keep your fingers away from them but I did pinch my finger!! U always come up with good memories. I do remember as a child playing outside until they called for you at dark- and I think about it now if I got scared in the house I always felt safer outside! Thanks for sharing Tipper & Matt. ❤ & Prayers

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you for visiting with us 😊

[@jenniebaird2994]

Just wanted to thank you for introducing us to Rattlesnake beans. My husband and I are in our mid-seventies and have gardened all our lives but had not ever heard of those beans. We love them! Thanks again.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Wonderful 😊

[@txsjohnny]

@@jenniebaird2994 Are the rattlesnake beans also called Dragon’s Tongue?

[@donnakirk7455]

Loved the story about the doll! My aunt gave me a Patty Playpal doll when I was 5. She was 36 inches tall with eyes that opened and closed and beautiful hair that I would comb and trim(!) perhaps thinking it would grow back?! She was rather raggedy looking by the time I quit playing with her. I had her restored many years ago and still have her. She’s 65 years old and has freaked out every kid in our family. Lots of stories and memories. Thank you!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So nice that you still have her 😊

[@stacey8501]

I think it was called "Baby Alive". I can still remember the commercial, "Baby Alive, soft and sweet, she can eat she can drink".

[@appalachiancat]

Tipper, you may have a granddaughter who will love dolls. ❤

[@SueMorris-f4s]

I love to see you working together in the garden. I love to listen to you telling memories about your childhood. Reminds me of playing together with my cousins.

[@rhondabutler4172]

We had an attic fan with the windows open and by the time morning got here, you’d be freezing to death. 😂😂😂😂

[@lynnclark4208]

You were talking about the 3' doll. Mom bought one for my next older sister. I miss the Sears, JC Penney , Montgomery Ward christmas catalogs. Oh my goodness! Loved the catalogs. There's a couple others, I can't remember the names of those.

[@karenbrewer5864]

Our bedrooms growing up were upstairs, so cold in the Winter and hot hot in the Summer. It would be way up in the early morning before you could sleep. We’d play all day on the farm in all kinds of dirt. When mama finally got us to come in my mother would say. “Lordy, you all are right rusty”. 😂 I too had a playhouse and sometimes it would turn into a doll hospital. I went on to work as a nurse for 47 years.

[@dalemcdowall2711]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊 I can’t believe it’s been a year already that Matt retired from his job. WOW 😮 that went by so fast. Frightening how fast time goes by.

[@BRuthable]

Fun listening to kids games. I loved dolls too. My brothers and I went to church regularly and I remember playing church and the boys taking turns being the preacher. We piled up blocks or boxes or something to make a platform for the preacher. Oh what memories! Then we swept the backyard with a broom so we could play with cars and make racetracks. We gathered sticks and made bows and arrows so we could be cowboys and Indians. We also found arrowheads on our property in WV. The area we lived in was called Indian Creek and a small creek did run by our house and only once did a flood get up to our front porch.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love those memories 😊

[@marilynsheffield612]

Tipper you and Matt seem to be at peace. Love listening to y'all. It's wonderful to see such good people in the world. 😊❤🌻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😊

[@janamathis4729]

Finally got to cook a good mess of fried okra. It was so good. Love seeing what you get out of your garden and how much you all enjoy it.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Sounds great! Thank you 😊

[@margaretevans1934]

I had just the same problem with my daughter. She wanted the Sindy horses and stables and carts. You could keep the dolls. I loved my dolls and Mum used to sew and knit the clothes for them. That was so funny with Matt moving the doll.

[@aprilporcellini3097]

Matt seems excited about the boys having some good old fun in the future

[@nedflora1154]

Wow hadn't heard about freeze tag in forever

[@ixchelkali]

I'll bet your grandsons would love a little cabin in the woods. I had a tree house when I was little, but it was just a platform with no sides, so I wasn't allowed to sleep up there for fear I'd roll off. Still, we could pretend it was a fort or a castle or a pirate ship or a stage...just anything. When I wanted to sleep out, I'd get one of my older sisters to pin some old worn out sheets on the clothesline to make me a "tent," and beg one of them to sleep out there with me. So much cooler in the summer.

[@chubs1701]

Love the video thanks for sharing 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@barbarasue7191]

Tipper, you and Matt make such a perfect couple. Y'all work so hard and also reap good rewards with those wonderful vegetables. I envy your Family. I'm happy for you. And you have those wonderful grandbabnies to enjoy. You are blessed.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thanks so much 😊

[@garykirk9888]

Not a lazy bone in Tipper!!! Matt you’re lucky!!!

[@cherrieperkins5065]

Tipper, I loved my dolls. My daughter never cared about dolls. She also loved stuffed animals.

[@gretchenarrant8334]

Our kids start school on Tuesday, the 7th!! I remember we never started school until after Lanor Day and we're out before Memorial Day. But we didn't get 2 weeks at Christmas, Easter, Spring bteak!! Some schools here are going to 4 days which is going to work a hardship on parents that work. I think it's wrong. They don't go by days now, but have a certain number of hours they have to be in school for. Times are so different. And I don't think for the better!! I loved baby dolls. I have quite a collection. Love the videos.

[@sherrydaut4910]

Is that 4 days a week for certain? Ridiculous! Working parents have a hard enough time dealing with before and after school care, but now trying to find care for a whole day! These decisions should be made by parents at school board meetings.

[@gretchenarrant8334]

@@sherrydaut4910 depends on the district you're in.

[@gretchenarrant8334]

@@sherrydaut4910 agree completely. Many parents don't attend the meetings.

[@TammyWILLIAMS-gb4vb]

Tipper let me tell you a story about the first time I gave my daughter's turnip greens, they were in elementary school. My Momma always cooked them and bagged them and froze them so one day I had came in to take my Momma to the Dr and got a couple of bags to take home with me. I put one on when I got back to go with supper. My husband would not eat any kind of greens, so I put just a spoon full on both my girls plates. We were eating and all of a sudden my youngest asked if they could have more broccoli LOL and I was thinking broccoli, what broccoli and then I realized what they wanted more of LOL Both of my girls still love turnip greens to this day!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that!

[@JudithLovern-fx1xm]

So enjoyed the video! Congratulations Matt on your year of retirement! Enjoyed the doll stories! Stay safe!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thanks so much!

[@thelkabibb3774]

I was never crazy about dolls but my sisters were I was a tom boy. My sister's had and still have tiny thumblinas dolls. They were realistic for the times. They look like new borns

[@TeressaJ1960]

Tipper I loved playing with baby dolls and Barbies when I was a kid. I still have 2 of my old dolls and all 3 of my sons grew up terrified of them. I think it's pretty funny. 😂 I can picture a little camping spot for Matt and his grandsons. That's a good idea. God bless y'all.

[@timgriffith2094]

I remember as a kid, going to a friend’s house that had a metal fan in the window. His mom had made us a couple of sausage biscuits, the fan didn’t have a screen on it and I talked him into throwing his sausage biscuit in the fan. Chopped up pieces of biscuit and sausage went everywhere. 😂

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Oh no 😊