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August is the melancholy of middle age, remembering the final days before you graduated, feeling you’ll be young forever and now realizing autumn’s closing in and winter’s killing frost can come at any time.
As we get older I have found that time goes by so quickly! It seems like yesterday I watched you and Matt making this summers garden! How peaceful hearing the Birds and seeing the bounty of God's gifts!❤
Two days left of August. September is nearly here. How quickly time goes by. Not long ago, we were planning, planting, and looking forward to harvest. Now we're preserving, clearing dying plants away, and thinking ahead to next year's garden. The cycle goes on. Every season is a blessing. As we say goodbye to summer, we are thrilled to welcome autumn, the best season of all. I bet Matt would agree.
I sat with my eyes closed as you read from Jim's book so that I could see with my mind's eye. Nostalgic for some reason today. As a child, heat never bothered me too much. I remember walking barefoot in the cool, tall grass that grew in a low spot in our yard. I love fall and I absolutely hate summer, yet somehow get sad to see summer drawing to a close every year. I can't explain it. It's just the way it is.
My former pastor used to use the word "mullygrubs." Made me smile. Brother Spainhower was a wonderful man of GOD. He's been in heaven since about 2007. He has been greatly missed.
Thank you I dozed off listening to you. It's not because you are boring, I was just tired and your voice is so peaceful and soothing. Glad to see you remember to count your blessings.
I agree, Tipper's voice is so peaceful and soothing. I have dozed off sometimes as well. Then I go back and listen again. I especially find her reading on Fridays very calming.
I agree Tipper, the sound of summer is wonderful! Fall is coming, but each season has its' own beauty in sight and sound. Gods' blessings to us.❤ What a beautiful writing by Jim.
I love the sounds that surround you when you are out in your garden - the jar flies? and the birds, including the chicken at times! -along with visual beauty of the lush greenry and floral bounty. Living in a concrete jungle, my sounds are not near so sweet and soothing! August does seem the time when the 'mollygrubs' come upon many folk - myself included. Thank you for another 'peaceful' video Tipper. Continue to cover you all in prayer with extra for whatever is decided upon for your mama be it surgery or ? ❤🙏
Enjoyed being in the bean patch with you. It is so calming to listen to the sounds of nature, I especially like the bird sounds. Thanks for reading to us from Jim's book.
Thank you for the reading. The Summer has gone by way too fast. I love when it’s still light out at 8:00. Soon it will be getting dark earlier. Although I don’t care for that, I am grateful for the seasons that the Lord gives us. Continuing to pray for sweet Granny! God bless y’all! 😀❤️
Very insightful. Sad in a beautiful way when summer ends. Tipper, you are very calming to listen too. Thank you for your perspective and sharing yourselves with us. God bless you all and prayers for Granny.
That was a very moving video about finding the joy in the ending.....even though summer is coming to an end, you find the good things....thank you for always sharing your heart, your wisdom, and your life with all of us...❤
blessyou tipper you have had such a lot on your plate this year. what with miss cindy passing and granny being ill. dont be so hard on your self. go for a walk down by the creek. praying for yall love n hugs xxx
You know there are so many people that just don’t take the time to listen to those sounds. I love them and I love all the beautiful colors of Fall. It’s the long, dark, cold days of Winter that get me down. 🍂🍁
These last two weeks or so of August instill in me the truth. Each day grows shorter more rapidly than the day before. It seems June and July look as if the long days will always be here. Then August reminds how flitting life is. The other morning, I got up way before dawn for a glass of water and looked out to see the constellation Orion rising. I thought Summer is done. However, my blessings: my honey won first prize at our county fair! Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary to you!
Yes,it seems like summer was a whirlwind and then fall seems to slow everything down. It's funny how each season,the sounds and sun shines down different, especially the start of fall. Continued prayers for you all and Granny. Yall have a blessed night.
We have been blessed with a bounty of green beans this year! It's what seems to grow the best. You have encouraged us to plant pole beans along with our usual Bush beans. We thank you for your garden wisdom and your love for Jesus! Praying for your precious granny! She is such a pretty lady!
I just saw our weather forecast, we're still having almost 100 temperatures here in Oklahoma,😂 we decided we're not watering the okra and few tomato plants any longer, so didn't want to let them go but even the small pods of okra was tough. The meteorologists said the hurricane Italia will land in Northern Florida and up into the Carolinas. I pray it looses steam and everyone will be safe.
Thank you for such wonderful videos, I didn’t plant a garden this year for the first time in 45 years. Grieving for my younger brother passing of brain cancer at 57 years old and trying to find joy again in the things I once did. Bless you and Granny also. ❤️
August always makes me sad. Summer ending is a difficult transition. I love the bright leaves and deep blue skies of Autumn, but there is something about the dying golden color of August that saddens my soul.
Time waits for no one.The older i get seems like time flies by.such beautiful sounds surrounding you.Theres nothing like our Appalachia.wouldnt want to live anywhere else.❤💯🙏🏻
Ohh !! Tipper. What a wonderful person you are. When you said what a blessing Matt Pressley was to you, I wept like a baby. I think you and your family are so wonderful and a blessing to all of us who are blessed to have y'all in our lives. What you are doing is a blessing to so many and I just appreciate it. Love you and Matt, and those beautiful young girls. I love to laugh and when Matt said the delivery Dr. said she just bit me, about Katie! I am sure I peed my britches. That was so funny! Love you all. Vaucluse, SC.
Summer has been one of extremes here in North central Texas. Started with tornadoes, baseball size hail 3 times, drought, lakes are drying up and 59 days of over 100 degrees and forecasting 7 more. Tipper even with a yr like this I have to sit a spell with a cool drink, thank the lord, in all things be grateful and shut my mind down long enough to be quiet and listen for his voice in my heart. God bless you and your family and keep you all safe❤
Y’all are one amazing family. Y’all know how blessed you are. Wicked awesome channel as we say in Boston ❤😂 Ain’t no families like y’all these days. Shame. Blessed to enjoy y’all. 🙏👏🏻♥️
Watching you pick beans in the sunshine with your sun hat brings back a sweet memory from my childhood. My Mammaw and Papppaw shared a large garden area with the neighbor that ran the local drug store, we called these sweet neighbors Momma Sally and Poppa Sam. I always loved seeing Momma Sally picking her bounty from the garden with her old-fashioned sun bonnet with the long side flaps that contained stiff cardboard or thin wood to shade her face and the long trail of ruffles in the back to shade her neck. I can still feel the hot central Texas summer breeze blowing down the rows in the garden.
The sound of rustling through the leaves and the pop of pulling the bean off. Love how you even when picking beans see a secret garden. I get that. I will put August below February.
I didn't know anyone else felt this way about August! It helps a lot to know others feel the same and for the same reasons. Thank you so much for your openness and for connecting us to others who felt as we do.
We never planted pole beans when I was a child. We had plenty of good flat soil that always produced a bounty of vegetables. We grew most of our own food, which was good. Otherwise our family of nine--two parents and seven kids--would not have eaten very well. My mother would not allow me and my younger sister to do any harvesting. We started every day when it didn't rain by weeding two rows apiece, at least. Amazing how simple my life was then and how I am prone to embellish it when I remember. You know it was idyllic! Praying for all God's blessings on Granny and all of you.
What I love this time of year, are Indian summers. About 70f during the day with less bugs and high 40s to low 50s at night for a nice camp fire. We don't always get those summers but I enjoy them when we do. I don't look at summer as dying. Summer just needs a rest from being so productive that it is just sleeping.
I’ve never known exactly what it is, but August always makes me feel anxious. It’s not a bad anxious, it’s an anticipatory anxiousness. Maybe it’s cause I was a teacher, and I knew the summer days were ending and school was starting over. I think it is more a form of excitement for the next season of fall and all that follows that. It’s a good feeling deep in my soul of a sadness and happiness all rolled into one. Soon Tipper we will be admiring all the glorious colors God treats us to. Then you and I will be anticipating that first big beautiful snow, and before we know it, Spring will be upon us and the entire cycle begins again. I’m hoping you & I get our big snow. My granddaughters sleds are sitting under my porch, just waiting to go sledding. Have a blessed rest of your week. God bless & continued prayers for your momma. 😊❤😊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you and Jim for your sweet heartfelt words to close out the summer season and the anticipation of a wonderful fall. God bless you and thank you for your peaceful spirit❤
Every year I swear I am going to start my Christmas shopping in August. Glad to know my streak of NOT starting my shopping has not been broken! Thank you so much, Ms. Tipper, for sharing your mullygrubs and your secret garden with us equally. I understand and celebrate with you!
Well, that's fantastic. Another good canning. That's your higher power making sure you have plenty of green beans to share with Granny. Please take care in the next couple of days. I hope y'all are okay during the rain y'all will have. As always, much love to you and yours!
I am from Alabama , and I miss gardening and canning , cooking all from Homemade, with a lot Family and Lots of Friends I am missing deep down in my Heart,,!!! 😂😂😂❤❤❤😂❤❤😂❤❤😂😂😂😂
Tipper time is sure flying by. It is sad to see the summer end and fall turn into all the dirty browns. The lord willing we will see spring wake up and have another garden! I will be praying for your precious mama and family. God bless and keep you all held close.
Tipper that's wonderful that the bounty keeps coming. I wanted to let you know that I had the EUS done this morning. My gastro Dr was able to get a biopsy, but he did tell me daughter he thought it might be benign. Prayers work and God is good all the time!!!!
I never thought about the death of Summer, but you are right. I still have a huge amount of green tomatoes on the vine trying to ripen before the cool weather gets here. Today is Labor Day and I am sitting on my back patio on my glider and catching up on your videos. It is 85°, sunny and 100% humidity and no clouds in the bright blue sky. My son put a fan outside 😊for me and I am having a perfect day! I have a metal shed and a huge black walnut tree over it. When I hear those big green walnuts hit that roof (sounds like gun shots!) then I know summer is over. I haven't heard one yet, though.
I love summertime . I love the sounds and the colors of summer , i even love the heat . Our summers can get as hot as 110 and above with humidity , but i dont mind it . Summer brings back wonderful memories of my childhood in my grandparents garden and my grandma and mom busy putting up vegetables and fruits for winter . I remember the smell of the summer kitchen , beets and green beans cooking , fresh onions on the counter. August always makes me feel a little melancholy . I had never thought about it before until you said it , the dying of summer ..... brings a little sadness to my heart. We still have until late October before the chill of fall sets in . When it does Ill dream of spring and plan next years garden to pass the winter months
Jim certainly is a talented writer. His words certainly express how I used to feel about August, that is until my only child, a son, was born on August 23. I also start to mourn summer's exit, but fall is my favorite season because of the beauty of the Appalachian mountains I see just outside my door. I'm glad you found that mess of late summer beans. Still praying for Granny and all of you. 🙏
I certainly do NOT mourn summer ending…my least fav season! Sooo ready for fall and my favorite winter! You’ve still got a few weeks of summer, Tipper! I’ve enjoyed being with y’all through the year! God bless and much love! 💕🤗🙏🏻
Sometimes when sitting outside i close my eyes and listen to see how many different sounds I can hear bird's , bee's, the wind jar flies. Summer is sweet but I love fall. Prayers for you and your family especially granny.
August meant back to school when I was a young’un. That was bittersweet for me. I didn’t much like school but I also didn’t like having all that outdoor work to do during the summer. It’s my birth month as well so it did have one redeeming quality. 😊
Oh, I agree about sourwood honey! My granddad loved it on unsweetened June apple pie! My husband and I made some jelly years ago from fox grapes as well as bullis grapes picked in the Florida Panhandle. It was delicious!
I’ve never heard of dew poisoning. I’m always thankful when August is all but over. I have something to look forward to each year. Our son was born on August 26th so that always puts a smile on my face and cooler weather is on the way which means college football season. We’ve had season tickets for Oklahoma State University for 28 years. 😊
September starts my favorite months. The ber months and it makes me feel so good to get August to bed. August is a sad month and you have put just the right words to the feeling. My farming grandparents would be so tired by this time and getting the last things canned and dried. Then starting to make a list of all the things to repair so you can do it all again in the spring. I can sense the same gratitude and humbleness in yourself that they felt when the bounty was good but could of been better. Just to be thankful for what God gave you this harvest. Thank you for what you taught me this season. Many hugs to you Tipper from me for continuing to love on Appalachia and our heritage.
Please remember Florida and Other areas who have been impacted by Hurricane. Thankful for areas not impacted but our Coastal areas are flooded and many have lost a lot. Still enjoying your videos and so thankful Granny's health was not as critical as thought. Praying for all of you.
Tipper, I met you in Roanoke at a book signing. I feel like family when I watch you and your family. I made your biscuits this morning and you are correct…you can’t mess them up. I don’t even measure the four and cream and they are DELICIOUS. ❤
August for my enjoyment, because 6 months Winter arrives sooner than later here, makes August my favorite month in each year💛But my August weather is not humid, and the petunias, Geraniums, Verbena are revived from July's last two weeks of scorching heat and wind. Now I still share in your personal appreciation about your August 👏👏👏
I grew up in Md in the 60’s during a time of no ac in the house or car. Even sleeping in our screened porch many times offered no relief. I felt summer was dreadful except for the 2 weeks spent on my uncle’s farm in Michigan where it was not quite as bad. So August to me was a relief knowing we were getting closer to relief from this furnace we were sweltering in. Today I live in lower Alabama and though it does not get cooler until October I still at least feel we have gotten over the hump month of July which I consider the middle of the season.
You are so fortunate to have had such an abundant harvest of green beans. I planted three times. Rabbits, ground hogs, and deer had a nice time eating the first two. The last time I planted in grow bags. Finally, I got enough for one supper. Hopefully, next year, I will be able to get good fencing up. As always, I enjoyed your video.❤
What I always dislike about summer ending is that the short days and the darkness and the closing of the pool but I love the colors and decorating the house and porches with the pumpkins and the mums I love every season of the year,
The sign for me that fall is coming is when I find golden rod blooming. I was thrilled when I spotted some in a field growing along side the road last week. Also at the bottom of my road, down in the the woods beside the creek, we found some golden leaves that have already fallen from the trees. I’m not sure what kind of trees they are but the leaves are lovely. Fall is my most favorite time of year and October is my absolute favorite month of the year. There’s few things I enjoy more in fall than the smell of crisp, fresh fallen leaves.❤🍁🍂
Nice spending time with you too ! August. Yes, it is nice for me to know cooler weather is on it''s way. BUT, for me there is a sadness about the end of Summer as well.
I love the sounds of summer. It takes me back to being a kid. I’m hearing the sounds of fall creeping in with the blue jays squawking and the crickets at night. Won’t be long and we will be longing for the long days of summer!
My mother and my youngest daughter were born in August and my parents were married in August. Loved listening to Jim's writing!! I know it may seem silly, but I was over the moon excited that the cucumber seeds I sowed this year produces delicious little cucumbers and even in our tiny little back yard, we planted four rows of Peaches and Cream corn and have really enjoyed fresh corn on the cob. I love fall, and like you summers end is a bit bitter sweet. Keeping Granny in my thoughts and prayers.
Thank you for reminding us of the unexpected gifts of inevitable change amidst the seasons of our lives. We can celebrate even as we mourn the loss of summer.
Nicely done. Glad you got more beans. More canning! I understand your mourning though I feel that way at the end of Winter, particularly pathetic Winters. I’m so sad that Winter is over even though Spring brings about new growth and planting time. Hopefully Autumn’s paintbrush will brush away your blues and the chill of Fall will invite those sweet times by the wood stove.
August is the month of my birth also and I cannot imagine my poor Mother being that pregnant in Texas, in August. Hope you had a wonderful birthday and thank you for your videos!
Lovely video, Tipper. Really enjoyed the reading, the secret garden in the bean patch and the reflections you shared. Continuing prayers for all of y’all.
I have the mullygrubs as well. I hate the dying of summer, all the plants start to look tired and the daylight is shortening. I wish I could live somewhere warm all year but with lots of daylight. The sounds in your garden are lovely to hear. Over here our garden birds go pretty quiet as they moult their feathers and feed themselves up ready for winter. In spring the birds start the dawn chorus which is an amazing sound. Usually the blackbird starts then all the others join in, of course once the birds have paired and laid their eggs the song is gone. Evidently they have slightly different songs for each season. I am no lover of short days and freezing cold, wind and rain. I will be fetching the pots of spring bulbs out in a few weeks to freshen up ready for next year. At the moment I am deadheading to try to keep the displays looking good for a bit longer. I did love the reading from Jim's book, he can certainly write a good story. I am looking forward to saturdays reading as it reminds me of when I was little and used to get hold of a catalogue which most people had. I would nearly wear the toy section out!
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August is the melancholy of middle age, remembering the final days before you graduated, feeling you’ll be young forever and now realizing autumn’s closing in and winter’s killing frost can come at any time.
Very well said!!!!!
@@greggcoop1223 Great poetry. 🌄🏔
You said it ! The older I get, the faster it goes. Humbling.
This is beautiful!
As we get older I have found that time goes by so quickly! It seems like yesterday I watched you and Matt making this summers garden! How peaceful hearing the Birds and seeing the bounty of God's gifts!❤
It does go so fast 😀 Thank you for watching!
If you can't find Tipper..Just look in the secret bean garden!!💞 So cute💗 And I love those wonderful sounds🩷 🐝 🦗 🪰 🫛 🐦 🌻
Yep, the first popsicle of the season… feels like it wasn’t long ago atall.
Two days left of August. September is nearly here. How quickly time goes by. Not long ago, we were planning, planting, and looking forward to harvest. Now we're preserving, clearing dying plants away, and thinking ahead to next year's garden. The cycle goes on. Every season is a blessing. As we say goodbye to summer, we are thrilled to welcome autumn, the best season of all. I bet Matt would agree.
He sure would Roland 😀
I agree with you and Matt.
I sat with my eyes closed as you read from Jim's book so that I could see with my mind's eye. Nostalgic for some reason today. As a child, heat never bothered me too much. I remember walking barefoot in the cool, tall grass that grew in a low spot in our yard. I love fall and I absolutely hate summer, yet somehow get sad to see summer drawing to a close every year. I can't explain it. It's just the way it is.
Thank you for watching!!
My former pastor used to use the word "mullygrubs." Made me smile. Brother Spainhower was a wonderful man of GOD. He's been in heaven since about 2007. He has been greatly missed.
That reading was beautiful. Jim is certainly a story teller deluxe!! God bless you all....still keeping Granny and you all in my prayers!!
Thank you
I dozed off listening to you.
It's not because you are boring, I was just tired and your voice is so peaceful and soothing.
Glad to see you remember to count your blessings.
I agree, Tipper's voice is so peaceful and soothing. I have dozed off sometimes as well. Then I go back and listen again. I especially find her reading on Fridays very calming.
I agree Tipper, the sound of summer is wonderful! Fall is coming, but each season has its' own beauty in sight and sound. Gods' blessings to us.❤ What a beautiful writing by Jim.
They sure do 😀 Thank you!!
I could listen at your kind words all day. When you are older, like me, the seasons tend to fly by. Thank you for sharing your wonderful life💕
You are so kind-thank you 😀
Women, are the heart of humanity. Thank you!
I love the sounds that surround you when you are out in your garden - the jar flies? and the birds, including the chicken at times! -along with visual beauty of the lush greenry and floral bounty. Living in a concrete jungle, my sounds are not near so sweet and soothing! August does seem the time when the 'mollygrubs' come upon many folk - myself included. Thank you for another 'peaceful' video Tipper. Continue to cover you all in prayer with extra for whatever is decided upon for your mama be it surgery or ? ❤🙏
Thank you!!
Enjoyed being in the bean patch with you. It is so calming to listen to the sounds of nature, I especially like the bird sounds. Thanks for reading to us from Jim's book.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Thank you for the reading. The Summer has gone by way too fast. I love when it’s still light out at 8:00. Soon it will be getting dark earlier. Although I don’t care for that, I am grateful for the seasons that the Lord gives us. Continuing to pray for sweet Granny! God bless y’all! 😀❤️
Granny! Granny! Granny!
U R LOVED and we all hold you in our hearts and prayers. 😊
Thank you so much!!
Very insightful. Sad in a beautiful way when summer ends. Tipper, you are very calming to listen too. Thank you for your perspective and sharing yourselves with us. God bless you all and prayers for Granny.
That was a very moving video about finding the joy in the ending.....even though summer is coming to an end, you find the good things....thank you for always sharing your heart, your wisdom, and your life with all of us...❤
You are so kind-thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😀
blessyou tipper you have had such a lot on your plate this year. what with miss cindy passing and granny being ill. dont be so hard on your self. go for a walk down by the creek. praying for yall love n hugs xxx
You know there are so many people that just don’t take the time to listen to those sounds. I love them and I love all the beautiful colors of Fall. It’s the long, dark, cold days of Winter that get me down. 🍂🍁
Tipper, I hear you. I can only quote Dylan Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Powerful quote! Thank you 😀
These last two weeks or so of August instill in me the truth. Each day grows shorter more rapidly than the day before. It seems June and July look as if the long days will always be here. Then August reminds how flitting life is. The other morning, I got up way before dawn for a glass of water and looked out to see the constellation Orion rising. I thought Summer is done. However, my blessings: my honey won first prize at our county fair! Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary to you!
Yay for the first prize! Thank you 😀
There is something comforting about putting a good movie on. A comfortable chair and stringing and snapping beans.
“The garments of fall.” That might be my favorite quote that you’ve said. Beautiful.
Yes,it seems like summer was a whirlwind and then fall seems to slow everything down. It's funny how each season,the sounds and sun shines down different, especially the start of fall. Continued prayers for you all and Granny. Yall have a blessed night.
We have been blessed with a bounty of green beans this year! It's what seems to grow the best. You have encouraged us to plant pole beans along with our usual Bush beans. We thank you for your garden wisdom and your love for Jesus! Praying for your precious granny! She is such a pretty lady!
I think granny is her mom, they call her granny.
@@Judesgram2 Yes,I agree...thank you.
You are so kind-thank you 😀
I just saw our weather forecast, we're still having almost 100 temperatures here in Oklahoma,😂
we decided we're not watering the okra and few tomato plants any longer, so didn't want to let them go but even the small pods of okra was tough. The meteorologists said the hurricane Italia will land in Northern Florida and up into the Carolinas. I pray it looses steam and everyone will be safe.
@@janmiles6262 I wish I could share some of our garden bounty with you ❤️
Your rattlesnake beans have really produced well. Matt will be happy you’ve got more to can. Good story from Jim. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thank you for such wonderful videos, I didn’t plant a garden this year for the first time in 45 years. Grieving for my younger brother passing of brain cancer at 57 years old and trying to find joy again in the things I once did.
Bless you and Granny also.
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I’m so sorry you lost him!!
Matt is so good to Granny and Your Family.
No doubt, you live in a magical place. How blessed.
His writing is so poetic. Thanks for sharing. August, and sometimes September, is something to endure with the reward of October.
August always makes me sad. Summer ending is a difficult transition. I love the bright leaves and deep blue skies of Autumn, but there is something about the dying golden color of August that saddens my soul.
Time waits for no one.The older i get seems like time flies by.such beautiful sounds surrounding you.Theres nothing like our Appalachia.wouldnt want to live anywhere else.❤💯🙏🏻
Ohh !! Tipper. What a wonderful person you are. When you said what a blessing Matt Pressley was to you, I wept like a baby. I think you and your family are so wonderful and a blessing to all of us who are blessed to have y'all in our lives. What you are doing is a blessing to so many and I just appreciate it. Love you and Matt, and those beautiful young girls. I love to laugh and when Matt said the delivery Dr. said she just bit me, about Katie! I am sure I peed my britches. That was so funny! Love you all. Vaucluse, SC.
Thank you 😀 So glad you enjoyed this one!!
Summer has been one of extremes here in North central Texas. Started with tornadoes, baseball size hail 3 times, drought, lakes are drying up and 59 days of over 100 degrees and forecasting 7 more. Tipper even with a yr like this I have to sit a spell with a cool drink, thank the lord, in all things be grateful and shut my mind down long enough to be quiet and listen for his voice in my heart. God bless you and your family and keep you all safe❤
Could Jim's Smokey Mountain Boyhood be worked in as a monthly reading? It was a memory filled reading with your soothing voice.
Y’all are one amazing family. Y’all know how blessed you are. Wicked awesome channel as we say in Boston ❤😂 Ain’t no families like y’all these days. Shame. Blessed to enjoy y’all. 🙏👏🏻♥️
Thanks so much 😀
Watching you pick beans in the sunshine with your sun hat brings back a sweet memory from my childhood. My Mammaw and Papppaw shared a large garden area with the neighbor that ran the local drug store, we called these sweet neighbors Momma Sally and Poppa Sam. I always loved seeing Momma Sally picking her bounty from the garden with her old-fashioned sun bonnet with the long side flaps that contained stiff cardboard or thin wood to shade her face and the long trail of ruffles in the back to shade her neck. I can still feel the hot central Texas summer breeze blowing down the rows in the garden.
Love those memories 😀
We grew a ton of rattle snake beans this year...we absolutely love them. We eat them straight off the vine LOL!!!!
My mother used to say that, at the right season, she could hear the “corn talk.” Gotta love Iowa and Minnesota hat harvest time.
Beautiful noises!!
I think the Lord is pleased with you because you enjoy the little things He made
Bless you! Thank you 😀
The sound of rustling through the leaves and the pop of pulling the bean off. Love how you even when picking beans see a secret garden. I get that. I will put August below February.
I didn't know anyone else felt this way about August! It helps a lot to know others feel the same and for the same reasons. Thank you so much for your openness and for connecting us to others who felt as we do.
We never planted pole beans when I was a child. We had plenty of good flat soil that always produced a bounty of vegetables. We grew most of our own food, which was good. Otherwise our family of nine--two parents and seven kids--would not have eaten very well. My mother would not allow me and my younger sister to do any harvesting. We started every day when it didn't rain by weeding two rows apiece, at least. Amazing how simple my life was then and how I am prone to embellish it when I remember. You know it was idyllic! Praying for all God's blessings on Granny and all of you.
Nothing brings me to life like the death of summer😂
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I am a fall/winter person as well. I do love seeing Tipper and Matt tend to the garden.
Nice extra beans. That hot, fresh,butter and honey biscuit did it for me 🧈🍯😋 Sounds like a great book Jim has written.🙂
What I love this time of year, are Indian summers. About 70f during the day with less bugs and high 40s to low 50s at night for a nice camp fire. We don't always get those summers but I enjoy them when we do. I don't look at summer as dying. Summer just needs a rest from being so productive that it is just sleeping.
🙏 for Granny and your family. Thank you for spending time with us.
Believe it or not just the sound of you picking the beans is relaxing.
I’ve never known exactly what it is, but August always makes me feel anxious. It’s not a bad anxious, it’s an anticipatory anxiousness. Maybe it’s cause I was a teacher, and I knew the summer days were ending and school was starting over. I think it is more a form of excitement for the next season of fall and all that follows that. It’s a good feeling deep in my soul of a sadness and happiness all rolled into one. Soon Tipper we will be admiring all the glorious colors God treats us to. Then you and I will be anticipating that first big beautiful snow, and before we know it, Spring will be upon us and the entire cycle begins again. I’m hoping you & I get our big snow. My granddaughters sleds are sitting under my porch, just waiting to go sledding. Have a blessed rest of your week. God bless & continued prayers for your momma. 😊❤😊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you and Jim for your sweet heartfelt words to close out the summer season and the anticipation of a wonderful fall. God bless you and thank you for your peaceful spirit❤
Every year I swear I am going to start my Christmas shopping in August. Glad to know my streak of NOT starting my shopping has not been broken! Thank you so much, Ms. Tipper, for sharing your mullygrubs and your secret garden with us equally. I understand and celebrate with you!
😀 glad you enjoyed it!
Well, that's fantastic. Another good canning. That's your higher power making sure you have plenty of green beans to share with Granny. Please take care in the next couple of days. I hope y'all are okay during the rain y'all will have. As always, much love to you and yours!
I am from Alabama , and I miss gardening and canning , cooking all from Homemade, with a lot Family and Lots of Friends I am missing deep down in my Heart,,!!! 😂😂😂❤❤❤😂❤❤😂❤❤😂😂😂😂
Tipper time is sure flying by. It is sad to see the summer end and fall turn into all the dirty browns. The lord willing we will see spring wake up and have another garden! I will be praying for your precious mama and family. God bless and keep you all held close.
Tipper that's wonderful that the bounty keeps coming. I wanted to let you know that I had the EUS done this morning. My gastro Dr was able to get a biopsy, but he did tell me daughter he thought it might be benign. Prayers work and God is good all the time!!!!
Prayers for a benign result.🙏
@@sherrydaut4910 thank you so much 😊
Wonderful news!! I will continue to pray!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia thank you so much Tipper 😊💜
The sound of summer brings back memories of my childhood. I miss it. Thanks for sharing your summer with me.
even back when i was a kid there were a few days of melancholy in august. nothing like it any other time of the year.
I never thought about the death of Summer, but you are right. I still have a huge amount of green tomatoes on the vine trying to ripen before the cool weather gets here. Today is Labor Day and I am sitting on my back patio on my glider and catching up on your videos. It is 85°, sunny and 100% humidity and no clouds in the bright blue sky. My son put a fan outside 😊for me and I am having a perfect day! I have a metal shed and a huge black walnut tree over it. When I hear those big green walnuts hit that roof (sounds like gun shots!) then I know summer is over. I haven't heard one yet, though.
I love summertime . I love the sounds and the colors of summer , i even love the heat . Our summers can get as hot as 110 and above with humidity , but i dont mind it . Summer brings back wonderful memories of my childhood in my grandparents garden and my grandma and mom busy putting up vegetables and fruits for winter . I remember the smell of the summer kitchen , beets and green beans cooking , fresh onions on the counter. August always makes me feel a little melancholy . I had never thought about it before until you said it , the dying of summer ..... brings a little sadness to my heart. We still have until late October before the chill of fall sets in . When it does Ill dream of spring and plan next years garden to pass the winter months
Jim certainly is a talented writer. His words certainly express how I used to feel about August, that is until my only child, a son, was born on August 23. I also start to mourn summer's exit, but fall is my favorite season because of the beauty of the Appalachian mountains I see just outside my door. I'm glad you found that mess of late summer beans. Still praying for Granny and all of you. 🙏
It’s definitely getting cooler and Fall is around the corner! Take care Tipper! Continued prayers for Granny!❤️🇨🇦😊
I certainly do NOT mourn summer ending…my least fav season! Sooo ready for fall and my favorite winter! You’ve still got a few weeks of summer, Tipper! I’ve enjoyed being with y’all through the year! God bless and much love! 💕🤗🙏🏻
The sights and sounds of my childhood...thank you.
Sometimes when sitting outside i close my eyes and listen to see how many different sounds I can hear bird's , bee's, the wind jar flies. Summer is sweet but I love fall. Prayers for you and your family especially granny.
August meant back to school when I was a young’un. That was bittersweet for me. I didn’t much like school but I also didn’t like having all that outdoor work to do during the summer. It’s my birth month as well so it did have one redeeming quality. 😊
I saw a post that said 122 days until Christmas yesterday. It shocked me. This year went by so fast.
The locusts! I love the sounds of the outdoors in the summer! Can’t believe we are winding down to fall! Where has summer gone!
After this hot summer, I am so ready for fall and winter. But here in South Alabama, we can be warm till January.
Thank you for watching 😀
Thankyou once again Tipper for a lovely story and relaxing garden video. ❤
Oh, I agree about sourwood honey! My granddad loved it on unsweetened June apple pie!
My husband and I made some jelly years ago from fox grapes as well as bullis grapes picked in the Florida Panhandle. It was delicious!
I’ve never heard of dew poisoning. I’m always thankful when August is all but over. I have something to look forward to each year. Our son was born on August 26th so that always puts a smile on my face and cooler weather is on the way which means college football season. We’ve had season tickets for Oklahoma State University for 28 years. 😊
September starts my favorite months. The ber months and it makes me feel so good to get August to bed. August is a sad month and you have put just the right words to the feeling. My farming grandparents would be so tired by this time and getting the last things canned and dried. Then starting to make a list of all the things to repair so you can do it all again in the spring. I can sense the same gratitude and humbleness in yourself that they felt when the bounty was good but could of been better. Just to be thankful for what God gave you this harvest. Thank you for what you taught me this season. Many hugs to you Tipper from me for continuing to love on Appalachia and our heritage.
Thank you for the encouraging words!!
Please remember Florida and Other areas who have been impacted by Hurricane. Thankful for areas not impacted but our Coastal areas are flooded and many have lost a lot. Still enjoying your videos and so thankful Granny's health was not as critical as thought. Praying for all of you.
Thank you! I pray for all those affected.
Wow! And I just picked a meal’s worth of bush beans when I thought they were finished! Wonderful to see your bean harvest.
Tipper, I met you in Roanoke at a book signing. I feel like family when I watch you and your family. I made your biscuits this morning and you are correct…you can’t mess them up. I don’t even measure the four and cream and they are DELICIOUS. ❤
So glad you liked them! 😀
August for my enjoyment, because 6 months Winter arrives sooner than later here, makes August my favorite month in each year💛But my August weather is not humid, and the petunias, Geraniums, Verbena are revived from July's last two weeks of scorching heat and wind. Now I still share in your personal appreciation about your August 👏👏👏
I grew up in Md in the 60’s during a time of no ac in the house or car. Even sleeping in our screened porch many times offered no relief. I felt summer was dreadful except for the 2 weeks spent on my uncle’s farm in Michigan where it was not quite as bad. So August to me was a relief knowing we were getting closer to relief from this furnace we were sweltering in. Today I live in lower Alabama and though it does not get cooler until October I still at least feel we have gotten over the hump month of July which I consider the middle of the season.
You are so fortunate to have had such an abundant harvest of green beans. I planted three times. Rabbits, ground hogs, and deer had a nice time eating the first two. The last time I planted in grow bags. Finally, I got enough for one supper. Hopefully, next year, I will be able to get good fencing up.
As always, I enjoyed your video.❤
That is so frustrating! I hope next year is better 😀 Thank you!
I miss those sounds. They feed your soul.
I feel the same as Jim about August and February! Autumn is my favourite time of year. Enjoyed seeing your bean patch.
What I always dislike about summer ending is that the short days and the darkness and the closing of the pool but I love the colors and decorating the house and porches with the pumpkins and the mums I love every season of the year,
The sign for me that fall is coming is when I find golden rod blooming. I was thrilled when I spotted some in a field growing along side the road last week. Also at the bottom of my road, down in the the woods beside the creek, we found some golden leaves that have already fallen from the trees. I’m not sure what kind of trees they are but the leaves are lovely. Fall is my most favorite time of year and October is my absolute favorite month of the year. There’s few things I enjoy more in fall than the smell of crisp, fresh fallen leaves.❤🍁🍂
Oh how I miss those mountains! Country roads, I wanna go home!!!
Prayers for y'all and the area won't be affected by the hurricane coming in.
Thank you! I don't think we will be but I pray for those who will.
I live in Hiawassee and grow rattlesnake beans. Just picked and canned a last 1/2 bushel yesterday. Also, got 28 more ears of corn. Silver King.
Sorry you've got the mullygrubs. Enjoyed seeing the beans and the flowers. Praying for you and your entire family and especially granny
Gosh, I thought that was a beautiful deer behind you and was thinking, Run away, run away, Matt's gonna shoot you. Lol
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Nice spending time with you too ! August. Yes, it is nice for me to know cooler weather is on it''s way. BUT, for me there is a sadness about the end of Summer as well.
I love the sounds of summer. It takes me back to being a kid. I’m hearing the sounds of fall creeping in with the blue jays squawking and the crickets at night. Won’t be long and we will be longing for the long days of summer!
My mother and my youngest daughter were born in August and my parents were married in August. Loved listening to Jim's writing!! I know it may seem silly, but I was over the moon excited that the cucumber seeds I sowed this year produces delicious little cucumbers and even in our tiny little back yard, we planted four rows of Peaches and Cream corn and have really enjoyed fresh corn on the cob. I love fall, and like you summers end is a bit bitter sweet. Keeping Granny in my thoughts and prayers.
Not silly at all 😀 Yay for cucumbers
Not me, Tipper! I am so ready for fall, with its cooler temps & brilliant colors!
Thank you for reminding us of the unexpected gifts of inevitable change amidst the seasons of our lives. We can celebrate even as we mourn the loss of summer.
Nicely done. Glad you got more beans. More canning! I understand your mourning though I feel that way at the end of Winter, particularly pathetic Winters. I’m so sad that Winter is over even though Spring brings about new growth and planting time. Hopefully Autumn’s paintbrush will brush away your blues and the chill of Fall will invite those sweet times by the wood stove.
August is the month of my birth also and I cannot imagine my poor Mother being that pregnant in Texas, in August. Hope you had a wonderful birthday and thank you for your videos!
Y’all have had a hard summer for sure. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻 extra prayers for Granny!
Lovely video, Tipper. Really enjoyed the reading, the secret garden in the bean patch and the reflections you shared. Continuing prayers for all of y’all.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
I have the mullygrubs as well. I hate the dying of summer, all the plants start to look tired and the daylight is shortening. I wish I could live somewhere warm all year but with lots of daylight. The sounds in your garden are lovely to hear. Over here our garden birds go pretty quiet as they moult their feathers and feed themselves up ready for winter. In spring the birds start the dawn chorus which is an amazing sound. Usually the blackbird starts then all the others join in, of course once the birds have paired and laid their eggs the song is gone. Evidently they have slightly different songs for each season. I am no lover of short days and freezing cold, wind and rain. I will be fetching the pots of spring bulbs out in a few weeks to freshen up ready for next year. At the moment I am deadheading to try to keep the displays looking good for a bit longer. I did love the reading from Jim's book, he can certainly write a good story. I am looking forward to saturdays reading as it reminds me of when I was little and used to get hold of a catalogue which most people had. I would nearly wear the toy section out!
Thank you Margaret!!
I always find myself wanting to fast forward to autumn this time of year.
I love your imagination of being in the bean patch🥰
I Love the Sound of Appalachia.