Hot Chocolate, Garden Plans, Christmas, Granny, & Pulling People Out of the Ditch
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- Join Matt and me as we walk around our winter garden here in the mountains of Appalachia and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate as we talk about Christmas, Granny, and more!
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My husband is one of ten and Christmas Eve is their big family gathering. Tonight, when I took the family picture, did the first one by saying "On three, say Merry Christmas". For the second phone, I said "On three, say Marjory's pregnant." And that is how we announced that my daughter is pregnant with her first child. Everyone was completely thrilled as they are aware she's struggled with fertility issues for years. We are over the moon with joy! We'd appreciate prayers for a healthy pregnancy, delivery and grandson!!
Love that so much 😀
What a cute idea. Congrats! So exciting🥰
Our thoughts are with Marjory and her continued health!
Oh, yes! Prayers and positive energy your way for your daughter and whole family. You're in for lotsa fun ahead! 😊
Sending prayers your way! ❤
I'm so glad Granny is feeling better! She sure sang so pretty this morning. Merry Christmas to all of you...
Those are the largest woodpeckers, the pilliated woodpecker. I hear them hollering at Matt! That's what Woody Woodpecker is supposed to be. I can't wait to find out what your plans are for a bigger garden next year! Merry Christmas!
Just watched a video of your precious mother and Paul singing Silent Night oh it was beautiful ❤so glad she’s doing well. Please give her a big hug please ❤❤
Thanks for the Christmas Eve chat! Merry Christmas Pressley family and entourage! We’re celebrating Christmas at our daughter’s house with our 4 year old granddaughter and our other children. Our granddaughter is so much fun!❤️🇨🇦🙏🎄🎅
Very Merry Christmas to all the Presleys and Granny and Austin too❤🎉🎄
Matt tells the best stories🎉 please tell more stories from your childhood memories.
Merry Christmas to you and all the family 🌲🎄🎁✝️
My daughter untaped all her presents and taped them all back for many years and I never knew, until she told me way after she was grown.I went back and looked at all the pictures of them opening her presents and the over reaction of her expressions is so obvious and I sure felt stupid for never catching on. Merry Christmas to each and everyone. ❤
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MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!
Matt's Honey-Do List on Christmas Eve? 😊 'I'd do it today, but I'm on holiday.' Love it. Your garden structures are sure enviable. Looks great!
Merry Christmas to your family from a mountain girl who moved to the beach. Thank you for helping me remember my NC roots that go back
300+ years.
Matt has all kinds of neat little gadgets😊 love it he's ready for anything
Christmas Eve is always different for us. We celebrate our Christmas with our kids and grandkids on New Years Day, that way no one has to rush around on Christmas. Today we got to spend the afternoon with our oldest grandson and his wife and 2 little ones. I cooked dinner for everyone and they brought a gingerbread train to build. It was fun! Merry Christmas to all of you!
Merry Christmas to all of you 🎄. I am drinking a cup of hot chocolate while watching. I really enjoyed Granny's and Paul's singing ❤
Merry Christmas Pressley family and all extensions of it. 2024 will be an exciting time, two baby boys in the family, much love to Granny she is in our prayers as you all are. Christmas Eve was always Carp for my mum's Austrian side of the family.
No one in my area gives out calendars. Sadly I think people are using their phones for a calendars. I like having an actual calendar.
Oyster stew on Christmas eve is from Ireland. Catholics couldn't eat meat that evening (self sacrifice to show respect), so fish only=oysters. Good video. Merry Christmas!
I love your second story porch ❤️
We usually have a Christmas eve party but this year we just sitting here watching youtube fighting the flu. We have bout got it whipped tho. Merry Christmas
Hope you all feel better!
In the past we’d go to my parents house, my 3 sisters were usually be there with their families and have snacks and then open gifts. Now since it’s just me and my hubby we open our gifts to each other. Tomorrow our oldest son will be here with us. We will have lasagna and garlic toast.
You have a really nice Christmas and Christmas Eve tradition. Christmas Eve here I make a big pot of homemade chili, cornbread or rolls and a cherry pie to celebrate my Dad's birthday on Christmas Eve. My dad passed away, but I still make the pie in memory of him since cherry pie was his favorite.
I make Cocoa with Eagle Brand Milk, Milk, Cocoa, Marshmallows and Vanilla Extract. Yummy 🤤
Another great video as you already know.
Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year to you all.
Looking forward to spending the new year with you guys
P S Does my heart good to see a Square body in the back ground.❤❤❤
My Mom and Aunt would cook big pots of crab cioppino (seafood stew with crab, prawns, clams and white fish in a rich tomato based broth) We would eat at our own houses then visit and eat more at the other house. Fond memories. I’d try Matt’s oyster stew for sure!
Love Seafood 🦞 Gumbo
Oyster 🦪 Stew 🍲 is so Delicious 😋
First off Merry Christmas. I'm 53 now and as long as I can remember Christmas eve we always had different lunch meats and cheeses and candies and cookies. Grandma and grandpa would always come to our house Christmas eve and we would exchange 🎁. Now 😢since grandparents are gone we go over to moms on Christmas eve and eat and exchange gifts. Tipper I have never seen time flying by the way it is now. Y'all are in our prayers. God bless
Time goes faster every year!!
I was just telling my brother yesterday that Christmas was upon us and next thing you know I will be starting my indoor seeds for the garden!!
Merry Christmas to all!!
God Bless you guys and your Family. Merry Christmas 🎄 to you all.
Since this Christmas Eve was on Sunday, we went to church service this morning and tonight we also had the candlelight service. It seems to get earlier as the years go by. Tonight it was at 5 o'clock. We took my husband's mom who is 94--she rarely goes anymore so everyone was happy to see her. We visited with her afterwards. We never know how many Christmases we have left with her, so we try to savor each one.
We took our 91 year Mom in law and she was the star of the church service too! Took us 30 minutes to wait for her to hug everyone goodbye.
@@ashleyruma9591 yes, we closed down the place! They love all the hugs.
We did Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve , several family members have to leave Christmas day ,, Christmas blessings to you and you're beautiful family, we're having a birthday party for Jesus today ❤❤❤❤🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
Merry😂Xmas and take care y’all 🎄❄️💕🇨🇦
I love hearing your plans for your upcoming garden. I'm pretty much a city girl. One year I decided to try to grow a few things but the only thing that really grew was cucumbers and we had them coming out of our ears! My uncle always had a garden and every summer I looked forward to getting some fresh tomatoes from him and you are right Matt, there is NOTHING like a home grown tomato. Even in the store, the "greenhouse" tomatoes are flavorless and I think it is because they have to refrigerate them which, I've heard, ruins the flavor. We will pick up Roma tomatoes and we always put them in the window over the sink to ripen a bit and sometimes, we will get a good one but never one that compares to my uncle's home grown ones. On Christmas eve, growing up we used to spend with my mother's family in her parent's home in Texas. That tiny house was overflowing with kin folk and we never had a bad time! Now, my grandparents and my parents are gone and we've all spread out so we don't get together any more. I am an only child and my twins are grown and have their own lives. My husband works retail (I wish he would retire... hopefully within the next couple of years), and he always works on Christmas eve so we just fixed supper as usual and settled in to watch A Christmas Story which we watch some part, or all of on Christmas eve. We will get together with the family tomorrow at my mother in law's house and later that evening go to my daughter's house to have Christmas and open presents there (I think we will be too full from dinner at grandma's to eat too much). Here is wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas!
Thank you!!
Yes we are very happy for the babies and yes your husband is 1 in 10 so is mine he's one in a million we pretty much can relate to yall having a good husband and living in a good place that you love means alot AND NO I DON'T TAKE PICTURES I DONT TRUST PEOPLE AND NOT VERY TRUSTING BUT I DO LOVE WATCHING YALL IM USUALLY PRETTY NICE I GUESS MY ASS IS OVER LOADING EVERYTHING LUV YA
I gave all of my friends and children one of your cookbooks. They were so excited to see all the neat recipes. Thank you for all of your videos and sharing your life with others. Merry Christmas
Wonderful thank you!
For Christmas Eve, I had an abundance of Scotch Whiskey 😂 just getting prepared for the next day
We used to have big family gathering on Christmas Eve, but there aren't as many of us left... My son and I went to my brother's family last night and had pizza delivery...lol
Christmas day has mostly been immediate family (and Santa) open gifts...
Merry Christmas🎄⛄🎄❤🎄
Merry Christmas (even though I’m a day late)! We gather at my mother-in-law’s on Christmas Eve. We don’t eat a meal, we just have snacks. My two sisters-in-law take a veggie tray, fruit tray, shrimp, sausage dip, cheese and crackers, and desserts. I take ham and cheese sliders, veggie fingers, wieners in sauce, and this year I made sweet and spicy mixed nuts. We open our gifts after we eat. All the kids run around playing with their toys and singing. It’s a house full of joy!
Glad to hear Granny is doing good! I use to open my gifts when I was a little girl as well😂. Love to all! ❤
Thank you Robbie Lynn 😊
That is crazy about you eating oyster stew on Christmas Eve, because that's what we did. My people are from Southeastern Oklahoma and every Christmas Eve my dad would make oyster stew. I didn't care for the oysters but I sure did like the broth. I love how we have semalatries in things we do being from different regions. Like I said before, my mom and dad came from South Eastern Oklahoma and I grew up in Central Kansas.
Merry Christmas Tipper and Matt, my family also did oyster stew on Christmas Eve as well. Both Mama and Daddy’s side carried on this tradition as long as my Mama was alive. Sadly we no longer do this but it sure brought back memories hearing y’all talk about it. Oh and I was raised around Rolesville NC which is about 20 minutes from Raleigh so I have no idea where this tradition came from but I do know it had been past down from many generations in our family.
Reviewing MIgardener's episode on blueberrys, he is talking about blueberry leaf color during the growing season, not Fall color. His problem was soil ph, which he confirmed/ diagnosed with a soil ph test. I would strongly recommend having a soil test done for your garden by your local extension office. You send them the samples and they email you the results. They are very cheap and much more reliable than home-style test. With test results in hand you can make an intelligent decision what, if anything, you may need to do to improve your soil, including liming. Blueberries like low ph so certainly don't lime anywhere near them. Merry Christmas!
My mom and dad have always worked around the in-laws, so that we could enjoy being with each side of the family without the pressure of trying to be at 2 gatherings in one day. This year we will gather on January 6 (which is Epiphany)… tomorrow being Christmas… mom, one of my sisters and I will make tamales… which we learned to make when we lived in South Texas.
Merry Christmas! My step-grandma made oyster stew on Christmas eve but we usually spent that evening with my othwr grandma's and she would usually have ham and all kinds of snacks and desserts. I don't mind the broth from the stew but can't get myself to eat the oysters. Now my sisters and I rotate hosting and usually have something different each year. We just had birria tacos this year and it was delicious. We have had cheeseburger chowder and chili with sub sandwiches and also just snacks and finger foods.
Don't laugh but my husbands favorite green beans are from Long John Silvers. Lol. So I googled the recipe and now I add onion, a little garlic and just a tad of liquid smoke along with bacon or bacon grease. Very tasty. We love green beans but we are probably so deprived of how they are supposed to be cooked properly. Lol
Have a blessed new year! 👶👶
Merry Christmas to your sweet family from the Ozark Mountains. On Christmas Eve we have soup and chili and snacks and play table games. Then Christmas day we have a non traditional meal. This year is Mexican. We always have our traditional meal on Thanksgiving. We open gifts on 29:44 Christmas morning and after our big meal during the day. Christmas Eve we go to church and then come back and eat and play more games.
Love that! Thank you!
It’s just makes me laugh every time you say. Comes un feed. I’m always comes un feed. 6 tablespoons of bacon grease on the green beans for me but my wife always just puts 2 and I tell her did you ever learn anything from your moms. Enjoy Christmas and always laugh about life
I miss pur big christmas of 20 people since mom and dad passed and my oldest sister everyone's gone their own way. My daughter and I celebrate together tonight we went to candle light service and had snacks afterwards.. The minister preached on from the Manger to the cross. Jesus the reason for season. GOD bless your family Merry Christmas
Hope Y'all have a very Merry Christmas!!😊❤🙏🏻
Merry Christmas! I think we need a video on “Granny’s Green Beans!” 🎄❤️🎄
Enjoy everything you are able and Ya'll have a very Merry Christmas! We always fry oysters for breakfast Christmas
Thank you Buz!! That sounds wonderful 😀
I hope when the babies get older...Matt will do videos taking them to the creek and fishing, etc
Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🙏✨💫🎄🙏🌹🌹
Your mom sang so beautifully today. ❤❤❤
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎶 My husband and I exchange Christmas stockings on Christmas Eve and then go to my Mom's house for Christmas. We don't usually make it until Christmas Eve because we both love to give gifts, but this year we made it! We'll have ham and scalloped potatoes and such tomorrow, but nothing special tonight. Again, Merry Christmas to the whole family!
Ham and scalloped potatoes! YUM! Haven’t had that in years!
Merry Christmas! ❤. Love your garden videos! Love that you put the links in! Your the best Tipper! 🎉
Thank you so much for sharing your lives!❤
Merry Christmas to y'all 🎄 I agree with Matt, a garden tomato is the best. We just enjoyed a wonderful Christmas Eve with our two sons and family.
Have a beautiful and blessed Christmas with all of your family.
Thanks for the video today on Christmas Eve. My family is German, and we always had duck or goose, mashed potatoes, red cabbage and mushroom gravy for Christmas Eve at my parents. Oh and always a butter cream type cake.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I love to be around people that love to joke around and laugh. Laughter is music to my ears. You are lucky to have Matt. And he, YOU, Tipper! xo 🍇🏡🍅🌻🐔🪵🔥☕
Your Leftovers sounds Delicious 😋
Merry Christmas to you all.🥰,
I was just thinking how big your garden areas are while you all were standing there. Looks good!
Merry Christmas from Michigan
I live in Buffalo,NY.... the woodpeckers have decimated my house..cans of blown in insulation have become my best friend !! Oh and Tipper we don't have snow here either....57 tomorrow!! Merry Christmas to u and yours !
Oh goodness!! Thank you!
I’m so glad Granny is feeling better. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
All 6 of Us Siblings Celebrated together Christmas Eve with our Mama. Hasn’t happened in YEARS. Mama is almost 89, so I’m glad this happened for her.
That is wonderful 😀
The only time a pileated makes noise is when they're searching for a mate
Merry Christmas to you all from Northern Appalachia! We have my stepdaughter and grandkids over for dinner and gifts on Christmas Eve. We go to my mother's on Christmas Day. Not many of us left, just my wife and I, our grandson, my youngest brother and my mom (she is 88). We always have city chicken for Christmas dinner. It is something my grandma (my dad's mom) made every year and so we keep the tradition going. It is marinated pork on a skewer, breaded, lightly pan fried, and then slow roasted in the oven with lots of garlic and onions. It resembles a drumstick when done but there is no chicken in it. Best I can tell it is a Slovak dish my grandma learned to make when she was a cook in Binghamton, NY back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. It is delicious.
Love your channels. Just received your cookbook and will enjoy it when things slow down. I am loving that you guys do oyster stew. Can't wait to try his recipe. I lived in New Orleans 20 years, so I usually make seafood gumbo, potato salad and jalapeno hush puppies. Then for the New Year, red gravy and meatballs. Love your girls. Sweetest everrr! I mailed Katie a few things for the baby hoping to cheer her up. She was beating herself up way too much. Tipper, you and Matt are as blessed as it gets. Can't wait for those baby boys! God Bless and Merry Christmas! I told Katie she and y'all would be hit with joy when they arrive!
Jill Escalante Houston, TX
Thank you so much Jill!!
Please tell Granny I said, "Christmas gift!"
I will David 😀
Merry Christmas! Some Guy named Pat in Wisconsin told me about your channel...great content! We all love it. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!!
Merry Christmas! We drove from Sparta TN, to Murphy NC to go to the antique stores, I was trying to find a set of Pyrex bowls. We had no luck but then we went on to Mooresville NC to give gifts to our son and grandson. We drove back home this morning because we have our cats to tend too. I have a small garden area and I need to get it cleaned and tilled for the winter. I am hoping to get the tubs like you have for next year. We will see, anyway happy Christmas!
I figure you have already had this thought and I don't even know if it would be cost effective for you. What about getting some rain barrels or a cow trough to put up on the hillside for watering the plants up. Like I said, I don't know if that would even work, it just came to my mind when you were touring the garden area. I am so thankful that Granny is feeling good enough to celebrate the holidays with everyone. The older I get the more I cherish each of my loved ones and my memories. Merry Christmas to all of you and thank you so much for sharing your little corner with the rest of us.
Thank you 😊
Thanks. Enjoyed my Christmas Eve with you two. I watched Paul and Granny singing Silent Night. It touched my heart do deep.❤
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
We celebrate Christmas Eve in our home, and then our son, who is married, goes to her family for Christmas Day. My dad and I were the only ones that love Oyster soup, but I just couldn't make it the same way my dad did. Christmas day for my husband, and I have a very peaceful day 😊
I love you sharing Christmas with us! ❤️😊 When I was growing up my brother and I were allowed to open 1 present on Christmas Eve. It was always new pajamas. We loved them. 🥰 Merry Christmas to your sweet family.🎄And, hang in there Matt, BOY POWER IS ON THE WAY! 💪😅❤️
Wow, three fond memories from years gone by. About 30 years ago when my house was still in an area with lots of trees we had several kinds of woodpeckers frequently in ear shot. I used to be able to tell the two main kinds by the way their pecking sounded. The Red Headed ones were faster and not as heavy sounding as the Pileated Woodpecker which was a much slower and heavier sounding thunk thunk thunk. I have seen both and the Pileated is much bigger than the Red Heads. The second memory about the Red Headed woodpecker was that we usually had a bag of in shell peanuts near the door to our back deck and we eventually got a Red Head to come to a tall pine tree about 10 feet out and make a racket and I would pitch a peanut up in the air and it would swoop over and catch it in mid air. Eventually that critter got so "hooked" on peanuts that it would sometimes come onto the metal trim around the sliding door and peck on the metal or if that didn't work it would start pecking on the metal vent on the roof over the stove.
The third memory was of Matt's story of the Rabbit Box. Several of us kids, probably in our early teens, build rabbit boxes just like Matt described and tried to catch rabbits back in what was then a 500 to 600 acre field that had at one time been a dairy that was past the woods behind our house, I never caught one in mine but some of the other boys did.
Thank you all so much for these videos. I am now 76 years old (soon to be 77) and there is so much you do and talk about that remind me of my childhood and youth which was in the MUCH SMALLER and MUCH more rural outskirts of Atlanta at that time. Merry Christmas to you all and every blessing for the New Year.
Thank you for sharing!!
Merry Christmas from North Texas! Many blessings to you and your loved ones!
Merry Christmas 🎄
Happy holidays to your family!!! You look like my mom it made me cry she passed in 2016 at 96 years old
Thank you for replying. I didn’t mean to upset anyone. My mom lived a full life and she enjoyed living You really look like her she and you are beautiful ladies.
Really glad to hear that Granny is excited about Christmas ❤ she & Paul sang go beautifully in the Silent Night video you put up this morning ❤
Wishing you & all the family have a very Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤
Merry Christmas to you all. 🎄♥️
Merry Christmas to all of you!🎅
Merry Christmas and New Year's Blessings to all of you. Next Christmas will be so exciting with your two new grandbabies - true Blessings! Prayers for both girls throughout their pregnancies and for safe, healthy deliveries! ❤
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO Y'ALL 🌲 🎁 ❄️🌨️ ☃️
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Merry Christmas Tipper and family. We are waking up early tomorrow morning and heading to Florida to see my grands down there. Many of my childhood Christmases were spent in the Moravian community of Old Salem, NC. I'd stay with my great aunt Nana and Uncle Bim. She still cooked on a wood burning stove and I think it made the food taste better. We would eat so many passed down delicious recipes. I loved spending such rich period style holidays with them where our family would gather at their home and enjoy the sights and scents of that 1700's community. She had the most beautiful live tree with real candles and homemade ornaments. And she had a gorgeous nativity called the Putz which is a German word meaning to decorate. It was an elaborate multilevel thing with moss and miniature sheep and shepherds along with Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in the manger. All built with stones and a stable right on a table in her front dining room. It was quite something to see and us kids just loved it. So my childhood Christmases were just wonderful.
Sounds so wonderful 😊
Merry Christmas, Tipper and Matt. May God bless you and yours, Love, an Appalachian girl
Merry Christmas.
Grapes are self pollinating. They have male and female parts. Cross pollinating with other varieties only affects the seed and not the flavor of the flesh. Most people don't plant grape seeds. They just take cuttings from their old stock and root them or graft them to the roots of a native plant. Muscadines and Scuppernongs are native to America and actually the same plant. The name varies depending where you are.
Thank you Papaw!!
I have one child and I live in their yard in Arizona I have 3 grandchildren. One is living in Virginia now. We have our big meal on Thanksgiving. We grill steaks on Christmas Day and go to the movie on Christmas afternoon. I am the only grandparent left so we eat a snack and open gifts on Christmas Eve. My son-in-laws mother and I were very close and I miss her she was 20 years older than me
Merry Christmas to you all...I better get to sleep. Morning comes quick.
Christmas Eve, we travel to my husband’s family & have a large finger sandwich supper with singing around the Christmas tree including white elephant gifts. Christmas Day, we go to have breakfast with my son & his family,❣️❣️ dinner is with friends (crawfish pie😋) ❣️❣️& supper will be with my daughter & her family ❣️❣️❣️. God is good, praise be to God❣️
I’m SO Disappointed that We won’t have Snow ❄️ here in Indiana for Christmas. But God knows what is best.
Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏼🎄
Hey 👋👋 Tipper n Matt , We Wanna Wish yall a Blessed Merry Christmas From My Ol' Kentucky Home to yours 🎅🎄🎁❗... Lastnite we had Dinner ith my kids m my girls all pitch in to cook n I wrapped 🎁 n taught my grandaughters ages 5 n 7 to wrap n how special it feels to suprise everyone with somethings thats small but they told NaNa about this year, n a collectable, n something they can use but fun😅😊, they enjoyed it n we made brownies together❤😋😇❗... Today us Cousins whose kids are grown arepitching in for whole family n we cook all day n have dinner this evening since we miss having kids at home, We do a gathering each holiday to make❤😇💞 menories for the next ones to follow tradition 🌟🎄🌟 for our kids n grandkids to all have big family time like our parents n theirs did before us ❗... Its our 1st christmas without my husbands mom so we Carry it on as theyd want us All to ❗... We fix oyster Cassarole today for those who like it n green bean , n Broccoli casserolle too ❤😋 all my grandkids ❤ it 😋 n eat good too so im blessed❤😇❗
In our home Christmas is always celebrated as Jesus's birthday. It's our way of teaching the kids the true meaning of Christmas. When our daughter and son were little, they helped me make Jesus's b-day cake. 🎂
We do two Christmas suppers since my hubby is Hispanic. We have a traditional Mexican meal on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, we might have a traditional American meal or a menu from any place on the globe.😃
On Christmas Eve we start Jesus's b-day celebration after attending church. The party starts with prayer, songs of praise, and the kids reading the Christmas story/testimony from Luke 2.
Next, we give Jesus his gifts: a poem, a song, a vow, etc.
We then sing the Happy Birthday Jesus song.
Since Christmas is Jesus's birthday, the kids only received 3 small gifts from Daddy Santa.😃 They get big gifts on their special day.
Merry Christmas, Matt, Tipper, Granny, and the whole gang! May God bless you!💕
Merry Christmas Pressley Family. Tipper I was thinking...I would consider not planting edible plants next to the steps if the steps are built of pressure treated lumber. I'm not sure if the chemicals would leach into the soil. I was just thinking. God bless you all
Oyster stew could be a New Year's or Twelfth Night tradition? Invite some people from your community to the festivity? I'd sure appreciate a warming stew and fellowship. Put a call out to musicians too? Have a real merry-making shindig?
Merry Christmas Y'all. My woodpeckers don't hang out here in winter. I may be a bit higher up in mountains.
Hi there… your life seems so blessed. We live in Arizona and are vegetarians… so for Christmas tomorrow I am make vegetarian lasagna… we celebrate Christmas like Thanksgiving but we celebrate Jesus birthday and sing happy birthday to Him… I stopped buying gifts 15 yrs ago and it made Christmas so much better, no stress of what to buy people and besides me and my husband are just on Social Security, but that’s ok…. It’s all about Jesus on Christmas Day and really all throughout the yr… when people ask me if I’m ready for Christmas I tell them I’m ready all year for Jesus… we usually have people over that would be alone… so that makes it a special day… have a blessed Christmas and I enjoy watching your videos and seeing how the other side of the world lives…. God Bless you !!!!🙏
Country living is the best I think the goat bluff is very nice. My blueberries do the same Thanks for info. Now Matt is a Jack of all trades Tipper you’re like me Love gardening. I had a great Christmas and yes oyster stew. I got my cook book other day Tipper ❤❤. Yes…. Next year you will join the group of Grands. Love y’all Good vibes for granny