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I'm happy to hear Granny is well enough to can some beans❤

The way the world is today, I find such comfort in your videos. Thank you.

I love the way you two interact...if the mean lady who lives here with me... ☺️ The good-natured teasing is priceless! Enjoyed the visit 😎👍

Poor Matt, the bees said "YAY! Matt's HERE to see us!" I bet Granny was so excited about her portion of the beans. Glad the vines have been producing for y'all.

Rattlesnake beans are very popular here in Mississippi. I buy them often at the local farmers market on Saturday morning. My parents always had a big garden. I can remember shelling peas on the side porch . The neighbors would come help. We shelled well into the night until they were all shelled. Those are precious memories at 70 years young. :)

Matt's a lucky man, he has found paradise in his own back yard. As Dorothy said there's no place like home.

Matt is showing love when he's giving away his tomatoes! ❤

I’am praying Matt, God will send you that Special Dog 🐩 🙏🙏🙏

Hope Matt gets a german shepard someday for a best friend and guard dog combined, or a hunting dog if he prefers. I've such a heart for german shepards. They are so devoted to you.❤🐾🐾❤

Matt shows his love by teasing (a learned tactic possibly through his own growing up) but honestly awkward ~ “weird” is not much of a compliment.. and no matter the age, they have the opportunity to grow in how they communicate their love and appreciation so as not to diminish one another. Tipper thanks for your tolerance for all forms of love.

Miss Tipper, I can see both of your girls in you while you are sitting there talking. Your husband is a ruggedly handsome, precious southern fella. I just love everything about you both, as well as your beautiful girls!

im with matt 100 percent about being on a plane!! the beans are simply beautiful. That is great news granny is feeling well enough to can green beans.

Videos are Beautiful and Comforting ❤❤Especially Matt toasting Popsicle with his Bride Tipper 👰 so Special ❤❤

We started working the garden at 2-3 years old. They taught me early how to know when it was time to pick something. Garden work didn't really bother me, but picking cotton was a different story altogether. Made my hands tough, but wore my back out early. Them sacks was heavy. And weren't enough bandaids to go around. But nothing tastes as good as what's grown in your own soil. At three years old I was given my own patch of ground to grow what I wanted, it was full of maters, some green beans, but loads of maters. There was a certain satisfaction knowing that when we set down for supper I knowed that I growed them green beans. But I eat them maters soon as they was red enough.

Those beans are beautiful. I'm sure Granny was thrilled to have those wonderful vegetables ❤

Some times I think we have to relearn what our ancestors already knew. I grew up in Missouri...a long line of farmers. They knew to make what we called...Haymaker's Tea (or punch) to keep people hydrated the right way to enable them to work the fields or putting up hay in the heat. It is also called Switchel.

A tall glass of cold Buttermilk with a slab of cornbread crumbled up in it. MMMM Goood!

Enjoyed the talks. They make me feel I am right there with you.

If somebody would have told me 5 years ago that I would enjoy sitting and watching someone on KZfaq eating Popsicles with pauses in conversation, I would have told them they were crazy. I love you guys, your channel, your way of life (similar to mine), your conversations, your garden/plant knowledge, Appalachian traditions, and love of family. I've only been watching KZfaq a couple years now even though I'm roughly your age. I look forward to all your videos. I'm way behind on the Watermelon Hill series, with only so many hours in a day, I skip them to keep up to date on the garden happenings. But again, I love the popsicle conversations, when those are over for the season I will again enjoy the fireside hot coco chats. Blessings to you all.

Ok Tipper, Matt needs his own dog! Also glad Granny feels up to canning. Grammy from Texas

Your garden is gorgeous. A lot of hard work and love goes into creating something as lovely as this.

Tipper- you saying to Matt "you're not scared of nothing that I know of" was the perfect loving reply to him....just perfect.

I vote for Matt to get him a pup. Especially if or when he retires. Your garden looks great!

Still HOT here in Florida. Some rain too. Really have to watch ourselves and our animals that we stay hydrated. My husband works outside daily and his employer buys electrolyte popsicles for the guys. Plus cold water. Our beaches are packed with tourists..lots of drownings due to rip currents. So sad! Since we had cat 5 hurricane Michael in 2018 the gulf has been so dangerous. No way am I swimming out there.. beautiful but deadly. Every week I get more homesick for NC.. thinking September we will visit our home again. One thing we have is great neighbors there, so we don’t worry about the place. Can’t wait to pick our fox grapes. This afternoon I am making pickled carrots..lol. I recently discovered that I LOVE them.. I am on a clean food/paleo diet thru my doctor to lose weight and for health reasons..after the pancreas cancer scare this spring I want to be as healthy as possible. Still dealing with issues related to the liver and ducts but my chronic pain has all but disappeared! Awaiting bloodwork results to see how levels have changed. But I know for a fact food was the cause of 75% of my problems. So no more processed crap. Love watching the garden to table videos and recipes. I went from 6+ sodas a day and no water intake to no sodas and just water. That’s huge to me. Can’t wait for more videos to drop. Love hearing news of granny. Hope y’all have a wonderful week.. April

Love the garden sounds. Beans hitting beans in the bucket❤

What a wonderful big haul of beans. Good for Granny to still have the desire to can all those beans, good for her. Still keeping Granny in prayers and all of you as well. Have a blessed week.

I'm with Matt, anything over 65 degrees is too HOT!

We were caught in the Atlanta traffic in June- l enjoy hearing your chickens & thunder & bees & birds & most anything in the outside world.

Just like everyone else has said, I am so happy Granny is so happy with the beans and cucumbers!! I have to say, I am the exact opposite about shoes; I am about to turn 50 and I would be barefoot 100% of the time if I could, lol! My feet are so calloused from years of barefoot walking, but my hubby of 30 years, (26 years as a Marine) has the feet of a newborn baby! He can barely go barefoot in the house - I guess opposites DO attract, 😂!!

Now u Reap the Harvest from your tlc put into the work. Sooo glad Grannie is feeling up to enjoying the good veggies from your garden. That Matt certainly the perfect Helper, take good care of your man. ❤

I am addicted to the OutShine Grape popsicle...they are the best. I love when Food Lion has Bogo, buy one, get one free. I try to load up then. Thank you for introducing them to me. The company should supply ya'll with FREE popsicles. ❤

I'm so glad to hear Granny is feeling a lot better. Happy you're sharing produce with her.

Tipper, I really enjoy you and Matt doing these chat videos. They are so relaxing. 😁

Y’all have a interesting and entertaining channel. The garden looks great a hard labor of love. All that’s needed now is a dog for Matt to follow him around while he’s working.

Highlight of my week is your videos!! Just love those with you and Matt! Good wholesome videos.

Poor ole Matt lives in the wrong climate! But at least the popsickles help.😂 So glad your garden is so productive this year. Awfully frustrating when you put that work in and it's fruitless. Monsoon rains here in southern WV all summer last year wiped mine out. But it's beautiful this year. I'm really glad Granny is so excited about her garden stuff y'all took her! God bless.

Yours and Matt’s landscape and gardens are so beautiful…. And wow, those beans look super. Jar flys are singing here in West Virginia as well. The Katie dids started this week and are signing loud tonight. Old Timer saying is 6 weeks to first frost when the 1st katydids start singing. My grandparents were always working on the farm with the premise that “winter is coming”, get busy and stay after it. They were 100% correct. Buttermilk poured over crumbled cornbread with some sugar added is a treat. Thanks for sharing your garden. Good bless.

We love, Matt's one liners - "Only thing I'm allergic to is coming unfed" funny,😅 😂I Concur !😊

Love the beans! 🤗 I agree with Matt on the traffic!! When I go to Asheville to see my son I take a route "with no highways". Takes me about an hour longer but I get to go through some BEAUTIFUL areas. Tryon, Saluda...NC. I arrive so much more less stressed, the extra time is not even noticed.

Really loved your videos. Your conversations are so refreshing to watch. Love when you and Matt just sit and talk to all of us!

It's so cute to me when you guys have your popsicles

I really enjoyed this. Sending support, love, and kindness from Lexington, Michigan, USA

Harvesting feels so rewarding 🥰

Beans looks so good

I love how Tipper put her popsicle over for Mat to tap it for Cheers and he just knows what she’s thinking! You guys get along so well, and it is like sitting with friends, shooting the breeze! I was trying to figure out if the noise was locusts Oh, what are they call cicadas? Anyway, it was fun hanging out. I dream of the day when my husband retires in two years and we can move somewhere like there!

Hi, ya'll you are good kids, to granny you are good mom and dad to your girls, and you are good grandmas and grandpas to Olive the wonder dog (got to wonder what she will do next.) In my opinion, you are the best family on you Tube.

I'm still jealous of your bean stand!!! Believe it or not.. I finally have blooms on my okry and a few small small pods that have started. I can't tell you the joy that brings me. Okry just doesn't happen on this side of the mountains in the Pacific Northwest so my prayers and fist shaking have done some good I guess. Got so many squash and onions yesterday that I was forced to do something with all of them today and I usually don't put forth any effort on a Sunday other than church and meals. You garden and yard is so beautiful no matter how overgrown you might think that it is... it looks incredible. Hugs to you both.

Plain water with mineral salt and lemon is a great drink as well for hydration and detoxification. I also drink OJ with a 1/4 tsp each of cream of tartar and Redmond salt. Great for adrenals!

Pick those Rattlesnake Beans early and smaller, when they get big they are stringy and tough. Ours have done really well this year.

Living in the southern Ozarks sounds like y'all....the jungle continues to encroach.

Matt must be the bee piper lol those green beans look great god bless

Canned grape juice. Yum. Yum. Yum.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊 God bless all here.

Enjoyed seeing you work together & sweet on each other. :)

Wow what a beautiful harvest of beans.

Matt the bees and bugs do me the same way. I'm very happy for your harvest. We have had to plant our beans twice. Something has been eating them. We finally started spraying with repel away. That works really good for deer and groundhogs that we have trouble with. It stinks and the animals don't like it. We have been watching a 12-point buck and 2 does in our back hillside. They come all the time. I think one of the doe is pregnant. First time I have seen them come in the day and at night. I put up sweet banana peppers and Hungarian wax peppers today. We need to check our beans to see how far they are.

I agree with Matt about that Atlanta traffic. I have family in south Georgia. It used to be only certain times of the day, but now it's all day every day. Country laid back listening to the wind and the water is my kind of life too. Enjoy! Still praying for you and your family. Please pray for mine. We don't do as well loving each other as we ought. Our family history is broken from divorce, drugs, alcohol, abuse and just Satan stirring it up. Praise God we're healing but it isn't as beautiful as what I see in your family.

"Only thing I'm allergic to is coming unfed." (Matt) Just an idea that you may have already considered....Many youtubers have tshirts for merch for their channel. Many have special sayings/quotes from the people on the channel. I can see a tshirt with this quote as a BEST SELLER! I would certainly purchase one for my husband as he shares that same sentiment. 🤣

We keep a light bulb in our pump house in the winter to keep it from freezing.

Thanks, Tipper, for re-introducing me to the Outshine popsicles. I used to buy them but somehow forgot about them. My favorite is the coconut. I always think about what Matt said about the coconut!

And we actually call those cucumbers pickling cucumbers. Tomatoes are coming but they are a little slow this year, thinking maybe because we had such a late spring.

Ha ha Tipper Matt is hilarious there is a lot of Appalachian descendants down here in Atlanta we agree traffic sucks down here generally we will retire back up in the mountains y'all have a great life up there.

The bees cluster around Matt because he is so sweet.

Unfortunately, we loved Bush beans while I was growing up in Tennessee. My grandfather called them back breaker beans because they grow so close to the ground. Eventually, he only planted pole beans because he couldn’t bend over to pick them.

Maybe having a stool with a basin on top would save u from bending over or tossing them in the bucket. I’m sure by now u know what is best for u in picking them, though. Ha. I suppose some grow closer to the ground, too. The view of the rows is very impressive. I’ve been wanting to see ur garden and that is a good pic. Thx

I was grocery shopping with my friend and I saw the out shine coconut Popsicles, so I bought a box. It was a hot day so we had one on our way to her house. I told her the toe nail story😂. They are delicious!!

What a beautiful garden with a great bounty...The beans were fantastic...Matt needs a dog...Olive would love a playmate...I love listening to the nature sounds while you sit outside...and the chickens...I remember the traffic on the interstate going through Atlanta on our way to Florida...I actually said a prayer we made it through it alive...we did but I never would drive there ever again...I hope you both have a Blessed week.🙏🙏🙏

Thank you both for sharing your life with us. You two are such a joy. God bless you all!

I have come to eat a popsicle when you do you sit and chat. 😊

Yummm! Fresh green beans maybe with tiny new potatoes!

Lol Man Matt picked some beans as Tipper was chatting.

People used to say Kudzu grows A foot a night, it’s a tuber growing so deep it’s hard to destroy.

Hi Tipper, I just saw on the internet that mayonnaise made by Potts Partnership is being recalled because of a bacteria in it. Thought I'd let you know as Matt likes it on his tomato sandwiches and it's made in the U.S. Just a precaution for you folks. Wally

You've become my favorite KZfaq couple!

Dogs are a lot of work and a big responsibility. It is not cheap to take good care of them either. Having said that though… I would not trade mine for a new Cadillac or a mansion by the sea. I just don’t feel right without him near by. He is so much company. My shaggy shaggy sheepdog is my ❤️. Somebody has a lot of bean snapping to do. Glad to know Granny feels like working on them. Had my first Cherokee purple today in a salad with Greek dressing. Heavenly😋. Have a nice week and get to snapping! 🫘

We’ve got string beans and/or snap beans coming out of our ears. Let the canning and freezing begin. We’ve made our own Gatorade before and I prefer the grape juice over the orange. Cranberry juice is good too but you have to add about a tsp of honey.

So good you look after your mama. Sounds like a good picking

I was about to clean around the house and I now have something to listen to while I clean!!!

Flying being safer than cars reminds me of a Laverne and Shirley episode. Laverne was afraid to fly, they told her nobody ever heard of a plane crashing into a cloud and she said nobody ever fell 30,000 ft out of a DeSoto (thats a car I haven't thought of in a long time)

Popsicle Moments!

As always I enjoy watching you both working in your garden as you spend time together. I call y'all my mountain family 🤗 Have a blessed evening 🙏

I just got to the hunting mention of the video! Read my mind.

Many many blessings to you and yours. The two of you are straight up a breath of fresh air. No fabricated nuttin'... just good and real. Thank you.

Happy Sunday Tipper and Matt , Thank yous both for sharing your Sunday with us . Have a wonderful week and stay safe.

I'd rather have rain over a drought any day!!!❤

We have been growing rattlesnake beans since 2006, and tomorrow I am planting a second run of them. I save save seeds every year. They are great and I always have enough to can and share. 😊

While you were picking Grannies cucumbers, I was eating cucumber chips i had made in the dehydrator in June.

In the old days of the high sierra’s during the really high heat. Great grams used to make a Liter of water, a fist of sugar; and a pinch of salt. Will keep the body able to stave of the heat. Add flavor if you like. Blessing to you all. Prayers from Brooks, Oregon to granny and the family.

🤗 Thank you for another video showing us a tight knit family.

Love y'all!!!!!

Won't be long..IT will be deer season!!! Time flies so fast.

Worried about the second hay crop right now in Va. It is very dry right now, but whatever. It is always hot this time of year. I'll buy hay stretcher pellets for my mules if I have too. A teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of salt dissolved in a large glass of water every hour will rehydrate you too. 😊

I agree with Matt..I like colder weather..so hot here in the Piedmont NC, storms daily...garden is giving out to us daily , except melons are starting to rot at stem. ..

I’ve been canning some beans this week, too. I learned to use my pressure canner (finally)! I’ve had white half runner and pink tip beans.

Wow what great crop of beans....Ive never seen beans grown like that but what a great idea....so much easier on the back when picking ! Beautiful Garden

Enjoyed watching y’all work picking beans, glad Granny was excited about hers…always enjoy the popsicle break❤

I had a big ole mater sammich for breakfast this morning.

Greetings from Richardson Texas! Thank you for all of this sharing about your lives! Blessings!

I just looked & Hoss seeds has rattlesnake beans for 3.99 for 150- that’s a great seed company.