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I'd watch you two over anything on regular TV . 👍👍👍❤

I am praying for Granny. She is such a delight.

Tipper, my wife and I will watch as soon as we get home this evening from church. We enjoy all your videos. But we especially enjoy the Sunday evening ones where both you and Matt are in them.

Thank Tipper and Matt for sitting a spell and talking with us. Your harvest was real good. Praying for sweet Granny.❤️✝️🙏

Two handsome folks. What a plentiful garden picking. I’m with Matt having tomato sandwiches everyday. We pray for Granny and her health.❤

Ever since the Q and A with the girls where someone asked about Matt being so standoffish and them laughing about how clever and funny he really is, I can see it in yalls videos and I enjoy it so much. Yall are really cute together and your content is so wholesome and so welcome.

I love watching you and Matt and girls,I hope granny is doing better🙏🏻🙏🏻💕

I'm so envious of your peaches. Grew up next to a peach orchard and the gentleman farmer would leave a small basket of peaches early in the morning during the season for my breakfast. He also taught me to drive on his Farm All tractor and allowed me to roam free on his wooded acreage. He was very kind to a child that wasn't his responsibility. Now Mr. Tenny is part of my best memories.

Sooooooooooo relaxing listening to the two of you. I love how you banter back and forth with a little silliness and lots of love. Sending loving and peace-filled thoughts to everyone.

I loved listening to your stories especially the one about the window screens. Matt used his screen to go to the creek to pan for gold. Katy took her screen out so that she could throw stuff out and then shoot. When Matt said that she must take after your side of the family and you responded, I don't remember sifting for gold with any screens - I laughed out loud. You're a beautiful couple.

You all are so wonderful. You make me laugh and I've been so blessed to be able to can quite a bit this year. It's not been two years since my husband passed and watching you all really keeps me from being lonely. You all have really inspired me to get up and Get things done like I should.Thank you for being there.

Tipper is mild. Watching her reminds me to slow down and enjoy life. She recognizes and acknowledges so many of the precious things we miss in the hustle of a busy life. Made it to the end of the video and I loved the "stick with what you know" comment. My late husband would have said the same thing. Made me laugh. Thanks for sharing that.

I grew up in Alabama and didn’t have air conditioning until I was 12 years old. We got a window unit and that first summer me, my sister and brother slept on pallets on the floor. We thought it was amazing. Before that it was screened windows and doors and big metal Electrolux fans at the foot of the bed. Our car had no A/C and we drove with the windows down, hanging our heads out the windows like dogs! Good memories when we were all a little tougher and adaptive than folks are now. Prayers for your sweet mama.

You two are really cool down to earth folks & humourous to boot! Thank you for your love you share together it's very heartwarming. Enjoy the sandwich & melon! Granny is in my prayers (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

I’m with Matt. I hate the hot summer heat!!!!! Praying all is well with Granny. God Bless!

Oh Matt. He’s such a gem. A rowdy diamond

I'm 61 and sure miss hearing whippoorwilll and bobwhite...from southern pa...so enjoy you and Matt together

Absolutely love your chats! Outshine popsicle should sponsor your videos!

Tipper you need to do a contest and the prize is spending all day with you from outdoor breakfast, gardening, cooking, walking thru the hollers, dinner, a free cookbook and song book and topping the night off with jug band under the stars….now that would be the best prize beside the billon dollar lottery…..the city life and heat are getting to me! Lol

I'm going to be up in your area in September one Thursday or Friday. I'm 72 and live in the country near Clarkesville and Helen. I'm enjoying watching your channel as well as your daughters. Bless you. I'm proud to be an Appalachian 🎉

Oh the memories of being young and fight over who was gonna sleep in front of the window fan! Lol😂❤ Had my first Outshine coconut popsicle! Oh my word, how did i live without these!!❤️😋

You're exactly right, it is the hottest in my 66 years that I have ever experienced here in middle TN. We have had a couple of rain showers but that didn't help much. Your garden is looking so good! And the bounty of beans is wonderful. Prayers for Granny. Thanks for sharing Tipper!

Last I read, the whole of the northern continent is burning up, not fire but heat from the sun. I pray for the senior citizens in cramped apartments with no air conditioning. I'm glad your family are doing fine.

When I was in high school we moved into our third house on Hwy. 601. Boy was it hot in the summertime! This house had an attic fan. You are correct, they are loud, but we got used to it and opened our windows and the breeze kept us cool enough to sleep. A few years later, Daddy bought a window air conditioner that cooled the kitchen and the bedrooms. That was very nice, too. Before that in our previous house, I still remember how some nights it was difficult to sleep for the heat. I'm with Matt. The cold is easier to take, but the Lord won't give us anything we can't handle.

Hi! I just harvested a bunch of carrots I had planted in a grow bag on my back deck! I have a ton of yellow cherry tomatoes and I've spotted a Cherokee purple growing, I've had about half dozen of Cucumbers so far, potatoes will be ready to harvest in a week or so, strawberries are still producing, 2 little sugar baby water melons are on the vine...not bad for planting in bags on a deck 😊 we were under heat advisories 28th and 29th 97 degrees on thermometer however with humidity feel of 106-110😢 back in the 80s now. Still praying for granny❤

Thank you for allowing me to spend this time with the two. Of u. Such a SWEET TIME SEEING THE LOVE!

You both make me so happy. The heat wave just broke up here in Massachusetts. It's deliciously cool. Matt has a great sense of humor and I enjoy it. Tipper, I know you know that I always enjoy your stuff. Those beans sure do look like a night's supper. Hugs and lots of love.

Sending some cooling thoughts and prayers your way, Tipper and Matt. It's winter in Australia and we had a very cold morning here today. It warmed up around morning tea but it's cooling off again now at 2pm as I'm writing this. Thanks for another great video. Steph ❤

When I was 12 My mom took me to the pier to fish. By the time I was 14 I stayed from fri. till sun. I learned so much and tried to help so many. People helped me. Had to give back.

The grouse and quail have returned to my grandparents farm (Several generations farmed since 1866, SE KY), not farmed since 1967. It appears as if no one ever lived there. The return of the wildlife helps ease the sadness.

Love the phrase, " took a spell", referring to Katie shooting out the window. Love it.

I remember as a kid sleeping on a bed as close to the window as i could get, lying there sweating and how delicious it was to get a breeze across me. 😊 We were living in west central kansas and 100° was common in the summer. My folks got a portable water cooler we could set on a chair! I had to take turns with my sister! 😊 It would spit water ever so often! What a treat that was back then. 60 years ago and more. 😅😅😊 God bless all here.

I never had the gold panning adventure but I used my Granny's window screen to sift dirt for my mud pies. No lumps. Needles to say , I had my outdoor kitchen shut down. Really enjoying your summertime videos.

It's been nice here in Ca. the last few days, but it's suppose to heat back up next week. Time changes things, I wish you and Matt still had the sounds of your childhood, but I'm glad you still have the sounds of summer. You all have a blessed week. Hope Granny's test goes well. ❤🙏

We enjoy watching you and Matt talking about your day. It is very interesting and enjoy seeing the harvest you picked for the day and know the hard work you did to get a nice harvest. It is very hot here in Kansas And hope to see cooler weather and a little rain. Take care and bless your family. You are a blessed family. How wonderful.!

I'm with Matt on the weather. This heat just drains my energy 😞

Thanks for the Sunday afternoon video. I look forward to y’all’s musings. Grief and worry can and will exhaust you. Don’t forget to take care of yourselves. 🥰

"I'd like to have peach cobbler..... fresh peach cobbler..... before dark." Lol funny. 🙂

Matt had me rolling over the attic fan sucking the curtains off the walls 😂🤣😂❤

Hopefully it gets a little cooler for you folks. Prayers and blessings to Granny.🙏

Love just listening to you two talking.

It would be so hot during wheat harvest, but I would take my water jug and pour the water over my shirt and jeans to try to cool off. And when it dried out, I would do it again. Granny and pawpaw did not have air-conditioning but they had a water cooler in the window. I tried to sit close to that window to feel the cool air. Growing up, we had an attic fan that we would only turn on when it was time to go to bed. You would be frozen by the next morning because of all the cool air, it would draw in at night 😊

We used to Luv listening to Bob whites and whipperwills as kids

Love this! So glad to see the fruits of your labor.

The heat in the old days didn’t seem as bad. We sat outside until dark and tried to sleep. I don’t think the feather beds allowed for much air. They were great in the winter! I’m in the process of making shuck beans from greasy beans for the first time. Usually use half runners! God bless you folks from Kentucky.

I've made mini-cobblers in 4-oz jelly jars using the One-Cup Cobbler recipe. Fill the little jar with peach slices or berries, add 3 tbsp of batter and bake at 350° 'til lightly brown. Perfect little desserts

You guys are so much fun! Praying for Granny. Grammy from Texas

My dad put in an attic fan in our house also when I was a teenager. I can relate to the sound of it and the suction of it. We opened a window at one end of the house, and at the other end of the house that would draw from both ends. I don’t know that it ever helped, lol. He finally had central heat and air put in a few years after👏🏻👏🏻😃

I'm out here in the Mountain West whining that is in the 90's to 100's depending on the day, when ya'll are dealing with heat and humidity. I lived in MS for about 2 years and remember how awful the heat and humidity gets in the South during the Summer. Bless the both of you for having to be out in that! I am envious of your wonderful garden!! Love your videos!

Our first duty assignment in the Air Force after we were married was Williams AFB, Mesa, AZ. We lived in a little one bedroom house with a swamp cooler on the roof. They have massive sand storms out there and when I turned on that swamp cooler for the first time... sand went all over my house. I coughed and sputtered sand and ran outside. Hubby ran back in and cut it off. I had the big whole house attic fans growing up here in NC but never had a swamp cooler so had no idea you had to clean them before turning them on. That was a big lesson. I never did get all the sand out of our sofa. Didn't get rid of the sand till we sold the sofa years later. And then two years later, Mt St. Helen's out of Washington State erupted while our furniture was being moved to North Dakota and ash got all over my new sofa. They opened up the back of the moving van at my house on Minot AFB, ND and ash spewed out the back. Everything I had was covered in Mt. St. Helen. It was even inside sealed Mason jars. Never saw anything like it. So we had that ash in our sofa until it was sold years later. What an ordeal.

You two are so sweet together. Matt always makes me laugh. Thank you for sharing these moments with us. I have learned a lot from both of you over the years.Praying for Granny and hoping she feels better soon. Have a good evening.😊

My grandma always grew greasy beans in southern Ohio, and NOTHING tastes like a greasy bean 😊

Here in Texas its 103 feels like 118. Cant wait until it gets in the 80s or low 90s 😅 who would of thunk hoping for low 90s temp.

I love your videos when your sitting out in the shade together and just chit chatting! Your videos remind me so much of my childhood memories and visiting my grandparents back East, sometimes I get teared up. I love the small town, simple country lifestyle! Thank you for sharing a beautiful slice of your life! ❤

We grew up without AC and are soft now. My sister now admits that she sneaked down to the basement to sleep. I asked her why didn't she take me with her. Anyways, thank you for inviting us to your backyard chat!

I wish I had a hundred friends like Matt. He’s the best !!!

I'm 75 y.o. and I live on 50 acres with 37 acres in timber M att made me realize I haven't heard Quails in 40 years

That’s great you got so many beans. We’ve always raised Rattlesnake pole beans, even my grandparents. We love them. I don’t know why they’re called that, either. That peach cake sounds great! My favorite ice cream is peach. My Mama said they used to rehydrate dried apricots, lay them over the bottom of a pie crust, then pour egg custard pie filling over that and bake it. I think that would be good with peaches, too.

Matt mentioned quail. When I was a kid grandpa's farm was quail central. But, I haven't seen any in years. But a couple of days ago we were sitting on the porch and I heard one call. A few minutes later he landed on our walk. He sat there until my dog saw him and chased him off. I don't know if someone near here is raising them or not. But I hope more come around.

Matt's story about screen panning was hilarious! I made my husband come into the room to hear it and he enjoyed it as much as I did.

The preacher beans are a pretty color. I enjoy y’all’s humor, makes me laugh 😆.

Ways to say hot. ''Hotter than a popcorn fart'' Ever heard that one? Got that from my grandparents

I'm 61 and have noticed that as I ve aged the harder it is to take extreme weather cold ❄ and heat

Hello matt and Tipper, looks like the Lord blessed y'all with a good harvest. Even though some vegetables dont do good as others, at times. My experience with gardening its not always 100% productive. I think the rattlesnake bean are my favorite they do seem to be bug resistant, yeah im done with marigolds too. They didn't deter bugs on my vegetables either. I just harvested all my summer crop a few weeks ago. Just planted my fall garden.planted more rattlesnakes beans, ms. plnkeye peas. And squash zucchini. I remember growing up without an air conditioner too, slept with the window open. Thank God for the A/C but I think it has made us soft. Always enjoy watching.Stay cool, and Happy gardening God bless.😅

I too grew up in the South without Air Conditioning. I was born in 1947 in Atlanta and we lived with my Mother's parents in a house that was built sometime before 1910. That house didn't even have an indoor bathroom IN THE CITY until I was five years old! It did have high ceilings and floor to ceiling windows that were double hung so hot air could go out at the top and maybe at night cool air would come in at the bottom. It was normal to move the beds close to the windows in summer and away from them in winter. When I was ten my parents bought their first house at what was then a more rural area close to the air port where my dad worked as a Telephone Man. We had one of those attic exhaust fans, but no AC until I was in the last year or two of high school, and then just a couple of window units.. None of my city schools were air conditioned, and even the college I went to in the city in the late 1960's had most of the classes and labs in rooms without Air Conditioning. I did not think much about it since that was all I knew. However, after I graduated I enlisted in the Air Force in 1971 and after basic training in Texas, in the summer, my first assignment was for a Vietnam tour. Once over there most of the guys were complaining about the Heat, the Humidity, the bugs, and the Red mud. To me it was very much like home! i am now 76 years old and sure would hate to do without it now. I love to watch your channel and especially the Popsicle Talks with you and your husband, Matt, It makes me think of sitting with my parents and grandparents on the wide front porch on a hot evening listing to them talk about the days events. You are blessed with a beautiful family and life, thanks for sharing it with us all.

My cousin was like Matt. You didn’t take your good toys to my grandparent’s house when he was there. We called him “Destroy Boy.”

Here in Texas, we used to hear whippoorwills/Bob Whites at night. It’s been years since I’ve heard one. Prayers for Granny.❤🙏

😂😂😂You are the cutest couple! You have a beautiful smile tipper!🥰

Outhere in the foothills of Appalachia my favorite time of the year is fall. It cools off and the colors start to explode before the country goes to bed for the winter. I'd never had a favorite season until I moved here. It's just gorgeous. We have two huge flowering Bartlett pear trees that are the last to lose their leaves and they are the most brilliant red, they scream color!!

Tomato sandwiches were pretty much every summer lunch of my childhood. 😋 Trying Matt’s patience in the most beautiful and genteel way. Teaching patience. 😉

Ever since the creek behind the house dried up I've missed the sound of a bull frog at night! Even when we get enough rain to put water in the creek the frogs are gone.😐

The older you get the less you can tolerate the heat. I know that's true for me & my husband. We're in our middle 70's & are finding its getting worse. My husband can hardly breathe between the heat & the Canadian smoke. And we have no health issues. Plus each year it's getting hotter & hotter. I did the same thing as a child. Open the windows & turn on the fans. We survived. 😂😂

Got to stop watching your videos, peach cake,tomatoes, beans, strawberries, frozen Popsicles. I'm starving.

Praying for the entire family! God Bless!

The case knife bean can be eat like the one you showed . Or if you like the bean more, you can let them get full and shell them . I have canned 95 quarts of them . Mine is finished for this year. Love your garden . God bless your family and prayers for your mother.

I love to hear your stories. It's the way I remember growing up ❤

I loved the sound of an attic fan! Maybe that’s why I can’t sleep without the ceiling fan on now. Valerie in SC

Like Matt, as I kid I heard bobwhite quail here in south Georgia all the time. Over time, that call became silent. But, my husband and I recently bought property in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. There, we are surrounded by farms and mountains. We spent most of this summer there. Excitingly I heard the calls of bobwhites on two different occasions. I even saw a pair fly up from a recently mowed hay field. I was surprised and amazed! I was so happy to hear and see them again.

You guys are so cute. I am a North Carolina girl living out in Wyoming and love hearing your beautiful southern accent. I love watching you two sit and talk. Love your gardens!!! thank you for all your videos.

I tried Matt's handkerchief trick and it did keep me cooler!! Praying for Granny!!

I am sitting watching the rain yet again! I put some pots of french marigolds in the greenhouse with the tomatoes and the slugs ate them all.

Very enjoyable video.And I love seeing the green landscape.The Lord has blessed your harvest.God is good.

Another nice visit! We have a cold wave here in NJ . Low humidity, so the wife and I are off to Lancaster, Pa til Saturday.just 2 hrs. Away. We already gave the neighbors some tomatoes and I just canned 9 jars of Uncle Bob’s bread and butter pickles. Everyone loves my pickles and I will have to can many more before fall. Your bean harvest is amazing. We just enjoy eating our green beans. This gardening is a lot of work. But at 78 it is keeping me feeling young!! Lol!

Thank ya'll. Praying for Granny.

I just love the videos you both do together, as each of you are so sincere. You tease each other in a good way as you enjoy your popsicles! Those green beans and tomatoes are absolutely beautiful! They will be really nice looking when you can them, too. I’m sure you both stayed inside once you went into the house with a.c. as hot as it is outside! Don’t work too hard!

Your garden looks great. I canned all morning on Saturday garden is almost gone . Tomatoes are still hanging on very hot in my neck of the woods. Praying for granny . Have a blessed week

The sun flowers and cosmos were so pretty.

Somebody's prayin', I can feel it Somebody's prayin' for me Mighty hands are guiding me To protect me from what I can't see Lord I believe, Lord I believe Somebod's prayin' for me 🙏 for Granny Let’s go fix a mator sandwich, I do love mator sandwiches, had one last nite for supper. I’m so grateful for your family’s love and caring toward all people. Feeling of a safe place to sit and talk about life. God bless you all

You said "if there was a lake here to jump in" btngs to mind an old saying I ran into a long time back in response to any "I wish" proposition. It is a Scottish proverb from 1628 and goes "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride". A corolary might be "Watch out what you wish for. It might come true." This is only an observation as I know you're Daddy taught you wisely to appreciate what God blesses you with and be content with what you've worked for yourself. We all would have a much better country to live in if way more people lived by this principle, as a true Christian would.

I believe the the most frightened I ever was as a young girl was walking though our old church that had those exhaust fans in the ceiling and someone shut them off and the lights. Praying for Granny 🙏

We've been under a heat dome for several weeks now here in Texas. Waiting for it to lift or move somewhere else. When people fall on the pavement or concrete they are getting burns because the asphalt/concrete is so terribly hot right now. I've contacted the popsicle company several times about sponsoring y'all but they never get back to me. I've even sent them links to your videos. Praying so hard for Granny these days now. Praying for a healing miracle! Hugs!

I love to see your flowers and harvest! Thank you for sharing!

We don’t get any relief from the heat until November. I’ve lived in Georgia all of my life and we use to have a nice Fall, but now we go from Summer to Winter.

I have had a container garden this year that has done fairly well. Im learning I probably should feed the contained more often. I planted a second crop of zuccini, squash, cucumbers and green beans. Still waiting for my butter beans to fill out. The chocolate sprinkles tomatoes are still producing pretty well but I think the better boys are about finished. Trying to start a late season crop of an early determinate tomato called Early Wonder and one called Stiletz. I have okra planted but it just doesn’t want to grow. This is the second attempt to get okra to grow and it is soooooo slow growing. But my most exciting thing is the butternut squash that has volunteered in the back yard has 4 little squash on it so far. Have no idea where the plant came from but it is starting to show out! Thank you and your family so much for encouraging us to try gardening and giving your experiences and sharing your knowledge. You certainly encouraged me to give it a try. I started small but already know what I want to grow over the fall and then next spring/summer.

Tipper I love watching you Matt and the Girls I love your garden .I just have a little raised garden bed off my back patio my tomatoes and cucumbers are doing ok I had a really late start to my garden end of May here in Colorado my pepper plant has one pepper set so far We have had more rain then normal in June it was cloudy July has been very hot in high 90s I’m like Matt I don’t like the heat I grew up without air in a 2 story house in eastern Iowa it was hot and humid with the Mississippi River lots of bugs I so appreciate the Air conditioner Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories to me they are interesting inspiring and appreciated 🙏

We used to have plenty of bobwhite, grouse and quail in my area of WV. Somewhere between boyhood and manhood they just disappeared. We would occasionally see a pheasant but they are gone now too. I love watching your videos. Thank you for efforts.

You were smart Tipper, I’m still scared to leave my window open at night but what I do is I lower the sash from the top. I love the cool night air in the summertime! It’s so much better than ac. We didn’t have ac when I was little either, we had metal fans too. Mom put it inside the screen door to pull the air through but I remember some very hot summer days in the 60’s.Just like Matt I cannot stand summer heat, I only make it through by thinking of fall-it is my favorite season! The shadows cast long, the colors are beautiful-rust, gold, etc., the sky is so blue and the air crisp. I love just thinking about fall. We will make it!

I gifted some Cherokee purples to my boss and a couple regulars at work and they all told me it was the best tomato they’d ever tasted!!

I grew up the same way yall did. We didnt have A/C all we had was those box fans and then later we had some window fans. If you had A/C around here you were considered upity high class. Those were the good old days I remember seeing a momma quail with her little ones in the summer and hearing the quail calling out in the fields.