To see how Corie made the soap go here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q956ea512serZX0.html For the Strawberry Shortcake Scone recipe go here: blindpigandtheacorn.com/strawberry-shortcake-scones/ Thanks for watching!!

People thinks we're poor and backward but if they could all live this way they'd be way better off

One of the simple pleasures of this life, sitting on a stump in the shade, eating a popsicle.

I haven't bought bath soap, for years Corie, I've used your soap and I love it! You are all very talented people. Everyone in the family is talented you all make things, create things, grow things, cook things, you make a mother/grandmother proud!

Could watch you guys all day... makes me home sick. Live in TN.. but from Western NC. great channel.. please keep it up and stay who you are!

My mama was from western Kentucky and many of her recipes and ways of doing things were similar to ones you have shared. Because she died when I was too young to know to pay closer attention, and because by then we were living in New Jersey far away from 'down home' and family, I never learned the older ways of doing things that you have preserved in your Appalachian videos. Thank you so much for helping me rediscover some wonderful lost memories and recipes that I can reintroduce to my Yankee family.

Corie's soap turned out so pretty. And Tipper, your grandmother's pink roses are really lovely. Don't laugh, but watching you and Matt eat those popsicles made me so hungry for one, I added popsicles to my grocery list for the coming week!

What a beautiful family!

You guys have a talent for explaining things in an easy to understand way. You do it with your cooking, and she did it with the soap. After watching both videos, I'm really thinking about trying my hand at soap-making.

In the soap reveal the implement is called a bench scraper. Traditionally used in bread making.

Love how the soap turned out!

In my part of Appalachia Memorial Day was a time to clean all the family graves. Mother & I would get her Mom & her Mom’s sister & we load up sickles (?), a bucket or 2, clippers& a jars with flowers & clean off all the graves of r relatives. Great time to get reacquainted with great grandparents, kids that had died young. Memory lane!!!

I'm so happy you carried your soap making project all the way to the finished product. This has been a very interesting and fun video. Thank you so much. You did a wonderful job. Jeri Whittaker

I wish I could play an instrument, but especially if I could play along with family. How awesome!

We used to call those big lizards we found near the river banks “mud puppies”. You are right Tipper, they are actually salamanders.

You and Matt are perfect for each other. You are both blessed to have each other. Esoecially now that the girls are grown and finding their own ways! Love your youtube channel!!! ❤

What a beautiful place and a peaceful & wonderful life. Hard work, yes, but the rewards are great. Thanks for taking me back to my memories of a simpler place & time.

I always love and look forward to your videos! It reminds me sooooo much of my upbringing! I play the guitar also and still sit around and play with family. Being able to do this brings me so much happiness and contentment! Thank you for your videos!

Ya gotta love this family, salt of the earth.

The fresh strawberries looked delicious! Love the beautiful flowers, i have a spring blooming rose also, the fragrance is awesome! I pray that your squash, zucchini does well, I know it was hot and the cold water and popsicles were refreshing.....the soap looked fantastic....as always , thanks tipper ....God bless....🙏

I love 5he background music while you’re chopping strawberries and baking! It’s like a movie soundtrack... Love hearing y’all sing n play! The end was great too!

You have such an amazing, beautiful family. I love that you all work together for the good of the family. Awesome 🥰

The Strawberry scones looked delicious, bet you they smelled good as well as the handmade soap. I have always liked living in the country but, when, we always went on vacation down to the Smokies, I often said, I’d love to live in the mountains because, your soul always feels so, peaceful there. You just also seem you can connect to the people much easier.

These type of videos are the BEST! just watching you and The deerslayer work around the home,fixing breakfast and other meals, plus getting to watch the girls play a song at the end is MARVELOUS! I apologize for not getting to like all the videos because I watch most of them on my TV but I am a subscriber and LOVE the my life in appalachia series. P.S. the young lady that plays the fiddle is Just awesome!

How glorious the last couple days have been in Appalachia!❤️

Enjoyed this, pleasure to watch. Love the soap, gardening, and seeing the scenery. i have a peony bush my grandmother gave me a start from and I treasure it.

I remember years ago people made lye soap including my grandmother. It sure made the clothes clean, and it was good cleaning things. I never tried it. But I do remember this couple would take all of their furniture out of cabin they had and wash the wooden walls, floors, cabients with lye soap .The furniture was on the ground and it was the old iron bedsteads and they would scrub all of the furniture with the soap and let it dry then take the knobs off and pour coal oil down them to keep the bed bugs out then go through the cabients, floors next to the outside and take a rag and go around them with coal oil. When it was all dry they moved it all back inside. They had no problems with bugs and the cabin smelled clean.

Isn’t it awesome how the Master Creator put His creative ability in us, as well as the desire to create?! I totally understand the joy of making things for your loved ones. I bake and can food for my family and friends and I get more joy than the receiver!

Lovely video.. brings back sweet memories of my sister and me growing up on my Grandparents' farm in the '50's in West Virginia... the roses, making soap, gardens, fruit trees.. even the popsicles, though I have to have the sugar-free ones, now. 💜

My daddy’s favorite place was Cataloochee. He would take us camping there. Many happy memories. My Mama’s grandfather took him fishing there. ❤❤

I love how you guys work together in your projects like gardening, playing instruments etc. Takes me back to my days on the farm and how we got everything accomplished in teams. I was the oldest child since my mom had passed when I was 14. Then my cousin's 4 children and also, we had had 4 or 5 foster children not including the adults. I love your home in the mountains, all you share with us and have taught and shared with your beautiful daughters too. Such great memories....

This is how real Rich Folk live Y'all! I know the Lord put me where I am, but I'd surely not have any regrets if He'd put me on some land near you!

I thank you all for sharing home with me, us. One day maybe I will get to come back home.

Those videos of Tipper and Matt working on the garden spot, eating a popcicle and talking was a real treat, especially with the girls' music playing. Also enjoyed the shot of the pink roses with the smell that Tipper describes. It's the old fashioned roses that smell the best. Many of the rose plants that we buy at the nurseries are bred primarily for color and form and not for their aroma. For myself, I'd rather have that special smell, even if their beauty is short-lived

Again, enjoyed this video. Love to see how talented and "real" you and your family are. Roses are beautiful - but the best thing are your memories!!!!

This is one of my new favorite channels. We need more real American people sharing their stories like this. It is so interesting to be a part of your lives as you present them here. That soap is really beautiful in color and all the handmade things you all do are so fascinating. That flat scraper is used a lot by bakers and chefs and cooks in the kitchen. What you used it for seems very appropriate to scrape down the edges of your soap. Anyway, thank you for your stories and your language lessons. I subscribe to a lot of channels that share the American essence and purpose like farmers, and these two very funny African American brothers that are really on top of their BBQ game somewhere down in South Carolina. KZfaq allows us to see the best and worse of people and it is channels like this that offer us a remarkable sense of the spirit of our country - no matter our color, our heritage, or our individualism. And that is this majority of people in this country that represent the true stock of who and what we are...not something most of our politicians understand. Again thanks for sharing, I truly learn new things with channels like this each and every time I view them.

I, vaguely, remember watching this but I am enjoying watching it again. 😊🇨🇦

Thats a dough cutter Look at the clear water running through there. Beautiful. There was alot of beautiful people back in the day, We don't have many people like that any more. I loved those people. Wonderful, wonderful people. Its what we need today.

I love what you’re doing! I could watch your videos all day long. You’re genuine people, just salt of the earth everyday folks sharing your everyday life and I relate with that, no fake scripted kind of nonsense! The history of the mountain people in Appalachia, especially southern Appalachia has intrigued me every since we started coming to visit your piece of heaven in the Smoky Mountains. The national park is a beautiful place, a bit touristy like my home which has the beautiful beaches of South Walton, but it’s always beautiful nonetheless! Me and my wife, before she passed, would always stay in Cosby, TN and we loved visiting the Cataloochee side of the park! It is so serine and the elk that have been reintroduced to the area, they are so majestic, we could sit and watch them for hours! Tipper, please don’t change what you’re doing, I’m living my dream of Appalachia through you! May God continue to bless you and your wonderfully talented family! 🙏❤️

The soap part was neat to watch. Corie has her mother's hands, and her love of talking about the details.

O My Lord, ur poem about who u r just about took my breath completely away. U r a gift to all us folks from the mountains. U show r kindness, dignity & a face that is so welcoming & accepting. Thank u so much. I also love George Ella . More later.

I’m from NJ but I have a love for everything southern! So glad I found your channel!

I am so glad I found you guy's. You sometime's bring a tear to my eye. I miss my people who have passed.

Ya’ll are, hands down, the sweetest family! I love to watch each of you present something you do well. If our families could get back to living like you do, I truly believe it would make a huge difference in the world. It brings the family members close. And, topped with music!! Doesn’t get any better than that!! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️❣️

Whenever I'm feeling bad my blood pressure is up or I'm hurting I come on here and go to watching and it helps me calm down and get my mind of your beautiful place. Thank you for sharing ☺️

Now I want to buy soap and popsicles! Great video as always

You seem to have a fantastic family. Thank you for sharing your stories and all.

I love my new edition to my you tube family you make me feel like I belong. Thank you for your warm and welcoming videos.

My momma and grandma both had those roses in the yard and so did all the woman in the row of houses here I grew up. You are right about there smell, you could walk by each house along the railroad tracks in the spring and the smell from those roses in each yard. The soap looks great, just keep it simple. I've seen a lot of those smelly soaps here in Florida and they can keep them. You garden is looking great and you can you are country raised, because you are out there right beside your husband helping. You all have a great day and bless each and everyone of you.

That's some fine looking soap Corie!

Every time I see that beautiful mixing bowl, I know something good is going to happen. 😍

You mentioned doodle bugs, as a child we did that. So fun I can't imagine kids today doing that.

We went to decoration day services at 11 am . Went too all the graves. I took all the back roads , bad but worth it. Looks like you all are having an all American holiday treat. Good music great video.

I love listening to the music toward the end, so light hearted and sweet. :)

My goodness those berries looked delicious. That music. i could sit on a porch all day and listen to you guys play. It's beautiful.

Loved this family video Tipper. At the end you spoke of taking a cutting of your Granny's rose bush. I would love to know how you did that to make it grow. I have a hard time propagating several types of plants and flowers. Hydrangeas is another one I have trouble with. My soil has a lot of clay and I wonder if thats the problem. Would you mind doing a video on this subject when you get a chance? By the way, I love popsicles too and really liked seeing yall enjoying them outside. I try to also keep freeze pops in the freezer during the Summer for anyone who needs to cool off. Love this channel and The Pig and the Acorn. You are really are doing a great thing in preserving family memories and how you and your family are living and making memories for future generations. Thanks for all you and your family do.😊💕

My dear Appalachian family, you are a breath of fresh mountain air. How I can imagine myself baking beside you, creating art beside you, gardening beside you, enjoying a chat and Popsicle beside you, and enjoying a family sing along beside you. If only I knew how to play an instrument. It is videos like yours that have me long for a family in my home. Thank you for sharing your life, loves and memories with us.

Y'all are just plain GOOD folks !!

You and your family are hard workers, it's inspiring.

Why can’t life be this beautiful

I could listen to this girl talk about soap all day. That’s voice! Where’s the audiobook?

Thank you kindly for sharing part of your lives with us along with all your amazing tips! Here's one in return. I keep the berry tops and dehydrate them and add them to herbal teas, as they are packed full of vitamins and minerals and add a splash of spring flavor anytime of year! I recommend only doing this If your strawberries are organic. Hope you enjoy the holiday today. 🥰

Tipper, thank you and your family for sharing. Today would me my Grandma's 123 birthday and you help me remember her.

I love your popsickle time with your husband outside! It is so peaceful! Y'all are such a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing with us!

The girls are so talented. What a blessing they must be!

I love how you all live. So resourceful.

I was blessed to grow up on the Russell fork river in Vans ant VA. We were poor but didn't know it. And rich in ways that the town folk could only imagine. Family, traditions long upheld, God and mother nature were my teachers. I knew hard work, and was glad to learn respect for myself as well as others. I yearn to go back to that time. Thank you for sharing.

I just loved learning about the soap making, and your garden planting, and everything. I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day.

Thank you for this wonderful trip into the lives of your family. I truly appreciate it. It's like a little trip to Appalachia for me this morning.

That soap looks so good I'd almost cuss around you, just to get my mouth washed out with it! :)

Eating those popsicles is a great idea to cool off when working outside in the heat. I always bout die from heat in summer mowing the grass. Gonna try that! Your daughters are so beautiful and talented!

It is a 'bench scraper' or a dough scraper" Buy them in the kitchen gadgets.

I've never made my own soap. Never spent a good part of the day workin' a piece of ground to garden alongside my children's mother. And I've never wound down the day playin' a tune with my kids. But I wish I had...

Loved, loved, loved watching the soap making !!!!!!

Love this sound! God thought of everything when He created this earth…the music is just wonderful! …love those big strawberry’s…love the soap making.

I love how you use your hands to stir! My great grandmother did and they were the best biscuits! She said it puts love in them!

Another great video and way of life! The country way!

The apparatus you used to trim up soap is an invaluable kitchen tool called a bench scraper. Great when making bread or pastry when dividing dough and scraping work surface to get crumbs and flour up cleanly. Also when preparing veggies and have onions or celery or anything you have chopped and need to transfer to pans. Slide chopped veggies onto the metal surface and nary any drops off or falls. You will see how useful they are. Just an FYI. 😊🐾🐾

Love watch your videos, bring back so many memories as a child. I even like looking around at you watnots and stuff see stuff my granny had stuff I have now. My kids call my house museum because at the old stuff I have. I tell them they make me happy. I even have a speckled bowl like yours. Lol found at goodwill someone told me Rachel Ray bowl. God Bless you and yours

I really enjoyed this video! Especially you and Matt chatting while cooling off with the popsicles!

At 7:30 is a pastry cutter/knife, it's also used as dough cutter, scraper, a very versatile utensil 😀

I always look forward to watching “My Life in Appalachia”

I would have loved to have a life like yours .raised w traditions handed down. To live in a home you all built yourself. Your gardening and chickens.

This is such a wonderful video. I enjoy watching ya'll work around your property, crafting and just simple conversation over a popsicle. I notice Matt is always wearing a watch. My KZfaq channel is a lot of watch reviews and unboxings. What watches does he like to wear? The one in this video looks like it could be a Timex Weekender. Thank you for such a great video.

Looks like the soap turned out real nice,Good job Corie.The strawberry scones look delicious,those strawberries were huge.Tipper you and Matt make a great team when it comes to gardening. Squash, zucchini, and pumpkins planted,job done.Those are beautiful roses,we have some peonies that's been on our place nearly 50 years,still lovely looking and bring back alot of good memories of my folks. As always the music was just wonderful. Have a great Memorial Day and a good week. 🙂

Your roses from your granny are beautiful, your scones looked wonderful and the wildlife is so peaceful. Thank you for sharing ❤️

That is some very beautiful soap! Be proud of your awesome talent. I just made my first batch a few months ago and I adore it.

4:23... Oh man, love scones! YUM!!!

Talented family!

Good company and beautiful music . The soap turned out nice too.

I'm from long island NY and I love your channel😊 a lot of good information

Your utensil that you got at the thrift store is called a bench scraper. It is used in the kitchen to pick up chopped onions etc. It is also used for dividing dough.

Just started watching your channel. Really enjoying it, since I'm older now and definitely turning into my mom/mamaw lol. Got my garden and my canning jars, my chickens, and can do just a little bit of everything. It's in the DNA. Gotta try this soapmaking!

I love that bowl at the beginning of the video after you cut the strawberries up! Some kind of stone maybe?

Great job on the soap! I did like that color. Very pretty! Lovely music for ending a Sunday. I’m enjoying your garden very much. That’s for sharing your life with us! I love hearing the entire family, but the violin/fiddle is awesome!. Have a great week, the strawberry scones looked so scrumptious!❤️🙏🏻Jane/SC

I live on the farm my mom was raised on,my great great grandfather built the house i live in and i still have the origional outhouse...lol Im gonna fix the inside of tge outhouse really cute and put some primative stuff around it,we also have original barn,im learnin so much from your videos,TY so much for your hard hard work u put into your videos... im finding out names of flowers that have been planted here for years by watching your videos and im gonna do a huge garden next year....have u guys ever growed lufas,we put some out this year and didn't know much about them,found out we put them out to late,love u guys,stay safe😊💖😊🧡😊💙😊💚😊❤😊💛😊💜😊

I found this channel a few days ago. Thanks for the inspiring content!

I have an old fashioned rose bush that blooms in the spring. Mine has deep, blood red roses.

The cleaning tool you mention is a bench scraper, used in baking and cooking.

Thank you for all the information. Great video. So much of the life you live is how i grew up .ps i still reuse my baggies. 🙂🙂