All of us here at Blind Pig and The Acorn sincerely hope the new year of 2024 is exactly what you want it to be for you and yours.
We hope youâll continue to visit us for your daily dose of Appalachia throughout the coming year.
Last night’s video: Snow Flurries, Matt’s Favorite Present, & Hot Chocolate by the Woodstove.
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First Happy New Year to you and family. This is a leap year and 366 days this year. very special to me my grandmother was born on leap year. She used to complain (joking that she only got to have a Birthday every 4 years) of course we would celebrate on March 28th but come leap year we would make it over the top for her she lived to 94 ! even her death was on a leap year. Miss her very much she passed 2004 4 was in her life beginning to end.â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
Happy, Healthy and Blessed 2024 to All!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
Happy New Year to you and the family, may 2024 be a year of joy and happiness. I noticed the card at the beginning of your post shows 365 days, 2024 is a leap year so save the card for 2025. Blessings to you and all of your loyal followers, keep up your wonderful work.
Love watching on YouTube! I received your cookbook for Christmas and I can’t wait to make your recipes! I am originally from Asheville and you make me feel so close to home! Happy New Year Tipper and family!
Happy Happy New Year Blessings!!!
Happy New Year to you Tipper and the whole family. I so enjoy watching you all.
Happy 2024 New Year! May God bless you all with good health and happiness!
Happy New Year to you and your sweet family, Tipper! I know you are looking forward to meeting your grandbabies!
A happy and healthy New Year to everyone. May you receive so many blessings you lose count!
Happy New Year!
I know you be excited yhis yr having those grandbabies. The one due in March. Hope she has it on either, the 7, or 10, or 20th. Happy new year Tipper. God bless you all Tell Granny Happy new year and God Bless her with good health.
Happy New Year, Tipper & family
Happy New Year to you & your family Miss Tipper, as well as all of our blind pig & the acorn family here on this platform.
May God bless us all in this new year.
Tipper, my husband loved Mattâs new hatchet, he had it googled and pulled up just minutes after you named it, in your video. Happy 2024 to you and Matt, those grandbabies are gonna make it your best year EVER, I promise you! (youâll finally know how much Granny Gazie adored Tipper!) And again, thank you for sharin your simple life with us, seriously, it makes this country seem a little more normal than those that would have us believe otherwise.
May Godâs richest blessings be yours in 2024.
Happy New Year from Alberta, Canada! May the New Year bring you many blessings in abundance of love, joy, health, peace and prosperity!
Happy New Year to all. Tipper, I’ve tried to view the video and every time I click on it a blank page comes up and says it has been removed and it says go to home. I was afraid to click on home because I didn’t know where utube was diverting me to. Is that safe or not.
Dee-sorry about that I fixed it đ
New Years are always something we all tend to look forward to. But lest we forget, to have only ‘best’ days without trials, can we really appreciate those good ones?
I know that after a long blast of cold days, there’s nothing I love more than a gentle southern breeze and warm sun on my face to announce the end of winter & welcome the promise of spring. The Scriptures tells us to give thanks in all things! I had been struggling with a cold since Thursday. Awaking this morning, the cold has dissolved! I am grateful. They seem to visit every 4 or 5 years just to remind me that normally I am blessed with health.:)
Happy New Year Tipper, to you and your family! Thank you for all you share on this blog and you YouTube channel!
Happy New Year to ALL đ
New Year’s Poem
BY MARGARET AVISON
The Christmas twigs crispen and needles rattle
Along the window-ledge.
A solitary pearl
Shed from the necklace spilled at last weekâs party
Lies in the suety, snow-luminous plainness
Of morning, on the window-ledge beside them.
And all the furniture that circled stately
And hospitable when these rooms were brimmed
With perfumes, furs, and black-and-silver
Crisscross of seasonal conversation, lapses
Into its previous largeness.
I remember
Anneâs rose-sweet gravity, and the stiff grave
Where cold so little can contain;
I mark the queer delightful skull and crossbones
Starlings and sparrows left, taking the crust,
And the long loop of winter wind
Smoothing its arc from dark Arcturus down
To the bricked corner of the drifted courtyard,
And the still window-ledge.
Gentle and just pleasure
It is, being human, to have won from space
This unchill, habitable interior
Which mirrors quietly the light
Of the snow, and the new year.
“New Yearâs Poem” by Margaret Avison. Reprinted from Always Now: The Collected Poems (in three volumes) by Margaret Avison, by permission of the Porcupineâs Quill. Š The Estate of Margaret Avison, 2003.
Good morning, Tipper! I wish you, your family, and all your followers the very best new year!! God’s blessings on all!
Thank you for the good wishes Tipper and the family – and I wish you each the same good things. Your typo is an easy one I think we all are guilty of – I know I am, and find it can take a few days or longer to ‘accept’ what year I am in now!! May Granny’s test results be positive and she will regain good health once again. May these last few months for the girls be easy ones for them as count down begins. The Lord bless and keep each one of you and yours throughout this new year! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
I like the vintage picture at the top, and I don’t think I have ever actually thought about it being “Have a Happy 365 days” , or rather 366 in this Leap year of 2024. Happy New Year in 2024 to everyone : )
May you and all of your family have a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2024. You will be happy to know that Weather Underground is predicting snow for your region during the next week. I hope for your sake it happens and doesn’t disrupt your plans. I don’t feel like my day has started without a dose of Blind Pig–thank you. thank you.
Happy New Year to everyone!! Wishing all the Blind Pig and Acorn family a year filled with love, peace and joy. Praying for Granny to get good news and those two precious grandsons to arrive safe and healthy.
Wishing you and your whole family a Happy New Year!
Last night I told my son it was 2026.
Happy New Year Tipper and family. I hope this one will be healthier and happy. Cant wait to see the babies. Anna from Arkansas.
Thanks, Tipper! I hope you, Matt, Granny, Katie, Corie, Austin, Paul and those beautiful baby boys have the best year ever coming up. I’m so blessed by your family and great Appalachian culture that we share. Happy New Year! Your friend in SC, Jane
Wishing all BP&A family a Christ filled new year.
It’ll take me til March before I’ll write 2024 without stopping to think about it.
Happy By lop New Year to the Entire Blind Pig Gang. I especially love reading the replies to this amazing blog. May we all have a prosperous New Year and a healthy one
Happy New Year to all associated with the Blind Pig and the Acorn. Looking forward to new stories, new births and a great growing season.
A lady I know posted a yard sale ad on a neighborhood website with an incorrect date. The ad boasted great bargains today only, September 2, 1923. Lots of folks asked questions but no one mentioned her mistake. I’m praying 2024 is a better year for all of us. God bless Granny with good health!
Happy New Year 2024
Happy New Year to everyone out there.
2024 is a leap year – 366 days
Happy New Year! May 2024 be filled with abundant blessings for you all.
Thanks Tipper for another great year!!
Good morning Miss Tipper & Happy New Year to you & your family as well as all of our blind pig & the acorn family here on this platform.
May God Almighty continue to bless us all throughout this new year (2024)
Happy New Year!! Blessings to the Wilson and Pressley families!
Tipper, we got just a skiff of snow, but it sure is perdy!! Hoping you get some too!
Happy New Year to you and your readers and viewers! I’m so happy to be a part of this community, and look forward to all the goings-on in the coming year!
Happy New Year to all on the goat bluffâŚ..and beyond!
Good morning and Happy New Year to all my BP&A friends. Itâs going to be a good year!! GOD is good!
Happy New Year to you all! I watched the girls blooper video last night and didn’t realize how funny Corie can be. Great humor!
Happy New Year to everyone!!
I pray 2024 is better than 2022 and 2023. Shoot.. it has gone badly since 2020. Let’s all pray for a great 2024!
This year is sure to be exciting around your house. New babies and your girls becoming Mama’s. What a blessing!!
Thank you to everyone who caught my typo. I always have a hard time writing the new year đ and every once in a great while my mind decides to really go back and I write something like 1995 đ
Happy New Year to you and your family! Thank you for all that you do.
I recently found a friend who knows Jim Canada and has seen you do a cooking demonstration. It truly is a small world.
Much love and hopefully a big snow for us in the near future.
Happy New year 2024! Tipper did you do what I do almost every new year? If so, donât feel bad. Just a little earlier then me… Anyway, have a blessed new year. Excited for all the stories you will provide in this New Yesr! â¤ď¸
Leslie-I always do it LOL đ
Lol.. I misspelled Year! Oh well, Happy New Year⌠â¤ď¸
Happy New Year to everyone here at the Blind Pig and the Acorn!!!!
I sure do hope 2024 will be much better than the previous year.
We will eventually meet your two new grand babies đ
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE PRESSLEY/WILSON FAMILY!!! THE NEW YEAR HOLDS MUCH PROMISE WITH NEW BABIES ON THE WAY AND PLANS FOR A BOUNTIFUL GARDEN! I WISH EVERYONE A NEW YEAR OF LOVE, HOPE, JOY AND SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST!!! I wish and pray for your grandsons a healthy and happy life!!! What a year it looks to be!!!
Thank you for the new year wishes. We also wish you and you family a very happy and healthy new year, however, there are 366 days in 2024 as it is a leap year!
Dr. Steve-great catch! I had forgotten about it being a leap year đ
Every year has 365 days in it!
Happy New Year to you all! Praying this morning that it will be blessed and full of joy!
Happy New Year Tipper to you and yoursâ¤
Happy New Year Tipper and family…you might want to change 2023 to 2024…
I enjoy so much being a part of your family..
Carolyn
I thought we already had a 2023 but numbers don’t mean a thing. I just pray that this year is better that last for you and your family!!
I think you mean 2024?
Happy New Year to all of you!!
(You accidentally put 2023 instead of 2024) Wishing you all the best!!
Good morning and Happy New Year everyone! I just watched the blooper video of the girls this morning. It was a fun way to start the day and new year. I pray 2024 brings good health and happiness to each and everyone of us.
Wishing all the BP&TA group a very happy and blessed 2024. Praying that Granny will get excellent test results back. AMEN
Praying for a blessed 2024 for all. Much love everyone.
God bless Granny Wilson with healing and health in 2024
Happy New Year, may the good Lord bless us in 2024, he’s let us live this long, thank you God for our blessings
Happy New Year to everyone. I havenât watched the video but heard a preacher say yesterday(beside our salvation) the most precious gift we can get is the time spent with our families. Nothing on earth, money, career, house, car or whatever it might be more important. I agree with him and tried to tell some of my younger family members back at Christmas the time we spend when we are together is the best gift I can get. Now at my age, I can think of nothing else I need or want more than time to spend with my family and friends. I spent several hours yesterday afternoon talking with two friends, money can not but the enjoyment I got from doing this. One of these friends does not call it talking, he calls it âjawingâ with one another. My New Yearâs resolution is not to make any, this way I wonât have to worry about breaking any of them!
Tipperâs family will be getting at least two precious gifts this year, Grandchildren!
Truer words were never spoken, Randy!
I’m the ninth of nine siblings. Six of them have passed, 4 within the last 2-1/2 years, as have my parents who were born in the 1890s.
I miss them badly, but I thank Almighty God that he gave me the gift of my family.
In the last 12 years around 15 family members have died. Most of them were in my wifeâs family. I love her family members just as much as my own blood kin family. I ate dinner today with her sisters, nieces and nephews. I tried to put into words and tell them what it meant and how important it was for us to spend time together with one another. I have been spending time with her sisters for 50 plus years and there has never been a word spoken between us in madness.