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Happy New Year 2025

January 1, 2025

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  2. Miss Tipper, Praying y’all are feeling better soon. Matt should see a doctor and get checked out. So many bad things going around these days. Happy New Year to all the BP&A people and to every one of your followers, friends and family. We all need to think positive and look for to this New Year to bring a better day every day and when any day is bad remember, there is always tomorrow to look forward to and if not, the Lord is on the other side, Waiting, watching over all of is. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF THE BLIND PIG AND THE ACORN FAMILY. MAY THE LORD GOD KEEP YOU ALL SAFE AND WELL FOR THIS COMING YEAR 2025. GOD BLESS THE PRESSLEY AND WILSON FAMILIES. AMEN

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  9. Happy New Year! You and your family, Tipper, are a blessing to so many. Thank you for all the posts and videos you put together. God bless you!

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  10. Happy New Year to everyone!
    Have always heard of pages referred to as leafs. Like in a ‘loose leaf notebook’, or leafing through pages/books. Thought of a table that has a removable section for making it larger /smaller. Heard that as ‘taking out/adding in’ a leaf.

    Prayers for the needs mentioned here. Have been familiar with these troubles, also.

    Blind Pig does still feel like home 🙂

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  12. Happy New Year from Pennsylvania.
    How precious are those hand made Christmas gifts. There are some pictures that you included above and the one from Father’s Day with you and your dad looks like he’s wearing the shirt that Kori used to make your gift.

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  13. Happy New Year to the entire BP&A gang, as well as the readers! I so enjoy your posts, Tipper, as well as everyone’s comments. Looking forward to another wonderful year reminiscing and sharing with like-minded people.

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  18. Just a reminder to everyone- eat plenty of collards and black eye peas today if you want to have money this year. Collards for folding money and black eye peas for change.

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  20. Happy New Year to you, Tipper, and all your family. I look forward to all the blogs and videos ahead for 2025 from you and yours. I ,too, grew up leafing through the Bible and other books. I haven’t heard that term used for several years.

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  24. Happy and blessed new year to all who spend time here. Tipper, thank you for the place to gather.
    May you and your sweet family have a blessed year.

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  26. Happy New Year to Y’all. prayers for a wonderful year! Thanks for all the videos. Makes me feel like I’m visiting home/Cherokee county for a visit . hopefully we’ll made it down there in spring or summer

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  29. Praying for a happy and healthy new year to all the Blind Pig gang and readers. Tipper, we hope you will continue to provide us with a daily dose of Appalachia in 2025 and beyond. God bless Granny.

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  32. Thankful for your blog and videos we enjoy. Happy New Year to y’all. God bless Granny. Ramona and I will have our 50 th wedding anniversary in February!

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  33. Happy New Year to the Pressley’s and Wilson’s. I pray for Granny especially. Looks like you may have your wish for snow soon, Tipper! I’m waiting for a video of you sledding down your driveway!

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  36. I will certainly be stopping by for visiting. I had an aunt and uncle that would come to my grandparents EVERY Sunday afternoon. I know how much my grandparents looked forward to that. I feel the same way every time I stop to visit with the Pressley’s. Happy new year to all your family.

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  37. HAPPY NEW YEAR Y’ALL! Wishing everyone here a beautiful, healthy and prosperous year. God Bless us all!

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  39. Happy New Year. Thank you for sharing Appalachian history. May 2025 be a great year for you and family.

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  42. Oh yes, we’ll come by. I thought of something I wanted to ask you the other day. Is the expression “take a leaf out” used around Murphy? By “leaf” I mean a page, such as out of a pocket notebook. I seem to have a dim memory of the old timers who carried notebooks in the bib of their overalls calling a page a “leaf”. Around here I’ll tell Sharon “I need to ask Tipper ….” You make me want to hold on to old things and old ways of speaking and doing and being. Even if it is a New Year

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    2. Ron- I worked as a librarian for several years. We often referred to a page in a book as a leaf and a book had many leaves. Among a few of us we came up with leaflet being a derivative of that. Meaning it was a page (leaf) but not a full book (let). We would often say someone “tore a leaf out” or “wrote on a leaf” in a book.

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    3. Aren’t pages in any book still called leaves? Maybe the world has passed me by! I grew up leafing through the Bible, dictionaries and such!

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    5. Ron, I have heard of the 3 ring notebooks students use to carry to school being called leaf notebooks so my feeble mind thinks a sheet or page of notebook paper could have been called a leaf. My Grandaddy carried one of those small notebooks in the bib pocket of his overalls. A local fertilizer dealer would give them to him along with a short pencil, both of them advertised Bulldog fertilizer. I have one of each, now if I could only find them. Concerning “sheet” of paper, that is name we called a page of notebook paper when I was in school during the 60’s.

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  46. happy New Year Granny Wilson, God bless you, you are on my prayer list, each time I read my prayer list, I mention your name to the Lord, then I pray for you, I love you Granny

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  49. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025. May this be the best year yet. To all the bind pig and the acorn family and readers.

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  51. Happy New Year to everyone! New year with new hope and new possibilities. Looking forward to all the good things God has in store for me.

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  53. May God Bless you, Matt and family abundantly in this new year, in each of these brand new days.
    You all have blessed others way more than you’ll ever know.
    Thank you for sharing with us all.

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  56. Happy New Year everyone! I am usually not awake at 4 am but the nursing home where my dad is living just called me. Of course, I thought the worst, but it was the nurse asking for my help. My dad was moved to a new room today because he had been in a rehab room waiting on a regular one to open up. He has dementia, so change is not something he can deal with. Apparently, he hasn’t slept at all tonight and he keeps ringing the nurse with his call button. Then he tells her to get out. He wants to go back to his old room. I know it will take a few days for him to settle and she thought maybe if I talked to him, I could calm him down. I knew it wouldn’t work, and I am sure she is having a terrible night. I am just gonna pray for her and my dad, and myself—because this is really stressful.

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    2. Brenda, I was also up before 4 which is really not unusual. I am up and down during the night. When I woke up, I looked at the local news on my iPad. There was a very bad wreck near me with at least one being killed ( actually 4), the picture of the vehicle they were showing looked like it might be my grandson’s truck. I was very upset and worried. Now after my daughter and wife’s deaths I feel like I couldn’t handle anymore. I feel sorry for you or anyone else having to deal with a loved one having dementia. There have been members of both mine and my wife’s family to have it. My sister is in a rehab center / nursing home, when I visit her,I see many there with it. She does not have it. I will pray for both you and your Daddy.

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      1. Thank you Tipper and Randy. I appreciate your prayers very much. I am sorry if I sounded so down this morning. I am truly blessed and have much to be thankful for today and always. I was just a little shook up from the early call, but I am feeling much better now. Thank you again. Happy New Year to everyone!!

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    3. Oh Brenda, I can sympathize with you with your Dad. My Mom is 98 living in Assisted Living & she has some dementia. She often has bad dreams & thinks they are real & gets so upset. I am the only one who can convince her they are just dreams. It is so heartbreaking for us isn’t it, but I am in constant prayer for her & I know she will surely go to heaven when the time comes & be waiting for me & my siblings. I will pray for you & your precious Dad. Sending you a
      hug

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      1. Thank you Cheryl. I will say prayers for you and your mama also. It is so sweet to have so many people on this blog that pray for each other. .

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  57. Happy New Year to everyone. The year for my area is starting out cold, looking at weather forecast for the next 7-10 days looks to be very cold with below average temperatures.

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