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Today as all of us are eating good food and fellowshipping one with another I’ll be thinking of all the things I have to be thankful for.

Blind Pig Readers are at the top of my thankful list so you’ll be one of the things I study on.

I am truly grateful for each of you who stop by for a daily dose of Appalachia. Your visits and comments make me more determined to continue my endeavor of celebrating and preserving the rich culture and heritage of Appalachia AND they enrich the very life I’m living each day.

I wish each of you a day full of blessings!!

Happy Thanksgiving from the whole Blind Pig Gang! And as Pap used to say “Don’t eat too much or you’ll bust your belly.”

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  1. Happpy Thanksgiving to you, Tipper, and all your family. We’re out traveling so our feast was on the following Sunday. Didn’t matter a bit that it wasn’t on the usual day. We were able to be with daughter and son-in-law. We are thankful for every day and all our blessings God has provided. Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful.

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  2. Happy belated Thanksgiving, Tipper and the entire family! I’m late to post because I’ve been busy cleaning, cooking, cleaning more and entertaining company…then cleaning, eating, and decorating for Christmas! Oh, and more eating! As a reader who came here after finding your videos on YouTube several years ago, I’m thankful for the videos, blog, and all the preservation and celebration that is our Appalachian ways of life! God bless you all…and how wonderful to see Granny ring the bell! More things to be thankful for, no doubt! Now, I gotta’ get in here and make some turkey noodle soup for supper tonight and finish off this dressing for dinner today!

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  4. Belated Happy Thanksgiving!!! I wasn’t able to read this post on time because I was so busy preparing Thanksgiving dinner for my family. I don’t want to miss your post so if I ever miss a day or two, I always go back to where I left off . We had a wonderful day of fellowship and thankfulness here and I know you did in southern Appalachia, as well. Yesterday, I shared a lot about you and your family with my sister-in-law. I have three CDs on the way and can hardly wait to get them. Your blog posts, YouTube channel and your girls’ channel have become an integral part of my daily life. I am so thankful and blessed to have all of you in my life!!!!!

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  5. I hope you & your family had a great thanksgiving Miss Tipper, as well as every blind pig reader on here.
    We are very thankful for you and your family to Miss Tipper.

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  7. This message is a little late now, I did what your pap said not to do, I eat way too much Thanksgiving dinner. Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of the Blind Pig and the Acorn gang.

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  9. Happy Thanksgiving to all. It’s been a long and wonderful day with precious family. God is so good to us all. I hope everyone rests up and sleeps good tonight. I’m thinking about going to bed early tonight. My eyelids are getting droopy and my pillow is calling my name.

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  13. Happy Thanksgiving to All of You! I am so grateful for you all. Each of you have enriched my life in your own way. Thankful to each of you for letting me be a part of your lives and for sharing them with me. Have a wonderful day! Continuing to pray for you all! Much love from SC, Jane

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  14. Thank you, Tipper, and the entire Blind Pig & Acorn gang for all you do every day in keeping us in touch with our Appalachian roots. I love the comments of other BP&A readers, too … such sweet, kindred spirits. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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  17. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of your beautiful family. please give granny a big hug. may the good Lord bless you all.

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  18. Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for your positive work celebrating the people, the places, the joy of Appalachia. It makes me smile every time I read your words. And in fact, that very action of smiling, reminds me of my own Dad and his side of the family. They were Eastern Kentucky folk and always ready with a beautiful smile and a great big hug.

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  19. . Thank you.

    May Granny and all of the Pressley and Wilson family have a blessed time together this Thanksgiving day and weekend. Psalm 100:5, “For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations.”

    A year ago I did not know about this blog or Celebrating Appalachia the Y t channel and and am thankful to have found you this year. Tomorrow!! Tomorrow I get to open the “Songs of Christmas” CD by Paul & Mr. Wilson and listen and enjoy for the first time : ) I am looking forward to that.

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  21. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well as the Blind Pig Folks! We had Thanksgiving with my wife’s family last Saturday. Forty-three of us his year aged 81 years to 8 months. We usually host it but with my injury in July someone else had to take over this time. I enjoyed time with nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and even five great great nieces and nephews, We hope to be with my family the weekend before Christmas.

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  27. Prayers, God’s blessings and my thankfulness for you all and to your viewership, today tomorrow and always. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Jennifer

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  30. Thank you Tipper. Hope you all have a wonderful day. And thank you for all the work you do on the Blind Pig and Celebrating Appalachia. I think I speak for so many of us when I say that we consider you all to be like family.

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  34. Bountifull blessings to Tipper, and all of her family, and to all of us who enjoy sharing the day with them. Enjoy your gatherings, and as you look around your table today, make note of everyone. We are never sure what changes will come before we sit at the Thanksgiving table a year from now.
    Enjoy the feast! Love, Peace and Joy to all!

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  37. Love those old postcards. My grandmother passed a few if them to me when I was young. Some from the late 1800s. I looked at the pics, the 2cent stamps and read the messages. Many were Christmas, some Easter, some were places and buildings, like hotels stayed at while traveling. lol, I would subdivide them. Years. Subjects. Senders. A lot of time has passed and they are such treasures to me.

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  39. Happy Thanksgiving Tipper and to your family! We are blessed to be a part of your blogs and we watch you on you tube! You have a wonderful family and we Love your mama! Have a wonderful day with your family!

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  40. Happy Thanksgiving to all your family and all the wonderful people who share your love of the Appalachians!!

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  42. Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Tipper and all the family!
    Y’all are a blessing to us, too!
    Today, the Blind Pig and the Acorn family are sure on my thankful for list. We pray for Granny every night.
    We all know Matt won’t become unfed today!!!

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  43. May God’s grace and favor be with you and your family on this day of Thanksgiving. My grandfather used to say when he had eaten until he was stuffed, I can still chaw but I can’t swaller.

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  44. Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you have a very blessed day with your wonderful family.
    I am so thankful for your blog and YouTube channel. I look forward to your posts everyday.

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  47. Every time you tell us, Tipper, that you are thankful for each and all of us; I think, “It should be us thankful for you.” But that is actually not quite right. It should be – and is – thankfulness all around. I thought this morning that there would be a word that best describes us all. And there is. Norman Chester said it today. It is “friends”, sharing enough in common to value each other but leaving room still for degrees of closeness, for growth and for change. The only odd thing is that we are friends who mostly have never met. Even then, from things you all have posted I know I shall meet you. But even here and now in “the fellowship of kindred minds” as someone wrote (to which I would add “spirits”), that is no barrier.

    1TH5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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  48. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Remember to be thankful for all your blessings today and every day. After reading all the comments today we all have so much to be thankful and grateful for. I am so glad Granny has another Thanksgiving to celebrate. Next year we will have a new baby to celebrate and hopefully another with Granny. Love and prayers to all of you on this journey we are all traveling together. I am thankful for all of you and the support and comfort we all share.

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  53. Hi Tipper
    I want to wish you all a wonderful and Blessed Thanksgiving, when I read, “Don’t eat too much or you’ll bust your belly”, that is something like my own Daddy would say too, it brought a smile to my face so I guess it is true when it was said you know you are doing better when a memory will bring a smile instead of a tear and I am so grateful for that, prayers for our Special Granny.

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  54. Tipper and family Happy Thanksgiving Enjoy the with all the family. Hopefully Granny will be able to participate

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  56. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TIPPER! HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL YOU BP&A blog readers and your families too! May the Lord bless you and keep you and cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you! Jesus Christ is EVERYTHING! I’m thankful and blessed in every way!!!

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  58. Happy Thanksgiving!
    May your stuffin be tasty
    May your turkey be plump
    May your taters and gravy
    Have nary a lump
    May your dumplins be delicious
    And your pies take the prize
    And may your Thanksgiving dinner
    Stay off of your thighs!

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  61. Happy Thanksgiving to one and all, near and far. May we all reflect on the abundant blessings from our Lord and Savior and celebrate each moment God gives us with our friends and families. Much love to everyone and God bless.

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  63. Happy Thanksgiving to each & everyone in your family. I am so thankful for your blog, your channel & Katie & Corie’s channel. I have learned so much about Appalachia this past year & also how to live a better life through your example. God has blessed me in so many ways this year even though I had some hard times & heartache this year. I am so thankful that Granny is finished with her treatments & that she is here to enjoy the Thanksgiving time with her whole family. God bless you …. one & all. Hugs!

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  64. Happy Thanksgiving! We are blessed! We get a lot of enjoyment and peace watching Celebrating Appalachia.So much to be thankful for. God is good!

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  66. Happy Thanksgiving to Tipper, her personal family and extended family (her readers and watchers). What an amazing group that is and how many and the many places they extend, we don’t know. I’ll bet they are all as thankful as I am to have found her. Enjoy your day wherever you are, whether with a crowd or no one else because we are all together in a very special way thanks to this special lady.

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  67. Ere I left my room this morning, as I began to pray, a thought came into my head. Granny made it ’til Thanksgiving! That’s what I am most thankful for today!

    I hope you and all of you make today the best Thanksgiving she has ever had!

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  68. I’m looking forward to hearing about everyone’s reactions to your special display of family photos. It’s such a thoughtful thing to do- sharing pictures and even Matt’s clever little stands. I have just boxes and boxes of photos that need sorting and sharing. Hopefully I can make that my next project. There are going to be 10 of us getting together to eat and visit today and it will all go by so quickly. Best wishes to you and yours, which includes us Blind Pig readers and all your Celebrating Appalachia viewers!

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  71. In a time when the world has gone crazy, it’s so good to visit with you each day Tipper. I get my daily dose of God’s love! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. May God bless you all and fill your hearts with his wonderful love.

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  72. Tipper,
    I wish you, your family, and everyone who reads this blog the happiest of Thanksgivings! I feel so thankful to have a wonderful family, good food to eat and a warm home to live in. God Bless you all!

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  73. Happy Thanksgiving!

    Even though I live in Canada and we celebrate Thanksgiving in October, I’m doing it all over again today. I’m so blessed I get Thanksgiving twice a year.

    Be blessed and enjoy every moment with family.

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  74. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, Tipper. We all certainly have much to be thankful for each and every day and I am grateful to have found Celebrating Appalachia and Blind Pig and the Acorn, truly a blessing to me. May God richly bless you all.

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  75. Gobble Gobble till you wobble
    Enjoy your day with family and friends
    Most of all I am thankful for our Savior and all the blessings He has bestowed upon us
    Be giving as you also are thankful

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  80. Happy Thanksgiving friends of Appalachia, Praise God today, give him thanks for all things Good!! ❤️

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  84. Happy Thanksgiving to all y’all! We consider you at the top of our blessings too! May your day be full of joy and goodness!

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  85. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family! Thank you for inviting us into your life and sharing your family values with all of us . It brings back a lot of memories from my childhood and I love your cookbook and my family also loves your biscuit recipe. I hope you all are doing.

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  88. I’m wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving day and always.
    I’m thankful for so many things, my family, my granddaughter had a bad wreck Tuesday, farmers cutting greens had left a lot of mud on the highway, it was raining and she hit it started to slide and lost control of her car, went off the road hit a light pole the car turned on its side but thank God she’s alright, she was in a Toyota 4 Runner, I believe that saved her. One thing I would like to tell the people on here is she had upgraded her iPhone to an Apple 15, and she didn’t know it has this incredible feature on it, once the car came to a stop she was trying to find her phone but was hanging in her seat belt and couldn’t reach very far, suddenly she heard something and it was her phone saying that it looked like she was in an accident, she found the phone by the sound, it was under a deployed airbag. The phone will ask you a couple of times if you’re in an accident if you don’t answer it will then start calling 911 and people on your emergency list. God is good. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL. AND BLESSINGS TO ALL.

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  90. Happy Thanksgiving to Tipper, the Deer Hunter, Chitter, Chatter, Austin (you need to give him a name that means steady), Granny, Paul and Mark, all the rest of your family and of course Little Bit. God Bless you and keep you and yours.

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  91. Every morning I look forward at 6ish to my dose of Appalachia…never disappointed and always learning. Your family is so ‘put together’ so to speak with all the goods and bads. Sharing in your daily trials and tribulations, like the rest of us, but still learning. I am still praying for Granny in my dailies and anticipating your 2024. Thank you for all you teach and still praying for Granny. God Bless you guys.

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  92. Tipper, thank you for the well wishes and likewise to all of you! Thank you for all you do to share with us your life in Appalachia, it’s always a blessing!!! Love from the DC area..

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  93. Good Morning Tipper! Happy Thanksgiving to you and all the Blind Pig Gang! I look forward to the stories of your life in Appalachia and I thank you for them!

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  94. Happy Thanksgiving to you! Thank you for providing something positive in our inbox on a daily basis. Think of me when you are eating one of those famous rolls. Enjoy!

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  100. One other thing, I will be praying for the Tipper, Matt and the family members and also for the other members that have lost loved ones throughout the year. I know how hard the Holiday’s can be.

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  101. Happy Thanksgiving to all! I have been thinking a lot about the past when all of mine and my wife’s family were still living and the many, many good, happy times we spent together enjoying one another. Now there is not many of us left. One of my greatest joys at Thanksgiving would be going rabbit hunting either with my Daddy or after marriage my father in law and a few other family members on Thanksgiving morning and coming back in and eating dinner about 1 o’clock. I beg everyone to spend as much time as possible with your family and loved ones, don’t wait until they are gone to find out this is the most important thing you can do in life outside of your relationship with God. I am very grateful to have never known what it was like to live in my family or with my wife’s’ family and not get along with one another, (be mad) there was never anything but love for one another, we were always happy when we got together. Despite everything that happens in life, God is continually blessing us. Sometimes I have trouble remembering this. One thing I definitely intend to do is spend some time at my wife and daughter’s graves.

    Today my sister in law (notice I didn’t say former sister in law) is cooking a dinner for the ones that are left. I intend to show her my appreciation for her hard work by eating and busting my gut/belly!

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    2. You are blessed to have always been on good terms with your family members like that. Not everyone is. I think that says a lot (of good) about your family! May the Lord be especially close to you all today and always.!

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