Granny’s mulch has continued to be a blessing in our gardens. It’s so nice to have that giant pile down at the big garden to use anytime we need it.
Matt and I added mulch to the area in front of the greenhouse. We were able to add more than usual because of the abundance of the pile.
After the giant sawing helicopter came through Wilson Holler a more traditional right away clearing crew and a chipping crew came to clean up the mess of branches and small trees. We got them to dump the chips down at the big garden too, so now we have a backup pile for when we run out of Granny’s.
There is a ton of information about using tree mulch and other types of mulch in the garden. There are varying opinions about using it, but we’ve always been pleased with the way it holds in moisture, helps keep the weeds down, and enriches the soil as it decomposes. Thankfully we’ve never had any problems arise from using it.
It’s been almost two months since Granny died. I stopped at the graveyard yesterday evening. As I stood and pondered at Pap, Granny, and Miss Cindy all being gone I was awful sad. But I reminded myself how blessed we were to have them for so long.
As I drove home I was thinking of the things I needed to do before the day was over. One of them was cook supper for my whole bunch.
I took comfort in knowing even something as simple as cooking for their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren is continuing the current of love they used to bless us with when they were still on this side of Jordan.
Last night’s video: We Put Down a Lot of Mulch.
Tipper
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Miss Tipper, I wish I could give you a great big hug and let you know how sweet you are, that we can see how much love you have for all your precious family, both sides of heaven. I cry with you. I pray for God to be there for you and lift you up. Always your friend, always.
Your grandbabies will have sweet memories of you and Matt and their rich Appalachian heritage, just like you do of your parents and grandparents. The legacy will live on through them.
March 28
Dear Tipper,
Your cabbages are absolutely beautiful. You and Matt have a very green thumb with all that mulch.
Take care and much love,
Kathy Patterson
I pray for all the requests from everyone today…and for you Tipper. I watched your mulch video and the girls going shopping last evening. Best shows on tv!! After a day of working or playing with the grandchildren, I like to relax by watching your latest video. We have had a busy day today. The grandchildren and I made an Easter egg tree in the front yard. We tie plastic eggs to our dogwood tree every year. They love it. Then the kids helped Pap pick up sticks in the yard. I have never seen so many tiny sticks in the spring. I guess it’s all the extra windy days we have. The baby (2 yr old) sat on the seat with Pap, and “drove” the tractor back into the woods so they could dump the wagon loaded with sticks. He was so excited to tell me he had driven the tractor. After all the playing and working, they were surely ready for lunch. We all were.
Dear Tipper: Regarding the loved ones you mourn, I know that the very best of each of them lives on in you!
Your video last night made me tired! What a lot of work you both put in! God bless you.
So beautiful ! Love&prayers for all .
Oh Tipper, I am so blessed reading your blog every morning!
I’m so sorry for the sadness you felt Tipper. Its hard to see so many loved ones we sent time with and blessed our lives now in sleep here on earth. In Heaven very much alive and well.
my grt grandparents, uncle’s ,aunts and cousins fill a large part of a cemtery, my mom ,dad,, sister and more in another. when we would go there to decorate as soon as I opened the car door I was in tears thinking how many were gone.
I really enjoyed your video yesterday . Goodness yall worked so hard to mulch everything and it looks great. I spent yesterday building a long grow bed and I,m sore today but gotta change the oil in the mower and hopefully plant those peas I didn’t get to yesterday. lol
you and Matt remind me of my hubby God rest his soul and me . we did everything together. work, turkey hunting ,fishing, he loved deer hunting but i didn’t think I could get one unless I was starving lol so sometimes I would go just to be with him. . I miss our evenings sitting on the porch just enjoying each others company and laughter. Life doesn’t stop for anyone so I keep going with the help of the Lord.
I hope yall have a blessed day ,love to all . susie
What a blessing you all are to each other!
This read was perfect this morning as daddys been gone 2 years today. He was 87 and lived a good life. I am blessed that he was mine. Enjoy your weekend Tipper. This first day of Spring started cold here in the midlands, but it looks like a beautiful weekend is in store for us! I wish I had that mulch! I’d be busy and happy!
Their legacy continues through your wonderful family. Y’all are still in my prayers. Happy first day of spring!
After the loss of my father last November and all the hard grieving I have experienced in the months that have passed, I witnessed the birth of my great grandchild born to my grandson a few weeks ago. She is the most beautiful of babies. Watching my grandson hold his daughter with so much love is a pure and beautiful result of the legacy of love we have built in this family which, of course, was passed down from my parents. I am so thankful and blessed to be a part of this beautiful life in the hard times and sweet times.
I watched the mulch video last night and y’all sure did a lot of work putting it down. I know that tractor was the best investment you and Matt have made for your property. It sure has saved y’all a lot of time using it to take care of things around your property. It’s hard to believe Granny has been gone for 2 months now. It seems the first few months of this year have flown by fast. I realized March 16 made one month that my mother in-law has been gone. She was 91years and 8 months old when she passed. She had lived on her own since her husband passed in 1999. She always seemed to do well, until the first of this year and then she wasn’t. She went faster than even the medical team thought, because she didn’t have any illness or disease, her body just gave up. They called it failure to strive. I think God was just ready for her to come home. My father passed in 2001 and my mom in 2016. My mother in law was our last living parent/grandparent, so it’s been extremely difficult on all our family. We all have grieved in different ways, different times for her and probably will throughout our lives, just as we have our other parents. Thankfully, we have lots of wonderful memories of them all. Most importantly, we have God’s love, comfort, peace and strength to get us all through, until we see them again in our heavenly home.
Grief is a process that never quite leaves us; we just learn to live our lives around the holes as time wears the edges off. Having and being able to use something that belonged to them provides a special bond.
Family is what life is all about in this ole life, and how we ‘do’ for one another – and many times ‘family’ includes those we meet along the way that become like family to us. Prepping the gardens is sure prettying things up! 🙂 As my daughter would say: ‘being in the garden is one of my happy places.’
please pray for my brother Bennie Chester, he has stage 4 cancer, he has tumors in his head now, his condition has gotten much worse, my sister’s took him to copperhill to get mail the other day, according to my sister Shirley, he passed out and fell down, and today my sister Connie tells me he’s having vision problems, thank you for praying and God bless you very much
I will keep praying for him. I’m so sorry.
thank you and God bless you very much
Tipper, you look busy working in your photo and I’m certain you were! It sounds like mulching is good for keeping in moisture and I need to get mulch to put around my newly planted boxwoods or that’s what is recommended so I will try it. There’s an old and I mean old pyrannes dog that runs my yard at night. He leaves very large calling cards around my bushes and I’m not happy about piles as big as a Brahma bull around my fig trees and stuff. But other than that he’s harmless. Baby Chickens are making it and things are fine here. Maybe it will warm up and we can get some sun. Here’s praying for all of you sick especially the children to get well and dance!!! God bless you heroes who just keep it together every day making meals, cleaning, working for a living, loving everybody and never getting a fancy award or recognition from authorities. They’re the REAL heroes not some ball player or big name on a street or signage. There’s a great song by Karen Peck and New River called ‘Round the Kitchen Table and it’s a look at family breakfasts. I like the song a lot and hope you all will too! Thy kingdom come and thy will be done, Lord, this day as I take one day at a time…
Tipper, it is so hard to believe Granny has been gone for two months now. I do miss seeing her and hearing her sing on Paul and your YouTube channels. Thank you and Paul so much for posting past videos. I do understand your loss. My mother will be gone 6 years on May 31st and I still miss her so much. She was the best listener and like your parents and Miss Cindy she was so loving and cared so much about others. My dad, my siblings and their spouses try our best to get together every Thursday night at a local restaurant and socialize. Extended family and friends often join us, too. And that brings me to a special prayer request. My sister, Julia, developed autoimmune hepatitis when she was 19 years old. The disease attacked her liver which eventually led to a liver transplant when she was 38 years old. She went back to work after the transplant and continued working until she could retire at 62. Last year she found out, one year after retirement, that the autoimmune hepatitis has attacked her transplanted liver and she now has cirrhosis again. She has lost a lot of weight and is currently suffering with ascites(fluid in her abdomen) that she has to have drawn off monthly. Julia is a strong Christian and a strong person but she could really use everyone’s prayers right now. We strongly believe in prayer and God’s healing power.
Tammy, I’m so sorry. I will pray for her.
God help and God bless and God heal and make well in Jesus name
Speaking of mulch – sorta – I’d like to have a leaf grinder. I have seen pictures of them, a big funnel on a pipe frame with the grinder underneath at the end of the funnel. I have 4 leaf piles and I could clean them all up. That wouldn’t make mulch of course but sure would make topsoil. Without a grinder I’m reluctant to put leaves on the garden, at least not deep. I’m concerned about mold, mildew and mushrooms. I know you are not using it under your plants so that is different. The mulch and your post about growing mushrooms might well make a pair. I’m guessing that the mulch would not be useful.for growing mushrooms though until it had weathered a couple of years?
Thank you so much.
If we weren’t like family, why would we have tears when you talk about someone we have never met. I pray you have a wonderful day!
Good morning Tipper and Acorns. Tipper, y’all must have more mulch on hand than our local garden center. Adding the mulch up by the greenhouse spruced things up tremendously. I hope you aren’t too sore from moving those big grow bags. They looked so heavy. I hope it saves Matt some of his weed eating chores. I plan on getting a couple of pounds of white clover seed to put on my half acre yard to increase my “clover lawn” so it only needs mowed once a month eventually. I feel that mowing is such a waste of time and money and so polluting. I enjoyed watching y’all spread the mulch. You both work so hard. I also watched the girls’ video of shopping in GA. Corie looks like she feels better after her stomach troubles. I keep everyone here and up Wilson Hollow in my prayers. I love Y’all.
I enjoyed the video. it came to me as I was reading this blog that by sharing your lives with us is a blessings to us and the record will also bless you in the future. You have video and written proof of a good portion of your life to go back to and relive. The ups and downs, although the ups in the future will take priority.
You are a blessing from God.
Tipper I relate so much of how you feel about your loved ones. I ponder a lot when I stand at my parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles graves. I leaves us with the memories and their love that we knew keeps us pressing on. One day it will be a glad reunion day! I love you my sister in Christ.
What a blessing you all are. thanks for sharing family
I love that your momma continues to bless you!
We are blessed that Daddy, Momma, and my father in law are very close together too. One day we will join them and our children have spots between us parents and their grandparents.
When Daddy died I found great comfort going to the cemetery, but after Momma and my brother dying so close I just can’t bear the sadness. Even though my brother was 8 years older than me I took care of him a lot. His death brought great pain to me.
I know they are rejoicing with our Savior now and that brings great comfort.
I wanted to let you know ‘B’ is going to Cincinnati Children hospital on Tuesday to start a treatment program for the brain tumor. We continue to pray for a miracle. My brother in law has just finished his first round of treatment for his lymphoma. We continue to pray for him as well. On a much brighter note, our fourth grandson was born at 12:30 this morning. No matter what life brings God is so good!! All glory to Him!!
I will keep praying for both of them. Congratulations on the new baby! What a blessing for you all!!
Debbie, my family and my wife’s family were friends even before our marriage, went to church together and very close to one another. Now many of them have died, I make it a priority to try to visit their graves at least once a week and keep fresh artificial flowers on their graves. Doing this makes me feel better and helps me feel like I am respecting them and in someway giving them back some of the love we had for one another. I intend to go to my wife and daughter’s grave this morning, many of her family are also buried near their graves. I will pray for you and your family.
You brought tear to my eyes with this sweet post. God be with you.
May God continue to bless you. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.