right this very minute! At least a little bit. This will definitely not be the best Christmas ever, in fact it is going to be a hard candy Christmas at best. We are going to have to work harder than ever to find holiday cheer and joy this year. I went back and reread my …
Category: Mountain Living
Late Autumn Drive in the Mountains
We had two nice late autumn drives this week, one with the Upstate MINIs, and the other with a new car club we just joined. We can socialize safely in the parking areas outside, and have a fun drive with pretty scenery. Things like this do help us keep the feelings of isolation at bay. …
A Visit to Bullington Gardens, and Last Days for the Quilt Raffle
Bullington Gardens is a local treasure, not far from our home. With the raffle of the Sunset Dahlia quilt that I quilted for them coming up, I thought you'd like to have a virtual visit to the public botanical garden on 12 acres that the fundraiser is for. These photos were taken some time ago, …
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Apple Festival Round Up
Happy Labor Day! Since this is our usual Apple Festival Weekend, I thought it would be a nice time to see some previous posts with all things apple. Comments are closed on older posts as I was getting a huge amount of spam on those, but posts less than two years old still have comments …
Visiting the Apple Orchards
This is a transitional time in the year for me, still too hot to be considered autumn, but September doesn't feel like summer either. This weekend should be the annual Apple Festival, but the downtown street festival is canceled this year. Instead, the apple orchards are doing individual sales of their apples this weekend, allowing …
The View and Visitors At Our Place
It was an extraordinary morning just yesterday, with an abundance of wildlife in the early morning fog. I didn't get photos of the five deer that were grazing in the meadow, as they went into the forest before the camera could boot up. Fog is a frequent morning visitor here, and I love how it …
A Safely Social Drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway
We always enjoy drives in our beautiful, western North Carolina mountains, and even more so with our MINI clubs. We actually belong to two, one based in North Carolina and one based in the Upstate of South Carolina. This time, the Upstate group planned a safely social drive where the route came very close to …
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Figuring It Out, Safely Social
Does it seem like this isolation is never going to end? As much as I know that someday it will, and we will be able to get back to our fun times, meetings and social events, for now we just have to find a way to bridge the gap. But boy, is it a big …
Hiking Connemara
A short drive from our home is the 260+ acres of the Carl Sandburg estate called Connemara, in Flat Rock. He purchased the home in 1945, and continued to write and publish here until his death in 1967, producing almost a third of his life's work in that time. His wife raised goats, and they …
Being Distantly Social
Bee-bee-beeeeeep! "We're sorry, but the person you have reached has been disconnected." Yep, that's me. Disconnected. Forgive me while I vent for a moment. Just skip this paragraph if you want. My usually busy schedule is now blank, no quilt meetings or shows, no retreats, no classes, no sew-ins for charity or anything else. Quilt …
From My Carolina Home 