Now that a couple of months have passed since the big delivery to Safelight, I emailed them to ask if they now had space to take the rest of the bags. To my surprise, they said that new shelter resident needs have greatly slowed down, and they hadn't used that many bags so far. Their …
September in the Garden
Late summer blooms can still be seen even with the garden winding down in the summer heat. This gorgeous dahlia bloomed recently, heralding the colors of fall right around the corner. I still have cherry tomatoes on the vine, taking their time to ripen in the sun. I planted an avocado seed and have a …
Scrap Dance Twist and Facebook Live
First, I need to apologize to those of you who were on the Facebook live video yesterday. I didn't have my screen set properly so the comments were not scrolling. So it looked like no one had anything to say, and as a result I ended the video too soon. When I realized my mistake, …
Embroidered Quilt of Valor
This Quilt of Valor was brought to me for quilting, and it is a wonderful study in design. Often, our local chapter of Quilts of Valor receives boxes of fabric scraps and orphan blocks. The supplies moved from one storage space to another, and the group had just found a nice space for monthly quilting …
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 …
Working on Quilted Gift Ideas
There is a song that keeps going through my head by Dolly Parton, called a Hard Candy Christmas. Seems like that will be this year, as we can't do many of the fun things and social gatherings that celebrate the season. It seems to me that small gifts and heartfelt cards will be more important …
An Abundance of Tomatoes with Recipe Ideas
This has been the best year I have ever had for tomatoes, thanks to my friend Bonnie H who advised me on what I was doing wrong. Mostly it had to do with sunlight, and getting more of it to the plants. Anyway, this year has seen a bounty of tomatoes, so much so we …
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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From My Carolina Home 