My Place and Times Etsy shop has started.

We've only just begun - but I have had my first sale and I am so excited.  Please check out my Etsy Shop.  There are items from my stash I will be unloading from notions, books, patterns, fabric and more. Quilts. Already made totes, zippy pouches and more.  Hand crafted items.  Hand knitted items, and more.  ALL handmade items ae MADE IN THE USA.

I will be updating as much as soon as possible.

I've also set up a facebook page which those I am friends with on FB should have received and invite.

Thanks in advance.

Stacey

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Hi all

It has literally been months since my last post.  It's been crazy here.  I want to start by asking if everyone can PLEASE vote over the next week (6 days actually).  Stacy Nash West from Buttermilk Basin , in my opinion , deserves all the votes we can provide her.  She is very giving to all of us and was nominated and now is a finalist for Martha Steward Made In America.  If you can please click the following link and vote up to 6 times per day..

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So I'm going to sum up life over the last 3 months.

August was busy moving Austin to a new apartment.  We moved him to an apartment complex that Justin (our older son) and his friend Quinn lived in for a few years about 4 years ago in Raleigh.  He started his junior year at college.  (Time needs to slow down).  We almost lost our other dog Piper - she had and although better still has pancreatitits.  After a week at the Animal Specialty Hospital she's doing great.  We've only had one more flair up since which was last week and we were able to nip it without hospitalization.

September was busy with way too many doctor appointments for me but good results.  As most of you know I was diagnosed almost a year ago with Polymyalgia Rheumatica.  I chose to go off steroids in July.  Apparently when doing so my body got very angry with me.  This was the result.

I think it was a flair up of what I had as a child that was also an auto immune disease.  It is much better and is now only a tiny bit on my right leg.   

The cardiologist allowed me to stop taking aspirin because as a child I was told that is what triggered the issues then and although the Polymyalgia is not gone is more manageable. 

I swore I wouldn't post issues but thought it important to that you all know why I haven't posted.  

Now onto happier things........................

Justin and Rachel are working on their wedding which will be here before we know it. 

Austin and Mia are both in school and doing well. 

We decided Keith needs to find a hobby other than growings pumpkins.....................

I planted pumpkin seeds in June.........all was going well and I explained we needed to keep hay under the pumpkins so the grass didn't choke out the vine ...........

as time went on we ended up here.............

then here.................(notice it was moving forward with nothing behind)

then Keith discovered part of the problem is there was a shortage of bees to polinate this year. 

So he decided to do some research and learned there are male and female plants.  The males are just a stem under the flower and the females have nodules.  

Well, "bless his little heart" ...........he decided because the "bees couldn't do it" he decided to try and hand polinate.  So as I looked on..............Keith removed a male flower from the vine and took it over to the female plant.  He took the male flower and turned it upside down onto the top of the female flower.  I went inside and as I turned to see if Keith was following behind I watched as the female flower just bent over and died.  She apparently did not like the manual polination performed by Keith..  Sorry honey, but it was a priceless moment.  

Well then Keith found out that part of the problem was that there were centepedes.  aka rolly pollys  - because of the late cool weather........we didn't have any June bugs.  As much as we hate those beetles they eat grub.  Well, after more research we found that coffee grinds would kill the grubs.  I just want to throw in at this point a pumpkin - huge pumpkin is maybe $25?????????? But nope we weren't 

giving up.  So next , yup,, "Stace.....when you go to Starbucks tomorrow can you get coffee grinds?"  me............"Are you kidding?".......Keith :  "no they do it all the time"  so, yup off to Starbucks the next day......get to speaker...order drink.....drive up to window.........."Hi, sorry to ask but my husband wants to know if I can get your used coffee grinds for his pumpkin plants"........Barista "oh, people do it all the time but we gave away the ones today if you can come back tomorrow around noon we'll hold them"  so, ok, that went better than expected.  Well the next day I go back to get grinds, back to speaker, order drink....up to window "hi, I spoke to a girl yesterday and she said y'all would hold the coffee grinds for me"  the guy said - "yup, we have them, but you'll have to come inside. "  I said really?  why is that?  he said because they weigh about 30 lbs.  I think the look on my face was priceless.  So in I went and got the grinds and brought them home.  It doesn't stop there..........on the way home I called Keith to give him the good news about the grinds.  He asked if I would spread them on what was left of the pumpkin vine.  I said "No, the bag weighs 30 lbs.  I can't lift it"  He said "Well take a cup at a time out of the car" - I said "uh noooooooooooooooo"  Well he came home and diligently put grinds on the plants every night but we are now mourning the lost of the Pumpkin Plant.  The ladies I stitch with on Thursdays suggested changing out pumpkins weekly until it appeared to have grown.  Good idea but would have been hard to get by Keith. 

Other than that Keith just celebrated his birthday camping with the Justin and Rachel.........

and as I posted on Facebook......

they might look like they were homeless but nope they were just camping.............

well tata for now I hope to post more often.............

I'll try to post a recipe or two for the season before the end of the week. 

HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stacey

Disclaimer - I had 1000000 interruptions when writing this so if there's something that doesn't make sense or typo - so sorry!  lol