What a Weekend It Was!

Three of us tackled the Virginia Creeper Trail on Saturday!

Things are still lush and green, but starting to turn a bit yellow – early fallen leaves are starting to cover the trail – and oh, the smell of nature, the richness of it – it just fills all of your senses as you pedal and coast your way from White Top down to Damascus.

When I am riding like this – I feel 12 years old.  It’s just wonderful, and I am grateful for a body that still functions well enough to be able to ride like a child.

That is until I pedal my pedal right off!

There I was…just a going down the trail and all of a sudden I had no left pedal.  It literally flew off!  I have never had that happen before.

luckily Jason had his tools in his backpack and we were able to get it back on, and get me going again.  It would have been a long walk otherwise!

Such a gorgeous day!

The temps have sure changed as well – I rode with a long sleeved tee under a zipped hoodie.  The breeze was crisp to perfection.

Making the most of every day we have together!

Chillin’ down at the bottom!

I don’t think I’ll be able to ever downplay the day I rode the pedal right off my bike.  LOL! 

Father and son enjoying the deck fire pit.

We aren’t sure how long Jason is staying.  He wanted to camp his way back to Portland, but – the smoke and the fires are keeping him away. And then there is the weather issue.  It’s starting to get colder – so he may travel west by staying more south where it is warmer, but that isn’t anywhere near where he wants to be.  He had hoped for Rushmore, Yellowstone and the Tetons – He may have to settle for southern Utah and do Brice Canyon and on up.  The jury is still out.

This is my friend Allison’s Appalachian Autumn block!

Isn’t it gorgeous!?

While all of this weekend out-and-about stuff was going on, the Quiltville Store was blowing up with orders for my newest PDF pattern!  I am ecstatic over the response. Truly.

And since orders were still floating in this morning when I woke up – I have decided to make my own rules along the way and continue the sale for ONE MORE DAY!

Appalachian Autumn measures 56 x 56 and is the perfect size for a large table topper, couch throw or wall hanging.

To celebrate I have dropped the price 25٪ to just $9.00. No coupon code needed!

The price reverts back to $12.00 on Tuesday morning my time. That's TOMORROW! So hurry!

The PDF pattern includes 9 pages of instruction, full color photos and abundant graphics taking you through each step from units to blocks to sashings, borders and more!

Click to Saturday's post  for all of the release info.

Or head directly to the digital pattern section of the Quiltville Store.

Yesterday’s post had all the hints on downloading if you are trying to find just WHERE files end up on your iPad.  For what it’s worth – the ONLY trouble folks have had is locating where files automatically go when downloading to an apple product because you can’t choose where they go. They just go there. Once you know – you are good to go!

Yesterday’s post was also our September Quilty Box Gift-Away post!  Did you get your entry in?  The Warehouse District fabric bundle is just to die for – I am in love with the colors and textures of this fabric!

So – here we are at Monday, a brand new week ahead.  Have you set any goals for your week?

Mine all has to do with the organizing of the stash and making things better at the QPO.  More on that tomorrow.

And I am mourning the loss of photos by something stupid I did to my google photo albums to try to change the cover photo of the album which in turn - messed up my whole September photo file and I've lost the photos for all blog posts for the month of September.

Let me restate this - the photos are still in the folder, but the links to post them to the blog have somehow changed and I can not go back and attempt to redo all of the embedded photos for the posts for the month of September. I'm heartsick.  This has happened once before, but I thought we had it solved - and I honestly don't know what did it. 

I don't know how. they just show as boxes with a - symbol. And since life is too short to go backwards, we go forwards from here.

I may not be using google photos to post my photos to my blog in the future. There is just too much to lose and I am heartbroken.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

Thank heavens for the laughter and the humor!

I really miss hugging people, shaking hands, being closer.

What a happy day that will be when we don't have to do this anymore!

Have a wonderful Monday, folks!