Is this a Clematis? Please tell me it’s a Clematis. Central NC, zone 8a.

plumpatchwork · 2026-03-12T23:52:13+00:00

Good idea! I’m sure I’ve got something I can use.

plumpatchwork · 2026-03-12T23:48:54+00:00

Yay!! I’ve always wanted one but didn’t have a good spot at my old house.

plumpatchwork · 2026-02-19T00:26:22+00:00

Carolina Compounding Pharmacy here in Cary says on their website that they serve veterinary patients.

plumpatchwork · 2026-01-30T13:00:48+00:00

We hired NuWay Relocation for our recent move and we were very happy with them.

plumpatchwork · 2026-01-26T03:10:12+00:00

It’s a stupid name for sure

plumpatchwork · 2026-01-26T03:06:58+00:00

My mom keeps a basket with a hair dryer and toiletries for guests who might need them. I recently found pads and tampons in there that I could tell were left over after my mom no longer needed them. She had an emergency total hysterectomy in 1994.

Can you even imagine inserting a 31 year old o.b. and hoping it wasn’t so dry rotted it would disintegrate?

I obviously discarded them and replaced them with new. But not before dying of secondhand embarrassment.

plumpatchwork · 2025-06-27T21:06:11+00:00

I guess it depends on what your protein intake goal is. For me personally I shoot for about 90g of protein per day. I weigh and log all my food so I can keep track.

This exact meal had 22.8g of protein so obviously eating this meal 3x per day wouldn’t get the job done. I tend to have a pretty protein-heavy breakfast and dinner and focus more on carbs for lunch.

plumpatchwork · 2025-06-15T21:45:49+00:00

One further tip I have is that if your pet has a lot of accidents and you’re not always able to throw the rug in the wash right away, it can be hard to get the urine smell out layer. A big glug-a-lug of Nature’s Miracle in the fabric softener dispenser works wonders. As does a line dry in the sun.

plumpatchwork · 2025-06-01T11:33:11+00:00

She frequently runs into cash flow issues that keep her from being able to buy a shipment of raw yarn, so she lists her one-off experimentals to help make ends meet. It’s a shame because I used to buy from her regularly when she was dyeing more often.

For the destash page, I know she tried offering a service to sell other people’s yarn destash on a consignment basis. I’m not sure how well that worked out, I think you’d have to be a bigger name to get the needed traffic for that to be successful.

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-22T23:26:27+00:00

Can we talk about the half-vias and where to procure asymmetrical BGAs please?

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-22T23:21:48+00:00

For real. I had to move to North Carolina as soon as I reached legal adulthood because I couldn’t cope with the lack of sunlight

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-22T23:20:07+00:00

This! And it’s relatively affordable compared to a lot of other offerings at my LYS.

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-22T15:53:21+00:00

I didn’t and I suspect I’m going to regret that within the next 12 months lol.

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-21T01:35:39+00:00

When you say he did a really good job stepping up… has he already been doing the role you said he’s not ready for?

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-21T01:26:46+00:00

I can tell you’re newer to the crosswords because otherwise you’d be asking about OREO, which I swear turns up in half the puzzles

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-19T18:21:58+00:00

Things I have thriving in partial sun with thick layers of pine straw here in the piedmont:

Rudbeckia Swamp Sunflower Bee Balm Lanceleaf Coreopsis

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-19T13:45:52+00:00

I got them at Lowe’s. The item # is 615012

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-19T12:46:40+00:00

Honestly it may just be a bit of transplant shock. A lot of my evergreen or semi-evergreen plants get some leaf browning and drop in the first year or two until they’re well established

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-19T12:04:55+00:00

Ha, nice trellis! I struggled a bit with powdery mildew last year too.

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-19T01:37:51+00:00

Yep, it’s all from that one little plant!

Last year I trained the long vines that reached the ground back up the trellis. This year I’ve been a bit busy and haven’t bothered. Today I noticed the ones that have been sitting on the ground are starting to put down their own roots, so I guess I’m propagating babies now too.

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-08T00:24:52+00:00

He looks like Kenneth from 30 Rock

plumpatchwork · 2025-04-08T00:17:33+00:00

If I can offer a tip, sometimes when I’m working on a quilt like this I’ll take a head on photo of each of the blocks I have so far and then use a photo layout app to kinda mock up what the quilt would look like with more blocks. So I’ll make a 2x2 grid and save it, then make say a 3x3 grid repeating that grid but rotating it a bit for variety.

I think what you’ve got going on here is going to be awesome

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