Hummingbirds, Gardening, On-Line Selling,

Our Hummingbird Feeder 

My hanger for the hummingbirds I made from a  Mountain Laurel Branch

Re-posted ~ I wrote this to a friend:

Terror in my heart this AM  

I walked outside to drink my coffee this morning and I had just sat down when our hummers started buzzing their feeder hanging from our cabin eve overhanging from the roof when one of the hummingbirds fell and was hanging by its' beak caught in a spider string web. It was helpless and my heart went to my stomach.  I am still shaking but I took my wood incense burner stick and twirled it in the spider web and then freed the tiny bird just hanging upside down from it. Those webs are so strong, I broke it and freed the bird and it flew away.  Oh, Thank Goodness I was there!  What was seconds seemed like a lifetime!

SO, watch your hummingbird feeders, I could not see this web hanging down until the hummer was attached to it, so I took my incense stick and went all around the feeder  to rid any more webs that might be close. And, I will check out any webs on our porch  later when it gets more daylight.  Fate had me go outside when I did, my good deed saved the day, clap on chest!

 Sunday - August 2, 2015 

What have I been doing?

Still gardening, this has proved to be a much bigger project than planned time for. I am finding so many new invasive plants  that I have no idea what they are and pulling them.  One great way to ID them is to ask at "Hometalk"! ( links on sidebar) I always get great replies there and lots of new ideas!  I know I do not want to keep them and maybe I will put down some sheeting this fall when the good things are the only ones left.  I do NOT want them again next year. 

All the trees we cut down earlier in the spring are coming back too. Behind my rose trellis is a wooded area I plant moss and I thought the trees were giving my roses too much shade so we got out our reciprocating saw and down many of them came only to have sprouts coming back and some have stickers which I really hate.  Then we burned them in our fire pit.  It was a big job, if it was not a Sassafras tree it came down.  I love them and we  have many in our yard and forest surrounding us.

I dug up roots the first year we were here to make tea and it was wonderful. They spread roots and as I was first making my garden, they came up when digging near them.   Heck, I am still collecting leaves from them  being the horrid squirrel I am, saving everything.

But, I am really going to De-Stash now! I have too, I just have too much Stuff! Forest Nature Collections of about anything I find, things I brought from my consignment shops  when we moved here and an attic and warehouse full of vintage items.  I need to start ironing them.   I am going to close my consignment shop here as this area is just too depressed with the economy, once the vacationers leave , no sales to speak of and I think I will do better with y on-line sites, Etsy,  Ebay,  Threadflip and a rare Bonanza listing. I have really let that shop lax as no time to promote it , I mainly sell on Etsy but items to NEW for there will be on Ebay as " frstyfrolk" my Vintage Etsy shop name where I first started.   I started selling on Ebay to pay my medical bills when I found some of my Mother-In-Law's Vintage eyeglasses and jewelry. She wore those cat's eye glasses and they got me hooked that I could sell them.  I still have lots of her jewelry and vanity trinkets.  I also have lots of them myself.   Mine are so sentimental to me I have just boxed them but no see, no think and I also do not wear jewelry here in the mountains like I did with city living. Plus I turn "65" this year and more money for Medicare will be deducted  from  my SS paycheck which was small enough to begin with. But, I will have health insurance, But,  I doubt I will use it enough to be worthwhile.  It starts this month making me take drastic measures to be able to just get by!

I hate always talking about hard times but we just never saw this coming!

So, watch for my listings, email me if you are looking for something.

Has anyone had good luck selling on Facebook?

 I uploaded some photographs there as I take so many ? 

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Friday Flea Market coming up soon!

I have added the Etsy Cottage Style "Friday Flea Market" to my sidebar to start participating in this wonderful selling venue every Friday!  I will make things in my shops on sale for Fridays and through the Weekends. 

I have two Etsy shops and occasionally sell on Ebay along with Bonanza for my newer than vintage items I own and need to let go of to go to someone else.  I even have a StoreEnvy shop too for all kinds of things. I have never figured out the shipping so all of my shipping is included in my prices on StoreEnvy, link on my Facebook page . 

Selling on so many venues in sometimes tough but I need to reach as many people as possible to help myself clean out my loved belongings I need to let go of now. Out little cabin is swamped and  I now see, It is OK to let go! 

I can't continued just looking at things I love but need to make memories of them. 

I live in a gated subdivision and cannot just have a garage sale now and then so I am selling on-line as much as possible.  I know shipping is  a pain and I try 

AS you have heard me say before my attic is full plus two warehouse sand I want to make my attic into a craft room. It is full of crafting supplies I used to collect when I lived in the city and had access to many craft shops using coupons and also lots of thrift shops I frequented a lot for my consignment booths I had in a few locations. What had not sold I packed up and brought up here. We also have flea markets but putting items in my small SUV and taking them in one trip to sell is just cost prohibitive. It just doesn't hold enough to make the trips with gas and tent rental worth it.  Also we have a very limited market here that consists of many vacationers who go home in the winter. Many summer cabins here are owned by folks who live all over the Southeast, We are a destination area. They either decorate their cabins or buy wearable's, but don't want to take things back to their main homes. 

Many of my Vintage, New, Shabby Chic, Farmhouse, even Handmade items just don't fit into a mountain Cabin  or Lake Life Home Decor.

SO, I take on a new challenge and will be ready every weekend for" FRIDAY MARKET"  that  Etsy sponsors. 

Also, while on this site you can browse many other sellers who take advantage of selling on this site on Fridays! The link up party has many choices to browse through and maybe find just that handmade or brocante item you are looking for.  

I have about finished working in my gardens which has been taking so much of my time this year, how many plants can you have in the Land of the Noonday Sun! I just trimmed my purple hydrangea that was over taking our bridge to our home and I brought it here as a rooting branch from the city.

 The underneath area showed me things I had no seen in two years almost. It amazes me how things persevere in the gardens. I have found ferns, horsetail, and undergrowth that is just amazing. On the other hand many things I planted never came up or I knew not what they were.

I also have another hydranga that I got at the GA Mountain Fair that is multi-color bolooms and is just amazing.  I have not trimmed it back yet. 

Isn't it just beautiful!  The butterflies have loved it along with the hummingbirds. 

 I have planted so many roadside native plants that I am not sure what they are when coming up until they bloom so I was hesitate to pick them out.  I did find the plant I call "RiverCane because I found it by the river when we pet sat here and took home to the city some cuttings in a small handmade vase I got at the "John C. Campbell Folk School"  I just love the tiny pink ball like buds on them, like pink lavender BUT, they do Spread and Take over as I was told. I thought I could control it but NOT! IT was everywhere I thankfully it is easy to pull up. It branches on vines and one pull and you get huge handfuls of it.  It is not really Rivercane but I still like that name.

Here is a photo in bloom:

  

I have cut and dried much of it, well, a tiny bit compared to what was available.

But, enough is enough! 

On too other flowers next year, I hope; IF I have eradicated it which I kind of doubt. 

I still need to dig up my two dahlias in a pot and I think I will just leave my elephant ears in the ground this year. 

Some lavender I am leaving in the ground and some I am going to try to keep growing inside in my attic. Some of it is still just trying to come up so I am going to baby it. 

I have many succulents to bring inside too

But, enough is enough! 

On too other flowers next year, I hope; IF I have eradicated it which I kind of doubt. 

I still need to dig up my two dahlias in a pot and I think I will just leave my elephant ears in the ground this year. 

Some lavender I am leaving in the ground and some I am going to try to keep growing inside in my attic. Some of it is still just trying to come up so I am going to baby it. 

I have many succulents to bring inside too. I have cut and dried much of it, well, a tiny bit compared to what was available.

I am working on my photos and new listings,, so please Keep In Touch!

Smiles, Cyndi