Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread where we get together every weekend to share with everyone what we're all up to in Western North Carolina and beyond. We hope this group serves to invigorate us locally and regionally here on Daily Kos, building on the sense of community that's grown through our online engagement. DKos Asheville can give us all a better sense of connection, a better understanding of who we stand with, work with, and share with. We hope this community can help leverage our orange passion for progressive politics to elect more and better Democrats.
Asheville and all of Western North Carolina are wonderful places to visit. We have a powerful progressive presence, both cultural and political, and for the most part everyone is really nice. And the views are breathtaking. If you've never been here, we promise you'll love it.
As regular readers know, our next meet-up is scheduled for October 4th. Jump over the Squiggle of Local Power for more.
DKos Asheville Meet-up
Where: The Bywater in Asheville.
796 Riverside Dr, Asheville, NC.
When: Saturday, October 4th at 1:00 pm
What: A Kossack meet-up with food, fun and discussion. We will be thirty one days away from the election on Tuesday, November 4th. Please bring your ideas on how we can motivate voters and do our parts to help win these elections.
What to bring: Pot luck style food items, outside appropriate clothing, smiles, stories and ideas for GOTV excersises. And dogs. And pictures of Llamas.
RSVPs:
1. randallt
2. davehouck
3. Joieau
4. Lamont Cranston
5. DawnN
6. SteelerGrrl
7. SteelerGuy
8. swhelden
9. Ottery Scribe
10. Burns Lass
11. Family guest
MAYBEES:
1. Munchkn
Please kosmail me to be added to the list.
Drop by today's Connect! Unite! Act! for stories about other meet-ups across the nation.
Please use this week's edition to share what you are doing to GOTV! And your vegetables, and what is going on in your yard. The weather in the Eastern part of WNC is hot and partly cloudy with an occasional cooling breeze. It finally feels like summer.
I love this Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpurea). It fills up with butterfly's from now to well into September.
This is our first year of hops! Such a fun plant. Here they are drying in our solar dryer. The lighter part of the image is the reflection of clouds and sky. We have another harvest still on the vines further up.
Have a great day, hope to see familiar and new faces in Asheville on October 4th!