“But when fall comes, kicking summer out...as it always does...one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.”
-Stephen King

And with the arrival of September we begin our turn toward Fall...on the Oregon Coast these are some of the best days...fish are running in the Rivers, days are sunny - albeit getting shorter, and yes...the most magical time of year has returned... College Football season is once again upon us!!! No matter which team you follow and root for, September is early enough in the season that we all have a chance at the big prize!!

But those who know me and how much I love college football...also know that I understand that not everyone does...(I understand that they don't; however, I do not understand WHY they don't...but that's a conversation for another day ) So here at the little shoppe on the corner, we really get things ramped up in September...and have a 'here we go' approach as the start of Fall lies just around in next month!! We have found some super fun ways to build out our fall and for us, September is our kickoff!! So as you go through you will see a couple of fun 'new' things and we will be launching more forward plans in October and November as they get nailed down with our instructors!

The first thing to bring you notice of is our new First Friday Tech Jam...we know from personal, first hand experiences that it is getting more and more difficult to identify technology scams and fake stuff online, so we have brought on a tech-savvy facilitator to bring us all into reality of what we are facing...our very first First Friday Tech Jam is all about Social Media...and how to keep ourselves safe or at least more safe than we are on our own!! Be sure to grab a spot in this informative - yet guaranteed fun - session that will ramp up our social media safety knowledge and we saved extra time for Tech Q&A!!

The other BIG new happening is that we have joined forces with the CoastBusters BreastCancer Walk to help them raise some extra funds!! In September we will host 4 opportunities for people to come to our #duckcancer themed Paint-n-Sips where you can paint your choice of a few ducks (with some help, if you need it!) and then we will donate those ducks to the walk - which is October 5th at the Siuslaw Middle School - where they will auction them off to raise additional funds...the money raised stays right here in our community to help local people as they walk their cancer journey with the help of the Oregon Cancer Foundation. We really want to help them with their fundraising, so if you want to paint and none of our planned times work for you, please let us know and we will work with you!! We are so excited to help out and support this event as we all probably know someone impacted by breast cancer!!

Additionally, we are going to dedicate our Coffee & Tea Blessings to the CoastBusters for September so that we can include them in our contribution on October 5th!! So you definitely want to spend some ducky time with us this month!! It will benefit so many!!