Bruce Is Busy Doing More Clean Up

May 26, 2026

On May 18, Bruce took his electric Greenworks polesaw into the back field aka back pasture to remove low-hanging branches.

For Tom from Reiko’s Journey, in picture one, you can see the shed from a previous post. In picture two, you can see another shed.

The spineless caper bush started blooming.

The flower was larger than I expected. The fragrance was delightful, with a light, refreshing sweet rose scent.

For my final walk for the day, we walked around the back field. We headed back to the house at sunset, slapping at mosquitoes as we walked under the trees.

We sat on the front porch to watch the sunset, fireflies, and the night sky.

The moon and Venus appeared to hang out together.

On May 19, Bruce stacked the branches that he cut down the day before onto the chipping pile.

I walked around looking at the plants and we enjoyed three handfuls each of mid-season blueberries.

After I walked around the back field with Bruce, he walked around the garden with me. At the garden, he hopped on the tractor and headed into the back to move more logs.

While Bruce was busy, I decided to harvest peas, spinach, and radishes.

Picking as many peas as I did was not a good idea As I reached up to pick the peas from the tall Magnolia Blossom peas, the stretching was not good. My wounds started hurting, but I continued.

Then I harvested the spinach and radishes. The radishes were in a tall bed and were easy to harvest.

I picked a gallon and a quart of peas. The radishes filled up a quart bag and the spinach filled up a gallon bag.

I put the basket on the kitchen counter and went to lie down. My wound by my belly button had leaked a couple of drops of blood. Bruce was very upset with me. “She said to walk, not reach up high and bend over.” I pointed out she didn’t say not to reach up or bend over. I decided I didn’t need to go to the hospital since it was only a couple of drops of blood and I was not bleeding anymore.

Bruce put away the harvest and shelled some of the English peas. I rested the rest of the day.

On May 20, between walks, I rested. As I was getting ready to head outside, five chipmunks ran across the patio. One turned around and came back.

It was an overcast day but it was still nice for walks.

Using the tractor, Bruce moved the tractor tiller from the driveway to the backyard.

Bruce showed the work he did with the tractor to move logs.

It started raining in the evening and rained through the night.

In the evening, we shelled the rest of the peas. Some of the sugar snap peas had gotten large enough to need shelling.

On May 21, we walked between the rain showers. We discovered one of the rhubrab plants was very wilted. It was fire ants. Bad words, very bad words.

Since it wasn’t raining, we put out the safer fire ant poison.

We hoped the rhubarb would recover since we took action as soon as we discovered the damage.

The blueberries are looking good.

Another try to take a picture of the Indigo Bunting.

In the evening, we saw a frog on the porch steps.

It was mostly a good week.