Homesteading on a Blackberry Hilltop
June 22, 2026 On June 13 and 14, Bruce and I focused on getting Blackberry Homestead ready for our friends to see. Jeanne from ajeanneinthekitchen.com and her husband, Larry were coming all the way from Westminster, Colorado to visit. We were meeting them in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, June 15. After seeing some famous spots […]
Read More Getting Ready for Friends to VisitJune 22, 2026 On June 12, we did several errands in town. When we got back home, we walked down to the mailbox. The daylilies along the fence were blooming. I did some housework and Bruce did some weed whacking. In the early evening, while it was still light enough, we toured the orchard and […]
Read More Sunset Over the HouseJune 21, 2026 While I was out in the garden twisting the tomatoes around strings hanging down from the trellis frame, Bruce was playing working with his chainsaw and tractor. After I finished up with the tomatoes, I went over to see what Bruce was up to. He had chainsawed most of the way through […]
Read More More Clean Up on Pine Tree Three with Chainsaw and TractorJune 22, 2026 On June 10, I felt well enough to catch up on housework. I’d rather be out in the garden, but the house needed to be cleaned. Bruce mowed. With all the rain, the lawn went crazy growing. Notice I didn’t say grass. The lawn is made up of so many different plants, […]
Read More Sunset Watching with Venus and Jupiter VisibleJune 21, 2026 On June 9, I walked out to the garden to see how my garden was growing. The soybeans had more Japanese Beatles on them. I picked off the Japanese Beatles and dropped them into soapy water. The traps are doing a great job, but they don’t catch all of the Japanese Beatles. […]
Read More Green Beans Are Ready!June 21, 2026 After the flood we had on June 7, on June 8, we took a look at the damage to the driveway. The flood water caused the gravel to wash from the driveway into the grass. The grass caught in the cage from the flood water was 20 to 26 inches high on […]
Read More Flood Damage to DrivewayOn June 6, Bruce and I picked blueberries. Butterflies flittered through the back field. A variegated fritillary landed next to us while we picked blueberries. The pink blueberries are from the pink lemonade blueberry plant. One of the flat aka Saturn peaches was ripe. The cherry tomatoes have large numbers of green tomatoes on the […]
Read More Blueberry, Peach, and Tomato Harvest and Next Day FloodingJune 21, 2026 On June 2, Bruce decided to do more playing work with the tractor. He moved dirt from the pile of dirt at the bottom of the driveway to the holes around the grassy knoll. He also used the tractor’s backhoe to work at breaking apart the root ball of Pine Tree Three. […]
Read More More Fun with the TractorJune 15, 2026 On May 30th, it rained again. During a break in the rain, we picked a few handfuls of blueberries. The sunset was pretty. The stars in the sky were twinkling and the stars on the ground (fireflies) were flashing. On May 30th, Bruce mowed. The grass was so tall that it looked […]
Read More Blueberries and Fireflies, Plus Update on Pine Tree ThreeJune 5, 2026 On May 25, 2026, we had a break in the rain. It didn’t start raining until the late evening. This allowed Bruce to get back on the tractor. He had placed large branches in several piles around Pine Tree Two. These piles needed to be dealt with. Bruce sorted the piles into […]
Read More Back on the Tractor Again
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