Flower of the Day
October 9, 2025 The red pineapple on Sunday, October 5. It continues to reach for the sky!
Read More Flower of the DayAuthor: Julia
I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. We bought a ranch house on a hill in the middle of five acres. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist and I’ll share my current projects. Reading is my favorite hobby.
Digging Up Daffodils to Move into the Large Flower Garden
October 9, 2025 On Sunday (October 5), Bruce pulled the chipper into the back pasture, next to the branch pile to be chipped. While Bruce feed branches into the chipper, I dug up flagged daffodil bulbs. I had flagged the daffodils when they bloomed in the spring. For protection when chipping, Bruce wears his hard […]
Read More Digging Up Daffodils to Move into the Large Flower GardenThe Festival That Wasn’t
October 9, 2025 On October 3 (Friday), we went to a local estate sale. I enjoyed looking around, but didn’t find anything I wanted. Bruce didn’t spot anything he wanted either. I had noticed an ad in the local paper for an art festival in downtown Sheffield, AL called “Paint the Street”. The festival ad […]
Read More The Festival That Wasn’tHot Pepper Sauce
This recipe was made using the peppers growing in my bucket garden. The recipe is based on the “All New Ball(R) Book of Canning and Preserving” Fiery Fermented Hot Sauce recipe. The “how to” was taken from the recipe for Fiery Fermented Hot Sauce. 1/2 quart
Read More Hot Pepper SauceSetting Out the Stepping Stones in the Large Flower Garden
October 3, 2025 Yesterday (Thursday, October 2), I set the stepping stones in place. We had bought nine stepping stones at Lowe’s. I had wanted ten, but the last two stones at Lowe’s looked bad, so I went with nine instead of ten. To put a stepping stone in place, I pushed back the mulch, […]
Read More Setting Out the Stepping Stones in the Large Flower GardenUsing More Chips to Prepare for More Blueberries
October 3, 2025 We got up early on Wednesday (October 1). I wanted to use the remaining pile of chips as mulch to prepare the ground for more blueberry plants. Taking a digging shovel and a scooping shovel from the barn, I carried the scooping shovel to the pile of chips and stuck it upright […]
Read More Using More Chips to Prepare for More BlueberriesTaking It Easy
October 1, 2025 Bruce and I slept most of Sunday (September 28) away. We did go for a walk around Blackberry Homestead in the late afternoon. Sunday night to Monday morning (September 29), Nox decided to keep me up most of the night with her whining and fussing. I don’t know what was wrong with […]
Read More Taking It EasyFlower of the Day
September 29, 2025 I notice my red pineapple is starting to send up a flower stalk!
Read More Flower of the DayMoving Logs and Branches
September 28, 2025 Yesterday (Saturday, September 27), Bruce and I decided to do more work in the back pasture. Bruce hooked the cart to the lawnmower and drove to the back pasture. He loaded a few logs into the cart and drove them close to where we plan to put in a new garden bed. […]
Read More Moving Logs and BranchesSeeing New Friends and Longer Term Friends
September 28, 2025 On September 25 (Thursday), I had invited some new friends for lunch. I went out to the garden and the back pasture to pick some foliage and flowers for a flower arrangement. The purple basil (purple leaves and flowers), sweet potatoes vines (heart shaped leaves) with flowers (purple trumpet flowers), goldenrod (yellow […]
Read More Seeing New Friends and Longer Term Friends
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