The 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 […]

Hot 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

Setting 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, […]

Using 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 […]

Taking 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 […]

Flower of the Day

September 29, 2025 I notice my red pineapple is starting to send up a flower stalk!

Moving 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. […]

Seeing 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 […]

More Chipping and Dirt Moving

September 28, 2025 On September 21 (Monday), we headed out to work in the yard. From the barn, Bruce towed the chipper with the lawn mower to the large pile of branches from pine 2 and pine 3. Once he had the chipper in place, Bruce drove the mower back to barn and hooked up […]

Moving More Dirt to the Large Flower Bed

September 28, 2025 On September 21 (Sunday) morning, Bruce and I moved three carts of Bama Dirt Pro Mix to the front large flower bed. If you look closely at the walkway in the above picture, you can see the hummingbird bird feeders. In the late afternoon, I went out to get the hummingbird feeders […]