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 […]

Finishing the Sweet Potato Harvest

September 27, 2025 I was eager to finish digging up the sweet potatoes, so I was up at sunrise on Saturday (September 20). Surprisingly, in a sweet potato flower blooming on a sweet potato in a grow bag on my patio, there was a bumble bee. I watched Nox until she was tired of sniffing […]

Start of the Sweet Potato Harvest

September 26, 2025 Early morning Friday (September 19), I helped Bruce move the trunk of pine tree one. He was cutting it into sections. He needed the trunk moved so the chainsaw wouldn’t bind. As Bruce levered the trunk up, I pushed a piece of oak trunk, about 6 inches high, underneath the trunk of […]

Chipping Away at the Large Branch Pile

September 25, 2025 On September 17 (Wednesday), Bruce and I used the mower and trailer to move enough Bama Dirt Pro Mix to cover the small flower bed. We covered the bed with four to five inches of dirt. Bruce used the mower to tow the chipper out back. He chipped branches from the big […]