Going to be on light yard work for the next few days. Interior part of my right shoulder has a burning pain. I’ve probably overworked it. I think I aggravated […]

Finally got around to planting one of the three fruit trees that I bought. I wanted to put them in the sunny zone near the vegetables, and admitted I was […]

Today was a long day of yard work. I had a lot of fun, as usual. First order of business was tidying up brush from the cut trees. I spent […]

Tonight I was able, with the neighbor’s help, to take down the last of the willow tree. He made a small cut and I pulled it down with rope. It […]

On the way home from work, I researched a fruit tree-growing technique called “espalier”, where the tree branches are guided to grow horizontally at easy picking height. Apparently this technique […]

The Dutch Plant Farm dropped off the three trees I bought during their Memorial Day sale. How could I say no to fruit trees at 50% off? Seeing the trees […]

I used the left-behind pole saw to take off shoots from the big tree. My problem was I was using too much force, and as a result, the saw kept […]

This morning I went with my spouse to a nearby nursery and thankfully was able to find kale, cabbage, and other leafy greens for planting. We were also very happy […]

This morning I continued processing the cut branches for leaves and twigs. That was about three hours of work. There are still more branches to process. It turns out the […]

I was able to work from home today, so I used the time in the morning to saw some small tree branches to get practice as a tree-caretaker. Now having […]