I like to set GOALS, especially long-term goals.

Short term goals, I have many, that's what my list of things to do is all about.
Long term goals, aspirations, intentions, objectives, however you want to put it, keeps me going.

I like to think of them as DREAMS

This may sound like a fabricated tale, but since we first bought our property in Upstate New York some 40 years ago, I wanted to insure that when we got older we'd still be able to venture off and enjoy #nature, safely. The last thing I ever wanted to do was to wear one of those things around my neck, that's used for an emergency. Speaking these words was not the way I wanted to go,

"HELP, I'VE FALLEN DOWN AND I CAN'T GET UP."

When we first purchased our land, it was a forest with a bubbling spring within its boundaries, which is where our pond is now.

We've left much of our land just as we found it, but 5 acres or so have been groomed to accommodate weary legs, that are now not too far off. Long ago my idea was to create a SHUFFLE ZONE.

Being a #Silver #Blogger in the truest sense, besides the streaks of silver gray, if you're part of that group you know exactly what I mean by shuffle.
Over the past 40 years the SHUFFLE ZONE has grown and now it was time to create a Blueberry Bush SHUFFLE ZONE. Where we have gone to gather the blueberries for the past six years, is anything but a shuffle zone.

I started this project in 2020. I dug up 25 bushes in total and walked them back down the side of the mountain, usually three or four at a time.

SO LETS SEE HOW THEY ARE DOING.

Having found one blueberry bush already growing in this area, I figured the transplants would do good here.After testing the PH, this was the spot. The acidity level tested out to be 5.5, almost perfect. The perfect PH for blueberry bushes is between 4 and 5. Amending the soil with Holy Tone over the past few years, now has the PH level spot on.

This past August I did some weeding and realized that for the first time blueberries were cascading from the bushes. Talk about being excited, was a blueberry shuffle zone really in our future.

This was the 2nd plot of ground that I decided to plant with the new bushes.

There were also berries draped on some of these branches and new growth was everywhere.
17 out of the 25 transplanted blueberry bushes have made it and are thriving.

The blueberries in this collage are from our new beds.
The weight of this very first harvest was just under a pound.
Not too bad, the future sure looks sweet.
In a few years, picking blueberries from the SHUFFLE ZONE will play out perfectly.
No more stumbling and fumbling and risking injury, any longer.

HAVE MANY DREAMS AND IF SOME OF THEM COME TO BE, YOU'LL BE HAPPY YOU PUT THEM INTO MOTION.