June 30, 2025

                Good morning to anyone who reviews this message.

                Today is June 30, 2025, so we are heading into the fourth of July holiday. For many people the holiday means they have the day off work, for us old senior people we have the day off all the time so it just simply means maybe we'll have something interesting to eat or a friend or relative will stop by and say hi.

                I spoke with my yard man Alex and learned that today he will be going on a hike with a friend and that means that he can't come over and mow my backyard. I assume that means I will be mowing my own backyard, wow. Mowing the backyard isn't too awful bad other than checking the lawn mower out that's the riding lawn mower making sure it's got the right amount of air in the tires gasoline oil and all that as long as that's all working then the mowing is just riding around and driving in circles and so on so I can probably do that hopefully I can do it in the morning when it's cloudy and not too hot we'll see.

                I walked to the front door a while ago and noticed that there is a dove sitting on our front porch and it appeared that it may be in trouble, it did not appear that it wanted to fly away. Now I'm in here at the computer and I'm looking up at the monitor and the bird is still sitting on the front porch so that bird is hurt and with all the cats we have here in the neighborhood one would imagine that he will not make it through the night.

Speaking of the neighborhood I got a note from a neighbor who said that the coyote is back in the neighborhood. Now they saw it on their driveway yesterday and the day before smelling of everything and they assume that it is looking for some of the kittens that the neighbor has, maybe for supper.

                We had a good day yesterday we went to the cracker store for lunch food was good the service was good all that was nice, and the young lady at the checkout counter when I was checking out she looked at me and she said, "you've changed haven't you" and I said what do you mean, and she said no mustache, and I said you're the first one that has noticed that, yes I shaved my mustache off 2 days ago.

We ordered a meal to take home with us for supper, they had a BBQ meal with corn on the cob and potatoes and meat. It is cooked on the grill in a big tinfoil package, and we thought we'd take one home and try it.  We brought it home and when we tried it later that evening we split it in half, half for me and half for my favorite wife. We would not recommend this to anybody, it was not even close to being good and we will be more than happy to tell the people at the restaurant that it was not good.

                My favorite wife and I sat outside for quite a while yesterday for part of the time on the front porch and I did pick up some stuff out of the yard some leaves and sticks and things like that that were showing up and then I moved some potted plants around so that she could be happier with their positioning but as I learned they are not where she wants them so they will get moved a little more.

Later in the afternoon that's about 4:30, we went out to our normal seating place on the driveway, and we stayed out there and watched a few cars go by and talked about a few things until about 6:30. It was just a nice day to stay outside, and stay away from the TV and kind of do nothing

Well, I guess I will stop doing nothing and get myself ready to go in the backyard early this morning and try to get the mowing done before it gets hot. If everything works out all right we hope you have a good day and that everyone stays safe in all we do.

 MOW MY OWN LAWN? It saves money.

                                Don the Ford

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

June 29, 2025

                It is a bright and shining good morning. We hope your day goes well.

                I don't really have a lot to talk about today. We will most likely go out for lunch at the cracker store and that's probably about all we do today.

                As I said yesterday, I was going to buy a new leaf blower just to get the battery. I had checked online at the store that I went to, the leaf blower along with the battery and with the charger was $175.  Yes, that's the cheapest one they had, the battery itself was $199. So, as you can see, I purchased a new leaf blower slash battery slash charger. I have offered to give my son David a leaf blower since I don't need 3 leaf blowers, and yes he has the battery to operate the leaf blower and or an electric chain saw.

My backyard still needs to be mowed but I don't think I'm going to mow it, my favorite wife and I both have had some crud the last couple days with sneezing snorting running nose all that stuff, so I am not planning on getting out and stirring the pollen up.

I do have a photo of some vine that's trying to take over in my Jasmine. We have a little battery powered light with a little sign on it and the vine is covering it up, you might see that if you look at the photo.

                Why are you looking at the milk bucket in the upper right corner of the photo. It's just an ole milk bucket.

                That's all for now, hopefully you have a great and safe day and be nice to at least one person today.

Weed be bad, both kinds!

                                Don the Ford    

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

June 28, 2025

                Is it a good morning at your home? It is a good morning here at the Fords Homestead.

                Let's see if we have any big plans for today, we will most likely go out for lunch, we will most likely go to one of the big hardware stores as I need to purchase a new battery for our leaf blower, it also works on our weed trimmer. I have learned, it is usually cheaper to buy a brand-new blower with a battery included than it is just to buy a single battery, I don't know why but that seems to be the case.

                Our neighbors yesterday were mowing their yards, so I decided that maybe I should mow the front yard since our yard man Alex said he couldn't come over Saturday, which is today, so I went out and mowed and trimmed front yard. You know what, it looks almost as good as if Alex had done it, so I'm proud of myself. Ole yard man Don.

                I don't think I have commented on this yet so I'm going to try to make the comment now hopefully I have not previously commented on this. Thursday afternoon we were sitting outside my favorite wife and I, and she said do you know that today is Thursday. I looked at her surprised and said yes. Thursday is the day we do our date night, aka go out for supper. We both forgot that it was even Thursday. Several things happened that Thursday, we took Alex to go on a hike with a friend, we took him with us and had lunch, so it seemed like that day was Saturday. Get off schedule and ole people can forget things.

                I did water the flowers in the pots yesterday and the black berry plants have stopped producing berries but there is a lot of new growth.

                Well, I will stop for now, we hope you have a good and safe day.

Nice job Don.

                        Don the Ford

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

June 27, 2025

                Good morning, we hope your day starts in a way that you will have a good happy day.

                Well, I have no real plans for today other than just take it easy and kick back who knows nothing special no plans at all. My favorite wife usually goes into town on Fridays and does some shopping at another grocery store, and then some other stores that she likes to hit so that's what she'll be doing, I will just be hanging around the house here taking it easy.

I did take Alex out to meet a friend so that he could go on a hike yesterday, they seemed to have had a really good time. When we went back and picked him up after the hike, on the way home we stopped for sandwiches. Alex usually gets 2 sandwiches, fries and a drink but he only ate one sandwich and took the other one home with him, he's trying to lose some weight and gain a bunch of muscle.

My favorite wife and I did go outside yesterday afternoon at our usual time, which is about 4:30. At that time there is shade on the swing that she sits on so she's not in the direct sunlight. I normally sit in a chair which is also in the shade because I don't want to be in the sun. I have a photo of about half of the drink that I had.

The point here is, when I make this drink, the glass is filled with ice, then I put a shot of adult beverage in it, and then the rest of it is Diet Coke. It takes about 30 minutes typically for me to drink a glass. The point of showing you that photograph was that 30 minutes had passed and I wasn't finished with the drink, I may have been talking too much. We go out at 4:30 and usually end up going back in the house around 6:00 PM.

Another couple photos of a flower that has the shape of a heart, or possibly a yellow butterfly on the center. You don't have to like it, but I do.

                I may not have the lawn man Alex over this Saturday, it seems he has some other plans. I might need to mow my own yard!

                I guess I will call it quits for now and wish you a good day and hope that we all stay safe in all we do.

Take it easy Friday.

                                Don the Ford

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

June 26, 2025

                It is morning here in Hewitt, I am good, so I guess that makes it a good morning.

                Yesterday was a normal day, I did seem to get up a little earlier than usual and get started earlier than usual at doing nothing. After doing a short post on my so-called blog, I went out and got a cup of real coffee. Returning home and I kicked back into my easy chair and just took it easy for a while.

                After taking it easy I got up and went in and read the Bible as usual, I always enjoy doing that, then I decided that I would go outside and do a few things such as putting the new tarp on the lawn mower after I took the old one off. I did work on the plastic sheet that had blown out of the hot house. This is the second time that I have tried to figure out a way to make it stay in there, so I don't have to replace the hot house. That work was done then my favorite wife came outside, and we decided to wash the dog so we got him all clean and smelled good.

                We then went out on the front porch and set a while because the dog was still kind of wet and we didn't want him in the house, so he laid out there on the concrete porch and kind of dried off a little bit.

                Later in the afternoon at about 4:30 we went outside and set as usual near the driveway and as we were setting out there a lady that lives down the street stopped by. She came up the driveway and of course Tres had to bark at her, because he didn't know her but once he met her, he said oh OK she's all right. She wanted to tell us that she thought our yard looked nice and then she wanted to know if we knew somebody that could work on her sprinkler system. I provided her with the name of a company that does that type of work. We sat and talked for a little while and then she headed for her house down at the end of the street.

                Other than that, the rest of the day was kind of quiet. We hope everyone has a very good day and that everyone stays safe and all they do.

Daydreams be good?

Don the Ford

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

June 25, 2025

                Good morning to me, good morning to you, good morning to us, good morning to all.

                Well, it seems to be a really good morning this morning, the sun's not shining too much there's some clouds around. I'm not going out this morning to pull weeds out of the flower bed this morning.

Let's talk about pulling weeds. Two days in a row I went out early in the morning to pull weeds out of the flower bed, yesterday morning it was about 7:00 when I went out. I removed the last part of the weeds from that flower bed, I got my shower and was all cleaned up but my favorite wife has not one time went out to see the work that I did. No appreciation for me being on my knees out there on the ground.

                Today's Wednesday no big plans for today my favorite wife usually goes to the store and buys some groceries and we'll probably sit outside in the afternoon if it's not raining. I did see some small debris out in the front yard that needs to be picked up and I do have a new tarp to put on the riding mower. I have thought that I need to go in and check the air filters on the furnace and make sure they're all clean, so I have a few things to do but I'm not going to be too busy today

                I will call it quits and stop for now, maybe I will try to do something for myself that would be interesting. We hope you have a good day and that everybody stays safe and all we do.

Think safety.

                                Don the Ford

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

June 24, 2025

                Well, I normally say good morning at this point but is it a good morning or not. I'm not on my normal schedule this morning and since I'm not on my normal schedule is it a good morning or not? I'll tell you a little more after a while about why I'm not on my normal schedule, but for right now I'm going to go ahead and say good morning to you.

                Let's talk a little bit about yesterday and see what may have happened and how this old body was allowed to work out back. The sun was up but it wasn't shining on that flower bed so I went out and got on my old hands and knees, yes, I had my knee pads on, and I pulled a bunch of weeds so that my wife would quit complaining about the weeds in the back flower beds. I got about 2/3 of the weeds pulled from the flower bed when I said, "that's it, I'm hot sweaty my shirt and shorts and everything that I have on is soaked," so I dumped the weeds into the trash can got undressed took a nice shower.

                After all that work, I went and got a cup of coffee then I came home drank my coffee crawled onto my old recliner and took it easy, I stayed off schedule yesterday most of the day and that's weird.

We set outside yesterday afternoon it was nice and warm and usually a light breeze. We didn't have any visitors, just a kind of a normal afternoon or what we call our happy time. I do have a photo of blooming flowers to share with you.

                Last night I was lying on my bed, (I do go to bed early) I was watching TV when I got a call from the neighbor's daughter. The neighbors are on vacation, and she asked if I would go over there and check to see if she turned the hose off. She had been watering the flowers, and she couldn't remember if she turned the hose off or if she left it running. I got out of my bed and went over there and checked it for her, the water was not running.

                That was yesterday, this is today.

                I again this morning went Outback got on my hands and knees and after praying I began to pull weeds finishing that flower bed. The one problem today was that the sprinklers had run so everything was wet which means it's harder to pull weeds when they're wet, they slip out of your hands easier. Yes I've had my shower, yes, I'm clean and yes I'm sitting here at this new computer trying to send you all this message. I have not had my cup of real coffee yet!

                I will attempt to stop for now. We'll see how this day goes. We hope you have a really nice day and that we all stay safe and all we do.

Pink flowers? They appear more white than pink.

                            Don the Ford

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

June 23, 2025

            It seems to be another good morning here in Hewitt, so, we wish you a good morning too.

            We had a good day yesterday which started off with going to lunch at the Cracker store. Even though it was lunch time, we had breakfast. For the last few weeks, we had been having the Pot Roast for lunch and it is very good, but having the same things several weeks in a row gets a little tiring so we switched to breakfast. The food and service were good.

            After eating we drove into Waco where I purchased a new tarp to cover the Ford’s ole riding mower. Returning home, I did very little other than rest. My favorite wife and I did sit out on the front porch for a while and when I returned to the house I did have some ice cream, and yes, I fed the dog and cat. As happy hour approached, we did return to the outside, this time near the drive way. It was very warm but there was a little breeze so it was not too uncomfortable.

            Photo of a large blooming bush over a neighbor’s house and there were some clouds too.

             I have no big plans for today, so we will see what happens. Well, I guess I will stop for now we hope you have a productive and safe day.

What to do?

                        Don the Ford

 

May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow!