October 15, 2025

                The sun isn't up yet but we think it is still a very good morning, so we wish you all a good morning and a nice day.

                Let's see if there's any review of yesterday's work, I guess I did a couple things yesterday. I did go out back and get on my hands and knees and pull wire weeds. I call them wire weeds because someone told me that's their name, I don't know if that's it or not. Our neighbor's backyard is literally covered with wire weeds (at least 70% covered). They very seldom even go out into the yard, and they do not take care of the yard as they have yard people do their mowing. I have a photo for your enjoyment, or irritation.

                                     

 

                These small white blooms are what identifies them or helps me find them in the grass as you can see in the first photo. The second photo is of the trash can with a bunch of wire weeds in it.

                Different topic: My favorite wife and I sat out on the front porch for a while yesterday afternoon and I took my momma's Bible with me. I had decided I wanted to go through it page by page and see any notes that she may have made or anything that she underlined. This Bible has 1353 pages not counting the dictionary part, there is a note that the Bible was given to her on her first wedding anniversary by my stepfather, January the 13th 1973. There's a note that says that she had read through the Bible in 1988, 1989, and 1995. There was also a note, "give the Bible to my daughter Wilda when I died". I have looked through a little over 500 pages. Some underlining but not much in the way of notes. I assume when I get to the New Testament there will be more notes and underlining. Many people read the New Testament more often than the Old.

                Different topic: I have Brought some of the boards that were left over from the Manger project and hopefully sometime today I will mark them from some patterns I have, to make some more birdhouses to give away. I am not Sure how many birdhouses we will be able to make.

                I need to stop working on this and start getting ready to go get Alex and take him to school. We hope everyone has a very good day and everyone stays safe and all they do.

Don the Ford 

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

October 14, 2025

                It is a dark but good morning here in Hewitt. I guess we are now back on our normal schedule today, I do need to get Alex to school this morning.

                I will attempt to inform you of our activities from yesterday: The day started off well my favorite wife and I went and picked up Alex and headed out to the restaurant for breakfast. The breakfast was good, the service was good, then we headed home ready to do yard work. Alex got the mower and went to the front yard to work while I grabbed the bucket and the poop picker upper and went to the backyard to remove Poopa-Loopa from the backyard. Alex finished mowing the front yard and went to the backyard and mowed it and after the trimming in the backyard we loaded up and took him back to his home.

                For the rest of the day, I did very little other than my favorite wife and I sat outside on the front porch for a while doing nothing just sitting there relaxing and enjoying the quiet neighborhood. I did review my notes for Bible study. Speaking of Bible study our class size when everybody shows up it's 17 people and last night we had six people there. The smaller group seems to me to be better because we all get to participate more.

                I have no idea of anything that I want to accomplish today, my back has been hurting so I may take it easy all day. I will stop for now, we hope you have a good day and stay safe in all you do.

Don the Ford

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

October 13, 2025

                Yes, it is the 13^th, but not Friday the 13^th, so I will wish you a good morning.

                School is out so I do not need to get Alex and take him to school, but we will get him and take him with us for breakfast at the George restaurant. My favorite wife and I enjoy breakfast at the restaurant, and we have scheduled Alex to do our yard work today, so we thought it would be good for him to have some food in him before doing all the grueling work.

                If we were to review yesterday it would be something like this. We went to the cracker store for lunch, we returned home, we sat on the front porch doing nothing, we went back into the house for a nap, we sat outside near the driveway later in the afternoon, we ate supper, we went to bed.

                After Alex completes his workload, and we get him back to his home, I will likely review my bible study homework in preparation for tonight's meeting.

                Now you know everything, we will attempt to stop for now and get ready for breakfast. We hope you have a good day and as always, stay safe in all you do.

Don the Ford

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

October 12, 2025

                It is a good early morning here in Hewitt, we hope you are having a good morning too.

                Short details about yesterday: my favorite grandson and I got a cup (coffee for me, another type of drink for him) from the Star coffee place after I picked him up as we were heading for the Ford homestead.

                Our work for the day was to construct another end and a top for the soon to be "Manger" and then attempt to put them together. We did not need to have the saw as I had previously completed the wood butchering (aka sawing). We did need the drill and a couple wood bits. The drill was used by Alex to insert all the screws and there were many. The small box of screws cost almost $14.00. I did say to Alex that he was "just screwing around", he didn't think it was funny.

                We use large screws at least 5 inches long, to hold the ends to the back and the top on the ends and back. We drilled a small hole about half the diameter of the large screws which helped get the screws into the wood. We finished the manger, yes, we put it together, with the exception that my favorite wife seems to want it to be painted. photo to follow.

                The elderly person in the manger is me. We do have enough left-over pieces of wood that we can build some bird houses to give away.

                Work was done and the tools were put away, and we headed out for lunch. Lunch was good and I was able to get my favorite grandson home in a safe manner.

                Back at home and after a rest period I decided to dismantle the unit. Taking it apart was easier than putting it together. There are 4 pieces, and I will need to find a location to store the unit.

                I then watered all the potted plants in the front and back yards. The next-door neighbor was having an old deck removed from their backyard. In years past they had an above ground pool, and the deck was for the pool. The people demolishing the deck were making too much noise, so we sat on the front porch yesterday afternoon. After the restful period on the front porch, I came into the house and watched some of the three stooges.

                Today: Who knows, we may go out for lunch and after that, well we will wait and see.  

       I am now stopping, we hope you have a good day and please stay safe in all you do. Don the Ford

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

October 11, 2025

                It seems to be another good morning here in Hewitt, we hope it turns out to be a good day for you.

                Let us start with events from yesterday: my favorite grandson Alex and I did our wood butchering in the driveway. Alex did most of the sawing using the chop saw, and I provided some guidance. One thing we discussed was "measure twice cut once". I had a drawing of the project with measurements on it, but we were careful to examine the drawing and in a couple situations we altered the measurements. We did get one side, and the back completed, photo to follow.

                In the photo we see the work area that Alex and I were using, which is under the carport. To the right you can see the chop saw that Alex was using, in the center you can see part of the Manger, back and one end, and you can also see a few tools laying around.

                At this point we had decided to go for lunch, we put all those tools and woodwork away, drove into Waco and had a couple sandwiches, then came back home.

                My favorite wife and I sat outside yesterday afternoon, and a friend came over and sat with us. It was a good afternoon, and it was very quiet and very warm (90) in the neighborhood.

                Different subject: the other day I was in the front yard picking up debris when a vehicle drove down the street which I waved at, not knowing who was in the vehicle. It went to the end of the street, turned around in the cul-de-sac and came back. The vehicle stopped in front of me where I was working. There were two ladies in the vehicle, they rolled down the window, and one lady said your yard is very pretty. To that I said, "thank you, what about me", and she said you're pretty too, The other lady said well you make the yard look good. They drove away not knowing me and I did not know them. We do appreciate the comment.

                Today: we will again bring Alex over and he will help me complete the project. We will need to construct a second end and the top to the Manger scene. I have cut the remaining wood so there will be no sawing today just using screws and bolts to put it together. Hopefully in tomorrow's photo we will have a complete project.

                We will probably again go to lunch together and this time we will most likely take my favorite wife with us.

I assume that is about it for today, we hope you have a very good day and stay safe in all you do.

Don the Ford

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

October 10, 2025

                Good morning

                I will not need to take Alex to school today as they have the day off. Not another day for me to relax, I will get Alex and bring him to our house, and we will work on the manger for my favorite wife. I told him I would get him a drink from the Star coffee place this morning and buy his lunch if he would help me.

                Yesterday morning: I went out to the number two berry bed and pulled some more weeds and removed some of the dead vines, I worked until the trash container was full then I headed into the house for a quick shower.

                Later, I went out into the front yard and picked up some debris. There are always small sticks and clumps of leaves from the tree. I think the leaves partly fall to the yard due to the squirrels making nest and they occasionally drop them.

                I thought about something as I was attempting to remove debris, but I am not going to comment on what I was thinking. When things are going well and then we start bragging about them, everything changes, and the good things go bad. I will not comment about the lack of acorns in our yard this year because if I do, they will somehow start showing up and we do not want that to happen.

                Subject change: I had noted in an earlier post that the wood for the manger was behind our truck. I have a photo for that one person who wanted to know how the wood was behind the truck. Yes, I did blur the license plate from the photo.

                I have not shaved for a few days as I and considering some facial hair.

                Well, I will attempt to stop for now, we hope you have a good day and please stay safe in all you do.

Wood butcher Don the Ford

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

October 9, 2025

                A good morning to you from us and I do not need to get Alex and take him to school today or tomorrow.

                I just observed one of our neighbors leave her driveway I assume going to work. Something I have noticed every time I see her drive out of the driveway she stops at the end of the drive and turns her turn signal on then she leaves the driveway.

                Enough about that, let us review yesterday: after getting my free cup of coffee and dropping Alex off at school I came home and finished my post. Finished with the computer work I went to the vet and paid too much for heart worm medicine.

Then I headed out to go into downtown Waco to get the tag for the pickup. On the way I stopped at the cleaners and got my clean clothes, then I drove all the way into Waco.

Arriving at the tax office, I walked into the building and noticed that there were few people there, normally when I checked in, I would be given a number and told to sit down and wait. That did not happen. I went directly to the counter to pay my money, got the tag and left the building.  

                Leaving the tax office, I had decided to stop at the home store and get some wood for my favorite wife's manger replacement. After loading the wood onto the Ford's little pickup, I headed home where I was able to make my ole body unload the wood from the pickup. The wood is now on the driveway behind the truck and that is where I hope to bring a saw and some tools and manufacture a new manger.

                I was able to do my bible study homework and rest a while before washing the pot hound. Yes he needed to be washed and he seemed to like all the rubbing he gets during the washing.

                Everything was completed; we sat outside yesterday afternoon in the warm summer air (91 degrees). As we sat there, I saw our new neighbor cleaning his truck, so I went over and introduced myself.

                Today's events: I may pull weeds from the blackberry bed and after that who knows. I do have three photos I will share with you. One is another sun rise, another is the trees before the fall weather arrives and the leaves all turn brown, and the last is the fence at the ditch behind the house with the ole solar powered lights installed.

       Well, I guess that is enough for today, we hope you have a good day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Photographer Don the Ford

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

October 8, 2025

                Good morning to you, we hope your day is starting off as expected. No, we do not know what you expect.

                I have just returned from dropping Alex off at school. Yes, I did get him there safely and on time yes, we did have some lively discussions about things like the moon which we could see this morning even though the sun was shining. As I was going to pick up Alex I saw a really pretty sunrise I actually stopped on the side of the street and took a picture of it. The problem is I can't send an e-mail from my phone so I can't get the photo from my phone onto the computer to show you the very bright and pretty sunrise.

                Yesterday's events recorded by me: my favorite wife and I did go to town and on the way, I stopped at the bank and got a couple dollars.

At the store we wanted to see if they had the glass ready for us, we had ordered it about 10 days ago. They did have it. This glass is for a picture frame we have that was broken and my wife wanted to replace it.

                We then went to a different store where I purchased some air filters for the air conditioner and wasp spray. Alex had noted that we have wasp nests, that is two nests on the back patio, and we need to get rid of them.

                Back at home I did water the berry beds as we haven't had any rain, and I watered the flower pots too. That completed I did back the van out of the garage and set up a folding table. I used the table to take the picture frame apart and place the new glass into it. Then my favorite wife and I did install the picture into the frame. I should note that the picture is actually a puzzle that was put together by my favorite wife several years ago. We completed that work and I carried the picture (24 inches by 36 inches) into the front room, we have not positioned it on a wall yet.

                That work completed I did fill the garage refrigerator with bottled water as our yard man Alex drinks them during working hours. Then I installed the air filter and also put some bleach into the pipes that drain the water from the air conditioner.

                Finally, all the work was completed so we sat outside and enjoyed the quiet afternoon even though it was 93 degrees. Yes, there was a breeze, so we did not need the fan.

                Today possible events if I get done with this posting: go to the vet and get the heart worm pills for the dog, go into Waco and get the tag for the pickup truck, get some boards from the home center so I can attempt to build a manger scene for my favorite wife's Christmas decorations, stop at the cleaners and pick up some clothes, return home and unload the wood.

                I still need to do my bible study homework. When will I get some time to take a nap?

Well, I will attempt to stop for now, we hope you have a very good day and please stay safe in all you do.

Don the Ford

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