April 29, 2024

            Good morning to everyone, we hope everyone got through the storms ok, we have had about 2 inches of rain here at the Ford homestead, and there were reported tornados just a few miles away.

            Let’s see if we did anything yesterday. If I can get my ole brain to access yesterday’s memories, I believe, there was rain, lightning, heavy winds.

We decided to go to lunch at the cracker store which allowed my favorite wife to not need to cook. Food was good and service was very good, there was a crowd, and yes, we did need to wait to be seated.

            Later in the afternoon, my present spouse, Tres and I went to the front porch and rested during the afternoon between the storms that had been occurring. I was able to read several pages from my story and yes, I am still finding it interesting, even though I wrote it. I often wonder if someone other than me read it, how would they respond to the story, and the ending. Yep, only I have read it.

While we were sitting out on the porch yesterday, our neighbor lady and her two sons came out of the house and the two boys were able to move the tree limb that had fallen during a storm on their driveway, then one of the boys and the mother came over and talked for a while. 

Topic swap: I have a couple photos that I will share with you and one other person, the others just don’t get to see them. The first photo is of a few sunflowers that have voluntarily came up in a flowerpot and in the jasmine bed.

            These sunflowers are very skinny, but they are growing. What? I am talking about the sunflowers, and you are more interested in the fallen tree limb in the neighbor’s driveway. Try to stay focused on the content of my wording please.

            I have a photo of the water that was standing in the back 40, there was more water there earlier. Before anyone asks, yes that is a couple limbs in the upper left corner that has fallen from our tree in the back 40, that the tree trimmers did not want to remove, fearing that they would damage something.

             I have another photo of the tree limbs that fell in the back 40, I will remove them when the water has departed. 

             My favorite wife wanted to wash the dog yesterday, but the rain ruined her plans, and we do not plan to wash him today. my wife gets to go out for breakfast with a couple friends to celebrate another neighbor’s birthday.

            I guess that is all for now, we hope you day is storm free, we hope you stay safe, and we hope that one person will be nice to you again.

Not enough, then too much!

Senior ole person who hopes for a real cup of coffee today, Don the Ford

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

April 28, 2024

            I wish you a good morning, even though there is thundering and lightning outside. We are under a storm watch but it hasn’t started raining yet. We hope everyone stays safe and please, keep an eye on the weather all day.

            When the Tres and I walked outside this morning we had an odd feeling. It was cloudy and there was some thunder off in the distance but that was not the odd part, the neighborhood seemed to be lit up with some orange lite. It was kind of spooky, the light seemed to be coming from the clouds, we did not stay out too long. I just looked at the monitors and it is now starting to rain.

            I am now glad that I got outside and mowed yesterday. I did get the front yard mowed early in the day and I was back in the house to do my daily reading of the bible about 10:00am. Reading complete, my favorite wife allowed me to take her into town to get a sandwich for lunch. We may go there too often, because as I have stated in the past, we walk in, and the lady says good to see you again, and starts placing our order into the computer without asking what we want. By the way, it is now pouring rain like crazy.

            After eating our lunch, we headed to the cheap store just to see if there was anything we might want to purchase. We look a lot of the items over and I found something that I consider a toy. It is a solar powered unit that can be one of three things, a motion detecting light, it can be a bug zapper, and it can be both at the same time. I decided to get it and see how it worked.

            Returning home, I decide to get a short nap before attacking the back 40. Nap completed I headed out back and the first thing I needed to do was pick up sticks. As I picked up the sticks, I located the Poopa-Loopa that would be removed next. During the process I noticed that the dog’s water had some crud in it so I cleaned the bucket and added some clean water, then I removed the hose from the back 40.

            I was now ready to do the mowing, I used the walk behind first and then got the riding mower out. I did use the small air compressor that I had bought a week or two ago to fill the tires on the mower. Tires filled, oil checked, I started the mowing process. About 15 minutes into the mowing, I noticed that the mower seemed to be cutting on an angle, which could mean a tire was low but I had just filled them with air. I stopped the mowing process and checked the tires and both of the back tires were low, one was lower than the other. I refilled them and completed mowing.

            After mowing I checked the rear tires the way my neighbor suggested, and both are leaking in ways that they need to be replaced. Wow, what will that cost.

            All the mowing finished, equipment put away, I head to the house at about 4:00pm, my poor ole body was tired. I feed the pot hound  , made myself a drink and headed out side to rest. A friend arrived and all three of us were seated. Discussions were varied, and yes, the bible did get into the discussion.

            I just looked at the monitor again and the back 40 is standing in water due to the heavy rain. Most of the back 40 tilts toward the house, so all the water from the back 40 and off the roof of the house drains to that area. There is a lot of lightening it is getting closer.   

            Well, I guess I will stop for now, we hope the storms go away and everyone has a good day, please stay safe.

Yard man Don.

Senior ole person who needs a break, Don the Ford 

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

April 27, 2024

            We want to wish everyone good morning and we hope you have not been hit by any of the storms that were seemingly everywhere yesterday. We here in Hewitt were not in the line of the storms, we did see a few sprinkles, but nothing heavy. We are told that today may be kind of good, with a lot of wind and the possibility of storms this evening, tonight and possibly into tomorrow morning.

            I did nothing much yesterday, other than get Dave and the kids from work and school. I did go and get some gas in the Fords ole Chevy and I also filled the gas can with gas so we can continue to mow the yards as needed. After getting the gas I decided to go to the Star coffee place and ask for a cup of coffee with cream. The last cup I got there they forgot the cream. The line of cars was wrapped around the building and I did not want to wait 15 minutes to get a cup, so I got out of line and headed for happier times.

            I did not sit outside and read yesterday due to the lightning and thunder, I was able to sit inside where it was somewhat safer and read. I still have more of my story to read, and I am still enjoying it. Later in the afternoon the thunder and lightning had left the area so we did sit outside for a while enjoying the quiet time.

            I guess today will be a kind of normal day, heck it the weather stays dry I might even attempt to mow the front yard. If I get that done without incident, I might try to mow the back yard, we will see how things go. If I do mow, I will need to give up some of my normal schedule and you know how difficult it is for ole retired people to alter their schedule.

            Wow, work or stay on my Saturday schedule? Why do ole people have to make these difficult decisions? I guess I will stop and attempt to decide between working, or a normal schedule. We hope your day is good and please stay safe in all you do.

Work or schedule?

Senior ole person who needs a break from thinking, Don the Ford

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

April 26, 2024

            It is me, I am here again, and I want to say, “good morning to one and all”.

            We had a good day yesterday; my favorite wife and I did go to the home store and purchased some dirt [aka potting soil]. We have a couple projects to work on, but we also need to pull some weeds. Nope, I did not pull any weeds yesterday, I was just too busy, or maybe I didn’t want to, or maybe I was afraid it would rain.

            We did, after shopping for the dirt, get lunch and bring it home with us, lunch was good.

Later in the afternoon, after I picked up Gabi from school, I did not need to get Alex as he was involved with orchestra after school. I did get Gabi home safe and when I returned home my favorite wife and I went to the Cracker store for supper. Now that is very unusual, us having two meals out of the house in one day. Usually, if we have one meal out anything else we have is at home.

            My favorite wife and I did sit outside yesterday afternoon and enjoy the quiet time together. It was unusually quiet yesterday afternoon, heck even the birds were not making noise. Our discussions were few as our bellies seemed to be full of food from supper at the cracker store.

            Speaking of sitting outside, myself and Tres did go to the front porch to read yesterday in the early afternoon. Even though I wrote the story, I find it interesting. I am editing as I read, I think I have found 5 words that needed some attention, and that is not bad as I am more than half way through the story.

            We are still on the watch for more rain and storms from today through Sunday. Since we were in a drought last year, we do not want to complain about the rain, but we also do not want any flooding.

            Well, I guess I will stop for now, it is another short posting and I know some of you like short posts. We hope you have a nice day, and we hope you are nice to that one person, and please stay safe in all you do, if you do anything.

Front porch reader.

Senior ole person who might get a cup of real coffee today, Don the Ford

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

April 25, 2024

            Is it a good morning, he asked? Then he said, yes, it is a good morning here at the Ford’s homestead, and we hope it is for you too. Our day is starting off cloudy and a possibility of rain again today and for the next 3 days. The rain we received yesterday was very lite, but it did make everything wet. I did not get on my knees in the back 40 to pull weeds due to the wet grass.

            We are hoping that we will not get the predicted storms and very heavy rain over the next few days, and if we do, we hope that everyone will stay safe.

            I am wondering if I will get to pull weeds today. We want to go to the store and get some potting soil and some top soil to aid the flower beds and flower pots. If we are able to drag our ole bodies out of the homestead and into town, I would also like to get some fly paper, the type that can be hung in the garage to catch the flies. There are a lot of flies outside right now, and I want to keep them out of the house. Yes, I have the zapper running outside and it is getting several bugs.

Due to the wet weather yesterday, I wanted to sit on the front porch and watch the neighborhood. You know I am a good neighborhood watcher. As I was getting ready to go outside and sit, I thought I should take the story I wrote a few years ago and re-read it. I am always surprised when I read it, that I actually wrote it. The wording is good for the most part and the story line amazes me that it came out of my head. The story is only about 70 pages long, and it explains how our universe begins, along with some other interesting things. I only got about 20 pages read yesterday and I hope to get more read today.

I wish I had some other stuff to present, but I don’t, so I will say, “have a good day, be nice to all and please stay safe.”

Writer, “the Don”.

Senior ole person who might, but he might not, who knows? Don the Ford

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

April 24, 2024

            Good morning on this hump day, aka Wednesday, we hope your day is off to a good start. The Tres and I went out to the front yard as usual this morning where we noticed the air was very moist. It was not raining, but we could feel the moister. As I stood there waiting on Tres to review the front yard, our cat molly came up behind me and rubbed on my leg. That is her way of saying, “I am here, are you going to pet me”. As I rubbed her back, I could feel moister on her back from the humidity in the air. She also went across the street and fertilized the neighbor’s yard.

            I am not sure what I might do today, I did get on my knees yesterday in the back 40, and yes, I might have been praying as I pulled the weeds from the #3 bed and some weeds from the #2 bed. I do not like working in the sun, so I did not work on all the beds. It is cloudy today and if it doesn’t rain, I might be on my knees again today.

            I just observed the neighbor lady putting her recycle container out at the curb, I guess that means I need to also. I find it interesting that when she leaves her driveway, she turns on her turn signal.

            New thought: one of my neighbors ask why our house number shows up on the driveway when it rains. He is the only neighbor to ask about it, I assume others are too focused on their driving to see my driveway when it is wet.

             Yesterday, the weather was nice enough that my favorite wife and I did sit outside for a while. Just sitting outside doing nothing together is very enjoyable for me.

            I have seen some of the TV news about these so-called student protests and the politicians who are supporting them. Calm civil protests and calm discussions from the leaders and politicians [I don’t consider all politicians as leaders] are the correct way to protest. They should take a lesson from Dr. Marten Luther King when it comes to protests, and all protests should be done in a legal manner without causing problems to the opposition. When the opposition gets upset, the civil communications cease, and all progress stops. Polite civil discussions between two parties will often bring about change.

            Well, I guess I will stop for now, we hope your day is filled with polite civil conversations, and we also hope everyone stays safe.

Calm and polite.

Senior ole person who will try to be polite to his favorite wife today, Don the Ford

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

April 23, 2024

            The sun is shining again this morning, and we are having a good morning, we hope you are also. Today will be a normal schedule for us here at the Ford’s Homestead, that means we have very little or nothing to do.

            What did the Don do yesterday: I sit around a lot doing nothing and at one point I did walk outside and see that I needed to pull a few weeds in one of the flower beds. I got the ole knee pads and a rubber mat which helps to protect my ole body when I am on the cement walkway. I did not get off the walkway into the flower bed, so I could not reach all the weeds, but I did get a bunch.

            After all that work, I did get into a chair on the front porch and enjoy some rest. Nope, I did not have anything to read I was just sitting there doing nothing.

            After my break was over, I did provide Tres and the birds in the back 40 some fresh water to drink. While I was out there, I reviewed the black berries again and we have a bunch. It will not be long until we will be saying ouch many times every day, “Black Berries do hurt”. I do have a selfie that I will share with you.

            Yes, I was near the #2 black berries when this photo was taken.

            Speaking of photos, we have several flowers blooming at this time, along with too many weeds, I will attempt to provide a photo. This photo is of one of the flowerpots in the front yard.

            I took this photo this morning when Tres and I had taken our morning stroll in the front yard. Yes, the flowers are pretty, but they are not the reason of the photo, look closer. I wanted to show you the weeds are trying to take over everything. What? No, the flowers in the photo are not real, the weed is the reason for the photo, and yes, I pulled the weed out of the pot.

            The bible study went well last night, and we have one more meeting before our summer break. At our last meeting we have food to eat before the meetings starts, it gives us time to socialize.

            Well, I guess I should stop and go do nothing for a while. We hope you have a good day; we hope someone is nice to you and that everyone has a safe day.

Weed remover.

Senior ole retired person who might, but he might not, who knows, Don the Ford

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

April 22, 2024

            We made it through another weekend safe and sound. OK, we are safe I don’t know how sound we are. We would like to wish everyone a good morning.

            All about yesterday: we did very little. The clothes were washed, and I did sit outside on the front porch for a while reading, but the wind was blowing, and it was in the low 60s. I prefer to read outside but when the weather isn’t cooperating, I have a tendency to come inside. I did finish reading the book about Revelations, I think there was 340 pages, and yes it was interesting.

            About dog feeding time [4:00pm] we went outside and rested for a while. I received a call from my sister in Missouri and we talked for a while. I found it interesting that before the call ended, we were talking about the bible. I guess I started it when I noted that I have been reading a book about Revelations. Oh, by the way, I have finished the book and it had 340 pages.

            I have another one of those flower photos, it looks like the others, but it is a flower that is in the front yard, the sun was shining on it brightly.

            Our plans for today, we are back on a normal schedule, of getting the kids from school and Dave from work. we do have our next to last bible study class this evening.

            I guess that is all I have for the day, if you get a chance, be nice to at least two people today. We hope your day is productive, interesting and safe.

Yellow bloom.

Senior ole person who is back on schedule, really?  Don the Ford

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