Grounds Keeper 08.02.16

            It was the first day of August, the temperature was supposed to hit 100 again today, when we find the Grounds Keeper at The Ford Homestead, on his knees again, pulling weeds as he prayed for rain. Yes, this year the grounds keeper is attempting to use a different method to bring rain to the area.

            As you may know, our grounds keeper is a learned person, who is physically fit, and one might say he is handsome, for a gentlemen of his years. In the past he has performed a rain dance in an effort to invoke the rain. He was most effective the year he performed the rain dance in the nude. To be honest, he wasn’t totally nude, he did have on a pair of white knee socks and black leather sandals.

            We did notice that during the nude rain dance performance, all the neighbors went inside. We believe they did this in an effort to not distract the grounds keeper from his meditative dance, as we needed the rain in the worst way.

            There have been request that our grounds keeper perform the rain dance again this year, but with more clothes on. He is relying on prayer, as he is in the knelling position, while he pulls some weeds from the flower beds. Our grounds keeper believes that he should not waste time, and if he can do two things at the same time, he is then using time wisely.

            Different subject:

            We have some bad news, the triplets are missing and presumed dead (posting of 07/26/16). Their home is destroyed and we believe the triplets were too young to have survived. We have noticed some scratches on Charlies face and ear, which appear to have been caused by thorns from a bush like the black berries. It is possible Charlie entered the black berries and, well, let’s not go into any unnecessary and speculative details.

            Different subject:

            As I was strolling this morning the word, “inside” came to mind. I began to wonder if the word people, got this word wrong too. Inside is two words joined, in and side.

Let’s first consider the word “side”, it means, not in the middle, to the left or right of something!

Now let’s consider the word “in”, which means enclosed or contained by something!

            Now consider the entire word as it should be. Inside should mean, enclosed or contained to the left or right!        I wish these word people would check with me before they make a word.

Your prayers and dances for rain are appreciated!

Don Ford