June 30, 2024

            It is Sunday and it will be a sunny day. It is also the last day of the month; we will be starting July tomorrow and there is a holiday coming up. We, retired seniors enjoy a holiday, we get to do nothing for a day, just like all other days. If you don’t have something planned to do when you retire, then don’t retire.

            Our Saturday was more or less our normal routine, we went into Waco, had our usual lunch sandwiches at the usual place. The lady there said one day we will order something different, we said, “maybe”. We did go to the cheap store; they had 15% off the cheap prices. We did buy a cushion for the ole wooden rocking chair that sits on the driveway.

Returning home we did almost nothing for the rest of the day, and sitting around is boring. Heck it is so hot if you go outside to work you sweat so much you will become dehydrated in a short time. My favorite wife and I did sit outside for a while yesterday afternoon and yes, we had the big fan on which helped us with the excessive heat. Inside the house is boring, at least when we are outside, we hear the birds, we see planes flying over, we can wave at people as they drive by, and we can comment on the heat. I have a photo which I took yesterday while sitting outside.

            The Tres and I did go for a short early morning walk this morning, the street gets too hot for the Tres’s feet on the pavement later in the day. There are a couple things I should do outside but I don’t really want to get out in the heat.

            I have narrowed the choice for a new router downed to two units. I should make the choice today, but you know ole people, they might, and they might not.

            We hope you have a good day, stay safe and be nice to others even if they are not nice to you.

Holiday coming.

Senior ole person who needs to decide, but what if he gets it wrong, Don the Ford

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

June 29, 2024

            Good morning to you, we have another sat all day to enjoy. I might sit all day, or maybe not.

            Let’s look at what the Don did or did not do yesterday. Well, I decided to mow the front yard myself, and I do say it looks good again. The mowing and cleaning up doesn’t take too long, I did get hot and sweaty, even though I was mowing at about 8:00am. All that hard work completed I did drag my ole body back into the house for a short rest.

            My favorite wife decided to go to town to get a birthday gift for a friend, and we also went to the grocery store to get a couple things. Maybe I should not join her in the grocery store as I have a tendency to shop for dessert type items. This time I added a package of cinnamon rolls to the cart, and I had one this morning with my morning coffee. Yes, it was nice!

            As the day passed, I decided to attempt to get the email addresses from the ole computer and enter them on the new computer. The old computer still works but it is very slow, kind of like me. I was able to print out the email addresses from the ole computer and then, one at a time, enter them on to this computer. Hopefully I now have most of the emails available to use. If you get this you are back on the list.

            Later in the afternoon my favorite wife and I sat outside in the heat. The wind was blowing but not steady enough to help cool us off, so I turned the big ole fan on. After a while a friend came over and sat with us. We had a lively discussion about the bible. Earlier my favorite wife had noted that she wanted to get some chicken from the chicken place. Knowing that I would be driving the Ford’s ole Chevy to get the chicken, I only had one adult beverage while we sat outside. I did go and procure some chicken for supper.

            Different topic: Tres and I went for an early morning walk this morning, starting before 7:00am. It was a short walk but we both needed to get out of the house before it got too hot. During the walk I noticed people’s front yards and how they mowed or did not mow. One person had mowed the yard and all the grass from the yard was in the street. I think that looks awful, and I consider blowing grass on to the street and not cleaning it up as “littering”. It also makes the neighborhood look bad.

            Another topic: I watched part of the debate, the president has some problems, and I do not wish those ole age problems on anyone. I am already tired of everyone on the so-called news talking about his problems and the previous president’s problems, although his problems are different. I get very tired of the same news being repeated. Maybe I look at the so-called news too often, but there is nothing else that this ole person wants to watch.

            I still need to get a new router.

            That is it for now, if anything interesting happens, I will probably forget it and not tell you. We hope you have a good day, stay cool and happy while being safe in all you do.

Politics…

Senior ole person who has too little and needs too much, Don the Ford 

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

June 28, 2024

            A good Friday morning to you, and the rest of the reading public. We hit 101 degrees of heat yesterday, I think summer is here. Try to stay cool today, please be careful when you are outside.

            Well let’s see if the Don did anything yesterday. Well, if he did, he hasn’t been bragging about it, so I say he did nothing much, other than…

            The Don and his favorite wife did go to the grocery store to get a couple items, they were lucky and found a parking spot almost as close to the store door as a handicap spot. A few steps and they were inside the building. There was a list of things needed and they even added to the list a couple items that were not on the list. One of the added items was some very nice cookies, and these cookies go good with the decaf coffee or milk, heck I can eat them without a drink. Our cart wasn’t full but it did have several items in it. We also procured a bag of cat litter, now I have to change the litter, and that means work for an ole senior person.

As we were entering the driveway after the shopping event, my favorite wife noted that the front yard needs to be mowed, and that means I will need to get our yard man Alex over here again, or I will need to mow it myself. I just thought, it takes about 30 minutes total to mow the front yard, and it takes at least that long to go get the yard man Alex, so I may do the mowing myself.

Speaking of the front yard, I did run the sprinklers in one location as I believe that one sprinkler is not coming up above the tall grass. I did mark the location and I will trim the grass around the sprinkler head. My sprinklers do run twice a week, now that the heat wave is here.  

            I have been working on the email address of my friends and family which I unintentionally deleted the other day. I have found a few and if you get an email telling you of the posting, then I have your email address. I have also determined that my router has stopped working so I will need to get another, and that costs money. 

            My favorite wife and I did sit outside yesterday afternoon, yes, we had the big fan on and that helped with the heat. I have a photo of a friend who sat outside with us.

            After our restful time outside was over, aka sitting outside, I then watered the flowers in pots both front and back yards.

            Well, I need to get started if I am going to mow the front yard, I don’t like to mow early morning as there is no shade early morning and the sun is shining on the yard. We hope you have a good day, please stay safe and cool.

Warm to Hot.

Senior ole person who will be sweating in a few minutes, Don the Ford

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

June 27, 2024

            It appears to be another hot good morning. By hot I mean excessively hot!

            What did I do yesterday, very little, I did delete all the email address from my computer, although I still have them on my phone. I will not go into how I did it, lets just know I did it. Now I need to attempt to recover said email addresses. If you are seeing this, then I have your email address recovered.

            I went out this morning with Tres and being outside for a couple minutes I was starting to sweat. Most of my projects today will be inside reading from the bible, doing some bible study homework, and working on email address.

            For ole people it is very unsettling when their normal daily schedule is altered, especially by something that takes a long time to correct, or something that we don’t know how to fix.

            I guess that will be it for now, we hope your day is filled with goodness and please stay safe in all you do.

Deleted emails.

Senior ole person who might make it through another day, maybe, Don the Ford

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

June 26, 2024

            A hot and steamy Good Morning to you all. How do I know it is hot and steamy, no one asked? I have been outside this morning working my tail off. Ok, I don’t have a tail, but I was working. Ok I wasn’t working I was watering the black berries, before the sun began shining on them. The ground out in the back 40 is full of cracks. We need rain, and we will be saying that all summer long. I have two photos, one of new blooms on a butterfly plant, the other is some black berries that are too late for the harvest.

            I did water the plants in pots yesterday afternoon, following our sitting outside with a cold drink and the fan running on us.

            Yesterday afternoon our friends from across the street came over and sat with us for a while. Yes, we had the big fan moving air to help with the heat. They had been out of town visiting their son and his family. We had some lively discussions even one discussion about religion.

            Other than sitting outside we did very little yesterday, heck it is so hot that going out I begin to sweat just thinking about it. Now I did begin working on my bible study book for the Revelations study. I don’t think it is cheating getting ahead of the class, let’s say I want to be prepared for the class.

I don’t have any outside plans for the day, I might go with my favorite wife to get groceries today, it gets me out of the house but not outside.

Well, I guess I will adjourn from entering data into the computer and take it easy for a while. We hope you have a good day filled with happiness, and as always, “please stay safe”.

Where’s the rain?

Senior ole person who would if he could, but he can’t, Don the Ford

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

June 25, 2024

            It is morning again and I say good morning to you. It seems as if we here in Texas have settled into what will be a hot summer. The prediction for the coming days is temps in the high 90s, and a possible start to the 100s.

            Let us see what happened yesterday; we did have the yard man over and we got the back 40 mowed and trimmed. We did not have chicken noodle soup for lunch as my favorite wife was not feeling good, and did not need to be cooking. We did get chicken from the chicken place for lunch. I was able to get the kids back home safely.

            After lunch my favorite wife was still not feeling well, so we called the doctor hoping against hope to get in and see the doctor that day, but nope they had no open appointments. They suggested the emergency room. We arrived at the emergency room at 2:22pm. They did some tests and then we waited, it was almost 9 hours before we got to see the doctor, yes, we sat out in the waiting room with probably 100 other people who were continually coming and going. The doctor said all the tests looked good. He asked questions and said she might have some kind of bug making her feel bad, or maybe a urinary infection, he did not see any reason for her to stay in the hospital overnight. We drove home after 11:00pm.

            Another note: since she was not feeling good yesterday, she had not eaten anything before going to the emergency room, and we were there 9 hours without food or drink. She may be hungry today.

            We sat there in the waiting room watching people come and go, and there was coughing going on, so if you weren’t sick when you went in, you will probably be sick when you leave. We did see the police have one lady in handcuffs, I think they brought her in.

            Today’s plan is nothing, sit around and pray that we feel good, and be thankful that the doctor did not find anything wrong.

            We hope you have a good day, and not need to go to the emergency room, and as always be safe in all you do.

Don’t get sick!

Senior ole person who prays that you are healthy and happy, Don the Ford

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

June 24, 2024

            We are now starting another week and I have scheduled the “Yard Man Alex”, to be here today. I am allowed to be his helper; he does the work and I get to watch. Oh, I almost forgot, “Good Morning to you all”.

            Both Alex and Gabi are coming over this morning, and I think we will have homemade chicken noodle soup for lunch. I hope Gabi will do some more drawings for me while she is here. Photo of me and one of the drawings to follow.

            I have another photo of the roof of the homestead as seen this morning while, Tres was examining the front yard. There is a stick laying on the top of the roof, the straight line is a amateur radio antenna at the back of the house. You might also notice the moon was still in the sky.

            Well, you now know our plans for the day, and what Tres and I have done this morning. I guess I will get started while it is still some what cool outside. We hope you have a good day, and we hope everyone stays safe.

Workday starts.

Senior ole person helper of our yard man Alex, Don the Ford 

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

June 23, 2024

            From us to you, “Good Sunday Morning”. We hope you have a very good Sunday, don’t work too hard, and take lots of breaks, as the heat is here.

            I will attempt to keep this posting as short as possible; I know you need some time for yourself away from that phone and the computer.

            What did the Fords do yesterday: well, they drove into town about 11:00am, where they had an early lunch. After ingesting the food, did you like the word ingesting, they went to the cheap store where the Don looked at solar powered flag pole lights. Now the Don had seen the solar powered flag pole lights last week when he was in the store, and he thought about getting one for his friend who has a flag pole, but his friend is not a person who likes birthday gifts, are any kind of gift.

            Knowing all that and considering how his friend might respond to the gift, the Don bought two of the flag pole lights, one for the friend, and one for himself. His friend is out of town right now so we don’t have any input as to the coming response. These lights are used to light up the flag at night, and they can either show a study white light, or they can be set to go between red, white and blue lights.

            The Don and his favorite wife did stop at the adult beverage store and purchased some adult beverage. Leaving the city, we drove home where we put some needed time in the recliners thinking about nothing but rest.

Later in the afternoon a friend came over and brought some items for repotting a couple flowers we have. This friend is the person who gave us the flowers and he said he would be back today to help us repot the plants.

Today’s possible events: As noted above, we may be repotting some plants today, we haven’t decided yet but we may go to the cracker store for lunch which means I don’t have to wash dishes.

I called our yard man Alex yesterday to see if he would be interested in mowing the back 40 on Monday, and he said he would. I haven’t talked with Gabi to see if she has been working on my art work, but she might come over on Monday also. There is a good chance of homemade Chicken Noodle Soup for Monday’s lunch.

Well, I guess I have kept the posting short, we hope you have a wonder filled day and please be safe in all you do.

Sunday aka Sun Day!

Senior ole person who needs to stop and then start, Don the Ford

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

June 22, 2024

            I guess we made it through another week and I am still here irritating you daily with my posting. And now that I have started the irritation again, allow me to say, "GOOD MORNING"!

            We hope you had a good day yesterday; our day was very nice and we enjoyed time with friends. Yes, we do still have friends and we are thankful for our friends. You don't need to ask what we did yesterday, cause I am going to tell you anyway.

            I did get Dave home from work and he did get off on time, I then returned home to get my favorite wife, and we headed for the Salty restaurant (I don't like to give real names unless I am paid). We were supposed to meet at the restaurant at 12:00, we arrived at 11:52am, and there were two of the people there. Over the next 30 minutes three additional adults and one cute baby arrive and joined us at our table. Our conversations were lively and the food was good, our server did a very good job.

            Meal over, we left our friends and went to a store so my favorite wife could get a few grocery items. We made it back home safely and I basically did nothing the rest of the day until about 4:30pm. I then headed out of the house to the shaded area of the driveway with a cold drink in hand. Tres went outside with me and then my favorite wife joined us a few minutes later. It was about 5:00 when another friend came over and sat outside with us. We did not solve any world problems in our discussions, and we did not talk politics, too much.

            As we sat outside there was a fly that kept bothering me, it seemed to be after my ole gray hair. Now thinking about hair, I remembered when I was a young person about 100 years ago, I used a product known as "hair oil". We would put the oil on our hair and then comb it in the direction we wanted to. The hair with oil on it was not something you would want to run your hand through. Now I don't know if people still use hair oil or if they even make it any more, I guess they use hair spray now days.

            At about 6:00pm I decided to get up and mow the front yard. why did the Don wait until late afternoon when the temp was in the low 90s to mow the yard? Earlier in the day the Don had set the sprinklers system to start running twice a week, and Saturday morning is one of those days. As the Don sat outside talking about world problems, he started noticing that the front yard grass was tall and needed mowing. Tall grass can keep the sprinklers from spreading the water evenly so, he mowed the grass.

            Well, I have no big plans for today, we will likely go into town for our lunch sandwich, and probably stop by the adult beverage store for a bottle, if they are open, and probably go to the cheap store to see if there is anything cheap that we need. We will likely be sitting outside as usual this afternoon, if you want to come and sit with us, you would be welcome.

            Well, I will stop for now, we hope you have a pleasant day, that you are safe in all you do, and that everyone is as nice to you as you are to them.

No more hair oil. 😐

Senior ole person who still remembers the olden days but not yesterday, Don the Ford

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

 

June 21, 2024

            Good Friday Morning to all. I have already gone outside and watered the flowers in the pots before 7:00am, I wanted to beat the heat and I did. It was a very nice morning, and the sun was still behind some clouds. I was able to water all the flowerpots front and back yards, and as I was finishing the sun started coming out from behind the clouds. Talk about being blessed, that is a blessing, working in the cool with the sun behind the cloud.

            No one asked so I am not going to tell you one of the reasons for this early watering. Ok, I will tell you, I may get to go to lunch with my favorite wife and her friends if Dave gets off work on time. If he gets off at 11:00 I would be able to take him home and still get to the restaurant on time. Second reason: I always fill the birdbaths and the dogs water bowls when I water the flowers, and I wanted Tres to have plenty of water because he would be outside if I get to go to lunch. 

            Let’s get to yesterday’s non-events: The air filter for the walk behind mower, I learned, are expensive. I checked at my previous employer for the filter, and it was $9.26, it was a Briggs & Stratton filter, but I could not get it until next Friday. I checked online at a local hardware store, and they had a generic version for $16.00. I went to the hardware store to get the filter, even though I did not want to pay that price. I found the filter and next to it they had the Briggs & Stratton filter for $20.00. $16.00 is too much to pay, but I didn’t have much of a choice. Filter was installed and the ole filter was in bad shape.

            I did run the sprinkler system yesterday morning for 5 minutes each area, the ground needed it. For a while I complain about too much rain, and then I complain about to little rain. The people up north who are now in the mid-90s are unhappy with the heat, we are complaining about the humidity that comes with the heat. Next week we are supposed to be in the upper 90s close to 100. I guess we all have things to complain about.

            Two photos of clouds taken while we sat outside yesterday. The first one looks like a storm coming and there is a hole in the middle, the second looks like a wonder filled afternoon with a very blue sky!

            Well, I did pull some unwanted items (startup trees) from the Jasmin bed yesterday, I did not get them all, but I did make a start.

            I think I will stop for now I might try to get the other email working again on the computer. Oddly enough, it works on the phone but not on the computer.

            We hope you have a good and safe day, be kind to everyone, “even your spouse”!

Photographer of clouds.

Senior ole person who has a couple things to do, Don the Ford

 

June 20, 2024

            Good Morning to you, Good Morning to me, Good Morning to us. We did get a little rain yesterday; it was more of a sprinkle than rain.

            Yesterday’s events: if you had read my Wednesday morning posting, you might have known that I proposed the possibility of weed eating the other side of the ditch behind our house. Well, the clouds were covering the sun, and it wasn’t too awfully hot, so I went and got the new string trimmer from the Ford’s ole shed, checked the oil, (it’s a 4-cycle) added gas and began the process. I have a photo taken before starting the cutting.

            Now, looking at that photo you can see a small amount of the area that needed to be trimmed, and you might see a full-grown possum coming up the ditch toward me. This animal was within about 50 feet of me before he realized I was there, then he turned and went back down the ditch. I have an after photo and the possum is not in it.

            Once I had finished and attempted to get the grass and weeds off my ole body, I wondered, “why didn’t I put on dirty clothes to do this filthy work instead of clean clothes?” I did get a shower before having lunch and then resting for a long time.

            The new string trimmer worked well; I did have to fill the gas tank up a second time to complete the work. With the ruts and mud in the ditch, it is difficult for an ole retired person to cut the weeds down. I would be standing there, trimmer running, when I would notice that I felt unlevel, I then looked down and one foot would be sinking into the mud, that I thought was solid dirt.

            That is all the real work I did yesterday, my favorite wife and I did sit outside on the front porch yesterday afternoon, it was sprinkling a little, and the neighborhood was very quiet.

            My little plan for today’s work will be, pick up sticks and debris from the front yard, pull some unwanted plants from the Jasmin, and clean the air filter on the walk behind mower. The walk behind mower is at least 10 years old, and I have been having problems getting it started. I hope I don’t need to purchase a new mower.

            I guess that is it for now, we hope you have a very good day and please be nice to all ole people, along with, stay safe in all you do.

Possum or Opossum?

Senior ole person says happy beginning to summer today, Don the Ford

 

June 19, 2024

 

            A good morning to you, we may get a little rain today, actually, we need a little rain. Today my big plan may be to do as little as possible, although, since it should be cooler and the possibility of rain, I could attempt to weed eat the ditch, or not.

            Allow me to reference yesterday: I found a flower pot, with a flower in it, turned over. Now this upset my favorite wife as this flower is pretty and easy to damage. I was told that the flower needed to be watered so I watered all the flowers in pots yesterday morning. It was decided that the flower would need to be repotted in a larger (heavier) pot later in the day.

            I still needed to get the gas out of the generator, so I moved it out of the garage again. I used a wooden dowl to see how much gas was still in the generator, after running it a couple hours the day before. There was still an inch of gas in the generator, so I started it and let it run. After an hour or more it stopped running, I tried again to restart it but it was out of gas, thank goodness. I cleaned the dust off it and let the gas tank air out. I like to get as much gas out as possible.

            I cleared off some stuff from the work bench and actually tossed some things away. I also cleaned most of the garage by sweeping and spaying for bugs, there was a lot of small spider webs and I want to get rid of them. The floor swept, I then put the generator in its place and moved the bench over the generator

            I moved the Ford’s ole van back in the garage, now I thought, most of the work for the day is done. I got a call from Dave to pick him up from work.

            Arriving back home we were able to sit outside for a while. I did not have an adult beverage as I was rehydrating with some cold water. It wasn’t too long when it was decided to re-pot that flower that had fell over earlier. I brought a bag of potting soil from the shed to the driveway where we were sitting and together my favorite wife and I re-potted the flower. I then again watered the plants as I was told they needed it. 

            Work completed, all my cold water drank, I then made myself an adult beverage, as then we actually rested for a while. As you can see, another do-nothing day.

            Well, I guess that is it for now, we hope you have a safe day filled with happy thoughts and not a lot of work.

What’s next?

Senior ole person who may work too much, or, not enough, Don the Ford    

June 18, 2024

            The sun is up and shining, it seems like a good morning here at the Ford’s homestead, we hope it is a good morning for you too.

            I have a couple topics for the blog this morning, none of them will be exciting or interesting, so maybe you need to take the day off and not read this posting.

            I have an email problem, so the email I usually use is not working and I am not smart enough to fix it. So, I use the other email that is working, problem temporarily solved. 

            Now allow me to talk about pain. We all know that ole people have a lot of pain in their bodies, and yes, that includes me. Ok, let us get to my painful story. Yesterday, I was allowed to go out to the mail box, to see if we had any mail. I walked up to the mail box and opened it, I looked in, there was no mail, I closed it, turned, and started to the house when my left arm experienced severe pain.

            Now pain in the left arm can mean many things, even a heart attack, this pain was instantaneous. Now this pain was not in the entire arm, it was just an area between my elbow and wrist. What could be causing this pain. 

Also yesterday, I decided to get the gas out of the generator and put the generator back in storage. I was able to syphon some gas out and when I looked into the generator’s gas tank, there seemed to be just a little gas left in it. I decided to start the generator and let it run out of gas; I try to get all gas out which is not always easy. Gas left in, even in a small amount, can clog up carburetors and gas lines causing problems the next time you decide to use it.

I positioned the generator on the driveway and started it. I thought it would run for maybe 30 minutes, it ran for more than 2 hours and I had to shut it off. Obviously, there was much more gas than I thought in the generator. I will again today attempt to remove the gas.

I left the homestead yesterday, I needed to drop by the bank, get gas in the truck, purchase something from the cheap store, and while I was in town I thought I would stop at the adult beverage store and procure a bottle. All went well except the procurement of the bottle. It was about 10:15 in the morning when I drove around the adult beverage store, there was about 4 people standing outside, there was a car at the drive through window but the bars on the window were not opened, and the lady’s vehicle who works there, was not there, so the adult beverage store was not open. I saved a couple dollars by the store being closed.   

Today: As I noted earlier, my plan for today is to get the gas out of the generator. I also need to check and clean the air filters in the mowers.

What? You want to know if I went to the doctor yesterday, why would I go to the doctor? What? You want to know what happened with my arm pain, ok, thanks for asking about my pain, I guess I did not explain well enough. Ole people occasionally forget to enlighten the reading public, aka, tell the whole story.

Ok, I was walking away from the mail box when the sharp pain came to my left arm. I turned and looked at the mail box where I observed a wasp nest under the mail box. I had been stung by a wasp. I proceed to get the wasp and hornet spray and eradicated the wasps and nest. Now you have the whole story.

Well, I guess I need to get started and let you get back to doing something interesting. We hope you have a good day and please be safe in all you do.

Wasp killer.

Senior ole person who needs to, but don’t want to, Don the Ford

 

June 17, 2024

            Good Morning from this ole retired person to you and to that other person also. We hope your day is starting out well, and you will enjoy all you do.

            I started out early yesterday morning working on a project that my favorite wife wanted done. Now this project required me to remove 19, 12-inch by 12-inch blocks from where they were located, and then locating them together in an area to place flower pots on. The work was not easy, as I would need to find the blocks, removed them from where they were located, and bring them to the location where they would be placed. Now the sun was shining and it was very hot outside. I started out with some shade from the car port but that did not last very long. Then I would wait for the sun to go behind a cloud and I would start working but when the sun came back, I would stop and get into the shade.

            The start work and then stop process went on for a while, when a friend came over and brought us some fresh vegetables from his garden. We discussed flowers for a while and then I got back to work. I got tired of the starting and stopping so I stopped and went into the house and cooled off. I decided to wait until 6:00pm, when there would be shade on the area that I would be working.

            About 5:00pm I went out and started working again and I finished about 6:00pm. Photo of the completed project withs some flowers placed on it.

            It doesn’t look like much work but it was. When I finished the work, I had to put all the tools away and then I watered the flowers in the pots in the new area and in the back 40. Then I was allowed to get a cold drink and sit down with my favorite wife outside, I did rest.

            Plans for today: I will attempt to do as little as possible, although I do need to put the generator away, and that in itself is work. There is one small project in the back 40 to replace items that were moved yesterday to get the blocks for the project. I need to drop by the bank to make a deposit, and I should get some gas in the Ford’s ole Chevy. 

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

Workaholic!

Senior ole person who was dirty and took a shower, Don the Ford

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

 

June 16, 2024

            To all the fathers out there, “Happy Father’s Day”! We hope you have a blessed day.

            Too all those who are not fathers, we wish you a, “Good Morning and Good Day!”

 

            I will attempt to keep this tale short, so you have time to do other things. Speaking of tales, as we were sitting outside yesterday afternoon we were not discussing, “The Tale of Two Cities”, even though I did have a cocktail, but there was a discussion about a single tail. I have a photo taken yesterday. The tail of one cat.

            Speaking of yesterday, we did go into town for our sandwich lunch, we did go to the cheep store and we got some spicy pretzel pieces. These pretzel pieces are good if you like things with jalapeno spice on them, and you need to have something to drink if you are going to eat them. We got two bags as we were shopping, but decided to get another bag to give to a good friend.

Back at home after a short rest My favorite wife went outside and started trimming some bushes and removing weeds, while I started working on the new string trimmer. I got it together, I added oil, and gas. This trimmer is a 4-cycle motor, most gas-powered string trimmers are 2-cycle motors. I read the instructions as to how to start it and it started as indicated. One neat thing about this trimmer is, the head where the string is, does not turn when you start the trimmer, it only turns when you speed the motor up. That effect makes it easier to start the trimmer.

I then mowed the front yard and used the new trimmer to trim, NICE!

Mower and trimmer put away we rested on the front porch and I munched on some of the spicy pretzels. We noticed the friend who we wanted to give a bag of the pretzels to, out in his front yard working, so I walked over to his house and presented the bag to him. We haven’t heard from him yet as to whether he like them or not.

Later in the afternoon, before we sat outside, we washed the dog in the back 40.

Sitting outside was nice yesterday as there was a light breeze and we did not need to run the noisy big fan. 

This morning as Tres and I ventured out front for his morning review of the yard, I noticed a single bloom that is in the Jasmin bed, and I have a photo.

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

Tail of one cat!

Senior ole retired person who says Happy Father’s Day to all fathers, Don the Ford

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

June 15, 2024

            Good Saturday morning to everyone, we hope this day will be filled with nice wonders. You do know a wonder can be a miracle, so maybe there will be a wonderful miracle for you!

            I will try to keep this posting short so you can get started on your miracle. On Friday morning I posted the blog posting and then went and feed the livestock at Dave’s house. Returning home I took a short break and then before starting to prepare to mow the back 40, I moved the trailer out of the back 40 and positioned it under the car port ready for today’s limb hall off. My pot hound Tres was in the house crying the entire time it took to move the trailer.

It takes as long to get prepare to mow, as it does to mow, and it takes as long to trim after mowing, as it does to mow. To explain; 30 minutes to get the back 40 ready, 30 minutes on the riding mower, and 30 minutes with the weed eater trimming the back 40. NO, my new string trimmer had not arrived, so I used the battery powered unit.

After the mowing expedition I had some leftovers for lunch and then took a shower. With my ole body cleaned; I was able to climb into the Ford’s ole recliner for a rest period. 

            Speaking of not arriving, it was early afternoon and neither of my items, the Bible study book, or my gas power string trimmer had arrived.

            Later in the afternoon I went to feed the animals, this was the last time for feeding the animals as Dave and the family returned home Friday night. 

            This morning, I don’t need to go feed the animals, but I have to go to the dump site with the limbs, there is no rest for the ole retired people.

            We did get to sit outside and enjoy the hot weather, along with a cold beverage. I did have the big fan running which provided a needed breeze. We had three friends come over and sit with us to discuss world problems. After resting outside with friends, drink in hand, I noticed Molly the cat, in the ole wooden rocker, photo to follow.

            As our conversations ended and friends went home, I decided to water the flowers in the pots out back. I had watered the potted flowers out front earlier, so it wasn’t too much work. I did wait to water the back flower pots until the sun was not directly shining on them.

            Later in the afternoon my new string trimmer arrived. While I was at Dave’s house feeding the animals, my bible study book arrived.

                        New bloom: this bloom is above the previous bloom that has faded away, but this one is facing up as if it wants some rainwater to fill it up. Now I know you don’t like my photos of blooms, yes, I heard you say that, but I like them, its my blog and you are not forced to look at the bloom, maybe you can look at the dog water bucket. 

            Well, I guess I should stop for now, this posting is a little longer than I had planned. We hope you have a good day and at least one miracle, while you are staying safe in all you do.

Provider of flowerpot water.

Senior ole person who has many titles, some are made up, Don the Ford

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