July 13, 2025

            Good Sunday morning to everyone.

            This will be a short post, as I want some rest.

            Yesterday was a slow boring day, we sat out on the front porch for a while during the early afternoon, and later we went out to our usual resting place but didn’t stay out there too long. It started sprinkling and it stopped then it started again, so we went inside. Just a few minutes after going inside, it began to rain hard. It poured rain for a while then it stopped so I checked the rain gage, we got one inch or rain yesterday afternoon.

Why do I want rest, because last night’s sleep was not that good. At some where about 2:30 I was woken up by the thunder. Now Tres does not like thunder so he was beside the bed looking at me. I got up and we walked toward the back door thinking he might need to go outside for a minute. He would not go to the door so I knew he was afraid and we headed back into the bed room. Tres beat me to the bed and he was laying on my side of the bed. I tried to get him to move over and he was acting like he was dead. I had a little room but not enough to get comfortable. The thunder continued all night and I got very little comfortable sleep.

This morning the back 40 is partially standing in water, and when I checked the rain gage, we have another inch of rain last night, yep, two inches of rain and they are calling for more today.

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

Wet Sunday!

                        Don the Ford

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

July 12, 2025

            We wish you a good morning, we may get some rain and possible storms today.

            I checked with our yard man Alex Friday, to see if he could come over Saturday and do some yard work. Alex has plans for Saturday so I decided to do the work myself.

I started out by trimming the weeds along the fence and around all the flower beds and sheds. That work took about one hour. Then I drank a bunch of water and rested for a couple minutes before picking up the dog droppings from the yard. The grass was tall and made it difficult to see the Poopa-Loopa.

That process completed I decided to get the riding mower and check it over. The mowing went well, I was happy that there were some clouds in the area and there was an occasional puff of wind to help cool this ole body. The entire process took about 2.5 hours, and the yard looks as good as if Alex had done the work.   

            My favorite wife and I did sit outside yesterday afternoon and the neighborhood was quiet with no traffic on the street. We went inside after happy time and had a lite supper. I was heading into the bed room and the power went off. I called a neighbor and asked if they had power and they did not. I called a friend one street over and they did not have power either, he explained that there was a wire down and they were working on fixing the problem. They told him the power might be on by 9:30pm.

            My favorite wife and I sat on the front porch and neighbors were also sitting outside in their yards. We received calls from other neighbors asking if we had power. It took about 1.5 hours to get the power back on.

            Big plans for today are to have a sandwich for lunch in Waco, and stop at the cheap store. We will take it easy and see if anything interesting occurs.

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

Yard-man Don the Ford!

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

July 11, 2025

                Good morning to you. We hope your day started off well and we hope it ends up even better.

                Today is Friday but it seems like Saturday to me for some reason. I'm in a pretty good mood this morning. I didn't have to put that medicine in my eyes anymore for the pink eye.  My eyes are looking good for an ole person, I had to use that medicine for five days and I'm glad that it's done.

I was thinking about going out in the backyard and starting to weed eat and mowing but then I thought, I'm going to give my yard man Alex a chance. I'm going to call him in a few minutes and see if he's willing to come over and mow probably tomorrow since tomorrow is Saturday, and I keep thinking today is Saturday.

                This morning since I was in a very good mood I went and got myself a cup of coffee before I started sitting here in front of this computer talking to it. Yes, I'm entering data verbally and then later I'll go back through and correct my grammar, or it will correct my grammar. We did very little yesterday, it was a good day as we sat out on the front porch for a while. A neighbor asked, "isn't it hot setting out there", and I said, "well we're sitting in the shade and there's a breeze, so it's not too bad.

Later in the afternoon we went for supper. Yes, also known as date night, supper was good. The table we set at was not good there was a glare coming in and getting in our eyes.  We had to find a way to sit with our back to the glare from the windows. Back home we again sat outside for a little while with a cold drink or two and that was what we did yesterday.

                Again, there are no plans for today. Hopefully I can get Alex to agree to come over tomorrow and do the mowing, if not tomorrow then today would be OK. We do have a slight chance of rain tomorrow, but I think it will probably miss us.

                Well, I will stop for now. We hope you have a good day and that we all stay safe in all we do. Please keep those people in your prayers in the flooded areas.

Eyes back to normal, Don the Ford

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

July 10, 2025

            When the Tres and I walked outside this morning we noticed that there did not appear to be a cloud in the big beautiful blue sky. That being said, we wish you a good morning and a better day.

            I decided to start this day off a little different from usual, we all occasionally need a break from the usual. Now I do not like the entire day to be different than usual, as an entire day that is different seems for this ole body of mine to kind of make for an odd week. To explain, if too much of the day is different than it seems like a different day. Let’s say it is Tuesday but I am doing things that I would do on Saturday like mowing. Then I keep thinking what day is this. Ole people be odd.

            This morning, I decided to go to the start coffee place and get a cup. This gets me out of the house early morning for a few minutes. it was a short drive and the coffee was very good this time. I came back home in a good mood an I am attempting to enter this data into the Ford’s ole computer. That means I am entering by hand, if I was using the ole computer, I could enter the data by using my voice.

            When I returned from getting the cup of coffee, I observed a couple flowers and I will place them in this post.

 

             Big plan for today is to attempt to find something productive to do, but not work too much. We hope you have a good day and please stay safe in all you do.

Photographer Don the Ford

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

July 9, 2025

                Good morning to everyone. We hope your day is starting off really well and that today may be one of the best you've ever had

                I don't have much to put in today's posting. I did get a cup of coffee at the star coffee place yesterday and when I tasted it, I said that it is not any good at all. I did not drink the rest of it I poured it out, worst cup of supposed coffee I've ever had.

My favorite wife and I went outside to set yesterday it was probably around 4:45pm. It was breezy and there were big clouds. I have a photo.

 Once outside we got seated and as soon as we sat down it started sprinkling rain. We sat there just for a minute or two and then we said we'll go to the front porch where we will be out of the rain. As soon as we got to the front porch the rain stopped. It was still a nice afternoon sitting there together.

                I have no plans for today. We'll see how the day goes. We hope you all have a good day and that everybody stays safe in all we do.

Flag in the breeze.

                                Don the Ford

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

July 8, 2025

                We are starting another good morning here at the Fords Homestead. We hope your day is starting or going well.

                My main comment for today is about mowing the front yard yesterday. I had decided that I needed to mow the yard and I wanted to do it before the next rain came. I did my morning Bible reading and when I finished it up, I looked at the clock and I thought, it takes about an hour to do the entire process of mowing the front yard and trimming it. So, I went and got the mower out checked the gas oil and all that stuff went out front and started mowing. I looked up in the sky and seeing all those nice big clouds and I'd seen on the weather where it said we were going to get more rain. I thought, wouldn't it be neat if I finished just the last bit of mowing and it started raining. Then I wouldn't have to get the weed eater out and trim the yard.

                Well let me tell you that's exactly what happened. I finished mowing the yard I and I push the lawn mower up on the driveway and I noticed drops of rain, sprinkling just started. The neighbor across the street hollered at me and wanted to give me some tomatoes and some squash so I walked over and got then. I got wet putting a lawnmower away because I went and got some fresh vegetables from our neighbor. That's my story about yesterday.

                My wife and I set out on the front porch for a while due to the fact that it rained. We went inside for supper and after eating we decided to go back out and sit outside again. A little later I said it's time for me to go put my eye drops in and the medication for my pink eye, and so I went in the house and wouldn't you know it, a neighbor come over and sat with my favorite wife on the front porch for a while, that's my story.

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

Lucky lawnmower.

                                Don the Ford

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

July 7 2025

                We wish everyone a good morning we hope your day turns out to be one of the best you've ever had. We should all keep those who were involved in that flood in Texas in our prayers.

                Yesterday was Sunday it was the first Sunday in a long time that we did not go out to lunch. We stayed home mostly due to the fact that I have "pink eye" and we did not want to share the pink eye with anyone else. The doctor told me to stay away from kids until it's over, that kids will get it quicker than adults. Not going to lunch yesterday made the day seem like something other than Sunday, actually most of the day was sitting around doing nothing, yes boring.

                I do have medication for the pink eye. It's not easy to put in but you have to put it in your eye then the eye blurs for a minute or so and they told me to put it in both eyes because you'll probably get it in the other eye if you don't use the medicine in both eyes. My other problems such as the sore throat and a cough and sneeze are getting better but I do still have some of the symptoms the good thing is that I don't feel sick, in other words, in my body don't hurt it's just the sneezing sniffling coughing and sore throat that gets me.

                I'm probably going to attempt to mow the front yard this morning the front yard needs to be mowed and if I get it done before any more rain comes that would be very helpful. I can't get Alex due to the pink eye.

                We hope you have a good day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Pink or red eye?

                        Don the Ford

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

July 5, 2025

              It is now Saturday, are you still celebrating the Holiday? I noted to my favorite wife that we did not get invited to anyone's house for some holiday BBQ, then my favorite wife said to me, we didn't invite anyone to our house for some holiday BBQ either.  😐

              On a sad note, we learned that one of our neighbors had been put on Hospice.             

              What did the Don do yesterday, well, let's see. He got up earlier than usual and he watched the so-called news. Then he decided he wasn't going to work on a blog yesterday, so he just decided he'd go get him a cup of coffee at the star coffee place. When he returned home with that Real Coffee, he just sat around and sipped on it for a little while. He went and crawled in his chair and tried to go to sleep. The problem is that sleeping is hard to do when you're snorting and coughing. The problem with his coughing is that the drainage from his nose runs down into his throat and makes him cough.

              I would like to tell you that he also went outback, got the gas grill out, opened it up, cleaned it all out good, it hadn't been used in a while. I would like to tell you he did a really good job of cleaning it. He then fired it up, shut the top down and let it get good and hot. Also, I'd like to tell you that his favorite wife brought some steaks, and he put those steaks on that grill. Steaks smell good when they are cooking on the grill. When they finished grilling, they were cooked medium, you know some pink meat in the center.  Wait a minute, let's change that. The Don didn't go out back to the grill, the grill hasn't been used in probably two or three years, he just made that up to see if that would get your interest. Don had a salad for lunch, yeah, a salad. Is a salad a holiday meal?

              We did get rain again Thursday and Friday, and they're calling for more rain. Things are very wet, so I assume we will not be mowing the yards today. We sat on the front porch Thursday due to the wet weather. We noticed a bird that seemed to not be afraid of us. This bird landed above where we were sitting and sat up there looking at us, yes, I have a photo.

 

              TODAY: I went to the doctor this morning and I do have pinkeye. Yesterday I went all day without any real medical problems, yes, I was still sneezing and coughing some and, in the afternoon, I took a nap. When I woke from the nap, I had some mucus in my right eye. I would remove it and it would immediately return. This morning I washed my eyes and headed to the Urgent Care. I will be getting some meds for the pinkeye and my coughing.

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

Friendly bird.

                             Don the Ford

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

July 3, 2025

            Good morning, this is the day before the holiday, we hope all stay safe and drive carefully this weekend. No drinking and driving.

            Well, let us see what I did yesterday. I did go to the doctor and she tested me for a few things, I do not have the covid, I do not have the flu, I do not have strep throat, and I don’t have a Feaver. She said they do not know what I have, but she could give me medicine for the cough, sore throat, and the acks in my head, or I could get a shot. I took the shot.

            I do feel better this morning but not over it yet, I am coughing as I enter this data. Now allow me to add to this situation, this morning I got up with dizziness (vertigo). Yep, add that one to the others and it makes it difficult to do much of anything. I was able to get on the bed and do the exercises to help get rid of vertigo, so that is gone for now.

            If all goes well and my cough gets better, then I will be willing to go out to supper this afternoon. Good food sounds nice.

            We got some rain this morning, 1/8 inch and we are supposed to get more today an into the night. If we get enough, I can post pone the lawn sprinklers from running tomorrow and save a dollar.

            We have a photo of a flower that had bloomed for the first time.

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

More rain, please.

                        Don the Ford

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

July 2, 2025

                We hope you have a good morning and a good day.

                I have been coughing, sneezing and snoting, I have a sore throat, so I will not be working on this post, I will be relaxing. Do not come to our house, I might be contagious.

 

                Don the Ford

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

July 1, 2025

                Well, we made it halfway through the year as today is July the 1^st. We're going into I guess a holiday week for most people, you know those who work, but for those of us that don't have jobs "poor old people" the holidays not that much fun. I guess I should wish you all a good morning and we hope your day is filled with kindness and love.

                All the birds in our bird houses seem to be having a lot of fun they're having sex right in front of us so I'm assuming they're going to have more babies. I have a bird bath that's close to us when we sat on the front porch. A bird came down landed on the edge of the bath, got him a drink and right in front of us, took a bath. These birds don't care about modesty.

                The backyard looks very good after I finished mowing and trimming it yesterday heck it looks as good as if our yard man Alex would have done it but it sure is a lot of work for an old man. When I finished the mowing, I got a shower and was able to get in my old recliner and rest.

Our neighbor up the street evidently has got himself a new Harley he starts it up and lets it sit out there and idle and if you've ever heard a Harley idol with loud pipes you know what I am talking about. My favorite wife and I have discussed getting another Goal Wing but we're probably too old to have another. Heck could we even get on and off?

The dove that was on the front porch Sunday was in our Jasmine yesterday afternoon. It's injured. I tried to give it some water yesterday, I picked it up and held it at the water in the bird bath, it would not drink. This morning, I checked, and the bird is dead.

 

I assume today is going to be another do nothing day here at the Ford house, I have no real plans to do anything. My wife did rearrange a few flowerpots yesterday and cut back some plants. I do need to water all the flowers in the pots today, so I must remember to do that, other than that, I need to take it easy.

We hope you have a good day and that we are all safe in all we do.

No plans.

                        Don the Ford

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

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!

June 22, 2025

                Good morning one and all, we hope your day is starting out well ours seems to be really nice.

                I really don't have a lot to put in here this morning since I did my blog posting yesterday afternoon and it covered everything; we did yesterday except for the fact that we did sit outside yesterday afternoon. The weather was pretty nice, about 91° and there was a good breeze most of the time, so setting outside was relaxing. There was very little traffic, no noise in the neighborhood so everything was quiet.

                Our big plan for today is to probably go out for lunch and come back home and do a little bit of nothing although, I might want to drive to the hardware store and get a new tarp to cover the riding lawn mower, we'll see how things go.

                I don't have any photos to post so I will stop for now and wish you all a good day and hope that we all stay safe in all we do.

Bless you all.

                                Don the Ford

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

June 21, 2025

                I normally say good morning on these posts but since it's no longer morning and its afternoon, I guess I will say good afternoon. We hope you have been and are having a good day.

                We did set outside yesterday afternoon, a good friend came over and she brought a small pizza, so we had pizza to eat before we sat outside, and yes we had some good conversations about the Bible.

                We did get our yard man Alex over here today. He first started cutting the weeds in the ditch, and then he mowed the backyard. All that was completed he then mowed the front yard and did the necessary trimming; he did excellent work.

                I have a photo of a blooming flower and the interesting thing about this bloom is, we did not plant this flower although we did plant two similar flowers in a different flower bed.

The yards and ditch looked good and then we all, Alex, myself and my favorite wife, headed into town for lunch. The sandwiches were good and there were three police officers eating there so we felt very secure.

                After lunch we went to the adult beverage store and at the drive through the lady came to the window and before I said anything she said, "you what …" and I said yes.  Maybe I have gone there too many times in the past since she knows what I want before I say anything.  We stopped at the cheap store and purchased one item, then we dropped Alex off at home and came back over to our homestead where I got in my recliner and relaxed.

It is a nice warm windy day, and it was cloudy this morning during a lot of the work. Maybe I should say it is hot even though it's only 91° and we still have not yet had our first 100° day this year.  We have no big plans for this afternoon other than set around take it easy and when happy time comes sneak outside and sit there in the heat, maybe with a fan blowing on us although there does seem to be a good breeze out there right now.

That's about it for today, we hope you are having a good day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Surprise Blooms.

                                Don the Ford

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