April 4, 2025

            Good morning from the Fords of Hewitt Tx. We hope your day is starting off in a positive manner, we are getting some lite rain this morning. 

            Let’s see if there were any events yesterday; I did get the Alex to school on time and safely. Later in the morning my favorite wife had a doctor’s appointment. We left the house a little early and headed to the bank teller machine where we got our weekly stipend. Then we headed to the Star coffee place so I could get a cup before heading to the doctor. The Star coffee place had cars in the drive through, all around the building so I drove on by. It was too early to head to the doctor, so I headed to another Star coffee place where I did get a cup of coffee. Now, we were headed to the doctor’s office a little early. My favorite wife said if we got there early, she might get in early.

            We did make it early and I sat in the waiting room as she did the mammogram. I should note; they had a coffee machine in the waiting room, free coffee, but I already had a paid for cup. She did get in early and when she came out, we headed for the Ford’s ole truck. When we got into the truck, I noticed that it was two minutes before her appointment time. Yes, she got in and out before her appointment time.

            Happy with those results we headed into Waco for a lunch sandwich. The sandwich and fries were good, then we headed to the cheap store. I thought they might have some fire ant killer, but they did not, I did purchase another clock with the president’s face on it.

            Back at home I did ride the new trike up and down the street a couple times and I did my bible study homework. All that completed I did take a break for a few minutes, aka nap, and then I went outside where I moved a big flowerpot from the back 40 to the front yard. This pot had fire ants in it when we brought it out of the shed, so I had sprayed it with bug spray a couple times and the ants seem to be gone, so I took it to the front yard and placed it near the sidewalk.

            That completed I did get the hose out and water the berry beds and the flowers in the back 40 then I went to the front yard and watered the flowers. I do have a photo of some blooms.

            Different subject: I received a photo of a tornado that happened in Missouri this week, so I thought I would post it. This was in Delta Missouri, and it was heading toward Cape.

            My favorite wife and I did sit outside yesterday afternoon and there was an unusual event, a street sweeper came down our street. Now the neighbor across the street had swept the leaves and debris off the street in front of his house the day before, we got ours removed free yesterday and no work involved, photo of our curb to follow.

            Our curb is as clean as the neighbors, and he did all the work.

            Different topic: when we were at the cheap store I purchased another clock with the president’s face on it. When our neighbors from down the street was driving by, I flagged them down and presented them with a clock. Our neighbor’s wife seemed to like the clock, not sure about her husband.

            I have another photo which shows the pollen that has been in the air the last few days. The yellow on the cement driveway is the pollen that was washed off the top of the car port.

            Wow, it seems as it we had several things happen yesterday. I will stop for now, we hope you have a good day and we want everyone to stay safe in all we do.

Pollen is everywhere.

Senior ole person who needs to get stared to Alex’ house, Don the Ford

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

April 3, 2025

            We think it is another good morning, but that may depend on where you are. We learned yesterday that a tornado had hit part of the town we use to live in back in Missouri. We pray that everyone stays safe through the day.

            Our big plans for today are to get Alex to school on time and to take my favorite wife to the doctor for her mammogram. We will go to the same building that I went to yesterday but on a different floor. The doctor that I saw yesterday said I get hoarse do to the fact that I am getting old. Wow, what an evaluation, I am getting old. 

            We did very little yesterday after returning home from the doctor. I did do some of the homework for bible study and later in the afternoon we did sit outside with a couple neighbors and enjoyed the nice weather. Those neighbors did have a nice tree removed from their yard and it looks bare now, that said, they might plant another tree near the location of the previous tree. Why did they get rid of the previous tree, they did not like to clean up the leaves and acorns that would fall from the tree.

            I guess I should get going so I will say have a good day and be safe in all you do.

Storms be bad.

Senior ole person who needs a cup of coffee, Don the Ford

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

April 2, 2025

            Good morning to all, we hope your day is starting off well. I need to get started early today as I will be going to the doctor this morning after dropping Alex off at school.

            Let’s see if there was anything interesting from yesterday. I can’t think of anything interesting; the neighbor had his tree cut down from his front yard, I did get to talk with another neighbor who has stage 4 cancer. He has already lived 2 months past the date that the doctor had given him to live, and he is doing pretty good. We keep him in our prayers, and he keeps us in his prayers.

            I was at my desk reading from the Bible when Molly, our cat, decided to get on the desk. After some walking around and getting petted, she decided to lay down and take it easy, photo to follow.

We now have a new bike or should I say trike, I do have a photo.

            Now you know what was in the big ole box that was shown in a previous posting. As you can see it has big fat tires, it does have a headlight and a taillight, you can pedal it, or you can just use the electric motor to ride around on. I think they said it could go 20 mph, but the fastest I have been able to make it go was 15 mph. It is much easier to ride on the street than in the yard. I did ride the trike up and down the street several times yesterday trying to get use to it.

            Other than the doctor’s visit I do not have any big plans for today.

Well, I guess I should stop for now and take it easy for a while. We hope you have a good day and are safe in all you do.

Too ole for a trike?

Senior ole person who may be too ole for anything, Don the Ford

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

April 1, 2025

            Where did they come up with April Fool’s Day? In years past I remember attempting to fool others with some type of joke, it usually did not work. Now, being an ole person, I guess I am the joke, but at least I am something. Allow me to wish you a good morning and a happy April first day.

            Yesterday was a day off from doing much of anything. I did my bible study homework, and I did a little housework like vacuuming, and that is about it. Today I am back on schedule, you know, get Alex and take him to school then sit around and do very little. The weather is supposed to be getting stormy later this week and we should get some needed rain.

            Different subject: on the so-called news programs on TV, they occasionally interview someone who has supposedly done something interesting. If you take the time to pay attention you will likely understand that the interview was a commercial. They interview this person and whatever it is they have accomplished, usually turns out to be a book they have written or a business they have established. Now I think it is good that people start businesses and write books, but the commercials should be out right commercials and interviews should not turn into commercials. I see and hear enough commercials every day.

            Different subject: Our Moon Plant was recently moved from the hothouse to its outside resting place. Now this plant does not bloom often, and it blooms at night. Well, I guess it likes the outside resting place, because it bloomed. I have a photo showing you a closeup of the bloom.

Well, I need to get started to get Alex so I will say have a good day and be safe in all you do.

Mooned again.

Senior ole person who needs a break from doing nothing, Don the Ford

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

March 31, 2025

            This it the last day in March, I use to march when I was in the National Guards. Those two Marchs might be different, so I will stop with that and say, “Good Morning to all”.

            Let’s see if anything happened yesterday: Nope, nothing happened yesterday except, we did go out for lunch and after filling our bodies with good food, we went to make sure we knew where to go for my next doctor’s appointment. We found the building where we remembered it being. I will go there on Wednesday to be checked out and my favorite wife goes to a different doctor at the same building the next day.

            After locating the building, we headed to the cheap store where my favorite wife purchased a couple things. Returning home the weather was nice so we stayed outside. My favorite wife took it easy in the ole swing while I worked on a project in the garage. As time passed, I also relaxed but, in the shade, while she sat in the sun. Eventually I had to get up and water the plants, but I failed to water those out front, I will do that today.

            While we were out there the neighbor girl, and her little brother came over to visit. They both gave Tres a couple treats, and they both went out into the back 40. They like the back yard for some reason.

            I do have a photo of the new pecan trees starting to produce some leaves. This tree we believe, was planted by the squirrels in our flower bed, so we left it there. It will take a while for this tree to produce pecans, I assume the new owner will appreciate the tree.

            Speaking of trees, the front yard was filled with new red oak trees before Alex mowed. These get planted by the squirrels and by us stepping on them and pushing them into the ground.

            Speaking of today, I don’t need to get Alex and take him to school, they have the day off. No, I don’t know why they have the day off, I just know they are off. I do need to double check my bible study homework as we have a meeting tonight. We are getting close to spring break in our studies, yes, we get a spring break like the school kids do.

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

Squirrels be bad!

Senior ole person who don’t need to do anything today, Don the Ford

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

March 30, 2025

            Well, here we are back at Sunday again. It may be sun day, but it isn’t starting off sunny, there is thunder and lightning off in the distance and there is some lite rain showing up on the driveway.

            Now that I think about it, I may have made a good decision yesterday. What was the good decision that the Don may have made, let’s look into that later in this article, but for now we will get started with, “what events may have occurred yesterday”, by Don the Ford.

            The day started with me going to get our yard man Alex and after visiting the Star coffee place we arrived at the Ford Homestead where we actually did some work.

            First, we headed to the hot house where we, I mean Alex began removing the flowers. Some of the flowers went to the front yard while others were located in the back 40 and still others were located near the ole swing where we sit in the afternoon. We did leave a couple flower near the hot house as some were not in good condition and one nice flower with blooms all over it had fire ants in it. We did spray it a couple times with bug killer, and we will check it later today. Alex did notice a bug that we have a photo of.

             That work completed, Alex started the weed trimming in both the front and back yards while I removed debris from the back 40. There were again small limbs and Poopa-Loopa in areas of the back 40. With the weed trimming completed, the flowers move, and the debris removed, we considered the work done. Now we would normally head out to Waco to get a sandwich for lunch but since someone needed to stay at the homestead to sign for an expected delivery, my favorite wife volunteered to go in to Waco, get the sandwiches and bring them to the homestead where we had our lunch.

            The grass in the yard was still wet from the rain, and I do not like to mow in wet grass, so after eating I took Alex back to his house. We had agreed that he would come over Monday an do the mowing.

            Arriving back at the homestead I noticed the delivery truck was on our street. As he drove toward our house, I motioned to the driver to stop at our driveway, and he did. We unloaded the carton and I signed for the delivery. The carton was kind of large and I do have a photo of me next to the carton.

             Why are you looking at all the stuff in the garage around me when you are supposed to look at the large carton.

            Now let’s return to the good decision that the Don made yesterday afternoon. It was about 3:00pm when I noticed that the grass was dry and ready to be manicured. I decided to call the Alex and see if he would be willing to return to the homestead and mow the grass. He was working with his dad in the yard when I called so he decided to finish working with his dad and then he would come over and mow. I must say he did an excellent job of mowing, and I did not get involved at all. Why I say it was a good decision to get him to come back and mow, it is raining again today, and it might tomorrow.

            As for today events, we may be able to afford lunch out and we might drop by the cheap store to see if they have anything we might need. It the weather allows us to get outside later today we will probably be relaxing outside this afternoon, all are welcome to visit with us.

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

Rain be good!

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

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

March 29, 2025

            It is a good Saturday morning here in Hewitt TX. We did get more than ½ inch of rain yesterday but not quite ¾ inch. Every plant is saying thanks for the rain.

            Speaking of rain, I have a photo I took yesterday morning prior to going to get Alex for school. This bloom was standing big and bright even though it was cloudy and raining.

       

            I was not sure which photo you would like, so I posted both.

            The big plan for today was to do the yard work, but due to the rain and wet grass, we will only do a couple things. First, we will get the flowers out of the hot house, and properly position them, then we will use the string trimmers to trim the front yard and the back 40. Our yard man Alex does not have school on Monday, so we will probably have the grass mowed then.

            Speaking of Alex, I need to go get him and bring him here so he can do all my work.

            I have ordered an item for my favorite wife, and it is supposed to be here today. They say we must sign for this item, and it will be delivered by FedEx. The item will be in a large carton, and I have the two-wheeler in the garage for easy handling. Since we must be here to sign for the item, that might delay us from going into Waco for our usual sandwich lunch.

            Topic change: when Tres and I went out front this morning I could feel some mist in the air. I hope the rain holds off for a little while, so we can do our yard work today. We need more rain, but maybe it will hold off for a couple hours.

            I guess I should stop for now, we hope you have a good day and please be safe in all you do.

Spring blooms are starting.

Senior ole yard man who needs to work some but not too much, Don the Ford

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

March 28, 2025

            I would like to say good morning to all, and I hope it is, but I am using the new computer, and I must think about what I am doing to make anything happen. Hay, we did get some rain yesterday and overnight, I do not know how much but there was one eighth inch at 5:30 yesterday. It does correct my grammar mistakes, so I guess that is good.

            Yesterday was another do-nothing day for me. After doing my daily reading of the bible and my bible study homework, I did go out to the front porch to read from my chronological bible, but the wind was blowing a lite mist, and it was getting on the pages of the bible. The paper is very thin, and a drop of mist would show up, so I returned to the house.

            My favorite wife and I did go out for supper last evening and the food was good as usual.

            This morning, I did break a habit, I did not go out to the front yard with the Tres. We have been in the habit of going to the front yard every morning since he was a puppy. In the olden days we would get the newspaper and Tres would get it and bring it into the house after he checked the yard and watered the grass. We continued going out even though we no longer get the paper, and this morning I decided to stay inside, Tres looked at me like I had forgotten what I was doing. He even went to the front door, but we did not go out. Ole habits are hard to break.

            Nothing planned for today, we hope the rain continues as we do need it. I hope it is dry enough tomorrow for the yard man Alex to do some yard work s I want to get all the flowers out of the hot house and the back 40 needs to be mowed.

            I put the photo in just to see if I could do it on this new computer.

            Well, I guess that is it for now, we hope you have a good day and that everyone stays safe in all we do.

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Senior Ole person who knows everything and don't need to learn new stuff, Don the Ford

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