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.

Learn new stuff?

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

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

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March 27, 2025

            It is still dark outside, and we hope you have a good morning. It is said to be cooler today than recent days with a temp of about 70 degrees.

            I am writing this with the old computer even though the new computer is working. I haven’t been able to make a mailing list with the names and email address for each of you, so it is easier to use the old computer until I can create the list.

            Yesterday was another do-nothing day for me, but even though I did nothing, I do have a few photos to provide for the non-reader in this group.

            The first photo is of the first bloom I have seen this year on the black berries.

             The next photo is of the rose bush which has several white blooms. 

            The last photo is of a new tree that is attempting to start next to the dog’s water bowl.

            Yes, you must look closely to see the tree, and we will have many of them in the yard due to the Red Oak trees.

            My favorite wife and I did sit outside yesterday afternoon, and the neighborhood was very quiet. There is a good chance we will go out for supper this evening, you know, date night.

            The prognosticators started saying we would have rain today and tomorrow, but now they are reducing the amount that we might have, and I would bet that we get almost nothing, but we do need the rain.  

            Well, I need to get the Alex and take him to school so I guess I will say have a good day and be safe in all you do.

Come on rain!

Senior ole person who thinks the back 40 needs to be mowed, Don the Ford

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

March 26, 2025

Good morning to all and Happy birthday to my sister in Missouri, I think she is 21 years old, “again”?

I did very little yesterday, but my favorite wife did a lot of work. I did move a couple items from the garage to the shed, I did move things around in the garage, heck I even swept some of the leaves and dust out of the garage. My favorite wife went through some cabinets in the garage and was able to toss out some items. One item she found is a heat gun, still in the original box, and it looks like brand new. I would like to give it to someone, but I guess I will put it in the trash as I don’t know anyone who needs a heat gun.

Everything put back in place in the garage we did rest outside for a while in the warm afternoon heat. I was able to get the plants in the hot house watered and as usual I did water the black berry plants. I think I had said there was 2 new berry bushes growing outside the #1 bed, and yesterday I found 5 new black berries starting outside the #2 bed. 

Big plan for today, put the recycle bin out for the trash truck. 

Photo of the day…      Molly has a tendency to get comfortable anyplace I am. I can take a nap in the Ford’s ole recliner and she will often jump up on the chair and lay on my lap.

            Well, I need to get my mind focused on getting Alex to school on time and in a safe manner. We hope you have a good day and please stay safe in all you do.

Cat in the way.

Senior ole person whose cat likes to be in his way while resting, Don the Ford

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