June 17, 2025

                Allow me to start out with good morning to you. I hope you have a good day.

                We had a good day yesterday and didn't do a lot since the yard was still wet. We did make it more wet and how did we do that, they asked, we bathed the dog yesterday afternoon a little before 4:00 PM. Now we sit outside each afternoon and by bathing the dog a little before 4:00pm since he is outside with us, he would have an hour and a half which would help him dry off before we let him into the house.

                I will provide you with a photo of our sunflowers in the back 40.

                We went into town for a while to do some shopping, we got some special kind of dirt for re-planting a couple of flowers. We also went to the nursery and looked at flowers but did not buy anything.

Our outside time yesterday was restful, and the birds were making a lot of noise.

I don't have any plans for today, I might consider pulling some weeds from the flower beds in the front yard, but that is a lot of work for a senior person.

I will stop for now; we hope your day is safe and productive.

Voluntary sunflowers.

                                Don the Ford

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

June 16, 2025

                Good morning and before you ask yes, we had a really good day yesterday with the family out for lunch, all went well. There are always interesting conversations when the Ford's get together.

                No big plans for today, we did get some rain yesterday which caused water to be standing in the backyard again, and with the rain yesterday the wind was blowing hard, and the rain was actually going sideways.

                After the rain had left yesterday, I noticed that our neighbor next door had a limb that was broken. This limb is probably 30 feet long and it's hanging in the tree. This morning, I was putting out my trash and she was putting out her trash so I pointed it out to her so that she would know it was there.

                We need to wash the dog today but as wet as the backyard is I'm not sure we'll be doing that

                I have no photos for today so I will say have a good day be safe in all you do.

Don the Ford, a good neighbor.

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

June 15, 2025

            Good Sunday morning to you all, and happy Father's Day to all the fathers, we hope everyone has a good and safe day.

            Our plans for today are that Patrick and Karla are coming to Hewitt, and we hope that Dave Claire and their family will also come over so we can all go out to lunch together. We usually have some lively conversations with each other. We understand that going out to lunch with eight people will mean we'll have to wait to be seated for quite a while.

I have several photographs that I'm going to post, and I'll try to describe them as I post them. First, we have a photo of black berries and there are three large berries together on one small vine.

Then we have a photo of some voluntary flowers blooming on the fence at the ditch.

Then we have some mushrooms that seem to be everywhere due to the extremely wet weather we have been having.

Then I have a photo of a green lizard on the wall above the garage door.

            I had an interesting event the other day when I was out riding the trike. In a different neighborhood I saw a road runner. Now I am not talking about a person running on the road, I am talking about a bird known as a road runner. This is the first time I have seen a road runner in several years. When we first moved here many years ago, there were not many houses around and there were many road runners. Nice to see them still in the area.  

            We went out for lunch with some friends yesterday to celebrate one of our friends' birthdays, we're not sure whether she was 80 or 81 because she said something about 79. I guess when we get old, we don't want to brag about how old we are, we had a good time.

            I will attempt to stop for now. We hope everybody has a good day and if you're a father we hope you have a good Father's Day and stay safe in all you do.

Don the photographer.

                        Don the Ford

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

June 14, 2025

                We are starting another good morning here in Hewitt, it's not raining right now but there's a slight possibility this afternoon of some rain. I've checked the backyard and most of the water that was there is gone so I'm going to call my grandson in a little while and see if he wants to come over and mow. We will not be able to take him out to lunch since we have been invited out for lunch today for a birthday for one of our friends so we're going to go have lunch with a bunch of friends.        

                I received a comment on my blog posting yesterday from an unknown person who indicated he will be happy when that day is over, I assume indicating Friday the 13th would be over. I have a friend who would stay home from work on Friday the 13^th, yes, he would take the day off. I don't know if that's who sent the message or not.

                Well, I need to get going and see if our yard man Alex is willing to come over and work or not. We hope you have a good day and that everyone stays safe in all we do.

Will he mow?

                                Don the Ford

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

June 13, 2025

Friday the 13th, 2025

                If you looked at the date above you would notice that it is Friday the 13^th, we would like to wish you a good morning on Friday the 13th and we hope you have a good day this Friday the 13^th.

                Yesterday was pretty much a do-nothing day, I just took it easy and sit around. I did read from the Bible, and I drank some coffee. We did go out for supper yesterday afternoon, the food was good, and the service was good. Back home yesterday afternoon we sat outside until it was almost 8:00. The weather was nice it wasn't raining so a nice time to be outside.

                The backyard is still standing in water, so that makes it kind of nasty. I do plan though today to get out there later today and try to weed eat as much as I can because it needs it, and if I get enough of the weeds cut down it will make it easier when we get Alex over here to mow, if the backyard ever dries up. Our front yard needs to be mowed too, but it still looks pretty good since it is not standing in water.

                Are there plans for today? I do need to venture over to the bank and talk to them for a few minutes and then while I'm out I will hopefully get a cup of real coffee from the Star coffee place. Back at home I hope to do my daily Bible reading. I have changed my way of reading the Bible, instead of just reading straight through it I pick whatever I want to read. I'm studying what I read, and not just reading. Many times, when reading, I learn new things from what I have read previously.

                We did not have any rain last night and no thunder, so Tres was able to sleep without being afraid.  

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

A lot of rain.

                                Don the Ford

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

June 12, 2025

                Good morning, I'm sitting here in front of the new computer attempting to eat my breakfast sandwich as I try to think of anything that might be interesting to say in today's blog, which isn't much of a blog and more of a ledger for me. We did get a little rain last night and when I say a little rain, the gauge has not quite 2 ¾ inches of rain in it, which I assume, or should I say believe is a lot of water.

                We had storms come through several times last night with a lot of Thunder and as usual trace was not happy, so he was on the bed in between us, trying to stay safe from the Thunder.

                Yesterday was a do-nothing day for me, I sat around and did a lot of nothing, I did of course read my Bible as usual. I didn't do any yard work of any kind obviously the ground is so wet that we will probably not be able to mow for days, or until it quits raining. I harvested the Black Berries yesterday, and yes, I was bleeding when I completed the task.

                Today's plans are nothing really, I will goof around and take it easy, I may try to stay dry. The water is standing there in the backyard so I will not be harvesting any black berries today. We will probably go out for supper on our "Thursday date night" or should I say date afternoon as we go to supper before dark like a lot of old people do.

                I'll try to stop for now. We hope you have a good day and be safe in all you do and try to be nice to at least one person.

Rain, rain go away, little Donnie wants to play.

                                Don the Ford

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

June 11, 2025

            Good morning, I will try to make this post as short as possible, maybe not, I actually have a photo or two I'm probably going to put in, so hang on, here we go.

            Didn't do too much yesterday was a nice day. My favorite wife and I sat on the front porch for a little while yesterday. I saw our neighbor backing out of the driveway and I know our dog barks at his truck when he drives by. I had a cookie, and I showed it to our dog, the dog was more interested in the cookie than barking at the truck. Later, when the neighbor was returning home, he called and said, "I am on my way home if you want to distract the dog again". I showed the dog a cookie again, and the truck drove by without any barking. We then went inside the house and fed the dog and cat, then we went out to the driveway and sat. Sitting outside is a lot better than sitting in a house trying to watch that silly TV.

            We got some rain last night not a lot just a little, but it did rain. About 3:00am Tres woke me up and I thought, this is early why is he waking me up at 3:00am. I got up and went to the back door to let him out, just as I got at the back door, I heard the Thunder then I knew why he woke me up, he don't like thunder so we went back to the bedroom, I crawled on the bed, and he got on the bed between me and my favorite wife. We both petted him because he was afraid of the Thunder. The Thunder came and went several times early this morning, so I was awake petting the dog a lot this morning.

            I have a photo taken yesterday of some flowers blooming in one of the flower beds in the backyard. There are white and pink blooms, and they are big blooms.  The next photo is of some clouds in the sky, and it seemed to be a dividing line between what appeared to be the end of the rain clouds and the beginning of a blue sky with just a few white clouds in it.

            Well, I guess I will stop for now, we hope you have an excellent day, be safe in all you do and be nice to everyone you encounter.

Photographer Don.

                        Don the Ford

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

June 10, 2025

            It is morning here again in Hewitt. The day is starting bright and sunny we should get some rain later in the day. They're talking about a lot of rain from now through the end of the week, maybe 3 1/2 inches of rain. Oh, I should say good morning to you.

            What did we do yesterday; not a lot of anything. I did go into town and picked up a couple of items at the cheap store, then returning home I didn't do much. I took my wife's van and got gas in it, she doesn't like to put gas in it, so I do that for. After that I sat around and took it easy as everything was still wet outside due to all the rain. We did set outside yesterday afternoon as the weather was nice, kind of warm but not too bad, there was a little breeze, and we enjoyed the day.

            We did comment on how quiet the neighborhood was, the birds seemed to have been quiet yesterday, it was kind of like maybe all the baby birds were out of the nest and gone, so Mama and Papa weren't having to look for food.

            I see on TV they've called the national guards out to help stop some of the riots going on out in California. I remember back in the olden days during the Vietnam War I was in the National Guard and riot control that was one of the things that we regularly trained for. If you are old enough to remember during Vietnam there was riots everywhere so I kind of know how those guys feel, being there for the riots.

            That's all for today we hope you have a really good day and stay safe in all you do.

Use to be and NG 

            Don the Ford

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