January 17, 2025

            It is a nice morning and also a burrito morning, so I say good morning to you all. I have been asked to provide the grandkids with breakfast burritos this morning, to be eaten as we drive to school, and I might get one for myself. You guessed it, I will need to leave even earlier as I need to drive to the burrito place to purchase the burritos, and they have some of the best and hottest hot sauce around.

            Yesterday’s few events: I did go to the skin doctor and she said all looked good, come back in six months or a year. Wow, since it was my choice, I picked eight months, and I will be 78 years old in that month.

Back at home I did work on the parts to the bird house, I now think I have the front and back angles correct, so I can use these pieces as patterns to make duplicates and eventually put the houses together. I want to use a chop saw instead of the table saw to cut the other boards, I find it easier to use in this type of cutting.

We did sit outside for a while after the bird house work yesterday, the weather was nice. Then we headed out for supper and that was filling.

Today; I need to water the plants in the hot house as this will be the last very nice and warm day for a while. I think there is a lot of cold weather coming and they keep saying we might get some snow. The kids our out of school next Monday and the president will be inaugurated.

I got the kids to school safe and on time, the traffic was crazy. I will stop now; we hope you have a good day and please stay safe in all you do.

Snow coming, I doubt it.

Senior ole person who remembers walking in knee deep snow in Missouri, Don the Ford   

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

January 16, 2025

            We think it is a good morning, we were able to get out of bed, so, I assume that is a good morning. I am getting a late start this morning so I will stop and go get the grand kids and hopefully return to continue this posting.

            Lest go over the big thing that happened yesterday, and I mean big. My favorite wife went to Wally world and to the HEB to purchase some groceries yesterday, when she returned home, we begin to unload the van and she noticed that she did not have her purse. Yep, she must have left the purse in the grocery cart sitting on the parking lot.

            At this point panic was sitting in. I said let’s go back now and see if someone had turned your purse in to the lost and found, or, has it vanished. The drive back to the HEB seemed extremely slow even though traffic was moving at the normal pace. We got on the parking lot and drove past the area where she had parked, no carts with a purse were seen, so I dropped her off at the door and went to find a parking space. I said that I would park and come in as soon as I could. I made two rounds in the parking lot and could not find a spot fairly close to the door. Suddenly my phone rang and I looked at the display on the dash, it was a call from my favorite wife’s phone. As soon as I seen it was her phone, I knew she had her purse back.

            They told my favorite wife that one of the employees who brings the carts from the parking lot back into the store, found her purse and turned it in. She wanted to offer a reward to the person that found her purse, but they told her they do not do that.

            Varied topics: we did sit outside after returning from getting the purse, it was a pleasant time, for various reasons.

Earlier yesterday I came out of the house intending to replace a security camera. Somehow I became distracted (is it attention deficit disorder) and brought the table saw out of the garage and started cutting the scrap wood to make the pieces of a bird house. I want to have all the pieces cut to the correct size and angles, then I can use them as my pattern to cut more pieces. I may need to put these pieces together temporarily to be sure in my ole head that I have them to the correct size.

Now this ole person sometimes begins to think about things and this time I was thinking about the word, “ours”. I think it means things that belong to us. Then I thought why could one letter totally change the meaning of the word. If we place a “y” in front of the word we get the word “yours”. So, one letter takes our stuff away from us, and it becomes yours. How many hours (wow another letter changed things) did I sit around thinking about this?

Should I stop, maybe I should and let you get back to your daily routine. Please be safe in all you do and have a good day.

Word salad.

Senior ole person who needs to take a break, maybe have a cup and… Don the Ford

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

January 15, 2025

            Good morning to you and to that other person too. We hope everyone will have a good and restful day, if not for you, at least for my favorite wife and I.

            Yesterday’s work load for two ole people: I did get the kids to school on time and returned home and rested for a while before heading out into the cold to work. I did layer up and I stayed warm even in the cold. It did warm up outside as the day progressed.

Putting Christmas decorations away.

My first project was to get the items out of the Shed. In the following photo we may see items that I had removed from the shed.

            That was not everything I removed from the shed. As I removed items, I did take them to the garage, photo to follow. Empty cartons waiting at the door of the garage to be filled.

            I have another photo of the inside of the garage, past the boxes.

            We worked together about 4 hours to get things packed up and returned to the shed. In the next photo we see the shed which is now filled. I have the Christmas items at the back, then the fall items, then the easter items, them my tools. That allows me to get to the items as needed. 

            I did get the Ford’s ole van back into the garage. 

            We were and are both tired and need a few minutes or maybe a day to rest. I should note, that after we completed yesterday’s tiring work, we remembered that there are two Christmas decorations on the front porch. We did not attempt to remove them yesterday, maybe today we will have the energy. I should also note, that my favorite wife has removed, packed and put away all the decorations that were in the house, and there were many more in the house than outside.

This morning our ole bodies are still tired and aching as we attempt to get started moving. As usual I need to get the grand kids to school this morning and my favorite wife will do the grocery shopping. Never any rest for the ole senior people. 

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

Is it almost over? That is, Christmas over?

Senior ole person who might try to get out of his recliner today, Don the Ford

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

January 14, 2025

            It is a cold and dark good morning. Yep, it is 26 degrees outside, and it is still dark as I start this short post.

            I have very little to present this morning as I did very little yesterday. We are starting another cold day and I will not want to go outside and work. We did have a good bible study last night; a good friend and neighbor came to the study, and he was in our discussion group.

            I did see a bright star or something in the sky last night when I arrived home from the bible study. It was not moving, and it was very bright. The photo isn’t the best, but it gives you an idea of the star.

            The full moon was also very bright last night, but not in the photo.

I just got back from dropping the kids off at school and it is still cold outside. Well, I guess I will head outside as soon as it warms up a little and unload the shed then start bringing the cartons and totes to the garage. We are hoping to get the garage cleared of the decorations today and the shed re-stacked withal the items. It will be a lot of work for two ole people.

We hope you have a good day, please stays safe and try to be happy in all you do.

Decoration stacker.

Senior person who wishes someone else was working the decorations, Don the Ford

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

January 13, 2025

            Good morning it is cool outside but not freezing. The Don is back on a normal schedule this week, I will be taking the kids to school and we restart the Bible study tonight.

Now I need to get started on getting the decorations out of the garage and into cartons, so I can put them back in the shed. I need to do that this week; not sure I will start today.  We are supposed to have fair weather this week so I need to get going, the weather next week is predicted to be very bad. I just thought I have a doctor’s appointment this week for a checkup.

I did get a photo of the full moon this morning while the Tres and I was out front, so I thought I would present it to you.

           There is a small cloud next to the moon and I see a star high up in the sky.

            We did very little yesterday, we did go out for lunch, I took the decoration off the mail box and I work on a couple list that I have in the computer.

            Yesterday I talked about the door lock replacement and now the lock on the door that goes into the garage is acting bad. It is the same type lock as the other one was, and they were probably installed at the same time. I need to review all the door locks before I start replacing them.

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

Mooned again.

Senior ole person who might need to do some work today, Don the Ford 

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

January 12, 2025

            It seems to be a good morning for most of us, but I have already been working.

The story of my early morning work goes like this. The senior ole person was awakened from his sleep by his sometimes friend, Tres. Yes, it was almost 5:30am when I was brought out of my deep sleep by the feeling of a dog rubbing against the side of my bed. Naturally I assumed that this sometime friend wanted to go out back for a short time then he wanted to be feed.

I was able to get my ole senior body to roll out of the bed as I was looking for my house shoes, and I headed to the toilet for a little relief. After a rest period in the rest room, I was able to drag my ole body to the back door where I found it was locked. Now the door lock had not been working for a while and I was too lazy to change it, so we have been using a device that pushed against the door knob and went to the floor to blocked the door from opening. Well, I found the door was locked and the device was against the door knob. I removed the device but I could not unlock the door. I tried again and again but could not unlock the door.

Tres was standing there watching me become frustrated as to why the door was locked. I then decide to attempt to remove the door knob so I went out into the cold garage to get a screwdriver. When I began to attempt to unscrew the two screws, I found that I did not have enough light to see properly, so I then went and procured a flash light. It was very difficult to unscrew the screws and hold the flash light at the same time, and Tres would not help me.

At this point I decided to take Tres out the front door so he could have some relief, aka water the grass. Returning to the work I was able to get one screw out and the other was unscrewed a little, and then it pushed through and the door knob came off in my hand. I was still unable to get the door open so I thought, “I should go outside and see if I can get the door open using the outside knob”. I went through the garage to the outside and around to the back door but I still could not get the door open.

I then returned to the garage and came back into the house where I was able to get the other screw to unscrew. I was then able to remove more parts of the lock and eventually able to get the door open. I finished removing the other parts to the lock, and by the way I have replaced locks in the past so I did know what I was doing, even though I was not enjoying it.

Door knob all removed I headed back out into the garage and the work started again. I had to move two carts away from the cabinets that in years in the past I had installed. I then needed to move a coat rack that I made years ago and a container that was on wheels that had some walking sticks that I had made in times past. The two push brooms had to be moved before I could get to the draws where I believed I had a door knob set.

Well, I did find a door knob set even though it was not for entrance doors (no key), it was an inside door knob set. I was happy with the fact that it installed fairly easy, and now we can again open and shut the door.

At this point I began to clean up and put items back in their places, including the items in the cold garage. All in all, it took about 1 hour to complete this process. Wow, what a way to start the morning.

Yesterday’s events: we had plans to have lunch with our son Dave and his family but we learned that he was not feeling well and had a slight fever, so lunch was postponed. My favorite wife and I went into normal Saturday mode with very little if anything happening that would be interesting to you, oh I did water the plants in the hot house yesterday afternoon, and according to the thermometer it was over 90 degrees inside the hot house when I was watering.

After watering the plants, I did remove sticks from the back yard, I did cut up the big limb that was out back and I did remove a few sticks from the front yard.

Not sure what we will do today; we may go to the cracker store for lunch. We hope you have a good day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Locksmith the Don.

Senior ole person who may have been to detailed in this posting, Don the Ford 

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

January 11, 2025

            It is freezing outside (26) and we are inside, so we wish you a good morning. Saturday means I don’t take the kids to school. I guess we are on the Saturday schedule, you know, things that should be done, but are not done. The decorations are still in the garage, and need to be boxed up, but it has been cold and we don’t want to go into the garage while it is cold. We are missing out on our sitting outside due to the cold weather.

            Friday, I did drive my favorite wife into Waco where she did some shopping, we picked up the cookie for David’s birthday and I will attempt to provide a photo.

            We are planning on lunch to celebrate Daves birthday, I am not sure where he will want to go for lunch.

            The cold weather should warm up later today to about 50 degrees and the sun is supposed to be shining. That should make it warm enough in the hot house for me to water the plants. When Tres and I went out to the front yard we could see that all the houses in the neighborhood had frost on their roofs. I just looked at the security camera monitor and the sun is starting to shine.

            I wish I had something to talk about but I don’t so I will say have a good day, be safe in all you do, think positive thoughts.

Lunch where?

Senior ole person who is ready for the warm sun lite, Don the Ford

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

January 10, 2025

            Is it a good morning? Yes, it is, it is not below freezing outside and the roads are not slick, so yes, it is a Good Morning! Oh, I should say my sister in Missouri sent a text saying it was snowing this morning. Another weather-related item, we have 1.25 inches of rain water in the Ford’s ole free rain gage.

            What kind of day did we have yesterday, he asked. Well, it started out ok, I got the kids to school on time and safely, there was no bad winter weather at that time. I returned home and did very little except watch TV and they were showing the same stuff over and over. It is really bad what has happened to those people in California who lost their houses in the fires, but I get tired of seeing the same stuff over and over. It is like seeing the political crap over and over. I know what you are going to say, “then don’t watch it!” You are correct, but there is nothing that I want to see on TV, and very little for an ole person to do, so I sit there and get irritated.

            A totally different subject: Two power drops yesterday 113V and then 115V. I was sitting here at the Ford’s ole computer and the lights blinked, the battery backup system made a sound which caught my detention I mean attention. The power dropped to 113 volts, then back up to 121 volts, then it dropped again to 115 volts, then back up to 121 volts. I thought, well here it comes, “a power outage”, but luckily the power stayed on.  

            Subject swap: I did take my favorite wife to the store as she needed to get something and then to the pharmacist to get a prescription. It got me out of the house for a while. We did decide to go out to supper even though it was raining. We agreed that if we did not get a parking space close to the front door we would just drive on back home as we did not want to be walking in the heavy rain. Well, we did get a parking space at the front door, it seems that no one wanted to get out in the bad weather to eat supper.

The lady who is a waitress there, talks with us every time we go, came up to us and said, “I did not expect to see you here tonight with all the bad weather”. We told her we were going to not stop if we did not get a parking space near the door. Then she asked, “do you want the usual drinks”, to which we responded, “yes please”. There were very few people there when we arrive and when we left.

            Since it was cold and wet outside, we left Tres inside the house while we were gone. I did turn the radio on so he had some voices to hear while we were gone.

            Today is Friday and I have no plans for the day. I may ask my favorite wife if she will let me drive her around town today, that would get me out of the house for a while. Our youngest son will be 50 years old this Saturday, so we will be going out to lunch to celebrate.

            Well, I need to get going and take the kids to school.

I am back and they got there on time and safe. There did not seem to be as many students as usual going to school today, were they late or staying home because of the old wet weather? 

I guess I should stop and then get started doing something, so I will say have a good day, be nice to at least one person and try to stay safe in all you do.

Ice no, snow no, rain yes!

Senior ole person who is happy it is not icy outside, Don the Ford

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