March 26, 2026

Good morning to you all.

I did something yesterday, but can I remember what I did?

I took Alex to school yesterday morning. Returning home I worked on my posting for a while then I rested, aka nap. Rest period over I decided to get the gas-powered string trimmer and start trimming the front yard. I checked the oil and added gas, and I was ready to start the trimmer. I attempted to pull the starter rope and the plastic handle on the starter rope broke in my hand. I went back into the shed and got the other ole string trimmer. I removed the plastic handle from that trimmer and put it on the one I wanted to use.

Trimmer started I began to trim in the back 40. You are right, I was supposed to go to the front yard and trim; I get distracted easily. I did not trim the entire back 40 and I did go to the front yard. To shorten this story, it took a little over two hours to get the trimming and clean up done. I got everything put away and I went into the house and crawled onto my ole recliner for a needed rest.   

After the nice rest period I took a shower and then headed out to get my hair cut. Returning home after the hair stylists visit, we headed out for supper at the George restaurant. Food was good and service was a little slow.  

Back at home we sat outside for a while.

Today: I did get Alex to school on time and in a safe manner. I need to go to the store and get a few items today and I need to remove a few small sticks from the front yard.

I am stopping now, have a good day and stay safe on all you do.

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL

March 26, 2026

                Good morning to you and that other person too.

                Yesterday was a day when I was off my normal schedule and I think it was due to me doing housework. Dishes need to be washed, floors need to be vacuumed, beds need to be made and bills need to be paid. I did go to the dentists yesterday morning and they want me back next week for a filling.

                The rehab lady was here yesterday morning and that also took away from my normal time. She said my favorite wife was doing good suggested that she do even more walking which would help her to continue recovering.

                I moved a big flower which was in a flower pot to the front yard. I had the approval of my favorite wife as the flower had a bunch of blooms. I did check my ole gas powered string trimmer as I might want to use it today to trim the front yard.

                We sat outside yesterday afternoon and a friend from across the street came over to visit. We learned that her husband has hurt his knee and needs crutches to walk. We talked for a while, and she noted that her bird house was in bad condition, so we gave her a new bird house. She told us what she was cooking for supper and she said she would bring us some. It was good!

                I did my Bible study late yesterday afternoon at supper time. I prefer to do that homework in the morning.

                This morning I took Alex to school, and I also purchased some candy bars that he was selling for the ROTC. Alex (a sophomore) noted that he gets to go with the Junior and Senior ROTC Class to the police station and they will be allowed to shoot real guns.

                I hope to get outside and trim some today and who knows what else I will do.

 I am stopping for now we hope you have a good day and please stay safe in all you do.

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL

March 25, 2026

                Another do nothing day yesterday, although I did leave the homestead early morning to get a cup of real coffee and a breakfast burrito. I did share the burrito with my favorite wife as the burritos are fairly large and they taste good.  

I did my bible study homework and then I was allowed to vacuum the floors. Our dog Tres leaves hair everywhere he sists or lays, and he lays everywhere.   

I did go out to the back 40 and first I watered the flowers in the pots and then the berry beds. There are blooms in the berry beds, and I took a photo of one bloom. The bees are checking the blooms.

I moved a flower from one ole damaged pot into the pot that was given to me yesterday. A photo to follow.

                I installed the new battery in the riding mower, and it works.

The shed is powered by a battery, and the battery is kept charged by a solar panel. That battery is not holding a charge. I use the battery in the shed for lights and for other power tools like a saw or compressor, yes I have a power inverter. I will put the battery on the battery charger here in the garage and see if it will accept the charge. I need to know if the solar panel is not working properly or if it is the battery.  

We sat outside for a while yesterday afternoon and the neighborhood was very quiet. There were many jets flying around as usual and I had a set of binoculars to look at the jets.

                Today I will go to the dentist for a cleaning, and then do nothing. I am stopping for now, we hope yu have a good day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL

March 24, 2026

                Good morning to all.

                Yesterday's events and workload. I would say that yesterday was a day of motion for this old senior person. As usual the first part of my day was getting a cup of coffee at the star coffee place then taking my grandson Alex to school. After that I came to the homestead where I took a few minutes to rest up before going to the grocery store.

                I had several things I wanted to acquire yesterday I had a list of my things to to get and a list of things that my favorite wife wanted me to get. Arriving at Wally world my first purchase was to go to the garden department and buy a battery for my riding lawn mower. The battery for the riding lawn mower cost $38 but when I got to the counter to pay for it, they wanted $53.00. The lady at the counter explained that since I did not have the old battery with me, I had to pay the charge of $12.00 which I could recover if I brought the old battery back to the store.

                I took the battery out and put it in the vehicle Where I discovered I had a package of toothpaste in the cart that I had not paid for. I put the battery in the car and went back into the store to purchase my groceries and to pay for the toothpaste that I still had in the cart. I try not to cheat anybody. I went through the store to get the groceries that I wanted and the groceries that my favorite wife wanted.

                We also want to get a device that would be placed at the toilet which would help ole people get up or down from the toilet seat. This Wally world does not have one.

                Back at home after unloading the Groceries from the vehicle, placing some in the cabinets and some in the refrigerator are deep freeze I then started some of my housework vacuuming the floors and washing the clothes. It happened that I had three bunches of clothes to wash which took a little while.

                With all that work done it was later in the afternoon, and we headed outside and took a little rest period in the afternoon heat. Now I had Bible study last night so we could only sit outside till about 5:00 PM because I would need to get ready to go and I would also need to prepare supper for my favorite wife.

                A good friend from down the street brought us up some flowerpots that hang which they knew I needed because they had seen my comments on the blog. It is good to have good friends who help you out on things like that. We appreciate good friend.

                Bible study was good as usual.

Later today I have very little planned, I do want to put the new battery into the riding lawn mower, and I do want to replant a flower or two now that I have pots that are not damaged to put them in. I did not need to take Alex to school today as his mother is off work, so she took him to school.

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

                                    Ask and you shall receive,

seek and you will find,

knock and it shall be opened.

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL

March 23, 2026

Good morning.

Yesterday's events: I went out to the hot house and checked on that one plant that Alex found which had fire ants in it. He put fire Ant killer in the pot so I checked on it to see if it still had fire ants in it, and it did. I put a different fire ant killer in it and finally got them killed and the plant is now out of the greenhouse.

                I did work with a plant trying to clean some of the dead out of it when I noticed that the plastic container which is a hanging flowerpot, was broken, so now I need to try to find a plastic hanging flowerpot.

                My favorite wife and I decided to go into the cheap store where she bought some batteries, and I got a new sprayer for the hose out front. We had a gift card worth $75 and the amount that we bought was $75.74.

Leaving there we drove to another store where we looked around for a hanging plastic flowerpot. They have plastic hanging flowerpots with flowers in them but not empty plastic hanging flowerpots to sell. My favorite wife bought a few things that she needed or wanted and then we headed for home.

Back at home I did work with a couple flowers trying  to get them located and then my favorite wife and I decided we would go outside and sit in the tremendous heat. It was another quiet afternoon here in the neighborhood. We came in at 5:00pm and it was still 91° then.

As we sat outside my ankle started hurting for no apparent reason. It is one spot and the pain comes and hurts for a few seconds, then it pauses and comes again. I have no idea why it started hurting but I wish it would stop. I applied some KT tape, and I have prayed for the pain to stop.

Today I need to go the grocery store and get some items, possibly after dropping Akex off at school. I have some housework to do also so it will not be a day of relaxing.

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

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL

March 22, 2026

Hello and good morning to one and all.

                Let's see if we did anything yesterday: I did go get Alex and we went to the star coffee place for a drink and then headed back to the homestead where we laid out our plan for the day. The first plan was to mow the backyard and in preparation for that I removed the dog Poopa-Loopa from the backyard.

Alex got the mower ready and mowed the backyard as I did a couple other things such as reviewing the flowers in the hot house to see what we were going to do with them. I did sweep and blow the leaves and pollen off the back porch trying to make it look a little better.

Mowing trimming and cleaning the back porch completed, we headed out to the hot house to remove the potted plants. Several of the plants were taken to locations in the front yard or other places that they normally set, while several of them stayed out in the back near the greenhouse as they did not look good and I wanted them to perk up before I place them where people could see them.

We removed the battery from the riding mower as it is dead and each time we use the mower, Alex used a jumper to start it, so I'm going to buy a new battery for the riding mower.

The big job of the day was to wash the dog. My favorite wife has been complaining about the way the dog smells for some time. The day was warm enough for the washing, and it took two people to successfully wash that big ole dog. Tres does smell much better now.

We had decided to leave the front yard un-mowed until next week when we will mow it but we will raise the mower up about 1 inch allowing the grass to be taller which I believe makes the yard look better. Taller grass may hold more water in the ground from the sprinkler system.

All the work completed we did go into Waco and have some sandwiches for lunch. Lunch finished and we drove Alex back to his home and then we returned to our home where I took a short nap. Rest period was completed, my favorite wife and I went outside and sat for an hour, it was warm 91 degrees. The neighborhood was quiet, there wasn't much going on, one person was mowing in his yard everybody else seemed to be taking it easy.

Well, you see what we did yesterday and our plan for today is, well, I have no idea what we might do today. I guess I should stop for now and get ready to do nothing. We hope you have a good day and stay safe in all you do.

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL

March 20, 2026

We are looking at another good warm morning here in Texas.

                We have very little to report from yesterday's events, I did move the plumerias out of the garage and place them near the swing. I did not go to the shed to get the two-wheeler to move the heavy pots but I did have a way to move them without me carrying them. You will see in the photo that I have an ole office chair that I normally use when we sit outside, and it now has an additional use.

                I did not do any weed removal from the flower beds yesterday as this ole body needed to rest from the previous day's work.

                We sat outside for a couple hours yesterday, and we observed many jets flying over. We estimate that we saw about 25 jets flying to the south and only one flying to the north. There were a few small airplanes flying around too.

                I did get to talk with the neighbors who live across the street as they were both out working in the yard. I guess everyone is starting to do their yard work.

                I did have some time to work on my bible study yesterday and it seemed to go well. I am not a good student, but I do try.

                I guess that is all for now, please have a good day and stay safe in all you do.

                Thank the Lord for his blessings even if everything is not perfect.

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL

March 19, 2026

Good morning from the Ole People here at the Fords homestead.

Yesterday I did go to the Star coffee place for a cup and when I got to the window and handed them my ole Gold card the computer screen went blank, he said he would go to the other computer and evidently it had failed as he came back and returned my Gold card and gave me the cup of coffee free. I did get Alex to school safely and on time then  arriving home from dropping Alex off at school I crawled into my ole recliner with my free coffee in hand, I took a nap.

When I woke up, we decided to go to the George restaurant for breakfast. We arrived 4 minutes before they stopped serving breakfast. We were able to get breakfast, but the service was bad and the food was good except for the toast which was as hard as a cracker, and we had no butter or jelly. They did not offer to refill the coffee cup. They were having a meeting with the servers in the next room which made service non-existent. Go early if you are having breakfast.     

Back home I again took it easy for a while and then I decided to go outside and attempted to remove weeds and cleaned debris from three flower beds. I did use the knee pads, and they worked and I now have the trash can more than half full of debris, and I was tired.

I then watered the plants in the hot house and the black berry beds. While at the #3 berry bed I noticed one plant which is a thornless plant, it has about 5 blooms. I did not see any blooms on any of the other plants.  

                I noticed how dry the ground is, so I activated the lawn sprinkler system. All the outside work done I did my housework but not my bible study homework.

                My favorite wife and I sat outside yesterday afternoon and enjoyed the nice weather and quiet neighborhood. We had no friends to drop by, so our conversations were few.   

I cooked supper for my favorite wife using the microwave, and a TV dinner. I had a sandwich and soup.

Well, I need to stop and get started so I will wish you a good day and pray that we all stay safe in all we do.  

Don the Ford

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

NARBNL