November 8, 2026

                Good wet morning to all, we have ¾ inch of rain in the Ford’s ole rain gage this morning. as I understand it, we should stay in the 60s all day, that means a long-sleeved shirt or a jacket. I do have a coat, and I hope I have a jacket.

                My yard man Alex did get the back yard mowed yesterday, and he and I did get two white trees (Christmas decorations) installed in the front yard. We did get the wires installed but the trees are not connected to the power yet, I need to set the timers so all or most of the outside decorations come on at about the same time. I will attempt to get a photo at some point for my enjoyment.

                Yesterday for lunch my favorite wife and my favorite grandson went to lunch together. We drove to two different restaurants and there were basically no parking spaces. We ended up at the sandwich shop.

                Later in the afternoon my favorite wife and I sat outside for a while.

                We have no plans for today; we will likely go to lunch and then do nothing the rest of the day.

                If anyone wants to get off the email list, please let me know, I don’t want these emails to be a bother. Anyone can access the blog without getting the emails. I get too many emails daily and as I said, I don’t want to be a bother to anyone.

                We hope and pray that you will have a blessed and safe day, and we will keep you in our prayers.

                Donnie the Ford

November 7, 2026

                I am awake and it is a good morning here in Hewitt.

This morning I went to the ole closet to get a long-sleeved pullover shirt as Alex and I plan to work outside this morning. Finding a red shirt, I took it from the closet and put it on my ole body, but it did not fit. I looked at myself in the mirror and I thought, “this hansom old man has a shirt on that does not fit”. I decided that this shirt was not mine and it was my favorite wife’s shirt. Returning to the closet I did find a pullover shirt that did fit me.

Alex is scheduled to come over today and help with some yard work and some decorations. In preparation for this work I did need to go to the ole shed and attempt to find and remove a couple decorations that my favorite wife wants us to display in the front yard.

To get to these decorations this ole senior person first needed to remove a couple items from the shed, I will provide a photo of said items. I should also say that there are many more items in the shed that were not removed but a few will need to be accessed later.

                I then took the two large red and white boxes to the garage and then I was required to replace all the items that you see back into the shed.

                Now I haven’t told you of all the work I was forced I mean allowed to do inside the house prior to going to the shed and that was “scrub the carpet in the dining room”. I did not need to get on my hands and knees to do the work as we have a machine that does that. Now I had never used said machine, so it was a learning process for me. We did move and remove several items prior to the cleaning, and these will need to be replaced today.

                Well, I guess you know all there is to know about the ole Fords of Hewitt, so I will stop for now. We do pray that you will have a blessed and safe day. We will keep you in our prayers.

                Donnie the hard-working Ford?

November 6, 2026

                Good cool morning to all.

                Reviewing yesterday’s wild events or were they normal events. I guess they were normal as we traveled into Waco to a store that had a lot of items at 50% off. My favorite wife and I walked through this big ole store for more than 40 minutes, and I was tired. Two items were purchased. We then went to the sandwich shop where my favorite wife said she was not hungry, but she ate a sandwich anyway.

                Food ingested, we went to the small grocery store where we purchased a few items and upon returning home, I took a nap. After the short but nice nap, I proceeded to this ole computer and reviewed the info on several SD cards, which I will address later in the post.

                We went to supper yesterday about 30 minutes earlier than usual to attempt to avoid the crowds that we thought would be at the restaurant due to a midway football game. Our friends also went and we got the usual table. The conversations were pleasant and mostly had to do with family, old times and the midway football game. Food was good and service was also good. Another couple and good friends came in and talked with us as we were completing our supper.

                Back at home my favorite wife and I sat outside on the driveway for a while, and it was dark when we went into the house.

                Today’s events; attempt to clean the carpet in the dining room, maybe go to the shed and see if I can find a couple Christmas trees and decorations.

                I will stop with my normal content and wish you a blessed and safe day, we will keep you in our prayers.

                Donnie the Ford

                Below is an article that I found yesterday when I was reviewing the info on the SD cards. It was written on August 17, 2015. I just wanted to show you something that I had written which isn’t too long. You do not need to read it unless you have nothing else to do.

48  what?       08.17.15

            I know, it seems like a dumb title for an article that is written by me, the master of the word. I see that there is one person that has already jumped to the conclusion that my, “meaningful” yet challenging title, is referencing the number of States prior to the addition of Alaska and Hawaii.

It is true that when I was a children (yes, I know I did not say child, when you have had as many personalities as I have, one should refer to me in the plural, children) there were only 48 states and they were contiguous, meaning they were connected. 

But, my title does not have to do with the number of states during my childhood.

I am of course, referring to the number of days without rain here at, “The Hewitt Triangle”, aka Central Texas.

Does it seem odd to you, that we had a month of rain (the month of June it rained every day, I thought I was back in the state of Washington) and now we have gone 48 days (assuming we make it through today without rain) without rain?

Believing we will have gone 48 days counting today, we will have broken the old record set back around 1918, for the longest period of consecutive days without rain.

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Different subject; I replaced the non-working security camera yesterday afternoon. It works and I got a thumbs up from my first spouse, noting that it had a good picture.

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Different subject:

If you do not read this part of the article,

You may never understand why it happened to you. 

Yesterday, I used the power of positive thinking to disrupt, irritate, and aggravate myself. I have many thoughts about positive thinking, positive attitudes, believing in something and it can also be considered as faith.

Let us not consider this as a sermon, although it is, let’s just consider my remarks as an opportunity to learn. 

It is amazing to me that I had not considered this subject, in this orientation, prior to yesterday.

My spouse of 46 years and I had ventured out for brunch, and on our return trip home we stopped at the “local tea house”, Bushes Chicken for a couple teas. These are large 32-ounce drinks in a Styrofoam container that we procured at the drive through. Arriving home, my first wife entered the house ahead of me, I followed with several items in my hands, one of which was the iced tea. As I approached the door, hands full, I decided to balance the tea on top of another item I was carrying. This balancing act allowed me to open the door.

In my mind I thought, “I will probably drop this tea”. I skillfully open the door and stepped inside, still thinking, “I will probably drop this tea”!  I dropped the tea.

Later in the day, when I was calm and no longer using words that were totally appropriate for the moment, but not for continued use, I decided to install the new security camera.

One of my first positive thoughts was, “I will probably have trouble running this wire”! I gathered the needed tools and step stool and began the work. About one third of the way through the process I needed to walk back into the garage where I noticed that I had not directed the wire properly!  My positive thoughts were working, I had to remove the wire, pulling it all back to the beginning, and then start again.

I recognized that my positive thoughts, believing that I would do something wrong, were coming true. Starting from the beginning again, I ran the wire in the proper places. I was thinking about the day and I thought, “I will probably drop a tool or a screw into the flowers below. I did, again my positive thoughts were working, not for me but against me.

I marked the three locations for the holes needed for the anchors to hold the camera in place. I decided to double check the locations before drilling the holes. The marks were correct, I thought, something will probably go wrong with this too.

I drilled the holes, inserted the anchors and began to insert the screws through the camera base into each anchor. Yep, you got it right, the last anchor was off center.

All I needed to do now was to get some wire ties and secure the wire to other wires and call it quits. I walked into the garage and reached for an open package of black 11-inch wire ties. The entire contents of the package spilled on the floor and in between some items making it difficult to get to all the wire ties.

It was at this point that I just began to laugh. I was no longer upset, I was now thinking that I had caused all these mishaps, with my positive thoughts.

The moral to this story is:

Use positive thoughts to believe you can’t, and you won’t!

Use positive thoughts to believe you can, and you will!

Consider your thoughts, they will have an effect! 

Don Ford

November 5, 2026

                It is a cool good morning here in Hewitt, fall may be coming.

                I do have a photo of another mushroom that is growing in the backyard. These are not the type mushrooms that one would make mushroom soup out of. This one is 6 inches wide. Yes, I have shown photos of this type of mushroom in the past.

                I did go to the store yesterday and my thought was to get some light bulbs and a couple grocery items. My original plan was to get the bulbs first as they are on one side of the very large store then come back to the grocery side and get those items. It seems as if this ole senior person forgot the plan and I grocery shopped first. I had a couple frozen items in the cart and I was heading for the checkout when I remembered I needed the light bulbs. I then had to walk across the store and find the bulbs then walk back across the store to the checkout. I did not forget how to get home, and I made it back home safely.

                My favorite wife and I sat outside yesterday afternoon, and the time change is still affecting us. I often state the fact that our neighborhood is most always very quiet. That did not seem to be correct yesterday afternoon when first we went outside to sit. There were several crows in the area, and they were discussing something in a loud manner. In part they were on the street I assume eating crushed pecans that had fallen from the tree, other than that I am not sure why they were visiting our neighborhood.

                Today’s big plan, we may attempt to scrub the carpet in the dining room. We may also go into Waco for a couple items at the smaller grocery store.

                That is it for now, we hope and pray that you have a blessed and safe day, and we will keep you in our prayers.

                Donnie the Ford

November 4, 2026

                Good morning as usual we hope all have a safe and blessed day.

                Yesterday was a different day for me. Since you did not ask why it was different, I will attempt to keep that info to myself, if I can. I have a tendency to say I will not tell you but then I often go ahead and do it.

                I took a photo and sent it to our favorite grandson Alex (yes he is our only grandson) and he is also our yard man and general laborer. The photo is of the lights he put on the house and around the flower beds.  

                I did go to the rehab yesterday and I was surprised that they decided to get rid of me. They said if I continue having problems that my doctor can get me back into the rehab.

                The time change has affected our schedules. Yesterday afternoon we sat outside but we went in earlier than usual due to the sun going down an hour earlier than usual.

I was allowed to wash the clothes yesterday and that was done in part as we sat outside and while I prepared supper. Speaking of food, my favorite wife and I created a pot of chili yesterday for lunch, and it was good.

                I did go through a bunch of writings I have done over the years, and I found “8” notebooks filled with copies of letters that I had written to my mother and to my sister Wilda. Heck, I remember writing the letters, but I do not remember making and keeping copies. Photo of the notebooks and they are full of letters.

                As I was going through some of my writings, I did find the story about the Watchers. As I understand it a watcher was mentioned in the bible Daniel 4:13-17-23.

My story has several watchers and other things about the watchers that I explain. I have found a printed version of the story, but I have not yet found it on the computer. I read the story and I very much enjoy reading things that I have written but I think I was going to add more to the story so I would like to find a final version on the computer.

Today we may attempt to clean a carpet and that is not vacuuming but using the carpet scrubber to clean it. I called it a scrubber as I do not know what the device’s real name is. No big plan after that other than possibly a nap.  

Ok, I am attempting to stop for now, we hope and pray that we all have a blessed and safe day, and we will keep you in our prayers.

Donnie the Ford

November 3, 2026

Howdy you all, we hope you have a good morning.  

I have nothing to present to you today as to what may have happened yesterday or might happen today. I went to the store yesterday and purchased a new set of cool white lights to replace the set that are warm white. I brought the new set home, and Alex removed the old set and installed the new set.

Problem: Alex did not lay the set of lights out on the ground and connect them to power, if he had he would have known that one third of the lights did not work. Alex then uninstalled the non-working lights, and I returned them to the store and got another set. This time Alex tested the lights before installing them.

Later in the afternoon prior to me going to the bible study meeting, my favorite wife and I did set outside for a while. Our friend from across the street came over and sat with us. Most of the discussions were olden day items and medical situations.

As we sat there I decided to try to get a photo through some branches of a blooming rose. During that attempt I saw a green lizard and I got a photo of him also.

         

                Today we have nothing to do, other than I need to wash the clothes, my favorite wife wants me to use the carpet cleaner and scrub the carpet, I do have an appointment at the rehab, and I will need to do my bible study homework, I may be allowed to go to the shed and look for some Christmas decorations that my favorite wife wants to be displayed.  

                I would like to see if I can find a story that I had written a long time ago about “The Watchers”. I don’t remember everything that was in it or how long it was.

                Wow, ole people have nothing to do. I will attempt to stop for now, so I can start doing nothing. We hope and pray that we all have a blessed and safe day, and we will keep you in our prayers.

                Donnie the Ford

November 2, 2026

            Good morning to you and we hope you are adjusting to the time change.

            We had a typical Sunday with nothing exciting happening. I will comment on the quiet neighborhood. In most of my posts lately I have commented on the neighborhood being quiet and if you allow me, I will expand on that thought.

            Yesterday I had gone to the front porch to read some notes from the bible study homework. As usual there was no traffic and no people outside at that time. As I began my reading, I was aware of a sound that seemed to be coming from our driveway. It was a crunching sound, so I looked in the direction of the driveway, and I saw a squirrel that was at least 50 feet away from me and it was chewing a pecan shell from our neighbor’s yard. I again started reading and after a short period of time I started hearing a different sound and it was coming from the neighbor’s trees. There was a squirrel chasing another squirrel through the tree and I could hear the noise from their feet on the limbs. When you are sitting on your porch, and you can hear those sounds that means you are in a quiet neighborhood.

            My favorite wife and I did sit outside on the front porch for a while yesterday and we use to be able to stay out until about 7:00pm, but with the time change we will be going in earlier. Before we went in, I turned the lights on that Alex had installed and I soon learned that one set has a different look. Two sets are a cool white while the other set is a warm white. I will attempt to get another set of cool white bulbs today, and if so, I will see if Alex can install them.

            I have a photo of the sky from yesterday evening.

            Today’s events; try to purchase a set of bulbs, the cleaning lady is scheduled to be here today, review my bible study homework as we have a meeting this evening.                    

            We hope and pray that we all have a blessed and safe day, and we will keep you in our prayers.

            Donnie the Ford

November 1, 2026

                Good morning to you and we hope your day will be filled with happiness.

                I will attempt to review some of yesterday’s events, if I can remember them. The day started with me posting to the blog, and I should note that I have as of yesterday, posted 4010 times. After the posting I ventured outside and picked up some debris from the front yard and I removed Poopa-Loopa from the back yard.

                Alex arrived and he began the mowing process in the front yard, we both decided that the back yard did not need to be mowed. Mowing, trimming and clean up complete, he started installing the Christmas lights on the house, and then continued on to placing them around the flower beds. All total he worked 3.5 hours.

                I do have a photo of a bloom that I will share with you, as usual part of the dog is in the photo.

                Work completed we all went to lunch, and the food was good even though there was a huge number of customers. Back at home I did very little as I was tired from all the work that Alex did. A friend dropped by for a few minutes and then I took my nap.

                Late in the afternoon I went into the office and did my daily bible reading and I even did my homework.

                I then started shutting down the house, closing the window shades, turning off the outside lights and the lights in the house. I was attempting to say to any trick or treaters that we were not handing out candy. My favorite wife and I went out to the back patio and enjoyed some quiet time. We did not have one attempt at getting candy as I had the ring camera on and could see our front porch and the quiet street.

                Today’s possible events: possible lunch at the cracker store and then do nothing the rest of the day.

                We hope and pray that you will have a blessed and safe day and yes, we will keep you in our prayers.

       Donnie the Ford