April 15, 2024

            Good Monday morning to everyone, we hope you have had a good weekend. Before anyone asks, yes, I have the trash can out at the street. What, you weren’t going to ask that. Sorry, I thought I heard someone talking in the back ground about the trash can so I thought you were going to ask.

            Well, yesterday, my do-nothing day, actually had a couple things to do. My favorite wife allowed me to take her to the cracker store for lunch. It was crowded, the food was good, the service was also good. Returning home I attempted to take a nap, but the nap did not materialize, so I proceeded to the back 40 where I decided to remove the debris that we had raked in piles and that Alex mowed around. I thought it would be a lot of work but it only took about 30 minutes to remove the sticks.

            I then decided to mow over those areas which improved the look of the yard. The tree people should be here this morning, it is now 8:00am and they are not here. The back 40 seems to be dry enough for them to work and it they do not come today it is supposed to be raining tonight. 

            My favorite wife allowed me to help with replanting a large flower, we moved it from one pot to another and it was a team effort. We then planted flowers in two other pots. I then watered the flowers in pots in the back 40.

            All that strenuous work completed; we then washed the dog. I did not set up the dog washing station (two benches that we sit on to wash both sides of the pot hound at the same time) in the usual location, and Tres seemed to be suspicious of what we were doing.

            Washing done, I decided to read a little so I went to the front porch where it was comfortable and quiet. After the reading was over it was time to feed the pot hound. We decide to go outside and sit on the Ford’s ole swing to enjoy the quiet time together. As one might see, my do-nothing day had a few events to keep me occupied. 

            Well, I guess I will stop for now, we hope you have a good day and please be safe in all you do.

A little more than nothing day.

Senior ole person who again has no plans for the day, Don the Ford

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

April 14, 2024

            Good Sunday morning to all, we hope everyone has a blessed day.

            What did the Don do yesterday, just a little more than nothing. My favorite wife and I went into Waco for lunch, we may be going there too often as the lady who takes the orders did not ask what we wanted when we arrived. She greeted us, placed our order without asking what we want, took our money. Yep, we do get the same thing all the time.

            On the way back home, we went over to get Alex our yard man to do our mowing. He was willing and able to mow the front and the back yards. The yards look good. Now I did pick up the Poopa-Loopa wile Alex got the mowers ready.

On the trip back to Alex’s home we did stop at the star coffee place to get him a big drink, and before anyone asks, yes, I did compensate Alex with some cash for the work.

            I did put some time in on the front porch reading from the book on revelations. Even though I was sitting on a chair directly under the bird house, the birds continued flying in and out. I guess they think ole people are too slow to hurt a bird.

            My wife made a pot of vegetable soup and corn bread for the neighbors down the street. This neighbor lady had her foot and part of her leg removed a few weeks ago and is now home recovering. We enjoyed visiting with her and her husband. She is doing good considering all that has happened.

            Back at the fords homestead my present wife and I sat outside enjoying the noise of the birds. It seems like every bird was chattering yesterday afternoon.

            Today: absolutely no plans for the day other than some reading. We hope everyone has a good day and as always please stay safe in all you do.

Short posts are good!

Senior ole person who could use a cup, Don the Ford

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

April 13, 2024

            Good morning to you, but not the rest of the reading group, you are my favorite and the rest are just likeable. It is Saturday again and we hope you have a good day.

            With nothing much to do yesterday I ventured forth to the back 40 and reviewed the area for the possibility of having my lawn man Alex over for some mowing and trimming. About ¾ of the back 40 is mow-able, the other ¼ is not. There is a lot of small limb debris that is left from the tree trimmers a few days ago. Speaking of the trimmers, they are supposed to come on Monday and finish the trimming, if the ground is dry enough.

            I have thought that we might be able to rake the debris into a line and then have Alex mow around them. The trimmers are supposed to remove the debris when they complete their work.

            While I was in the back 40, I reviewed the black berries and we have green berries in the vines, yep, photo to follow.

            Later as I was nosing around in the garage, I happen to observe the cat, Molly. I think she was relaxing, and I am sure she was not aware of my presence.

            Later in the day we did sit outside for a couple hours enjoying the nice sunny weather. A friend came over which always helps keep the conversation lively. We do allow our pot hound Tres to join us as we sit outside, I guess he could also be thought of as a bodyguard, photo to follow.

                                                 
            I think Tres was taking a nap when I took this photo.

            Well, I have no real plans for this Saturday, we will just play along and see what happens. We hope your day is full of interesting things and that everyone stays safe.

Warm sunny day.

Senior ole person who likes the warm day but not the hot day, Don the Ford

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

April 12, 2024

            A nice good morning to you, we hope your day is filled with warm sun shine and nice people. This will be another short posting as I have not been feeling good and it has been to wet to get outside and do anything.

            Now that I said it was too wet outside to do anything, I did do something yesterday and it was outside. I got tired of sitting in the house so I decided to pick up debris out of the front yard. That is not too much work for a senior person. There are leaves on small twigs that fall from the trees and there are small sticks. I filled a five-gallon bucket with this debris. Some of the sticks were left over from the tree trimmers when they work in the front yard.

            A while later I sat on the front porch reading from my book on revelations when I noticed more twigs with leaves on the ground. I don’t know why these twigs fall but they do.

            Since I have not been feeling well, I have done a lot of sitting around. My favorite wife and I did sit outside yesterday afternoon and enjoyed the birds making noise.

            Well, I said it would be short and it is, we hope you have a good day and as always be safe in all you do.

Debris remover.

Senior ole person who would like a cup of coffee, Don the Ford

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

April 11, 2024

            Hay, we are starting a new day and it isn’t raining. I did go out and check the free rain gage this morning, and over the last 3 days our free rein gage has accumulated almost 3.25 inches of water. Almost 3.25 inches of rain is a lot of rain and the back yard still has some water in it.

            To say I did not do anything yesterday would be more or less the truth. It was raining and I felt crummy, so doing nothing is the right thing. Heck I even went to the doctor even though I did not have an appointment. I was lucky, they were able to work me in. She, that is the lady doctor checked me out, they did a blood test. I have seen the results of the blood test and everything looked good. They will schedule me to see another doctor, and then I get back with my doctor in a month. My doctor told me to stop drinking coffee and anything with caffeine in it.

            I would like to see a few days without rain so I could get my yard man Alex over here to mow and trim the yards.

            I usually have a breakfast sandwich (cheese, egg, and sausage sandwich) while I am sitting here at the computer. I warm it up in the microwave and enjoy it while creating my posting. This morning, I got the sandwich out of the freezer, took it to the microwave and warmed it up. To my surprise it did not have sausage on it, just egg and cheese. It was not very good without the sausage. I went back to the freezer and check the others in the box, and they all have sausage. I guess the robot who makes the sandwich, made a mistake, or, it just wanted to cheat a real person!

            As I sit here, I often look at the security screens, this morning I am seeing a bird accessing the bird house that is located on the front porch just above the chairs where I sometimes sit to read, and if it is raining, we can often sit on the porch and stay dry. If that bird claims that house, will my sitting out there cause him / her problems. I could sit on the back patio to read but then I can’t keep an eye on the neighborhood. My favorite wife and I did sit outside for a while yesterday afternoon, it was cool and windy. 

            Well, this is another short posting but short is sometimes nice. We hope you have a good day, and please stay safe in all you do.

The sun is shining!

Senior ole person who needs to do something, but has nothing to do, Don the Ford

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

April 10, 2024

            A nice wet good morning to you all. I have very little to discuss today, so get ready for a short presentation. As I have already mentioned, it is wet this morning, our free rain gage has 2.5 inches of rain in it this morning, and the day before it had ½ inch of rain in it. For that one person, that is a total of 3 inches here at the Ford’s homestead.

            Since it rained yesterday, the tree trimmers did not come to the homestead and trim trees in the rain. I said trees, there is only one large tree that needs to be trimmed in our back 40. The neighbor lady needs to get her tree trimmed; another limb from her tree fell during the storms. I assume we will get another call today saying, the trimmers will not be here again today due to the light rain. Personally, I think they should wait a few days and let some of the ground dry up before they start again.

            Yesterday was actually a do-nothing day; I did get the Alex from school and Dave from work. My favorite wife and I, along with Tres, sat outside on the front porch yesterday afternoon, as the chairs on the porch were dry, the cushions on the swing were wet. I did get a photo of a squirrel that was finding the left-over acorns and eating them while at the same time irritating Tres.

            I think Tres would have liked to have annihilated that squirrel, as it kept running from tree to tree aggravating the Tres.

            What do I plan for today, nothing much, but I might drive to the teller machine and get our weekly stipend, and if I do that, I might get a cup of real coffee at the star coffee place, I do have a free cup coming. 

            On days like this I have the time to read from my Revelation book. Yes, I do still read from the bible daily and I also attempt to do my bible study homework. I think we only have 3 more bible study meetings for this year.

            I will stop for now, we hope you have a good day, think some nice thoughts and please be safe.

Nothing doing.

Senior ole person who needs to do something, but what?  Don the Ford

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

April 9, 2024

            Greetings from us to you, we have the possibility of severe storms today, with heavy rain, large hail and even the possibility of a tornado. We got some rain yesterday and the Free rain gage shows almost ½ inch of rain. I think we are back on our normal schedules for today, you know, picking up the kids from school and doing nothing. 

            Let’s see what happened yesterday. The tree people did come to our homestead and they did remove some dead limbs from our front yard trees. Also, they did remove the dead limb which was over the neighbor’s driveway. They went from our front yard to the other neighbors back yard where they cut down and removed an entire tree. We had the gate open so they could pull tree limbs from the back 40 to their chipper, photo to follow.

            We assume you can see the tree limbs on our driveway under our carport. Those limbs were from the neighbors back yard. They tossed them over the fence and pulled them to the car port when they back the chipper in.

            They did go into our back 40 and cut a couple tree limbs but not all that needs to be cut, they decided to leave I think because of the coming eclipse. They said they would be back tomorrow if it isn’t raining. They left their ladders in the back 40. They did clean up the excess debris before they left.

            Topic change: It started to rain about 5:00pm yesterday and I have a photo of something on our driveway that only shows up when it rains.

            I used a water sealer on the dry driveway a couple weeks ago, after it dries it will show up when it rains. My favorite wife said I was crazy for doing that, I think I am just silly.

            Topic solar eclipse: Let’s talk about the eclipse. My wife and I sat outside and watched it develop, but when it started to decline, we headed into the house. I have a photo of a cloud that was covering the sun a little before the eclipse maxed out.

            The clouds were moving and moved away a few minutes before entirety, yes, we had a blue sky during the main part of the event. It was dark enough that the outside lights came on. I have another photo showing the eclipse multiple places on my side walk. The sun was peeking through the leaves over the sidewalk and we could see the eclipse without looking up. It is like punching a hole in a piece of paper and holding it over another piece of paper.

             Another subject: I sat outside for a while reading my book about Revelations, and as I sat there something caught my attention in the neighbor’s yard across the street. I saw a bird attacking a cat in his yard. The bird would dive out of the tree and buzz the cat. I thought possibly the cat may have had a baby bird and the momma was after the cat. The cat would get as low as it could, lying flat on the ground. Then it would try to move and it would be attacked again. I did see the cat leave from under the tree and it did not have a baby bird in its mouth.

            Well, I guess that will be all for now, we hope you have a good day, please stay safe in all you do.

Silly not crazy!    

Senior ole retired person who says, “if you can’t have fun don’t do it”, Don the Ford

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

 

April 8, 2024

            Good eclipse morning to those of you in the line of the eclipse. We hope you get to see the eclipse, but here in Hewitt the chance is very small as we have clouds and a warm front moving in. We have chances of strong storms this afternoon, evening, and tomorrow. Wow, I sound like the so-called weather person.

            The only thing we have going on here today is the possibility of the tree trimmers coming. They are supposed to be here if it isn’t raining, and it isn’t raining yet. We hope when they do come, they do all the work correctly, without any damage to anything, and they stay safe in all they do. I guess I will need to move the truck out of the driveway as they will need to go through the gate to get into the back 40.

            Topic change: my favorite wife did some yard work yesterday, she was moving and planting some flowers. I did get to help a little, I moved a couple flowers to the front porch, yes it was strenuous work for an ole senior person. We did sit outside after all the work was completed and enjoyed some time for rest. I did get to do some reading from my book on Revelation. This is my second book and I find it very interesting.

            The kids are out of school today and Dave has the day off so I will not need to go anywhere until this evening. As of now the bible study meeting will be at the Church, they have advised that it could be over the computer if traffic from the solar eclipse turns out to be as bad as they have been predicting.

            I have a couple photos, one of some clouds that I found interesting, you might notice 4 bubbles of clouds, one of the scrap wood projects that I started. small wooden crosses that could be carried on a key chain or on a necklace. 

            Well, I guess I will stop for now, we hope your day is nice, and that everyone, even you, stay safe.

Cloudy day.

Senior ole person who needs to check on the trimmers, Don the Ford

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