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

October 31, 2026

                Good morning!

                We have some big plans for today if it doesn’t rain. Our yard man Alex will come over and mow the front yard and when that is completed, he will start putting some lights up on the house and around the flower beds as Christmas decorations. These lights will not be turned on until around Christmas, we just wanted to get some decorations in place. The manger scene will be put together later.

                What happens the rest of the day, who knows.

                Subject change: I have been reviewing some of the stories and articles I have written in years past, some about work and others about things like time travel, and personally I am impressed with my thoughts. One was about the future which goes back to the beginning of humanity.  

                I have below a small part of a story about “time travel” which I often refer to as “time movement”. It was written 11 years ago, and the entire story has 22 pages.

Only the wealthy would know!

                As previously stated, time travel does not, and will not exist, at least you will never know of it. Would you believe it has been invented, you and I along with everyone else, including the government have, until now, been unaware of this invention. 

Could you believe that time movement was invented years ago by a team of people working for a fellow named Steve?

Steve became rich and famous for building electronic devices, such as computers and the like. Steve had learned years ago not to trust anyone. He had many project sites across the US with teams of people working anonymously, sometimes on the same ideas, but none knowing of the other’s existence.

One of the teams learned how to initiate time movement. After numerous secret tests, the process was perfected. Steve (wanting to keep the process completely secret) hired an exterminator to eliminate the 9-person team. Each member of the team was, shall we say, put to rest.  Then Steve himself eliminated the person he had hired to put the others to rest.

A person who can time travel without others knowing that he can, would potentially be the richest person in the world, and now you know why Steve was so rich.   

Steve died but before he passed, he destroyed the machine and all the information concerning it. He knew of the power anyone with a time machine would have, and he did not want someone to seem as great as he was. Steve also knew the government would, when they learned of it, take it for their ill-gotten use.

Don Ford          11-15-2015

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          I can understand that the short portion of the time travel story may not be interesting to anyone but me, but reading something I had written years ago is fun for me. Well, I will attempt to stop for now, we hope and pray that you will have a blessed and safe day, you are in our prayers.

            Donnie the Ford

October 30, 2026

                Good morning to all, we have a little sprinkle of rain again this morning.

                I want to start off with a comment about yesterday and something I have found interesting. I was looking for instructions for building bird houses; the instructions would have the dimensions of each piece and the order of putting it together. Well, I found the folder and it has instructions for a couple bird houses and bird feeders.

                As I was sitting at my desk, I decided to check the computer for any notes about bird houses and other subjects. I knew I had in years past made many notes, stories, and instructions on many subjects. What I found is very interesting to me as I wrote on just about any subject. I have posted below a few words from a 3-page article titled “You can make things better”.

You can make it “Better”              

                You maybe, no, you “will be” surprised how you can affect others, if only you try.

We have all worked for or been around someone who did not seem to appreciate us. This can apply to work as well as personal relations. You probably know how this goes, this person never sees the good work you do but always sees the errors, and they never compliment you on your good work but are quick to point out the errors.

                You are correct in your belief, “the (person or boss) should recognize and comment on good work as quickly as an error”.

                Why doesn’t that always happen?

                There are several reasons and excuses that can be used by the (person or boss) for not following through on good work.

1. 99.5% of your work, as well as that of others, is good work (meets expectations). You should not expect to receive frequent positive comments for your normal daily work. You should, however, expect and receive positive comments for special projects and unusually heavy workloads. A positive comment and or special recognition should be received for a week of error free work.
2. Errors are problems that need to be corrected and not repeated. You need to know of your errors so you can correct them and not repeat them. If you become upset when learning of an error, you should be upset at yourself, not at the person delivering the message.
3. Some (people or bosses) do not have the skill set needed to explain errors, poor quality work or not meeting expectations in a professional, positive manner. That is their error and it will likely be difficult to point that out to them in a professional and positive manner...

After reading through the above part of an article and several other articles, I was happy to see all the subjects like interviewing, listening to others also known as work notes, and the subjects like mowing the yard, time travel, the end times and other subjects. I wrote about many things and I enjoyed reviewing them.

Different topics; I did go to rehab and that seemed to go well, back at home we had about an hour before we headed out to supper, so we sat on the front porch and enjoyed the sprinkles of rain. We did get to supper safely, the service was very slow, but the food was good. Back at home we again sat on the porch and my favorite wife put on a jacket as the temperature was in the 70s and the lite rain did make it feel cool.

Today, I have no plans at all but I might go to the store for a couple grocery items. I will go through more of these notes and stories for my enjoyment.

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

Donnie the author Ford

October 29, 2026

        It is dark thirty but it’s still a good morning (dark thirty means the sun isn’t up yet). I guess it will be dark even longer when the time changes this weekend, fall back.

Yesterday was a normal day here at the Fords. We did the usual things like bible study homework; I did remove debris from the front yard. My favorite wife and I went into Waco to get a couple items, and we made it back home safely.

I did go to the shed and find the Christmas lights that we might have Alex install them this weekend, I did get the chop saw out and brought it to the car port and placed it there. I brought some scrap wood to the chop saw and started cutting some pieces for the possibility of building a few new bird houses. All went well until I got to the last piece of wood and when I cut some pieces from it, they split in half. I did not have any additional scrap wood, so I disappointedly put everything away. I did get some wood glue and glued the pieces together. If the glue holds them together, I can use them and once they are assembled as bird houses the screws will keep everything together.

I wanted to get a photo of the chop saw and the work area, but I only remember that I wanted to get the photo after I had put everything away. Forgetful ole person.

Today’s big event will be rehab and then we will go out for early supper, also known as date night. We go early to beat the crowds. We have friends that often go with us which makes the evening more enjoyable.

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

Donnie the Ford

October 28, 2026

                It is Wednesday and we hope you have a very good morning. For the person who looked at this in the afternoon we hope you have a good day.

                Yesterday was a kick back and do-little day, I did my bible study homework, and I did my daily bible reading.

                Interruption: our cat just walked up to the side of my chair and looked at me, as if she was saying. “I want to eat and you should pick me up and put me on your desk”. Molly can jump on the desk anytime she wants, but if I am here, she expects me to pick her up and place her on the desk. Oh, perhaps I should say, her food bowl is on the desk to keep Tres from eating it.

Back in my do-little day, I did go to rehab, and I got a good workout. Heck, I was sweating when I left there. On the way home I did stop and get a couple glasses of to go ice tea and I stopped at the chicken salad place and got a couple orders of chicken salad for our supper.

I made it home safely and my favorite wife and I took the ice teas to the front porch and sat down. We have several of the same conversations each time we set outside like the neighborhood is quiet, there is no traffic on the street, and we comment about the drones. I should say there were probably 20 or more drones fly over yesterday.  

As we sat outside our neighbors from down the street had their little dogs out for a walk, so they walked up and we talked for a while. We learned that the rooster that I heard crowing, is in the yard behind them. They said there are some hens there with the rooster.
               

Today’s possible work; I need to pick up debris from the yards, and I might get some Christmas lights from the shed if I can find them. Alex might be able to install them this Saturday after mowing the yards. I might go into Waco to get a bottle of adult beverage. Wow, way too much work for an ole senior person.

We hope and pray that you have a blessed day and that we all stay safe in all we do. You are in our prayers.

Donnie the Ford

October 27, 2026

                Hello and good morning to you and only you.

                Yesterday was an exciting day, I went to the store for some grocery items, back at home I sat on the front porch all alone with a cup of coffee, As I was on the front porch with my cup of homemade coffee, I began to remember old memories. It would have been about 1957; we lived in the country and down the road from our house was a friend named John. His parents were rich and they lived in a very big, nice house and they owned a Glass company in Cape Girardeau. How was it I considered them to be rich; they had two telephones in their house. One phone was upstairs, and one was downstairs. Heck, I don’t remember if we had a phone when we lived in the country.

                They had a horse and I think that is where I learned to tie a saddle strap which led to me knowing how to tie a necktie. They had a Cadillac and I got to ride in it a couple times. The windows had buttons that you pushed, and the window would go up or down, power steering, power breaks, automatic transmission and air conditioning. Heck back in the olden days most cars did not have any of the nice things we now have.  Anyway I had a rich friend when I was a kid.   

Later I reviewed my bible study homework, after that my favorite wife and I sat on the front porch enjoying the nice weather.

                I have a photo of a new bloom and an ole bloom which was taken as we sat on the front porch, the photo is not very clear, but the pot hound Tres and my favorite wife are in the photo. The weather is good, so some blooms are trying to get here before the real winter weather arrives.

                After supper I went to bible study.

                Today’s big plan is to go to rehab. Wow, ole people have a lot to do. Well, I pray for a blessed day for you and that we all stay safe in all we do. We will keep you in our prayers.

                Donnie the Ford