Let’s see, I think I failed to sit here at the pewter and right some words over the last couple days. It is difficult for a senior retired person on a fixed income to find the time to address the goings on around the homestead on a daily basis.
We have had some very nice and warm weather the last couple days, so being outside was more fun than sitting here entering data into the Ford’s ole computer. Today it is cold outside, so I have decided to sit here and see if anything comes to mind.
The most excitement came when I received a call that our daughter-in-law had been involved in a car wreck. It seems that she and Alex had gone to town to purchase a real Christmas tree. Leaving the store they needed to cross an intersection. The traffic light was green and she headed across the intersection when another vehicle decided to run a red light. The vehicle that ran the red light hit the front of the daughter-in-law’s vehicle spinning it around facing the opposite direction. The red light runner spun out of control and into the grass at the side of the highway. He must have been moving fairly fast.
Claire and Alex were bounced around, Claire is hurting some today, Alex seems to be ok, we don’t know about the other driver. I am glad this red light runner did not hit the car at the driver door, things might have been a lot worse.
A neighbor walked up to the Ford’s Homestead as I was again raking leaves from the yard, Saturday. We talked about a lot of things and the subject went to pecans. He has a few pecan trees, and he was talking about all the pecans that the trees produced. I noted that I had been cracking some of the cons using a pair of Channel lock pliers. He told me of a pecan cracker he has and he promptly went home to get it.
Returning to the homestead he had the pecan cracker, some pecans and a tool used to get the shells off easier. The cracker is called a, “Nuti Budi Nutcracker” the tool is a “Baker Tool”. The nut cracker is two wood blocks with four wood dowels, very simple to make. It is easy to use and requires little effort. It works with the large soft shell pecans and the smaller hard shell cons. We sat there on our porch and cracked several pecans.
I was going to purchase the nuti budi nutcracker and the baker tool from www.pecans.com but the freight was $8.00. Heck that is almost as much as the baker tool. They offered me a 10% discount but being on a fixed income, one can’t waste money on freight. The items are small, and can’t weigh 2 pounds total.
I tried to get a photo of a red headed wood pecker yesterday as I sat on the ford’s ole rocker enjoying a beverage. The wood pecker would be in plain sight, and when I would lift the somewhat smart phone to get a photo, he would go to the back side of the limb. That happened a couple times, I got tired of trying, also he flew off.
Well I need another cup of coffee so, got to go.
May all your orders have free shipping!
Heartbroken senior with tears in his eyes due to freight; Don Ford
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