March 31, 2023

            Today is Friday and is the last day of the month. April the first is tomorrow and also known as, “April Fool’s Day”! I know what you are thinking, so don’t say it. April Fool’s Day was not made just for me, it was made for all us Fords! Ha Ha!

            As I sit here in front of the Ford’s ole computer attempting to enter data, and yes I have a breakfast sandwich on a plate on the desk, which I had acquired from the Ford’s ole freezer, along with a glass of milk, I am considering what to present to you today. Yes, you are still my favorite reader, and I am glad that I have you to review my work.

            Let’s start with the weather; we have a low risk of storms and some possible rain today, while the Show Me State has a very high possibility of some big storms. When we lived in the Show Me State, our first residence was a mobile home. I have already told you about the tornado that passed within two blocks of the trailer, but not about the house that we had built.

Our house was out of town and it had a full basement and when the weather would get bad, we would go down in the basement to stay safe. Actually, I had made a TV room in the basement and we spent a lot of time down there. The TV room was very quiet, and if someone came to the front or back door and knocked, we could not hear them. We also had made a utility room but about half of the basement was still unfinished.

We hope everyone in the storm prone areas stay safe today!

Topic swap; I will make a trip to the store today and get some bandages like I have on my hand. I am going to remove and replace the bandage, the part on the back of my hand looks ok, while the part on the palm of my hand is getting dirty. I think the cut on my hand is getting better, I can use the hand without too many problems. I still need a plastic bag on my hand when I take a shower.

What else will I do today, not much, I might go to the Booze store if I can find some money, and as usual I will get the kids from school. We need the rain, but it we get a lot of rain that might interfere with having Alex mow the back 40 on Saturday. Granny even has some work for him to do, if it isn’t too wet.

Well, I guess I will stop for now, we hope your day is just the way you want it to be. Please do all you can to stay safe.

Bandage replacer

Senior person who will get a cup of real coffee when he goes to town, Don the Ford

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

March 30, 2023

            Hello to one and all, we hope all is well for you and your family, we are doing good here at the Ford’s homestead. I hope to post a couple photos today and I hope you find them interesting.

            Let’s start with the mowing of the front yard. Now for that one person who read yesterday’s posting, you know that I have a bandage on my hand, and I am not allowed to wash dishes. I did get my shower and I had my favorite wife tape a plastic bag on my hand to keep the bandages dry. It worked, and I have a photo.

            Have you ever tried to wash with a plastic bag on your hand, it isn’t easy.

            Let’s get back to mowing of the front yard; since my hand is bandaged, I am attempting to not do any manual labor, so I hired my favorite grandson to mow. He did a good job of mowing and I have a photo.

             He also used the leaf blower to remove grass from the neighbor’s drive, the street, and our driveway. Alex got a little time in using the string trimmer. Depending on weather, we may have Alex back over here Saturday to mow the back 40. Yes, I paid him more than $1.50 for the work.

            I was in David’s yard yesterday when I looked down and saw this very small flower, it is a weed, but it looked like a flower, which I thought was very pretty. Two photos to follow.

            First photo is standing looking down and the little blew flower is difficult to see, second photo is a closer look of the two flowers (weeds).

            Actually, I guess my hand is doing ok, it hurts when I do certain things like, picking up my cell phone. I know that sounds silly, but it happens, now holding it in my left hand does not hurt. My thumb on that same hand has arthritis, and it hurts more than the incision.

            Well, I wish I had more than that to write about, but I don’t, so please have a good day, smile at least once today, and be safe.

wounded senior person. 

Senior ole person who misses working in the yard, believe it or not, Don the Ford

 

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

March 29, 2023

            Well, I lived through the hand surgery yesterday, and the doctor told me that I am not allowed to wash dishes for two weeks, she even offered to give me a note for my favorite wife. The doctor removed the skin cancer which left a hole in my hand about the size of a dime. Then she decided to transplant some skin onto the hole, aka a skin graft. Then she stitched it all up.

I have two photos, one of the bandages that is on my hand. I warn you, about the second photo, it is of the cut with the stitches, it isn’t easy for some to see. The second photo will be toward the bottom of this posting.

            I am not supposed to wash dishes, you know, not get the bandage wet. Well, how do I take a shower, wash my hair and other parts of my body. My wife has suggested a plastic bag to cover the bandage. No, she will not give me a bath! Darn it!

            Yes, it hurts when I do certain things. It is amazing how something as small as this incision can cause me this many problems, what if I had a major injury, I would probably be a crybaby. I have been told to keep this on for a week, and I am supposed to go back in a week for them to look at this, and probably re-bandage it for another week. After two weeks they will remove the stitches. 

            It is raining this morning, I was going to have Alex come over and mow the front yard this afternoon, if the grass is dry enough. Entering data isn’t too bad, just an occasional pain.

This photo was taken by the doctor and she wanted to get the picture that was hanging on the wall, as a back ground for this photo.

             That’s it for now, I hope your day is cut free, filled with friends, and safe.

Crybaby Don

Senior ole person who is handicap, for now, Don the Ford

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

March 28, 2023

            I do need to be short this morning as I need to be at the doctor's office to be cut on at 7:45.

            Yesterday, I put in 3 hours preparing for and trimming the weeds in the ditch behind the house. This morning my ole body is reminding me of the work I did yesterday, photo to follow.

            Although you can’t see it in the photo, the weeds and grass were very tall, and I used the leaf blower to push them into the bottom of the ditch. The weeds and grass trimmings are more then a foot deep, maybe we will get a rain and someone else downstream will have my weeds.

            After returning from taking Dave and Alex to their home yesterday, my favorite wife supervised the removal of the flowers from the green house and positioning them in various locations throughout the yards.

I have a photo of a pecan tree that the squirrels planted. This little tree was there last summer, and it is coming back this spring. We will let it grow there; we can always use another tree, photo to follow.

            The bible study meeting went well last night, I even had most of the answers correct, and I could even read some of my handwriting (aka scribbling).

            Well I need to get going so we hope you have a good day, be safe and nice to the ole people.

Yard worker

Senior retired person who’s first wife supervises his yard work, Don the Ford

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

March 27, 2023

            It is Monday again, at least I think it is, ok I looked at the calendar and it is Monday, which means I am back on schedule and I have something to do.

            Yesterday I did very little, I was on my hands and knees in the front yard. I did get to finish pulling the weeds from the so-called new Jasmine bed, as it was planted at least a year ago. You are correct, it is difficult for an ole senior person to get down and crawl around in his yard, pulling these weeds isn’t easy, and yes, I was praying part of the time. Hopefully I have a photo of this great accomplishment.

            The green is the Jasmine vines, the weeds have been removed.

            I wanted to weed eat the ditch behind the house yesterday, but after getting off my knees I decided to wait a day or so, maybe I will get it done today. As I sit here thinking, I will be having surgery on my hand tomorrow morning, and after that I will likely not be wanting to do any work that requires the use of that hand, at least until the stitches are removed. I better get things done today.

            Weed eat the ditch, move a flower or two out of the green house, cut a small limb from the live oak tree, change the location of one of the hummingbird feeders, get the kids from school, wow, nothing to do again today.

            We have Bible study tonight; I hope I get everything done and can still make my ole senior body move enough to go to the meeting. 

            We sat outside yesterday afternoon and watch the neighbors go by, and while sitting there I noticed that Molly the cat did not understand something. Cats with long tails should not hang out around rocking chairs, and should not lay their heads on the rockers, photo to follow.

             It is good that no one was in the rocking chair. I do have another photo taken yesterday at about the same time as the Molly photo.

            This photo is of me, the sun was attempting to provide you, the reading public, with a photo that you can hang on your wall, for a donation of $75.00 or more, and the shipping will be free.

            Well, what else can I tell you, I need to get started on today’s work, so please have a good day filled with much kindness to ole people, and stay safe.

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Senior ole person that needs a cup of homemade coffee, Don the Ford

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

March 26, 2023

            Hello to you, my favorite reader, I hope your day is going well for you. My day seems to be ok, nothing big in my plans for the day. I know you don’t care about what I did yesterday or today so please stop reading now and go do something fun, or at least restful, because I am just going to talk about myself.

            Yesterday was Saturday and all morning I was thinking it was Sunday. I received a call from my little sister back in Missouri where I wished her an early Happy Birthday, I think she is 29 years old again today. Wow, how can a person be 29 for that many times?

I did decide to go out back and see if I could mow the back 40. As usual there was things that needed to be done before I could get on the Ford’s ole riding mower and mow. I, played pick-up-sticks, rolled up the hose, rolled up the extension cord, removed Poopa-Loopa, picked up dog toys, removed the cover from the riding mower, disconnected the solar powered battery charger from the riding mower, brought the ole mower to the air compressor to check the tire pressures.

            I had to search for the digital air gage and when I found it, it would not work. I would check for air in the tire and it would come up 00. The other air gages, you know the type, they are metal and look kinda like a pencil, they would not register pressures at 10 and 14 pound. The big tires on the back take 10 pounds of air, while the smaller front tires take 14 pounds of air. All I could do was guess if the pressure was even close.

            Now one might think having the wrong air pressure in a tire isn’t a big deal, and that is what I use to think. I learned that having different amounts of air in the tires changed the height and level of the mowing blades. Example, 10 pounds of air in one back tire, and 5 pounds in the other did not look different, but when you mowed one side of the mower was lower than the other and that showed up in the grass.

            So I guessed at the air pressure and mowed, the grass looked ok, but it did not look manicured! 

            I wanted to weed eat the ditch, but I decided to go to the store and get a new digital pressure gage ($12.86). There goes my $5.00 stipend, and my first wife will need to gather a bunch of aluminum cans due to the excessive cost of the gage. Heck she will probably be out all night looking for cans, that means I will be sleeping alone, and I don’t like to sleep alone.

            Trump was in Waco yesterday, and they had his entire speech on the TV. I watched the first 3 or 4 minutes, then I decided to go outside and read from my book on Revelations.

            Today, I hope to complete the weed pulling from the Jasmine bed, and I would like to weed eat the back ditch. I am not sure, but after crawling around on my hands and knees pulling weeds, I will likely not be in the mood to weed eat. 

            I guess I will quit writing, we hope your day is filled with goodness and that everyone stays safe.

Happy Birthday Becky

Senior ole person who needs coffee, Don the Ford

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

March 25, 2023

            Let me start with a couple photos and maybe I will end with a couple comments.

            The above photo was taken while I was waiting on the Alex to get out of school. I like to get photos of some clouds.

            No longer looking up, this time I am looking down. Yesterday I was on my knees in the front yard pulling weeds from the new Jasmine bed. I was working from the outside of the blocks which surround the bed, and it you look at the photo you can see how far I could reach. I went around the outside with a plan to do the inner parts today. I forgot that the sprinkler system was going to run this morning, so the bed is too wet to work in.

            I thought I would have Alex here to do some yard work today, but he has a scout camp out which means if any work gets done, it will be the ole senior person who does it. I have a photo of part of the back 40 which needs to be mowed, along with the ditch behind the house. I may be able to get part of the work done but likely not all the work.

            A friend came over yesterday afternoon at Happy time, and we all sat outside enjoying the nice weather and some adult beverage. Eventually, we enter the homestead and had pizza for supper, it was really good.

            I guess that is it for now, we hope your day is really good with some friends and fun, please be safe.

Yard maintenance person

Senior person who may get started when the grass is dry, Don the Ford

 

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

March 24, 2023

            Yesterday was a little odd for this ole senior person. Things did not occur on schedule. Dave, while at work broke a tooth. No, he wasn’t in a fight, he was eating and it broke. So at 9:00 I went and picked him up at work and we headed for the dentist. The dentist scheduled him an appointment for noon, so I took Dave home.

            At about 11:30 I picked Dave up again and took him back to the dentist. After an hour he was done and I took him back home, he goes back next week to get the tooth repaired.

            I went back to the homestead where I wanted to take a nap but that did not happen, I guess I was trying too hard. I then got up and went out to the back 40 where I pulled some of the dead weeds from the #2 bed. After the strenuous work I returned to the house where I rested for a few minutes before heading out to get the kids from school. 

            I was number two in line at the school yesterday, I must have gotten there a few minutes early. I was able to get the Alex and the Gabi along with the boy friend from school, and home safely.

            Back at home I was allowed to take my favorite wife out for supper, which we enjoyed. Soon after we arrived at the restaurant an old friend came over to the table and talked with us. This lady use to work at DIB and we had not seen her in a long time. It is always nice to see ole friends.

Returning home, it was suggested that we wash the dog. We think he enjoyed it, and we like the way he smells after a bath, so I guess we all enjoyed the wash job.

            Since I had the hose in hand, I was allowed to water the berry beds. I more or less assume that the predicted rain for this morning would not be enough for the berries, if we get any at all, so I watered. It is 7:30 as I am writing this, and we have not received any of the predicted rain yet.

            After the dog wash and watering, my first wife then forced me to get a cold drink and sit outside with her for almost an hour. Wow, sitting, cold drink, peace and quiet, with my present spouse, what could be better. Oh, I have a photo taken while we were sitting outside.

            It was hot out yesterday afternoon, and I assume that Molly was attempting to cool her belly off laying there on her back with her legs spread apart. Tres was keeping an eye on her. They get along ok, as long as Tres doesn’t think Molly is getting too much attention, then he will get involved.

            Well, I guess I will stop this process of creating wonderful things for you to read, and go get a cup of homemade coffee. Heck, yesterday I didn’t even have a cup of real coffee. We hope your day is safe, fun and we hope you have some real coffee.

Senior doer of nothing

Senior person with nothing to do and nowhere to go, Don the Ford 

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

March 23, 2023

            I wish I had something to write about today, but I don’t. You might know how it is for ole senior persons, we have nothing to talk about, which means I have nothing to write about. I guess it would be better if we didn’t get old, but if we didn’t get old we would not be here and we still would not have anything to write about. Wow, ole people can’t win for losing!

            We have had a yellow cat hanging around our homestead lately. This cat has aggravated Molly a couple times so we would like for it to go away. As I understand it, the animal control person, aka dog catcher, will not catch these cats. I was told that if you catch it, the city dog catcher will take it and have it fixed then turn it loose again. Anyway, I checked the security cameras from last night and the cat was resting on one of the chairs on the front porch.

            : I do need to get out and water the berries today, but I still want to remove the dead weeds and grass from the #2 bed. Can this ole senior body do both? I did water the plants in the green house yesterday, and I will be bringing them out soon, I think the chance of a freeze is going away.

            The back 40 needs to be mowed and the ditch needs to be weeded too. I might be able to talk my grandson into working this weekend, if he doesn’t have too many games on the computer to play. I guess I can do it myself if I have to.

            Alternate topic: I did put some bird food out yesterday and the squirrels have been enjoying it. I just saw a squirrel on one of the bird feeders attempting to get a meal. I wish the squirrels would move away.

            Alternate topic: I have a tendency to occasionally, actually think of things. Yes, they are often odd things, and yesterday’s thought, I would say, was odd. I have been known to aggravate the grandkids and the boyfriend with words as we drive home after school.

The word cook came to me, and as I considered the word cook, I thought, it most often means, “to prepare something to eat”. I guess one could use the word cook, in a different way, “to cook up a plan to do something,” where cook = prepare.

            Now we have the word cooker, to possibly mean, “the person preparing the food, or a cooker could be, “the pot that something is being cooked in.”

            Then we have the word cooking, which is, “the process of preparing something”.

            Where the heck did they come up with the word cookie? Cookie has no meaning; it isn’t preparing anything; you can’t prepare anything in it. I wish the people who invent words would take the time to consider how odd the words they invent sound!

            As I stated earlier, I have nothing to write about today so I will go get a cup of homemade coffee and consider the things I might not do today. We hope you have a blessed day, and that also means stay safe.

Cook, cooker, cooking, cookie?

Senor or senior ole person who needs something to write about, Don the Ford

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

March 22, 2023

            Today is Wednesday, and it is still wet outside but it has warmed up a lot. I have set here at this ole computer this morning trying to update information for my email. I do not like doing that, but I guess it is necessary. Think about it, no one at the email place cares if my info is correct or not, but the robot checks things out and takes care of all the things that humans can’t, or don’t want to do. Robots, they are here, and they will be taking over soon.

            Now that I am tired I just want to get a cup of homemade coffee and sit on the Ford’s ole recliner, but being the energetic person I am, I will forgo the homemade coffee and sitting, to enlighten you, my favorite reader of this posting.

            My first wife and I have discussed a certain topic several times lately, and I have come up with an answer.

The topic: How we met 55 years ago. I have a hypothesis which I will present in a couple minutes as to why we met 55 years ago.

How we met, by Don the Ford

            I was in a vehicle riding around with a young lady whose first name was Ruth. Now how I got to know this young lady is a complete mystery to me and to my favorite wife. Heck I have no idea why she was letting me ride around with her in her car. It turns out that Ruth and Donna (Donna is my first wife) were best friends and lived close to each other.

Ruth noted that she needed to go pick up her friend who was at church, that was in a small town about 8 miles down the road. We drove down to Scott City and arrived at the church. Ruth’s friend came out and got into the car. I was sitting in between two young ladies, and we headed back to Cape Girardeau. I do not remember any other part of that night, but that is how I met my favorite wife.

Why we met: I now believe it was meant to be, that I was supposed to have Donna as my wife, I see it as a gift from God!

Now you know why she is my favorite wife!

Topic change; we have had wet weather most of the day yesterday and it is still here today. The rain gage does not show even a tenth of an inch, but everything is wet. They say there might be some sun shine this afternoon, which would be nice. The only thing I have on my schedule is to pick up Dave and the kids, along with some reading from Revelations.

We hope your day is filled with friends and happiness, please stay safe. Meant to Be!

Senior ole retired person who is going to get a cup of homemade coffee, Don the Ford

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

March 21, 2023

            I learned something last night, and I do not need your comment about ole people can’t learn new things. Maybe I should say that I was told about something last night, although I do learn by seeing and hearing, so that might mean I did still learn something last night.

            Now I know most of you, have not been in my bed room when I am getting ready for bed. When I prepare my ole body to recline on the Ford’s ole mattress, for an evening of rest, I most often ask Alexa to play, “sounds of rain”. For that one person, and I do know who you are, Alexa is not a girlfriend, is not a female person, instead it is a robot voice machine.

            Now the reason I have the sound of rain played, is in an effort to block out the sounds coming from the TV room. Sleeping or meditating both seem better when I can’t hear the TV, or other outside noises.

            Well last night when I ask Alexa to play sounds of rain, the robot voice machine responded with, “in the future would you like to say, Alexa Good Night, and I play the sounds of rain for you?” I responded with, “yes”. Now any time I want to hear sounds of rain I just say, “Alexa, Good Night” and the robot plays the sounds of rain.

            I guess I did learn something from a robotic teacher. Wow, robots are taking over!

            Well the bible study meeting went well last night, they even had coffee or hot chocolate after the class and before the lecture.

            We have a couple small things that we want to accomplish today, replant one flower, removes some dead grass from the berry bed #2, water the berries and the green house plants. That will be started when the temp warms up, maybe around noon o’clock.

            The sprinkler system did run this morning but I need to reset the start time or set it to day light saving time, as it did not run when I wanted it to.

            I did get a burrito and a cup of real coffee this morning, you know, just wanted to get the day started off in a positive way.

            I guess I will stop now and set my sights on something productive, we hope your day is safe, fun and restful.

THE Robotic world is here

Senior ole person who can learn from a robot, Don the Ford

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

March 20, 2023

            I would assume that you think since this is the day that spring is supposed to begin, I believe at 4:24pm, that I would be talking about spring. Nope, I will not be talking about spring starting today, or the fact that it was 28 degrees yesterday. I think I will talk about me.

            What could I say about me that you don’t know, or that you might be interested in. Allow me to talk about my beginning, aka birth, and a little about my child hood. I was very young when I was born, and I don’t remember anything about my, “coming out party”.

There is a good chance that it was a surprise to my parents when they found out that they were going to have another kid. My parents already had 6 kids, and the youngest of the 6 was 7 years old when I popped out. The 7^th child, and there was 7 years between me and my brother.

            When I was 7 years old, we lived at 714 College Street. I remember I got a bike for my 7^th birthday, and Mom told me that my brother Jack, who was 7 years older than me, got a trike for his 7^th birthday. Maybe I was more advanced than my brother at the age of 7 years old, but most likely, I was taller than he was at 7.

            There seems to be a lot of sevens in the above comments, heck the year I was born has a 7 in it.

            Allow me to alter the topic; still using me as the discussion point, this week I do not have any scheduled visits to the doctor or to the dentist, nice. But next week I get to go back for another surgery. Yep, I think she likes to cut on this ole body. I know you are not interested in me getting cut on, but since this is my ole blog, I will write want I want to. This time she will be cutting on my left hand. They took a sample the last time I was there, and it is now healed up, and they re going to cut on it again. Well, at least they are leaving my face alone for now.

            I will get the kids from school today, and we do have Bible study tonight, so I do have a couple things to look forward to.

            Changing the subject; weed killer, it worked. The weed killer that I had sprayed on the weeds and grass in the #2 berry bed has killed the weeds. Yesterday I took my new hoe to the #2 bed to see if I could remove the weeds. I was able to get some of them out of the ground, but I will need to get down on my hands and knees to get the dead uprooted weeds out of the dirt. Never any rest for the ole senior retired people. It is supposed to warm up this week so I will attempt a complete removal on a warm day. 

            Another subject: I have decided to start using the lawn sprinklers again, so the water bill will increase. I think we are still on a twice a week max, as the drought has not officially been removed. I think lake Waco is still very low so we need some rain to fill the lake up.

            Change topic again: it has been said the Trump will be here at the Waco airport for his first official presidential rally. They were talking about this on TV this morning, saying that security will be very high. I do like the way Trump got things done, but not him personally.

            Well, I guess I can stop for now, we hope your day is fun and safe, try to be nice to at least one person today. 

Number 7 seems important

Senior ole retired person who will not have 7 cookies today, Don the Ford

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

March 19, 2023

            Well, I previously had a photo of Molly sleeping in a flower bed, now we have a photo of her sitting in that bed. Do you think she thinks that is her personal bed? Wow, a lot of beds in those two sentences, now let's get to the photo.

 

            Molly’s expression indicates that she is unhappy. Tres was laying on the driveway yesterday afternoon when I took this photo, possibly she did not want him to share her bed.

            We were sitting on the Ford’s ole swing yesterday afternoon, even though it was very cool outside. Yes, even the cool weather did not keep us from our down time. Down time is no TV or other distractions, just two people talking.

            The only thing we did yesterday was to go to town where we purchased some string for the trimmer, and then we had lunch at a sandwich place. The rest of the day was filled with rest. 

This may be the shortest posting ever. We hope your Sunday is blessed!

Rester extraordinaire

Senior ole retired person who knows how to rest, Don the Ford 

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

March 18, 2023

            Well, Friday has passed without me doing much. It was cool outside so I tried to stay inside as much as I could. If memory serves me, and it often does not, I did pick up some sticks from the front yard yesterday.

            About 10:00 I decided to get out of the house for a few minutes, so I decided to get a real cup of coffee. I hopped into the Ford’s ole Chevy and headed out. At the same time, I was leaving the Ford’s homestead, my favorite wife was also leaving. I had driven about two blocks when I discovered that I did not have my, “Communicating Device”, (aka cell phone) with me.

            I turned around and went back to the Homestead where I was able to access my cell phone. I again hopped into the Ford’s ole Chevy and headed out. I had reached the same location where I had turned around earlier, and the ole cell phone rang. It was Dave and he was off work an hour early. I headed to the workplace and picked up Dave, and I explained that I was going to get a cup of coffee at the star place.

            The star coffee place is only about a city block from the work location, and arriving there the line was ¾ of the way wrapped around the building. I got in line, and it took a good 20 minutes for us to get the coffee. The wait time allowed us to sit and talk for a while. I did finally get Dave home safe and sound.

            I did not do much for the rest of the day, other than my homework for the bible study, I did read from revelations. I read from revelations first, then I read from the book I have that helps explain some of revelations. It does not explain everything, but it helps.

            I was able to get the grandkids home from school safely and that was really all my excitement for the day. Today will be a lot like yesterday, without getting the kids or Dave.

We did get ¼ inch rain yesterday and there was a lot of wind. I am considering turning the sprinkler system on after this cold spell leaves. I have been in negotiations with my favorite grandson for some lawn work. I need to get him use to the string trimmer; I might be able to provide the necessary training by allowing him to trim the ditch behind the back 40.

            It was too cool and windy for this ole person to sit outside yesterday, so we stayed inside. A friend who has been dropping by on Friday afternoons and sitting outside with us came over, and we all sat inside. Discussions inside the house can be as lively as outside!

            If you will allow, I have a photo that might explain itself.

            I know, you all thought I was the only lazy one here at the Ford’s Homestead and that I was the only one who took naps. Well, as you can see in the photo, Molly takes naps too. The sun was shining and the ground was warm, perfect conditions for a short nap.

            Well, I guess that is all for now, we hope your day is pleasant, productive and safe.

Caffeine addicted.

Senior ole retired person who will get some caffeine in a minute, Don the Ford

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

March 17, 2023

            Today’s article which is provided for my favorite reader, yes, it is you, has at least three subjects, clouds, flowers, and a star. I know, you immediately thought that the subject “star” would be about the Don. Sorry, but it is not about the Don.     

            Lets start with the fact that we did get some rein last night, and the storms seemed to have gone around us. It is cold outside this morning, “42 degrees”, too cold for an ole senior person to venture out to see how much rain we got. Now Molly the cat went outside to do her morning business, so I asked her to check the donated rain gage. She reported that we received almost ¼ inch of precipitation (aka rain). 

            Let’s start with clouds; yesterday after our evening repast at the cracker store, I was able to secure a photo of some of the clouds that were in the sky, coming our way. I will attempt to provide the photo.

 

            Now that I am reviewing the photo, it seems to be more a photo of the sky than clouds.

            Topic alteration: flowers which are roses, but the blooms don’t look like the typical rose. The photo was taken last afternoon as we sat outside waiting on the rain and storm to arrive.

            Before that one person asks, and we all know who you are, that is not the Easter bunny. This bunny hangs around the Ford homestead most of the time, but he has nothing to do with easter.

            Let’s get to the star of this article, (aka posting) and see where the star came from. I have a photo and if you are absorbent, I mean observant, you should quickly see the star. This photo was also taken last afternoon as my favorite wife, and I enjoyed time together.

            Yes, that is the Tres laying on the driveway as we sat on the ole swing yesterday afternoon. Tres is not the star, but there is a star in the photo.

            Well, I guess that is it for the day, we hope you have a good day, stay safe, be productive and nice to ole people.

Almost a photographer

Senior ole person who needs a cup of coffee, even if it is homemade, Don the Ford

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