Well, it is a good morning here in Hewitt, Texas. The sun isn’t up yet, as I start this posting, but I did go outside and check the free rain gage to see how much rain we may have received yesterday afternoon and into the night.
Now if memory serves me, yesterday afternoon I went to get Alex and Gabi from school. Alex came out to the Ford’s ole Chevy as usual and we headed over to the high school to get the Gabi. When we arrived at the high school, we found a parking space in the usual area. We sat there for a while but no Gabi. I then attempted to call her a couple times, no answer. We then called her dad to see if we were supposed to pick her up from school.
We then learned that she was staying after school (school gets out at 4:00) with her boyfriend and she was planning to attend the football game which starts at 7:30. Somewhat disappointed that we did not need to get her from school, we started for home. I did get Alex home safe and I made it to my home, a little later than usual, but safe.
My favorite wife and I decided to sit outside as it was not raining. Our neighbor who has the cancer came over and sat with us for a while. He seems to be in good spirits and is keeping a positive attitude about the situation, even though the chemo seems to be reducing his energy.
Our neighbor spoke of the people who came over to pray for him yesterday, and that he was thankful for all the prayers. As we sat there talking it began to sprinkle some rain. It did not take long and we decided to go to our front porch, to get out of the rain, and he went to his front porch where he and his granddaughter carved a pumpkin.
At about 5:20 the rain became very hard and we did get a bunch of rain for several hours along with lightning. The free rain gage has almost 2.25 inches of water in it. We were wondering what our granddaughter was doing during the rain storm, at the football stadium? That rain storm went on into the night.
Today, Patrick and Karla are supposed to come up for a visit, possibly we might even be able to go out for a light lunch.
My ole senior brain started working this morning when the clock sounded off. I got the thought, “What does o’clock mean?” People have a tendency to say it is five o’clock, which I think means it is “5:00 am or pm”.
Now would you believe I have studied this word (o’clock) for weeks, reviewing page after page from ole history books, and I have come up with the answer. O’clock is an abbreviation (for that one-person abbreviation means shortened) of two words and it started back in the year 1321, by a fellow named Jess. Each time he would look at the big wall clock to see what time it was he would say, “5 according to the ole clock”. As time passed, he shortened it to, “5 ole clock,” then it became easier to say, “5 o’clock”.
Now would you believe you have just learned some history from a senior ole person?
That’s it for now, we hope you have a good day with friends or family. Please stay safe and be nice to at least one person today.
Definer of words!
Senior person who knows a lot, but a lot of what, wow, I am a poet, Don the Ford
May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow!
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