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November 15, 2024

            Good morning to everyone. I have the TV next to my desk on and I looked at it and saw some advertisement where they were flying kites. The advertisement reminded me of the olden days when us kids, would get a kite and then go to the field behind our house and fly the kites. The kites back then cost a dime, and you would need string, the more string the better, and we would put a tail on the kites which was strips of ole rags tied together. The tail was important as it helped keep the kite up right which allowed it to fly. We would fly the kites each of us wanting to have our kite fly further away than the other kites.

            Topic change: our dog Tres and I go outside to the front yard every morning, that is a habit that started when we use to get a newspaper daily. Tres would check the yard out and then he would get the paper and take it into the house and drop it at my favorite wife’s chair. We still go out each morning but now he seems to like to drop some Poopa-Loopa in the front yard each morning.

            Yesterday’s events: I did toss out some items yesterday that were in the garage, more need to vanish. I did bring the trailer from the back 40 to the gate in prep for tomorrows limb haul off. The trailer has a lot of limbs and I wanted easy access for tomorrow morning.

I had a 2x4 foot sheet of ole plywood that needed to be tossed out but it would not fit in the trash container so I took it to the shed and cut it into smaller pieces. As you know my shed has a solar panel that powers a 12-volt battery that is connected to a power inverter. The power inverter provides 120 volts of electricity, for power saws and other devices. That makes it easier when I need to use a power tool.  

While I was at the shed, I retrieved some Christmas lights and brough them to the garage. The lights go across the front edge of the roof and on the ground around the flower beds. Later I remembered I need the hangers that we use to put the light on the roof and the stakes that we use around the flower beds. I will need to see if I can find them in the shed.

My favorite wife was making cookies most of the day yesterday, so I help by washing up some of the dishes and tools that were used, then we headed out for supper. The food was good and the service was also good. Back at home I did sit outside for about half an hour as it was getting dark.

Today’s plans: normal schedule of getting the kids to school, then I need to get the rest of the flowers into the hot house as the weather people said it was 37 degrees in Waco this morning. I need to find the items to put the lights on the house and around the flower beds, maybe I can get Alex to help me.

Well, I need to get going, I will finish this later. We hope you have a good day and please stay safe in all you do.

Flower pot mover.

Senior ole person who thinks I will need the heater on in the truck, Don the Ford.

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

November 14, 2024

            Did we work too hard yesterday, well, we did enjoy sitting outside yesterday afternoon, and yes, we did remove the fall decorations from the front yard, and I had to put them back into the shed along with the items I had taken out of the shed. Oh, I almost forgot, Good Morning!

            Let’s start this post off with something amazing. We have a photo of my latest walking stick that I have manufactured. We decided to get a photo of the walking stick while we were sitting outside yesterday.

            In the photo we see a senior citizen with his recently manufactured walking stick, yes, he has his boots on which he has mentioned in the past postings, and this senior person’s ankle was not hurting while he wore the boots. How are ole people able to look so handsome? I seem to do my best work when I am working with scrap lumber or broken tree limbs.

Speaking of tree limbs, we had the trees in the front yard trimmed yesterday. They were able to get the tree limbs off the roof of the house. I wish I had taken a before photo so you could see the difference. I do have a during and after photo.

            After the limbs were removed and hauled away, I did pick up the small debris that was left from their work. We, then began to remove the fall decorations, we being my favorite wife and me. I also picked up some acorns that had come off the tree limbs as they cut them down.  

            Sitting outside yesterday was very comfortable, but we understand that it may be very cool this afternoon with temps at 71 degrees. By the way, it is 49 degrees this morning. Fall may be coming.

            I did water the black berries yesterday, since we have not had any rain, and speaking of water I need to check the sprinklers to see if any were damaged by the tree limb removal.

            We have no big plans for today, get the kids to school on time and safely, maybe take some clothes to the cleaners, and stop by the teller machine for the weekly stipend.

We hope you have a good and safe day in all you do, and if you want an 8 X 10 photo of my walking stick let me know, it will only cost $40.00.

Tree limbs removed.

Senior ole person who is good at making walking sticks, Don the Ford

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

November 13, 2024

            It is the 13^th, but not Friday the 13^th. I got up late this morning due to having a very good night of sleeping, it is nice to be comfortable all night. Oh, I guess I should say good morning to you all.

            Now I was late getting up and I am late starting this soon to be uninteresting post, and I need to sneak off and get Alex to school. I would like to start off with a couple photos, one taken yesterday afternoon of a rain cloud as we sat outside resting from the grueling days’ work, the other taking this morning of the beginning of a sun rise.

            If you look close at the first photo, you might see the rain cloud that had no rain in it, where is our rain.

            I did very little yesterday, I did get another flowerpot into the hot house, and I picked up a few more acorns. My neighbor down the street usually has more acorns than I do, but this year he said there were very few, so he hasn’t tried to remove them from his yard. I do need to water the pots in the hot house and try to make some more room for a couple more large pots with big plants in them. 

            I think I had noted yesterday that I had a pair of boots on that I had not worn for years. Well, I wore them all day and my ankle which usually hurts did not hurt yesterday. I am not sure if it is the boots that are helping or if I just had a good day. I have them on again today to see if I have another day with out ankle pain. 

            When we sat outside yesterday it was very quiet, even the birds were being quiet. In truth we did not talk very much as there was not any traffic on the street and not much to discuss.

            I might go out to the shed and get some totes out and bring them to the garage, as we might remove the fall decorations from the front yard in preparation for the Christmas decorations. I might be able to get the Alex to come over and help with the Christmas decorations again this year.

            Well, I guess I should stop for now, we hope you have a good day and as always be safe in all you /we do.

Senior ole person who likes Christmas but not putting up decorations, Don the Ford

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

November 12, 2024

            Hello to you, but not to that other person, ok, hello to all and a good morning to all. We had a good day yesterday but there were some problems with the tamale preparation. We think the problem was with the masa but who knows. The tamales are bigger than normal, yes, I will have tamales for lunch today.

            Next let’s discuss shoes. What type shoe do I wear, well most of them have rubber or very soft soles on them. That makes each step soft and comfortable. Well, for some reason I began to think about a pair of boots that I have not worn for years and they were in the closet taking up room. I use to wear these boots when I rode motorcycles, no they are not cowboy boots I think they were called engineer boots. They are leather and have hard soles on them, there is no softness to the soles of these boots.

            I thought that being an ole person I would not even be able to get them on my feet, well I was wrong, I have them on and they feel so different without the soft soles. Walking in them seems odd, but I kind of like the feeling. Olden day memory, I wore these type boots when I was in high school. I had heel taps on the boots and they would click on the floor when I walked. I thought I was cool back in the olden days.

            Let’s talk about honesty for a moment. If a person went to the store and purchased several items which were put in bags and if that person took them home and after emptying the bags that person found an item they had not purchase, what would they do?

            My favorite wife had that happen to her. There was a package of batteries that she did not purchase, so she checked her receipt to see if she was charged for it, and she was not. She took the package of batteries to the store. Honest people be nice. 

            Another topic: as we sit outside, we see some things that get our attention. Recently the birds seem to be occupying the bird houses as if they are getting ready for winter. Yesterday, there was a lot of birds and noise coming from the tree with the bird houses. I have determined that the parents who raised several babies in the houses were telling the younger generation to go find their own house, and the younger birds were not wanting to leave.  

            I did get three more flowers in pots put into the hot house; one was very heavy. All the easy ones have been moved in now the hard work begins and I will need help. That reminds me that I will need to water the potted plants in the hot house today.

            The latest problem: there are neighbors who have put up their Christmas decorations, and we have not started yet. Wow, behind again.

            Well, I need to get going an get Alex and take him to school. I hope you have a very nice day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Birds argue.

Senior ole person who has a long-sleeved shirt on today, Don the Ford

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

November 11, 2024

            Good morning to all, and we want to thank all the veterans for their service.

            I have gone to the burrito place this morning and procured a couple burritos. Now I did not get these for the kids, just me and my favorite wife, due to the work load today. My favorite wife is making tamales today and that is a bunch of work, and she does it all by herself. I offer to help but evidently, I am not considered as a good worker. We may be able to inform you of the number of tamales made today, tomorrow.

            We did go to lunch yesterday at the Cracker store, the food was fair but not as good as expected. On the other hand, the server was excellent.

            My favorite wife has been making sweets for the coming holidays, such as cookies, fudge, and peanut butter bonbons. One day soon she will want to start removing the fall decorations, then installing the Christmas decorations. That turns out the be a lot of work, heck just getting the decorations out of the shed and bringing them to the garage, is too much work for an ole senior person.

            I did pick up a few acorns yesterday and I did put a couple flower pots with plants in them, into the so-called hot house. One was very heavy, but I was able to get it in. We have one very large flower and pot, and I will need help with it. Since we have not received any rain lately, I did water the black berry beds, and I will need to see that the lawn sprinklers are turned on as we are still in the dry mode.

            We were able to sit outside yesterday for a while, but our ole sit out schedule has changed due to the time change. We have a shorter amount of time before the sun goes down.

            Well, I did get the Alex to school this morning and he had his military clothes on, the ROTC will be marching in the veteran's day parade. The parade will be on TV starting at 11:00, so I will attempt to watch it and see if I can see Alex. I suggested, if he would "march out of step" it would be easier for me to find him in the group. He said no thanks, he would be in step.

            Different topic: our new light that is on top of the flag pole works as expected, it even worked at night after it was cloudy all day, just a little less bright. I left the flag up all night last night and it is up this morning in honor of the veterans.  

            We hope you have a good day, stay productive and be safe in all you do.

Tamales be good.

Senior ole person who tasted the meat that goes into the tamales, 😊 Don the Ford

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

November 10, 2024

            Good Sunday morning to all, we hope you have a wonder filled day as you enjoy, or ignore, my posting. Let me know if you want off the mailing list, I don’t present anything exciting.

            Well, as one might know the Don and his favorite wife usually head into Waco on Saturday morning about 11:00am, to get a bite of lunch, and then stop by the cheap store to see if they can find any good deals. In order to meet that schedule, and we know that ole seniors must stay on schedule, the Don needed to get started early.

It was a very cool morning with the temp in the upper 50s. The Don wanted to remove the leaves from the front yard and before he could start on the removal he would need to get the debris out of the yard from the windy afternoon the day before.  The Don got his ole person stick picker up and a 5-gallon bucket and proceeded to the front yard. Now the Don has a short-sleeved shirt on and the temp in the 50s made him feel very uncomfortable as he picked up sticks from the yard. At one point he moved out of the shade of the trees and into the warm sun light which revived his ole body, aka warmed him up. The Don needed to empty the 5-gallon bucket twice during the stick picking up time.   

Debris removed the Don headed to the shed and got the walk behind mower out. After checking the oil and adding gas he took the mower with the grass catcher attached to the front yard. the goal was to remove the leaves not mow the grass, but he soon noticed that the grass was a little taller than he thought, so he was doing both. It took a while but he was successful, and the yard appeared to have been manicured. The Don does good work!

Mower put away, leaves that were in the street were swept up, the Don proceeded to get his favorite wife and head out to Waco for lunch. They made it safely to the sandwich shop and had lunch then they headed to the cheap store where the only thing they bought was one pound summer sausage stick, and that was for the Dons enjoyment. 

Back at home after a short rest period, the Don went outside and butchered (trimmed) some flowers in pots in prep of putting them in the hot house. There are now 8 flowers in the hot house even though we have not been predicted to have freezing weather. There are several other flowers that need to be moved, and with a few I will need help as they are very heavy. Basically, I can put most of the flower pots in the wagon and pull them to the hot house all by my ole self. 

Different topic, we did sit outside yesterday afternoon with a friend, the weather was good but the new time change has shortened the time outside and soon the weather will make it even less time outside. The sun was down by 5:30 and it was dark at 6:00.      

            Today we will likely go to the cracker store for lunch, that way we don’t have to cook and clean up after. I might work on getting a couple more flowers into the hot house.

            Well, I have taken up enough of your time, we hope you have a good day and be safe in all you do.

Senior ole flower trimmer who might need a nap after writing this, Don the Ford

 

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

November 9, 2024

Wow, we are into another weekend, looking forward to another exciting do-nothing day! we would like to wish everyone a good morning and hope all is well with you.

            As some of you know they were predicting rain and possible storms for all of central Texas yesterday. We are thankful that we did not get any storms, we would have liked to have gotten some rain, but, that did not happen. My favorite wife and I did sit outside for a while yesterday afternoon, the wind began to blow very hard and it looked like it might rain. I think I have a photo of the possibility…

            Then, with this large storm cloud that appeared the wind continued, it became cooler and then the rain passed by us leaving this small cloud.

            If you look closely, you should be able to see the moon, well you can only see half the moon, and you should be able to see the buzzard floating around over our homestead.

            I did remove more acorns from the front yard yesterday, and speaking of acorns, when the wind began to blow like crazy, we could hear the acorns falling from the oak trees on to the roof and then dropping to the ground. I need to get the tree limbs removed from above the roof.

I did gather a few more acorns than usual yesterday, but the leaves on the ground make it more difficult to see the acorns.

            Today, after we venture into the City of Waco, I have two possible goals. One is to start trimming some of the flowers in pots and putting them into the hot house, and I might get the walk behind mower and use it to remove some of the leaves from the front yard. I would first need to pick up the twigs that have fallen from the trees in the front yard.

Yes, you are probably right, that is too much work for an ole senior person.

I guess I could get started early and then have the afternoon to rest. We hope you have a good day and please be safe in all you do.

No rain, more work.

Senior ole person who might work to hard today but probably not, Don the Ford

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