Chapter 4 Time Travel Understood 11.05.15

Welcome back to my understanding and my questioning of, “Time Movement”.

Allow me to again state, “Time travel” is not possible, but we will pretend that it is possible, in order to create this conjecture.

Let us consider the possibility of a person going back in time to meet himself.

Let me provide a brief description of the fellow. He was about 5 foot 9, rather plain looking, with the exception of his flaming red hair, and was a loaner. Let’s call this person, “Freddy”. He was not able to maintain a long term friendship with anyone, even as a child he was not liked by other kids. Although he was not abused as a child, living in orphanages did not help his self-esteem.

Did I note, that he enjoyed abusing and even killing any small animal he could get his hands on?

Freddy worked as a night maintenance person in a California state ran scientific laboratory. This is where the time movement machine was conceived and eventually built. To define maintenance worker, he was a janitor.

Being one of several janitors on the Campus, Freddy had access to many of the laboratories, one of which had the time machine in it.  

The scientists had made many test movements going back in time from fifteen minutes up to two days. They had sent various animals back and forth with what seemed to be no ill effects.

Their plan was to send one of the physicists back in time next Monday December 2nd. That is the Monday following Thanksgiving, a four day holiday.  They all agreed that the long holiday weekend would provide a needed rest period before their first human time movement experiment.    

Understanding all that, there is one other small thing that might be of interest. As a twenty seven year old adult, Freddy has murdered 3 people over a two year period of time, and now he wants to go back in time.

Freddy wants to convince himself to not commit the murders, allowing himself to live a normal life free of the worry that the police may come knocking at his door. With that reason in mind, he has decided to attempt to go back and meet himself.

The time machine is a capsule, with many wires and devices inside and outside. Although it was a very technical unit, Freddy had overheard one of the physicists say, “it is simple to operate, just enter the date and time that you want to go back to, the unit does the rest. To return to present time one would enter the word return and the computer will do the rest”. 

Wednesday evening, the day before Thanksgiving, Freddy had cleaned all the rooms and was finished with his nights work. He proceeded to the time clock and punched out, knowing if his time card indicated he was still working, someone would come looking for him.

Freddy quickly and quietly returned to the lab after punching out and entered the time machine. He turned on the computer and after a couple minutes all was ready. The computer prompted him to enter a date and time.

He had given this some thought and he decided to go back in time to three days before he had committed the first murder. He believed he could convince himself to not commit the murders but he thought it might take some time to do this. He planned to return within two or three days, in order to keep the scientists from knowing what he had done.

He entered the date and time, then pushed the enter button on the computer and everything instantly went black, and just as quick everything was light again.

Had it worked?          

Had he and the time machine disintegrated and reintegrated that quickly?

Was he in the past?

Freddy climbed out of the machine and looked around. Everything seemed the same. He was still in the lab. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. The phones date and time being controlled by the cell provider should indicate the correct date and time.

The phone date and time were resetting. Freddy was in fact back in time two years and eighteen days.

Now he would need to go to his old apartment and confront himself. Freddy carefully left the building trying not to be seen by any of the night security people. 

He rode the bus to a stop close to the apartment and then walked the last three blocks. Freddy climbed up the flight of stairs and walked to his door.

Freddy two was in his apartment playing a video game alone, as he has done every evening for a couple years. Freddy had spent many hours playing video games that allowed him, in a virtual reality setting, to satisfy his need to kill monsters and people.

Freddy one knocked on the door but Freddy two would not open the door, and he said he was going to call the police if he didn’t leave! Freddy one was not worried because he knew Freddy two didn’t have a phone. Freddy two had no friends, so who would he talk to. Freddy one tried everything he could think of to get Freddy two to open the door, but to no avail.

Knowing his routines, he decided to leave. He would wait until 8:00 pm which is the time that Freddy two would leave the apartment and walk to the corner quick shop where he would purchase two hot dogs that have been cooking way to long, a bag of BBQ chips and a grape soda.  

Freddy one waited in the shadows, just outside the quick shop, for Freddy two to arrive for his evening meal. As soon as Freddy two was inside, Freddy one followed him in. The lady at the cash register was astonished to see an additional red haired person who was identical to Freddy, enter the quick shop. She said out loud, “Twins?”

That comment caused Freddy two to turn from the soda machine, he was surprised to see someone who looked exactly like himself, standing at the front door.

Freddy two said, “Who the heck are you”?     Freddy one said, “I am your brother” knowing that he would not believe he was from the future.     Freddy two said, “I don’t have a brother”!     Freddy one said, “Look at me, I look exactly like you, I am your Twin brother”.

The woman at the cash register decided something was wrong, and she reached under the counter and pulled out a hand gun. Pointing the gun at Freddy one, she told them both, “Get out!”

Freddy one, said to the cashier, “We don’t want any trouble, just want my brother”.  Freddy two was in total shock. He could not believe that someone who looked like him was there. 

Freddy one walked over to Freddy two and grabbed his arm. Freddy two jerked his arm away. The store employee said, “This is my last warning to you, Get Out!” They both walked out with their hands raised as Freddy two asked the store clerk, who was still pointing the gun at them, to call the police.

As the door shut behind them, the store clerk thought, “call the police, I don’t think so. The police would think I was crazy if I told them, there was twins in here and one of them wanted me to call the police. She also thought, the police might know she had a gun and she would end up in jail.  

There was a slight struggle in the quick shop parking lot as Freddy two attempted to get away from Freddy one. Freddy one said, “Just listen to me for 5 minutes and then if you want me to leave I will”. Still unsure of what was happening with this look alike, Freddy two agreed to listen for 5 minutes.

Freddy one decided to stick with the twin brother lie, as it would be easier to believe than, “I am you, from the future”!  Freddy one made up the story that they were split up at birth and put in different foster homes. This seemed to make some sense to Freddy two, after all he was in many foster homes.

Freddy two decided that Freddy one wasn’t going to hurt him, so they walked and talked for a while, eventually returning to the apartment.

Back at the apartment, Freddy one was trying to decide how to tell Freddy two that he was from the future and not his twin. What could he say to convince Freddy two that he was from the future?  Freddy one started talking about his childhood and his later life, telling Freddy two, things that only Freddy two should have known.

Freddy one could see that Freddy two was beginning to question how he knew so much about his private past. Then, Freddy one said, “I am not your twin brother I have come back from the future to help you”. Freddy two is now visibly upset, not believing anyone could travel from the future to the past.

Freddy one said, “Get your driver’s license”. Both men compared their license information, it was the same. Freddy two still being skeptical said, if we are the same, our finger prints would be the same. Each Freddy put ink on their thumb and then put their thumb print on a piece of paper side by side. Anyone could see, the thumb prints were identical.

It took an hour or so to get Freddy two believing that Freddy one, was himself, and from the future.

That night, as they sat in front of the TV, the topic of discussion was all about what had taken place in the future?  Freddy two was interested in the killings and whether the Law had found any evidence that he was a murderer. Freddy one was attempting to convince Freddy two that he should not kill anyone.

Much of the discussion then centered on not murdering anyone so they could live fairly normal lives in the future. Freddy two not yet having killed anyone other than on the video games asked, “What did it feel like when I killed the first person”?

There was smiles from Freddy one as he told of feeling such a rush of power that came over him, as he slowly cut into the living body of the victim.

The screams due to the pain that he was inflicting, made him feel euphoric.

“There was nothing that could compare”, he said!

Having the power to, and then slowly taking the life of another, in his words, “must be what it would feel like to be in heaven”!     

Both of these creatures (so called people) were now stimulated by talking about those euphoric feelings, and they (being of the same mind) wanted to enjoy a slow and painful butchery of some victim.

To be continued…                     

Don Ford      

Fixed income! 11.03.15

For those of you who have a job and are not on a fixed income, you should be happy!

This story is about two seniors who are on a fixed income and wanted to purchase a new vehicle. You see the old vehicle had over 100,000 miles and needed some improvements if it were to be kept.

This fellow began looking for a new pickup, but everywhere he went they priced the vehicles too high for this poor person, on a fixed income.

The fellow had all but given up on getting a vehicle, when he decided to look on the Chevrolet web site. He requested a quote on a truck, but when it came via email, it was still too much for this person receiving social security, to pay. With tears in his eyes, he decided it wasn’t meant for him to get a new vehicle.

The sales person from the Chevy dealer ship called and asked what he could do to put this senior citizen in a new truck. The kind and gentle sales person, asked very nicely, if the older gentlemen could just come buy and look at the vehicle.

Believing it would do no good, but not wanting to disappoint the nice sales person, the senior drove his old pickup to the dealership. The sales person and the senior walked to the back of the lot where they kept the cheap vehicles, more or less hidden from view.

The older man liked the vehicle but knew he could not afford to purchase it. They went back to the office where the nice sales person presented the senior with a price that was getting closer to something affordable.

The sales person noted that this was the last day for sales for this month and if they were to sell 3 more vehicles they would get their bonus. He indicated they would do most anything to sell a vehicle.

What would it take to put you in this vehicle, asked the nice sales person? The senior thought for a minute, then explained what he needed in the way of price and how much he would need for his trade-in, to be able to purchase the truck. This wonderfully nice sales person left the room for a few minutes then returned and met all the seniors’ requests.

The old senior had a good credit rating which seemed to make the nice sales person happy.

The deal was made and this old senior now has a

You may have guessed that the senior is me.

We could not afford a vehicle of color so we got a white and black truck.

      

We could not afford a truck with the word Texas on it, ours had Colorado on the side.

We could not afford a full sized truck like those people not on a fixed income, ours is smaller!

We could not afford a power back window, ours must be opened by hand!

And maybe worst of all, there is a sticker on the door that indicates it was made and inspected in Missouri!

The Ford Homestead would like to send a big Thank You to everyone who sent us donations toward the purchase of the vehicle! 

“&#$@%”, in an effort to be transparent, no one sent any donations, the “Thank You” is retracted!

May your day be filled, with nice sales people!

Don Ford

Chapter 3 Time travel understood 110215

                If you could send someone into the past, their interaction, in any way, would change the future to some degree. Those changes, which would be viewed as positive changes for some, would produce equally negative change for others (for all actions, there is an opposite and equal reaction) (for all positive interaction, there is an opposite and equal negative interaction).

            If you could travel into the future, you would know of events that have not yet happened in your present day. Knowing of those events, you would (willingly or unwillingly) change things in present time, which would change the events that should have happened in the future. So the future you traveled to, wasn’t the future as it should have been, instead it would be the altered future that you have affected.

            Below we have the, “What will be, will be, effect theory”!

            Some would say; traveling into the past or future, would cause some degree of event change, and that is the way it was meant to be, thus time travel, either way, is just a natural part of past and future.

            Let us consider the following:

            Someone, a total stranger, comes to your house this evening. He knocks on your door and says, “I am a relative of yours from the future, I have traveled back in time to help you.

This person explains how they are related to you. He then says, “I want to inform you of something that is going to happen in the near future. If you listen to me, you will live another 20 years, and you will acquire much wealth.”

Would you believe the stranger, who came to your door saying he is a relative of yours, was from the future, or a con man? You would probably tell them in no uncertain terms that you believe he is crazy, leave or I will call the police!

I don’t think it would be easy to get people to believe you are from the future, unless you were to come back and meet yourself.

That brings us to the next consideration.

A man whom we will call Sam is forty years old and is married to a pretty lady whose name is Perl. Now Perl is thirty, ten years younger than Sam. Sam goes back in time ten years and he is all happy about meeting himself ten years younger.

Let’s review the cast, now that we have gone back in time 10 years.

There is Sam at 40 years old, and Sam who is 30 years old, and Perl who is 20 years old. In this author’s all-knowing opinion, the two Sam’s would initially be happy to see each other.

The younger Sam would be interested in seeing what he would look and act like in ten years. He would also be interested in learning all he could from the older Sam and the future.

The older Sam would want to tell the younger Sam all he could. The older Sam would be treated somewhat like a father figure when he was talking with himself.

Perl of the past, does she now have two husbands, one forty years old and one thirty? What happens if the older Sam decides to stay in the past?

The older Sam has the same identifications as the younger Sam. Finger prints are the same, blood type everything is the same even the SSN.

Could the older Sam stay in the past with the younger Perl, and have a wife half his age, while the younger Sam goes to the future in place of the older Sam?

In the future, the younger Sam who is thirty, would be the same age as Perl. Would Perl be happy with the younger version of Sam?

                                              

Now do I have you thinking?

Yes there will be more.

Don Ford

                                                                    

Can you believe it? 11.31.15

                Tomorrow is November 1^st, and the time to change you clocks.

            Last weekend we had 7 inches of rain here at The Ford Homestead. The grass looked better, the trees were happy and by mid-week the ground was again dry. I took a photo from the driveway, after mowing the yard, see below.

            Below we see a photo of the back yard taken from the back door.

This Friday we had 4.5 inches of rain. Friday night through early Saturday morning we received another 2 inches of rain, totaling 6.5 inches. The sum of both weekends precipitation is 13.5 inches at The Ford Homestead, and in surrounding areas there was much more.

Patrick who lives near Austin, has received large amounts of rain, probably more than we received.

David who lives in Hewitt, lost power at his house yesterday afternoon just be for dark. I find it interesting, the storm was over when the power went off. After they went out to supper it was decided that the grand kids would come to our house for the night. I haven’t talked with Dave today so I don’t know when they got the power back on.

            Below we see the grand kids playing in their room.

            It appears they have all the houses, people and accessories in the floor. Do you think they will pick them up?

Hope you enjoy and extra hour of sleep this weekend!

Don Ford

Chapter 2 Time Travel understood 11.30.15

This could be a true story, that hasn’t happened yet. It begins with scientists along with a couple computer techs, who had designed a theoretical time travel machine after several years of planning.

The time travel machine was a small unit, this device could hold something the size of a football. The unit wasn’t anything pretty, in fact it looked kind of like a washing machine. It was battery powered which theoretically would allow it to return from the past, after a set period of time, without outside intervention or power. The unit was controlled by a small computer with the thoughts that in the future, a larger unit could be built, large enough to accommodate a person.

    

It was decided for the first attempt at time travel, they would go back in time just 15 minutes. They had decided to use two stop watches, starting them both at the same moment. One would be kept with the scientists and one placed in the machine. They hoped to be able to prove the device had traveled back in time by comparing the two stop watches, one theoretically being 15 minutes less than the other. The theory that the clocks would be different is incorrect, as time travel, if it were possible, would not have any effect on a mechanical device other than move it through time.

Everything was prepared, the time machine’s computer was programmed and the two watches started, one placed in the machine then everyone went into the next room to view the process at a safe distance.

There was a short count down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, with all eyes glued to the monitors, of which there was a camera focused on each side of the time machine.

In an instant the time machine was gone. At first all was quiet, then the team began to scream and congratulate each other.

They questioned whether they should go into the lab where the machine had been located? The decision was yes, but we must be out of the room before the 15 minutes have passed. All entered the room, each walking through the area where the machine had been located. There was nothing there, the machine was gone.

The team returned to the control room and began watching the clock and the monitors. The team leader says, it should return in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and it was there.

What is wrong with this story?

Think about this for just a moment. Stop reading and think about it!

Thinking – thinking - thinking – thinking - thinking – thinking…

Ok, I will explain the hypothetical circumstances. 

If there were a time machine, as in the story above,

They would not need to send it back in time because,

The team would have already seen it work, 15 minutes earlier

In the past.

            Now do I have you thinking?

These scientists are in the present time,

They send the time machine back into their past, which is then, their present time.

They see the time machine which they have sent back, so they know it works.

The time machine leaves their present time (the past) to go back to the future, which is in reality their present time.

As you can see, they know it works, now that they know it works, do they need to send it back in time?

Could they, it they wanted to, not send it back in time, since they had already seen it come back in time?

What would happen if they knew it worked, because they had seen it come back in time, and then they decided to, “not send it back in time”? Would that cause a rip in the space time continuum?  

More to come:

Don Ford

The Grandees 10.29.15

                Before we headed for school yesterday the grandees were playing in the drive way.

            Different subject; you know how absorbent observant I am, and if the truth be known, I do absorb the things I observe. I just noticed something that I have seen and or written 984,772 times but I just now noticed. A word that starts with and ends with the same letter. No, it isn’t radar, just wait and I will enlighten. The word is yesterday. I don’t know why that word caught my attention, but it did.

            As I was trying to say before I began to absorb, the grandees were playing on the drive way yesterday.             What?              You are asking what is a grandee. Let me try to explain it this way, a synonym for grandee could be VIP or celebrity, in other words, “the grand kids”. 

            Please, try to hold your questions until I have finished.

            I asked Gabi if she had noticed that I had mowed the yard and did she think it looked good. Her reply was yes I saw the yard, it always looks like a race track. It took a second for that to sink in, see photo.

 You might be able to see the lines in the yard which in Gabi’s opinion, make it look like a race track.

            Alex and Gabi drew a couple pictures on the drive way as seen in the following.

Gabi’s rendition of the full moon. I thought it was the sun until she explained that it was the moon.

            Alex drew a cartoon person as seen below.

 I know, your first thought was, that is a drawing of Grandpa Don, but you would be wrong (even though there is a strong resemblance).

Today is rock star day at school and the kids can dress like rock stars. Alex has his hair spiked and Gabi has her hair in puppy dog ears.

Alex presents his fake smile, his dad use to do the same thing as a kid. The Gabi is presenting her, aaaaaaa, her rock start attitude!

            Very different subject, I am 80% sure that I will just keep the old pick up and give up on the new truck. It is my opinion that they are way over priced and I mean all of them. To those of you that have sent in donations towards the new pickup, they will be returned to you, ^maybe.

            It is a nice cool day here at the homestead (should be 70 at noon) and I will likely take the gold wing for a ride today collimating at the Bunk House. They have an old person special on Thursdays and being an old person who is on a fixed income, who can’t afford a new truck, and who might find some real nice road kill on my ride to the lunch, I thought it would be good for me to get out and enjoy the day. 

            The other afternoon as I was sitting in the old rocker meditating, beverage in hand, I had this awful thought. “I have been treating my Gold Wing like a Harley, only riding it once or twice a month”. I must either ride it more or sell it, Gold Wings should not be forced to sit in the garage unappreciated like a Harley. 

            For that one person who reads these well written, should I say artful in design, stories, yes I have both computers running windows 10 and I like it. My cell phone is running windows 8 so it sinks well with the computers.

            I have been turning on the HF radio lately, as a matter of fact it is on now. As I was sitting and waiting on the cable people to get us back on line I heard this fellow calling CQ (CQ is used in Morse code and by voice operators asking others to contact them).

That ham operator was in Cuba. I listened for a while and decided to see if I could make the trip to Cuba (communicate with him). I went back to the ham in Cuba with my call sign and he came back to me. We exchanged names and he said I was 5 by 9 (5 by 9 means I have a good signal).

            Although I have not been active as a ham, I find it fun, being able to communicate over those long distances.

May all your communications be 5 X 9!

Don Ford

Time Travel understood 11.28.15

            I began considering time travel while I was lying in bed, possibly half a sleep. Was I dreaming, did I receive this understanding from an, “other world source”?

It occurred to me, that I should share my understanding of time travel, with others.

            First, there is no such thing as, “time travel” (to the future or past), which is evident by the fact that no one has traveled back into our, “present day”, from the future. If there was time travel, someone would have come back from the future, and we would then know, of time travel. I will explain in more detail later.

             Has time travel been invented elsewhere? No, it has not! As previously stated, time travel does not exist.

            You may have heard of the so called wormholes and the hypothesis that, one could enter a worm hole at one point in the universe and travel through it to possibly the other side of the universe, or even to a different universe. This wormhole would be a short cut to somewhere else. The theory that one might travel, 10 light years (a light year is distance not time) in a few seconds, and even though that is distance traveled, some think it could be time travel.  I don’t!

Have we been visited by those from other worlds, using time travel? The short answer is, “No”!   Time travel if it existed, would be measured in seconds, minutes, hours and years. If one could go forward or backward in time, they would be in the same location just at a different time.

Other travel, including space travel is measured in distance such as feet, yards, miles or light years, and is movement from one location to another. We surely have been visited by others, but not using time travel. One could not travel into the future or past from, “the present day time period”, because, “the future does not yet exist, the past no longer exists.”  Traveling using any mode, (walking, driving, flying or time) one cannot travel to a non-existing location, or date.

We are in our present day time period, not the past nor the future. What was in the past is gone, and what will be in the future is not yet. Neither exist and neither can be visited!

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Just for the fun of it, let’s pretend that one could travel in time. How would this work and would there be risks?          Please allow me to explain the imaginary time travel, and some of the risks involved.

It is obvious to this author, the time traveler would not travel from one location to another as previously stated. Time travel, would be a movement through time and or dates. Why do we define it as travel, when the person does not change locations? It would be, “Time movement”.

If there were time travel, the time travel device would likely be a container of some type. The person would be inside a capsule (container), and the capsule containing the person would, by some unknown method, be move through time. 

The most likely method of time travel would be to, have the time machine disintegrate with the person in it and then reintegrate it at a different point in time. This would be similar to a TV series where the people would be transported from the space ship to another location. Their mode of transportation was not time travel, it was travel from one location to another, but it did depict the disintegration and reintegration of the people. In our time travel world, the container and its contents (person, animal and other items) would disintegrate and reintegrate.

 The main risk of time travel would be the landing (the reintegration location). The concern would be, the condition of the landing location. The landing location is, “the exact location the time traveler was in, before the time travel began”, and this is where the time traveler will be, but in a different time. 

One should understand, that movement through time is just that, and not movement in location. The “landing” would be in the exact location, where the time traveler started. 

Example #1, the time traveler (or time mover) was located at the corner of 10^th and vine, in Hewitt, TX, the year of 2020 when the time movement was initiated. Let’s assume the mover (traveler) went back in time 100 years. In 1920 there is no 10^th and Vine, there is no Hewitt, TX. Would the mover’s landing be in an open field, in a creek, in the center of a tree (where he / she is now part of the tree) or possibly reintegrated into some other object.

Example #2, the mover was located at the corner of 10^th and vine, in Hewitt, TX, the year of 2020 when the time movement was initiated. The mover went forward in time 100 years. In 2120. Would there be a 10^th and Vine, is there a Hewitt, TX. There is no way to know what condition the landing area would be in, in the future.

Let’s assume that either of the above time travelers were somehow on an automatic return to the present day time period, which would occur 15 minutes after they arrived.

Let’s also assume that the traveler was unfortunate enough to have landed in the middle of a black berry bush. This person now has part of this black berry bush, not stuck to the outside, but imbedded inside their body, due to the fact that they were reintegrated where the bush was located.

When they return to present day they still have the bush imbedded in their body because the time travel machine would disintegrate their body with the bush inside the person, and then reintegrate the combination in present day. 

As you may now understand, the principal problem of time movement would be, “what was located in the exact landing location, when the time traveler arrived”!  

            Those are the beginning facts of time travel. I will elaborate more in future instalments. 

Don Ford

What the heck happened? 10.25.15

            It was a normal day, kinda! It would be a normal day if it were normal to have 7 inches of rain fall in two days.

My first wife and I had driven to the Sunday Brunch location, (I don’t want to advertise for the Cracker Barrow so I will not mention their name) where she, my first wife, was inside shopping and I was outside sitting in a rocking chair talking with an interesting Baylor student. He said he was pre-med and he was waiting for his parents to arrive.

There were people everywhere at the restaurant, inside the building, there were so many people they were basically shoulder to shoulder. Now you know why I was outside.

There were people standing and sitting outside all along the porch. I would estimate at least 50 people waiting to be seated in the dining area.

As the student and I spoke, I must say he was interesting for such a young man, I suddenly noticed that we were almost alone on the porch. There was the student, me and three other people who were at the other end of the porch.

I pointed it out saying everyone is gone. I suggested, it may be the end of the world and we were left behind. He noted that we might be in trouble if it is the end of the world or, there may have been two large groups that went in to eat.

Lunch / breakfast was good but there was one little problem on my mind. Our internet connection had stopped working, the home phone was also out of service and the TV was working but not properly.

I had called the provider TIME WARNER, notice I am advertising their name. They charge too much for their less than great service. We have been considering changing providers and today has convinced us to start getting serious. 

Time Warner staff checked everything and said it went south last night. They will be here to fix it Tuesday morning by 11:00. That is two days from the time I spoke with them and they didn’t even say they were sorry for the outage.

Change that is not initiated by you, is always considered as bad. Consider the following;

You have a job which you have been doing the same way for years. All of a sudden they want to change the process. Almost every employee becomes upset, many will covertly try to keep doing it the same way. People just do not like change that they have not initiated.

You have been driving the same route to and from work for several years. Things change and one of the streets that you have been using is now one way. You can’t drive that way anymore, you are now upset (madder than %#@*).

All that being true, I know you have your own stories about change but I am writing this, and I don’t want to hear them.

If you were a senior retired person, who does basically the same thing, at the same time every day, when all of a sudden things change, it is almost as if you have been removed from reality and for some unknown reason living in an altered state.

That is how two retired senior citizens felt when their electronic world was disrupted. When your TV is disrupted, you have no internet, no home phone service it is similar to, taking a young person’s smart phone away from them.  Now you understand the desperation that was felt at the Ford Homestead Sunday, Monday and half of Tuesday.

I can’t post this until the internet connection is restored so, when you read this, we again have some service.

I have been looking at new pickup trucks and find;

  ü      Anyone who is retired and on a fixed income,

  ü who must pick up aluminum cans to have some extra income

  ü       who relies on road kill for at least three meals each week,

can’t afford a new pickup.

Donations will be accepted from anyone who feels sorry for a senior in my situation. I would need just a few thousand dollars, which would help put me in a new ride.

Charity will make “you” feel good!

            Monday, the day after two days of rain, I decided to spread some fire ant killer over the yard. I assumed that the yard would still be wet and the bare spots would be muddy after the 7 inches of rain.   

            I was impressed that the yard even though it was damp was not muddy, even in the spots where the grass was dead. The ground was so dry that it literally soaked up the water like a sponge. We may get another 2 to 4 inches Friday and Halloween.

            I have mowed the yard today (Tuesday). I haven’t had to mow for about a month or more so I guess it is time. I waited until the Cable Employee got here and did his work. He made a few repairs and as you can see, we are back up and running.

            The yard looks better than others in the neighborhood now that it has a nice trim job. I need a trim job too (hair cut).  

Remember, Charity will make “you” feel good! ^{I need the money!}

Don Ford