September 10, 2025

                Good Wednesday morning to you and that other person too. We hope you all have a good day.

                Note: yesterday's post had a word spelled incorrectly. Two people read the post and advised me of the error; I did correct the error.

                Yesterday's events: I was able to get a cup of coffee and then go pick up Alex and take him to school on time and safely. When I arrived back home, I decided since it was cool I would go ahead and work in the ditch trying to cut down a bunch of the ditch weeds. I decided to work for about an hour or until the gas in the weed eater ran out. I do have a photo of the work that I did, it's a little hard to see but it shows that I did do some work in the ditch. I would like to get the entire ditch trimmed.

                After lunch my favorite wife and I went to the store to get some items like oil, and fire ant killer. In the past I have used a fire ant killer that I would spread using the spreader and cover the entire yard. That fire Ant killer worked and would keep our yard free of fire ants, although the neighbors' yards would have fire ants in them. This fire ant killer works for about 6 months then you have to do it again. I also purchased a couple bags of dirt so that we can finish transplanting a couple flowers.

                Back at home my favorite wife and I did sit out on the front porch taking it easy for quite a while waving at people as they drove by and talking about all kinds of interesting things. I did remember that I needed to water the plants out in the back yard, so I got up and did that as my favorite wife continued sitting on the front porch taking it easy. Plants watered I went back and sat on the front porch with my favorite wife again. Finally, about 6:00 PM we headed in the house to have a bite for supper and prepare for a good night's sleep.

                Plans for today: after I take Alex to school, I may very well go out in the ditch again and work out there for another hour or so, seeing how much I can get done. It is cool again today so I should be able to do an hour or so of work getting a bunch of the weeds cut down. I have a couple other small projects I need to work on; one is the light on the trailer, I need to see if I can fix that and I need to find out how to mix the oil and gas for my chainsaw. We will likely use the chainsaw to try to remove more of that stump that's still in the front yard and Alex wants to cut down a 10-foot-tall stump out in the backyard, that's been there for several years. So, once I show him how to use the chainsaw and then I will keep a close eye on him when he does cut the big stump down. I did tell him he would have to carry all the pieces and put them on the trailer; I am not helping carry.

                Well, I guess I will stop for now. We hope you have a real good day; be safe in all you do.

Ditch trimmer Don the Ford

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

September 9, 2025

                Yes, it's me again here with a few words from what I did yesterday and what I'm not going to do today, and I would like to say good morning to you.

                Yesterday's events uncovered: yesterday I did not have to take Alex to school, so I sat around the house for a little while, then I decided why not go out and mow the backyard since it's still cool and the sun was not up yet. I got the backyard mowed and trimmed but the sun did get up before I got done, the yard looks pretty good it was a lot of work and then I rested.

                Without a lot to see on TV or to do, we sat out on the front porch, that is my favorite wife and I for several hours yesterday afternoon doing nothing other than talking about the neighborhood and waving at a few people who drove past.

                I did go to Bible study last night and it's very odd we go to our class while the women who haven't been there in the past, are there now. They go to the main room while we go to class. Then we change places with the ladies in the class rooms and the men in the lecture hall. The big problem as I see it is, the parking lot was so full it was hard to find a place to park with Both men and women meeting at the same time. We seem to have a real good Bible study group, so I think it'll be nice this year we'll probably learn some things.

                Today's events: I will attempt to get Alex off to school safe and sound and on time, after I get a cup of coffee. When I return home, I have been thinking about the possibility of going out and working in the back ditch for about an hour trying to get rid of some of those weeds. It's fairly cool this morning, with a temperature of about 60° so it might be a good thing to do early.

                Well, I guess that's all for now. We hope you all have a good day and stay safe in all you do.

Yard man Don the Ford.

May to day be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

September 8, 2025

                Good morning to you from The Don here in Hewitt Texas. I am here at the homestead entering data on this computer wondering why I am not dictating instead of typing. Also, I do not take Alex to school today as his father is off work and will take him.

                The truth will set you free! I now have the truth, and I will tell you about it, it is odd that I will even admit that I might have been wrong. In my statement the other day I had a brown spot on my hand and I told you that I was using a tool that was in the shed that had not been used for years and that it stained my hand brown. Well, that stain has gone away and yesterday I learned the true meaning of where that stain came from. You will see later in this wonderful posting the work that my grandson and I did yesterday and while doing that work, I discovered the reason my hand was brown last week.

Last week while removing debris from the front yard, I had picked up a couple pecans and I'd carried them in my right hand while I was picking up other debris. Yesterday while working in the front yard, I picked up a couple more pecans that the squirrels had dropped and carried them over and put them in the trash. Later as I looked at my hands, I noticed that these pecans would turn your hands brown and no, you don't wash it off it wears off. Now you know the truth a pecan stained my hand last week.

Yesterday's work defined: yesterday after lunch Alex came over and we worked on removing a tree. This is the soft-shell pecan tree that I had planted years ago and if there were no squirrels taking all the pecans from that tree, we would have kept the tree. Due to the squirrels taking all the pecans last year and this year again, I decided that I would not feed the squirrels anymore and we would remove the tree.

I had thought that I would take a picture of the tree before we started and then the area afterwards, but I failed to take a picture at the beginning, we were partially done when I got the pictures, photos to follow.

 

       The first 3 pictures show the work we were doing; we had already cut down half of the limbs off the tree when I took the first pictures. That's Alex our yard man working. The third photograph shows the area after we cleaned up and moved the trailer away, we were done the tree was gone. I will provide a couple more photos for my enjoyment.

 

                In the above photos we see the first photo of Alex still working on the tree and this is a perspective from where I normally sit in the afternoon. The second photo is also from where I normally sit in the afternoon, but the yard is cleaned up. As you can see the third photo is of the loaded trailer which will be hauled off on the next limb and trash day, yes, it is loaded. Alex did a really good job working there, yes, I helped.

                Today's possible events: do as little as possible and stay out of trouble. I need to look at the backyard as it has not been mowed yet so I might have to do that. Old people have to work all the time. Our Bible study does start this evening, so I need to prepare for that.

                Well, I'm going to attempt to stop for now. We hope you have a very good day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Tree trimmers Alex and The Don

May to day be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

September 6, 2025

                Well, it is a good rainy morning, and we say good morning to all.

                The rain seems to have delayed or stopped our mowing process; I was going to have Alex come over this morning and mow the backyard and maybe do some weed eating out in the ditch but with the rain I guess it's stopped. Alex and I have talked about removing the small pecan tree which would take a chainsaw and some work, but I don't know if we want to mess with that unless it stops raining then I guess we could work on it.

                Let's review yesterday: I did a couple things yesterday one thing I tried to do was to re-pot a small rosebush, but I could not get the Rose Bush out of the old pot. The old pot is glass, so I had to be careful. I decided to wait a few days and let it dry out, the dirt was damp, and it would not let go of the pot. I think it is sitting in the rain right now maybe I can go move it out of the rain. I was also working on the piece of plastic that I wanted to use out at the hot house. I was able to use the table saw and remove the quarter inch of plastic along the whole side. It wasn't a perfect cut, so I used some sandpaper to smooth off the rough spots. I carried it out to the shed, and it will fit in the slot now that it has a reduced size by 1/4 inch.

                That work took about 1.5 hours, and I decided that I would go ahead and mow the front yard since I was not sure whether Alex would be able to come over today or not. I did get the front yard mowed, and it looks pretty good. I did not trim it I was going to let Alex do that when he mowed the backyard. That work completed, it was almost 4:00 which is time to feed the dog and the cat and to get ready to go outside and sit. I usually head outside about 4:30 in the afternoon with my chair and everything set up and just make my happy time waving at neighbors as they drive by. Since it was Friday one of our friends did come over and sat with us and we had some pretty good conversations about a lot of things including some biblical comments.

                Let us change the subject: since it's raining, I'm assuming that the mowing is totally off for the day, we've already received more than 1/4 inch of rain, so I think that stops the mowing and the weed eating out in the ditch. I'm not sure how long this rain is going to last, it seems like it's going to keep going for a long time. If it was to stop and give us a little bit of dry time, I might get Alex to come over and we would cut down that pecan tree that is feeding the squirrels.

                We will still try to go into town today at lunchtime for sandwiches even though it's raining and we'll probably stop at the cheap store and not buy anything just look and see if there's something we need.

                I'm going to try to stop now, kick back and take it easy and let the rain pour. We hope you have a good day and stay safe in all you do. Try to be nice to everyone.

Mooned… Don the Ford

       Mooned had a different meaning in the olden days.

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

September 5,2025

                Good morning to you, you are my favorite person and I want you to have a good day.

                Let us see what yesterday's events were: I was able to get Alex to school on time, I was able to get myself a cup of coffee from the Star Coffee place. I did make it back home OK, and I did take a short nap. Getting up from my nap I got ready to go to the bank where we had some papers notarized and then we headed back for home where I dropped my dear wife off then I went down to a different insurance place and tried to get a price on some insurance.

                Later in the day I decided I would go down to the license Bureau and get the city sticker for my wife's van and see if I could get some handicapped license plates. If my favorite wife had gone with me, she would have some handicap license plates but since she didn't go and I did not have her driver's license number at all she did not get the handicapped license plates. We did get the sticker for the car but not the plates. They said we could come back in four days with the paperwork filled out with her information on it and get the handicapped license plates. We'll see if I want to do that or not.             

                Later in the afternoon my favorite wife and I went to the Georges restaurant for supper, also known as date night. The food was good the service was a little slow because they had a lot of people there. Returning home from supper we sat outside for an hour and a half and did nothing. No friends stopped by, very few people drove by that we knew that we could wave at. We saw a bird at the bird house. It's the first time we've seen a bird there in about a month.

                I decided I would come in and work on this a little bit which will make it easier in the morning when I get up, I don't have to hustle so much.

                New topic: I would like you to think about this just for a moment or two. Why do people cross their legs? If you watch anybody male or female as they sit down, they will usually cross their legs. I do it and you probably do too, but the question is why do people cross their legs? I have thought about that, and I don't know why. I know why women cross their legs different than men, assuming they have a dress on, so you don't see their rear end but why do both men and women when they sit down cross their legs? If you come up with that answer let me know, I'd like to know what it is.

                Well, I need to get going and get Alex over to school. When I went to get him yesterday, I called him 7 times on the phone, and he did not answer. I got to his house, I went to the back door and knocked on the door, he did not answer. At that point I started to worry, I was walking around to the front door but as I walked past the window to his bedroom I stopped and beat on the window to his bedroom several times. That is when I received a call from Alex saying I was asleep. I asked, "Are you ready to go" and he said he was, he just fell back to sleep after he got ready to go to school, so he came on out and we got him to school on time no problem.

                I asked him if he could come over and work on Saturday morning and he said it kind of depends, because he's applied at a restaurant and he might need to go in and talk to them. I guess he wants a job there and does not want to work for me. OK, it's not a problem, we'll work that out.

                I do want to experiment on a problem: a problem with the plastic for the hot house to see if I can cut it with a saw, so that is part of my plan for today. There is a rose Bush out there that I need to replant. I'm not sure exactly where I want to put it but I do need to replant it. I guess we'll just kind of play it by ear and see what happens today.

Leg crosser Don the Ford

May to day be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow.

September 4, 2025

                I would like to say good morning to you, I think we will be having a hot afternoon even though this morning is a cool 69 degrees.

                Yesterday's events: I really did not do a lot, I got the boy to school on time and safe and sound, I did go check into insurance and get some more prices on different car and home insurance. I did go to the shed and check a few tools that I had used the other day as I had found in the palm of my right hand a brown stain. This stain came from using a tool the other day when I was messing around out there with the so-called hothouse. I have a brown stain in my hand that I've tried to wash out with soap that doesn't help. I used alcohol that doesn't help, it's going to have to be worn out it is really in there. I found the tool that I had used that had a brown wooden handle on it and that is where I must have got the stain, It is the only tool that I use that had a brown wooden handle. That tool had not been used in years, and I assume that the stain that made it brown was on the outside of the handle when I picked it up and as I used it, it absorbed into my hand. This morning the stain looks a little less dark so I assume it will wear off in a few days.

                My wife and I sat outside yesterday afternoon. It was another nice quiet evening of waving at a few people as they drove by on their way home.

                Today's possible events: I may check with another insurance carrier for prices I do need to go to our bank and get some papers notarized I will need to pick up my weekly stipend I might go down to the license Bureau and see about getting my wife's sticker for her van. If I go to get the sticker for the van, I will take her license plates with me and see if I can get some handicapped license plates for her van. That way she won't have to use the hanger on the mirror all the time.

                I have a photo of a blooming flower which I like and I'm going to post it here.

                I am going to stop for now and try to get ready to go get Alex and take him to school we hope you all have a good day, stay safe and all you do.

Photographer Don the Ford

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

September 3, 2025

                I would like to wish you a good morning, but it is late afternoon on Tuesday. As I have started working on this article it is 6:40 PM on Tuesday so I don't know if it's a good morning or not, but we hope you have a good morning and a better day.

                So why did I start out Telling you it was a good afternoon. Well, my wife had suggested to me that I should do something tomorrow morning that I haven't done in probably a year. What is it that I haven't done in a long time? It is, "go to the food place and get Bacon egg and cheese breakfast burritos". Now I will need to go early to get the burritos and then get back home in time to be able to go get Alex and take him to school. Why do I want to go so early? Because of the school traffic, after I drop Alex off, it is terrible traffic. I would not have time to do this posting in the morning, so I am doing it in the afternoon.

                So, what did I do yesterday: well, I didn't do a lot, I did go to the skin doctor, and they removed all the stitches that were in my nose. I'm not sure how many but I'm pretty sure it was around 10 stitches. The nurse that removed them did it very well with no pain at all. They do want me to come back later in about 3 weeks and that way they can work on smoothing out the sides of my nose, so they look the same, although I think they look OK now.

 I went out back and attempted to replace the one panel on the roof of the so-called hot house. I got the new piece of plastic that I had bought and cut the end off to make it the right length. Then tried to install it without removing 1/4 inch off the side. I did get it installed but it was so tight that the clamps that hold it in would not fit so I knew I had to take it out and still remove 1/4 inch off the side. As I attempted to remove it, I broke it, which made me feel terrible, and I put everything away and came to the house.

                Later I thought I'm still going to go ahead and cut 1/4 inch off the side of that and I'm going to take that small piece that broke off and attempt to super glue it back in place and go ahead and use that piece of plastic.

                Yesterday's event we did sit outside for a while and enjoyed a quiet afternoon. It wasn't too awful hot we did have the big fan running, there was very few people who drove by so we didn't get to wave at that many people. The neighborhood was very quiet and even the birds quietened down, about the only thing making noise are the squirrels.

                Well today Wednesday I will try to get the boy to school on time and safely after I have hopefully gotten the burritos this morning and I might go check on insurance for the house and the cars since they are very expensive and coming due.

                Wow, ole people never get to rest we've always got something we must do. I'm going to try to stop for now. We hope you have a very good day and that you stay safe in all you do.

Workaholic, Don the Ford

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

September 2, 2025

               It is a good morning even though the sun is not up yet.

                Yesterday's events: Yesterday was a holiday so I drove over to the star coffee place for a cup of coffee. Back at home I did very little since it was a holiday I wasn't supposed to work. I got a couple naps during the day. Sitting there in a chair with nothing to do, nothing to watch on TV, I decided to go out in the front yard and pick up debris.

I don't think I informed you that we received a little over 1.5 inches of rain and there was no water standing in the yard. The rain was appreciated.

I noticed that the squirrels have been eating or trying to eat our pecans. Under the pecan tree and on the driveway, I picked up at least 20 pecans still in the shell still in the green cover that the squirrels had dropped when they were trying to eat them. I have come to a decision that I will cut down the small pecan tree since we did not get any pecans from it last year, and it appears we're not going to get any this year. I will cut it down I will not allow the squirrels to have pecans and us not get any.

                My favorite wife and I sat outside for a while yesterday afternoon, it wasn't as hot as usual. We had the big fan set up, but it wasn't running since we had a light breeze. The neighborhood was very quiet I assumed due to the holiday; nobody was driving by our house. My favorite wife suggested that I go over to the chicken place and get us some chicken for supper which I did, and it was good.

                Today's events: as usual school is back in session, I will attempt to get Alex to school safely and on time I will get myself a cup of coffee and then come back to the house and get myself ready to go to the skin doctor to get the stitches removed. I don't really have any other big plans than that, so today might be a boring do-nothing day. I do need to attempt to cut that sheet of clear plastic and see if I can install it on the hot house. There are a couple flowers that need to be repotted but that would be a lot of work.

                Well, I guess I will stop for now. We hope you have a good day and that we all stay safe in all we do.

Squirrels…  Don the Ford

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