August 7, 2025

                  Good morning to you. We hope you have a very nice day. The sun's not up yet it's still dark outside as I get started on this soon to be wonderful short post.

                Allow me to briefly summarize what I did yesterday, which was very little other than getting the boy off to football practice picking him up afterwards getting him home safe. I goofed around at the house I did water the potted plants as they needed it, we did take the time and sit outside yesterday afternoon enjoying the hot weather yes, we had the big fan huh.

                Big plans for today are to pick Alex up after football practice, try to get him home safe and sound and then head to the doctor's office for my review at the skin doctor. After that I need to go by the bank and get my $8 stipend for the week and then my favorite wife and I will likely go out to supper tonight also known as date night.

                Well, it looks like I'm going to have to mow the backyard myself this week, again. Alex has a football scrimmage game on Saturday. I have to work again? I don't know if I want to mow it tomorrow or wait until Saturday, we'll wait and see.

                Well, I wish I had something to tell you, but I don't, we hope you have a really good day and that everybody stays safe in all we do.

Do nothing… Don the Ford

Donald Ford 

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

August 6, 2025

                Well, I have started another day early this morning, I got the boy dropped off at school safe and sound although he's all tired from the training workouts that they've been doing. When I was leaving to go get Alex this morning, I noticed in the sky there's one big star, our planet, very bright and then another one close to it which is I would say normal size. I assume the big one is a planet that's close to us.

                Allow me to say good morning, we hope everybody is going to have a good day.

                Let us see yesterday: I mowed the front yard yesterday, and I mowed it at a new angle. Normally I have three different directions that I would mow, each week mowing in a different direction, but yesterday I tried a different direction, and I have a photograph of the lawn mower facing in the direction that I mowed.

                To the one person who is looking at the photograph, if you look to the left of the lawn mower you see areas that I've mowed to the right you can see the grass before it's been mowed and I'm mowing on an angle instead of straight up and down. I did get the yard mowed, I did get everything trimmed, I did get all the grass blown out of the street and it looks pretty good for an old senior person's work. I should say that I have put the new air cleaner on the walk behind mower, and it starts easier and really runs nice for an old lawn mower. I do have a second photograph it is a selfie of me standing in front of some blooms.

                I was able to get Alex home safe and sound after football practice yesterday, even though my lunch was about 45 minutes later than normal. I was able to survive.

                My favorite wife and I sat outside yesterday afternoon. We didn't need the big fan, but we had a small fan working for us. One of our neighbors dropped by on her way home and talked with us for a little while and then she headed home, and it was just me and my favorite wife sitting there in the quiet neighborhood trying to relax our old senior bodies.

                Today I have very little in the way of plans.

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

Lawn man Don the Ford

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

August 5, 2025

                It is another good dark morning but since we're all alive and kicking I would say it is a good morning. Yes, I Have had another early start this morning going to get Alex and taking him to school. As I said yesterday, he had to be there at 5:30 to start getting them taped up and dressed up for the football practice.

                It is kind of odd when you drop someone off at school and it's still night not even close to being daylight, the sun wasn't even close to rising. Another part to this is I'm supposed to pick him up about 11:00 this morning, that is after the practice and normally, I have my lunch at 11:00am, so what am I going to do, starve to death, probably.

                What was I able to get done yesterday in the way of yard work, not a lot. I did pick up sticks out of the front yard after the storm came through yesterday morning, we had a lot of wind and 1/2 inch of rain which means I did not have to water the blackberries yesterday and I did not have to put water in the flower pots either and I did not have to have the sprinklers running this morning nice.

                Big plans for today other than trying to get Alex home safe and sound after football practice would be to mow the front yard and then trim it. Mowing is easy the trimming takes more time and is a little more difficult in that you have to put more effort into it.

                There have daily been a lot of cars at our neighbor's house, he is on Hospice and not doing very well. Many friends and family members come over and visit and are showing their love for him. We keep him and the family in our prayers.

                You didn't ask and I shouldn't tell you, but I did go get a cup of coffee this morning at the star coffee place and I have it here beside me as I am dictating to this computer.

                I do have a photo of Some Moon plants in the backyard that were blooming, they only bloom at night and the little white blooms go away in the daytime.

                I will stop for now. We hope you have a very nice day and please be safe in all you do.

Was I mooned? Don the Ford

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

August 4, 2025

                I will start off with, is it a good morning, or, is it still a good night? Why do I ask that? I will tell you. My favorite grandson Alex has football practice today and for the next two weeks, that is until school starts. The football players were asked to be there at 5:30 in the morning to get ready for practice and practice starts at 6:00am. Sunrise is around 6:30 in the morning.

                I set the alarm on my phone for 4:30 AM I set the alarm on my alarm clock for 4:35 AM. My phone went off at 4:30, But I was awake earlier than that waiting for the phone alarm to go off. I crawled out of bed and got my clothes on, did some things like brush my teeth, feed the dog, take my morning pill, you know all the normal things I do each morning, and then I jumped into the pickup truck and called Alex, I told him I was on the way and headed over to his house.

                I arrived at Alex's home at 5:15am. He was ready to go so we drove carefully over to school, and I dropped him off at 5:30. There were plenty of young men (aka boys) going in to get ready for football practice. I then headed up to the Star Coffee Place to get me a cup of coffee. Yes, the star coffee place opens at 4:30 AM in the morning so I got my coffee and drove back home.

                I'm sitting here in front of this computer giving it the words rather than typing and I started this message about 6:00am. I just looked at the clock and it's about 6:15am now and the sun still is not up.

So, what do I do now do I go get in my easy chair in the front room and attempt to take a nap? Tres the dog just come in here and looked at me and wanted to know why I'm talking to myself, he doesn't know that I'm talking to the computer.

                Do I have any plans for today? I do need to get out in the back and water the blackberries since we're not getting any rain although, right now they're saying there's some storms coming this way and if the storms do get here and give us some rain, I won't have to water the blackberries. The weather guy said that the storms might keep the temperature about 8 or 10° below normal today so that would be great. I will also need to water the flowers in the pots as they dry out quicker than the flowers in the ground. I will need to go get Alex from football practice at about noon and then who knows what else we'll do.

                Well, I guess I will stop for now and allow you to go do something else other than read this. I will see if I need to take a nap or… We hope you have a good day, be safe and all you do, and keep all the old people in mind and in your prayers.

Early riser. Don the Ford

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

August 3, 2025

                Let us get this day started off with a good morning to you.

                We did very little yesterday other than, our normal run into Waco to get a sandwich, then go by the cheap store where I purchased a small cable for my TV here in the office. We came back home and sat outside with a friend yesterday afternoon. That was pretty much the day yesterday.

                No big plans for today, since this is Sunday, we will likely go out for lunch and returning home we'll probably sit around and do very little unless somebody comes over, which is not likely.

                Wow, that was a big blog. We hope you have a good day and stay safe in all you do, please be nice to at least one person.  

Day of rest… Don the Ford

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

August 2, 2025

                Good morning from me to you but not to that other person, wait a minute, let's be good and say good morning to everyone, even that other person. Is there another person?

                I guess we'll start off with "what did I do yesterday". Well, I did go out and trim the areas in the backyard which did take about 45 minutes and even though the sun was not up shining down on me at that time my shirt was sweaty so since I was already soaking wet with sweat, that is soaked, I'd go ahead and ride the riding mower and mow the backyard. Yep, I got it mowed and trimmed, and it looks pretty much as good as if Alex would have done it, it's nice work.

                I then entered the house and went in and got in the shower where I cooled down and cleaned up. After finishing the shower, I thought to myself what time is it, it was 10:00am so I said do I want to go get a cup of coffee. I always want to go get a cup of coffee, but I decided this time to make a cup at the house and not go anywhere.

                Coffee made I sat down and started reading from the Bible and I'm into Revelation again which for some of you know that's the last book in the bible. I was reading and started getting sleepy even though I had my cup of coffee, so I stopped reading, went into the front room got on the old recliner and zonked out for about 30 minutes.

                Awake I went back and finished my reading and about that time my favorite wife came home from town, and I helped her carry a few things out of the van into the house that she had purchased. The rest of the day was pretty much take it easy and do nothing but kick back rest from all that morning work.

                We did sit outside yesterday afternoon with the big fan blowing on us, no friends came over it was a nice quiet afternoon other than one phone call that my wife received while we were sitting out there. It was a pleasant afternoon until we heard Thunder and then we decided that we're going to go get on the front porch, we thought it might be going to rain, but it did not rain.

                Big plans for today are we'll probably go into Waco at the sandwich shop and have a sandwich for lunch. On the way home we'll stop at the cheap store and go in and see if there's anything that we need or want and then return home and kick back and take it easy the rest of the day.

                One of our neighbors is on Hospice and is not doing very well at all, we are keeping him in our prayers.

                Well, I will stop for now, hope you have a good day try to be safe in everything you do and be nice to old people, we need it.

Sat-all-Day Don the Ford

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

August 1, 2025

                Good morning to you our day is starting off nice and warm we hit 102 yesterday supposed to get pretty warm this afternoon with the possibility of some rain.

                I'm not sure what I'm going to do today, I'm considering going out back and doing the weed eating in the backyard. I don't know if I'll mow the backyard today or if I'll wait and mow it tomorrow. I have learned that Alex will not be able to come over today and work as he's going hiking with a friend, and tomorrow he and the family are going to a water park for a day of fun and relaxation. It looks like I get to do all the work myself and that means I save a few dollars wow.

                If I am going to go trim the weeds in the backyard I should get started now before it starts getting hot. It usually takes about a half hour to 45 minutes to get around everything back there then I'll have to decide if I want to wait and mow tomorrow or mow today.

                Yesterday afternoon I decided to go to the big home store in Waco and see if I could get an air filter for my walk behind lawn mower, they had none, so then I went to the farm store, they had none, then I went to a Do it Best store, they had none, then I came back to Hewitt and went to the Ace store and they had one. Why didn't I go to the Ace store before I went all the way into Waco to all those other stores and found nothing?

                We sat outside yesterday afternoon after we got home from our evening meal, and it was nice with the big fan running, we had no friends come over and visit, all alone by ourselves enjoying the quietness of the afternoon.

                I will stop for now and try to get started outside if my old body will let me, we hope you have a good day we hope everyone has a safe day. Please be nice to everybody you're around.

Weed trimmer Don the Ford

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

July 31, 2025

                Well, it is the last day of the month and even though it's the last day of the month we hope you have an excellent day today filled with kindness and good friends.

                Well, it's going on 9:00 and I've been outside trimming the number 2 BlackBerry bed. Yes, I had blood on my arms and stickers. Did I get done, nope did I get a bunch of it, yes, I got a pretty good start, but it's got a lot more to go. When I get done with the trimming I will need to get on my hands and knees and get the weeds out of it. Yep, and that's just the first one there's two more after that. I have a photo of the results of my work.

                No big plans for today. After I get done with this I'm going to head over to the bank and get my $8 stipend for the week they go by the pharmacy and pick up my prescription and then I might also go by the star coffee place and get a free cup of coffee. I was supposed to have got a free cup the other day and I told the lady this one's free and she went ahead and charged me for it and I didn't know that until I checked my online card amount, and I found out I still have a free 1 coming so today I'm going to get me a free one and I'll make sure it's free I'll ask for a receipt.

                This is Thursday which is our go out for supper night so also known as date night, so we'll do that later this afternoon and then come back in the 100° temperature and sit outside and talk about nothing as usual. It was 101° here yesterday and we had a big fan on us when we sat outside which sure helped.

                Well, I will stop for now. I hope that you have a good day filled with kindness and be safe in everything we do.

Black Berry stickers, Don the Ford

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