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MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 13, 2025

And we are back!  Thank you @DarrylL35959 !

 

🪑Time to pull up a chair and get comfortable again.

catwoman500
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 14, 2025

Hey, Porch Peeps, 

Yikes! Guess I have been away from here for quite a stretch! I had no clue there was a problem with this thread! Glad to see it's ok. My pages seem to go in backwards order, but I did find the most recent posts.

Just wanted to let anyone who's interested, that Grantchester, Season 10, starts tomorrow night on PBS...at least on my local PBS station.

You all take care, and I hope to be back more often! 

LisaS961881
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 14, 2025

Thanks for the Grantchester info!  I just checked my local PBS schedule, and Season 10 starts up here on the 25th. 😀
…..A few weeks ago on PBS I stumbled upon the first episode of ~ A French Village ~ , and I am hooked!  It’s not a new series (2009- 2017), it’s French with subtitles, and seems to have great reviews, but I had never heard of it.  ….just wanted to share this in case other PBS stations are offering it.  (I enjoy these hidden gems too - like ~ Professor T~. and ~Seaside Hotel~).

 

So happy that the porch is back,

          Lisa 🏠☀️

DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 14, 2025

Glad to see that AARP was albe to restore the Morning Roll Call thread.

Enjoy everyone!

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
Contributor ⭐
June 14, 2025

Apologies here.  LIterally just stumbled onto the Front Porch.  Do I sign up or register?

LisaS961881
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 14, 2025

Hello! 
   Great to see you!  Everyone is welcome here.  I’m a “newbie” myself and found this cozy place just a few months ago in the same manner that you did!

I just started posting and was quickly embraced by other members of this forum.  They are kind and genuine people.

Please just pull up a chair and chat.

   ~ Lisa 🏠☀️

MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 15, 2025

@catwoman500 , glad you missed the 'drama'.  I know I was in the middle of posting when I got "Access Denied" and the Front Porch was gone.  But it's back, and all is good now.

 

@smoothfox , welcome. 👋  No sign up or registration necessary.  Just bop on in and make yourself comfortable.. 

catwoman500
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 16, 2025

Charlotte busy building her web.

 

Hey there, Porch Peeps.

Hope this shows up clear enough for you to see the sparkle. Yesterday morning after the night's rain, I saw this web on my coneflowers. It looked so cool. Today the web was complete, but since it hadn't rained (for a change) there was no sparkle. You can't see "Charlotte," but she was right there in the middle of the web.

LisaS961881
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 16, 2025

Thank you for sharing this.

 

Ah, “Charlotte”….I remember my 8 year old self crying while reading the description of her passing, but ultimately the book had a joyous ending.  Because of Charlotte, Wilbur lived a long and contented life with Charlotte’s children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren keeping him company, ❤️

 

As Wilbur so aptly put it, “the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.”

 

~Lisa

DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 18, 2025

Good morning everyone! I hope you are enjoying your first mug of coffee today!

Have a great day.  I am sure enjoying my first mug of coffee on this Wednesday morning.

 

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 18, 2025

@DaveMcK , ... and my second mug, too.

MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 18, 2025

Thought I'd share my bony patriotic kitties. 🐈🇺🇲  They dwell at the end of the driveways always ready to greet passers-by with holiday greetings (whatever holiday that may be). 😁

 

----Happy 250th birthday, USA!

 

LisaS961881
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 18, 2025

I simply adore these! 🇺🇸

what a great idea.  My Halloween skeleton cats and kittens have been “resting” in the basement, but I am going to bring a few upstairs, and have them don some festive patriotic apparel. 🐈💥 

~Lisa 

DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 20, 2025

Hope you are enjoying the first day of summer. If is going to be a hot one!

 

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 20, 2025

 

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catwoman500
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 20, 2025

Summer in a little less than 4 hours here!

Lost power last night at 5:30 as storms rolled through. Still don't have any. First test of the generator I had put in in January. Loving the peace of mind! 😻

LisaS961881
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
June 21, 2025

I hope that by the time you read this, your power is back on! ❤️

….and fingers crossed that the generator did its job too!  (We had the warning up here, but missed the outages and wind damage by 40+ miles.)

Take Care and am sending hopeful thoughts your way! 🙏🌈

~ Lisa

SummerOnTheWay1
June 20, 2025

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June 22, 2025

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LaDolceVita
Community Champion ⭐
June 23, 2025

Hello Porchers  hope you are all well.  @SummerOnTheWay1   You know I love to read and watch PBS so always check out your various entertainment threads🙂.   Still reading Magic Mountain, believe it or not,  reading 2-3 pages per day.  No time for TV, not even Max Miller's youtube channel on these long summer days.  No sauna even.

 

Hubby's knee is very slowly healing, not making the progress he should.  He is conscientious about PT and home exercises plus swimming at  the old folks' gym we both go to.  He still needs pain meds,  hurts 24/7.  

 

Dogs and chickens are well, and now I have more chores with the chickens.  They dont retire for the night till 8:30 and I am dead on my feet by then.  We have banana peppers, okra and tomatoes and if it stops raining it will be hard to keep them going.  Planted asparagus and garlic too but they will take a few seasons to mature.

 

Had my perm today and look a bit like an older version of Little Orphan Annie.  Quite a bit cooler than having that shoulder length hair on my neck.  Now you know all that is going on in my world!!