MORNING ROLL CALL L JUNE 2026

[DaveMcK]

MORNING ROLL CALL JUNE 2026

Top of the morning to everyone on this First day of JUNE 2026

Happy Birthday to all of our JUNE Birthday membs.

[LaDolceVita]

@Therapist4u   Well I am happy that you liked my eclipse joke.  Did not realize that  the order of the posts were not in the order  I am accustomed to seeing.  Glad to see everyone's posts again.  Still  a few we have not heard from.

BTW trumpet vines have not come up yet and may not come up at all!  They were not cheap either.

[Therapist4u]

Hi again @LaDolceVita

So... AFA "Still a few we have not heard from."

Dave @DaveMcK is busy posting something nearly every day....I just replied to one of his yesterday too.... & he also kudoed one of my other posts recently! And I just replied to Lee @LeeS4949 an hour ago. So besides you, Lee & Dave...I’ve interacted lately with some of the other BEST PORCH PEEPS: @catwoman500 @MsStretch  

But haven’t heard from Froze! @Frozenoem

t was on April 9th....so I hope he sees this.... & decides to come out of hibernation...LOL!

AFA ‘Trumpet vines’....I’m sorry to hear they ain’t behaving like they supposed to...so I’z a wundrin....are you considering planting other things...like other pretty plants....some herbs or veggies,.... or even some bushes against the house there?  Also it looks like you have an excellent place for hanging plants from the upper slats...or ‘rafters’ I see.

Anyhoot....

Had to add some levity to this pic....

 ”who is this?” (it’s hard for me to see but .....the black ‘thing’ under the windows ....it looks like a doggie lying down)....

and ....(the white thing) ....it looks like “it’s coming up nicely” LOL...

Hope you’re doing well!

As always...Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[LaDolceVita]

@Therapist4u  Still laughing here, but that is Janie and I have a really good picture I will be posting ofher & Tiggy as soon as I have a minute.  Garden on its way I hope, but we are still messing with baby chicks, 12 of them.  Forgot to post pics of them, but that is coming also.  BTW I hope the Frozen one is OK too.  

[Therapist4u]

Hi again @LaDolceVita

Happy Mother’s Day to you,

and your family as well!

Hope you’re doing good!

As always...Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️ 🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[Therapist4u]

Hi again @LaDolceVita

Glad you got the humor of  ....(the white thing) ....it looks like “it’s coming up nicely”

....& Look forward to the pics of Tiggy....now I know what that “black ‘thing’ under the windows” is...LOL!!!

Hope you’re doing well!

As always...Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[Frozenoem]

@SummerOnTheWay1 

Sometime between 2:30 and 4:00 pm,, haven’t had a watch in few years..that’s was what was suggested on weather, went out when dark was coming.

Froze

[Therapist4u]

Hi @MsStretch

Good to know you at least got an 87% view!

Did you take any pics..that could be shared??

That said...I wouldn’t say I had “eclipse fever”....more like the old commercial....WHERE’S THE BEEF?!!?! ... WHERE’S THE ECLIPSE?? LOL!!

As I mentioned to Dave @DaveMcK Our mostly cloudy day hindered all but a few moments to see it! ..& with short windows of partial clearing...while using a friends ‘eclipse glasses’ ...It was more like a ‘tease’...it was hard trying to share glasses!!...“there it is...no it’s gone...wait there it is again...”...& yet the few glimpses were incredible....

Anyway...as always take care!

☮️  🌄 ~Allen  🌈 🎨

[Frozenoem]

Allen,

Next time if you don’t have glasses or filters try a pinhole camera, I think Boy Scouts or ? Taught me that decades ago, had to look it up this year just in case.

It’s not a direct view so, no eye damage.👍

Froze

[Therapist4u]

Hey  Froze! @Frozenoem  Good to hear from you!

Thanks for replying...& trying to help!

Yes I had looked into making a box w/ pinhole...but it was at one point trying to rain & did a little....but the clouds were so thick that it seemed like another ‘bust’...LOL! And then I saw my neighbor & she said...hey Allen....come over here...& shared her glasses...& lo & behold...between cloud covers there were moments of enough clearing to see it for short moments..at least I can say I saw it! Ha!

In 2017 our whole condo complex was prepared & it was so cool!

I slipped out to go to a quiet place to be by myself! And shortly before total...& for a whole bunch of minutes...it was dead quiet...all the birds stopped flying around & nothing from the usual ‘chirpers’....they KNEW something was up!...& then when it got the darkest...there was an eerie atmosphere..hard to explain...but it was almost ‘creepy’...kind of pickin up on what early  man must have felt...of course for them ....before they mapped the stars & moon & made sundials etc...it must have been a WTF moment....of course they didn’t know that expression yet! HAHAAA!!

Anyway,

Stay safe....&... ‘WAHM’ LOL!!

Take care!

⛷🏒☃️☮️~Allen 🌈 🎿 ❄️ 🏂

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[MsStretch]

@SummerOnTheWay1 , during a full eclipse, it turns to night which confuses birds and all wildlife, so yes, they generally stop their tweeting and chirping and flying.

[Therapist4u]

DUNNO...You’d have to ask the birds>>>>📢 🐦📣🕊🦅🦉🐦🦆 

...LOL!!

That said (with a smile...😃 HA!)....

this time it wasn’t as quiet...or eerie...

due to it was mostly dark anyway...

& because of very little actual....

‘eclipsing’ <<<new word LOL!

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[Therapist4u]

Thanks Nicole! 🙂👍

I would ask you how was your experiences...but then I saw the:

“@MsStretch , I have NEVER seen one and DO NOT plan to. ENJOY!!!”

BTW: HI TOO @MsStretch LOL!!

Hope y’all are doing well!

Take care!

☮️  🌄~Allen 🌈  🎨

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[Therapist4u]

Thanks for askin @SummerOnTheWay1....

I’m.....GREAT😀

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[LeeS4949]

 All my life.. Got me an auto maker a few years ago, I set it the night before and its ready when I get up. Just have to plod to the kitchen and pour..A little milk and a squirt of French Vanilla and Im good to go.

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[Frozenoem]

@SummerOnTheWay1 

My notifications of new posts were always dated 2021 despite the actual year of posting.It was like AARP never changed the time and date stamp on their servers.

Beyond that I can’t really speak non-geek. Need to speak to a Windoze or Dos user. Not happening  this month my computers are busy, all of them.

If you have a Windows or Dos computer with bios that hasn’t booted in years and battery is dead on motherboard. Then you’d need to boot to command prompt and enter date: and Time: to bring it into this century.

About as non geek as I can go!

Froze

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[Therapist4u]

Hi Nicole! No IM from you

Also, while you use a phone to access AARP & can see & respond to posts instantly... I have a phone but no data!

I only have an old messed up laptop & I do lots of stuff on it & then I leave....so if I don’t reply soon it might take another day...I'm not ignoring you...I'm here only a short while & that delays responses to you...also my hands hurt too much after a lot of typing so I have to stop for a while.......try to send IM again since I'm here for a short bit more...OK?

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[Therapist4u]

NO PM....make sure you have me listed as a friend

go to my Quick Links if already a friend then use that send PM link from there

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[Therapist4u]

OK....try again later tomorrow

I just need to know that its working

I also was trying to reply to a message yesterday

but a notice said "that has been deleted"

and some posts that you had kudoed

by the next day were taken back..they were

UNKUDOED...LOL

I couldn't figure out what was happening

[Therapist4u]

wow..I just realized somehow the ignore user link button was on...listed as "remove ignore" in the pic I just sent...

so I fixed that...& try again

[SummerOnTheWay1]

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[Therapist4u]

unfortunately it was short lived...back to few & random notices☹️😒

[MsStretch]

@catwoman500 , I heard about the NJ earthquake!  Glad you are all right.  Reminds me of the one in VA several years back.  Same thing, I wasn't sure what was happening until I looked outside and saw everything shaking.  I've lived in CA and Japan and know about earthquakes, but you just don't expect them on the east coast.

@SummerOnTheWay1 , are you back in VA?  Thought you moved to FL.  Sorry if I missed something.