MORNING ROLL CALL DECEMBER 2024

[DaveMcK]

MORNING ROLL CALL DECEMBER 2024

Top of the morning to everyone on this 1st day of DECEMBER 2024.

Happy Birthday to all of our DECEMBER Birthday members.

[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 🌈 🎿 ❄️ 🏂

[Winter2024]

2 comments (Monday 4/9/24 7:51pm ET)

@Therapist4u , do the birds stop flying each time or just the one in 2017?  🤔

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[MsStretch]

@Winter2024 , 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!

[Winter2024]

3 comments (Sunday 4/8/24 9:24pm ET)

That is AWESOME that you saw it @Therapist4u !!!

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[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 🌈  🎨

[Winter2024]

1 comment (Monday 4/9/24 7:55pm ET)

I am doing good @Therapist4u and hope you are too.

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[Therapist4u]

Thanks for askin @Winter2024....

I’m.....GREAT😀

[Winter2024]

1 comment (Sunday 4/8/24 8:09am ET)

☕  ANY COFFEE DRINKERS OUT THERE?

I am one and buy the regular instant coffee, Walmart brand. Then add their version of sweet & low. Then LOTS of creamer (Hazelnut or French Vanilla). At age 66 this year, I can drink it at bedtime. Lol, NO longer keeps me awake as it did when I was a youngster.  🙄  I now drink it for the taste!!!

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[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.

[Winter2024]

1 comment (Friday 4/5/24 9:25pm ET) MAIL ALERT!

@Frozenoem , what was the "issue & fix" - I cannot remember, but I was around with my OLD account 2019 to 2021.  👵

YOU WROTE: Heck I was thrilled when someone actually fixed the you got mail alert that was dated 2021 or 2022 for years.

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[Frozenoem]

@Winter2024 

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

[Winter2024]

6 comments (Friday 4/5/24 8:29pm ET) Inquiring Minds Want To Know!  🤣😂

Hi Allen @Therapist4u , did you receive the PM I sent you TODAY? Sent: ‎05:42 PM ET.

Take Care,

Nicole 👵

[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?

[Winter2024]

4 comments (Friday 4/5/24 10:29pm ET)

@Therapist4u , I was offline. Just sent AGAIN.

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[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

[Winter2024]

1 comment (Friday 4/5/24 10:57pm ET)

Hey Allen @Therapist4u , here is what I was sending you = that I do not kudo here in the Front Porch but know you like getting them = donot take it personally. Lol, they all know I don't.

Gosh, all porchers have received my PMs. In fact @Frozenoem and myself have been chatting all day.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know. Not in the mood to FIGHT with this site. Lol, way too much troubleshooting.

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[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

[Winter2024]

1 comment (Friday 4/5/24 5:38pm ET)

@Therapist4u , I am glad things are working for you on the site. 👍

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[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.

@Winter2024 , are you back in VA?  Thought you moved to FL.  Sorry if I missed something.

[Frozenoem]

About the only tremor I ever felt in Maine, was a dainty changing moment, was jacking up my camp and Jack partially crushed my ring and me.I know it’s ez enough to put ring on mandrel but, it’s kinda a CYA everytime I look at it.

To date all fingers are still attached and kinda work, besides it’s my favorite and most often used finger to use in southlands.

Now time for happy pills and food enjoy

Froze

[Therapist4u]

 Hey  Froze! @Frozenoem

More happy pills 4 U!! HAHAAA!!

[Therapist4u]

happy pills

 for Froze @Frozenoem  ..LOL!

Take care!

⛷🏒☃️☮️~Allen 🌈 🎿 ❄️ 🏂

[Winter2024]

3 comments (Friday 4/5/24 1:47pm ET) BIG BRO!  👴

@Frozenoem , what is causing all these earthquakes in places they NEVER use to happen?  😱😱😱

Climate Change? 🤔

Take Care,

Nicole 👵

[Frozenoem]

Shucks my background doesn’t cover everything only enough to be dangerous.

check out -

Earthquake 

I only know what to do when the ground starts shaking, go under a table And hang on to it.Door frames or out in the open hunker down and hang on.In a car fasten seat belt, and go when shaking stops.

To date I’m lucky New England has relatively inactive plate lines.BUT, man in his infinite wisdom NOT!

Is screwing around with Mother Nature between climate change, mining, drilling etc, 

Froze

[Winter2024]

1 comment (Friday 4/5/24 3:45pm ET)

@Frozenoem , then @MsStretch posted about one that happened here in VA!!!  😱😱😱

Lol, I was feeling safe.

I know Florida had a few RECENTLY.

Oh well, when it is my time to go, I am ready. Seems nowhere is safe from Natural Disasters anymore.

Take Care,

Nicole  👵