MORNING ROLL CALL OCTOBER 2025

[DaveMcK]

MORNING ROLL CALL October 2025

Top of the morning to everyone on this First day October of 2025 

Happy Birthday to all of our October Birthday members.

[DaveMcK]

[catwoman500]

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]

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

[DaveMcK]

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

[MsStretch]

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]

   I loved this idea so much that I did indeed kit out some bony cats and their dog friends in patriotic gear!   Thanks for the idea of adding a touch of whimsy to my yard in the Summertime too!  🇺🇸💥🏠 🐈

   ~ Lisa

 

[catwoman500]

@MsStretch ...very cute! 😺

[LisaS961881]

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 

[MsStretch]

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

[DaveMcK]

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.

[MsStretch]

@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]

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]

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

[catwoman500]

@LisaS961881 ... as a first-grade teacher for 35 years, there was not a year I didn't cry when reading that book to the kids. 

[LisaS961881]

A kindred spirit!  

…I taught 38 years Elementary Special Education.  ❤️

I will readily confess that my voice cracked, I rapidly blinked and sniffed a bit, and brushed back rears each and every time that I I read the description of Charlotte’s passing to my students.  Over 73 years after these words were written, they continue touch our hearts.

…..” ‘Good-bye’ she whispered.  Then, she summoned all her strength and waved one of her front legs at him.

She never moved again.

 Next day, as the Ferris wheel was being taken apart, and the race horses were being loaded into vans and entertainers were packing up their belongings and driving away in their trailers, Charlotte died.  The Fair grounds were soon deserted.  The sheds and buildings were empty and forlorn.  The infield was littered with bottles and trash. 

Nobody, of the hundreds of people who had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all.  

No one was with her when she died. “

[smoothfox]

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

[LisaS961881]

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 🏠☀️

[DaveMcK]

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

Enjoy everyone!

[MsStretch]

And we are back!  Thank you @DarrylL35959 !

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

[catwoman500]

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]

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 🏠⛱️☀️

[LaDolceVita]

@LisaS961881  and hello everyone, so glad to see you back.  I loved Seaside Hotel.  Have not heard of A French Village, but I hope it comes to streaming.   I dont have much time for TV but I will look for this.   I love Hotel Portofino, partly for the scenery, they will return in the fall I think.   I miss Doc Martin for their great scenery!  

[LisaS961881]

Goodness yes, Doc Martin and Hotel Portofino!  Both such cozy escapes!  I don’t watch TV that often - maybe two or three shows a week, but when Doc Martin ended, I quite honestly missed the characters!

~ Lisa 🏠

[KellytheBelly]

Hello! So cool you got this back! I was rooting for you @DaveMcK  et al.  ;-D 

[LaDolceVita]

HI folks, I am still alive and doing well mostly.  I lost another dog, 12 years old two weeks ago,  totallly unexpectedly.  Did not know anything was wrong till the morning walk.   This has happened twice before with older dogs,  the result of lung cancer.  

@LisaS961881 @MsStretch  I am so glad you are keeping up the  porch visits.  Thishas always been a nice place to visit and maybe complain a  little😉.

[LisaS961881]

Oh, I am so sorry for the loss of your faithful companion.❤️. 
I too enjoy this cozy place on the porch.

I will share that, on a peg to the right of my back kitchen door, hangs the collar of my childhood dog.  After she passed away when I was in college, my father couldn’t bear to remove it from its place on a hook in the garage.  When my parents downsized, I took the collar and hung it at my back door.  Its bow might be tattered and its colors faded, but my memories of her unconditional love are bright and clear. 🌈

I am currently loved by a 21 year old rescue - an affectionate purring love bug who no longer hears.   When she passes, I intend to adopt another special needs senior companion, or hopefully a pair.  

….take care

~Lisa

[MsStretch]

@LisaS961881 , I love this idea of giving back for "wedding presents". 🥰 This actually put a smile on my face on an otherwise indifferent day.  That, and your peonies. 🌺😊 

[DaveMcK]

Good night everyone!

[LisaS961881]

I hope everyone had a fun weekend! 🌸

We just had a lovely, cozy three-day wedding experience that I wanted to share.  While I have attended a few of those “ in lieu of a gift, please consider donating to ****”, this wedding had a thoughtful “twist” on that concept. 

in the invite, we were all asked to “give back” in some manner - whether it be of our time, our skills, or our funds.  The choice was ours to make.  We were then requested to let the couple know what had done with the couple prior to the wedding.…

….Then, over the course of the festivities, this lovely pair would periodically share some of the collective “gifts” (One snippet I distinctly remember, “ a local food pantry was cleaned from top to bottom, lonely shelter dogs were walked and cats were cuddled and read to, and a women and children’s shelter has received dozens of pairs of new socks.”

….

It was such a collectively heartwarming experience, and we all focused on the small ways we could make our own tiny piece of the world a bit better.

…

I came home to some peonies still blooming after the drenching rain, and am sharing those too!

~ Lisa

[DaveMcK]

Lisa glad to hear that his knee replace went well. I've been there and done that in 2009.