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.

[catwoman500]

@MsStretch  I had no idea either. I'll have to try that "Reply to topic" button once I try to catch up!

[Therapist4u]

Hi @MsStretch !  

Thanks for the heads up....

Since I’m not ...as they say..... “tech savvy”....(nor that smart anyway....LOL!) if we are trying to post to a specific PorchPeep...like I am here to you....the ‘tag’ is supposed to notify you, or like some get emails **(I only get a few seemingly random notifications)  & since some peeps can only come here once or twice a week,... replies may take a while) & then it does seem to get ‘lost’ in the shuffle over time....

However... if we are trying to post to a specific PorchPeep, but we post a “Reply to the topic”... then how would an ‘esteemed member’ know to look for it? ....such as yourself....or @LaDolceVita @catwoman500 Nicole @Winter2024 & Lee @LeeS4949 (& others of course) and Froze! @Frozenoem [Well...I hope he’s OK ...(if someone’s talked to, or with  him, be it a chat, a PM or phone call & could let us know, it would be a great relief!) ) & I do miss his wit & wisdom....]

(Also ...it’s always easy to post a message to Dave @DaveMcK ...as he has posts almost every day)

Anyway,....Thanks for the ‘handy-dandy hint’ info & trying to help!

Hope you, your FAM, & your adopted FURKIDS...are enjoying the nicer weather!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!

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

☮️  🌄  ~Allen  🌈  🎨

[catwoman500]

@Therapist4u ...Yes, thanks to @MsStretch for the hint. And thanks to you for your good thoughts. Like you I hardly ever get a notice that something has been posted. Just so happens 3 came in this weekend. Lots of catching up to do on my end.

[Therapist4u]

Hi @catwoman500

What a few of the good PORCH PEEPS here are finding is that without those notifications it can be difficult to find or follow replies to the messages posted to  us. And like in this post I made to Nicole  https://community.aarp.org/t5/Our-Front-Porch/MORNING-ROLL-CALL-2024/m-p/2557285#M85009  

So I’m really glad to see your post here!  Also THANKS for your kind message to me .....about the good thoughts!🙂

I appreciate all y’all! ....and am sending good thoughts your way!🤗

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

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[LaDolceVita]

@catwoman500   Clematis looks pretty.  We managed to get one trumpet vine out of three, but it is now growing in a pot.  Hopefully it will take off.

@Therapist4u   I still get an email if my name is mentioned in a post.  Not true for you?

No posts from Nicole?  APB for Nicole, where are you?  I know you are still reading and watching PBS 🙂.

[Therapist4u]

Hi @LaDolceVita I’m glad that some of y’all do get notifications from AARP about posts....Unfortunately,  I hardly get any messages about y’all...except random ones...like I’m notified of being mentioned, or received a kudo ...once for every 10...while the other 9 I don’t,

& yet I’ve never changed my settings....

always have it set  to receive EVERYTHING!

That happens even tho you or others,

had ‘tagged’ me...

Oh well....itsuxbutwhatcanIdo?!?

Lately I’ve been searching my FAV PORCH PEEPS recent posts on AARP every few days... & that’s how I saw your last ones...so I just replied to both today!

Anyway....I hope you & Hubbie...

& all FAM are doing well...

Please have a wonderful week too!

BTW: hope that  Ginger’s doing well....

after the small tumor was removed!

Take care!

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[LaDolceVita]

@Therapist4u   Tsk, tsk, do not sell yourself so short.  @MsStretch  I did not know about different reply options, always respond to individual posts.  

[catwoman500]

Hey, @LaDolceVita ... if the trumpet vine isn't working you might want to look into clematis. 😺

[Therapist4u]

Thanks @LaDolceVita

for the nice reply 🙂...

& for all the kudos!👍

 Hope you & the FAM are all doing well!

Please have a wonderful week too!

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

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[DaveMcK]

Tens of thousands without power, schools canceled after storms

Tornadoes reported west of Wausau, Wisconsin on Tuesday night, leaving widespread damage.

[catwoman500]

@DaveMcK ..Yikes!

[DaveMcK]

May 21st Storm Damage 

Here are a few images from the storm damage in the Madison, Wis area. Nowhere near the carnage of Iowa, so we got very lucky. Forty some thousand where without power. It could take days to restore power to the west side of the metro area.

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[MsStretch]

@Therapist4u , sorry I've been lax on catching up.  Belated thanks for the Mom's Day greeting even though I'm not a mother (unless you count the adopted furkids 😉). 

@LaDolceVita , l♡ved the picture of Janie and Tiggy.

@Frozenoem , take care of yourself.

Everyone, stay 🆒.  Summer is just beginning.

[Therapist4u]

Hi @MsStretch !   

Thanks for the reply!

Hope you, your FAM, & your adopted FURKIDS 😸

...are all enjoying the nicer weather! 🏖

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!🙂

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

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[Winter2024]

3 comments (Sunday 5/19/24 10:48pm ET)

I am stepping away from The Front Porch AARP FORUM and can be reached via PM or in my discussions in other forums.

I know my ladies wonder when I do a MIA and posting this so you know.

@LaDolceVita , @MsStretch and @catwoman500 it has been TOTALLY AWESOME chatting with you.  🤗🤗🤗

Dolce - I know you will stop by when you can to chat with us in my Book & TV discussions in the Leisure & Lifestyle AARP FORUM. We really enjoy chatting with you!!!  💃💃💃

@Therapist4u , we will see each other at some point in my Grief & Loss AARP FORUM discussions. In fact MC just left you a really sweet note. Yes, we luv your visits.  💃💃💃

@Frozenoem , gosh BIG BRO - I will miss you and hang in there please!!! As we age, those Old Folks Issues kick in.  🤗🤗🤗

Take Care,

Nicole  👵

[LaDolceVita]

@Winter2024   You make me laugh.  BTW, the sauna is rather hellish in this weather.  @Rebecca2004   I too am in Ga.  @Therapist4u   Will look for your posts, I just cannot seem to get caught up.

 Hubby diagnosed with sleep apnea.   Ginger, 11 year old dog had small tumor removed, not cancer so all is well.  @MsStretch  Good to know you are doing well.  OK , now going back to reading emails & posts I am behind on.

[Therapist4u]

Hi again @LaDolceVita So... AFA “Will look for your posts, I just cannot seem to get caught up.” As previously mentioned it’s still hard to find & follow posts here....even tho you had ‘tagged’ me...I still got NO notice...I just happened to search all recent post on AARP... & lo & behold I saw yours! Nicole had a suggestion, & I...have no clue. I DEF DUNNO! HA!  Maybe Dave can conjure up some thread just for us “frequent Porch Peeps” to FIND & follow posts better & comment to each other there when we can, as some aren’t able to come here but once or twice a week...

Anyhoot....MOST IMPORTANTLY.... Good to know Ginger’s small tumor was removed, & >>>>>not cancer!!! AFA HUBBIE....I’ve had sleep apnea before...but rejected one treatment that would have made me wear a tight mask every night ...with a machine & tubes & whatnot that had to be frequently cleaned...& if you have to go to the bathroom more than once at night, each time the contraption had to be carefully detached & then reattached....it can detect if ya ain’t wearing all the stuff ...as it monitors everything you do...too much crapola for me! That said, if it got more serious, I’d have to reconsider the pro & cons again....

Anyway, ....each case is different, so I’d like to hear what Hubbies Docs are suggesting.

BTW: I’M “competing with hubbie, furbabies, chickens, garden, sauna...” >>>>AND NICOLE...LOL!! 😄

Hope you & your FAM are doing well!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND to Y’ALL!!

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

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[Therapist4u]

 Hi Nicole!

@Winter2024

What’s happening is that some of my FAV PORCH PEEPS, besides you & Dave @DaveMcK, are not seeing my replies to the messages they posted to  me. For example, I wished a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY on 05-11-2024 and 05-10-2024 to @catwoman500 @MsStretch  and @LaDolceVita & don’t know if any of them saw my messages.

like in these links: to @LaDolceVita https://community.aarp.org/t5/Our-Front-Porch/MORNING-ROLL-CALL-2024/m-p/2555911#M84978

to @catwoman500 https://community.aarp.org/t5/Our-Front-Porch/MORNING-ROLL-CALL-2024/m-p/2555914#M84979

and @MsStretch  https://community.aarp.org/t5/Our-Front-Porch/MORNING-ROLL-CALL-2024/m-p/2555915#M84980

so if they happen to see this, I’ll say again:

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO YOU!

Hope you’re all doing well! Please have a wonderful week too!

Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️  🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

Also where am I supposed to start a new post within the PORCH, for peeps to see & comment if they wanted to, like to share my new flowers?

 MY NEW FLOWERS

Anyhoot.... we’ll talk again later

my 4EVAH FRIEND!

[Therapist4u]

Still waiting for pics.....

🐕Nicole🐶

LOL!

☮️  ~Allen 🌈

[DaveMcK]

Good morning to all of you FRONT PORCHERS out there! Do you have plans for a Summer vacation yet?

We will be returning to our timeshare at Lake Geneva over Labor Day weekend. Our family will be able to swim, golf, bike and walk.

We are due to have another boat tour of the lake again. 

We fix most of our meals with everyone taking turns.

[LaDolceVita]

@DaveMcK  Good for you enjoying yourselves!  Seems all I do is chores.

[Therapist4u]

Hi Dave @DaveMcK

Would some,

or all of these folks be your relatives

Hope you’re doing well!

Please have a wonderful weekend...

& a new week too!

Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️  ~Allen 🌈

[DaveMcK]

[Therapist4u]

Hi Dave @DaveMcK

AMEN!

Also let us remember all the step moms and foster moms too!

Happy Mother’s Day to you as well!

Hope you’re doing good!

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

☮️ 🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

[DaveMcK]

We are having nice weather today here in Madison,Wisconsin.

We are having a Bounty of blooming trees. Hoping you are having a nice Spring

[LaDolceVita]

@DaveMcK   Not so here Dave.  Hot and humid and miserable.

[catwoman500]

@LaDolceVita ...Rainy and dismal here. Temps have been up and down. Today they are down. Sweatshirt weather.

[DaveMcK]

[Frozenoem]

Got it, bought one camp like that, granite slabs, come along and a winch took care of it. Presently only one oak tree in green or budding out. Probably because it late Spring temp 44 and that’s with full sun.

I live but won’t be mobile for awhile, had to take a cross country ride ATV and will be paying for it, for a month or until temps remain in 60’s.Until then it’s med’s and PT.I’m not 60 anymore.

Attempted capture of Northern lights twice , not happening this time.,hope all are well, I’ll be off line for awhile movement is a nono except PT.

Froze

[Therapist4u]

 Good to hear from you Froze!! Last time we asked around.... as no one heard from you....were all concerned about you,...

in a good way of course 👍🙂HAHAA

I mentioned.....

But haven’t heard from Froze! @Frozenoem it was on April 9th....so I hope he sees this.... & decides to come out of hibernation...LOL! 

TTYL BUD 😄