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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
    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
      catwoman500
      Contributor ⭐⭐⭐
      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
        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

          smoothfox
          Contributor ⭐
          June 14, 2025

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

            LisaS961881
            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 🏠☀️

              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
                MsStretch
                MsStretch
                Community Champion ⭐⭐
                June 13, 2025

                And we are back!  Thank you @DarrylL35959 !

                 

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

                  catwoman500
                  catwoman500
                  Contributor ⭐⭐⭐
                  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
                    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 🏠⛱️☀️

                      KellytheBelly
                      KellytheBelly
                      Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
                      June 12, 2025

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

                      ⭑ ๋࣭ ⭑... ⌞What the GLITCH!⌝ ... ⭑ ๋࣭ ⭑(っ ͡ ͡° - ͡ ͡° ς) Made of flesh and bone, not chips and blips.
                        LaDolceVita
                        LaDolceVita
                        Contributor ⭐⭐⭐
                        June 3, 2025

                        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
                          LisaS961881
                          Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
                          June 5, 2025

                          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
                            MsStretch
                            Community Champion ⭐⭐
                            June 2, 2025

                            @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
                              DaveMcKAuthor
                              Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
                              May 28, 2025

                              Good night everyone!

                              Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
                                LisaS961881
                                LisaS961881
                                Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
                                June 2, 2025

                                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
                                  DaveMcKAuthor
                                  Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
                                  May 23, 2025

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

                                  Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
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