MORNING ROLL CALL 2023.

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(1 comment) Hey Dave @DaveMcK , I am looking forward to your NEW Morning Roll Call 2023 picture for JUNE.

Lol, maybe we can get Froze @Frozenoem to pose for you!/lol 🤣😂

Hmmm Froze (senior moment), did you post about finding your rx? I am "presuming" all snow should be gone by now? 🤔

Nicole 🙃

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No posing for photo’s from me , not happening. I did post my old log cabin photo’s with me up a cherry picker trying to remain in the basket at around 50’ up.

Rx was found and returned by 12 year old and parent,👍Unopened thankfully in very soggy packaging. The good bit is FedEx now delivers to my porch without nastygrams required.

The snow here is gone with the first temp’s in the upper 90’s presently enjoying 50-60’s for next week or two. Cooler temps in Summer or black fly season are welcome especially with most breezes blowing away state insect.

Which means flies can be dined upon by tree frogs etc. and not by all of the wildly waving citizens trying to escape the constant buzzing of nearly invisible black fly, mosquitoes and horse flies. Pinhead sized bugs that leave largest welts and have most in the woods slathering on Deep woods Off or Skin so soft. And spraying on Windex or Ammonia concoctions to relieve the constant itching for forgotten bites.

Hope all enjoy their weekend, I’m escaping to Rangeley area despite the rains, have appointment with solar array and new Lithiums not being lugged by me🤣.

Froze

And yes, after long days/nights, I'd still like to swing these hunks of glass , plastic and silicon against the nearest wall Come on retirement!

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(1 comment) DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE AARP FORUM(S)? 🤔

I do! 👍

This is my 2nd time joining this Community Board.

1st time was when I turned 50 BUT was still working = so NO activity here.

Then when I retired July 2020, got ACTIVE then p.ssed off and left (October 2021), didnot RENEW my AARP membership which had EXPIRED July 2021.

What folks may not realize, you CANNOT "delete" your Community Board Profile or the stuff you post. That stays on here FOREVER! 😱

(November 2022) This time, 2nd round - I ONLY "registered" to USE this Community Board. I get the SAME discounts through my Premiere (the most expensive plan, my Old Lady -2006 Hyundai Elantra) AAA. So NO need to sign up AGAIN for another AARP Membership.

And THIS TIME I stayed AWAY from Games and Awards. That is what had p.ssed me off/lol 🤣😂 Way too "busy" to be begging AARP to fix stuff and ranting.

This time I "explored" several forums, ran into some KARENS/lol. 🙄

Made a QUICK exit and never returned to some forums.

Nicole 🙃

LaDolceVita

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@Anonymous I used to be active in the Health & Pet forums. Met @Frozenoem a long time ago asking questions on the Tech forum. We had a Book Club sort of thing going for many years titled What Are You Reading and I still miss that. We had huge interesting input from many well read folk. I read all kinds of books which were out of my comfort zone and it was fabulous. Now I am back to reading comfort reads 😏. At least it does not make you fat.

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(2 comments) Lol @LaDolceVita , I "snack" while I read, so.... 🤣😂

Nicole 😉

LaDolceVita

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@Anonymous HAHAHA. Do you really or is this just a funny? BTW, I really did laugh.😀

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(1 comment) iPAD QUESTION FOR Froze @Frozenoem and Ms. Stretch @MsStretch (NO rush in responding).

Is it okay to continue to use Safari on it? 🤔

I really do not want Chrome on it but use Chrome on Android.

Heading FINALLY to go dig it up so I can ADD a "folder" to my "free" GMAIL email set up.

And DELETE a "folder" I NO longer use.

What a pain = can't do this on my Android GMAIL setup. 😭

Wonder IF this will ever change? 🤔

Hope you are well @catwoman500 🤎🤗

Thanks, Nicole 🙃

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As long as you continue to update your iPad it’s safe to continue to use Safari, you’ll receive updates to Safari magically.

Re: Gmail if you created the folders you can delete them, If gmail created the folders like Inbox Don’t.

Re: Maine creatures vs FL , I’ll keep Maine’s cheerfully, we don’t have any poisonous snakes, it’s too cold. Mosquitoes in the Everglades are more vicious than blackflies or our local skeeters.

Last time I tent camped in the glades, I had to use 100% Deet to keep the blighters at bay. The next time it was easier to ignore the tent and just bring the motor home.😎

Froze

And yes, after long days/nights, I'd still like to swing these hunks of glass , plastic and silicon against the nearest wall Come on retirement!

MsStretch

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@Anonymous , @Frozenoem answered your questions about Safari, but just to add, you can use whatever browser you want. Safari is a Mac/iOS browser just like Chrome is Google/Android, Edge is Windows. I have five browsers installed on my iPhone including all of the above, but my default is Opera.

Also, just curious, are you using a browser to access your email? Might be easier to just install the Gmail app or use the Mail app rather than go through the web. There's an app for everything! 📱

@LaDolceVita , déjà vu, I remember the Books and Pets forums. I guess the Community did away with a lot of them and consolidated. I used to visit the Rock & Roll forum regularly, but it's all games now. Yeah, they can be a fun diversion every once in awhile, but I quickly lost interest.

DaveMcKAuthor

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Yes I am a little late as it was a long holiday weekend so I'm posting now.

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper

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(5 comments) Nice job Dave @DaveMcK !!!

Nicole 🙃

catwoman500

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Hello, Porch Peeps!

@Anonymous, @DaveMcK, @MsStretch, @Frozenoem, @LaDolceVita, and anyone else who is just stopping by.

June already? Hard to get that in my brain. Feels like I'm still stuck back in April.

Haven't even gotten my porch cleaned with the furniture still uncovered and ready to use. Getting harder each year.

Tomorrow, the 3 of my friends and I who have birthdays between 5/15 and 6/25 (me) are going out to lunch. We're going to a place I've never been even though I've lived in this area for 40 years, the Washington Crossing Inn.

Washington Crossing is a PA town on the Delaware River and it's where George Washington crossed the Delaware on Xmas night and marched into Trenton, NJ the next day to defeat the Hessian soldiers in a surprise attack. The Battle of Trenton, 12/261776, was the first major victory of the Revolutionary War. (Just a tad of history for you all.) You can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can't take the classroom out of the teacher. 😻

Hope you all are well. Take care!

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(1 comment) Thought of you Froze @Frozenoem at Walmart today.

There was this RV in parking lot and of course I had to go check it out. HUGE!!!

Last week there was ANOTHER one and the owners were loading it up from their shopping cart.

So you know already what I did.

Yes, went over!

GRATEFUL they were OLD like me/lol 🤣😂

Anyway they were "friendly", a couple on their way to pick up "grandkids".....

So back to TODAY! 🙄

I ran into the CUTEST "furbaby" 🐕 with daddy. And YES, we had some "doggie" bonding. And guess what!! They belong to the RV!!!

Now that was mean't to be.

Hmmm, anyone into RV's? 🤔

Nicole 🙃

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Have had 4? RV’s one a converted Grayhound bus, owned with my partners for a cross country photo shoot. One a 40’ Class A, Followed by a Class C Travelcraft 27 foot, and last one was a Lance Truck camper that one was my favorite a 4Wheel drive that got 29 mpg, when diesel was relatively cheap.

Had a group here, “camping” which lasted 3-4 years??for newbies who grew weary of camping in tents on the ground in sleeping bags or on cots. There always one pesky rock in the middle of my back. Which was my best reason for switching up to RV’s.

Real beds and two dogs always with us, we’re our reasons for traveling by RV. The dogs were aging as were we.But after losing a transmission in Chester, PA and again in Lester, PA we opted for putting the Lance in the bed of pickup and driving that for 350,000 miles with no breakdowns.

Finally traded the camper for a boat, and bought a camp on 2 lakes, know the dogs loved both after renovations were complete.

Froze

And yes, after long days/nights, I'd still like to swing these hunks of glass , plastic and silicon against the nearest wall Come on retirement!

MsStretch

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@Frozenoem , @catwoman500 , how is the air looking up your ways? Pretty hazy down here in VA. @DaveMcK , are you seeing any of this? The sun is totally hazed out today. In fact, there have been times in the past few days when I've detected a barely imperceptible smell of smoke. At first, I wondered who the heck was burning something (there are plenty of fire pits around here), but I guess it's apparent now. @Anonymous , you got out of Dodge just in time.

Speaking of pictures of reenactments, that would probably be me posting them, @Frozenoem . Especially during the sesquicentennial (2012-2015), since I basically followed the Eastern theater of the Civil War from Fredericksburg to Appomattox with 2 cameras and a videocam in hand. 📷📹 There were plenty of commemorative programs, living history, and YES! reenactments! (I regret I missed Gettysburg, but I was working then.) Wandering through the Union and Confederate camps and talking and interacting with the soldiers was great fun. I was even offered and tried some hardtack (c-r-u-n-c-h yuck!) and fried corn. And of course, I met most of the generals from both sides and had some very interesting and enlightening conversations. But, alas... CW reenactments are all but gone now, except maybe Gettysburg. They still do artillery and arms demonstrations, but not the same as experiencing the "heat of the battle".

@catwoman500 , I have even 'met' George Washington at his boyhood home in Stafford Co. I was so excited. (Like a little kid. 😁) Quite the learned man.