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MORNING ROLL CALL! THIS ADDITION IS CLOSED

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February 27, 2019
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Good morning to everyone on the Front Porch! Welcome to March 2019. We had an overnight snow to ring in the morning. Going to be a busy day tomorrow. Remember that January-Feburary is CLOSED now.

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DaveMcKAuthor

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Northern Lights from Space, courtesy of NASA!

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper

LydiaN586309

Community Champion ⭐

Thanks Dave!

Frozenoem

Community Champion ⭐

28* and sunny, courtesy of Spring the snow is melting in driveway flowers by May?

@catwoman500

Have settled the coffee problem for now several bags of DD have arrived.

Admit it was hard to think before my first 20 ounces of caffeine, let alone debug a Network.

@LaDolceVita

The leather couch in question is just too darned soft for my liking, made more for sleeping/lounging than sitting. It has swallowed more than one neighbor.🤣

I won’t miss it when I move😇. I just prefer a nice rocker or recliner for comfort.

Time to play in the garage, need to find a scope and signal generator that I haven’t seen lately.

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!

W

WilliamC290380

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When I farted (fotted) in church one Sunday. The priest said "I didn't understand you, would you please repeat what you said".

Frozenoem

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Never ever trust a repeat fart!

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!

W

WilliamC290380

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Why? I feel very reliefed after the second one.

Frozenoem

Community Champion ⭐

48* and sunny -woohoo!!

Slippers weather to garage.

I feel snow or rain heavy is coming-boo hiss. Discovered another reason for enjoying Merrill’s gore Tex. Snow melts, creek rises and sometimes vehicles stall.

As long as water isn’t over boot tops dry tootsies. How to meet 20 of your neighbors, pushing a truck off the road. In Maine speak same town = neighbor.

Gotta pre-soak ms Worms is at it again.👎

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!

LydiaN586309

Community Champion ⭐

Image result for sweet doggy faces Good morning Everybody!

Thank God it's Friday! It took all week long to get here. But I am so happy that it's finally here. Wishing everyone out there on Our Front Porch the bestest weekend possible.

Just in case you didn't know, today is National Vietnam Veterans Day. So if you see a soldier while you're out and about, don't forget to thank him or her for their service.

Ciao,

Lydia

Frozenoem

Community Champion ⭐

42* and raining.

Busy going relatively nuts, staging 40+ year old California speakers for an ad.

Have discovered again why I never moved them, without hand trucks/dollies.

Anyone ever hear of “Saras Of America” or Have suggestion for where to get a valuation on ST-200.

My eyes have gone bleary , tower of power has become a tower of hernia.

Ughh! Time to pick up from floor. Can’t get right lighting at ground level, then need to clean cabinets.

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!

DaveMcKAuthor

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Good morning everyone on the Front Porch this last Friday morning of of March!

As a Vietnam Era Veteran I would like to remember all Veterans past, present and future.

Good Morning My Family, Friends, Brothers, and Sisters. May this day bring you Peace, Love, Joy and Happiness. I pray that each of you have a Beautiful Day. Blessings to all.

Today is also another special day. It’s a day that the Vietnam Veterans and Era Veterans finely get their WELCOME HOME DAY FOR 2019. For all of you that have never received your Welcome Home Brother and Sisters know that America is trying to redo wrong that occurred to them upon your return from your tour in Vietnam. May your day be blessed with forgiveness.

Please also Remember it is R. E. D. Friday (Remember Everyone Deployed). Please keep all of our Brothers and Sisters that are deployed in your prayers until they all return. This includes our MIA’s. God Bless everyone.

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper

catwoman500

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Good Morning, All!

Cloudy and 55 here...should reach 60 and then getting warmer until Sunday when it drops again.

Chilly in the house though.

Message from my pool guy saying the contractor will start to drain the pool this weekend. Yay...progress!

@PattyDiane ...sounds like a wonderful festival you have down there!

Take care everyone. N.

n566192l

Community Champion ⭐

Greetings

Thank all of you for reminding me what day it was. I was able to have a BBQ at my house tonight, for some people who served during the war. May you all have a great night. Thank you! Again

Nancy

Frozenoem

Community Champion ⭐

41* cloudy, first will come the rain, then it will turn to snow-what else.

But, in another month might actually SEE the dirt, once more.

Time to DIG another path to oil fill, At least I won’t need to go down 10 foot again, plowbank down to 7 foot.😎

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!

catwoman500

Community Champion ⭐

Hey, Everyone,

So…last night was Game Night. Had a great dinner out and then back to one of the ladies’ houses to play games. It supposedly made it to 75 yesterday in Philly, but pretty sure it wasn’t that high here. It was really nice though.

This morning it was grocery shopping for me and it just started to sprinkle as I got to the parking lot. It rained while I was shopping and had stopped by the time I was leaving. Started up again just as I brought in the last bag. Luck was with me. It’s kind of chilly today. 51 with intermittent rain.

Spoiler alert…Gross thing…if you are squeamish, don’t read the rest of my post.

As I was going around the side of the house to get the trash can, I see this carcass on the driveway. Totally grossed me out, but I had to kind of look at it to see what it was. Could have been a gutted groundhog by the looks of the feet. I couldn’t see the head that well, and I’m sure as H--l not going any closer. The whole midsection was gone except for the bones. I am not an expert on things like this, but hoping it was a fox that did it???? (and not a coyote) This has never happened before so I’m hoping that some scavenger will return tonight and haul the rest of it away. @Frozenoem ...Is this wishful thinking?

I Googled to see if it was possible that a coyote would be in this area and was greeted by the giant headline:

Coyote Sightings On The Rise In Suburban Philadelphia

Well, isn’t that just peachy? They are known to carry rabies, so another dandy little piece of info. N.

Frozenoem

Community Champion ⭐

@catwoman500

Had another perfect mini-storm kinda day, no net after reading your post this day.

Call your local fish & game or game warden for your remnants.

At least up here they come identify and sometimes remove the body, they like to know what happened to them.

Natural, predator or ?? Demise.

Be Happy you have a physical address to send them to. Back before GPS on mobile, it was a real PITA telling them just where the pieces of an animal were to be found.

Nothing like Taking a 10 mile hike, returning to car, and taking a warden up again. Or worse describing the location by boundary points.

Hope you get things squared away.

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!

DaveMcKAuthor

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Good afternoon to everyone on the Front Porch on this last day of March! It is a cool 35* and sunny this afternoon. Hoping everyone has a great week ahead.

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper

DaveMcKAuthor

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Good morning everyone have a great April Fool's Day! Have a great first week of April.

April Fools’ DayAlthough April Fools’ Day, also called All Fools’ Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery.

Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563.

People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes.

These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.

Historians have also linked April Fools’ Day to festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in ancient Rome at the end of March and involved people dressing up in disguises.

There’s also speculation that April Fools’ Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.

April Fools’ Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition became a two-day event, starting with “hunting the gowk,” in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people’s derrieres, such as pinning fake tails or “kick me” signs on them.

In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create elaborate April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV stations and Web sites have participated in the April 1 tradition of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their audiences.

In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees; numerous viewers were fooled. In 1985, Sports Illustrated tricked many of its readers when it ran a made-up article about a rookie pitcher named Sidd Finch who could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour.

In 1996, Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1998, after Burger King advertised a “Left-Handed Whopper,” scores of clueless customers requested the fake sandwich.

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper

LydiaN586309

Community Champion ⭐

Hey, Everybody!

Today is April 1st. And I'm sure y'all know mischievous gremlins will be out and about. So watch out and don't be fooled!

Also, thank God we lived to be able to kick March to the proverbial curb. It was a rough month and will NOT be missed. Even on the last day of the month, we had to endure one last dusting of snow. Winter. Icky Poo! Yes, there's no love lost as March passes. So to it I say, "Bye Felicia!"

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