Community Chat

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[AngelPuppy1]

This is good!  I agree about enjoying simple pleasures in life!  For me, I go to my back patio!  It's not as quiet I would wish, with being so near all the neighbors, but at times it's nice.  We all need a little space and place for quiet reflection.  A place to let go of things and unwind! 

[CJC]

Some of my happiest memories of the past 80 years were made on the front porches of my grandparents, great aunt, and great grandmother. They lived in a small town in Indiana where everyone sat outside after dinner. So sad that the porch swing has been replaced by technology. 

[San Antonio Gal]

I prefer the back porch or deck over the front.  I prefer the privacy. 

[SilleeMee]

I'd rather be inside where it's air-conditioned in the summer. There were no air-conditioners back in the old days so they went outside on the porch to cool off. That's what porches were for back in the old days...to cool off. Air-conditioning changed everything. One of the greatest inventions of all in modern times.

[Marp]

In my neighborhood there is little more than a casual "hi, how are you" between neighbors while coming or going.

However, at least two or three times between spring and fall one of the neighbors will sit on his porch with his guitar and start playing.

Within a short period of time neighbors start drifting over and before long some with a banjo, guitar or other instrument will join in resulting in an hour or two of "the good old days".

[proudlyfromNJ]

Front porch and sit and watch cars go by? No thanks. Back porch, sit with family or friends or just read a book. No cars there, just trees, trees and trees and grassy back yard. 

[goldensrbest]

Lots of front porches where i grew up, people would gather,talk have ice tea, lemonaid, play jacks on them we did all kinds of things. And my dad built porch swings for us.

[MaverDaver]

Growing up in my neighborhood where "everybody knows your name" as in Cheers was a great experience. There were 20 houses on my block and believe me I was in all of them. One of the neighbors (the cookie man) did exactly that. While we were eating the goodies he'd tell us about the good ole days. 

All the nighbors came out after dinner and visited each other, sitting on porches or in driveways until the sun went down. Everyone helped each other.

Today -- I still live on the same block and if I passed my next door neighbor, whose been living there since 2016, I wouldn't recognize them.

Enuf said! 

[We rescue cats]

Loved finishing up the supper clean-up and then sitting on the porch with Gram and Aunt Marie to talk with the neighbors as they walked the neighborhood, then joining my friends in the playground until the streetlights came on.

Good memories.