Yep, I grew up with a porch, we had a porch swing too. Then mom decided she wanted a closed-in porch and dad went about enclosing it. It worked our fine for us girls in the summer when it got hot upstairs and we were able to sleep out there. There is/was nothing like it. You could sit out there and say hi to a passing neighbor as they walked by going to the corner store for a loaf of bread or wave at a neighbor who would yell mornin' from their car. I have a very small porch now and have made a sitting area out front also when I had a new driveway built a couple of years ago. It's brick looking called stamped concrete I believe, couldn't afford real brick and I have a 4 piece patio set and umbrella out there to sit and watch the world go by. Morning coffee usually draws a couple of neighbors over to sit and chat for a few minutes, I'm loving life the way it is now. Carol K in Michigan On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, ElaineTM <etm1935@gmail.com> wrote: > > > http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-29/classified/ct-home-0429-front-porches-20110429_1_porch-railings-neighbors > > Elaine > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >