As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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Although not part of my original plans, I spent part of yesterday giving the yard its last mowing of the season - made necessary when my neighbors tackled their yard! Since my grass catcher is not working, and the discharge chut is sealed by the non-functioning grass catcher, the clippings - including a large number of leaves - ended up in neat little rows on the lawn. I had to go over them several times, until they were finely chopped and able to drift down into the grass.
All of this made me think of the many ways in which leaves can be disposed of - mulching, raking, blowing, composting, bagging, etc. One year I even ignored them, but had to reseed in the spring!
My favorite way to deal with them is to suck them up with my blower/vacuum (which I still have to do with the deck, garden, and patio leaves) and put them onto the compost heap.
What's your favorite way to deal with fall's leaves?
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We use the leaf blower to make piles of leaves. They are then raked into garbage cans and taken to the garden where we then proceed to turn them into mulch.
I just cleaned the entire yard on Friday and by Saturday morning it was covered in leaves again.
I live in an apartment and don't have to worry about that. They just built them and so we don't really have any big trees, just the small ones they put in when they completed all the landscaping
Usually we don't have to do much - there's usually some wind around to help disperse them. This year, we did get some piles of leaves, so I swept them up.
We just let them blow across our yard. It's too big (2 acres) to rake, and we don't have that many trees. Plus it's always windy since we're on top of a hill, so they just disappear
We raked them all up, piled them onto a huge tarp and dragged them into the forest in the back (many, many trips!). We took the tarp away, but left the leaves in a huge pile. Now the deer are sleeping in them and eating them.
DH takes care of the leaves, but his method of choice is the backpack leaf blower. The front yard leaves get suked up by the city, and the backyard leaves go into the mulch pile.
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DH uses the mulcher mower and then puts the leaves in the yard waste barrels for the city to pick them up. If he runs out of room in our barrels, he fills yard waste bags and the city takes them. Everything is brought to the city compost station for use by citizens for 'free'
My dad uses his giant lawnmower to blow them into the woods or natural areas. He did that about twice this year. Last year we spent a whole day raking and stuff, but he must have figured out a better way this year, because no one raked, not even once.
My favorite thing to do with leaves is play in them though. When I was a kid, I loooooved jumping and hiding in the giant piles in the ditches at my grandma's house. I kind of had to sneak and do it, because she didn't like us doing that - she thought it was too close to the road and also was worried about ticks and such. Never so much fun was had, though!
DH does that. He has a mulching ride-on mower, so he's happy.
Our deck was built AROUND a tree (it sticks up right in the middle of the deck, so it's always shaded - but I can't get my table and all of the chairs on it well). THOSE leaves, I just sweep down to the yard and then they are ------ DH's Problem!!
We have about 2 acres to mow so DH uses the lawn tractor and mulches/collects them and dumps them into a mulch pile. We use it the following year for fertilizer in the flower beds.
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