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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
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My family, for as long as I can remember, has had my Maternal grandmother's mother's Persimmon pudding and Cranberry salad (the cranberry salad is made with Jello and gelatin, pineapple, grapes, nuts and cranberries. The persimmon pudding is persimmons and milk, flour, and butter)
DH wants to take cranberry salad to his Bro's house on Thanksgiving, but I can't make the cranberry salad like my mom and grandma can - and his family won't eat it anyway (they're really picky and set in their ways). I told him there was no way I was doing it. HE found a recipe for cranberry sauce that he wants to try. I'm actually kind of upset - cranberry salad is ONLY supposed to be like grandma's!!
HIS family always has this yucky salad his sister makes, mashed potatoes with NO gravy (I've been known to take my own stuff and make gravy there so me and my kids can have some) and some really good cookies his sister makes (same sister)
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We always have cranberry sauce from a can. It's become a source of humor, because it's the kind that's completely smooth, and when you take it from the can, it kind of plops onto the plate, still embossed with the can ridges. The reason we think it's funny is because literally everything else on the table is homemade, and every year, we're like, "Really, is this the best we can do for the cranberry sauce?"
I'm so glad this thread is here. We've eaten with DH's family for so long I almost forgot the cranberry salad my mom always made -- cranberries, marshmellows, oranges put through the meat grinder... a little tangy and a little sweet...yum!
We always have cranberry sauce from a can. It's become a source of humor, because it's the kind that's completely smooth, and when you take it from the can, it kind of plops onto the plate, still embossed with the can ridges. The reason we think it's funny is because literally everything else on the table is homemade, and every year, we're like, "Really, is this the best we can do for the cranberry sauce?"
Haha! We do the same thing. My mom really likes the canned sauce for some reason, so we have that in addition to 20 made-from-scratch dishes. Too funny.
Teresa, my mom's friend sends over a cranberry salad and a persimmon puddin' every year! In fact, we've already got the cranberry salad. I partake in it instead of the canned stuff. In return, my mom sends over homemade pickles and a pecan pie.
My grandma's dressing is To. Die. For. It's pan-dressing, so cut in squares, and sometimes we make turkey sandwiches out of it, using it as the bread. We also always have green beans, deviled eggs, ham, turkey, rolls, gravy, mashed potatoes, and corn casserole. I think I'm forgetting something else...some other kind of casserole...but I can't place my finger on it.
When I was a kid we would have 3 kinds of cranberries -- cranberry orange sauce for mom, the "fluffy cranberry stuff" for my brother and the sliced stuff from a can for my dad. Now that I'm older, I love the cran-orange and the ground up salad, but I can't bring myself to do all 3 kinds when I'm the only one to eat them.
Creamed spinach....my great grandmother used to make it and when she passed away my grandmother took over and made it...every holiday we had to have creamed spinach....(I laugh at this becuase I will not eat it anywhere else....)
However my grandparents moved to Ohio a few years back so now it has become my job...still not as good as grandma's but I am getting better....
Growing up we HAD to have Creamed Pearl Onions on the table for Aunt Lil and my dad. I could have barfed when I saw them each year. Now they are both gone, and so are the Creamed Pearl Onions.
Some of our annual foods are Sweet Potato Casserole (lots of eggs, canned sweets, sweetened condensed milk, and a crumb/nut topping), the canned cranberry sauce (love it when it plops on the dish, and look, cutting lines!). We mostly eat the canned cranberry sauce on our Thanksgiving Sandwiches. And for dessert, there's always Dream Pie, pumpkin pie, banana cream pie, and apple cake. There are always a few new things we try, and sometimes we resurrect old ones, such as green bean casserole or fluffy salad stuff.
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We also always have green beans, deviled eggs, ham, turkey, rolls, gravy, mashed potatoes, and corn casserole. I think I'm forgetting something else...some other kind of casserole...but I can't place my finger on it.
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