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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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...where's the flyswatter?!?! It has been a heck of a spring here. I think only the biggest, ugliest spiders have survived the winter and they are all trying to come visit me!!! I don't like snakes, can do without most lizards, despise bees and kill every mosquito I can...but SPIDERS can practically give me a heart attack and just plain give me the shivers. In the last week I have had to kill (me, myself) four of the biggest, nastiest looking spiders and they have been IN MY HOUSE!!!!! What, is there some secret welcome mat that is saying "Come on in" in Spiderese?!?! I have had to deal with these horrible creatures on my own since I've either been home alone or it's been early in the morning and DH has still been in bed (and the spider would be long gone by the time I managed to get him awake and into the room with the intruder). Now, I know that most spiders are beneficial and a necessary part of nature and they eat other insects, etc. So, that being said, if they stay out IN NATURE (reads - outside), I leave them alone. The moment they come in my house - I consider them fair game!!!! I just hope that as the weather continues to warm up, the darn (think more colorful metaphors) things will move back outside and stop scaring the life out of me early in the morning!!!!
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Ick, like you Jennifer, I try to leave the outdoor ones be. But if they make the mistake of coming inside my house.... well, it usually doesn't end pleasantly for either of us -- the spider because it's dead, and me because I have to wipe up squished spider guts while I'm doing the grossed-out dance.
I don't like things that move unexpectedly. That's why I don't like spiders, snakes, wasps (well, wasps I don't like because their stings hurt!!), mice, and other assorted varmints. If I can predict where it's heading and it doesn't skitter/slither quickly and it's outside, I can get along with it.
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I also don't like spiders or any other insect. I currently have a fly problem, every time I think I've got them all I spot another one. And I bought a pack of 3 flyswats a month ago and they've all gone missing. I've running around the house with a dvd case and it just can't get the job done. The baby is also carrying around a dvd case and just randomly swatting the wall. LOL
Get a cat....they love to chase/eat spiders!!! Or a little boy.....I wouldn't recommend having the little guy eat them, but my DS is really good at the spotting part and having one of us kill them. Right now, we're in the middle of stink bug season....everyday, we terminate 3-4 of the suckers......I actually asked DH to go kill a bit of fuzz in the corner of the living room the other day!!!
PassPorter's Free-Book to Walt Disney World It’s hard to believe anything is free at Walt Disney World; but there are actually a number of things you can get or do for little to no cost. This e-book documents over 200 free or cheap tips to do before you go and after you arrive. You could save a considerable amount of money following these tips. Perhaps more importantly; you can discover overlooked attractions and little-known details most people whiz by on their way to spend money. Click here to see free sample pages from the e-book! Get this popular e-book free of extra charges when you join the PassPorter's Club for as little as $4.95. A club pass includes access to all our other e-books; e-worksheets; super-size photos; and more! This e-book is also available for separate purchase in the PassPorter Online Store for just $5.95.
SPIDERS!!!!!!! (FULL-BODY SHUDDER) I hate them! We get the big wolf spiders here....yuck! Again, thank goodness for Skimbles, our beautiful ginger cat. He kills them and eats them. I hate the way they move...shudder! Outside, fine...keep the nasty bugs out of my garden; inside...fair game and kittie snackeroos!
In Hawaii, we had Cane spiders. They lived in the Pineapple fields (very few sugar cane fields, if any are left, at least on Oahu) Those things are agressive, and UGLY...more than ugly...but I can't use those colorful interjections on this board. Their eyes glitter....SHUDDER! We also had centipedes there...not little ones either and in weird colors...shudder-shudder!
I know everything on earth has a purpose...but I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of some things!
Get a cat....they love to chase/eat spiders!!! Or a little boy.....I wouldn't recommend having the little guy eat them, but my DS is really good at the spotting part and having one of us kill them. Right now, we're in the middle of stink bug season....everyday, we terminate 3-4 of the suckers......I actually asked DH to go kill a bit of fuzz in the corner of the living room the other day!!!
Have two cats - they would rather chase mice and birds and then bring the carcasses into the house. One cat even brought a mouse in that was still alive!!!!! AAAHHH!!! Unfortunately DS is just like Mom when it comes to spiders and bees. He is almost as freaked out by them as I am. Go figure??!!??!! He is totally into lizards though so I guess he's still all boy. And I too have asked DH to kill the fuzz in the corner so don't feel too silly!
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SPIDERS!!!!!!! (FULL-BODY SHUDDER) I hate them! We get the big wolf spiders here....yuck! Again, thank goodness for Skimbles, our beautiful ginger cat. He kills them and eats them. I hate the way they move...shudder! Outside, fine...keep the nasty bugs out of my garden; inside...fair game and kittie snackeroos!
In Hawaii, we had Cane spiders. They lived in the Pineapple fields (very few sugar cane fields, if any are left, at least on Oahu) Those things are agressive, and UGLY...more than ugly...but I can't use those colorful interjections on this board. Their eyes glitter....SHUDDER! We also had centipedes there...not little ones either and in weird colors...shudder-shudder!
I know everything on earth has a purpose...but I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of some things!
Pixies to you! I know how you feel.
I think these beasts I've been killing may be wolf spiders, but I'm not completely sure. All I really know is they are big and ugly and FAST!!!! They are a dark greyish black and just down right mean looking!!! AND if the cats are catching and eating some of them and I've seen and killed four it simply makes me want scream wondering how many more are there lurking where I don't realize it??!!
DH spent a couple of summers picking pineapples in Hawaii when he was a teenager and has told me about the Cane spiders. I would probably keel over in a dead faint if I ever saw one in real life!!!
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I, too, have the "not in my house!" rule. If a creepy-crawly ventures indoors, it usually doesn't make it out. I'm still trying to figure out haw they get past all my defense systems!
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I hate them! We get the big wolf spiders here....yuck! Again, thank goodness for Skimbles, our beautiful ginger cat. He kills them and eats them. I hate the way they move...shudder! Outside, fine...keep the nasty bugs out of my garden; inside...fair game and kittie snackeroos!
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