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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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05-03-2003, 08:05 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
Are there any birdhouses in your yard?
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05-03-2003, 08:13 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
We have a birdhouse AND a bathouse [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] (that my son built). Also 3 bird feeders - lots of nature in our backyard here!
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05-03-2003, 08:31 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: georgia
Posts: 2,818
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
we have a birdbath and bird feeder in the front yard, and we have a bird feeder in the back yard, but no bird houses.
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05-03-2003, 08:52 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Orlando....5 mins from Mickey!
Posts: 721
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
We don't have any bird houses, but we do have four feeders, 2 birdbaths, and a 3 or 4 places just for the squirrels to eat [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I'd rather watch the squirrels than birds. It drives Andy nuts! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-03-2003, 08:52 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
I have 2 pretty birdhouses in the corner of my flower garden. I bought them for decorative purposes and was trying to figure out a way to block the holes so the wasps wouldn't move in. I hung them on their shepherd's hooks anyways and continued to think of how to block the holes. Early one morning I was weeding my flowers and realized there was a nest built inside one of the birdhouses. Complete with mommy birdie and 3 eggs!
We watched all summer as she caught bugs and flew into the birdhouse to feed her squawking, butt-ugly babies. DD even named them. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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05-03-2003, 09:00 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: York, PA , USA
Posts: 2,022
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
Yep, We have a handmade by DS#1 birdfeeder hanging in the Dogwood tree in our front yard. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] (so proud!)
He made it at one of those Home Depot kid classes, and we painted it ourselves at home. We hung it last year, but seem to forget to fill it most of the time. [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
Also, we have a coconut birdhouse [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] that DH bought in Key West, but I haven't found anygood places to hang it yet.
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05-03-2003, 10:22 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
We have one Kylor got for Christmas from my dad. It was just a wooden do-it-yourself kit and he decorated it himself, too. We haven't put it outside yet. It's still so COLD!
*~*Tina*~*
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05-03-2003, 10:53 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
We don't have any in the yard, but I do collect decorative birdhouses and I have several on display on shelves in my kitchen. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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05-03-2003, 11:07 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
Oh, I'm so into backyard nature stuff. We have a birdhouse that my son made in cub scouts, a bird feeder, a suet feeder, a hummingbird feeder, a Bat house (each bat eats up to 3,000 mosquitos every night), a Ladybug house (they eat the aphids that attack your garden), and a butterfly house to attract butterflys to the yard. They're also very pretty.
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05-03-2003, 03:30 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
Yep - two homemade birdhouses, one that gets a nest built in it every year - one's never been used (Don't know why - they are identical!). We put them up to try to lure the birds away from our back porch - The back porch (aka concrete slab) has an opaque plastic type roof over it - the birds used to build a nest under it every spring - nice and cozy, but once the summer sun hits it after the babies are born - the poor babies would fry! Finally got them to switch a couple of years ago.
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05-03-2003, 07:24 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
No birdhouses outside here, but I do have one hanging in my house that was a gift at a baby shower!!
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05-04-2003, 09:55 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: Dumbo\'s SQOTD 5/3/03
Some in the garden room for decoration, but with a dachshund that catches bird? .....No bird houses in that backyard for us.
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