and told me a few of those childhood stories of how they would eat on the porch in the summer before the days of air-conditioning or used it for overflow dining when company came to visit.
today the back porch of our 92 year old farm house is not only the walk through to inside the house, it's also the storage place for items that farmer-husband might need occasionally but must keep it on the back porch to be sure it's handy, a dozen raincoats for four people, and an assortment of boots and shoes for every occasion and event on the dairy farm.
the planned porch make-over happened this week. my 