Flag change winters over

Alan W. · Mar 4, 2020

Ive read other post about members putting away their snow plows and declaring winter over but I don’t have a snow plow so I just changed flags. Kinda makes it official.

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EddieWalker · Mar 4, 2020

That's funny. My wife has something like that, but the wind messes with it so much that you can't tell what it is right now.

TractorGuy · Mar 4, 2020

Post Your Porch Flag

We should turn this into a Post Your Porch Flag thread.

oosik · Mar 4, 2020

I don't have any spring time flags. I put on these shorts and do my spring sunshine dance. My son has asked that I NOT show up at his house wearing these........ View attachment 643858

DKCDKC · Mar 4, 2020

I'm a mile off the road. And, back here, the deer, groundhogs, rabbits, squirrels and coyotes just don't care much about flags. I will give it another few weeks, though, before I take the ROPS lights and blade off my John Deere... Just in case.

k0ua · Mar 4, 2020

Ours is still the snow man. I reminded the wife, and she said "yeah we need to change that"..

k0ua · Mar 4, 2020

I asked the wife "why do we have a porch flag?" She said "because they are cute!"

TractorGuy · Mar 4, 2020

k0ua said:
I asked the wife "why do we have a porch flag?" She said "because they are cute!"

EXACTLY! Nobody sees ours unless we open the gate for them to visit which is rare.

Diggin It · Mar 4, 2020

DKCDKC said:
I'm a mile off the road.

I'm 100' from the road, but on a bad hill and I don't do anything that might cause gawkers to look away from the road. I don't do flags or decorative lights or displays of any kind. I grew a 6' hedge to hide my normal yard lights and much as possible.

By my Quince, Daffodils and Iris are happily acknowledging the change of seasons for me.

Alan W. · Mar 4, 2020

Its a full time job here keeping them changed out for the seasonally appropriate one. We do have a collection.
No one but us and guest ever see ours.
I have taken to placing a HF cable tie on the open end to keep the wind from taking them off.

TractorGuy · Mar 4, 2020

Porch/yard flags have absolutely nothing to do with passers by. They are all about making the wife happy. Happy wife = happy life!

Molalla1 · Mar 4, 2020

TractorGuy said:
Porch/yard flags have absolutely nothing to do with passers by. They are all about making the wife happy. Happy wife = happy life!

:thumbsup: . . . Oh so true . . .

Thomas · Mar 4, 2020

TractorGuy said:
Porch/yard flags have absolutely nothing to do with passers by. They are all about making the wife happy. Happy wife = happy life!

Well said. :thumbsup:

Molalla1 · Mar 4, 2020

Thomas said:
Well said. :thumbsup:

Thomas . . . been there done that! . . .

k0ua · Mar 4, 2020

TractorGuy said:
Porch/yard flags have absolutely nothing to do with passers by. They are all about making the wife happy. Happy wife = happy life!

Yup!..

Jstpssng · Mar 4, 2020

oosik said:
I don't have any spring time flags. I put on these shorts and do my spring sunshine dance. My son has asked that I NOT show up at his house wearing these........ View attachment 643858

And we thank you for not being in the picture with those shorts.

psvfd · Mar 4, 2020

TractorGuy said:
Porch/yard flags have absolutely nothing to do with passers by. They are all about making the wife happy. Happy wife = happy life!

YES!!!

Wagtail · Mar 5, 2020

I've got a 'regular' flagpole (Aussie flag plus, as the occasion warrants, a significant flag underneath). It can be seen from the road from certain angles.

I do have a 'porch flagpole' that I've mounted at the end of the driveway. Certain flags are displayed there for special 'events'; "Joy" Christmas flag, extra Aussie flag for Australia Day and a "Poppy/Lest We Forget" flag for ANZAC Day/Viet Nam Veterans Day/Remembrance Day. (I also swap the Aussie flag to a White Ensign on those days too)

No one has ever disturbed the roadside flags.

Gem99ultra · Mar 5, 2020

Speaking of flags... I just had to replace our American flag that looks over our pond. I was shocked at the price of a 3' x 5' USA made flag now. It was something over $30.

Walmart and others tried to hand me a "Made in China" American flag. Much cheaper, but !!! No thanks. American flag needs to be Made in the USA. My opinion, of course.

Jstpssng · Mar 5, 2020

Gem99ultra said:
Speaking of flags... I just had to replace our American flag that looks over our pond. I was shocked at the price of a 3' x 5' USA made flag now. It was something over $30.

Walmart and others tried to hand me a "Made in China" American flag. Much cheaper, but !!! No thanks. American flag needs to be Made in the USA. My opinion, of course.

That’s a given. I don’t know why anybody would even bother to fly a flag which was made in another country.