The Sleeping Porch
I loved Penny's blog about her boat. I have a boat too, I call her 'Comfort', but that's another story.........What is the next best thing to sleeping on a boat?
Sleeping on the sleeping porch.
Lounging on a gabled portico.
I love to see a home with a sleeping porch, especially all dressed up and ready for summer.
Sleeping on the sleeping porch.
Lounging on a gabled portico.
In summer, I give considerable thought to dragging a bed out on the lawn some night so I can look up at the stars. Hedges of the gloriously fragrant rosa rugosa would surround me and the cool evening breeze would lull me to sleep.
I suppose I could just sleep in 'Comfort', rocked to sleep, but she may roll over and enclose me.
Heat and me have never been agreeable, especially in the evening, and I do not care for air conditioning, what I need is .........A Sleeping Porch.
A wonderful sleeping porch, cool and comfortable, on the second floor where the bugs are fewer than my back yard.
I love to see a home with a sleeping porch, especially all dressed up and ready for summer.Labels: canoes, Kim Doherty, porticoes, sleeping porches
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Please visit 60 Kay Street, Newport where we have the sweetest ever sleeping porch. Cool summer breezes, and hidden from view by the tree branches and privet hedges. The first thing I do when I go to this house, is open up the sleeping porch. I imagine myself driftng off to sleep under cover of the beech trees and curly oaks that surround it. Aagh, wilderness! Susan
As a young girl, I slept on, "The Sleeping Porch", numberous times at Giant's Neck Beach in CT and at Lake George. Those memories will last me a life time, I felt so special!
I have had a fantasy since childhood of having a bed outside that would somehow have netting or something to protect me from bugs - essentially nothing between me and the wonderful cool summer night air. If I were to build a house a screened in porch would be high on my list of priorities.
A friend of mine lived in third story apt near Wayland Square in Providence. One night, her mother let us sleep outside on the porch in our sleeping bags. That was almost 40 years ago and I still remember it!
When I was a young girl we spent many times on the CT shoreline and also at Lake George. Each time I was lucky enough to get the sleeping porch and until this day I always remember what a wonderful sensation it was, I was so excited. Thank you for refreshing my memory.
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