verandah

I have a tin roof, metal front porch and a large metal rear-facing verandah at my house. .

I got a sheet of tarp* under the verandah to prevent water leaking through to the garage. Pulled off the door handles that were broken.

Depending on your English dialect it might be a terrace, pavement, patio or even verandah seating.

In most cases migration works like buying houses: I'd like to have a verandah with ocean view, but there are permissions, and there's price I can afford. US is very on top of the list, but in many countries it's complicated/expensive to get there.

A couple of cats visited for brief periods, and we'd constantly find dead birds on the verandah on their backs with the ribcage totally eaten out. So we never had cats for long, it wasn't really possible, unless you were to never let them outside.

Fortunately we had a new kitchen ceiling put in and it suddenly occurred to me that we had some 5m long pieces of ceiling pine timber on the front verandah. I lugged one around to my bedroom window and the length of pine was not only long enough but thinner and far more flexible than the plank.

I know someone who had a netted cat run that went out a window and was suspended from a verandah so the cats could get fresh air, move between buildings, and watch the world go by without killing birds or getting killed by cars.

All the human traffickers sipping mimosas on the verandah of their gorgeous, tree-lined work camps watching the people they thought of as sub-human animals laboring away wanted to be able to keep doing this, so they sent their kids and the poor people of the South off to die for this. White supremacy was, and still is, an important component in the systematic oppression of Black people in the south.