Simply put - they should just leave changing the time Alone!
Less than 30 days now!! Spring is around the corner!
its amazing what changing a clock an hour can really make such a big difference in our lives lol we must have pretty boring lives busy people forget to change the clocks and do not even notice hahhahahahah
oh that is a real busy person that way you wont forget to change the clocks right
I lived in Tucson, AZ without daylight savings for 2 years. It felt so much better watching the days get longer and shorter without the jarring changes everywhere else. I don't want to live there but I miss that plus.
in canada I think they do it because it helps reduce accidents on the road on winter morning lol I cant think of another lol since it would not matter to me anyway
I do like lighter evenings, but don't like losing the early morning light and really don't like messing with my internal clock.
They should just leave daylight savings all the time.
But then winter mornings would be really dark right?
Yes - sunrise about 8:15 at the worst.
I'm usually up between 5:30 and 6:00 whether I need to be or not, so that would make me crazy. I walk 2 miles as soon as the coffee is finished.
Drink slower.
I take it with me!
Wow - multi-tasker! Do you wear reflective clothing?
I wear white, and have a flashing red light on the dog's collar. I used to also carry a flashlight, but would rather take coffee. I usually only see 2-3 cars while I'm out.
Coffee helps you see better than flashlights.
I wear contacts or glasses, and one time didn't want to go back into the bedroom to get my glasses, so just grabbed my sunglasses. That didn't work.
Ha ha. The dog became a seeing-eye one!
That's fun to picture!
if I go out walking after 7 pm I could walk till 5 am before seeing a car see I live in a retirement community and some are like me have kids in school so everyone is home by 7 and dont start to go out for work till after 5 so if I go out walking I always bring my cell phone because if I get hurt fall or something it would be a long night before someone would come along to help me lol hahahha
Tomorrow will be 20 days!
Kassia, Spring is getting closer and today an order, which I knew was coming, arrived, but I hadn't thought about it until the delivery guy came. Roses.
I thought you would share my excitement. I got a box containing 10 nice big fat ones and they only charged me 5.00 for shipping. The roses were each 14.36. ZuZu suggested this source. I am especially excited to see 'Burgundy Iceberg' and ' Rhapsody in Blue' next summer. I am going to try to plant them this weekend, failing that I will pot them up and put them in my GH. Yippee!! Patti
oh well means nothing here no real spring till may hahhahah
Patti that yellow one looks lovely..... yellow is my favorite rose.
They look really nice, very healthy!!!
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If the ice goes out! I love it up in Ontario, but the winter is so long. I have always wanted to go to the cottage and see the ice move out, but have never managed to get lucky. Two years ago the ice finally got our dock. We had won that annual spring battle for 40 years, but not that spring.
We spent that next summer's vacation rebuilding it. Our neighbors hired a big crew and were more than shocked that between my two brothers, DH and DS as well as my college age niece and I, with my 92 year old mom mostly supervising, that we got it rebuilt for only the cost of materials. We needed new enormous long beams for the main support and a load of framing timber, nail, bolts, sandpaper and lots of sweat. We even recycled all the old wooden decking that had been replaced at some point so was in pretty good shape. After the ice took the dock out, my older brother went down the shore line to fine the biggest chunks of it and hauled it back to the cottage by boat and then pulled out all the old nails and sanded them all down. One section was flipped up and mangled in place, but parts of it were salvaged. The biggest job was rebuilding the huge rock cribs that keep it in place. Mom even threw rocks. Working in the water for so long made everyone look like a prune.
My dear Dad who designed the dock and built it with my 3 brothers in the 60's would have been very proud of us. Plus my Mom loved having the 10,000.00 plud that we saved by doing the work ourselves. She took us out to dinner! She is Scottish.
A final crowing was that as the ice damage was so severe that year along the lake that it was nearly impossible find anyone free to hire to get the work done quickly, thus we actually had people stopping by to see if we wanted to rebuild their docks. One guy pulled up in his boat and asked who was the boss, we just pointed at Mom and she said we were "booked". He said where were we out of, Mom said "Oklahoma". He was totally confused. There use to be another family on Lake of Bays from Okla, but they died and their early cottage, one of the first, was taken down and one of those Mcmansions was built. Some of those have boat houses bigger than our cottage.
We aren't fancy, but we getter done! It was a good family project. I figure our combined ages of the 7 of us was about 400 years.
Hope the thaw come early for you. Patti
Its hard to maintain two places.
yayayayayay Patti... so glad for you... can't believe you are on zone 7a... ah... good for you... go on an plant...and I hope they bloom and bloom for you!!!!
you guys will never believe this but I only placed one order this year... actually last year... and that's it... I am going to focus on filling in this year... my roses need company and I want a full look...
and I want to plant a lot of veggies... my big experiment this year... March already! thank God...
Kassia, I did go out early this morning to dig the holes for the roses, but not so good. The ground was not frozen, but I kept digging up my precious bulbs. I need to wait until I can see where I can safely plant. So I am soaking them today and will pot them up and let them grow in the greenhouse. They all look great. What are you planting to fill in around your roses?
But by going out, we noticed a lot of rabbit damage on many shrubs just recently done. They even ate one rose bush. So we put cages around about 20 things. I did some pruning and started picking up the winter mess. Not too bad.
DH moved a Rhododendron that the deer had demolished this week to inside the deer fenced yard and I moved 2 oak leaf hydrangea that I had started a few years ago and that had out grown the little holding bed I had them temporarily in. I need to cage 5 more plants, but it has now gotten cold outside, the is weather moving in, so I am back by the wood stove. But it was nice to be outside all morning. My back is telling me it is not use to yard work yet. Patti
I hear ya, Patti. My back is talking to me as well. Almost finished cleaning up. DH helped today, too. He was busy raking up the gum balls into piles and picking up branches, etc.
It looks like we may get hit with the biggest snow for us this year tomorrow night. It figures. It's March. LOL. Jeff has been wanting a snow day all year, but now that it will probably happen, he'd rather not. He's got to get the seniors ready for AP tests. They just got back last night from their senior trip. They went to Mont Temblanc (spelling) in Canada to go skiing.
I think Bambi has been chewing on an azalea. Is that likely?
Jan23, Love skiing up there, haven't for years. It can be wicked cold and windy. Good luck on his AP's. Those saved a semester worth of college tuition for my son.
Azaleas, Yep, they destroyed ours last year, so they got moved last spring and I should have moved that Rhodie at the same time. Patti
What subject does hubby teach, Jan? AP helped me out too. Got credit for both semesters of English. That saved a ton of time for me.
He teaches AP calculus. Also Physics and Chemistry, but these aren't AP. There is Honors Physics and College Prep. His goal now is to keep them focused. (Good luck) Some of them think they have already graduated. I guess that is par for the course. With the cost of college now, - anything is a help.
Cool. Wish I had AP calculus in HS. Would have really helped.
Oh dear! I loved math till I hit calc in college. I could use his help but prolly too late now. I work in a HS and seniors hit senioritis earlier every year!!
Oh yes - this is senioritis time! My old HS now has a gazillion AP courses. When I was there - only English and History.
Patti, good for you that you have a greenhouse...
I can see the ground today so much snow has melted... and my poor roses inside the garage... if they make it it will be a miracle... I have totally neglected them... they will be planted outside this year... no more wintering them inside the garage... too much work...and the poor things suffer...
Let's just hope they make it!
I can't believe they're predicting so much snow on Monday! I got out yesterday and did a lot of cutting back of old forsythia that was overgrown and in the way, so I feel like I got SOMETHING done. I see some of my favorite double daffs peeking up in the woods, so that made me happy! Can't stop Spring now.
Be of good bheer all of you in the storm belt.
Snow seldome stays at this time of year.
We just look at it as winters last gasp.
Only good thing is that you know it won't be hanging around too long.