Posted on 10/31/2015 7:49:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76
It's my favorite time of the year, when we turn the clocks back an hour and get an extra hour of sleep. Also, we get extra darkness! Starting tomorrow, it starts getting pitch dark by 5PM - and will mostly stay that way until around the end of February when one starts to really notice the lengthening of the days again. That's also about the time of year the snow starts melting off my roof. Another favorite time of year for me!
Even better, the changing of the clocks happens right on Halloween. Spooky.
I'm surprised no cranky Freeper hasn't already posted a screed about how the changing of the clocks is a bunch of nonsense and a government plot to take away our freedom - or something along those lines. Perhaps somebody already did. I ran a half-hearted search to see if there was some other crank writing about Daylight Savings Time today but I'm sure that if such a post exists, I'll immediately get called out by the FRDPP (Free Republic Duplicate Posting Police).
One thing for sure, I'm not going to have a bunch of weird symbols in my post because I'm typing this out by hand and not cutting and pasting.
Anyway, I LIKE changing my clocks twice a year. I like it when the days suddenly get shorter this time of year. When I get home from work, there's no yard work for the wife to nag me about because it's DARK outside. So I get to eat dinner, crack a beer and get the fireplace going.
Then when I turn the clocks ahead in the spring, I don't mind the yard work so much because it's getting warmer again and I've got the cabin fever by then. I WANT to be outdoors in the spring.
In fact, I like changing the clocks so much that I sometimes wish we could change clocks ahead or behind 10 minutes every single month. I would not mind doing that at all. We could revere directions in October and April. But this would cause others to complain more so it probably won't happen.
I read an article a few years ago, can't find it now, where it was talking about Donald Trump and how he liked to set the clocks back in the fall too. Kindred sprits, the Donald and I! But darn if I can't find that article. Was driving me crazy trying to find it for this piece so I could link to it. Maybe somebody else can pull it up. I'm thinking maybe there is some Freeper out there who can search the Internet and find this article for me because I don't want to get in trouble for paraphrasing. I think it was from the 1980s and from one of those NY magazine slicks that they stick in the Sunday papers. Remember the Sunday papers? This was before the Internet and people used to spend Sunday mornings in bed, reading Sunday papers with coffee and some light jazz music playing. I was one of those people back then who would read newspapers in bed. But not anymore.
So tomorrow is November 1 and it's my traditional day to start hanging those Christmas lights. That's another thing I like about it getting dark so early in the day. I come home from work and get my Christmas lights on - which hang floor to ceiling throughout my house on the inside (white lights) and all around the outside of my house (multi-color lights). Nothing like having it totally dark outside with those thousands of Christmas lights shimmering and giving off that festive glow. I think Donald Trump spoke to that as well. Donald Trump loves Christmas and I don't think I'll get in trouble for saying that because he's on record as saying so.
When the days suddenly get darker, it means the following things for me and all of them are good: Halloween; Thanksgiving; Christmas; Football; No Yard Work; Cider and Ale; Crackling Fireplaces; Christmas Lights (and Music); Warm fuzzy sweaters; Roast Turkey.
So in conclusion, this moving of the clocks backwards is absolutely one of my favorite days of the year and if others want to come and gripe and complain and be all cranky about it, be my guest. But you aren't going to dampen my spirit on this happy, happy day.
Can’t wait to get rid of this DST crap.
You won’t be sorry with the D3 — the Sunshine vitamin. Almost all the doctors out here in rainy, cloudy Oregon prescribe it.
Clockmed video, a “must see” —
Defend yourself against suitcase clocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4_ueajS-3I
I look forward to this every year and absolutely dread Spring. I HATE yardwork so shorter days are a blessing.
Thanks for the great desktop background!
Benjamin Franklin, World War 1 and Daylight Saving Time
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/trending/benjamin-franklin-world-war-1-and-daylight-saving-time
One day, one of his ‘clocks’ will blow up in his face.
That’s very funny, BTW!
To the 7th Century.
My uncle, a bachelor farmer, HATED daylight savings time. His solution was to ignore it. He kept his clocks the same year ‘round. He would always say: “No problem. You just had to remember that the feed store closes an hour early in the summer”.
LMAO.
Good one, Frog. So true.
From the article: “It’s my favorite time of the year, when we turn the clocks back an hour and get an extra hour of sleep. “
Back when the government dictated we would fool ourselves by moving the clock back and forth one hour to increase productivity it was a test to see if the people were actually dumb enough to be fooled...and they were.
Gee! Were contractors that worked during daylight too stupid to simply start work earlier when it became light earlier. How about the ones that didn’t?
This was the first incremental step by government to test the gullibility of its citizens...and it proved beyond a doubt that it works.
Thank you Woodrow Wilson (he's the president that started DST in America).
Ironically I think I might potentially suffer from that as well. That's why this time of year, I'm starting to hang my Christmas lights. Coming home from work and turning on the Christmas lights puts me in a much better mood. Especially when combined with a crackling fire in the fireplace.
Now I put more lights INSIDE my house then outside. I use about 60 strings of "white" LEDS that wrap around the entire common area of the house. I run the lights around baseboard, doorways and then up along where the ceilings meet the walls. You don't even have to turn on regular lights in the house when I have those up.
And because they are LEDs, my electric bill actually goes down this time of year. There is a substantial up-front cost to get the LED lights but over time you end up saving money. In fact, I have yet to have an LED light burn out and I've been using them for years now.
The below picture is not my house but sort of what I'm talking about. Except I would also have lights running along the tops of the walls and along the baseboards. (I use those Command hooks to keep them all up).
I should bring my black and tan coon hound out so he can learn from his dogs heh.
He’s more into cat and bear though living in northern Alberta.
Hate it. I couldn’t care less if it’s darker a little later in the mornings. I want it lighter a little longer at the end of the day.
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