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You would thing I'd be used to it by now, but every year when it's dark at 3:30 in the afternoon, I keep saying,
" I can't believe in summer I'm at the beach until 9 in the evening".
Yay !!!! I've been counting the days to solstice and the beginning of longer daylight hours.
Right now we have below freezing temps and are getting a down pour of ice-rain - that's tiny pebbles of wet ice falling and sticking to everything it makes contact with and forming solid icy bumps on everything. Solid ice everywhere. My umbrella had a coating of icy bumps frozen to the fabric. Man, oh man, that wet ice is hard to walk on, I feel like I should have suction cups on the soles of my boots to stop from slipping. Wheeee! What an adventure this winter is proving to be.
You would thing I'd be used to it by now, but every year when it's dark at 3:30 in the afternoon, I keep saying,
" I can't believe in summer I'm at the beach until 9 in the evening".
Merry whatever you celebrate or not Netwit!
Same here. It's as if I am surprised by it every year...but I am 63. Still, as a kid, once I knew about the Winter Solstice, I anticipated it.
You would thing I'd be used to it by now, but every year when it's dark at 3:30 in the afternoon, I keep saying, " I can't believe in summer I'm at the beach until 9 in the evening".
We get it back in the summer. I can't believe that for a few weeks around the June solstice, I can tee off at 6 PM and get in a full 18 holes before the sun sets.
We get it back in the summer. I can't believe that for a few weeks around the June solstice, I can tee off at 6 PM and get in a full 18 holes before the sun sets.
I remember a few years ago I was down at Canada Place Pier, where the cruise ships dock downtown.
It was about 6:30 pm or so when I heard a couple say " we better start heading back to the hotel because it will be getting dark soon".
Not sure where they were from, but I often wondered what they were thinking when it was still twilight at 9:45 pm. End of the world perhaps
I remember a few years ago I was down at Canada Place Pier, where the cruise ships dock downtown.
It was about 6:30 pm or so when I heard a couple say " we better start heading back to the hotel because it will be getting dark soon".
Not sure where they were from, but I often wondered what they were thinking when it was still twilight at 9:45 pm. End of the world perhaps
You would thing I'd be used to it by now, but every year when it's dark at 3:30 in the afternoon, I keep saying,
" I can't believe in summer I'm at the beach until 9 in the evening".
Merry whatever you celebrate or not Netwit!
Haha... Same here at the Baltic Sea. Today the sunset was at 3:23 PM. It doesn't bother me, though.
They sounded American, so probably from the southern part of that country where the sun sets latest around 8pm.
One of my " funny " Australian stories is, one day in summer, I had just finished running the seawall, and was warming down by walking. Two lovely Australian ladies asked me what month did the harbour freeze over. I explained that the last time Vancouver's harbour froze over was probably in the last ice age.
They seemed surprised. Canada = Arctic
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