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Well it's March! YAY. The days will start getting noticeably longer this month. The sun will take it's toll on the snowpack. The lakes and ponds will begin to get their slushy tops. You may get to see snow fleas if you know where to look! My kids thought I was making up the snow fleas thing 'till I dragged them out one March day and showed them I wasn't lying. They thought it was in the realm of snipe hunting I suppose.
It WILL snow this month (just look out the window). It will be cold, but we're over the hump and the worst of the winter is now officially behind us (I hope)!
Well it's March! YAY. The days will start getting noticeably longer this month. The sun will take it's toll on the snowpack. The lakes and ponds will begin to get their slushy tops. You may get to see snow fleas if you know where to look! My kids thought I was making up the snow fleas thing 'till I dragged them out one March day and showed them I wasn't lying. They thought it was in the realm of snipe hunting I suppose.
It WILL snow this month (just look out the window). It will be cold, but we're over the hump and the worst of the winter is now officially behind us (I hope)!
Yeah! I'm really feeling for those of you that are anxious for it to be over. I remember it well! Another benefit is, next weekend we get to set the clocks ahead! More sunlight! Yeah!
Oh my gosh! I had completely forgotten about the time change. This new daylight savings schedule takes some getting used to. I love the bright evenings - I seem to get more done. But it is sooooo hard to wake up in the morning. I'm at the very eastern point of Eastern time zone, so it is already staying bright here until just after 6:30 on a sunny day.
Oh my gosh! I had completely forgotten about the time change. This new daylight savings schedule takes some getting used to. I love the bright evenings - I seem to get more done. But it is sooooo hard to wake up in the morning. I'm at the very eastern point of Eastern time zone, so it is already staying bright here until just after 6:30 on a sunny day.
You mean the Western edge of the Eastern time zone. Y'all are about 1 hour 20 minutes behind what we have on the Eastern side for sunset and sunrise. I used to live right on Lake Michigan on the Michigan side and know what you are talking about. Late summer evenings out at 9 - 9:30 and it is still light. Does make it difficult when it is 7 - 7:30 in the morning and still dark though this time of year when the clocks change though.
We are in the western third of eastern time, so going to work will be completely in the dark thing. When you have to be at work at 7am you will get up, get ready, and drive to work in the dark. In fact, it won't be daylight until about 8am. I love to drive to work at sunrise, which is what we have been doing lately. But daylight savings time is a sign of spring, and and in Florida summer will be here about 3 weeks later. YUCK!
Down in Fort Lauderdale it's quite a bit west of us.
"I remember it well! Another benefit is, next weekend we get to set the clocks ahead! More sunlight! Yeah!"
We should be in the same time zone as New Brunswick. Instead we are in the same time zone as Thunder Bay, Ontario. All this contemplation of extra daylight has little meaning. The length of the day remains the same.
I wrote a piece several years ago at this time of year where I advocated for using adjustable thermometers. During the winter we could just move the glass tube up 20 degrees. That way the thermometer would indicate that we were 20 degrees warmer and we could save on our heating bills. Hey, It makes just as much sense as daylight saving time.
My brother-in-law, a college graduate with a degree in International Marketing and pretty intelligent guy was talking to me about spring, snow melt and what not the other day. He said that the time change coming earlier this year would help melt the snow faster as there would be more sun later in the day. I didn't say a word.
There was also a lady who wrote to the Portland Press Herald complaining of the earlier time change last April. She said the time change was messing with the migration of the birds and they were coming back earlier than ever before only to find it still cold here!
I don't really understand people and the whole daylight savings thing. We don't gain anything. It's for bankers I guess. Us poor guys that have to go to work early, just have to go back to doing it in the dark again. At least for a while. Right now we can have the site running at 7 a.m. and be in full morning light.
I'm all for just dropping daylight savings altogether.
No daylight savings in AZ. We never change our clocks here.
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