Announcement! Time's Changing! Time to Fall Back or is it?
Spring forward and Fall back!
Daylight savings time ends at 2AM Sunday morning. Those of you still awake, don't forget to set your clocks back tonight before going to bed. It is 11:37PM here where I am in the U.S.. Normally I am in bed well before now but it is Saturday night and I keep telling myself I have an extra hour! I'm in Kentucky working and I am missing home in Florida terribly. My dogs, my chickens, my ducks and my front porch with a view in the evenings!
We either get an extra hour of sleep or we get to start "earlier" to work on whatever we have that needs to be done. Right?
To me this time change is a sign for sure winter is coming! I dread the shorter days of sunlight as I don't enjoy the darkness interrupting my long days of sunshine. Tends to be very depressing for me, not my favorite time of year!
Fall is my favorite and I will enjoy that thoroughly for the short time remaining.
I'm gonna try to use this time change as a spring forward for my goals!
One of my favorite all time quotes I use often is "Time changes everything" It is so true!
Irregardless of an extra hour in a day a shorter hour in a day, time itself marches on.
Make the best of it!
Everything will change with time, life will change on a dime,
if your not careful, time will pass you by
leaving you lost and wondering why.
Time never stops and never slows
day after day that is how it goes.
We race to beat that ticking clock
give me a minute thats what we hollar
but time shows up on the dollar.
It's time we all try to borrow
yes, today and even tomorrow.
Wait just a sec that's what we plead
but time knows nothing about your need
it just keeps moving with all it's speed.
Time never stops and it never slows
day after day that's how it goes.
Once we are young, then we are old
it's your own life time has stold.
Everything changes with time,
everything that is, except for time.
Time runs with the clock
forever together, never missing
not one tic-toc.
What is time and where does it go?
Only time itself will ever know.
Poem by: Tina Nelms
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This is a nice reminder for all of us Cindy, although I'm a bit confused: my clocks were automatically reset for one hour ahead, which seems the opposite of what it should be as we gain one extra hour sleep when the clock "falls behind".
Thanks for reading and responding Kaju.
I'm not sure what to say about the automatic reset of your clocks an hour ahead. My phone and computers auto set correctly. Did yours reset correctly back in the spring?
Adjust your time and go back to bed for another hour! ;-)
Hopefully, you didn't wake up thinking you were late for somewhere you had to be this morning.
Thanks for the reminder and the poem. Indeed, almost everyone I know, including myself, regrets not making the best use of time. One of my favorite professors at college, a man who gradated third, in his 1965 Duke University class, often told me that a big regret he had was being so caught up in his studies that he missed out on "all the other important things that go with not only developing a good mind but also a happy person."
He would always remind me to put the book down once in a while and just go and enjoy the experience of being among friends. Hell, sometimes at the end of the school year he'd invite his entire class to his house for an evening of good food and music--he was a big Blues and Jazz fan.
The point is that we all can use someone to remind us that we need to make the best use of the time we have. So again, thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for passing on the nice story and great advice your professor gave. I can tell he was a big (positive) influence on you.
We do need to be reminded of these things from time to time.
We've had ours changed a few days ago, and it was great to have to get up one hour later. Thing is, however, that now it will get dark sooner, and even though the day still has 24 hours, it somehow seems so much shorter.
Yes, the changing of the hour means that winter is on the way, along with the nasty cold and wet weather. It's also great to stay indoors, and work on our sites :)
Lovely poem. For a moment I thought you had skills that were hidden from the whole world until I realized that you're not Nina :)
In any case, it's still a lovely poem which I enjoyed reading, and thank you for sharing it :)
Yes James and in a very short time, it will be another new year! Where did this one go? I expect this time next year we will have made a lot of progress to share.
Glad you enjoyed the poem. Nina gets the credit! ;-)
Too true...in a very short time, it will be another new year. This one seems to have disappeared faster than the previous one. Is that a good sign, I wonder?
I'll keep my fingers crossed that by this time next year, we will have made a lot of progress on our site, or sites...
Thanks Cynthia- I love it...
This time of year is pretty brutal nearly anywhere in the US,
but Florida is much gentler about these changes than Ky...
I imagine you have good reasons to do this to yourself.
Thanks for the reminder and the poem and for shining a light on
TIME - what we all wouldn't give for a bit more of it...
Cheers,
Steve
Oh, it is so true what you say, "What we all wouldn't give for a bit more of it". Thanks for reading and I wish lots of light shining on you for a long time Steve!
I love that you love the details, always count on you for that! Thanks a bunch! If I am a poet, I didn't know it, Mike!
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In Sydney NSW, we started our daylight saving last month. Time begins at 2 am on the first Sunday in October, when clocks are put forward one hour. It ends at 2 am (which is 3 am Daylight Saving Time) on the first Sunday in April, when clocks are put back one hour.
Our daylight saving goes for 6 months.
How long does yours go for?
Thanks Brad for reading and contributing.
Our time will change going up an hour again March 11th...
(5 months)
( I am sure Mike will correct me at some point if I'm wrong) ;-)
Yep, we are the opposite cause we are down under in the Southern hemisphere.
Our DS used to be, I think 3 months, some years back off memory, but now it's 6 months. I think 6 is a bit too long.
They say DS is also a method for saving electricity which is total is BS. More political garbage. My electricity bill has tripled in the last 2 years and continues to increase. It is getting out of hand here in Sydney. Some people are even using candles.
I've read a tad bit about all that, proposed plans for solar power stations, gas-fired plants and so on. I hope they find some sort of doable, timely resolution for the high electric bills without the environmental issues.