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.
My favorite day of the year is December 21st.........we start gaining a minute a day for awhile and continues to accumulate daily.
Fall forward, spring back, right???
Dammed funny jihad clock boy pic!
I like Jan 21 when the average temps here start rising and the daily sun time increase accelerates.
Love this time of the year too!
Pretty photo. Taken in Newtown?
Leni
You don’t spend Sunday morning in bed reading Free Republic, with jazz on?
LOL.
TIME-ly, too ;-)
I’ll go with that too.
In Arizona, we change the batteries in our smoke alarms to remind us that we don’t have to screw around with our clocks. LOL!
That's also about the time of year the snow starts melting off my roof.
There is no snow anymore, thanks to man-made global warming.
It must be a figment of your imagination.
And hanging up Christmas lights on November 1st???!!
What are you, a Communist???!!!
Everyone knows Christmas lights are only allowed to be hung the day after Thanksgiving....SHEESH!
Not that I'm judgmental or anything.....
Beau LOVES this time of year. The sooner it gets dark, the sooner he and the Walker Coon Hounds can go hunting!
As for me? It’s socially acceptable to be in your Jammies by 7pm, curled up with a book and a cup of tea. :)
Wished they’d leave the damn clock alone. It doesn’t save anything but like a useless government ruling they wont get rid of it either.
A good muzzie clock blows up twice a day.
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