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| Rural Asotin County, where we sometimes walk the dogs |
Here
it is again – a shift in time. Mike decided to tackle the big change-over at
suppertime Saturday night (time on his hands?) so that he wouldn’t have to do
it on Sunday. Some clocks are easier to change than others. Two or three are
the old “adjust the hands” models of yesteryear. My bedside clock/docking
station has a little +/- button on the back –handy for those twice-yearly time
changes. Others, like the stove, are user friendly. But quite a number of our
electronic models are challenging to change, perhaps just because we can’t
remember how.
Actually,
Mike greets DST with gusto. He likes a good long afternoon in which to play –
er – accomplish his outdoor tasks. I just think it’s a nuisance to keep
changing, especially since we’ve come to the point that we’re only on standard
time four months of the year.
I
get up at 6:30 and it seems early, and yet before long the school bus goes by,
and when I look at the clock, the morning is half gone. Perhaps the most
challenging is suppertime. Serving at 6:30 seems early but to put it off makes
it late.
And
with the time change, spring seems to have sprung. Afternoons have grown warm
while mornings are still at freezing. We’re having our fire in the morning now
instead of the evening. The sweatshirt, my standard uniform, gives way to a
t-shirt and hoodie or sweater that can easily be doffed when I walk the dogs on
a warm afternoon.
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| Daffodils preparing to bloom at Gilbert |
Mike
and I went to the farm last Thursday afternoon (March 5). Seems hardly worth
mentioning since we weren’t there an hour. We found no mice in traps. I hope
that means there actually were no mice and not that they just avoided the traps.
(I fear that they avoided the traps.)
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| The north field from the grove at Gilbert |
Anyway,
it was lovely to be there, however briefly. We agreed that with our next trip
we’ll turn the water on. We’ll also plant raspberry canes that Ken has for us.
Yes, I know -- purists argue for buying the canes, but where we garden results
are “iffy” at best for whatever reason – weather, soil conditions, etc. It’s
nice to have the “freebies” which have served us rather well. KW
Is "doffed" the opposite of "donned"? Where have you been hiding this new word?
ReplyDelete"Doff" is an old verb meaning to remove an article of clothing. We don't use it much, I supposed. Men used to doff their hats when a lady passed.
ReplyDeleteI hate the time change. Takes me days to get used to it. Today is the first to seem somewhat right. And I told Dan the same thing--four months on regular time?? (Dan says it takes an hour just to change all the clocks, so in the spring, we lose two hours.)
ReplyDeleteLOL -- That Uncle Dan! What a card! -- We lose two hours in the spring -- so true! I suppose that means in autumn the hour it takes to re-set the clocks cancels out the hour we gained.
ReplyDeleteYup!
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