Linda, your friend sounds brilliant to me. Fortunately most countries have come to their senses and stopped forcing this impractical torture on their citizens. Although I read the entire article I linked, I am STILL not sure why we do this! The article states several times that the vast majority of farmers and rural citizens have always opposed clock changing in any form. Wonder where the old cliche about farm kids milking cows before school comes from? We didn't start doing this formally and "permanently" until there was only an extremely small number of farmers left at all, let alone kids getting up to milk cows before school. Why doesn't anyone ever say that school just starts too early? Just another bunch of weird politics with explanations based on contrived notions and falsities. It's this kind of crap that's really irritating, "The history of time in the United States includes DST during both world wars, but no standardization of peacetime DST until 1966.[111][112] In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes." What??! I can't ever recall basing my fast-food decision on daylight vs. night. Have you ever said to yourself or heard anyone say, "well, I was going to buy some fries, but then I realized it was dark so I didn't." Or, "As soon as it gets dark, I'm not hungry anymore." Did it ever occur to them that people just don't like to leave the house as much when it's cold outside, that this SEASONAL phenomenon is just part of life and has nothing to do with clock changing? I don't see how a tiny fraction of energy savings nobody can definitively qualify is a good trade for disrupting everyone's sleep twice a year. And the awful things like tired, sleep-disturbed people getting hurt at work or wrecking their car is so not worth it. I'd gladly pay the extra $10 or $20 to just not have to deal with it, although unless the weather is exactly the same every year, how will anyone ever measure this? If it's "x" degrees outside, we are still going to heat or cool until we are comfortable, no matter what time it is. And most who try letting their house go hot or cold while they are at work usually decide it's not worth the discomfort, and the cost of reversing such a huge temperature difference usually eradicates what was saved during the day. In the summer here, the lows at night can be above 80, so even when it's dark, those a/c's are running full blast. I just want to make it stop, too! I've never talked to anyone who agreed with changing the time. Maybe if we all boycott fries for a day, twice a year, and/or turn our furnace or a/c on full blast for those days...?

She's a beauty, and so is Pogo. I am very partial to torties. I take ferals that have been spayed or neutered. The shelter called me yesterday to see if I would take a couple more. I said okay. When you have as many cats as I do, I guess a couple more won't matter. As long as they have been neutered and can be outside cats, I take them. I get free cat food and the shelter helps me out by helping me get a break on spaying some of my cats. It isn't an ideal situation...they are wild cats, but at least they have a home and won't have to be euthanized.

I want it to be 6C and rainy. But on the west coast it's still below 0C, snow and ice on the ground and more snow forecast tonight and over the weekend. The trails are so icy that we can't run in them right now so we're having to drive down to the seawall along the ocean where there isn't as much snow and run along there and that's what we did today.. It's ok but the trails are more fun. Tomorrow I'll hit the gym and take my nieces dog for a walk, snowfall dependent. sighhhh. Have I mentioned, I'm sure I have, that we don't do cold and snow very well? Fights are breaking out over salt. Yes, we're fighting over salt because there is a shortage of it and it's needed for the driveways and sidewalks.

Thanks it is an exciting time for us! She is so happy:) here are some Images from my sons wedding it was so pretty...my daughter in law found this women that rents out all these vintage old pieces and creates beautiful centerpieces and than the florist added flowers and succulents..it was something I had never seen before....hard to top for sure!