Daylight Savings Time

This is how I feel at 7A.M.


This is one of the things I could do without. It isn't so bad in the fall--you get that extra hour of sleep. But when the time changes in the spring it takes weeks to adjust. I am still sleeping until


7 A.M. even though the clock lies and says it is 8 A.M. This reminds me of my Grandpa David. He never changed the time on his clocks. He just made the mental adjustment if he had to go to town for groceries, or if he wanted to watch a tv show. He was stubborn personified. (Now we all know where that trait comes from in members of my immediate family.)


Backwoods Home Magazine has a humorous comments list, and a quote from there states, "You will never find anyone who can give a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time."


Why are we so unmotivated and unwilling to just go ahead and get up an hour earlier without changing the clocks? It would be so easy to just say, "We are going to start work at 7 instead of 8 for the summer." I remember back in the 60's and 70's when I worked at a factory with time clocks, and twice a year the company had to have the clocks reset. What a job! It involved a lot of taking apart, resetting, and griping and moaning. It even occasionally involved some slamming down of tools.


OK. That's my gripe for today. I will get accustomed to the time change. Likely just in time for it to change again.


Happy early rising to you all


Grandma in the yellow house