Friday, March 07, 2014

I can almost smell them from here...


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    The good Guv would appreciate it if folks would send a card to his Mom who isn't feeling well. I can give you more info, but not on a blog where it could be Googled. If you're interested, send me an email and I'll send you the address and particulars.

    Let me know here if you need my address.

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    1. Sure.

      --Alan

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    2. Oh, I misunderstood. E-mail to come.--Alan

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    3. Thanks, Alan! Email backatcha. :-)

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  2. Up to 44F. Almost springlike temps, although I doubt the snow will be gone by the time we set our clocks forward. Seems particularly silly to "spring forward" while it's still winter.

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    1. It's 39F here with a perfectly clear deep blue sky! I agree about the time change. Bush did it, which explains a lot.

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    2. Cat, it used to be that we'd Spring forward in early April and Fall back in late October, but Bush changed it so that we Spring forward about a month earlier and Fall back a week or more later.

      The original Spring forward date was April 30th (1916)!

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    3. Oh, old George. Yes, I remember now. I thought you meant Dubya and was confused. Yes, I am still disoriented by the change in when the clocks change, though it has been a good few years.

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    4. Actually, Cat, it was Dubya. He's the one who made us have to change the clocks in March and November instead of April and October. If I had my druthers we'd go back to pre-1916 style and leave the clocks alone! Interesting that it was started by the Germans during WWI, eh? Heh.

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    5. I should clarify that Ben Franklin first thought it up, but it was the Germans who first implemented it.

      Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which established the time change and the dates for DST.
      The changes now occur the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November.

      DST is not observed in Hawaii, America Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands or Arizona.

      I'll take Hawaii over Arizona any day. ;-)

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    6. My religion discourages spending money in Arizona, but Hawaii is awfully remote.

      --Alan

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    7. I've spent about 6 hours in Hawaii. Brief release from a troop ship headed toward (peacetime) Korea. Not enough time to make any sort of judgment. I've been to Arizona a couple of times. Pleasant even in summer (yeah, I'm weird) and extremely scenic. Not sure there's any place there I would really want to live, though.

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  3. Does anyone else remember The Castle Number Nine by the author of the Madeline stories?

    http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM1692654&R=1692654

    http://madeline.com/friends/bapindx.htm#fire

    It's a delightful story, very, very funny. When I was a little girl, I had LPs of Carol Channing reading the Madeline stories, and on Side 2 of one of the records was The Castle Number Nine. I always loved it, maybe because it's really about language. I think of it sometimes because one of the Count's invention is friend at both ends for his dog because the dog licks his hand and wags it's tail. Well, my kitties don't often lick my hand, but they do very often wiggle their ears and wave their tails. - friends at both ends. Tonight I finally got around to googling the story.

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    1. No, I don't remember that one; but I can hear Carol Channing's voice in my mind.
      --Alan

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  4. Hope everyone caught this note:


    * * * Action Item * * *

    The good Guv would appreciate it if folks would send a card to his Mom who isn't feeling well. I can give you more info, but not on a blog where it could be Googled. If you're interested, send me an email and I'll send you the address and particulars.

    Let me know here if you need my address.

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