Spring forward, Fall back

My entire family gets excited when “Daylight Savings” is discovered as we flip our calendar from February to March. Don’t you just love that extra hour of light? Even the phrase “Spring Forward” is so positive you can’t help but smile :-)
Here are some of the things I start thinking about as we enter Spring, please let me know what I have missed, I’d love to read your thoughts.

1. Let’s plan the garden, I need new dirt seeds and gloves :-D
2. The chickens are going to start laying an egg a day.
3. I can hang the umbrellas out of reach.
4. Increase the sprinkler time.
5. Start making summer foods like taco salad, pasta salad, salad.
6. Store away the down blankets.
7. Reset the porch light timers.
8. Clean off the BBQ.
9. Put away the sock’s, pull on the flip flops.
10. Lace up the rollerblades.
11. Clean up the bass boat, get ready to park the off shore boat in the
driveway, Tuna, Tuna, Tuna :-D
12. Pull out the baseball stuff.
13. Buy some more shorts and T-Shirts.
14. Plan a Cabo trip :-D
15. Books, buy more books.
16. Chapstick check, Sunscreen check, Bathing Suit check.
17. The frogs are back.
18. That stupid mocking bird is back too.
19. Summer is coming, schedule pool parties and get togethers.
20. Ahhh, the hammock, it's time for the hammock.
Happy March, Tracey



Incidents and Anecdotes


In September 1999, the West Bank was on Daylight Saving Time while Israel had just switched back to standard time. West Bank terrorists prepared time bombs and smuggled them to their Israeli counterparts, who misunderstood the time on the bombs. As the bombs were being planted, they exploded--one hour too early--killing three terrorists instead of the intended victims--two busloads


To keep to their published timetables, trains cannot leave a station before the scheduled time. So, when the clocks fall back one hour in October, all Amtrak trains in the U.S. that are running on time stop at 2:00 a.m. and wait one hour before resuming. Overnight passengers are often surprised to find their train at a dead stop and their travel time an hour longer than expected. At the spring Daylight Saving Time change, trains instantaneously become an hour behind schedule at 2:00 a.m., but they just keep going and do their best to make up the time


While twins born at 11:55 p.m. and 12:05 a.m. may have different birthdays, Daylight Saving Time can change birth order -- on paper, anyway. During the time change in the fall, one baby could be born at 1:55 a.m. and the sibling born ten minutes later, at 1:05 a.m. In the spring, there is a gap when no babies are born at all: from 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.

In November 2007, Laura Cirioli of North Carolina gave birth to Peter at 1:32 a.m. and, 34 minutes later, to Allison. However, because Daylight Saving Time reverted to Standard Time at 2:00 a.m., Allison was born at 1:06 a.m.



"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
- Charles Dickens

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
- Robin Williams

Favorite Quotes for March:

Births and Birthdays

Amtrak

Bombing Thwarted

When Someone Loves यू

When someone loves you, the way she says your name is different. You know that your name is safe in her mouth.

When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails, so my grandfather does it for her all the time.

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on cologne and they go out and smell each other.

Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.

Love is when my Mommy makes coffee for my Daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure it tastes OK.

Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and talk.

I see love when my Dad jokes around with my Mom.

Love is what’s in the room at Christmas if you stop for a minute and look around.

Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt and then he wears it every day.

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.

Love is like the “tweet tweet” of a bird.

My Mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.

You really shouldn’t say “I Love You” unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot.

I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.

Love is when you go out to eat and give someone most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.

And finally. . . A four year old boy’s elderly neighbor had recently lost his wife. Seeing the many cry, the little boy went into his yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to their neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.”



And that, my friends, is love. Nothing like a child’s perspective to remind us that it is the little things that make the biggest difference.

XOXOXO