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