Hi
This is just a freindly reminder to set your clocks back 1 hour this Saturday.(unless you live in Indiana and Arizonia I believe).Time changes effected our schedule where I used to work how about for you Railroad guys and gals?I will need the extra hour of sleep because I’m watching my nephew get suckered[:D]oops married.
stay safe[8D]
Joe
I don’t have to worry about this. Here in Saskatchewan we don’t have daylight savings time. The one bad thing about it though is that all the TV stations move their shows back an hour, which screws things up for when I watch TV.
Where are you in Saskatchewan, I have family there.
Adrianspeeder
Man, its gonna be dark like at five here again! Daylight savings time makes no sense whatsoever to me.
Wow, that rolled around fast. I remember last year when we changed the clocks I was pregnant and two weeks overdue.
No changes for my schedule other than hoping that this means the boys will be going to sleep an hour earlier…
Thanks for the reminder!
–Nora
Nora
are you settled in?if not the pictures can wait.
stay safe[:)]
Joe
Hey Joe, If we got caught, why should your nephew escape. Keep encouraging him and let him find out for himself.
Joe and Scottydog: I cannot believe you two fine fellows are badmouthing the wonderful institution of marriage!!! My Bob is husband no. 3 and the best of the group. Maybe one just has to keep trying! LOL
Nance 69
And just to keep this about railroads----I have become a railfan too because of Bob’s influence. I take him to Tucson to see the trains and have bought him two scanners to listen to the railroads. He does let me use one of the scanners! LOL
Nance69
is it that time of the year already? man, time flies fast when your watching trains
Alaskaman
You said that it gets dark at 5:00. HOw long is your night hours there this time of year?
All I know about the time, is that it is the perfect time of the year for photos of abandoned railroad right-of-ways.
Brian (KY)
As we get older we get smarter, don’t we! [8D]
Mookie
AND an important message from the International Association of Fire Chiefs, your local fire department, me (a fire chief), and the Eveready Bunny: When you change your clocks (and even if you don’t), change the batteries in your smoke detectors. It’s a change you can live with.
No smoke detectors? Shame!
Tree! Been watching your name - and wondering about it - now I know - you work for the Fire Department and cats go up trees - now I know why it was so intriguing!
Mookie has to spend the better part of an afternoon - changing clocks and batteries - 3 smoke detectors and only 812 square feet! (3 floors!) And a really nice 2 truck fire department - just across the street! [8)]
Mook
Interesting tidbits…Benjamin Franklin came up with Daylight Savings time…and…a railroader came up with Time Zones…Sir Stanford Flemming (might have the name mispelt) worked for the Canadian Pacific…he wanted to make things easier for them. At one time, every town and city kept its own time (sometimes it would shift five minutes when you went to a neighboring town), and every railroad had a clock for each town…stations served by more than one would have several clocks, and heaven help the poor soul who checked the wrong clock and missed the train!
~Ra’akone
I tell ya- its weird. We go from a lot of daylight (19 hrs min) to little daylight (4hrs 30min) In the winter sun sets at 3 :40.
All the way up north they either have no sun, or sun all day.
Choose one time and stick to it…
I’m sorry but the concept of “daylight savings time” is obsolete to me.
I beleive it was instituted to allow farmers extra daylight but now its obsolete.
Sure I get at wake up an hour later but I have to go to bed an hour earlier and it always takes me two months to adjust.
How do we get this stupid anachronistic practice relegated to the slag heap of history?
Actually it’s because I’m 6’5" - Was bestowed on me in high school (originally as a sort of insult) and I’m still using it many years later.
We don’t get many calls for cats in trees after we arrived one day and pulled out the 12 guage. [:D] Besides - when was last time you saw a dead cat in a tree?
A few years ago, I was sitting in Sarajevo as part of IFOR, which came in following the UN debacle to keep the Serbians, Muslims and Croats from continuing their little rampage against each other. Bosnia had been largely divided among ethnic lines and was still in the process of developing its post war government. The Serbians were still fairly upset about the NATO intervention and all things european, so when the time change was to come about they refused to cooperate. So for a week or so, clocks in Serbian zones were one hour ahead of clocks in the rest of the country, which created quite a local stir, since NATO was trying to get local services like…umm the railroads back on line. So everyone else had to switch back to original time, then Bosnia was off from the rest of Europe until everyone could agree to make the switch…
AHHHH - you didn’t use the 12 gauge did you!!! I will let you in on a little secret - if you get Mookie up a tree, you will have to use more than a 12 gauge to get her out! Not even chocolate cake will work - course, the trick is getting her in there to begin with!
Moo