Good Morning???

Hi All,

I hope all of you have recalled today is the beginning of Standard Daylight Time. Oh yeah, time to turn the ole clock back an hour and start living your life an hour earlier than you have, in many months. I was wondering last week what it would be like not to change the clocks twice a year and just live standard time all year long. I've never lived exclusively on standard time, so I have no idea what that would be like. More Sun in the AM, an abbreviated evening in the summertime? It could be nice. Fewer children out at 9PM during the summer when they should be inside and less annoying to their neighbors.

So this brings me to an interesting research question; do we have more large earthquakes during standard time, or daylight savings time? Does the Earth care what time, we all get up and stamp, walk or drive across her surface? It's a curious thought. During Daylight Savings Time we are active on the surface more than during Standard Daylight Time, so is there any correlation between one time standard than the other? I'm very curious.

For me, I experience several days akin to jet lag. Somehow my body finds it difficult to eat an hour earlier especially. But, more than any other point I wish to make is if this program was really developed to help America's farmers, has no one yet acknowledged that the farmer most likely owns a clock of is own? Can he not get up when he wants to and go to bed when he wants to? Why does he need all of America to work on his time scale? There must be more to this than meets the eye. I know of no other more privileged group in America.

I love the farmer. He lives the life I'd love to live. To be his own personal business manager, live in the country, enjoy nature and produce something you can see, feel and enjoy. A person who can see an accomplishment for their labor. So perhaps today, we should all celebrate the coming of winter. The time when the wind blows harder, you have to drive in difficult weather at time and yet arrive home and make a cozy fire and say ahhhh.
The positive side of the change is having more evening hours to settle down and accomplish interior goals not met during the longer sunnier evenings. For most people who are crafter's they have about three months to create artistic endeavors we often receive at Christmas. For the researchers, it provides more time to settle into a firm goal-oriented plan and for students, more time to hit the books earlier and see the results in higher grades. It is a plus and minus event for sure.

However, today Don, Jan and I will make our way to Fort Ross. Discover what the Russians did during their occupation on our northern California coast and do some field research to see what the Earth has given up along the coastline. It will be cold most likely, but the Russian's were used to cold weather, thus we will walk upon the land they called home and discover what it meant to them. My personal Russian descendants's arrived in Colorado in the 1800's, just about the same time as the one's in California. An interesting correlation for me.

I hope all of you enjoy this new day, in our new time frame.

Petra