Time to Get Up - Daylight Savings Time
It's an hour later today, but it's time to get up at 8:00 for church. Unfortunately, I didn't get the luxury of sleeping beyond the normal time. Jeff (my husband) dog, Inara, wakes up flapping her ears. Her internal rymth tells her it's time to wake Dad up. She trots into the bedroom and rounds the bed to Jeff's side nudging him to wake up. He tells her to go back and lay down. My cat, Newt, comes in and requests breakfast.
In twenty minutes, Jeff rises from the bed and begins the morning routine; letting the dogs out, feeding the dogs and feeding Newt his wet food.
Daylight Savings Time (DST)
is antiquated and some states have already abolished DST. The logic behind the practice of moving clocks forward is for restoring daylight time in the morning hours. As winter approaches it becomes darker in the morning and the days shorten. The natural result is that it also shortens evening hours (what evening hours??).
I will begin work now in the morning light, logging in at 7:45. My work day ends at 4:30. Now, daylight will be vanished before we prepare dinner.
My internal clock will not soon reset. I will still awaken at the old time for the next one or two weeks. I'm so thankful that I'm in a "remission" of migraine, most likely because the Botox was effective on the last session. My next session for injections mid December. In the past DST really effects the migraines and I'm plagued with complete exhaustion. Once my body adjusts, it will be fine until Spring when we turn the clocks back the hour we "gained" today.
Are you a fan of DST?
Photo is of my cat Newt.
This is my five minute freewrite
using prompt time to get up by @mariannewest
Our clocks went back an hour last week. What a crazy system! There was some talk of ending the nonsense last year but what with the 'pandemic' it seems to have fallen by the wayside. I remember reading somewhere that there are a lot of workplace accidents attributed to the time change and a fair number of heart attacks. As for the cat, NEWT? Really? I think bear, Yeti, or Bigfoot would be more appropriate:)
Yeah, I hate DST. Newt was a foundling un the woods. He was a tiny kitten meowing off the side of the road when I was walking. I thought he was female so named him Newt after the little girl in Alien. A week or so later I was in Florida and my son's wife (soon to be ex-wife) called to tell me Newt was male 😁. Thanks for stopping by!
I know that when I had school aged children, I loved that I didn't have to send them out to the bus in the dark. Now, I don't really care much. I found out recently that the Amish do not change their clocks, no matter where they live.
I didn't know that about that regarding the Amish. We actually live near Amish country. My granddaughter just moved 20 minutes away into the thick of it in NW Pennsylvania. Have a wonderful day.
Have we had the talk about NW PA? I'm in SW NYS, Allegany county. Lots and lots of Amish here. Very welcome population to have nearby!
I don't recall if we did. Yes, they're typically quiet folk.
To me it feels more like a loss than a gain. One precious hour of daylight I'm longing to claim back! Nice freewrite, keep it up :)
Thank you so much :) have a wonderful day!