Sadly daylight savings time is still in power.
We have no choice in the matter and, in answer to your question, no, daylight savings is not my friend.
I can do without it. We are forced to turn our clocks back on November 05 or get left behind because – you know:
😀Spring Forward
😖Fall Back
Which stinks really. I hate being forced to do anything. And Di our friend has reminded me that no one has changed daylight savings. Though to be fair I am sure the powers that be are busy with more important things lately.
Slowly the Sunday Podcast and Wednesday Farmy SoundScape over at SubStack is making a little money. (Which goes to feeding the rescue pigs) (The subscription is still at the super low price of $5 a month). But I don’t earn enough yet to pay me to write, so I have taken to helping a friend clean offices in the evenings. And I don’t even start until I have gotten The Matriarch fed and into bed, which makes for late nights.
I am at least getting ahead of cooking for her.
I can grow lots of food on the farm but it is hard to make money from the land (as you know) and now the oven has broken (so no bread making) and the land taxes are due. And I need a new pair of work boots. Plus, rumour has it, taxes on the land – we call them rates in NZ – are going up. A lot. Next cycle. So if I am to get to see my kids (traveling is expensive too but imperative for me) I need to take on more work. Cleaning is not too badly paid you know and the exercise is good for me!
Life is so full of conundrums and Catch 22’s. It makes me tired thinking about all of the threads that knit and twist through our lives. We have to be careful to pay attention and initiate that stitch in time. Or the whole thing unravels.
But now ( with the clocks turning back) I will be even later getting back home to bed after driving through the dark lonely country roads.
But I will still be waking at the same time in the morning so technically I will have more writing time.
The other positive about late night cleaning is that all the driving gives me lots of time to think so I am recording Sustainable Story ideas as I drive.
How do you adapt to twice a year time changes. Daylight is still daylight! There is not enough of it!
Have a lovely day!
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
13 responses to “Is Daylight Saving your Friend?”
Imagine having to reset the blocks of Stonehenge twice a year.
Ha ha!! Great analogy. Yes! Adjusting time doesn’t work!!
Good morning. I am having trouble. Cant read the rest of this post on either iPhone or iPad. Am I the only one? We are still waiting for the offshore and other late votes to be counted but should know in a few days the outcome of the election. Otherwise life goes on as usual in this side of the world Cheers Judith
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I like the change in the fall, as it makes it easier to get up in the morning! And I’ve started deliberately snugging in in the evenings when it gets dark early. But I do love those long hours of daylight in summer and suppose I’d have them regardless of daylight savings time. The spring change is a killer, but if I just get in bed at the right time, it’s okay…
I was excited last year when I was sure the time change would stop…, only to be disappointed that it would continue, so no, I’d rather not jump back and forth attempting to control the passage of time. Quite a strange concept, it seems to me. I’m not crazy about darkness falling at 5:00! But, anyway, ‘it is what it is’ as it was written in a recent blog post! 😉
An expression we all justifiably hate!!
I wish we stayed on Daylight Savings Time. I hate the time change in November to standard, it gets dark way too early and it makes me want to hibernate. I’d much rather have the light at the end of the day, the mornings can be what they may.
But, no one asked my permission to rob the day of light!
One never ever gets used to it.
I don’t think the time should change at all: it’s a stupid man-made concept that alienates people from the natural cycles of light and darkness throughout the year. Let “standard time” be standard time.
I agree! Totally!
In Canada, Yukon and Saskatchewan do not change their clocks but stay on permanent daylight time. BC and Ontario were on board too and I think they passed legislation a few years ago but won’t implement because they want to align with the US. Ummm we have different time zones so why does it matter? Boggles me why they even passed legislation for it only to say they could do it but actually won’t 😒. I don’t like waking in the dark and leaving the office in the dark. Statistics also show that there are more accidents following the time change. No one seems to like it or agree with it and research shows it isn’t beneficial to us so I’m not sure why we do it, seems silly. One of those cases where we do it because that’s what we have done.
Why on earth would anyone want to align with the US when it comes to time! Silly – just don’t want to spend the money!
We in Arizona don’t do no stinkin DST. It is marvelous
Only drawback is trying to remember are we now with California or New Mexico for 6 months.