Coffee

i've been to Germany, Ukraine, England and then wandered the US Mint looking up how many dollar coins were minted in the last 20 something years.

breakfast was some apples with peanut butter. hopefully enough to keep me from raiding the cookie dough that Mom will be into soon.

digitS' said:

Where did you go this morning ?

Drifted off from a National Geography article I read yesterday on the last days of the Neanderthals to archeological digs in Burgos Spain. Took a little drive on Google Streetview down a one lane road. Of course, this brought me back to TEG click & click.

Ended up reading a letter from Mother Teresa . I had finished breakfast by then .

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YOU went back 14 years to find this!!!!
ReMARKABLE!!!

Out at 6AM and it was light enough to see!

Of course, this means that DST will start soon. If'n you think that we will ever get off that change, well, more power to you. The advantage businesses have, especially with outdoor workers, they count on an official change of the clocks to avoid annual labor negotiations.

What us retired folks can appreciate is both not being jerked around so much but also how quickly we gain more sunlight at this time of year. Daylength change is certainly noticeable at 48⁰North on about a weekly schedule. We are gaining about 3½ minutes each day . So, the sun is up daily a tiny bit earlier and disappears in the west a tiny bit later, each day. After 7 days, we have gained over 20 minutes!

I tried to find a chart showing this rate of change a little more clearly than this but this was the best that I could come up with — daily changes in minutes for the first 6 months of the year to the Summer Solstice in June:

In North America, 30⁰N is Houston Texas and northern Florida. 45⁰N is northern Oregon, Minneapolis, Quebec just north of the border with New York. 60⁰ N is Anchorage Alaska, northern border of British Columbia, NW Territories ... Big Jumps

My biggest indicator, since we are up on a hill and face west, is the sun is moving towards the north now. Its about half way there, in our field of vision.

I know it's Spring when I am enjoying coffee in the morning looking east out of my living room window (next to the porch), and I get blinded by the early sunlight.

we have Igor (a blob of cement on a pedestal with small mirrors on it which cast beams from the sun at certain times of the season) - it's like a mini Stonehenge. none of it is pre-designed or planned, it just happened.



the picture name includes the time i took the picture but it may be off by some amount since that clock doesn't often get synchronised with another clock (and maybe an hour too because of the time changes sometimes i don't get that corrected right away).

So @flowerbug , the light reflected from Igor in the garden ..

. searches you out indoors ..

. during appropriate gardening times of the year?

6-7 days we'll see if the @digitS' align and the sunbeam is out...

It is a really nice sunny morning. I am having my coffee and I am going to take my onion seedlings out to the patio greenhouse. I never did buy the replacement cover for it, so I am going to take some plastic over the door that is all torn. I will buy the cover soon. I have been busy helping DD and going places with her and spending my money on baby shower gifts.

I am going to start working on clearing a path for the truck that delivers the cow manure. I am getting a little done here and there. I have some kale and cabbage seeds up and a lot of marigolds.