Coffee

[flowerbug]

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.

 

[ducks4you]

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 .

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

 

[digitS']

I'm coming back to this, when the garden season is over and I have time to digest it! ...

 

[digitS']

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