The Daylight Savings Time Transition

I am very happy that we are getting more and more minutes of sunlight each day. Still, I struggle with what seems like such a late sunrise in March. Plus, since it is still a bit cold, we still have snow mounds, and where there aren't snow mounds, the ground is wet and muddy, and then freezes again overnight. This makes outdoor time less fun than it should. Was it earlier this year than other years? I seem to remember it being towards the end of March, not the first half. Either way, I struggle both in the fall and spring, but more so each spring, with the changing of the clocks. It seems to take about two full weeks for my body to match to the new operating hours.It's not just me. Recently an article popped up in my news feed about how daylight saving time affects your health and wellness.

Yesterday afternoon, I was attempting to take Pup for a much needed long walk. I saw my neighbor with Pup's buddy and they were pretty excited to see each other. Both dogs like to go down this long sidewalk, and if we are really ambitious, cross the highway to where there is a good forested walking path. Right now though, several parts of the sidewalk in both directions are flooded messes, meaning we would have to take the street. This was about 5:45 when loads of folks are getting home from work. It was not quite safe for taking the road, so we both just continued around our big block, withthe  dogs moaning and pulling for us to go down the paths, also flooded, to the park. Neighbor uttered the horrid words too-another big snow is expected. Not the first day of spring I would like. 

I've been up since 5:30, and still no sunrise at 6:26. In about 30 minutes I'll be driving to work, still in mostly darkens. I am a four season kind of gal. I just wish the length of the season would be summer five months, fall three months, spring thee months, and maybe leave winter the month of December. I hear there are places like this in the world.

Remember this? Sun and green!