Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for May 24, 2021

It was a real problem when I was a teenager and took my honey to the drive-in movie. Her curfew was usually about the time it got dark enough to start the movie.

Maybe they should have waited until after 5pm before reclining to work on their moon pallors.

In this area, at this time of year, sunsets at 9:42.

Doesn’t it get dark EARLIER in DST?

Bub inspired me to do likewise, but it was too cloudy. The vastness of space was foiled by a little water vapour.

Bub and Betty live in Canada – does it ever get dark up there in the summer?

15 hours 12 min. day today. Nautical twilight is 22:05

It is starlight. It’s only predominantly just one star providing it in abundance.

15 hours of daylight now. The window for the vastness of space is shrinking every day – but then, 7:00pm in January is kind of chilly in Wisconsin.

A native American once observed, “Only white man think cutting one end off of blanket and sewing on other end make blanket longer.”

It’s a conundrum. I live by clock time. We have mood lighting on our patio. In the winter when it’s dark early, it’s too inclement to sit out and enjoy them. When it’s warm enough to be outside, by my bedtime, it’s still too light out to see them.

I “AMEN” the “curse this daylight saving time”! (And it IS “saving”, not “savings”, just for clarification.) When the time changes from standard to dst, it discombobulates everybody for WEEKS, if not months. Wrecks abound because drivers are groggy. Kids have to go to bed when it’s still broad daylight outside. Bodies think it’s nine p.m. when the clock says ten, so insomnia is a major issue. The gov’t instituted dst during WWI (Germany established it first), and abolished it at war’s end. But anything gov’t created never really goes away, like trying to chop off the heads of the Hydra. More keep sprouting.

I remember laying on our lawn and looking up into the Milky Way. Now with light pollution you just see a couple of the brightest stars and planets.

Just moved to someplace a bit more rural. I am looking forward to some warm summer nights, the hot tub and little enough light pollution to see the night sky …

No Daylight Saving Time here in Arizona. We leave our clocks alone.

Old First-Nation Saying on Daylight Saving time.

“Only the White man would think that if he cut an inch off the bottom of the blanket and attached it to the top of the blanket he would have a bigger blanket.”