Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 27, 2023

Ahh, the aroma of the buzz.

Because I woke up and I get to see another sunrise.

Good and Morning are contradictory terms.

Love the mornings…so peaceful with the birds singing and a cup of coffee…Best part of the day.

When you retire, mornings are the best time. Not so great when you’re working, except maybe Sunday morning.

Its like they are videoing my mornings with my wife.

I love the smell of coffee in the morning and the sound of no one talking while I drink it

I’m with Arlo, and without the coffee . .

Being somewhat of an insomniac, I’m usually awake and up an hour before my wife. I sneak into the kitchen and make a cup of coffee and enjoy Go Comics for a few minutes before we go on our morning bike ride. When we get back, I finish coffee and the comics.

I’m so glad that I never became addicted to that stuff! Hot liquid that ramps you up? Nah!

I am a morning person, which is a good thing since I’m lucky if my dogs let me sleep until 5 am

Give her a chance to have a coffee first, Arlo.

I am one of those instant awake folks. Time in the military will do that and you cannot ever shut it off. I recognize those mornings SWMBO is not yet awake and simply sip my tea and shut my yap. Took 25 years to learn that. :-)

Mornings are great but they need to occur a bit later in the day.

What happened with the fire engines from yesterday?

A cup of hot tea and a comfy chair on the screened in porch. Ah, retirement. It’s already a great day.

Since I’ve “retired”, I usually get up whenever I wake up. Some mornings it’s 7:30, others it’s 3:30 or 4. I can’t stand trying to go back to sleep if it takes more than 20 minutes. A lot of times it’s because of things start running through my mind that I can’t let go. I might as well get up. I know they say that you should keep a regular schedule, but for 14 years I was working 12-hour night shift three days, then flipping it back to days the other four days so I could take care of the kids while the wife went to work.

No copyright year?

My dad and I were night people – mom and my sisters were morning people.

Husband was neither – he did not stay up as late as I did, but did not like rising early either. Being self-employed I was not pushed to rise early – just made all my appointments for when I could comfortably get there.

Since Covid we have gotten much worse. As I write this it is 2:54am. Husband has just come back down from his computer and we are having “bed time snack”, which is our third meal of the day, before we go to sleep. I rarely fall asleep before 6 am for the past year or so. We get out of bed at around noon or 1 pm (6-7 hours sleep). It tends towards my natural time. If we need to get up earlier for something – doctor appointment, reenactment event… we do so. Since we both work from home – extremely part time – it is not a problem. We are trying to get back to our old time frame of going to sleep between 2 and 3 am and getting up around 10 am.