Day by Dave by Dave Whamond for December 21, 2024

So that’s what that song is about…

I know sunset is different in different parts of the country, but according to the internet in eastern New Jersey it’s 4:34 PM tonight.

Only 88 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes till Spring!

So of course I woke up at 5:30 am and couldn’t get back to sleep.

And then the days will start getting longer again.

Maude got hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder.

With it getting so dark so early, it makes people feel like a mushroom in a dark dank basement….U. G. H. ! ☹️

But one could just tale a stroll and gather their thoughts and breathe in the cool night air to clear their heads. ☺️

Around here the earliest sunset was a week ago; The sun will set one minute later than that tonight. The earliest sun rise, however, is still over a week away. While we gained a minute in the evening, we lost a minute and a half in the morning.

It’s a good night to watch movies! I’m screening a cartoon feature!

Far better than sunrise not happening until 8a or 730a or 7a.

Thankfully the artist didn’t say 4 P.M. in the afternoon. One of my biggest “get off my lawn/old man yelling at the clouds” gripe is when people say (say) 7 A.M. in the morning. Stop it! It’s up there with Daylight Savings Time.

Celebrate with Krispy Kringle donuts.

Right now (7:30) where i’m at, it’s dark.

Sunrise is in 20 minutes.

Sunset at 5:25 pm here.

Yay Happy Solstice! Now the days will start getting longer here!

But that’s OK, because THIS IS IT! Starting today, we finally start taking our sun and our daylight BACK from the land down under.

I understand that there are practical reasons in many circumstances for people to want daylight to linger, but a purely affective aversion to long dark evenings is hard for me to grasp . If I were in this cartoon, the reason I’d have for feeling gloomy is precisely that, from now on, the incursions of the afternoon sun on “my old friend” dark evenings are going to be more and more transgressive.

5:33 Central Florida

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes …!

( and it’s alright )

And such begins the winter of my discontent. Winter… my least favorite season of the year.

Sol-stice literally means Sun-Stop. On this day the sun stops moving (as it has been) relatively south. It has reached its furthest position south – being over the Tropic of Capricorn. It will now seem to move relatively north until the summer solstice in June in the Northern Hemisphere until it is seen over the Tropic of Cancer

The sun also stops moving lower and lower in the sky at local noon. From now until the summer solstice it will be seen higher and higher in the sky at local noon in the Northern Hemisphere.

I don’t have any further scientific information to enlighten (pun intended) everyone, but this was dang funny. One of Dave’s best.

our motto all winter long is one day closer to spring… ☺

I know a number of folks who moved to Alaska, and moved back to the lower 48 after one year… the winter darkness was just unbearable…

I love, love, TRIPLE LOVE the early dark! I cannot abide long daylight hours. I loathe Daylight Saving Time. That’s when I have SAD.

I am NOT the only one who feels this way.