Days are getting shorter......

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I just LOVE the fall in relation to rolling back the clocks!

I know, I know... I draw heat from people all the time, with them asking me, "are you crazy"? Or, "how can you like it getting dark sooner"?

Well, I don't have any real answer for them other than, I just like it. :)
 
I kind of like it, too. I enjoy the long summer evenings, but when they start to draw in and the nights get cool, I love the cozy feeling of turning on the lights and gathering around the dinner table.
 

Della said:
I kind of like it, too. I enjoy the long summer evenings, but when they start to draw in and the nights get cool, I love the cozy feeling of turning on the lights and gathering around the dinner table.
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You and I are so alike, Della! :)

Me, too! I always feel that our home become more of a home from fall until spring, account lights turned on, the fireplace going, board games being played, heavier meals that stick to the ribs, it all fits part-and-parcel into the whole getting darker, sooner theme.
 
Aunt Marg said:
I just LOVE the fall in relation to rolling back the clocks!

I know, I know... I draw heat from people all the time, with them asking me, "are you crazy"? Or, "how can you like it getting dark sooner"?

Well, I don't have any real answer for them other than, I just like it. :)
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I'm the same way @Aunt Marg....luv everything about Fall and Winter....
 
Heh, I seem to love any season

But autumn, it holds so many special things

I think the turning leaves do it most for me

Brilliance
Their last dance

Don't know why so many are so obsessed with raking them

A walk thru the maples is unmatched in autumn
A good coat
Crisp air
A frolicking dog
I think dogs are happiest in autumn

This one is
 
Since I stopped working I don't really notice it as much.

When I was working it was depressing to get up and sip coffee in the dark listening to the traffic reports wondering if the car would start and heading off to work in the cold darkness only to turn around and come home in the dark a few hours later.

Those early morning cigarettes definitely helped but that was then and this is now.

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Pappy said:
Lamps are coming on earlier in the Pappy household. Florida is serious about not changing the clocks here. Hope it goes through soon.
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I never thought I would agree with something people in Florida do. The whole idea of changing clocks to go "green" is pure BS. Changing clocks adds to light filled evening hours, so we have more opportunities to spend money. Conversely, when it's cold and customers are not in the store at night, why pay to be open for evening hours. I think changing clocks is a needless tradition.
 
Aunt Bea said:
Since I stopped working I don't really notice it as much.

When I was working it was depressing to get up and sip coffee in the dark listening to the traffic reports wondering if the car would start and heading off to work in the cold darkness only to turn around and come home in the dark a few hours later.

Those early morning cigarettes definitely helped but that was then and this is now.

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Just love the picture, Aunt Bea!

As a smoker, though I only smoke two, sometimes three cigarettes a day, the picture makes me want to pour myself a cup of coffee and light a cigarette.
 
When I lived in the frozen north (Michigan), in the winter I went to work in the frozen dark and came home in the frozen dark. I worked in a building with no windows. Unless I went out for lunch, I didn't see daylight for days. I was not a happy camper.

I remember one year when I was a teen that Indiana didn't go on DST (or maybe it was that it didn't change back from DST). It was a major brouhaha because the feds required any interstate transportation operate on "federal time" but any intrastate transportation could operate on "state time". Thus, if a bus was traveling from Indianapolis to Dayton, Ohio, it left on federal time. If it was only going to Ft. Wayne, it left on state time. If the bus stopped in Fort Wayne but then went on to Dayton, it left on Federal time. So if you were taking a bus to Fort Wayne you'd darn better determine if it went on to Dayton or not so you'd know if the 3:00 p.m. departure was federal or state 3:00 p.m. What a mess!
 
Aunt Marg said:
You and I are so alike, Della! :)

Me, too! I always feel that our home become more of a home from fall until spring, account lights turned on, the fireplace going, board games being played, heavier meals that stick to the ribs, it all fits part-and-parcel into the whole getting darker, sooner theme.
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Oh you are speaking directly to my heart, in fact your post is rather romantic. Thanks
 
Looks like I'm the only one who hates it getting dark earlier but I have some good reasons.
The Fall darkness reminds me of losing every one of my family members in the dark Fall months. It's a really tough season for me and no wonder I suffer from SAD.
Seasonal affective disorder occurs in climates where there is less sunlight at certain times of the year.
Symptoms include fatigue, depression, hopelessness, and social withdrawal.
Treatment includes light therapy (phototherapy), talk therapy, and medications.
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I have that feeling also on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Always remember the happy family gatherings and the delicious food everyone cooked. Now all but a few aunts and cousins still with us. The aunts are too old to want to bother and the cousins just don't see thing the same way as years ago. It will be worse this year because so many holiday festivities are being cancelled. That means not even a grab bag gift to open.
 
debodun said:
I have that feeling also on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Always remember the happy family gatherings and the delicious food everyone cooked. Now all but a few aunts and cousins still with us. The aunts are too old to want to bother and the cousins just don't see thing the same way as years ago. It will be worse this year because so many holiday festivities are being cancelled. That means not even a grab bag gift to open.
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Deb,

Look on the bright side you could be spending Christmas in a smelly old stable.

Get busy and start planning a little luncheon at a local restaurant, update the mailing list and get those holiday cards written.

"Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer
 
I never minded the dark. Everything is so much more intimate and I like the idea of my evening meal after the sun goes down. So often we find that it is still very light out in the summer even when dining at 8:00 pm. One thing I do dislike is the smell of roasting chestnuts which one can detect all over NY and just across the Hudson in NJ when it begins to cool down. The air is just too cloyingly sweet with their aroma.
 
Aunt Bea said:
Since I stopped working I don't really notice it as much.

When I was working it was depressing to get up and sip coffee in the dark listening to the traffic reports wondering if the car would start and heading off to work in the cold darkness only to turn around and come home in the dark a few hours later.

Those early morning cigarettes definitely helped but that was then and this is now.

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Rush hour(s) in the dark was SUCH fun, wasn't it?
 

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