I have eggs hatching right now!! Little baby Black Copper Marans (good ones) and a handful of Rhode Island Reds (better!) I had four out and nothing else pipped, when I went to bed. I was worried that that was all I was going to get. I woke up to two more out and one more almost done zipping. I guess they are going to take turns so each gets it's moment in the spotlight. I only have one RIR chick out. It hatched from a tiny pullet egg. It was almost a large wind egg, but not quite. It was one of the first out and is a tenacious little thing. I may have to pull it out as it runs around pecking at the umbi stumps of all the others.....the little cuss.
Happy Daylight Savings Time!
You know you are an old timer when you look forward to springing forward for DST all winter and dread falling back all summer.
How is it that "Standard Time" is 4 months and "Daylight Savings Time" is 8 months? Seems to me it should be "Standard Time" from early March to early November (*) since that period is twice as long as the "other" period which should be called "Daylight Wasting Time".
Or we could just get rid of it all together. It just screws people up twice a year and it isn't just a one night hit each time. Just as I was starting to wake up with the sun last week, BOOM still dark for another hour, turn on the lights. And come November, boom, sun goes down at 4:30 instead of 5:30, turn on the lights. Presumably the "value" is in not using incandescent lights quite as much at night. But LEDs and CFLs (which I won't buy now that we have LEDs) use SO much less electricity than equivalent incandescents, there is no energy saving at all with other energy using devices being used more in the "extra daylight" periods.
* Used to be April through Oct. Thanks (NOT!) GWB and Republican majority Congress for the "extra" month of daylight.
There are LOTS of ways to lace shoes.
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
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That will larn me, not insisting on the full work up!
