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Let those of us who do, fall backwards!
:). Hello writers. In the states an old tradition that dates back to some really cool history (depending on who you ask, I am somewhat of a dork in my special interests, one being history) and which has drawn a lot of attention in recent years... the changing of the clocks. Where I am in the US we 'spring' an hour forward when winter is at an end and we 'fall' back an hour as we transition into winter. SO my challenge is... you are given one extra hour Sunday night November 1st of this year at 2am. How would you fill that 'extra' hour, what would you do during this sanctioned time traveling? I plan to send a lil 'juice' to my favorite. Have fun and I look forward to responses! :) Oh... ya know what...If you are someone who has in the past voted (yes it has been on a ballot or two) and you feel strongly about the abolishment of the tradition, please by all means state your case... but please live in an area that is effected by the practice. Perhaps 'juice' will come to a great argument as well. yeah!
Cover image for post How/How much we invest in Resetting of the Clocks, by REllyn

How/How much we invest in Resetting of the Clocks

While many attend frenzied Druid Winter Solstice celebrations, our family instead ushers in The Resetting of the Clocks. Ours is a milder affair perhaps, yet we approach it with verve. Rather than the hot cocoa we drank when the kids were young, we sample food or drink from other cultures. This year, we’ll taste European drinks, radlers and shandies, and a South American favorite, the clamata. We’ll wait to imbibe these exciting peculiarities this year however until after we’ve returned from our venture out.

You see, our buddy Henry will be released from jail on 11/1, and county policy dictates that inmates be turned out at 11:59 p.m. We know good and well that the $10 bill he’ll be handed will get him only so far as the bar next door to the jail. So we’ll swing by to rendezvous with Henry and take him to his home, aka his favorite campsite. We already have a fresh sleeping bag waiting for him. We’ll add a piping hot cup of coffee from our kitchen and a few square meals that should hold him until he gets his feet on the ground.

But there’s one more tradition to carry out. When we get back home from running our errand and the drinks and fun have been had, we still don’t turn back in for the rest of the night quite yet. For we have to walk around our house barefoot. Though fraught with risk of stepping on rocks or hookworms, we take our chances each year. Our ancestors who arrived in this land from Germany habitually did this upon the first snowfall of the year, so that’s good enough for us. Also, as a nod to our German heritage, we end our spring Resetting of the Clocks mid-night fest by lighting a bonfire.

Here’s hoping there won’t be snow on the ground by 11/1 for our barefoot promenade! But if there is, so be it!

By the way, we love our practices, but not only that. We also love the practicality of resetting the time! When we hear talk of discontinuing the 'time change' to become like most of those poor AZ folk who don't reset their internal and external clocks, we're appalled! In our neck of the woods, the amount of daylight changes by a four-hour swing! So by resetting in the fall, we mitigate the mornings from being so dark quite so early. The system works so well for us, we aim to keep it!