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Comment on Breaking Radio Silence and Baking Bread by Grandma Marie

Grandma Marie — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:36:10 +0000

Dear Gina, Ah… resolutions. Well, I made two of them. #1: Say a prayer
every day for my loved ones. I also try to go to church several times a week.
(That ‘s pretty easy since I work at a Catholic school) #2: Always return my
shopping cart to the cart corral in the parking lot, no matter how much of a
hurry I ‘m in! So far, I have been able to keep both of them. I don t know if
I could do the baking bread. I hate heating up the kitchen with the oven in the summer. But I do love warm bread! Love ya, Mom

Comment on Breaking Radio Silence and Baking Bread by PAPA Dave

PAPA Dave — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:20:43 +0000

Well I have a promise to keep to myself and to Mom and to you guys and the grandkids, as soon as I can over the next year or two I am going to lose 100 lbs and I am sorry to say your great fresh or frozen bread cannot be on the menu as bread and pasta, Ice cream and candy are my down falls, it will be healthy choice meals, soup and salads for me. While I may not have much control over what I eat I must try and I do not want to do what one other large and fully New Jersery guy did to get thin, plus I am not going to run for president unelss its president of the grandkids playtime club. for me it’s been a rough week another year older, the company auditors here for two weeks travel 3 days last week and then in about a week a mad dash to see you and then Sara graduate and they fly off to Texas from So Cal and then back home on Wednesday of that week, we even have to take two cars to the airport one for me and one for Mom to get home sunday, some days I just wish the only work i would have would be to come to your house and take care of the kids all day, the older you get the more you think at least I do. Well we miss you all see you Friday night give the Kids a BIG PAPA Dave hug

Comment on Pacific Damned Time by Luke

Luke — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:51:37 +0000

Latest data shows as a nation of 311 million we save enough energy to power 120,000 homes. Personally I loath daylight saving.

Comment on Pacific Damned Time by PAPA Dave

PAPA Dave — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:44:41 +0000

Hers the history my little ones; Benjamin Franklin is sometimes credited with the invention of daylight saving time. In 1784, he made a joking reference to something like daylight saving in a letter from France — but apparently never thought anything of the sort would ever be adopted.

There’s now broad agreement among historians that the true mastermind of daylight saving time was George Vernon Hudson (1867-1946), a specialist in insect biology (entomology) who left England for New Zealand in 1881. In 1895, when he first presented the idea to the Royal Society of New Zealand, he was mocked. Other members of the society deemed the proposal confusing and unnecessary. But attitudes changed, and he lived to see his brainchild adopted by many nations — including, in 1927, his own. How did a guy who spent most of his free time studying bugs come up with the idea of daylight saving time? It all began because Hudson became frustrated because dusk came so early in summer that it interfered with his evening bug-collecting rounds — his day job was at the Wellington Post Office. He figured the problem might be solved if the clock were advanced two hours in summer and then shifted back in the winter, when he wasn’t bug-hunting anyway.
It took the US until 1918 to accept Daylight Savingl.After the war ended, Woodrow Wilson ceded to popular demand and repealed Daylight Saving in the U.S. World War II brought Daylight Saving back to the fore in 1942, when FDR mandated the measure, now known as “War Time,” throughout the United States. This time, it stuck, for most of the country.
A study by the US Department of Energy, undertaken at the height of the 1970s energy crisis, indicated that the use of Daylight Saving Time reduced American energy consumption by about one percent, a small but statistically significant amount, because more people are sleeping during the darkness and so aren’t using lights and appliances

So in the end let us keep daylight savings time so PAPA Dave can get home from work and then he and Grand MA Marie can ride there bike each night and not ever fall back again, end of the history lesson and the change in time makes me a crabby bear for about a week either forward or backward, GRRRR!!
Every be happy and safe and enjoy the extra light at night