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Offline Sourdough

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No more darkness
« on: April 14, 2011, 07:58:55 AM »
When I went to bed last night it was still lite outside at 10PM.  Sun had gone down but it was still lite outside.  Light coming through the window and reflecting off the wall woke me this morning.  Got up looked at the clock and it was five minutes after 5 AM.  Looked outside and the Eastern sky was becoming bright, went back to bed.  6AM woke up as usual, bedroom was bright, Got up.  Unless I get up during the middle of the night I won't see darkness now till September.  June and July it won't get dark period.  Just kind of a twilight then the sun will be back up shining.  Winters are rough, but the summers make up for it.

The sun comes up at 6:20 this morning, and will set at 9:20 tonight.  We will have 15 hours of sunlight, but more like 17 hours before it gets dark.  We are gaining about 7 minutes a day of sunlight.  No more being in the woods at the crack of dawn, ain't gonna happen.
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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 11:03:40 AM »
It is that time of the year.

Monday I went for a walk around lunch time. I was watching an F18 do some fly bys and it was pretty loud. When he finally passed I heard this wierd his hissing noise. I looked down and noticed I was standing on a 3 foot Mojave Green rattle snake. Fortunately I was almost on his head. It was a bit of a rodeo. Yes sir, summer is here.

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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2011, 01:35:23 AM »
Did that snake survive?I'd would've drowned him for sure! :o I'm liking the longer day light here too.Light by seven and dark at 8:30 or so.Any longer than that and the SWMBO would over work me.
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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2011, 02:53:50 AM »
Did that snake survive?I'd would've drowned him for sure! :o

LOL  Thanks for the laugh... I nearly spewed my morning coffee all over my keyboard.  LOL
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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2011, 06:49:28 AM »
Nope the snake didn't survive and I didn't drowned him, almost did though lol.
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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2011, 09:47:44 AM »
Don't know how people live in darkness 6 months of the year. It's been raining here 9 out of 14 days and I'm getting depressed.Tougher stalk than I'm made of that's for sure.

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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2011, 12:26:25 PM »
The wife decided it was time to do spring cleaning yesterday.  She spent the whole day working on the house.  Last night at 9:30 I finally sat down and quite.  She jumped on me for sitting down.  I told her to look at the clock.  She went through the roof, "I hate this, here is it almost 10 at night and it's still daylight outside".  My response, "Yep, you got to go to work tomorrow, better get in bed now so you will be able to get up".  This morning when the room lite up at 5:15, she jumped out of bed and immediately ran into the wall, she was a bit too tired.  She came back to bed.  She was late for work.  She has to get used to going to bed with the sun shining nice and bright.  Also quite getting up sith the sun, don't work around here.
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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2011, 05:41:40 PM »
I'll take my rattlesnakes, that sun thing is just confusing.

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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2011, 05:48:08 PM »



  Shu,This old  Sidewinder didn't have the guts to try again. ;)

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Re: No more darkness
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2011, 02:53:18 AM »
Sidewinders sure are funny to watch crawl. The little buggers can be invisible in the sand.
 
I'll take that 3 weeks of over 110 degrees a year, the scorpians, trantualas, the snakes and the minimal rain for just a few more years. That lack of sun thing though, that would drive a fella nuts.