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HikerMom58
03-06-2014, 10:57
Don't forget to set your clocks forward 1 hour on Sunday! (March 9)
Cell phones etc... no worries! :)
It seems very weird to be setting the clocks forward with the ground encased in ice-encrusted snow, but weird is the new normal as far as weather goes.
rocketsocks
03-06-2014, 11:35
Yeah...love it :)
FarmerChef
03-06-2014, 11:45
Feel so strange coming so early this year. Bring on the sunshine. We need it!
HikerMom58
03-06-2014, 12:05
It seems very weird to be setting the clocks forward with the ground encased in ice-encrusted snow, but weird is the new normal as far as weather goes.
I hear ya tiptoe, FC and RS.
Take a look at what's popping up in GA. (Scroll down and see the purple crocuses. :)) This couple's blog is pretty cool!
http://www.timeoutadventures.co.uk/2014/03/day-14-our-first-zero-day.html
Slo-go'en
03-06-2014, 12:19
It seems very weird to be setting the clocks forward with the ground encased in ice-encrusted snow, but weird is the new normal as far as weather goes.
My thoughts exactly this morning waking up in my 43 degree bedroom and seeing it dropped to [minus 12] last night -again. But it is possible we'll start making maple syrup after this weekend and that is a sure sign of spring :)
I have some witch hazels and a hellebore that normally flower by now, but I haven't even seen the hellebore for weeks; it has been buried under the snow. I'm starting veggie seeds indoors now, in a real leap of faith. Since I will be on the trail in mid-April, I'm trying to have the early stuff ready to plant before I leave and the frost-tender stuff ready for when I return. Some years we can plant pea seeds outdoors on St. Patrick's Day, but this year is not one of them.
Feral Bill
03-06-2014, 12:30
Not to be a grump, but we gain no daylight at all. We only change our clocks. It's an exersize in self deception.
Sierra2015
03-06-2014, 12:30
Hikermom! You make me smile. ^_^ Acting like such a mom, reminding us to set our clocks. :p
HikerMom58
03-06-2014, 12:37
My thoughts exactly this morning waking up in my 43 degree bedroom and seeing it dropped to [minus 12] last night -again. But it is possible we'll start making maple syrup after this weekend and that is a sure sign of spring :)
Aww... Slo. Making maple syrup brings back all my childhood memories of living in NH. I LOVE it! My grampa had a sugar house where he made and sold his maple syrup. I miss those days & my grampa. He had a dairy farm -7th generation They sold it before he died.
Slo- please eat a bowl of fresh snow with fresh warm maple syrup poured all over it for me. YUMMM!!
HikerMom58
03-06-2014, 12:39
Hikermom! You make me smile. ^_^ Acting like such a mom, reminding us to set our clocks. :p
You are so right Sierra... I'm such a "mom"! I love y'all! :sun
evansprater
03-06-2014, 12:44
14 hour hiking days here we come!!!
We used to tap a few maple trees when the kids were young. I used to freeze the sap twice to concentrate the sugar, then boil it on the stove after work. I read about this method a long time ago in Mother Earth News, and it was well suited to a very small-scale operation. In a good year, we got a couple of quarts.
Odd Man Out
03-06-2014, 12:55
I hear ya tiptoe, FC and RS.
Take a look at what's popping up in GA. (Scroll down and see the purple crocuses. :))
My crocuses are currently under six feet of snow. Ug.
Teacher & Snacktime
03-06-2014, 12:55
I'm just afraid that if I "spring forward" with too much exuberance that I'll all flat on my face!
Slo-go'en
03-06-2014, 12:57
Slo- please eat a bowl of fresh snow with fresh warm maple syrup poured all over it for me. YUMMM!!
I'm not much into the snow cones, but I do like dipping the freash home made donuts my friend's mother makes into the freash syrup :) I help stoke the boiler for the sap so I can get a free bottle of syrup. I can't wait :)
daddytwosticks
03-06-2014, 16:45
Can't wait! Time changes indicate, to me, the start of hiking season (March) and the end of hiking season (Nov.). Yes, I'm a wimp. I do some day hikes during the winter, but no overnight hikes. I don't like the cold. :)
Not to be a grump, but we gain no daylight at all. We only change our clocks. It's an exersize in self deception.
An exersize in self deception is appropriate when reality sucks.
blue indian
03-06-2014, 21:37
More daylight = more miles. Whoohoo!
HikerMom58
03-06-2014, 21:49
Not to be a grump, but we gain no daylight at all. We only change our clocks. It's an exersize in self deception.
True dat.
But I'm still sleeping in the morning.... Evening light is what I care about... :D C'mon Spring!
HikerMom58
03-06-2014, 21:50
More daylight = more miles. Whoohoo!
WOO HOO blue indian!! :banana
Many Moons
03-06-2014, 22:43
If you start early in the day it just makes it harder to see until a month or so for more daylight. More time in day on Sunday only if you like to sleep in!!! HIKE ON!!"
Miller
Don't forget to set your clocks forward 1 hour on Sunday! (March 9)
Cell phones etc... no worries! :)
imscotty
03-06-2014, 23:10
I've been fat and lazy all winter... this weekend it ends.
Fat and lazy? How did you manage that? I've been shoveling, chipping ice, and shivering, even splitting a little wood before the snow iced in the pile. It's just too chilly in my house to sit still for very long.
perdidochas
03-07-2014, 13:44
Not to be a grump, but we gain no daylight at all. We only change our clocks. It's an exersize in self deception.
But as someone lives in the eastern edge of an artificial time zone, it's a useful deception. Based on a 8-4:30 job, it gives me more usable outdoor time.
Feral Bill
03-07-2014, 14:10
True dat.
:D C'mon Spring!
...Oh yeah!
HikerMom58
03-09-2014, 00:37
...Oh yeah!
Here we goooo!!!!!!!!! 12 more days till SPRING!
Slo-go'en
03-09-2014, 11:08
Damn, it's now later then I think...
doritotex
03-09-2014, 11:22
Don't forget to set your clocks forward 1 hour on Sunday! (March 9)
Cell phones etc... no worries! :)Yeehaw..it will be dark at 8am. How is that more daylight?
MDSection12
03-09-2014, 12:47
I don't mind hiking or tearing down camp in the dark, but I don't like setting up camp in the dark (mostly afraid I'll set up under a widow-maker I couldn't see) so for me it really does allow me more time to hike. :)
HikerMom58
03-09-2014, 13:32
Trivia for y'all... Today is March 9th... On June 20th in Washington DC there will be 14 hrs and 54 minutes of daylight... Yipee!!:sun
I like more daylight in the evening too... can't wait for it this evening! :)
Just when we were getting some decent light in the mornings, along comes daylight savings time to set us back for several more weeks. I would prefer daylight savings time to start in late April rather than early March as it used to.
But on the trail, the only thing that really matters is the number of daylight hours and no government policy has the ability to alter that reality.