Daylight saving has begun, with Jass being happy to be fed an hour earlier. In this electronic age, I had to correct two bedroom clocks, the microwave, the oven, the weather station, the digital wall clock and the mantle clock.
Monday morning on the balcony is delightful as I view all the sad sacks having to go to their employment, but even nicer is Sunday evening when the white noise reduces, with the loud Harley Davidson and Royal Enfield motorcycles, along with the Maserati type cars with loud backfiring, spluttering and roaring exhaust noises, rather like an out of tune Austin 7 without a muffler, return to their outer suburban homelands.
Trams still glide past but it is so peaceful, with only a very faint hum of electric bikes and small motor bikes delivering food to the lazy.
I pondered how I would occupy my time if I lived in small country town or on a farm and didn't live in a big city. If I had an internet connection, I suppose I would survive. A gay farmer is quite desirable by certain folk, as their imaginations work overtime. An old gay farmer, yes well....
Gloved up, at least my fist could remove a calf from a cow with a tight passage.
It was all going so well until your last sentence. Now I have an image n my head that I can't shake ...
ReplyDeleteAs Ray used to say, you talk so well to people until you drop in a clanger.
DeleteThat is saying something quite inappropriate.
DeleteIn this context, I knew exactly what a clanger was. LOL Best wishes, my dear.
DeleteThe time change here is November 1st. Legislation to end the time shifts is stuck in Congress, only one or two votes away from passage. I for one would be glad to stop changing the clocks.
ReplyDeleteYou had me until the last sentence and then I laughed out loud!
ReplyDeleteI love the unexpected.
I love how we can imagine alternative lifestyles. "Dropping a clanger" was one of my dad's favourite expressions. Is it Irish, I wonder, or English in origin? I like to look out my window at all the sad sacks too, and I'm truly delighted to have all these years of retirement, well, mostly retirement, with my life finally my own.
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The US President wants all daylight savings programmes in his nation to be cancelled. He said it increases stress and crime, and causes people to miss important meetings.
ReplyDeleteYour last sentence threw me for a loop! LOL!
ReplyDeleteYou'd do better than me on a farm then. I hate daylight saving ad in this digital world of instant communication there just is no need for it. I almost didn't bother with the kitchen clock, but got up on the small ladder anyway. After I change it back next April I think I will leave it forever on regular time.
ReplyDeleteI moved out to edge of the city on retirement, away from the inner city. I underestimated how much I would miss the bustle, just to have people around all the time.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, J.
DeleteAn old friend of mine (now deceased) got asked by his Yugoslav neighbours across the road to assist with changing the clocks for daylight saving in about 1975. Perhaps a manual and a digital clock was involved because otherwise it's hard to see what the language problem for them could have been. Maybe also they were a bit older and unable to deal with technology. After that he had to do it every year until he sold the house and moved away in about 2004.
ReplyDeletePS: how did you get to fisting? (In the post, I mean; happy for you to keep irl experiences to yourself.)
ReplyDeleteI was talking about veterinary practice of course. I watched my father extract a couple of calves that were struggling.
DeleteOK, now I see it. I just couldn't even work out how your brain got there when composing the post.
DeleteMe either really. Dunno how my mind works.
DeleteI daresay that you'd find plenty of wonder no matter where you were. I can sit and watch the sunset. I can hear the wind. I can work in my garden, I can cook or bake or watch the chickens. my sex life has never come up in conversation, so I think you'd be fine. Probably best you avoid cow ownership though
ReplyDeleteCan't say I would want to put my hand up a cow but I guess farmers would be use to it, we just had daylight savings changeover too and the weather is getting much warmer here, have a nice week.
ReplyDeleteIt is good that you do it on the same day as we do, so the two hour difference remains.
DeleteOMG. That last sentence. You crack me up.
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