Standard Time

The shift from daylight savings time to standard time is, I suppose, almost universally treasured. I mean, doesn't everybody enjoy that extra hour of sleep you get from falling back? At Rural Ways there may be less enthusiasm for the change than is typically assumed. The first of us, and I don't mean the girls, gets up at 5:30 every morning to start the coffee and the fire. Whichever one of us that is does not need an alarm clock because he is generally awake at 5:00 am anyway. Setting the clocks back simply means that a certain person now awakes automatically at 4:00 am. Four in the morning is a gawdawful time to get out of bed. On the other hand, laying there for two hours waiting for the rest of the world to stir starts to feel pretty boring.