I'm ready for Spring! How about you?
Well it might be Spring on the calendar tomarow but someone forgot to tell Mother Nature!!!
My two year old grand daughter, Emma, spent the night with me last night. When we awoke this morning, all snuggled together, she playfully pointed to my stomach and asked,” What’s that Mamaw?”
I said, “My fat belly.”
Again she pointed and questioned me. “What’s that Mamaw?”
I answered,” That’s Mamaw’s belly button. Do you have a belly button?”
Emma proudly pulled her shirt up and told me, “There’s my belly button Mamaw! Just like yours!”
She then pointed one last time, this time to my chest.” You have boobs Mamaw. Mine are all gone.”
I explained and assured her that her chest would grow as she grew.
She then informed me, “Well Mamaw, I want purple ones!”
Dear Lord don’t let me get Alzheimers! I want to remember this precious moment!
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ON DEC. 6, 1941, U.S. STAYS LULLED ON EVE OF WAR The Japanese Threat Is Greeted With Bluster, Contempt on DECEMBER 6, 1941
America sees but will not believe. The evidence is there, screaming at them every morning in the newspaper headlines: Japanese Forces Move on Thailand; Negotiations Falter; War with Japan Looms. In the war rooms and the White House, smart men read the secret diplomatic mail from Japan, messages that order important papers burned, seek detailed whereabouts of U.S. warships and talk of impending deadlines.
They read, but they do not react. Even those who expect the worst are lulled by the talk on the street, the scoff of Everyman, the bluster of Joe at the shop and neighbor Sally: "The Japanese would never be crazy enough to attack us."
Yes we were forwarded! An so it has lived on in the history books yet today and beyond!
On draft No. 1, Roosevelt changed "a date which will live in world history" to "a date which will live in infamy," providing the speech its most famous phrase and giving birth to the term, "day of infamy," which December 7, 1941, is often called.
A few words later, he changed his report that the United States of America was "simultaneously and deliberately attacked" to "suddenly and deliberately attacked." At the end of the first sentence, he wrote the words, "without warning," but later crossed them out.
Thus that first historic sentence—the one that is usually quoted from the speech—was born: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
There were other changes in that first draft also. At one point, Roosevelt noted that the distance from Japan to Hawaii meant that the attack must have been planned "many days ago." He changed that to "many days or even weeks ago." Historians now know that the Japanese had considered a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor for many years.
Pearl Harbor: Before the Attack!
Daylight Saving Time 2022: When do clocks ‘fall back’ this year? Daylight Savings Time explained.
The end of Daylight Saving Time for 2022 arrives this weekend when the clock will “fall back” one hour and in theory we get one extra hour of sleep.
Daylight Saving Time concludes at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022.
The sun will set in Newark at 5:48 p.m. on Saturday. The following day — after Daylight Saving time concludes — sunset is more than an hour earlier at 4:47 p.m.
Every state except Hawaii and Arizona currently observes daylight saving time. But each year, more states say it's time to stop futzing with the clock and embrace daylight saving time year-round.
Millions of Americans want to abandon the time change we endure twice each year, disrupting our circadian rhythms and creating confusion. More than a third of U.S. states now back a permanent shift to daylight saving time. If that happens, it would be a final victory for a plan that businesses have praised for more than 100 years.
For 2022, daylight saving time officially ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6.
Daylight saving time is a moneymaker
When daylight saving was extended into early November 15 years ago, many saw the U.S. candy industry as a winner, since the extra hour of daylight could drive sales of more Halloween treats.
But support among businesses ran much deeper than that, according to time-change expert Michael Downing, a professor at Tufts University who wrote Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.
"What we don't tend to know as Americans is that the biggest lobby on behalf of daylight saving since 1915 in this country — and to this very day — is the Chamber of Commerce," Downing, who died earlier this year, said in a 2015 video about daylight saving.
The end of Daylight Saving Time for 2022 arrives this weekend when the clock will “fall back” one hour and in theory we get one extra hour of sleep.
Daylight Saving Time concludes at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022.
The sun will set in Newark at 5:48 p.m. on Saturday. The following day — after Daylight Saving time concludes — sunset is more than an hour earlier at 4:47 p.m.
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