*Jack’s Winning Words 3/21/22 “Springtime is the land awakening.  The March winds are the morning yawn.”  (Lewis Grizzard)    I see that Congress is moving toward making DST permanent.  Do you like or not like that action?  The legislators may tinker with time, but they can’t do anything about the first day of Spring (that happens when the sun crosses the equator, from south to north, and “the heavens” control that)  This year,  Spring arrived yesterday.  The daffodils are poking through the soil.  The birds are heading north..  Didn’t God do a great job when He created Spring?    ;-)  Jack FROM THE FISH IN NOVA SCOTIA:  A drive-in movie theatre is said to have displayed the following winter message, which I think is derived from a similar poem:  “When Spring is sprang and grass is riz,  this is where the movies is”===JACK:  I remember that ditty, but with the ending: "I wonder where the flowers is."===FISH:  there is also "I wonder where the boidies is"..I haven't found original attribution yet===JACK:  Is that a challenge?===FISH:  I've noticed that you are really good at that.===JACK:  Although often attributed to Ogden Nash or e e cummings, the credit goes to A. Non.  I happen to like this version...                                       The Budding Bronx by Arnold Silcock Der spring is sprung Der grass is riz I wonder where dem boidies is? Der little boids is on der wing, Ain’t dat absoid? Der little wings is on de boid! FROM EDUCATOR PAUL:  When Ii think of Spring… this is one of my top recalls.  I wish I could hear him today call another game....===JACK:   "For lo' the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Happy New Year, everybody." It's Tiger Baseball (Ernie Harwell quoting this verse from the Bible.)  FROM QUILTING CAROL:  I enjoy spring every year when it comes – new growth, new colors, more sunshine, rains to wash away the dirt from winter.  I really don’t think we gain that much by moving our clocks ahead one hour.  It is still dark when I get up at 5 and it is dark when I go to bed at 9:45 or 10.  The farmers will work from sun up to sundown no matter what time it is.  They work until the jobs are finished.  Plants grow in the sunshine and rest in the darkness of the day no matter what time it is.  Decided to look up when this craziness began – before 1908 when it really came into existence, and it was to conserve energy – the use of the candle. 😊It had nothing to do with the farmers and yet they are the ones in current times who seemed to get blamed for needing this change.  Yet countries near the equator don’t change their clocks as they have equal light and dark all the time.  Africa and Asia don’t use DST.  Our politicians will tell us what to do one more time either way.  We can just we thankful we have sunshine, rain, clouds, winds, snow, growing seasons and rest seasons, earth/dirt in which to grow food, trees, plants etc and the moon to guide us at night.  Thankful Spring is here!  Our snow is still melting.  Can’t see any daffodils or tulips yet.===JACK:  The current proposal would not go into effect until 2923, and then your CDT would be renamed CST (Central Standard Time). The extra hour of daylight in the evening allows for longer time for golf and other activities that require daylight.  Here in Michigan (because the state is so wide) we have two time zones.  The lower peninsula and half of the upper are in the eastern zone while the western UP is in the central.  I support the change.  FROM MARMARB:  Yes, God certainly did do a great job when He created spring.  I think it is the most beautiful time of the year and my favorite season.===JACK:  What do you miss about Irma in the springtime?