A Florida Cracker in the Last Frontier

To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time to every purpose, under heaven A time to be born, a time to die A time to plant, a time to reap A time to kill, a time to heal A time to laugh, a time to weep A time to gain, a time to lose A time to rend, a time to sew A time for love, a time for hate A time for peace, I swear it's not too late Turn! Turn! Turn! - The Byrds   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4 Whenever I think of the seasons changing I think of this song. I surprised first of all that it was not sung by the Beatles. I knew it came from the Bible, Ecclesiastes. I was also surprised to learn that the song was written by Pete Seeger. We are approaching the end of Fall. I arrived at the end of Winter in March and have almost seen the whole cycle of seasons. I was pleasantly surprised to experience Spring. I realized it was Spring by two things that  occurred. First the snow on the mountains receded ...

Steal My Sunshine - Len https://youtu.be/E1fzJ_AYajA Everyday this time of year the people of Alaska lose five minutes of sunshine. When I arrived in Anchorage in March the days were pretty typical with sunrise around 7pm and sunset around 7pm (this is not exact, just my memory). During the Summer we had some days where it felt like the sun never actually went down. I put up blackout curtains in my bedroom. I put several layers of foil over the window in Gracen's room. In James room he hand sliding glass doors so I bought foam board insulation that has foil on one side and used that. Lorrie did not feel like the curtains were good enough and so she started taping cardboard to the bedroom windows. Look at the right side of the window That has all passed and now the sun comes up at 7:30am and goes down at 8pm but everyday the sunrise is approximately 2.5 minutes later and the sunset 2.5 minutes earlier. The middle of the night used to be not completely dark because of the...