Today is the day of the Vernal or Spring Equinox. Although my spring is still a long way off this does mark the day where all the world has the same amount of sun as us. From now on though, for the next six months we’ll have the sun above the horizon more than practically all the rest of the world, except for the few scattered communities north of us.
I’ve mentioned before that we end up with a lot more daylight than sun as the suns approach to the horizon is very shallow. I was up before five this morning with Hilary and noticed that it is already getting light out at that time.
I am hoping that the rest of this light season bodes better for me than today did, however. It was a day I should have stayed away from the House, even if I was hardly there as it was. Just a couple of highlights – our stair handrail is too twisted to use, and I managed to shoot the off cut from some flooring out of the table saw, across the room and stick it in a wall. I think I said a bad word.
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Oh! That had to hurt…
Just one bad word? I think a whole string of expletives would have followed that around here.
Hope things improve, as with the return of the sun.
Just be thankful you weren’t in the line of fire Clare, I once saw a piece of timber come backwards out of a thicknesser and go through a framed and ledged door sheeted with boards.
I’m surprised that being retired you would know any bad words….
Was it a Canadian word that you could translate for us rubes down in the states?
It really was only one word. Kind of always believed that cursing has more force if you use it sparingly and it is a surprise if it comes out of your mouth. And this was punctuated with the piece of flooring I was cutting being thrown to the floor and my walking out of the building and walking out to near the cemetary to cool off. It was one of those mornings. And yes, it is the only one I can remember since I retired.
The translation Pablo? I believe Pierre Elliot Trudeau translated it as “fuddle duddle”.
My first day of spring was greeted with 6 inches of snow.
fuddle duddle it is.
I thought you might have screamed, “Pedorrera!”
Thanks for linking up my blog Clare. Before coming to Nunavut I taught in La Loche SK and South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba.