Grew up on a dairy farm, and going on daylight saving in the spring was a nightmare. Had to do it, because dad milked then went to his town job, so if town job started an hour earlier, so did milking.
I was 10 or so, and had to go out in the field and get the cows, at about 4:30 AM. Cattle have a great internal clock, and normally when I went out, they would be getting up, yawning and stretching, and starting toward the barn. On daylight saving morning in the spring, different story- all asleep, and when I'd knee them to get them up, they'd look at me like, "What the h--- are you doing out here at this hour?" Get some up and going, go to get some others, and the first bunch is laying back down and going to sleep. This would go on for about a week, then they'd be adjusted.
Bonus was in the fall- round-up was much easier- they'd all be standing at the gate to the holding pen, looking at their watches and wondering what was keeping me.
I'll turn 66 in August. Lots of water under the bridge, lots of woulda-coulda-shoulda's. Would give anything to go back to those days, for just a week or so, and live it again. They say we remember the good and forget the bad. I'd love a chance to test that theory. Gotta go- seem to have something in my eye. . .
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