Mar 07 -- Bee Season?

[theodosia]

From my current Twitter stream:

• 08:53 have decided that Chumley is the bargain sport model, Muppet is the luxury model. Both picked up used, too. #
• 10:32 HUH! I just saw a BEE fly past my window. It's 55 right now, so presumably one could indeed have woken up, but I'm still AMAZED #
• 15:44 Heartsick over the behavior of a friend. Not the sort of thing you can get angry over, not intent on hurting me. Heedless oblivity. #

Seriously, it reached into the low 60s yesterday and may do the same today, and of course The Official Start Of Spring is only two weeks away, but I was still AMAZED to see a fat black and yellow BEE -- unmistakeable -- fly past my window. Not a whole lot of nectar out there, but at least the snow from last week has completely melted from the ground.

It's DST this morning, and I somehow managed to sleep until 7:30 -- make that 8:30, but since 7:30 is LATE for me anyway, no problem with jumping the clock forward.

I just have to reset the kitchen clocks. My radio-alarm-CD-clock has a dedicated DST button that I push twice a year, which still amuses me. The computers and TiVo reset automatically. Oh, and there's the clock in the car, too.

Also, since it's DST, see to your battery-powered smoke alarms. Yes, even if you have some smoke alarms wired to the house current, you should have the other kind of smoke alarm -- the ones that don't turn off when the power goes out, when most fires occur. If you don't have that kind, and therefore don't have to worry about changing batteries, today would be an AWESOME day to go out and get one.

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[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

We had a couple of ladybugs in our bedroom last night, just kind of flying around and crashing into things (mostly the tv screen and the window). I guess the bugs are upon us again!

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

Random Massachusetts fact: Fitchburg requires multi-family housing to have smoke alarms wired to the house current. That city doesn't give a flying fig about the battery-operated alarms that don't stop working when the power goes out. I learned this back when my bachelor uncle died and I had to deal with what was left behind.

I suppose it makes sense, given the number of wooden triple-deckers in Fitchburg and other old New England cities, that the third-floor residents could find out about, say, a rag fire in the basement. But it amazed me that they couldn't care less about battery-powered detectors.