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Just curious - such a flood of homestead emails the past few days!
 
Makes me wonder about the Daylight Savings thing - I know it's a 'manmade  
issue', and so I've always discounted it as rubbish, and as one more instance 
of 
 humans messing with Mother Nature. But -
 
Does anyone else feel the horrible pressure of shorter days? The irony of  
all this being...I have been going to bed earlier (say, 7-8 p.m.) and waking 
at  
my normal 1-2:30 a.m., but...going back to bed just as the sun  breaks 
through the trees to the east, and all the indoor critters are just  getting 
started, waiting for me to open doors and windows - and I feel  compelled to 
re-wrap 
myself up in my fuzzy blankets and return to total  oblivion.
 
Something is not right here.
 
Is it true, this concept of 'winter depression? There's a name for it -  
starts with an 'S', but I can't remember it. If it IS a reality, then do 
those  of 
us on the list, who live in the northern parts of the world, suffer from this 
 more than those of us who live in the southern and western areas?
 
The depression is not the worst part. I am increasingly 'antsy' about  
leaving the house - at all - to do anything. Driving into town now, to keep  
doctors' appointments, and even do the simplest of shopping, have become 
major  
endeavors. Scary. Could this be some sort of primal urge to hibernate until 
the  
days grow longer and 'things' start to grow again (including myself)? 
 
Please don't laugh at my questions. 
 
And we haven't heard from Don yet. His input - because he is such a  'reader' 
- is always welcome.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
Yawning and stretching at almost 11:00 a.m. and wondering where the day has  
gone. What a waste.
 
 
 
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