Arizona’s Time Change Clock

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Here it is Tuesday morning. The clocks everywhere went backwards early Sunday morning. Well, almost everywhere. Arizona doesn’t go forward in the spring or backwards in the fall. The only thing that jumped around was my iPhone. Since we’re still close to the California border, it became a little confused exactly where it was. I had to manually adjust the settings to get it right.

Now why would we care what time it is? If we’re late to work, no one’s going to call us and remind us we forgot to go in. Actually, no one really cares what time we get up or even if we decide not to get up. Unless we’re in an RV park where we’ve over extended our stay, no one’s going to even know. We don’t set an alarm for anything …. well, not much. Our stomach lets us know if we’re hungry so unless we’re meeting folks, we can eat whenever we want. If we eat before 4:00 though, it's usally cheaper in a restaurant. The sun lets us know when it’s time to get up or go to sleep.

Why do we even need a clock? I think it’s one of those things we have been so used to having that we just can’t do without it. So, how many clocks do we have? We have the one on the wall up front and the one in the bedroom our grandson Justin made for us. Terry wears a watch. He has the time on his phone and computer. I have the time on my phone and computer. The Jeep has a clock but I haven’t looked at it in a few days. I wonder if it set itself automatically or if I’m going to have to figure out how to do it again. Maybe we need one of the clocks that actually tells us what day it is instead. Sometimes that can be pretty important because then you know when moving day is.

It used to be that our son’s family was on our time zone and our daughter’s family was three hours ahead. Now our son’s family is behind us one hour and our daughter’s only ahead of us two hours. I wonder how long it will take for us to remember this. I know my brother doesn’t have it down yet. He called Sunday night way past my bedtime. When we were living in Texas we used to receive calls from him after midnight. Maybe I need to buy him a watch.

Yesterday we needed a watch a couple of times. We took the little boat across Lake Havasu to the casino. We needed to know what time it was since it left one dock on the hour and the return was on the half hour. We certainly didn’t want to miss the last ferry and have to rent a room for the night. We also visited the Lake Havasu State Park and were given half an hour to scout around without paying the entrance fee. What a pretty park that is!

Today we’re sitting still, not paying much attention to the clock except Hell’s Kitchen comes on tonight. We have three chances to watch it though. We can either tune in on New York time or San Francisco time with our National feeds. Or, if we’re really timely, we can watch it on the locals that come out of Phoenix. That’s a three hour window and if that doesn’t work, we have it set up to record on our DVR and then just watch it whenever we have time. We’re so busy ……. well, actually we are.

Tomorrow we’re probably going back on the road so today we have to figure out exactly what road to get back on and what we might want to see. We certainly don’t want to waste an hour of time. You know how exact we are. We want the weather perfect and with the first snowfall of the season predicted in the Flagstaff area, we know it won’t be in that direction. It has cooled down considerably from what it was last week but that doesn’t mean it might not heat up just as fast. Stay tuned. We'll try to be timely with our update.