Daylight Savings Time returned this past weekend. According to the calendar, we’ll have it until Nov. 6 when it goes back.
I’m happy for the return once again because there is more time in the evening for opportunities for activities. I really wish we had it all the time and I’m not sure of any good reason we don’t.
My wife Pat and I have been looking forward to it since last early November. Last year, at least several times a week if not each evening, we would walk a mile or so.
That’s our plan again now that we have more daylight to where we can walk after supper.
I realize using the end of Daylight Savings Time last November is really not a good excuse to stop walking. There are several other places we could walk, including inside out of the weather and outside where lighting is available.
With my cell phone on my hip, it’s easy to keep track of the steps we’re taking and how far we go on a walk. She sometimes carries her cell phone too.
Several years ago I started trying to take a walk each day to help me get more exercise. But I started slacking off a bit until we decided to begin walking last Spring.
Unless it rained, or the wind was blowing really hard or it was unseasonably cold we’d walk.
An internist I was seeing nearly 40 years ago told me “it’s okay to walk all you want, I just don’t think you should run.” He went on to say, “That’s because running is killing people.”
He was serious about his thoughts. I’m not saying I agree or disagree with his thinking. There’s lots of people nowadays doing both.
What we find is that walking provides relaxation after the hustle and bustle of a busy day. We often talk about how our day has gone, what we’ve heard throughout the day in conversations with other people or what we’re looking at doing later that week.
Fortunately, we’ve discovered that while walking is good exercise, there are other benefits it provides.
Another activity that Daylight Savings Time allows is for Pat to tend to her flowers in the evening and for us to water them. Just spending evenings outside in the backyard are enjoyable, more time for grilling and cooking outside.
When we have the grandson visiting for a day or two, it gives us more time outside with him which he really enjoys.
He’d be in our backyard playing all the time if that were possible.
There’s just a lot of positives to having Daylight Savings Time year around.