However , around here, my manager has completely different ideas about resetting clocks. On the Saturday evening a kitchen clock and bedroom clock must be reset. Then there's the oven timer! That requires a bit of background. Our oven is the original with the house so it is 49 years old. I have replaced this timer twice. The last time we were told that there were no more parts available. So you say, so what? Get a new oven. Not my manager. This is a wall oven and you can't buy another wall oven to go in the same hole. So you say, change the cabinets. Now these are the original cabinets and according to my manager they don't make cabinets of this quality any more. So to protect the timer this procedure is used. You trip the breaker for the oven Sat. Evening and then reset the breaker when the actual time equals what's on the timer. You don't understand this? Neither do I but it works. So that's the complicated part of the regime.
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The next morning all the other time pieces are reset. I'm responsible for the stereo and thermostat. I am closely supervise until this is completed. Now my wrist watch always stays in the drawer. Guess what ? I don't reset it and my manager doesn't remember it.
So I have survived another stressful time change. I will recover by Nov. when we have to turn the clocks back.
That's funny about the oven timer, Red. Almost all of our time pieces resent themselves automatically, only my wristwatch and car radio need to be set by hand. I did the wristwatch before I went to bed, and the clock first thing when I got in it this morning. All done! :-)
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky you have most stuff resetting automatically here it's only the computer and phone that reset.
DeleteHow do you turn the oven timer back? :)
ReplyDeleteSame method. Just line the time up the next morning to the correct time and turn on the breaker!! Or have I been had again!!!
ReplyDeleteToo funny. I suspect you have an anonymous manager who now knows about the wristwatch.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the manager knows about the wrist watch but some how it' not important.
DeleteYou are so funny! We live parallel lives, but MY manager changes all the clocks himself, and the night before.
ReplyDeleteHe cannot change some, i.e., my bedside fancy clock/radio - which drives me nuts, too!
This means I can never remember if I've changed it or not!
My first accountant-husband was the same!
We just replaced our 20-year old installed microwave oven. Same deal: parts!
When we upgraded our Muskoka house, we bought all new and I am so sad we sold them all with the house. They were my parents things, and falling apart! Hindsight...
Do it your selfers tend to nurse old thing along. Things are not that hard to repair. Just takes time.
DeleteFor some reason my clock changing went very smoothly this year...my "atomic" clock changes itself, I have 2 battery powered wall clocks...a breeze to change...and my digital...hit time hit hour done...the car clock perfect...'cause I never changed it to Standard Time! Like how your oven clock change works...inspired!
ReplyDeleteMost of ours are in the easy category except for the oven.
DeleteI wish it would stay at this time all year!!!
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Well, Linda and Terry, do I have a deal for you. Saskatchewan never changes...keeps the same time all year. You can move out there, buy some cheap land and farm forever. I mean acreage. How much do you want? 8000-10000 acres?
ReplyDeleteYour manager is smart. I agree with keeping the real cupboards and the stove. These days nothing is made to last so if you have something solid, hang onto it. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteI like the way you say "real cupboards." Com pared to what is made today they have very much of a realistic texture to them.
DeleteI quite like the idea of resetting clocks in no particular order and to no particular time. I am tempted to try an experiment when it comes to be our turn to move the clocks and set every one in the house to a different time and see how much more interesting it makes life.
ReplyDeleteAlan, you're a real rabble rouser! I like your idea. Thinking back to my grandparents: they didn't have electricity or a radio in their house. They sometimes forgot to set the old alarm clock. You would sometimes go there and find the clock not running. They seemed to have another sense of time.
DeleteNow I know what I'm not missing. I live in an Australian state which is 50% rural and mainly subtropical. Our farmers have consistently refused to vote for the introduction of daylight savings on the grounds that the earlier dawn light makes life too difficult for farmers, who have to get up that much earlier! Also, with the hotter temperatures we have here in summer, many people believe that an earlier sunset gives earlier relief from the hot weather. Most city dwellers don't agree with that, but rural voters have the politicians' ear, it seems. And whenever there's a referendum on the subject, the rural view prevails. At least we don't have to deal with clock changes.
ReplyDeleteHope your rural people can keep it that way...the time changes are a real pain...really goofs up a person's internal clock...I don't know of anyone who likes it, but for whatever reason, the politicians keep it going...
DeleteGood thing your manager keeps track of you Red! I hate the time change..I am sure the ones in the vehicle have not been changed yet...because it usually involves getting out the owners manual.
ReplyDeleteYour Birch cabinets are beautiful..and no they don't make them like that anymore. I bet she could get a custom built oven ..but maybe you don't want to mention that to her:)
We have a pendulum clock on the wall way back behind a bunch of stuff that requires me climbing over that stuff to reach the clock to take it down to reset it...'we' usually put that clock off until we get tired of recalculating the time in the head...
ReplyDeleteSince I'm an urban dweller , I like daylight savings time. The sun sets here a little after 10 PM. It's not dark until after 11PM. so you see I get a very ling evening. Now I know farmers don't like this as they'd rather have the extra light at the beginning of the day.
ReplyDeleteYour oven clock solution is very gentle and quite elegant. I like it. Why mess with something for which you can't get parts?
ReplyDeleteThe thermostat in our outdoor gas heater died and we had to send to Arizona to get a replacement. No replacement part in Canada. Sheesh.
I am one year younger than your stove!!! They don't make 'em like they used to.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like quite the chore to change all the clocks but you've got it mastered. The good thing about being where I am is there is no daylight savings time. The problem with this is that I have to really think now to know what time it is in Adelaide!
ReplyDeleteWow, I enjoyed your replies & the blog! My daddy refused to change his clocks & still was never late for anything. He had a great internal clock & always had the TV going. I still leave one clock the same time in honor of him, just for fun!
ReplyDeleteYour Dad probably had a very keen sense of direction as well? He probably lived a rural life where he was on the land. I really like the replies part of blogging. I was going to give it up but found I really missed it.
ReplyDeleteYou are EXACTLY right about my Dad! I sure do miss him, even if he was a bit cantancerous! Quite a character and quite a man...
DeleteI had a 40 something oven and when it died, I had to change the cabinet. That's called the begets. The only clock I have to change now is the one in the truck. It took me years to remember how to do it, because the button is labeled RDS. But since I've had it for 11 years, I finally got the hang of it. Cell phones have replaced wall clocks and alarm clocks around here and they change with no help from me.
ReplyDeleteI admire the way you remember to reset the clocks everyday. If I were to reset any clock, I wouldn't remember at all..
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