Sunrise, sunset.

[skyring]

Daylight saving begins tonight. I wonder if I'll get it right this time. Spring forward, autumn back. Never could work that out.

We went shopping for shoes this morning. He takes a size ten wide, which is three sizes up from my dainty little feet. Not as tall as I am yet, but there's not much in it. And he's only sixteen. He probably won't be able to peer over the top of me, like he can with his mother, but I reckon those enormous plates of meat are foundations for a solid superstructure.

And my old dinner suit now resides in his wardrobe. He tried it on this morning in preparation for his end of high school formal, and he looks great! Apart from the acne, which is par for the course in your mid teens, he's a handsome lad.

And another milestone this afternoon. I introduced him to the lawn mower. Perhaps I won't have to mow the lawn again for years and years...

I won't say he did a good job - ragged around the edges and there are stray bits undone here and there, but for his first time it's not bad.

Another two months and he'll be getting his learner's permit.

Sigh, where do the years go? The day before yesterday I was holding his pudgy little hand as we walked and skipped to and from school.

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[rarsberry.livejournal.com]

Its Spring forward, Fall back, but since we call it Autumn it doesn't sound right.

And know I'm imagining you skipping!! :o)

[skyring.livejournal.com]

There are few sweeter things in a parent's life than skipping hand in hand along a footpath with a young child. After a while they grow too old and dignified for it, but me, I'm waiting for grandchildren!

[resqgeek]

My parents have decided that grandchildren are their reward for not killing their children!

[wandering-sag.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've explained to more than a few friends here that this is one of the instances where the american use of 'fall' makes much more sense than autumn.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

There was a young fellow named Hall,
Who fell in the spring in the fall.
'Twould have been a sad thing
Had he died in the spring,
But he didn't, he died in the fall.

[resqgeek]

He made it to 16 without learning to mow the lawn?! My parents had me out mowing the lawn at least four years earlier than that. I hope he knows how lucky he is...

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Year, I began mowing the lawn a lot earlier than that. But it's not as if I dislike mowing the lawn. And heaven knows we don't have as much of it as we used to, what with sizeable chunks disappearing under mulch and new garden beds.

Kerri was complaining about her garden yesterday. Some fungal blight had attacked these beautiful purple and yellow iris flowers she has at the back and she was wondering how it happened. Then we watched the "Gardening Australia" show last night and they were extolling the virtues of mulch to a degree I found quite uncomfortable.

The presenter pointed to a clump of irises and said that you shouldn't mulch them, because they then developed blight. "Aha!" said Kerri.

This morning we'd just come back from shopping and the rain had stopped for a bit. As we pulled into the carport, Kerri said "I've got to go scrape the mulch off my irises." and DD's jaw dropped open.

[resqgeek]

BTW - while you're "springing ahead," here in the US, we're "falling back" this weekend.

[semioticghosts.livejournal.com]

acne was the bane of my teenage years, but if it bugs him, there's now truly miraculous creams out there, on prescription. Can look out the components of my odl favourite, if it would help.