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Blog by Maureen McCabe

Worthington, Ohio

Discover Columbus is a site about Columbus Ohio. Originally named "Columbus Best Blog," it was never the best blog in Columbus Ohio. It was a blog about the best in Columbus and Central Ohio! Best restaurants, best real estate company, best schools, best neighborhoods..... written by Maureen McCabe a licensed real estate agent with Columbus Ohio's best real estate company, Real Living HER. Discover Columbus is just a site about Central Ohio.

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Spring Forward Central Ohio

Mar. 4, 2008

Categorized in: Time and Temperature

Tagged with: daylight saving time, time

Spring Forward

Remember to Spring Forward on Saturday night. This Sunday, March 9, 2008 is time to set your clock ahead one hour.

March 9. to November 2, is Daylight Saving Time in 2008. It seems too early!

Information on Daylight Saving Time.

The image is a Real Living e-card.

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Winter Solstice

Dec. 21, 2006

Categorized in: Best Wishes!

Tagged with: ohio, time

Happy Winter Solstice ... from Columbus Best Blog....it's about time and space

I am not sure what Santa is doing.... scratching his belly? Doing the twist?

Today is the first day of winter. It arrives at 7:22 PM today in Columbus. When I found the Santa clock. I was looking for a round clock to go on a my Winter Solstice entry on Active Rain. I thought the clock in my Time and Termperature category would be great. Then... I wanted to use a funky clock with stars and planets on Clocklink.com but I can't see the big hand and the small hand... (It's not a digital clock...) I can't see how to tell time with it. Remember back in the good old days when you had to learn to tell time? It was not a matter of reading numbers, the big hand and the little hand...

Now I see it, the big dot... moon(?) is the big hand, the little dot (planetoid?) is the little hand.

Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, Yule, The Long Night, Santa Claus can't be far behind...

"Observances of the solstice from pagan and Roman times (Saturnalia) blended into medieval European celebrations of Christmas. Various religions and cultures observe winter festivals incorporating the concept of the (re)birth of light. " Religious Tolerance

The science of the Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice - There were winter celebrations by the Greeks, ancient Egyptians, Incas, Iranians, American Indians, Druids, Christians, Judism, modern neo paganists, atheists and more.

c. Columbus Best Blog 2006

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Fall Back Central Ohio

Oct. 26, 2006

Categorized in: Time and Temperature

Tagged with: central ohio, football, homecoming, osu buckeyes, time, weather

cuckoo clock Sunday is the time change... Fall Back. I really prefer this to Spring Forward. On the weather the other day the local weather man said twice the time change was Sunday night... that confuses me... Sunday night is what we have after the day on Sunday, not before. To me, the time change is Saturday night, even if officially it is Sunday morning..I knew he was confused (no names mentioned...) because he said something about the Buckeye's game Saturday, homecoming... The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers and the weather feeling like Wisconsin...? University of Minnesota is still in Minnesota...

Official US Time Site

Daylight Saving Time 2006 is April 2 October 29 March 26 October 29 ....according to this website.. next year Day Light Saving Time starts early...

"Spelling and grammar

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be a mind expanding book or a man eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.

Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.

Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable."

The Daylight Saving Time site has more quibbling... bars that stay open an extra hour in the fall are wrong ?? I know when I was younger I loved that extra hour to party on Halloween weekend. This weekend is also homecoming at OSU. The Buckeyes are playing the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

Thanks to Teresa Boardman of St. Paul Minnesota for the 'time links" Teresa's from the St. Paul which is a twin to Minneapolis, Minnesota... where the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers are from....in Minnesota ..not Wisconsin....

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