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Canada
November 6, 2011
Here in Canada, we changed the time back this morning at 2 AM or so. In the spring we will change it forward again. Every year we change our time twice. This is the good one. We get an extra hour of sleep! Yay!
My old alarm clock changed time by itself. Since my daughter went off to university, she needed to get up for classes so she took my fancy alarm clock and left me with an old one that doesn't change the time automatically.
Last night, I woke up at 4:30 old time and heard a noise. It seems that a raccoon had gotten into our empty swimming pool. There was a ladder there but the raccon had knocked it down when it went in and was now trapped in the pool. The walls are about 1 1/2 meters high, too high for a raccoon to jump. I saw the ladder on its side and the raccoon trying to stand on it to jump out. I was afraid that it would tear out the sides so I had to rush to save it.
I woke up my wife for moral support and went to get a light. Once I had the light set up, I headed out with my wife cheering me on. Lo and behold the raccoon had somehow gotten out on its own. Relief!
I headed back to bed thinking that it was almost morning but then I looked at the clock. It said it was 5 AM, not a great time to get up but not too bad. Then I realized that it was REALLY 4 AM and I could still get some sleep...if I could settle down after the excitement of the raccoon. Thankfully, I slept until about 8:30 NEW TIME! hahahaha
Thanks for reading!
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