Re: A 4:30 AM confession

I'm w/ you Theresa, early to bed, early to rise.  I'm usually the
first one up when I visit Jesse, so I just sit at the kitchen table
and read until Robert gets up and starts breakfast.  I get much more
sleep in the winter when it gets dark so early.  Or did before hot
flashes....


On 8/16/05, Theresa <tchessie@comcast.net> wrote:
> Me neither!  I'm ready for sleep by 9:30 at night.  As a teenager and
> 20-something, I wouldn't have been caught dead in bed at that time.  I
> have always been a morning person though.  When the sun comes up, so do
> I (and so the time I rise changes throughout the year).
> 
> Theresa
> 
> hodgesaa@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> >I don't usually get up that early, but there have been
> >times............those nights when you just can't settle down. Rather than
> >toss and turn I get up and do something or watch TV til I fall asleep. I do
> >like that time of the morning. Everything is so quiet and still. Of course
> >then I find it almost impossible to get out of bed when it's really time
> >to.
> >
> >On the other hand, there are nights I end up asleep at 10:00 pm and it's
> >STILL not enough sleep. I've never been what I would call a late sleeper,
> >always up by 6 or 7, but sometimes an afternoon nap is called for.
> >
> >I've heard the older you get the less sleep you need, I don't find that to
> >be the case...........with me at least.
> >
> >Andrea H
> >Beaufort, SC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>[Original Message]
> >>From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> >>To: Garden Chat <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>Date: 8/16/2005 3:27:38 PM
> >>Subject: [CHAT] A 4:30 AM confession
> >>
> >>I'm another male who's up at 4:30 no matter what. Done it all my life,
> >>I think. When I was 7 or 8, I used to wake up to listen to the morning
> >>farm report on the radio. After the farm report, Louis Bromfield
> >>[author of "The Rain Came"] had a 5 minute essay-type show about his
> >>Arkansas farm and the things he was doing to make it more
> >>productive--like planting deep-rooted legumes to break up the clay.
> >>
> >>Those farm programs are gone now. No point, I guess, in telling a
> >>corporation about the inherent evils of a mold-board plow or
> >>single-cropping or--much more recently--GMOs.
> >>
> >>Anyway, I still get up at 4:30, turn the light on in the bathroom, and
> >>look in the mirror to be certain I see a reflection. And, because I'm
> >>always about 30 years younger in my dreams than I am on my clock, the
> >>reflection clears all the morning cobwebs and sets me straight. My
> >>daily reality check.
> >>
> >>Meantime, as I told Ms. Fatma this morning, I think I'm beginning to
> >>become speckled.
> >>
> >>
> >>Island Jim
> >>Southwest Florida
> >>27.0 N, 82.4 W
> >>Hardiness Zone 10
> >>Heat Zone 10
> >>Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >>Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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