RE: Time change
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  • Subject: RE: Time change
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:14:45 -0800
Living where I do there is rarely a shortage of sunshine but I have
started to wonder if I would be susceptible to SAD. In five or six years
husband and I are going to retire and we are not planning on staying
here. I originally started looking at property in climates very similar
to this. Then one day I was online looking at a place that met about
every criteria I wanted, set in high desert country just like here, and
out of nowhere I thought "I can't look at this scenery for the rest of
my life." That was startling. I don't know if the feeling will last, but
it was kind of an "uh-oh" moment.  
If I didn't want to get out of California it would be easier, but now
I'm trying to figure out a place to live where 1) we don't need a snow
shovel but 2) It isn't a million degrees all summer and 3) it's still
within a couple days drive of our family here. I started looking at the
Rogue River valley in Oregon, I read it's supposed to be as sunny as
Oregon can get, but I don't know...my little online weather gadget has
shown me clouds for the last week there. I remember spending two weeks
near St Louis in November - cold, completely overcast and drizzly. I
don't know if I could stand a whole winter like that.   

Cyndi  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Aplfgcnys@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 6:20 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Time change

Very definitely I have SAD.  I guess it helps to know that I'm not the
only one who reacts this way.  I have tried the lamps with minor
success.  I find that hours in front of a bright computer screen has
more benefit than any of the lamps I have tried.  Even so, I still hate
the short afternoons.
APL
 
In a message dated 11/10/2010 9:16:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
bonnie_holmes@comcast.net writes:

Do you have SAD? I know people with this and the dark really bothers
them. 
We only have a couple of months before more light. :) 

B 
ETN Zone 7 
Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:51:21 AM 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Time change 

Bonnie, it's not "winter" that makes me depressed - it's the dark 
at 4:00 in the afternoon. I don't really mind the cold weather. I 
do enjoy settling in by the fire in the evening, even if hauling in the 
wood makes my sciatica worse. I think a snow-covered landscape 
is lovely. It's just that early dark at the time I am getting ready to 
wind up the day's work and have some free time that depresses me. 
And, I must admit, that with my Florida-panhandle background, I am 
ready for spring to begin by the middle of February. Enough is enough. 
Auralie 

In a message dated 11/10/2010 1:26:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
bonnie_holmes@comcast.net writes: 

Sorry winter makes you depressed. To me, I just want to go inside, get a

nice hot dinner and settle down to a good book or quilting, and/or watch

a good program. Maybe, I am part bear and want to hibernate. 

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