All these years, and it still won’t break so we can replace it. Well, after 13 years we finally gave up and traded it in for a newer used car.
We found what we wanted on Carvana, and they offered us a fair trade on the Mazda, so we took it.
A 2023 Model 3.
It looks good in our driveway.
Same size and shape as an American robin.
Only different in the color. And the range. American Robins are ubiquitous in the U.S. and Canada, only occasionally visiting here in the Valley in the winter. Here though, and in Mexico and Central America, the Clay-colored Thrush is a year-round resident.
He’s a mimic, like a mockingbird. We get serenaded with elaborate treetop songs.
With a couple brown immatures.
And a whole mess of other birds.
Snowy egrets, white ibis, white-faced ibis, some northern shovelers and mottled ducks in the background.
For the biannual annoyance. Daylight Saving Time.
Time doesn’t change, we do. We can’t spring time forward, we can only move our clocks to something that doesn’t represent what time it really is. If the justification is to get people to work earlier, or kids to school earlier, just tell them to be there at seven instead of eight.
For the argument that it is necessary to continue the clock switch because interstate commerce requires it, Arizona and the adjacent states didn’t collapse when Arizona opted out of Daylight Saving Time in 1968.
