Danielle's Continuing Life Adventures

[Lilis]

SUNDAY MORNING, October 12, 2025.....

SNOW on the ground when I woke up this morning....   
...    27 degrees(f)  [minus -3 degrees C] and it is lightly snowing.
               
           

I got dressed nice and warm for Sunday Morning church.  My sweetie [Toothfairy] will be picking
me up soon and we will be on our way, it's a short drive, only 3 miles.  Our vehicles are well
equipped for the impending winter weather seemingly coming early this year.

As is usually the case, after church we will be going out to lunch with a few
of our church gal friends.

I trust and hope that all of my readers, followers, and Forum friends are doing well another
keeping healthy and safe.

HUGS, Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

Wow, Danielle, that's magical. ❄️

~ Lilis 🌷

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

Wednesday. October 22, 2025

I did not go into my office today.....  I brought some paperwork home from my office and I am working on it here at home.... still in my sweats and slippers.   
Cold this morning ...    25 degrees (f)  [minus -4 C]  It has been SNOWING all morning and now after lunch time....  so it is good that I am not going outside my home.    Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

[Lori Dee ✅]

25 degrees is a little past my shiver point.
Sounds like a great day for PJs, fuzzy socks, and a nice fire in the fireplace.
Maybe even a mug of hot chocolate!

Good for the body and good for the mind. 😁

[Gina P]

I would love to see the northern lights, and the wilderness must be wonderful. But snow and 25 in October. I don't think so. I must take a special kind of person to live there.

[Sarah B ✅]

Hi Danielle

It is nice to know you are comfortable that is the main thing.  Weather for me is going to be 15C (59F) this was the morning temperature and 35C (95F) and this will be the temperature sometime today. Tomorrow morning it will be 16C (61F) and in the afternoon it will be 34C (93F).  the temperatures are going to be pretty much the same for the rest of the week where I live.

I will tell the sun to go and warm up Alaska!!!

Please don't work to hard Danielle and of course keep warm.

Best Wishes Always
Sarah B
Global Moderator
@Northern Star Girl

[davina61]

For me anything below 10C is 3 layers and 2 coat weather, its getting close to that this weekend. You can keep your snow and minus temps!!! Stay safe and warm my dear.

[EllenW]

For me anything below 10C is 3 layers and 2 coat weather, its getting close to that this weekend. You can keep your snow and minus temps!!! Stay safe and warm my dear.

Make that anything below 15C and I would agree with you

Ellen

[Emma1017]

Danielle, I love your work clothes, "still in my sweats and slippers."  I'm so jealous!  Are they bunny slippers?

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

Danielle, I love your work clothes, "still in my sweats and slippers."  I'm so jealous!  Are they bunny slippers?

@Emma1017
Dear Emma:
Thank you for your reply comment.  No, not bunny slippers, just regualar warm and fuzzy black slippers with a good sole so I can even wear them outside in dry weather.  On "off" days I have been seen at my office wearing the
"sweats and slippers" outfit.  Things are rather causal here with warmth and comfort being the norm.

On work days when I have scheduled client appointments and meetings I do dress up and wear a skirt and a blouse with flats or low heels.
If feel I need to make a better presentation, a dress and mid-heel pumps are what I will wear.

When the weather gets really bad in the winter, most people will forgo the dressier clothing and go for bundling up
for warmth and wearing winter coats, gloves and snow boots.

I suppose where you live that none of that is usually not acceptable unless the weather is really bad.

As I might have mentioned maybe elsewhere on my postings around the Forum, I am cutting back my work
schedule... maybe 2 or 3 days at my office letting my hired gal(s) handle much of the work.  For more
detailed work I will also take aome paperwork home to work on in front of my fireplace.

I recall something you posted about you cutting back your work schedule and work hour a little. Enjoy !!!

HUGS, Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

[Sephirah]

What people in Alaska call "really bad" is what most people call "Catastrophic". Lol.

Danielle, you are the human form of nuclear fusion. You are my age and honey... you have like 10x the energy. It always amazes me. Must be that Alaskan salmon. You deserve to take it easy, honey. You've been doing the work of like 5 people for a long time.

I honestly don't know how you do it.

Get that fireplace high with fuel, and lots of hot chocolate, honey. You deserve it. <3

[Emma1017]

Danielle,

I love, love, love a real fireplace in the cold weather!  We have already started using it, and that room is our favorite place.  Danielle, you and your sweetie Toothfairy, must love snuggling up under a blanket in front of a roaring fire in the Alaskan cold.

I wish I could dress as "me" for work. My gender compromise with my job and my wife makes it impossible, but I have plenty of "me" moments to compensate.  The one thing I refuse to do ever again is wear a men's suit and tie! It makes me emotionally gag.  I go with slacks and a shirt with black sneakers.  That's compromise enough!

I start going into semi-retirement on March 30, next year.  I need to stick around for two years to buy me out of the practice and to pass it on to my son.  I am so glad that my son and I have gotten to work the last seven years together, but enough! I need a change of pace and focus, and he needs me to stop telling him what to do...he already knows.😁

I have fuzzy slippers too, although bunny ones are certainly appealing.

Warm hug,

Emma

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 2 a.m., when clocks will "fall back" to 1 a.m..
This marks the return to standard time and gives most people an extra hour of sleep. 

    The change occurs at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, November 2, 2025.

This is the traditional end of daylight saving time in most states in the United States,
and the return to standard time.

NOTE: There has been heated debate about making daylight saving time permanent or to eliminate it entirely, 
but for now, the twice-yearly clock change will continue.

[davina61]

The UK changed last weekend, getting dark now at 5pm .

[Lori Dee ✅]

... and gives most people an extra hour of sleep.

If you wake up via an alarm clock, maybe.

I wake up on my own and wonder why am I awake at 5 a.m.? Oh, well. I might as well start my day, since bedtime will come an hour earlier tonight. Except that I won't go to bed at my usual time, which means I will be up late. < sigh >

[Sephirah]

NOTE: There has been heated debate about making daylight saving time permanent or to eliminate it entirely, 
but for now, the twice-yearly clock change will continue.

Back in world war two, we had double daylight savings time in the UK, where the clocks changed by 2 hours from GMT, instead of one. Just so it would stay lighter for longer in the evenings when people were trying to clean up all the bomb damage during the Blitz.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-extreme-daylight-savings-time-of-world-war-ii 🔗