The beauty of Spring and Daylight Savings Time.

My prepared blog for today was originally going to be about the devastating combination of public unions and the federal government intruding into the hiring practices of local municipalities. I refer specifically to the feds forcing towns, counties and states to "dumb down" their pre-hiring, qualifying tests in order to make them more fair for minorities.

But wait a minute..... I just checked the calendar and the weather report for this weekend and instantly became light hearted, dare I say gleeful? Certainly writing about the imminent demise we face due to the afore mentioned practices can wait one more day.

Last weekend was DST (daylight savings time) which is one of my favorite days of the year. Longer and warmer days, come on, who doesn't love that? Now I see that this Sunday, March 20th is the first day of Spring. And if that isn't enough I see that here in Atlanta it is going to be 84 degrees, sunny and a 0% chance of rain. Is this the perfect trifecta or what?

Therefore I am officially forgetting about all the doom and gloom out there for today (goodness knows there is plenty of it) and I am going to plan an outing for Saturday. Maybe a nice cruise up to Helen for the day. Today for me is a day to be thankful to the Lord for the small pleasures in life that we are blessed with so often. May we never take Him or His blessings for granted.

thank you, Doug Lang