I just attended a talk by a pro estate maintenance gardener--she said, over and over, "March and October, grab it like hair and cut off half." General advice for most perennials here. Having said that, Echium cadicans-- prune flower stems off after flowering to tidy up the plant and cut back hard in late fall to reduce size and encourage new growth from lower branches. Good to wait until you see a little bit of new growth appearing. The plant will produce new blooming stems for next year. An established Butterfly bush, whack away, it will all grow back. Ivy Geranium, cut back hard but leave some foliage so the plant can feed itself. Calandrinia (now Cistanthe) I find best re-rooted from cuttings when it looks ratty. Or just cut off anything that looks bad--it resprouts new growth readily, but again doesn't look as good as a fresh plant.

What ghostlyvision said. I don't change the truck clock. It's right half the time. I don't ever change the microwave or the stove clocks. If our power blinks the time is wrong. It blinks a lot. I have a battery kitchen clock, my watch and the computer clocks. I'm retired. Time isn't that critical any more.

I don't get why people get so worked up over it. Sheesh. Aren't there a lot better things to stress you out? Disclaimer: I have mostly atomic clocks so very little resetting around here. I don't have a structured life, having to report somewhere at a certain time. I sleep when I want and do things when I want. The only, albeit slight impact on me is store hours but an hour give or take is petty in my life. And I'll say that when I was working semi-normal to normal hours I really enjoyed having the sun in the afternoon. When I'd work nights, it was nice to have the sun up "earlier". Seems to me the ones who go craziest over it are the ones impacted the least! My dad used to get so worked up over DST. He'd be screaming "YOU CAN CHANGE THE CLOCK BUT YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE SUN!" Uh yeah, don't you get it? You CAN'T change the sun, so you change the clock. In today's popular vernacular, "DUH!" And ironically, he seemed to always enjoy having daylight when he'd be driving home from work. My estimate is 90% of people who grouse about DST are hobbyists. They make a hobby out of complaining! Nothing FORCES you to change your clocks. Go by your own time. I'm on CST (Cynic Saving Time) year round. I don't get worked up over it. Saves me stress and provides entertainment watching people making mountains from the proverbial molehills.

I completely forgot about it. I worked last night and therefore had to work 13 hours instead of 12. Really, though, its not that bad. If you gotta work 12 whats one more? Anyway, how i remembered was rather funny once i realized. I go walking at exactly midnight every night i work. If I am uninterrupted by my work duties(as I was last night) I should be done with all 15000 steps by 2:15 am. So I checked my phone and saw it was 1:45 am. Great! I think to myself. Only 30 minutes left! I put on an episode of "Two Fat Ladies" on Amazon Prime to listen to, which is almost exactly 30 minutes long, figuring that by the time it was over, it would be 2:15 and all my steps would have been stepped. Imagine my dismay when i looked at my phone half an hour later and it read 1:15 am! I thought I had read it wrong the first time and thought I still had an hour of walking! Worse, my feet hurt in very distinct ways by the time I am done, and they were hurting then, and as i thought I still had an hour to go, I wasn't sure my feet could take it! Just then my fitbit did its little dance to let me know that I had reached my 15000 step goal it was THAT moment that I remembered the time change. Such a relief at first, then i realized I had to work an extra hour! So I was torn. LOL. But again, as it was Saturday(Sunday by then i guess), and Saturday nights are usually peaceful and uneventful, it was fine. I spent the extra hour pulling my Christmas lights out and testing them Lots and Lots of lights out. Sigh.