Fall Begins.

9-22-18 SHORT HILLS: Very early in the morning tomorrow, September 23, Greenwich time, the sun will cross the Equator into the southern hemisphere and so will begin the dark half of the year for us northern hemispherians. On the Autumnal Equinox everyone has a twelve-hour day and a twelve-hour night. The sun rises and sets on the equator, so it rises due east and sets due west, if you want to check the accuracy of your compass.

Technically, we’re talking about the sun’s geographic position, which is that spot on the earth’s surface directly beneath the sun at any given moment.

While it may not seem so, the northern hemisphere spring and summer are longer than our fall and winter. If you start on March 21 and add 10 days at the end of March to 30 days for April and then 31 and 30 and 31 and another 31 for August and 23 in September, you get 186 days. Half of 365 days in the year is 182.5 days, so the sunny season are 3.5 days longer than the fall and winter.

Don’t believe it? Add 7 days in September to 31 for October and 30 and 31 and 31 and 28 and 21 in March to get 179 or 180 days, every fourth year, for the fall and winter.

It happens because the earth’s orbit is not round, but oval and eccentric and the earth is actually closer to the sun in winter and moves faster in its orbit at that time. If the earth pointed the other way, which happens cyclically, winters would be longer.

Big congrats to Judy and Kaley for passing the Therapy Dog Exam. First visit for Kaley is this coming week.


Kaley just passed her exam to start Therapy visits.

Congrats to Judy and Kaley for their hard work on her training.

Roses continue working into the fall, without any training.