Spring 2023

Spring came 18 days early in Central Ohio this year. Looking forward to some long bike rides and canoe paddling.

(Photo courtesy of Anne de Hass)

February 2023 – Make every month a February

I’ve just come to believe every month should be a February, except easier to spell phonetically. I like it that February is 28 days long or exactly 4 weeks. Of course there’s that pesky “Leap Year” thing but I have a solution for that too. Here goes.

Make every month 28 days long .

Because 365/28= 13 and some change we will need to add another month. Imagine the fun in naming it! For now let’s call it Lastember and stick it on the end of the year. Imagine the fun of messing with Christmas!

Next because 13×28=364, we will still need an extra day every year. It could be plugged in anywhere but seems to me it should come after the last day of Lastember and it would be a global holiday. How to name the extra day is beyond me but someone will surely figure it out.

OK, so far so good but there still is the issue of Leap Year and that could easily be solved by either adding it at the end of the year and everyone would get a double holiday every 4 years. Maybe we won’t have to, maybe that extra day will just float off into space and we can forget about it altogether!

You just never know what tricks the universe will pull.

Sounds perfect doesn’t it? So let’s do it and while we’re at it, can we convert the whole planet to the Metric System?

Happy February.