I have 3 clocks that are battery powered. Well I guess technically I have 5 of them if you count the 2 in the cars. Six if you count the clock radio in the bedroom that is corded but it has a battery backup since it used to be an alarm clock.  Actually it still is an alarm clock but I don’t use the alarm function any more. In fact I hadn’t even used its alarm feature when I was working and needed to get up early on a regular basis. I still kept the battery in it even though it didn’t need to consistently keep accurate time, and I still do because I like it to keep consistent time because it’s really a pain to reset the time if it should stop in a power failure.

Now where was I?

Oh right. I have 3 clocks that are battery powered. Four actually but one uses a really weird size that nobody carries. It hasn’t kept time for about 14 years but it looks good on my desk.

Oh. Sorry.

I have 3 clocks that are battery powered. To keep them running and to not have to open them up at odd and unexpected times of the year, I change their batteries every fall when we change from daylight saving time back to standard time. I figure as long as I have them opened up I might as well change the batteries whether they need them or not. And that’s worked pretty well for the last 40 years when I bought my first battery powered clock. Well, there was 1986 when I actually moved over the weekend that the time changed and we packed the clocks with their batteries in place and still running. (Not intentionally, it just worked that way) (That was probably dangerous.) (But nothing bad happened.) When we unpacked them they were hung on their walls and the batteries weren’t given a thought. Not until they started running slow 8 months later. Then I remembered what I forgot.

So slow it’s running backwards!

Sorry. I digressed again.

I have 3 clocks that are battery powered. I usually change the batteries when we change the time in the fall but they are all running slow. I think I forgot last year.

Did I tell you about the 3 battery powered clocks I have?