Wouldn't be missing the crack of dawn here if you got up at seven, still have almost a half hour. Nothing like @Alaskan of course. But if they go to permanent daylight savings time, you will be able to sleep well past eight here this time of year and still greet the sun.Slept in till SEVEN!!!!! Missed the Crack'O Dawn entirely!
My Bob had a VERY unladylike term for things as slick as that clay.....I don’t envy you the clay. Put up with sticky, slick as snot, suck the truck to the axles, black gumbo clay, for most of my life. Then when dry, a jackhammer couldn’t chip it and I could lose a foot in the cracks.
The soil I have now is a mix of sand and clay. Just enough clay in places to get stuck in, but nothing like black clay.