Thank you for your reply and the link Walt. I had an ex-mother-in-law who would take her first drink when the "sun was over the yardarm". I have no idea what that means. She'd also say that "it's 5pm somewhere in the world" if she wanted a drink at say 3pm! She was a hoot! :)
A traditional nautical saying to indicate that it is time for a morning drink. It was generally assumed in northern latitudes the sun would show above the foreyard of a ship by 1100, which was about the time in many ships of the forenoon ‘stand-easy’, when many officers would slip below for their first drink of the day.