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Funny how the modern world revolves around Latin. The word calendar has its roots in Latin, coming from kalendarium, a moneylender’s account book; interest being due on the calends, the day of the new moon. Our current calendar has undergone a lot of changes since marking time from the new moon but I was surprised to learn that the Gregorian calendar the Western world uses today is only about 500 years old with some countries …
Well, sometimes one just has to be creative at the spur of the moment. This is my solution to not running to the home improvement store during a continual downpour after I had gutters installed on my home but before I had any extensions or splash guards added to my downspouts. A shopping trip would have been anywhere from a 20 to 100 mile round trip and I had already ruled out the 20 mile …
Colleen McCullough, most well known for her master work The Thornbirds, has written a great series about a detective named Carmine Delmonico. Set in the 1960′s, Carmine and his team of detectives do not have the modern forensic tools that are common today. They have to rely on intuition and pick up the unusual behavior, patterns, differences and similarities of the suspects and witnesses in their cases. The series is set in Connecticut. Carmine drives …
Here is my 2011 holiday craft project. I am all about ‘reuse and reduce’ so this activity was just my style, as the song goes. Plus, I like candy and like to gift it so there you go. The containers are easy to make. All one needs is some flat cardboard, a glue gun and recycled wrappers. They can be from anything, just use your imagination. Give it some thought and the idea can be …