Here is a fun way to spend an evening... five or six hours of cleaning wooden floors as part of a dust bunny hunt. DIE BUNNIES. I found the small shop vac worked really good to suck them up. All of this is to get the house ready for my lovely mate to visit this coming weekend. Yep!
From LJ This Day IN Ancient History http://syndicated.livejournal.com/ancienthistory/674944.html On this day in ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins cleansed the penus or storehouse of Vesta, paving the way for regular business-as-usual, including marriages for the second half of June. On the 7th of June, the inner sanctum, storehouse, or penus, which was normally closed, was opened to all matrons. Food offerings were brought to the temple (aedes) of Vesta. Bakers and millers were honored, while donkeys were garlanded. Marriage was fobidden. The flaminica Dialis (wife of the flamen Dialis [priest of Jupiter]) wore mourning clothing. Then on the 15th, the place was swept, the penus closed, and life could go on as usual.
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Date: 2009-06-16 11:46 am (UTC)http://syndicated.livejournal.com/ancienthistory/674944.html
On this day in ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins cleansed the penus or storehouse of Vesta, paving the way for regular business-as-usual, including marriages for the second half of June. On the 7th of June, the inner sanctum, storehouse, or penus, which was normally closed, was opened to all matrons. Food offerings were brought to the temple (aedes) of Vesta. Bakers and millers were honored, while donkeys were garlanded. Marriage was fobidden. The flaminica Dialis (wife of the flamen Dialis [priest of Jupiter]) wore mourning clothing. Then on the 15th, the place was swept, the penus closed, and life could go on as usual.
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Date: 2009-06-16 12:00 pm (UTC)