O Antiphons: day 6

O Rex Gentium…
O King of the Nations…
O come, Desire of nations, bind
in one the hearts of all mankind;
bid thou our sad divisions cease,
and be thyself our King of Peace.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
Original text: O King of the Gentiles, yea, and desire thereof! O Corner-stone, that makest of two one, come to [...]

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SNOW!!!

Ok, not really.  But WordPress puts snow up for the holidays (until Jan. 4), and I finally read the note about how to turn it on for your own blog.  So at least my blog can have snow, even if I don’t.

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Go Navy! (take three)

Yes, I’m writing about Navy football again, very briefly:
Go Navy!  Beat Army!
Yeah, Navy beat Army this year, too.  Eighth year in a row.  Having been in a class that watched the football team lose every single year to Army, I sympathize with the Cadets: the class of 2010 will be the fifth West Point class [...]

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Finally back!

Well, I’ve been in and out of the blogosphere lately (mostly out or just lurking briefly), but I am finally officially back.  The move from you-know-where is half over; the second half comes when my in-laws rent a mobile home somewhere and we get to move everything out of the storage units and into the [...]

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The Pen

“There are perticular times when I feel such an uneasiness, such a restlessness, as neither Company, Books, family Cares or any other thing will remove, my Pen is my only pleasure.”
- Abigail Adams
 
I’ll agree with her, especially right now, when my fingers are one of the few muscles that don’t ache.  (No, Tricia, I have [...]

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Huh?

Hey, look, it’s October… when the heck did that happen?
Wait, what do you mean, “Two days ago”?!?
Ugh.
I’m not dead.  Not yet, at least.  The giant, OMG, must-make-money rummage sale for my in-laws is next weekend.  I don’t even want to think about it anymore.  They’re trying to schedule a charity truck to come pick up whatever [...]

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Going MIA

For my regular readers (all, what? fifteen of you?), I will be missing for a bit.  I know; it’s a little late in the summer for a blogcation, but things have come to a rather difficult head lately.
For starters, my DH finished his master’s work and has taken over my laptop to play submarine simulations [...]

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Go Navy! (take two)

*gleeful snicker*
Ok, if you don’t know what happened: Navy, for some unfathomable reason (likely national exposure and/or TV revenues), travelled to Ohio to (presumably) get beat up by the Buckeyes.
Which shows how much attention I’ve paid to Navy football lately, except for the annual Army-Navy game.  (Beat Army!)
To put it in a nutshell, Navy didn’t [...]

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Genii, Faust, and Hobbits

(I do not claim full responsibility for the title; I was just thinking about genii while in the shower.  My husband added Faust and the hobbits.)
Maybe part of the problem with our society is that we have stopped reading all the old fairy tales, or anything that sounds the least bit like them.
You know, the [...]

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My excuse for going missing…

I usually skip part of the weekend, due to family stuff, but I have a different (and even more photogenic) excuse this weekend: I was on vacation.
Virginia has a blossoming wine industry, and one of the best is Barboursville Winery, owned by an Italian winery family and opened in 1976, when Virginia only had six wineries (there are [...]

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