10 June 2013

Notes - rare day busy / The Four Horsemen


         Mid-afternoon. You have had a busy day. It rained during the night and Carol saw a leak in the garage. You called the usual roofer and they were out shortly after noon to repair the leak. Before breakfast you had blood work for three doctors and once that was completed you had a banana, pills and a diet Coke for breakfast. Shortly thereafter you took the outdoor cat to the vet. She is fine so you gave her all her shots, etc. then went home and picked up Jadah for her booster shots. You had a late lunch at Chipotle/Panera after Graeter's kid cups of strawberry and chocolate chip. Carol is presently at Kroger's on Tylersville and it is about to rain once again. It'll be tomorrow until you can cut the yard. - Amorella

         2006 hours. Once home from the grocery and PetSmart we put the metal tag on Ebony's new collar with bell; we are calling her Ebbie for short. Next Tim began mowing his yard so I followed suit. Carol helped and we finished then I did more yard work moving two wheelbarrow full of stones from the stone circle I created twenty years to surround the largest tree. Ebbie is still an outside cat for now but we may well keep her and bring her inside for good. Certainly fairly soon she has to get her tubes tied as she is a year old. Carol is drying her hair and I am ready for a bath. We will probably call it a day early tonight. This is one of the rare days I haven't even checked my email yet.

         Later, dude. Post. - Amorella



         2245 hours. Everything important has been updated or added to iCloud. What do we do next, Amorella?

         Add a copy of the woodcut of the Four Horsemen by Albrecht Durer. - Amorella

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"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," a woodcut by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528). This copy of the print is thought to have been hand-colored by Durer himself.

From: news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/12.16/millenium.html

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Goggle Images: www.proprofs.com 

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The Apocalypse, properly Apocalypse with Pictures is a famous series of fifteen woodcuts by Albrecht Durer of scenes from the Book of Revelation, published in 1498, which rapidly brought him fame across Europe. The series was probably cut on pear-wood blocks and drew on theological advice, particularly from Johannes Pirckheimer, the father of Dürer's friend Willibald Pirchkheimer. Work on the series started during Dürer's first trip to Italy (1494–95), and the set was published simultaneously in Latin and German at Nuremberg in 1498, at a time when much of Europe anticipated a possible Last Judgment at 1500. The most famous print in the series is The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (ca. 1497–98), referring to Revelation 6:1-8. The layout of the cycle with the illustrations on the recto and the text on the verso suggests the privileging of the illustrations over the text. The series brought Dürer fame and wealth as well as some freedom from the patronage system, which, in turn, allowed him to choose his own subjects and to devote more time to engraving. In 1511, Dürer published the second edition of Apocalypse in a combined edition with his Life of the Virgin and Large Passion; single impressions were also produced and sold.

Edited from Wikipedia - Apocalypse (Dürer)

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         2312 hours. I'm going to bed.

         Post, orndorff. Sleep well. - Amorella

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