Notes - home is /

         Dusk. Yesterday afternoon you had a meeting at Capital Lights near Polaris Shopping and the three of you decided what lights you wanted in the bedrooms, three and a half baths, kitchen, office, bedrooms, closets and outside lights in back, side and over the garage doors. All lights everywhere are LED's and for that you are happy. After, while Kim was at Kroger's you and Carol drove to Cathy and Tod's for a pleasant family oriented chat rather than politics. Kim made spaghetti for supper "with lots of meat" as she likes to say. - Amorella

         1804 hours. Her spaghetti is quite different from Carol's, far less tomato sauce, but it is very good and filling. The boys played some games and after bed you, Carol, Kim and Paul  had a good chat on the house, etc.

         After meeting at Capital you drove over to see the house and the first floor 'sticks', were mostly constructed. Very exciting to see. You can drop a couple photos to show the progress. - Amorella

         1810 hours. The house isn't the focus of this blog. It doesn't seem cricket to include in a writing blog.

         No, but it is exciting to you, Carol, Kim and Paul. It stirs you passions, boy. - Amorella

         1813 hours. Who said, "Home is where the heart is."? --  I discovered it was most probably Pliny the Elder.

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Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23 – 79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire,  and friend of the emperor Vespasian. 

Spending most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia  (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: 

For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions.

Pliny the Younger refers to Tacitus’s reliance upon his uncle's book, the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died in AD 79, while attempting the rescue, by ship, of a friend and his family, in Stabiae,  from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which already had destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge of the volcano’s eruption did not allow his ship to leave port, and Pliny probably died during that event.

Selected and edited from Wikipedia

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         1826 hours. I love to learn surprises such as this. I'm sure he was a very interesting man.

         Post. - Amorella