Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

An Extra Day

Yesterday was February 29th - Leap Day! The reason we have this monthly extension of our shortest month is to synchronise the Gregorian calendar with the solar year – without it we would lose six hours every year. *Shock2* In your entry today, write about the phenomenon of leap years and any facts you want to share. Here’s mine: People born on Leap Day are called Leaplings. *Laugh* Do you know any Leaplings? How did you spend the bonus hours of 2020? Did you make the most of them?

Awesome Extra Days

Some Leap year facts:

1. There are 1/1461 chances of being born on leap day.

2.The first warrants for arrest went out on February 29,1692 for the Salem witchcraft trials in Massachusetts. (yes I to am asking why? More facts needed?) Only info I have says most were women who by some chance owned property that higher ups in government wanted to confiscate? It's always over land?

3.(My favorite) Lord of the Rings: Hobbits February, called Solmath, has 30 days. The Hobbit calendar celebrates twelve 30-day months every year. (I wonder which planet they are on? Which sun is theirs?)

4. The last two digits of a year divisible by 4 = a leap year.

As for my day 02/29/2020, I spent it reading the second book of a two book series, called Bob and Sue. It's an audio book about hiking and campers in the wonderful USA parks. While the audio played I colored Mandalas, siting in a chair engulfed in a warm blanket and drank warm herbal tea. The weather was in the teens. It snowed all day. When I disturbed myself to do morning and evening chores, yes outside. I stomped through 2.5 foot of snow to fill bird feeders and feed my pony.

Today, warmer temps, sunshine and snow plowing made the day easier to take.