It's January 7th - Merry Christmas!!!

Yes, today is CHRISTMAS DAY (birth of Jesus, not a holiday with some red-suited fat guy and a bunch of compost-producing equine off-shoots...)

According to the Russian calendar anyway (and several others, btw...), this is the day of the birth, NOT the 25th of December!!!

Now, I'm not a specialist in how it all works, but it has a lot to do with the use of the different calendar systems - both of which were started at the same time, but have, over the last several hundred years, drifted apart by a few bits every day.

As I understand it (and remember it - I invite you to do the research on the Internet yourself - there must be tons of it out there... I'm just going from my memory and my day-to-day life here!), it was Julius Caesar that made the old calendar 'illegal' - and it 'stuck'. From that time, the old system of counting days, hours and weeks went away and everyone, all over the world, adopted the one we use now (at least, in the 'modern world' - the Chinese still have their own, and I think the Muslims and Jewish folks have their own, too???? - maybe Caesar's power wasn't all that powerful after all... ;)

Nope, I'm not a calendar expert, I just wanted to give you a bit of the background on this as my wife and her mother are preparing to go to church (Russian Orthodox) and celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus...

... for the third time in two days....

Yup, they went yesterday morning for a couple hours (that was a 'Sunday service' though), then last night, another FOUR HOURS with a priest that came in from San Francisco, and again today, another couple hours.

Well, it gives them some time out of the house, and quiet time for me - works all around....

And, the celebration here at home won't revolve around an iconic, commercially-manufactured day of excessive spending (that comes on New Year - NEXT WEEK! ;)

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