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Leap-decades

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?

I won't be able to blog every day. Some prompts will leave me gasping for breath. Others like today... will lead me to read you-all's blogs and comment.

To Apondia : "The Baha'i calendar has 19 months of 19 days... with 4 or 5 extra days depending on the year. So... yeah... which planet had Hobbits and when. Earth may have had a slightly longer or shorter year in the distant past. Same with day-length.

Glad you enjoyed the snow. So many people get annoyed by weather... as if their opinion counts! "

To Charlie ~ : "I will not post every day. Blogging will fall by the wayside if my travels go belly-up. So, it won't be a 'blue' month. But then again, I'm stressed out right now and blogging... so...

It will be nice to read an occasional blog from you.

Olympics and Presidential elections... Order me a Caesar salad. Put it on Julius' tab.

I'm sure I've met a leapling. Prolly more than one. Some of us have inconvenient birthdays, like my friend Merry, born December 25th."

SandraLynn Team Florent! 's father-in-law is a leapling: "Very interesting portrait you've painted about Bob.

If you were to sit down and interview him I'm certain you could write down some stories. I do wonder what his motivation was each step of the way.

Since 22 is my favorite number... Happy Birthday, Bob! "

To Chris Breva : "Yep. Just another day.

Mine was spent going to the post-office, bank atm to check my account balances, doing a wash, stressing about my impending trip. Good times? Nah, just chores that needed to be done. Today? Even remembered to pay the rent.

I don't watch wrestling and without a television rarely watch anything at all."

bobturn posted a link to a disturbing story he wrote about an aging leapling:

         

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I responded: "Not fair, I call-out, not fair!

I love quirky prompts. You handled this one well.

I'm old, but as you are well aware... we vampires never tell our true age. We have leap decades (when we go to sleep and don't set the alarm...)."

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