Maybe it was a folk custom that the author heard of.
Last year when I was at Mom’s at the beginning of Lent, we were at dinner with five or six of her friends, and Murray, who is 102, said, “I’m giving up sex! What about you?” All the old ladies were widows and said, “What a good idea!”
Got any 4’s?
I gave up sex for lack of interest, not necessarily coinciding with Lent.
For someone who was going to lie low today, I’ve managed to pack or re-pack four containers. Hooray for our side!
I went through some stuff trying to determine what I had in the way of jewelry supplies and it amounts mostly to those items that can be made using twine. (Shells, wooden beads, ceramic beads and large stones.) One thing I don’t have is a small drill, which would come in enormously handy.
I do like tying knots in the appropriate places and once made an 8’ tall Christmas tree in macrame’. Another thing that is gone for good along with the Nativity that I had made to display inside it. Lit from inside and above by a blue light in a 3# coffee can. I have a photo of it somewhere.