My day had two (count 'em, TWO) highlights today. The first was a quick visit to an Estate Sale. We try to go to estate sales when we have a chance, and this was the first one we have been to in a couple months. I will tell you about the prize I got at the sale in a subsequent post. The second highlight of the day was a visit to the brand-spanking-new Keller-Williams real estate office in Georgetown. My friend Avis is the head honcho of that office and the KW office in Round Rock, and she recently renovated a building (just down the street from their former office), and celebrated their grand opening this afternoon. It is a beautiful, high tech equipped office, and there were dozens and dozens of our REALTOR® colleagues there. A 'grand' (get it?) time was had by all, and I was happy to attend and show my support for Avis and everything she has done for our profession and for me personally. Wonderful! This is a photo of my friend Susan, Avis and me.Tintinnabulation -- Noun: a jingling or tinkling sound from or as if from bells. "The song opened with the far-away electric tintinnabulation of an iceStyleite, September 4, 2014.
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Did You Know? Our English work tintinnabulation derives from tintinnabulum, the Latin word for "bell." That Latin word, in turn, comes from the verb tintinnare, which means "to ring, clang or jingle." Like the English terms ting and tinkle, tintinnare originated with a vocal limitation of the sound associated with it - that is, it is onomatopoeic. Edgar Allan Poe celebrates the sonic overtones of tintinnabulation with his poem "The Bells," which includes lines about "the tintinnabulation that so musically wells / From the bells, bells, bells, bells, / Bells, bells, bells - / From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells."
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