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Tick…Tock…Tick

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The clock is ticking…counting down the final hours.

Comfort Zone, a sweet romance with a charming HVAC tech and a detective customer, will soon return to regular price.

Are you a “do it ahead” sort of person? Are you typically early to an appointment? Do you hang out in the hall waiting for the timeclock to hit the “magic minute” where you can “insert your card” or “swipe your badge” to be officially at work?

Or do you wait for the deadline? Have you stayed up all night completing a paper? Walk in at the final “grace moment” to work?

Either way, our heroine, Janet, will help you out. When not repairing furnaces and A/C units, or keeping house, worrying over aging parents and an adult daughter — you know — in her free time. You will find her repairing antique shelf clocks purchases at garage and estate sales.

Tick…tock…tick.

Act now put her story on your Kindle at bargain price.

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Famous Chimes

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You hear them in many public spaces. Colleges are fond of them. Certain doorbells can be programed for the first portion. And when a group of friends get silly, or one begins the tune, others tend to “chime” in.

On the quarter hour the voice is heard in the neighborhood. And on the hour — the voice is famous world-wide.

Yes, I was fortunate enough to hear the Westminster Chimes from the source. On a different day — not at 1047 — I was standing just across the river when Big Ben himself (the bell) tolled the hour of 6 PM.

This is not the same Big Ben alarm clock my father faithfully set each evening. Or the smaller, Little Ben alarm clock which I took to college. They have different stories.

Can you hear public chimes or clock in your neighborhood?

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Tock, Tock, Tock

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Every person needs a hobby. It’s healthy to have an activity which you enjoy.

The fictional Janet Zwingel restores antique mantel clocks.

This example, found in a 1830’s replica cabin, would find a proud place in her home. But she’s practical — and on a budget. Her restored clocks run a little younger.

Add Comfort Zone to your reading list to find out what happens to her

1910 Seth Thomas.

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Tick, Tick, Tick

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Time passes. Time flies. Time drags.

Some days (most days?) Americans appear obsessed with measuring time and packing as much activity as possible into each second.

During school and career years, large portions of my time were measured and observed by others. Some tasks were dependent on the timely completion of work by others. For example: I could not do procedure B until another person completed procedure A. And another, usually impatient, person wanted the results so they could do procedure C.

If this sounds like a supply chain — you’ve got the right idea.

Keeping track of time is not a new thing for Americans.  The settlers brought time pieces along in their wagons of goods.

A clock takes center mantle in this reproduction of a 1830’s home.