One of the things I hate most about the winter – aside from the cold temperatures, threats of snow and higher electric bills is the shorter days. I realize that technically each day holds the same 24 hours, 1440 minutes and 86,400 seconds it does in the summer, but it’s that earlier sunset and […]
The Original Lux Egg Timer
This is the original Lux Minute Minder that I was raised on. To the right is an egg timer in action. The photo was sent to me from a friend the day the book came out. The Lux timer has been around since 1914, almost a hundred years ago and long before my mother introduced […]