Chalk Talk
On Epiphany, it's traditional to bless a home by using chalk to write the number of the new year over the front door, with the initials of the three Wise Men (Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar) in the middle:
20CMB13
- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Sat/Sun 5/6 Jan 2013
If January could,
he would be a summer month.
- J. T. Bent, The Cyclades, 1885
- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Mon 7 Jan 2013
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