What is scarier than a Halloween haunted house?
Snakes, spiders, public speaking and failure are top items that scare the average person. Here’s another one you can add to the list. Realizing a year from now that your building project would be done if you had acted soon after reading this article. But the happy ending to this story is that it’s the perfect time of year to meet with builders. Holes open up in schedules as the holidays approach and builders start thinking about projects for the upcoming year.
Contact the Mt. Tabor office here or call 301.766-716 to discuss your building plans — new home, major addition, whole-house renovation or home improvement — in the new year. Use info@mttaborbuilders.com if you want to email the office staff directly. A representative will talk with you about your thoughts and determine if Mt. Tabor‘s building professionals are the right fit for your needs. You can also click on these links to see a portfolio of building projects and read client testimonials from those who trusted Mt. Tabor’s building 
professionals over the decades.
Expand your October and Halloween knowledge with some interesting information below. AND, don’t forget to “change your clock, change your batteries,” when Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday November 2nd. This means to replace your smoke detector batteries when you turn your clocks BACK on that date at 2 a.m.
Facts about the month of October
- The name October comes from the Latin “octō”, meaning “eight”, because in the Roman calendar October was the eight month of the year. January and February were added to the beginning of the year after the Julian calendar reform.
- Famous people born in October include Angela Lansbury, Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Julie Andrews, Hugh Jackman, Alfred Nobel, Anne Rice, Arthur Miller, Auguste Lumière, Friedrich Nietzsche, Christopher Columbus and John Keats.
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Calendula flowers
According to folklore, if the deer have a gray coat in October, you should expect a hard winter. Other natural signs include thick onion skins and corn husks, tall ant hills or early bird migrations.
- The birthstones for October are the tourmaline and the opal. Tourmalines display a wide spectrum of colors, such as yellow, pink, blue, red, green, black or brown. Opals exhibit different colors (green, white, yellow, blue, pink etc.) depending on the conditions under which they were created.
- The traditional flower of the month of October is the Calendula, symbolizing comfort, healing, protection and grace.
Halloween Trivia
- The name Halloween comes from “All Hallows’ Eve” or the night before “All Hallows” day (All Saints Day). In old English, “hallow” means “to sanctify.”
The fastest pumpkin carving, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, took only 16.47 seconds. Stephen Clarke of New York holds this record, carving his jack-o’-lantern in a October 2013 contest.- Princesses and superheroes rank as the most popular costumes.
- Candy corn was originally named “chicken feed.”
The Mt. Tabor Builders office is in Clear Spring, MD, just west of Hagerstown, MD. Clear Spring is a short drive to Harpers Ferry, WV; Berkeley Springs, WV; Hancock, MD; and Flintstone, MD. These are locations where Mt. Tabor has built and renovated homes for clients wanting to live Western Maryland, West Virginia or Pennsylvania.
“From the first meeting, we had the idea, but they (Willie and Royce Eby of Mt. Tabor Builders) guided us into exactly what we wanted. They took what we had and made some suggestions and adapted some things that enveloped our ideas. All around from start to finish, it was an excellent experience.” — Anne Marie, Williamsport, MD