The End of October is the Beginning of the End of 2026

There’s only two months left until the start of 2027

Yes, you read that correctly. Hopefully thoughts of the holidays, family gatherings and the return of Christmas music brings a smile to your face. What about the thoughts of the new year? Do those thoughts include building a new home or a new addition onto your existing home? Maybe your existing home is enough, but just outdated and in need of renovation, or at least several major home improvements. Or maybe you’re thinking of adding to your real estate portfolio with a vacation home in the mountains.

If any of these ideas ring true, this is a great time — in between the holiday plans and activities — to start making some notes. Also, take a break from doom scrolling and search for images that represent your thoughts. You can even take some of those pictures and make changes inside of an AI platform to sharpen the focus on details you like.

Once you get a collection, start interviewing reputable builders with good reputations of working with clients. The Mt. Tabor Builders representatives like to meet with potential clients during the holidays and early into the new year. This gives them an opportunity to fill their coming year’s schedule of projects. To inspire you, jump over to the Riverbank Residence gallery. The collection of images features the company’s most recent timber frame custom home.

 

Contact Mt. Tabor for your 2027 Building Project

Contact Mt. Tabor’s Clear Spring, MD office at this link or call 301.766.0016 to talk about your 2027 or call 301.766.0016 to talk about your 2027 building plans. Use info@mttaborbuilders.com to email the office staff to connect to a company representative. The company, which just celebrated 25 years in business, offers custom architectural services, custom home building, design consulting, and custom wood cutting in their timber shop.

Click on this link to read client testimonials from those who have trusted Mt. Tabor Builders with their dream projects.

 

Halloween and All Saints Day celebrations this weekend

Trick-or-treaters are getting ready to head out to gather a bag full of goodies. Most of them will do so without any knowledge of the annual October 31st ritual. Even more so, they’re not aware of the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, which includes Halloween, All Saints Day and All Sous Day.

Though the original roots of Halloween — or All Hallow’s Eve — aren’t certain. However, it has been traced back to Ireland, Britain, and France. To mark the end of Summer, the Celts of Ireland held a harvest festival known as Samhain. The festival was steeped in superstition and fear of evil. It is celebrated on the 31^st of October beginning at sunset and ending at sunset on November 1.

Following the Roman conquest of Britain, British Celts adopted the Julian calendar and fixed the date of observance to November 1. The holiday was Christianized as Halloween by the early church. It has evolved into a day of activities like making jack-o-lanterns from pumpkins, bobbing for apples, trick-or-treating and other festivities. In other countries as well as in Catholicism, one attends church services.

What is All Saints Day?

Pope Boniface IV reconsecrated the Pantheon in Rome around the year 609 A.D. He renamed it the Church of St. Mary and the Martyrs. He established the anniversary celebrating the remembrance for all of the Church’s martyrs. Years later, Pope Gregory III changed the date to November 1 during the dedication of St. Peter’s Basilica to “all saints,” in an effort to combat pagan worship.

November 1 became All Saints Day, otherwise known as All Hallow’s Day. Christians would come together on this day to ask for God’s protection from evil in the world as well as blessings from God. Patrons would dress up in costumes of evil spirits or saints in order to depict the battle between good and evil.

What is All Souls Day?

All Souls Day commemorates the faithful who have died. This day is observed in the Catholic Church as well as the Eastern Orthodox churches. It was believed, based on certain books of the Catholic Bible, that these souls, trapped between heaven and hell, could be helped by prayer. They could then be cleansed of their sins and receive full sanctification to gain entrance to heaven. The custom of setting apart this day for intercession was established by Saint Odilio of Cluny. This practice then spread throughout Europe and eventually to the Western Church.

As Christianity spread throughout the world, pagan holidays were either Christianized or swept away.

NOTE: Much of the information was taken from a Christianity.com article.