Susan Bundlie

On Tuesday, August 6, 2002, at 05:14 AM, [email protected]
wrote:

> <<I always head for National Geographic when I need information about
> places;
> the January 1984 issue contains an article, "The Queen of Textiles:
> Silk,"
> which is mostly about silk itself...>>

I'm going to print this out and give it to my husband. He's been
collecting National Geographics for years and recently talked,
reluctantly, about giving them up. They take up a lot of space, are a
pain to move (we've done it twice this year) and don't get looked at
much. I encouraged him to keep them, since he's always talked about
looking forward to having the time to just sit down and immerse himself
in them.

He's back from his three-month Australian trip (if you remember me
mentioning this before--he's back even if you don't remember me
mentioning it! <g>) and I'm working hard on getting him NOT to go back
to work. We're still too young to "retire", whatever that means these
days, but there are lots of ways to make enough money to live w/o
engaging in work you don't like. I'm reading "Making a Living Without a
Job" aloud each day and he's beginning to show signs of real interest.

I can't seem to keep up with this list, but every time I dip in to read
I find something wonderful!

Susan

Nancy Wooton

on 8/6/02 12:09 PM, Susan Bundlie at strandbe@... wrote:

>> <<I always head for National Geographic when I need information about
>> places;
>> the January 1984 issue contains an article, "The Queen of Textiles:
>> Silk,"
>> which is mostly about silk itself...>>
>
> I'm going to print this out and give it to my husband. He's been
> collecting National Geographics for years and recently talked,
> reluctantly, about giving them up. They take up a lot of space, are a
> pain to move (we've done it twice this year) and don't get looked at
> much. I encouraged him to keep them, since he's always talked about
> looking forward to having the time to just sit down and immerse himself
> in them.

Actually, I found the article in our CD-ROM set :-) The search feature is
fabulous -- I typed in "silk" and found it, several months ago when my
Embroiderer's Guild list discussed Chinese double-sided embroidery. We have
paper copies back to 1985, when my husband's grandmother gave us a
subscription. I've been trying to convince MY dh to give up the paper
copies in favor of the teeny-weeny space-saving CD's <g>

Nancy