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Lindsay Arnold@lindsayarnold  Feb 21

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gabriele wrote:

april6263 wrote:

gabriele wrote:

When my (now deceased) Father dissolved his household to go to a retirement home in 2008, he asked me if I want to have it shipped to Australia to keep it.  So, it is still in our shed, but untouched.  I'm not sure, my sons or I will ever open any of them, but I know that my Father had a leaf through almost daily just for curiosity.  He wouldn't ever read a book other than on botanics, but he 'read' the encyclopaedia on many subjects. 

Oh wow.....I bet he knew a lot about a lot of different things, he would have been awesome on Jeopardy   .........they will probably be considered antiques one day and could be  valuable.....even though to me just the sentimental value would be priceless for the memories of your dad

It is, April.  He offered it to my brother first who didn't want it...  But I knew he would be heartbroken to see it going to the dump.  My Dad didn't get much formal education as he fled (in the dark of the night...)  from the Russian occupied Eastern Germany just after the war and had to get through somehow on his own without family support.  I believe he was very intelligent nonetheless and something like the encyclopaedia quenched his thirst for knowledge.  Such different times...   I'm glad we are part of the easy information age now. 

(((hugs))) to you, April. 

I am late to this party since my daughter and 3 grandchildren are (mostly) here for the next week but I thought I would let you know, Gabriele, that we also are proud owners of a 1973 edition of Encyclopedia Britannicas---something like 24 volumes!!!  I have often wondered what will happen to this set when we are no longer around because it was a staple in our household when our kids were growing up and it is, in many areas, as current and accurate  (or perhaps more so in many ways) as it ever was.  We used it extensively...and I still find myself looking things up in it now and then....particularly things of an historical nature!!  The detail and completeness on many topics is incredible!!  It came with a 3 volume Webster's unabridged dictionary which is still AWESOME....as well as a section in the 3rd book of common foreign words in 6 languages, including Yiddish!!

I find your father's story very endearing and can relate to it in many ways as my father came from a very poor family (however, without the horrors your family may have endured in Eastern Germany) in Chicago.  He vowed early in his life to use his head rather than his back to support himself and his family so he highly valued education and certainly never stopped learning.  I greatly admire people who are self-made and very often self-educated.  They are usually "smarter" than most academic elites who seriously lack common sense or the ability to, figuratively, "put 2 and 2 together," as my mother would say!

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gabriele wrote:

This is for you, Jet.  I know you love an old sewing machine .....or a dozen!  


 

 
HILARIOUS, Gabriele!!!  I was wondering why they had spools of thread attached to their back sides!!!!  LOL. Kinda looks lik my "new-old" Singer....with the wood case!!!  LOL. Blast from the early 1950's!!!  LOL

Thanks for thinking of me!!

gabriele wrote:

april6263 wrote:

gabriele wrote:

SOUTHERN COMFORT

Readily available in every bottle shop here, btw.


Come to think of it......  should we have a cast reveal party?

 

that sounds awesome!!!! ......LOL....and if Sharna gets Shemar the screaming you hear will just be me fangirling....LOL!!!!!

Their given names sound like a perfect match already. 
 

COMFORT INN

 

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