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Sherry,

This makes me happy to hear there is someone else that feels this way about library books. I know there are a couple of ladies in our church that don't like to shake hands with people, and they are just overly conscious of germs but yet they go to the library weekly. Frankly I don't see the difference.

Jacqueline

Jacqueline

mini Mini wrote in news:Xns9849C3B36D6Fmininospamateasycom@212.40.5.54:

thank you ladies! Very interesting stuff!! I knew you wouldn't disappoint!! :o)

Emilia

Sandy Ellison wrote in news:C13C903C.B57C% snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net:

HiYa!

I LOVE CHICKENS! You really should consider letting him have two, if only so I can live vicariously through you! ;o) I'm desperate for a yard & a couple of Bantams.

And a by-product of raising chickens (and other livestock) was the printed cotton feed sacks that the chicken feed came in. That was also used for quilts, as well as dresses, blouses, pajamas, and, of course, quilts.

Julia in MN

One difference is that a lot of germs need some moisture to survive. Most library books stay on the shelves long enough so that a lot of germs will have died. I've read a lot of library books and worked in libraries and I don't think I have ever had any disease that could have been carried by a library book. Contact with the staff, the doorknobs and restrooms, etc., is probably a "better" source of germs.

Julia > Sherry,

How about the gal that sneezes into her hand before she tried to start bagging my groceries? I had to chase her off.

I really enjoy books. We have a pretty great library here put together from many second hand and new books. Some old books do have a bad smell and might bother folks with allergies but most don't or a while in the sunshine and things are fine.

Most books > One difference is that a lot of germs need some moisture to survive.

Howdy!

Those Bantams are beautiful birds!

As for my dear husband and his longing for livestock, I'm not his mama so there is no "let him have" chickens. We live on the edge of a large city between Ft.Worth and Dallas, Texas that does not "allow" livestock on a city lot, unless the homeowners have special permission. We are surrounded by horse ranch-ettes (little ranches) & stables, & a couple of donkeys. But no chickens. My husband would like to live further out in the country so he could have those chickens and some goats to eat the grass. But he doesn't want to live any further away from his everyday job and we have no plans to move, so far. ;-D My quilt stash and I would be happy to relocate, tho', whenever he decides to pack up the house. LOL

Cheers!

Ragm> Sandy Ellison wrote in

Howdy~!

Amen, Julia. You/We get the same "better" source of those germs from a book store as we would from a library. Public contact. Books from whatever source, library, bookstore, warehouse, post office, have all been thru' human hands and dusty air. Our city libraries have many, many more quilt books than I'd be able to peruse at a bookstore, and they're more often filed correctly on the shelves at the library (the bookstore shelves tend to be rather messy, difficult to find specific quilt books). Besides, as a resource for which I'm already paying, I can afford the library more easily than going to the bookstore. For those of us who read voraciously, the library is a godsend, as are librarians. ;-) Library books usually have those nice, protective, *washable* covers.

Btw, I read another article the other day about new germs and bacteria that are showing up thru' new construction/building. The more they plow up the fields and dig out foundations for streets and neighborhoods (a lot of this in our area), the more likely it is to uncover germs or bacteria that have been buried for centuries, millennia, "new germs". And humankind is developing new icky stuff all the time.

Pardon me... I'm going to go wash my hands. ;-D Ragmop/Sandy --in beautiful n.Tx where they're building a new library just 2 miles from my house-- YEE-HAW!!!!!

Sandy Ellison wrote in news:C13D840E.B654% snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net:

I know what you mean. My MIL is always telling me to _make_ DH to do this or that. That drives me nuts! He is his own person & I'm not going to _make_ him do anything (even if I could! ;o) .... So, I didn't mean it that way. Just didn't know how else to put it. I assumed you didn't want them so I was trying to encourage you!

I live in an apartment, so definately NO CHICKENS ALLOWED! ;o)

Howdy!

Emelia, send me your addy, please. My email is as shown. ;-D

Ragmop/Sandy--who figures I've found another "sister"

I can really see what you mean here! When we were getting ready to move away from DH's home town, where he'd lived for over 50 years, the mayor verbally attacked me at the county fair. He accused me of "making" DH move -- as though I could make him do anything at all that he didn't want to do! I was *so* embarrassed at being attacked publicly that way

-- what a jerk. We're well out of there.

Taria and Julia, I agree with both of you but germs are not so much a worry to me as filth. I have seen some very undesireable things in books in the past that really turned me off. I agree that I used germs as an example but hey I am a non practicing medical technologist I have been around a lot of baterial and germs in my life time. But I do have to disagree that a lot of germs need mositure to survive. Most need heat to survive and dry heat will work too, but now fungi such as yeast etc., do need mositure to live. The two things that my mother was told to stay away from "germ" wise, and this was about a year before she passed away because she died of COPD, was magazines in a doctor's office and to always clean the handles on the buggy at the grocery store or Walmart, etc. Infection control has ID'ed the handles on shopping carts to be more nasty than the bathrooms in most places.

Jacquel>How about the gal that sneezes into her hand before she tried to start

Jacqueline

They have a stand with the wipey things at the grocery here now. I don't see many folks using them but they are availble.

If you avoid the doctors office all together you will probably stay even healthier! I take my own book to the dr. office when forced to go there. Taria

Jacquel> Taria and Julia, I agree with both of you but germs are not so much a

Sandy, Until my eye sight got so bad that I started having a hard time reading, I averaged reading 3 to 4 books a week. I love to read, but I have bought them every since I found a booger in a book I was reading. Now I admit the germs/bacteria were probably dead by that time, but my stomach was very much alive. Since I live where there is no such thing as a book store other than the one at the college and I have way out grown that type of reading, I order all my books and yes I am sure they are touched by humans too. Now if it isn't something that I want to keep I normally give them to the library when I am finished with them and they really appreciate them, too. Being that I don't have to do the shopping for them at a book store I don't have to worry about finding them either. Christian Books dot com is my favorite shopping place on line, with Barnes and Noble and Amazon right up there next to them. Being I am a Christian book dot com affiliate I normally get back about $500 a year from sells on my website from them, so that makes a good dent into my reading habits or it use to, also I am able to buy a lot of books on sale there and find good reads for about $2.00. I guess it depends on what you like to read. I love historical fiction, esp. Biblical historical fiction because it makes you read the REAL BOOK, IMO to find out what part is fiction and what part is real.

Jacqueline

Jacqueline

Taria, I agree with you on staying away from the doctor's office but my luck has not been that great since my mother passed away, seems I have had one thing right after another happen. I also take my own book if going to the doctor's office and I do use the wipey things at the grocery and you would be shocked at the number of people that look at me and say why are you doing that. Now back to the Doctor's office, my mother's doctor (actually our family doctor) always told us if she got sick esp. during flu season, not to bring her to the office to call him and if we heard about an outbreak of flu in our area that no one was to leave or come into the house, my sisters could go shopping and leave the groceries on the porch but were not to be around mother.

Jacquel>They have a stand with the wipey things at the grocery here now. I

Jacqueline

Actually, Sandy, if your apartment allows pets, then you can have a chicken. Check into a breed called Bantam Cochin. They are tiny - like baby Yorkshire Terrier small - and can live in a nice large parrot cage. I read an article about these birds being kept as pets in NYC. Most any bantam-size chicken will do for this purpose. Chickens are smarter than you'd think, and can be spoiled rotten. If you get a female, there'll be no crowing to enrage the neighbors, and you'll get an egg a day from about 6 months of age.

Our first rooster was a "mutt" bantam, all red and beautiful with a green tail. One day he was unable to use one of his feet, and just stood in the chicken yard holding up one foot. We brought him in the house so he would not be killed by the others. He had a "nest" of an old comforter on the floor, prolly 15 feet or so from our recliners where we watch television. One day I was sitting in the recliner watching TV and Peepie decided he was not going to stay in that nest any more. He stood up on his one leg, jumped and flew across the room into my lap, where he sat and watched television with me. That bird loved television - must have been the flashing lights and colors. He would sit in my lap as long as I would stay there, and only occasionally poop. I kept an old towel in the lap for that purpose. ;) Unfortunately, Peepie started having seizures and we had to take him to the vet to be put to sleep, but until then, he was a great lap pet. :)

Howdy!

Somehow the posts got clipped and snipped. I don't live in an apartment. I wouldn't go against city codes that outlaw livestock in suburban homes and I don't want chickens 'cuz I don't need something else to clean up and look after. Having grown up around chickens & other livestock, and visited my grandma who worked in an "egg factory", there's no way I'd want to keep chickens in a human home. Just doesn't seem fair, to the chicken(s), other animals or me. However, chicken fabric, now that I can live with; I have chicken quilts and chicken pin cushions, roosters in metal and resin & a rooster rug in the master bath, which suffice my need to have chickens in my life. ;-D

Cheers!

Ragmop/Sandy-- after visiting the "egg farm" I couldn't even look at an egg for years

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Dannielle, there is a note in my out post that I Posted a request for you to send the links like you suggested, but I have yet to see it show up nor you post the links so do you reckon it got eaten by the usenet police or something?

Anyway I would love for you to send me the links to the BOM. I may not have it finished by the time it is suppose to be but I will make it before long.

Jacquel>Well, you can always join the RCTQ BOM! The current one running