I am on the Timber Press catalog mail list and felt I had to warn any who for some inexplicable reason are not yet receiving this catalog, that it is pure evil. There is no earthly way I can afford every book I want out of their catalog, and yet the desire persists each time I receive one to go into massive credit card debt to buy everyone I want anyway. And it only grows worse with each catalog because along with all the books I already want that I can't afford, it is a sure thing that there will be a bunch of brand new books that I just have to have that I can't afford all of either, making my wantlist all that much longer each time a new catalog arrives. This is yet another example of its evilness. I have this dream from time to time that one day I win the Timber Press jackpot grand prize which is to be given a giant grocery cart and 60 minutes in their stockroom or book warehouse during which I can grab and take home as many different books that will fit in the cart before the time limit is up as I can. And I madly rush around trying to get everything I want and am not able to grab the one or two titles I most wanted before the buzzer sounds. If you are one of the miraculously few on this list who has never seen a Timber Press catalog and one is offered to you, I adjure you to run the other way as fast as you can and don't look back or you will likely suffer even worse than the biblical Lot's wife did (the one who was turned into a pillar of salt). ;-) ;-) --Lee Poulsen Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 10a On Nov 1, 2005, at 12:30 PM, John Bryan wrote: > Dear All; > > For those of you not presently receiving catalogs from Timber Press, > may > I suggest you phone 800-327-5680 and ask to have your name placed on > their mailing list? I think you will find them well worthwhile. Cheers, > John E. Bryan