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Post by hengest on Jun 2, 2022 17:09:18 GMT -5
I had a couple of these when I was a kid. I could not explain their charm at the time. My parents got me the new one for Christmas for a few years. I enjoyed them immensely. I think it was something similar to my interest in the main topic of this forum: this new book, with its old-timey illustrations and its apparent focus on agriculture, with all kinds of little advisory articles...it seemed to take for granted something that was already fading from popular culture. That the weather mattered, that planting mattered, that home remedies were good for something. Basically, that you might reasonably be expected to be "in touch" with the world in many ways every day. The phases of the moon, what kind of container to grow your heirloom tomatoes in, flower gardening, visible planets...everything is about you interacting with or observing some part of the natural world. It was like a guidebook for the person I wished I was...in a better world. And that it came out every year made it feel like it reached back into the past, when things were that way, or might be imagined to have been.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jun 3, 2022 19:02:05 GMT -5
I always thought these were fascinating to read.
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Post by Vladimir, The Dark Prince on Jun 5, 2022 0:00:44 GMT -5
I love these, but I only buy them now and then these days. I ought to find and get this years.
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Post by nobody on Jun 16, 2022 22:08:45 GMT -5
These are fun, I grew up with parents who bought one every year.
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