Bob. please don't think that the tremendus efforts you folks made to sort through and salvage John's collections and work is unappreciated or undervalued. I'm so grateful that you folks from SFS and Mudcat were there do take on this monumental project.


I also realize that if lots of good stuff of Johns ends up in a landfill, unfortunately, that's probably a drop in the bucket of usable stuff that goes there.   We as a society have "too much stuff" and one result is that too often a lot of 'wheat' gets thrown out with the 'chaff'.
(When I mentioned thrift stores, I should add that I know that a lot of good, usable stuff that they get as donations also ends up in landfills, because they just don't have the space and personnel to handle it all.)
Still, I'd love to have done some scavenging/salvaging myself.   But I can't be sure I'd have accomplished much by that.

(Somebody's gonna have a helluva job sorting through or disposing of my own packrat collection when I kick the bucket -- unless I can get a lot of this done before I get to that bucket.)

Genie