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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Yup, no matter how well you seal the blooming plexiglass in, when it starts 
snowing it feels like a frost train is coming through somehow.  So, they 
come out of the windows, go back in their boxes and down to the old miner's 
cabin.  Heck, they even get to "sleep" on the old built in cots <g>

The heat screens are a bigger mess screen that kinda looks like woven basket 
weave and the strands are thicker.  They cover the whole window.  They are 
real good at keeping the sun off the glass, yet you can see out just fine. 
They are also good at keeping folks outside from seeing inside.  The windows 
look black from outside.  We went to this energy efficient house seminar and 
they offered them at a discount if you ordered them then.  We got some for 
the windows that get a lot of direct sun.  Found out they work great and 
then a neighbor mentioned that they also work to keep the cold out, so we 
called and we'll get the seminar discount for the rest of the windows.

We're going to have to put 3 coats of the "thou shalt not say" on the hot 
tub.  Then we got some marine plywood a couple of years ago to replace the 
wood in the bed of the old pickup.  We were sooooo sad, when we went to pick 
up the piece we ordered, one of the clerks had sold it and the only thing 
they had in stock to replace it with was mahogany marine plywood.  So that 
will also be getting a new couple of coats of "thou shalt not say" <g>

I so missed having the smell of fresh bread last winter.  It seems to make 
the cold go away!  A nice clam chowder or corn and potato chowder and big 
chunks of homemade bread.  I still don't know how we survived <g>  Store 
bought bread is just sooooo nasty!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SISU!" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Thou shalt not say "spar varnish".  I am sick of it.  We are varnishing
> the canoe-many coats...like 9 so far..aaarrrrgggh!

> Remove the air conditioners??  People actually do this??  We leave them
> in the window year around.
>
> What's a heat screen?