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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:15 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> You're right of course, I do love my hills, but I'd even settle for 56K
> speed-it'd be twice as fast as what I have.
> There is a Hughesnet commercial that mocks dialup and it shows a
> 'dailup' screen on the right and a Hughesnet screen on the left..My best
> friend and I cracked up laughing as their dailup speed must have been 3
> times as fast as what we have out here.  I assume they were using 56kbps
> as a comparison speed.
> Do you not have tree fall with 70 mph winds up there?  If we have
> anything over about 45 mph, we are losing trees.  I'd have trees on the
> house with 70mph winds. I have the crack and crevice problem, too.  I
> stuff rags and towels around windows.  This year, Ron is going to make
> some plastic window 'screens' to hopefully cut down on the wind.  I only
> intend to use them on the south side though, because I enjoy looking out
> the north windows-front of house.  It is so wooded behind us, no warming
> sun gets through anyway, but the wind surely does. We need to add some
> attic insulation as well.  So much to do, no money to do it!  We are
> also going to make some real window screens to fit the back windows as
> well.  Then, we will just take off the plastic frames in the Spring and
> put on the screened frames, and then in the Fall, reverse it.  We made
> window screens for the front of the house, and the back used to have
> screens, but the tornado damaged 2/4, one was torn by 'something' that I
> suspect was a kid(2 legged), and the other one fell off the sill,
> somehow got bent up and then was ravaged by trumpet and honeysuckle
> vines.  So for the last few years, we haven't even had screens on the
> back/south side of the house.  I'd like to replace the windows to
> something that would be energy efficient, but again, no money to do it!
>
> So exactly what are you stuffing and how, and is there any particular
> reason you are using red fleece?
>
> Bev
>
> SJC wrote:
>>
>>
>> That's the price we get to pay for our hills!  For me, it's fine, don't
>> have and don't want a signal.....fortunately....and do want my hills.
>>
>> SJ, who's been stuffing red fleece (wool) tightly into cracks all day,
>> courtesy of the 70mph winds, which blow in and point out where the wool
>> needs to go.
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