@Allamanda It already looks good to me now.

@Allamanda We ordered a piece of machinery for the shop and when it got here the crate was crushed so we rejected it. They sent another and the same thing happened and then the next one sent made it in perfect order.

@Allamanda Here in eastern WA State I pay about 9.4 cents per kilowatt hour. Hydroelctric and wind have kept the electical rates down. Good thing cause I can't take the cold like I use to and tend to keep the heat on a lot in the fall, winter and early spring.

@Allamanda I have scored some really lovely cashmere sweaters for either very cheap, $5.00 or free! I have about about 5 cashmere and 7 fine wool ones. There is a really ugly green one I wear like a thermal undershirt in the middle of winter. Oh so soft and warm.

@Allamanda If you can wear wool next to your skin or with a thin wife-beater t-shirt underneath wool is the only thing that keeps me warm in the winter months!! The manmade fabrics make me sweat even tho I'm cold - can't figure that out. Then over the wool I'll layer with a turtleneck and then a loose long sort of sweater or oversized men's shirt. I wear leggings so I can use legwarmers. If wool next to your skin is an issue a t-shirt or turtleneck with a nice wool pullover works also for moderate cold. Here if it's in the teens or single digits and I must go out the wool comes first.