In a message dated 5/11/2000 5:16:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

<< My neighbors, who can well afford to have whatever they want for
 shade/sun control, have awnings on a couple of their west facing
 windows.  Also, the stores in beautiful downtown Bellows Falls,
 Vermont have them, the old fashioned kind that requires someone to go
 out with a long pole thingy and turn the crank to let them out and
 roll them up.   That's all I know about them but they seem to work.
 Ruth >>

Ruth,

I always said you and your neighbors were smart.  Wanna move down heah? Nope,
too smart for that, ayump.

Ralph