Soldat I agree with Deb, try some tea roses. An old friend from your area had spectacular luck with the Bermuda mystery roses. I seem to remember, Miss Atwell, Spice, Slater's Crimson China, Safrano, Archduke Charles, Souvenir de Therese Lovet,Mrs. B.R. Cant, Mrs. Dudley Cross, Brightside Cream, Maitland White and Vincent Godsiff. I know she never sprayed, didn't do too much of anything and some of these guys were house eaters. As for me, I don't repeat roses either but the ones that tempt me are Evelyn, ( I know but she does all right for me) Gruss en Coberg, a fine big strapping girl with those gorgeous peach colored blooms, Sutter's Gold--the scent of fresh nectarines is too die for. R'eve d'Or is the finest climber. Crimson Glory and Oklahoma are the best of the smelly reds but Souv. Claudius Denoyal is an amazing red tea with a big smelly scent that I love and no trouble whatsoever. I know I'd get Gertrude Jeykyll if I ever lost her. That scent must be kept and the special order of Grace de Monaco from Vintage is one I ordered the other day because she was just so lovely in the sunshine and impossibly fragrant. No I don't repeat but there are a few I'd definitely replace. Devonienses Clementina Carbonieri Mme. Alfred Carriere la

The first thing I want to do is adjust the figures for the different numbers of days in each billing cycle. That one day difference is important. The easiest way I believe is to divide the number of therms used by the number of days to give an average therms per day figure. Using your numbers for December 2006: 119 therms / 31 days = 3.8 therms per day Now to make this relevant to the average temperature that month, I would divide this derived figure by the average temperature to get an average therms per day per degree average temperature. 3.8 therms per day / 28F = 0.14 therms per day per degree F Doing the same calculations for December 2007 gives me the figure 0.28 therms per day per degree F. This method should give you a rough comparison, but it's not ideal in some ways. I don't like using averages, they can be heavily skewed over wide ranges. Also, what we are comparing is your gas consumption against the average temperature. Your heating does not however heat that way, it raises the temperature in your house to whatever the thermostat is set at above that temperature, which means we're missing a more useful number from our calculations. For example, when it was on average 16F, and your thermostat is set at 70F, your heating had to raise the temperature in the house on average by 54F. This number has a direct relationship to how much work your central heating did, and so would be a better way to compare the numbers. If I used the assumed figure of 70F for the thermostat, I get the numbers: December 2006: 0.09 therms per degree F your house temperature is raised. December 2007: 0.08 therms per degree F your house temperature is raised. If however your thermostat was reduced to 65F during December 2007, the figure would become 0.09 therms per degree your house temperature is raised. As you can see, the amount of work performed by your central heating is very important to these figures and could turn them around entirely. Unfortunately, if your house is anything like ours, the thermostat setting changes several times a day. Traditional mercury thermostats are also exceptionally inaccurate. Some by 5F or more, which is perhaps why some people report that they only heat their house to 64F! We might also have to factor in other appliances that use gas in your house? To really be sure if there is a statistical difference we would have to collect all the data you have for your gas usage, the weather and any other data you have and perform some type of statistical test on it, which would give us a probability of the difference in gas consumption being by chance. It's kind of extreme, I certainly haven't bothered to statistical test any of my own bills yet, but it would give you as close to an accurate answer as possible. Anyway, I hope this highlights the difficulty we have deriving useful figures for energy use outside controlled environments. As the variables increase and the accuracy of the figures we do have are questioned, attempts to turn them in to something useful become more difficult.

Deb, Her son was a senior in High School when this happened. It is believed that he was abducted, in his own vehicle, while leaving a local shopping mall. The killer was tracked from SW PA to Arizona, IIRC, but he shot himself before the police could get him into custody, so a lot of the details about the case died with him. It was several months later that her son's body was found.

One thing to keep in mind is that by law in the USA dishwasher detergent formulas have changed and some of the makers haven't quite caught up their formulas to the same standard of cleaning. The new detergents actually require you to have food remains on your dishes--no hand rinsing--or they'll start etching the dishes for lack of anything to eat. Check the Appliances forum for more information. I'm nowhere near expert in this. From what I've read there, Finish Quantum with Powerball tablets are pretty universally well thought of, a lot of people like Method tablets, and some people cut both of these in half, which would be especially useful with the drawers. People also seem to like the Miele tabs for Miele machines (don't know how good they are in other brands), and Somat, which is a European brand and a bit different. Some of the regular powders and gels work with some machines and some water and some habits for running them, but if you're not satisfied with the results from your dishwasher it may well be the detergent, not the machine. Also, DWs with no heated dry, like the European models and the dishdrawers, use the heat build up in the tub and crockery to create convection that will aid evaporative drying. It helps to have a lot of metal and/or heavy crockery in these because they retain the heat, which is a good reason to have some pots that can go in. Rinse aid also helps with drying, because it's a surfactant (soap) which breaks the surface tension of water. Dishwashers are great conveniences, and an environmentally responsible choice. If you really learn all the ins and outs of your machine, I'm sure you'll have better results than the time you tried it.