Sam called from the office, "I got the mail, and there''s good news and bad news."
The good news was I got a package, a gift of books, from a friend. The bad news was we got the electric bill, as well.
The bill was disheartening because we had built wood fires day and night since the last electric bill. We thought that one was high, but this one skyrocketed. We went over all our energy uses and tried to figure out what happened.
A new heating and cooling system was installed just two years a
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