Hi Don---How nice to hear from you!!! Although I have seen one March where the weather was warm enough to play "Hotrod" in the last week or so, thats one March out of the last 63. Most years we have snow right up untill the end of the first week in April before the weather starts to warm up. Work does seem to be picking up some, I have been busy since Christmas. I subscribe to about 3 different job finding services on the internet, and during the last 6 months of 2009 I didn't see one single add for engineer, design engineer, mechanical technologist-----nothing. Now since the year has turned over, I am seeing more and more adds every week being posted for jobs in my field. I don't get any work myself from these job adds, as they are all posted by companies seeking permanent employees, however it serves as a good indicator of what is happening in the general economy "out there". Can it be that we are finally coming out the other side of this horrible economic slump???? I sure hope so.----Brian