Actually, I hadn't looked at my voice mail but I knew now. “Uck. Glad he hasn't been in. Is he ok?”

The northeastern city of Shenyang has become one of the country's chief machine building centers and plants there include one for making pneumatic mining tools and three for various types of machine tools. Also in Shenyang is a new plant that builds blast furnaces and openhearths, with the destination of Anshan.

Yesterday our local garage employed a new mechanic.

A cold wind blasted the rose plants.