I'm trying to be patient waiting for the smoke to clear so I can catch up with outdoor projects. The prediction is the smoke will be with us at least another week. :-(

I've copied my 2010 photo files from January to July to an external hard drive, goodness knows, it would be a tragedy to lose any of the gazillions of them.

Thanks to my organized filing system and reluctance to part with anything, I managed to find the receipt for an air purifier that I purchased in September 2008 and never used. The air purifier will be returned to the shop where I bought it in hopes they can show me how to open it to "take the plastic bag off the filter before use". The mythical "finger grips" used for opening are nowhere to be found on it.

rags