Good luck with that investigation, Steve. I've always considered summer a particularly healthy season, but not this year. I've been doing more of the fitness programs - online, and on my phone, because I haven't been to the gym. I have to start moving since this heat has me doing so little all of the time. To get to the gym I'll see if I can get my butt out of bed way early, then on the way back stop by the museum where I volunteer. If I arrive right at opening time I'll be out by mid-morning. I was always scheduled to scan at midday, but haven't gone because of the heat. We're now under a "red flag warning" for fire danger, because there will be more wind than usual on Saturday.

This week I noticed some patterned sheer curtains on the Martha Stewart feed in my Instagram, so I went looking online and found a very good price. (I never shop on Instagram.) I have been looking at the 20-year-old long flowing muslin curtains in my bedroom and thinking they need a pick-me-up. I made them back when curtains so long they pooled on the floor was popular, and the new ones would do that but I want them just to the floor this time. They'll need the hems taken up (the shorter pair cost $30 more, so I'll do the hem myself). This is the same bedroom window that had a plant placed on the sill earlier in the week.

I've made curtains in the past, but when you look at the price per yard for fabric, the ready-made curtains are often more affordable than homemade. Volume buying and all of that.

How are our lurkers doing? Where is Patty Clink this month? Have you moved up to the Yukon to avoid the heat?