Question from a new Englander (so no smoke experience and no central AC). If I’ve shut up the downstairs and set up the air purifier do I need to shut all the upstairs windows too for the downstairs to be nice? We’re at ~100 AQI and having a party but if we shut the upstairs windows it will be very warm up there this evening.
I don’t know how air quality travels between rooms/floors.
It does travel between rooms, depending on many factors (air circulation and insulation and all sorts of stuff), and don’t you need the upstairs air quality to be good later? It takes a while for air purifiers to clean the air in a space.
I guess in fight between mediocre but not dangerous air quality and being cool I would have had the windows open and the fans on all night? But like I said we’re at ~100, and neither Mr Darling or I have lung issues. All the windows are currently open, I’m mostly worried about my friend who has asthma coming over.
The air circulation between upstairs and downstairs seems basically non-existent which is usually annoying but might be a plus today.
I’m about to give into the forum hype and get a little green machine.
Do you all use the Bissell branded cleaning solution? Any idea if it’s water based or solvent based? I can’t find the ingredients anywhere.
If you use something else in it, what do you use?
A squirt of dish soap!
The internet told me to use vinegar in water for most things, and rubbing alcohol if the thing I’m cleaning is greasy.
I was invited to a river float on Tuesday, but I might back out. High of 96° that day. I tend to get fainty in weather over 90°. How much would being in a cool river change that? I feel like 5 hours out in the sun in that heat is a bad idea even if I have the water to cool me down.
For me, river floats ADD like 10 degrees. I always end up super hot and cooked on them. It would be a hard pass for me, personally. But it may depend what sort of tubes you float on, how much of you is in the water at all times, etc
The light bounces off the water and so it’s like being in a fun solar oven. As an invincible kid I loved it and as a cranky old person i refuse.
This is more eloquently phrased than I would have come up with.
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Is this the fancy kind with a closed floor tube or the kind I’ve done where you get lifejackets, a few pool noodles and maaaybe one dollarama tube plus a buzzkill father/brother in a canoe?
Because if you are in good sunscreen, have a hat and are mostly submerged (how I do it), you are cooler than ambient and the canoeist will grumpily hand you your water with electrolytes.
The other way seems good on paper but also hot and expensive
I would say the answer depends on: if hopping in and out of your floating object over the course of the float sounds fun or terrible to you lol
Innertube>raft like objects
I love the river float on a hot day to cool off especially if it’s probably the one I’m thinking of
Thank you everyone! I checked the hourly weather, and since we’re going early, it’ll start in the 70s and only get to 90ish by the end. Sooo I’m thinking it’s doable as long as we leave on time.
In the middle? No grumpy relatives, but multiple open tubes from Amazon and a floating cooler. So I’ll be mostly in the water, with a hat, upf rashguard, and lots of electrolyte water.
I’m sure it is! Clackamas.
Hmmm… Normally I wouldn’t mind, but I’m recovering from a back injury and am less nimble than I used to be. I don’t want any sudden movements that’ll yank my back muscles.
Does anything actually work for keeping deer from eating flower buds? I used repellent spray absolutely faithfully this year and my mom still has almost no flowers because they have just decimated her plants.
Can you put up some simple deer fencing? That’s really the only thing I’ve ever had work. I made a very basic deer fence when I lived in CO with some basic T stakes they sell at ACE and a roll of mesh, all fastened with zip ties. The fence doesn’t need to be anything super secure since deer will just move along if they can’t easily get to something
I was afraid that was the answer! 
Most of the area is at the front of her house and fencing will look unattractive there so she doesn’t want it.
I have also had deer in my yard for the first time this year. I live in the middle of a small town surrounded by houses, so I never expected it.
Fencing is the usual solution, but also planting next to an alfalfa field will do the trick because apparently alfalfa is yum.
A dog.
I’m pretty sure her dog would be scared of a deer 
Doesn’t help anyway, unless you put the garden inside the dogs fence. And if you do that, all your vegetables get dug up.
ETA but wait, you said flowers, right? Dear don’t eat daffodils.