Standing In Front of Windows on the Hottest Day of the Year

I've been installing blinds and thermal blackout curtains today, but I can't seem to keep up with the path of the sun, so I've been standing in sunny windows all day.  Blaaaaah.  It's supposed to get to 102 degrees today.  I hope my plants survive it.  I've got 2 curtains and one blind up and now I'm taking a break.  Maybe these curtains will make it cheaper to heat and cool the place.

The solar dehydrator's frames are all cut and sanded.  Now I have to assemble them.  But more important was surviving this hot day.  Yeah.  By standing in sunny windows.  Ow.  Well, at least my one roommate will be cooler, I started by taking care of him.

I made yogurt the other day and it came out fine.  All I did was insert about half a tiny container of yogurt (I ate the other half) into about half of a half gallon of organic milk (I used the other half in baking and coffee) shake it up and leave them out in the warm for 12 hours.  Then I put them in the fridge. I just used the milk carton, which I opened all the way, but held it back together with a clothespin.

I might point out, I made sure not to get any spit on the half of the yogurt that I didn't eat - I spooned what I ate out into something else first. Trying to be hygienic and all. This yogurt I made is a little soupier than store bought.  One could strain it through a cloth to get "Greek" yogurt, or add gelatin as they sometimes do with commercial yogurt.  I didn't bother.  It's ok that it's soupy.  It was also cream-top because it was unhomogenized.  Yum.

It was just a way to keep that last half of the milk from spoiling.  Now I have a few more days to consume it.  Sometimes I make cheese instead.  I'm just not much of a milk drinker so milk doesn't get consumed very fast at my house, then I have to do something to it.

Moving all this crap around to get at the windows, I realize what a pack rat I am.  Some of this junk will have to go.  Old headshots by the hundreds in a box from when I was trying to make it in show biz. Two plaques for Worst Deal of the Year from the real estate club I belonged to.  An old distinctive ring box that I never used.  An analog answering machine.  But I don't have a land line anymore, and my fax machine already had distinctive ring built in, so I never used the other device.  Yup, it's gotta go.

Time for more yogurt.  Mm, cold yogurt.  Then maybe I can face the next window.