Good idea, dressing up the bag with a scarf. I'll have to look in the closet and see what I have. Or even a costume jewelry pin on the front would work.

Eliza, when they're underway they're usually interesting, but setting up a garage sale on your own is a lot of work - that "whole village" garage sale is wonderful, but no one here has done that (though I live in a small village surrounded by a much larger city). I get socializing in when I visit neighbors holding their own garage sales, and sometimes if a neighbor has one they will let me know and I'll take a few things up and set up my own table. I also would have a cooler with cold drinks for a nominal price.

Dorothy, your "houseplants" have been in buildings that are probably cold beyond belief for most houseplants, haven't they? They still may have been shocked by the overnight or weekend lows while you were between locations, don't you think?

I have added more and more houseplants since the last of the cats died. They were very hard on plants and I always had to be careful not to have anything toxic they might chomp. My sunroom is botanically opulent now with the bay window filled with blooming xmas cactus (still!), blooming African violets, the red top on a poinsettia (brought home from a meeting in 2012 and not expected to live more than a few months). Orchids - I bought a blooming orchid on impulse at the grocery store and after the blooms dropped transplanted it on the instructions of a friend who used to grow some. Another one was rescued from a retiring co-worker's office and is now putting out a new leaf, and the one I bought has sent out new blossom buds on the old stems. The idea that house plants would stay where I put them and I could put them where they need to be for light is something that was not part of a cat-owning household.

SRS