Our current weather front (dry and cold) is lingering, inspiring preparation this afternoon of a batch of turkey soup with the stock and some of the leftover bird (from the freezer). That turkey and rice soup is wonderful.

eBay listings are moving forward, and for now each item listed leads with an image adorned with a wrapping-style bow included in the shot. If they don't sell in the next few weeks the sales will be revised to remove the holiday gift suggestion. There were extra boxes and packing material in here that are now back in the garage so I can move around and arrange the prepared sale items. I photograph, describe (use an html editor instead of a Word document), and pack items before listing them, so all I have to do is print the label and hand them over to my mail carrier or at the post office once they're purchased.

When I put up the outdoor lights this year I found some new boxed holiday lights that I'd forgotten I purchased last year. I just realized I probably bought them to replace the string that used to run up and down the lines of macrame on a basket I use every year. The old string of lights died last year. I have a bunch of stuff to take to the e-waste recycle bin next time I'm on campus, including old holiday lights, a dead monitor, and a printer cartridge. I'll look like a bag lady toting all of that into the library, but that bin is still the easiest place to deposit this stuff if I don't want to send it to the dump.