I'm glad the meals are good, Dorothy! Having a reliable supply of something you like that you don't have to do all the work is nice. (A friend of mine describes some of the packaged meals from Trader Joe as being excellent, and he just has to apply heat.)

The backyard brush has all been dragged to the curb and I've set equipment where it's easy to reach for work around the front trees tomorrow morning. I'll stack more branches then mow the 2/3 of the yard I neglected on Saturday.

The woman who asked for the pans has yet to offer to pick them up, so I'm moving on to plan B tomorrow and will list several things, including the pans. I want my friend's stuff out of my garage soon. The boxes of fabric and notions have all made it into the house, and I'm not noticing an odor (she was a smoker for years). They may have been packed away well enough to avoid it. I'll have to sort and take a few photos for my daughter to tell me what she wants. Things neither of us need can be donated to the program that collects donated art supplies for area teachers (I took stuff there last year. This year's donation will have bins included, since I'm sure they can always use storage.)

I dug a few potatoes (red lasoda) today to see how they're looking (good). The plants are still producing so I'll leave the rest where they are for now. Tomorrow the garlic bed is harvested; I dug out about a dozen plants this evening to see how large they are and when they come out of the ground I usually drop (intentionally - who knows how many stayed behind out of sight) a corm in the hole to have another plant there next year. It looks like a good crop in the area I dug in 2022 and have planned to confine it to. Last year there wasn't much of a harvest and I resorted to buying garlic in the last couple of months. This year they were able to produce because the plants were already established but not picked last year (if the tops die off you don't see that they're there to dig them. They come back bigger the next year.)