Charmion, will you be able to eat the chutney on your current diet, or will it be for gifts? I'm looking at a case of my mustang grape jelly and pondering what to do with it.

I have concluded that it is time to rearrange the cupboard directly above the dishwasher. With the almost-Keto cooking I'm baking a lot in single-serving Pyrex lidded dishes and small trays and they're in the back of the middle shelf of that cupboard; it's a stretch to pick them up and I'm going to break something if I'm not careful. I'll empty the bottom and middle shelves, dust, and hope that by working on this cupboard I don't condemn myself to having to rearrange others as well.

On the floor along the base edge of the steps that enter the den I have a string of clear LED lights that have faded to almost not showing. They run on a timer to light dusk through dawn to avoid tripping hazards for myself and guests. It may be a fuse in the string gone, but likely they just need replacing. I also have two or three strings on my crapemyrtle branch in a pot of rocks that is an odd but beloved piece of homemade art - one of the strings is no longer lit. Time to disturb some dust and change out lights there also. The big box stores are putting out their light strings so now is as good a time as any to look for replacements. The seasonal lights I store in the office closet already have uses and the strings are too long.

My favorite pair of plastic-handled fiskars-like kitchen scissors are failing to cut, despite sharpening, oiling, and tightening. They're in the laundry room now until I think about giving one last push to do all of the above at once and see if they'll work, but in the meantime I retrieved two pair of the many scissors I inherited from parents' homes (mostly Mom) and put them in the kitchen drawer. One is really old sewing shears with the chrome finish long worn off, and the other a slim pair of Fiskars with the ubiquitous orange handles. They can take on the jobs that one pair has done for years. Reuse instead of buying a new pair.