Last week my credit card company alerted me to a couple of suspicious purchases - they weren't mine. The new card should arrive soon, and I'll have to notify a couple of the places that charge the card monthly (NetFlix, for example). And today I shopped with cash, something I rarely do but it is a good exercise in deciding which things on the list are really essential and which you can live without when you have spent as much cash as you planned.

I set up an alert on my card so that any time I use it I get an email. If someone else uses it and I know it wasn't me, that speeds up the ability to shut down suspicious activity. I'll probably tweak the alert, set a dollar value, etc.

I've added compost around all of my asparagus and am daily adding to the plantings in the garden. Some of this is late. The yard has mature plantings now and some of the garden things come back on their own. Last year I put onions in several different beds to see how they would grow in each location. This evening I picked a few that I missed last year that came back this spring. I'll use them as green onions in fried rice.

The village has bins for commingled recycling and they fill up on the weekend, so I need to make a note for myself to take it over on Wednesday or Friday, the day after the bins are emptied. I have a supply that I'd liked to have dropped of today but I knew it wouldn't be easy to shove into the overstuffed bins.

I haven't decluttered so much as put things away this weekend. Nothing of any significant size has been transported off the premises lately. It's time to eBay some of it out of here (I do an "eBay garage sale" every so often with really low prices but sometimes am surprised that people bid them up).