Good luck with the books. There are various government entities and agencies that might take them - it depends on how long you want to hunt for a new home before posting a notice somewhere.

Today I've drunk my tea and eaten my oatmeal and the day has warmed comfortably so I'm out to work in the yard. The fence first, then using the new trimmer to get rid of the tussocks of grass growing out of cracks in the concrete driveway.

After several tries I've finally received a box of sewing pins that are what I was hoping for. Plastic pin heads melt when the iron goes over them, so I've looked for glass. These have 4mm glass heads on 1 1/2" sharp fine but not flimsy pins. I have a couple of boxes of pins that were false starts, some too thick, others too thin, that will go to my daughter to distribute to sewing friends. She might find the very fine sharp ones useful when she works on flimsy fabric of costumes, but I don't do that kind of sewing.

Out to the yard.