It's an inexpensive hobby, should you be interested in trying. I'll be putting some home-grown sweet potato slips out later today.

All around the house I'm either putting away small things or trashing them. The donation bin will also gain content. A trip to the village recycle bins is in order—all of this because I'm going to have a houseguest this week, the first in 15 months (she stayed the night after the knee surgery). The cataract surgery begins this week.

In a nod to "self-care," I've been looking at the Waterpik devices and found a well-priced electric duo (in one box) at Costco, a regular size one I've put in the master bathroom and a "travel" one that will live in the hall bathroom. I was shopping the devices I can get with points on my credit card but they were battery operated. Nope. This is the process of shopping to update some on-their-last-legs things around here. It goes beyond loose devices on the bathroom counters; two of the three faucets need replacing after years of limestone buildup and corrosion. I've been here 19 years, so it's time for some of this.

Also, coming up this week - scanning.