This morning I'm preparing a few items to take to friends - both will receive pickled okra and one will receive one of my little eBay items, a small 75-watt 1-quart crockpot that is perfect for cooking oatmeal overnight. It's the way I've cooked it for years and that's how I market these online. They are all decades old, but they are a very reliable source of a lovely breakfast. I've given these to everyone in the family over the years.

I also need to go dig up a plant for the host of an event I'm going to this evening (she often has "door prizes" of plants she is thinning out). After last winter's freeze I cut down the Salvia greggi at the corner of my yard by the driveway. It was right to the ground, and when it came back very quickly I didn't have a lot of dead branches to make it real messy. It turns out that one plant put in years ago has spread to about a dozen (a branch that rests on the ground puts out roots and becomes its own clone of the original.) This one is called "lipstick" or "hot lips."