Dorothy, grieving affects people differently, and eating or not eating is one of the factors. I've been imagining you as fairly slim since that last time you wrote about your weight; winter months do make it harder to not nibble, when your brain is telling you calories help fight off the cold weather outside. I'm glad you kept an outfit that fits for the funeral; I have a part of the closet where those few things hang that are there to be used for somber occasions, and they are also in about three different sizes. They cost enough or involved careful matching that even though some of them are a bit large, I kept them.

A neighbor offered up wood chips from her yard on the FB Buy Nothing page, and I'll be running by there to load some and drop them on top of the garden area until I'm ready to till it. I figure the chips will shade out any weeds that want an early start. The wood chip compost I get from the city is a five minute drive from here, the offer this week is a 5 block drive.

I put up a listing concurrently on FB's Buy Nothing local page and on the Freecycle listserv as a test instead of taking a bag of various types of lightbulbs to Goodwill. This is a lot less-odd than some of the things I see posted.