Yes, Don, I'm remembering now - a couple of commercial oil change places would come in with some other suggested repair or update. I rarely bit, except if it seemed incredibly practical. This reminds me I need to top off the coolant and change the air filter.

It must be fall now, I'm feeling the full impulse needed to do the furniture and equipment moving in the office - the willingness to take the art off of the walls and move things that require dismantling and reassembly. Laundry is in and I've been decanting various containers in the kitchen. I'm ready to till and plant garlic (taking some of the really old kraft bags out of the pantry clears a fair amount of space.) The work at the Botanic Garden was part of the inspiration; they pulled out a little tiller just like mine to work the bed before we planted a seasonal garden. Something I've been doing more in the last year.

It's too early here for leaves down, and the lawn is still growing. I did some digging in the sweet potato pots, there was one very large potato between the two pots. Next I'll dig around in the garden and see if anything from last summer is harvestable. I've pulled out the bonsai okra and some of the peppers that were hit by frost. If this year represents a new norm then I have to be prepared to plant really early, harvest what I can by early July, then write off the garden until September. I started too late to get a fall crop on some things, others are still producing.

I'm watching the mail to see if things are forwarded as requested. So far nothing has arrived with the conspicuous yellow forwarding tag, and I haven't seen anything in my Informed Delivery messages to show me redirected mail coming to the house. It's my one small rebellion this year, taking an expensive annual bill off of the balance sheet. Now to see if it worked as planned.