Five days and still no sign of the letter I mailed to myself at my old post office box address. I'll give it until next week on Monday then ask them to go look in the old PO box and see if stuff is in there, nothing appears to be forwarding properly.

I have a lamp that needs a new shade and the weighted base has crumbled. It's a pole lamp that otherwise works fine. I'm torn between offering it up as something that can be fixed (technically it works, it is just wobbly and ugly). Maybe the split the difference answer is to stand it beside the garbage can tonight and see if anyone picks it up before trash pickup in the morning.

Charmion, are you making fruitcakes this time of year? What else are people cooking for the holidays? I'll be baking breads and cookies soon to put on plates and share around the neighborhood and a few regular volunteer places I go.