Charmion, you had a lot of work done at the new house, so maybe adhesive off-gassing? Have you thought about air filters and are there air ducts that can be cleaned?

Dorothy, are you doing the US thanksgiving this year? What are you planning to prepare, or will you have things delivered? How is your kitchen holding up these days?

Everyone else, how is the week looking? For those who have an emotional tie to the fourth Thursday in November, are you getting together with friends or doing something on your own? Or delaying the event?

More bins sorted and dusted today and the bag headed to e-waste is filling. Old headphones, routers, modems, mouse pointers, etc. Few of these are even worth looking at eBay for comparable sales, they need to go to China to be broken apart and the wire and plastic reused for something else.

No responses so far to the offer of plants. This is the best time of year to do the planting, but perhaps the upcoming holiday is a distraction. I have more things to list on the free sites soon as I take them off of eBay for lack of interest.

The next batch of granola was finished last night, and it seems to be quite forgiving as far as running out of stuff and not wanting to run to the store late for one or two items. I'll be making my crispy pecan recipe as gifts this year but will wait until after Thursday to go to Costco for the pecans; I'm not making them right now so there is no need to thread that needle of crowded parking lot, crowded aisles, and long checkout lines. I also have no interest in Black Friday or all of the other named days coming up. Next week will be soon enough.

Cat sitting starts tomorrow, ends the day before my family event. I'm pretty flexible, but was clear that this is not the trip to let go longer than originally planned.