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1. Pepper photos and posts.

2. Thanksgiving, etc.

3. Bought groceries.

4. Acquired bus tickets for my two December trips down to NJ. (The first is for Mr. M's memorial dinner. The second is for Christmas.)

5. Boiled some eggs.

6. Completed another hour of Not the IRS paid training. I wish it involved more infographics and interactive learning modules and fewer videos -- particularly since most of the videos are basically narrated slideshows and thus fall squarely into my inability to maintain focus on audio-only presentations. *sigh*

7. Bought a loaf of fancy bread (cheddar chive sourdough) at Collegetown Bagels, ostensibly to accompany the shrimp-tomato soup Mom left for me, but mostly just because it's nice to treat oneself to fancy bread upon occasion. :)

8. Prepped for youth group, which turned out to be irrelevant since there wasn't official RE this week. Many people weren't back yet from Thanksgiving travels, and the DRE had set up an art project thing for any kids (of any age) who did show. So I sat in the youth group room and directed the one member who poked their head through the doorway to go to the art project room instead.

It wasn't a bad way to spend an hour -- I got a bunch of rereading done for Yuletide -- but I am a little annoyed that I spent time looking up our nominal curriculum and picking out a few pieces to make a functional lesson plan and then didn't get a chance to actually use it. :/

9. Caught a #15 bus to Lowes on Rt. 13, where I bought two sets of yard waste bags. I next walked to Tops, where I bought a wedge of brie and ate lunch while I waited to catch the #15 bus back into town. Then I walked home with my purchases.

Shopping is so much more of a production without a car, you know?

10. Raked three bags of (disgustingly wet) leaves in the back yard. I also raked a bunch of other leaves into the bushes and such around the property edge, because I only had three yard waste tags but didn't want to leave them suffocating our already patchy and scraggly grass. I have put the bags out on the curb for pickup sometime on Monday, but I don't know whether the city is still doing yard waste disposal. Officially the pickup season runs until Nov. 30 or 'until snow falls', but I am not sure if that means until any snow falls or if it means until snow begins to collect. We certainly had snow last week! But it has now melted and the forecast for the next few days is well over freezing -- we might even hit 60F on Tuesday -- so I figured I might as well try.

If pickup has ended and the bags remain sitting by the curb on Monday evening, I will ask Landlord Dude if he wants them for mulch, or Downstairs Neighbor S if her friend with the huge garden wants them. If either of those scenarios proves viable, I might bother to rake some of the leaves I left around the yard edges today.

(I am knocking $25 off my December rent payment as compensation for services rendered. I did that last year and it was okay with Landlord Dude, so I am doing it again this year. In prior years, he was more on top of the leaf situation so the issue didn't come up.)

11. Threw out my peppers that were done for the year and had been freezing out on my back porch. I knock the dirt into the little garden patch at the foot of my porch/deck, and lay the plants themselves in a small pile at the back of Downstairs Neighbor S's carport; they compost pretty well by mid-spring.

12. Cleaned the now-empty pots and stakes, and put them away for the winter.

13. Changed linens (pillowcase and towels only).
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Elizabeth Culmer

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