Did a Shopping Swoop this afternoon, something that one can do only when one is alone, stopping by places strategically and conveniently located along a circular path:

--Paid 50% for a new oil painting that I commissioned an artist friend to do.
--Bought six, colored glass lanterns and two packs of scented tea lights for the front balcony
--Bought four packets of iron hooks.
--Bought four chains for talismans.
--Bought a decorative grass, desktop, plant.
--Ordered 100 sacks of garden soil.