Presents!

Much of the world is currently celebrating let's-all-give-each-other-presents days, either today or some other day recently or soon. I also participated in this. Here are the presents I received!

Books:

• Americanah: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
• Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
• Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks by Brad Lancaster
• Foraging California: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods in California by Christopher Nyerges

CDs:

• Delta Machine by Depeche Mode
• Loud Like Love by Placebo

(Yes, I am an old person who continues to acquire music in the form of actual CDs.)

Also, other stuff:

• a pressure cooker to make food with
• teacups, saucers, soup bowls, tidbit plates, and a serving platter to complete my set of my china pattern
• a hose cart to wind and unwind my garden hose with
• waterproof gardening gloves to harvest pecans with (without staining my hands!)
• native plant seeds: yellow chick lupine, mountain garland, and birds' eyes
• a throw pillow for my office
• turrones from Mikie

Hooray for having new stuff! What exciting new stuff do you have?