Christmas Present reprise, spinach that sends email and vodka infused with ...

 A solid SIX hours of sleep

I considered going back to bed but instead I 

Laundry change
because I was grumbling
about coin issues and
alarming debit card readers.

--found the rest of a Christmas present tucked into a pocket of the bag.

--had a morning text exchange departing from a book about an American ornithologist trying to study Blakiston Fish owls. in Siberia. If you really want to know what the vodka was infused with...

--got out another Christmas present, banged around in my kitchen wearing a bathrobe with sleeves that are wondrously long except when one is trying to cook something, and made pumpkin cheesecake bars WITH A MIXER instead of beating by hand like last time. 

Then more errands.

The spinach sending email? apparently spinach roots can detect some kind of explosive. They give off some kind of molecule. The molecules hit a detector which sends the email In other words, the spinach needs A LOT of help.