This is your occasional report that I am still alive. And I finally got around to making scrunchies from the fabric scraps @mindspillage sent like 2 years ago! As well as some I got in a big box of samples from someone in my Buy Nothing who does interior decor or something.

The elastic straps from worn-out N95s are the perfect length to use for scrunchies.

#sewing

I just spent like 4 hours harvesting (and pruning, and chopping canes for the compost) blackberries, and 4 hours in the kitchen. Yield: 1 blackberry disaster pie, 2 bags frozen blackberries, blackberries for yogurt and smoothies for the next several days. Zucchini bread. Turkey tacos. 2 dozen turkey meatballs for the freezer (there were 3 lb chubs of ground turkey on sale cheap at Grocery Outlet).

v. charmed by my new vacuum sealer.

Dinner tonight: Elk osso buco with wild rice pilaf.

I pulled up a bunch of fennel from the garden today, including several big taproots. When I've tried fennel roots in the fall they've been too tough to eat, but these were dreamy, only a moderate woody core that came out easily with plenty of soft mild flesh around it. I put them into the pilaf with the carrots, and now I'm really into the idea of growing some that's been bred for edible roots.

Happy pi day!

1 Kings 7:23

(poll: will I be disinvited from the pi day party for this?)