I appreciate you speaking about underemployment. It's such a pernicious tactic employers use and those same employers are the ones more likely to have irregular work schedules, leading to fraught employment (except working on the weekend. A weekend has almost become an economic indicator).

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Bastard carpet.

Pouring one out for the jabbed toe.

There'll be a discount on the blue because there isn't a suspension loop and I made 5 eyelets instead of 6, which means the drawstring closure isn't as smooth or tight as I'd like. Otherwise it's a fine little pouch ($35)

I mostly sell them to fellow cast or friends or end up giving them away as gifts.

I do, but I don't have them listed anywhere. 1. I'm terrified someone will see the not-perfectly circular embroidered eyelets or the odd knot poking out of a tassel head and get snippy. 2. Few people are willing to pay $40-$60 for a cloth pouch. Rennies tend to be all about the leather.

Hayes Farm 1868 if you're ever in the Hartford area. Meat's spendy but worth it.

Honestly if we ever host a Thanksgiving, I'd rather roast two or three of those wee chickens than the behemoth turkeys from the supermarket. Fat's fantastic for the veg, tastes better, meat's juicier, and you use just about all of the bird.

We went with a 3lb chicken from a local farm about 4 miles down the road. Rubbed it down with oil, salt, pepper, herbs, and lemon zest, roasted for an hour and ten. Amazing.

And now, picked clean of its remaining meat, it's in the crock pot to make stock.

I love green and lavender/lilac. I have one planned for the next batch that's a fog green base with heather, ivy green, and pale green.

I did one with the goose-turn wool as a base and ended up giving it to a first year fellow cast member because it matched her costume.

I'll have to look at my yarn/floss box and play with those combos, because I've never considered blues and greens together!

Oh hard agree! Black + a bold color always looks so elegant. I've done this black and gold, then I have a few others planned for the next batch.

Alas no sharp cheddar, but we have a local colonial-style cheddar that'd SLAP with it.

(Arethusa's Tapping Reeve is now in my top 5 favorite cheeses.)

To keep the insides a nice texture and insure wall-to-wall apples, I grate 2 and dose it around like an apple-y spackle in any gaps. Essentially it cooks down into applesauce.

Nice thing about not going anywhere for Thanksgiving is that I can have a slice of pie the night before if I damn well want to.

I'll eat it for breakfast, too, before we go out hiking.

(Didn't turn out half-bad. I spiced it heavily and it isn't super sweet, but I like that over cloying glop.)