Vanilla update - one week

Here it is at one week.  Darkening up nicely and smells great.  There is a lot more vanilla smell and a lot less vodka/alcohol smell.

Homemade Vanilla Extract

Christmas baking season is less then four months away so it is time to try something to get ready now.

 Two ingredients required.  I went with a Canadian vodka for this batch.  Might try some rum or brandy for the next.  Vanilla rum sounds good for baking.

 This is around 1/3 of the beans that arrived.  I split 11 of them.

Add the beans to the vodka.  Time to watch the colour change.

Staying in shape sucks

Trying to stay in shape is getting harder as I get older.  I did hill sprints for two days and now can barely walk with an inflamed left achilles.  The joys of getting older.  Hopefully I am mobile by the weekend but the lesson learned is to double whatever stretching I thought was necessary.