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The sweater is just getting longer, not more interesting, so I will leave you with a picture of a pretty Pi(e) Day pie.  I had wanted to try the apple roses for a while (I've seen them in a few different places), and they came out really well. Here is a recipe, as best as I can remember it.  Ingredients: 1  pie crust of your choice, in a greased 9" pie plate 1 quart sour cherries, frozen or fresh 3 apples 1 t vanilla 1/2 cup sugar 2 T cornstarch 1 t Penzeys cake spice 2T cinnamon sugar, or a little sugar with some more cake spice mixed in   Method: 1. Make apple roses out of 2 of the apples: Quarter and core them, and then, working with one quarter at a time, slice it very thinly, getting about 12-15 slices and reserving the end for later. Put the slices on a plate and microwave them for 30 seconds on High to soften them. Lay out 4 or 5 slices end to end, overlapping them by about half, and roll them up into a rose. Set it aside for later. The 2 apples should make 24...

 Those socks that were almost finished didn't take long to wrap up, and here they are. My friend was very very happy with them, and I got the kind of reaction every knitter hopes for. Also, one of the things I've learned to do in the last few months is bagels, because our local bagel place closed a while back, and when we were going through the 50 pound bag of flour from when flour was briefly hard to find, the bagel phase came after the sourdough phase. As a native New Yorker, I'm pretty picky about bagels, and these aren't as good as the best, but they're not bad. This is the recipe I started with: https://www.sophisticatedgourmet.com/2009/10/new-york-style-bagel-recipe but modified to use mostly whole wheat flour, and make 12. If anyone ever actually reads this and wants the changes, just let me know.  They look like this when they're boiling:  And like this when they come out of the oven: Turns out, Trader Joe's Everything Bagel spice mix is pretty good ...