I now withdraw my apology

Today appears to be all about going off half cocked. I see, upon scrolling further down, that I DID, in fact, keep you posted to a degree about the progress of Cramer.

Still, one way or another, you completists now have it all.

So now, on to the beets:



These I will eat.



This, which is the boiled-down syrup made from the water in which the beets were cooked, will figure prominently in my Barack Obama painting. A nod, of sorts, to the man's African roots.

I don't peel my beets, by the way.