Four-thousand one-hundred fifty-three days or 11 years, 4 months, 1 week, and 6 days ago, I split and chopped up a bunch of vanilla beans and divided them between two bottles of organic vodka in order to make my own vanilla extract. Today, I used the last drops of that 11-year-old vanilla. Knowing this day was approaching, I went looking for the same bottles of Vodka 360, bought two, ordered a lot of beans, and set them to do their extraction thing back in late June 2020. When I open the first bottle it will have been aging for 8 months while the second bottle shouldn’t be opened for about 5 more years. Should you wonder what calls for such perfect vanilla, its beautiful fragrance is wafting through our place right now along with the sweet scent of eucalyptus honey and coconut oil. I’m making another batch of sprouted and dehydrated granola. Life’s little luxuries.