I'm curious about your "rootsy" skills, Alison. Are they MacGuyver-esque? Have you began welding a habitable, underwater universe beneath the Willamette?

Go see my old Seattle chum Kurt B., people!

Making ice cream out of snow and maple syrup, that kind of thing.

I like its tasty utilitarianism.

A food cart, perhaps?

I was of the opinion that activities such as knitting and male grooming began as ironic but transitioned into sincerity.