Vanilla beans, vanilla beans!

Perhaps it is a tad silly to be so excited about finally ordering fresh vanilla beans so as to make my own vanilla extract, but... I don't care.

I am excited, and that is that.

(In case anyone is wondering, I'm going to make one batch of extract with vodka and one batch with rum.  And then I will have to bake a whole lot.  Which is fine by me.  If it ever cools off enough for baking to be bearable, that is...)