My sleeping bag is just a raincoat for my legs now...

Remember when they tried to put a fancy art gallery in that old factory by the river? It felt like they spent a ton just to make it look trendy, but the neighborhood really needed a basic grocery store. Sometimes these big fix-up projects miss what people actually use every day. I get the appeal of saving old buildings, but the money has to make sense for the community living there now.

Curious what you were trying to do with the blanket in the closet, @the_robin. Was it for sound dampening or maybe to keep something from getting too cold? I've tried similar stuff for noise, but a blanket alone never cut it for me. It always felt like I needed more mass to really block sound. Did you layer it with anything else or just use the one thick blanket?

That "amazing, complex tang" is just a quick room-temp ferment.