Shae took off for the Alaskan Interior and left me, a porcupine, in charge of her blog. When she asked me to do it, I thought she was joking, but then she handed over the laptop and flew off in a helicopter. Crazy. She worked so hard trying to get this recipe right before she left. It was sad, if you ask me. She tried it with pectin in a box and without pectin in a box, then she decided that both ways work fine. She tried it with spearmint extract (yuck) and fresh spearmint (good). She tried it with 1/4 cup of rum (what rum?) and 1/2 cup of rum. If you ask me, she wasted plenty of good blackberries. If she’d let me anywhere near them, I would have saved her all that trouble and scarfed them while she wasn’t looking. [...]