wake up

What do you do on a Monday morning when your kid has you up before the sun is up and you feel a bit like a truck has run over you and you have some pears and apples that need to be used up?
Why you bake a free-form apple and pear tart of course.
It is the sort of thing that they would refer to as "rustic" in restaurants. Maybe drizzle caramel on top? or add some cardamom ice cream on the side if we are going for the whole look. I think it will taste good. It will certainly be pretty in that "oh this ol' thing I just threw it together" kind of way.
The Tuscan bean soup I made last night turned out well. There is even enough for lunch today... I think.
I suspect I will need several cups of tea today to keep me upright. I am about as conscious as Judy Garland on her fuzzy days. I obviously won't be performing "Live From Carnegie Hall" from my living room today.
As you know I am apt to do.


Another bright beautiful day with leaves continuing to change color. Maybe I will go and stand outside to make myself wake up. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

garden blather.

I went outside and got my dose of vitamin D and also feel a touch less groggy. Even Senor Onion got some Vitamin D. No rickets for us!
I also planted the last of some tulips/daffodil bulbs that were lingering in a cupboard. I planted them around the edge of the herb bed. Let's encourage those bees next Spring.
Watered some wintering plants, shored up the leeks a bit and then transplanted the last of the strawberry plants to the new extended bed. About three years ago I bought four tiny start strawberry plants and I also bought a different variety of strawberry plant earlier this year. Things have sort of exploded so that there are now dozens of plants. I am thinking that next Spring I may have to thin things out a bit and maybe sell/give away a bunch of strawberry starters. Or maybe I will just extend the bed some more and have an ENORMOUS strawberry bed. I am sure my Mother is quite proud of me.
I have started mulching/killing the grass for some new beds; mainly what will be a potato bed for next year. Much of this is trial and error gardening and sometimes just letting things be and seeing what might happen.