Breakfast of Champions

GEEZ!!!

Once again with the shot of the counter top. This time, beets and hard cider....for breakfast.
Well...not really breakfast but before 10:00 am.

Justin is working in Lancaster and is up at 4 am.
YAWN!!!
...so I get up too. I saw him off, pouted into my tea for a bit, had a bite of left-over chicken and began my day.

Toady's amusement was the garden. I planted a bunch of beets, some gourds/squash, one sad lettuce and rerouted some wayward garlic. The sun was coming up as I finished. The view was spectacular with the santa ana winds just kicking up and the bay and ocean mirror smooth, reflecting the salmon-colored sky.
A good Monday indeed.

After, I pulled what was left of the beets, popped ‘em in the oven and then settled into making some more hair flowers and feathers. This project seems to be going along really well and I really like the simplicity of the work. When the beets were done, I pickled most of them but I ran out of apple cider vinegar. So I opened a bottle of the hard cider I made last month.
YUM!
It had ripened into a tasty treat and I must admit, a bit of a whopper on the alcohol scale! One little glass (pictured) made my head a bit woozy! It is grand to know I can produce my own hooch now.