A box of fruit indeed.

I'm alone in the living room. I can hear the dryer, the end credits to "Ilona, Upstairs" and the water trickling in our fish tank. Years ago I bought this fish tank and I stupidly killed some fish not knowing what they needed. After a few google searches we took Beebs yesterday to choose some fish. We let her look awhile before asking if she'd like to get some to bring home with us and she was speechless. She glowed. She was so excited. I love that.

We got a couple platy fish and a couple mollies. When we woke up this morning our fish population had doubled. One of the mollies had babies. The filter claimed several tiny fish lives. I cleaned off 6 and there were 4 swimming around then. Last I looked there were 2. They eat their babies. Sorry, Beebs. Anyway, she's absolutely in love with these fish. I hope we can keep around a little bit! heh.

My mom came to visit us and brought an enormous box of pears today. They were super ripe so we ended up turning on some music and juicing them. A bit past 10 cups of juice we decided it was enough and we cut up the ones Beebs hadn't eaten yet and filled a pot. We cooked them down really slow and then I pushed them through a colander to make something like pear sauce. I was thinking of cooking a bit down with ginger.

My mom cans like a pro. I wish I had any ounce of that skill (or pressure cooking ability). Have you ever had pear honey? I'll tell you it's amazing. It has pears and pineapple, sometimes ginger or whatever you like. It's super tasty on toast. Mom used the juice to make a form of pear honey that apparently is very much like actual honey. She said it's delicious and she's thinking of all sorts of uses. She texted me to say she thought it'd be wonderful with a vanilla bean in it and poured on pancakes. Oh mom!

This is a perfect tea for fall - Yerba Mate Latte. I know it's not fall yet but it's coming and I'm drinking this right now so.. yes. That photo is exactly what the loose leaf looks like. It's so pretty.
I suppose that's all for now.