I have always looked down my snout at iced tea. My first thought was always, “
Ewww, it’s cold,” followed shortly by, “
My lord, I think someone put sugar in this.” Then find a place to set it down without making a scene … set it down
quickly without making a scene, set it down
quickly like you would set down a red hot, radioactive 5-pound ingot.
Then, earlier this year, I discovered powdered sencha. If you put some in a water bottle when you are being held without bail in a large meeting room, it gives you something to do during those moments when you are not devoting 100% of your attention to keeping your eyes open while you doze. You can shake it, drink it, watch the powdered sencha swirl around. It’s as good as being able to play a video game while some old dood up front is droning on about how tough it was back when he was coming up and how he made it despite all the odds. You know they didn’t even have cell phones by then. Gawh!
Hey and the stuff tastes good too! And it's green! And it freaks out all the other doods around you.
Another place I have found for powdered sencha is when you are wandering around in the
Guantanamo Theme Park in sunny Orlando, Florida. Loud music, foreign languages (mostly eggspañol), conflicting messages, screaming children, ominous rides, temperatures where the hot dogs cook themselves, all in sauna like humidity. It’s more like the firebombing of Dresden than anything I think of as a
park. Add all the perks of being a middle school chaperone, and you’ll know what a fun day
that was. Well, under those conditions, fluids are required STAT and continuously, preferably an IV of normal saline. Go figure. Well, powdered sencha was a thrill to have that day. The only problem was herding the mating-aged eighth graders into a single holding pen long enough to purchase the bottle of water.
So ... long and short, I voted 100% hot.
Riene wrote: Is your pot silver?
The kyusu looks like some sort of metal but is actually very thin clay. I worry I will break it if I squeeze too hard. It is #971
HERE and holds ten ounces.
Jack_teachat wrote: Sal that is probably my favourite so far, it is now my desktop background!
Wow, what a compliment. I have a lizard on my desktop icon.
soapy wrote: have you ever thought of making prints and selling them on etsy.com?
I would buy this one....
(and everything in it....
)
Well I suspect my son would be willing to give you a good price on the flowerpot he did in kindergarten. I've thought about making the photos somehow available so people could get prints if they want them, but I haven't put the time into researching it.
If anyone wants a full resolution jpeg of any of my photos, I'm happy to send it.
auggy wrote: Sal, what's in the little blue painted pot - looks fernlike?
I think it is one of those things they call an
air plant meaning it is dead but still green.
BTW, I have found some glitter and am considering the options ....
augie wrote: I especially like the painted terra cotta pot in the back ground. I have one my Emmer (now 14 y.o.) made in preK and I still keep it despite the tempra handprints peeling off.
Boy, Augie, you nailed that one! Mine is 14 now too and maybe it was preschool not kindergarten. He's a wonderful young man now, but he was such a sweet little boy then.
chamekke wrote: What is that purple flower, by the way? I don't recognize it...
I don't either and it's killing me. I can't find it in my books.
Wesli wrote: If I drank a good pu-erh, I'd sweat like a pig.
Thanks so much for sharing that.
