Thinking about tea ... I don't spend much time, usually. I experience the tea for what it is, and appreciate it as much as I can. The decision for what to drink is made shortly before preparing the tea.
That said, today was a two tea day: First I finished off last year's Zheng He Bai Hao Yin Zhen, and followed up with some jasmine pearls. I read on my patio for several hours, brewing both of these until they rendered naught but lightly flavored water.
The weather is great: just warm, not too humid; it rained yesterday. The air is fragrant with the sweet smells of honeysuckle and some other flower whose name I don't know.
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I went with his standard shipping which usually makes it to my mail box in 4-5 business days.
EMS is nice and it is fun tracking packages half a world away. But they require signatures...and it must be delivered before 3 PM. I had a sub mail carrier last year who had a delivery attempt slip already made up. He delivered mail here at around 4, no package, just the delivery attempt slip.
I checked the tracking. He had entered it as attempted delivery at 2:58/no one home. GRRRRR. I was home, he was late and just could not deliver it w/o getting into trouble. I was too nice and said nothing. It is not wise to anger your mail carrier when he will deiver tea to you.
So, my package made it from China to the front of my house in 3 days!!! It took another 3 days to finally get my package. I was hotter than tea!
EMS is nice and it is fun tracking packages half a world away. But they require signatures...and it must be delivered before 3 PM. I had a sub mail carrier last year who had a delivery attempt slip already made up. He delivered mail here at around 4, no package, just the delivery attempt slip.
I checked the tracking. He had entered it as attempted delivery at 2:58/no one home. GRRRRR. I was home, he was late and just could not deliver it w/o getting into trouble. I was too nice and said nothing. It is not wise to anger your mail carrier when he will deiver tea to you.
So, my package made it from China to the front of my house in 3 days!!! It took another 3 days to finally get my package. I was hotter than tea!
blah blah blah SENCHA blah blah blah!!!
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Tenuki...where are you...
Wen shan bao zhong...no scale today. Totally eyeballing it. You would be proud. I don't think I would ever have a hard time eyeballing this tea.
I am going to try to give the scale a little bit of a break...use my senses as scales for certain teas.
Wen shan bao zhong...no scale today. Totally eyeballing it. You would be proud. I don't think I would ever have a hard time eyeballing this tea.
I am going to try to give the scale a little bit of a break...use my senses as scales for certain teas.
blah blah blah SENCHA blah blah blah!!!
What is this world coming to? I made matcha this morning and now this.... The end of time must be near!Chip wrote:Tenuki...where are you...
Wen shan bao zhong...no scale today. Totally eyeballing it. You would be proud. I don't think I would ever have a hard time eyeballing this tea.
I am going to try to give the scale a little bit of a break...use my senses as scales for certain teas.
Ya, that one's easy, just fill your gaiwan 3/4 full of dry leaves and rock out with the boiling water!!
what, 3/4 leaves is too much.... 8g/100ml FTW!!! (that is how I do it, but I'm guessing most people will over brew that if they try it and get some bitterness)
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It is not a doctorate, it is for my bachelor's degree actually. For my politics major, we are required to do a 25 page research paper and present it. We just tend to call it a thesis.Salsero wrote:What is your doctorate in, CK?Cinnamon Kitty wrote:... an afternoon of working on my thesis presentation.