FRIDAY>>>WOOHOOO TeaDay 6/20/08

[Geekgirl]

How do you keep doing this? [/color] I have a couple chickens ripping each other's heads off, and you post this subtle study in shape and texture. Are you stalking me?

Ha! Not doing anything, I LOVED your photo today! For me, it has to stay fairly simple or I will spend ALL DAY trying to get the shot right with the different depths and lightings. *beats head on wall*

But I'll stalk you if you want me to...

[auggy]

OK, you've proven yesterday's statement that you are optimistic... wildly, unrealistically, and uncontrollably so.

Salsero, love the cock-fight scene. Auggy, it must be great living in that alternate reality of yours, eh? Chicken love indeed!

Hey, I live in a happy place, what can I say.

[Salsero]

So cute and so you (after the 2nd Dell guy)

[bronzebed]

nothing has gone unused. sometime soon i'd like to purchase a glass tea pot and cup set.

this morning i had some genmaicha tea, later this afternoon i'm probably going to drink some bourbon street vanilla rooibos. yums.

[olivierco]

Kirameki shincha
Darjeeling Risheehat SFTGFOP1
and now hot chocolate

[auggy]

So cute and so you (after the 2nd Dell guy)

Aw, yay! I actually called the service number on the card Dell-man #2 left to let the company know how competent and wonderful he was.

[Pentox]

Yup, that's auggy for ya.

[scruffmcgruff]

...I'm still hung over from last night's tea extravaganza. More details (and pics!) later.

http://www.teanerd.com/2008/06/puerh-in-berkeley.html

Sorry for the self-promotion, but I really don't feel like re-formatting all the image and url tags.

Also of note, David Lee Hoffman from the documentary "...All in this tea" was there, though I didn't introduce myself. Fun fun!

[auggy]

Yup, that's auggy for ya.

I'm taking that as a compliment!

[Salsero]

Yup, that's auggy for ya.

I'm taking that as a compliment!

Catch as catch can.

I don't even know what that expression means. I just like watching all these little girls running back and forth on my screen.

[Chip]

A late TeaDay start for me...began with Adagio Keemun Concerto. I have always been attracted to Keemuns (not Yunnans as mentioned yesterday) Keemun almost always works for me.

Houryoko Fukamushi, a lttle more astringent this time around. Just a few extra seconds can do that with this shincha. Still, very flavorful.

Teapots...ok...I have a lot as I mentioned a month or so ago.

I just got some small Korean pots at the Expo, and a few kyusu.

I also have several other types, like testsubin, Jaeger (original, not the new Asian line). Some are too big, but still are sooo cool. I hope to use them all eventially one day. One English piece of note is a limited edition Wedgewood that I will likely never use.

I used to buy and sell Yixing, it started to go in a direction I wasn't thrilled about...direct importing of huge quantities in order to gain a market advantage for a specialty niche market...some really big players were hitting the scene at the time.

I decided not to at the time and had a lot of the more decorative yixing which is what people seemed to want at the time (1999). So, although they are all usable, I have MANY unused pots...and they are all special ones I kept.

Interestingly (to me), this was the time I found out how many Yixing knock offs there were. Really dangerous market. One guy named Boris who was a man who could "get stuff" offered to get units at pennies on the dollar. This contributed to my decision at the time. I had just ventured into the world of tea and clearly did not have enough knowledge to navigate the international market for "yixing."

[Katrina]

Beautiful set!!! When can we all come over for tea?

Any time! Just pop on over and ignore the barking dog and the silly kids.

I'll make hummus.

[CynTEAa]

Too cute, Auggy. I really thought Salsero had started working with Sculpey and was wondering why chickens were in the 'pool.' Didn't get it at all until scanning through the other posts ...silly.

To the main poll: there are several teapots not used. Mostly because they are more pretty or decorative than functional.

Yunnan Gold this morning and then Nepal FF late afternoon. Not enough tea today or yesterday. What a hectic week! Happy Friday everyone!

[Cinnamon Kitty]

I'll chime in a bit late today. I have one teapot not in use at the moment. It will be in use eventually. It is the Yixing pot that I purchased while on vacation, but I haven't figured out which tea to christen it with. I'd like to use it for darker oolongs and I do plan on getting some soon, possibly from TeaCuppa, but I have to wait until I get paid to make that order. Once I have a nice selection of darker oolongs, the pot will get cleaned, seasoned, and then will be used.

My morning did not start out well tea-wise. I had made a bottle of iced Apricot Honeybush last night to have for work today. My mother assumed that bottle still contained tea made last week, so it got dumped out before I could tell her otherwise. Of course, the old iced tea was completely left alone in the fridge until I mentioned it to her. I made up for that mistake by making a travel mug of Apricot Honeybush along with my other mug and thermos of Oolong #8.

[Riene]

I've used all of my pots. Some of them are little one-person pots that I rotate for myself, and the others are 4-6 cup pots. My husband likes hot tea in the mornings as well, so we usually make a large pot even in summertime.

For a while, people gave me teapots as gifts, or those little combination cup/pot units. They're cute, but the don't hold enough!