Small living quarters requires thinking 'small', but only if you expect to remain in place. I've been wanting to move out since shortly after moving in...
Tea storage is adequate. Space for teaware/tableware is insufficient.
I think it was 1981, the Deep South (southern Ohio, southern half of Kentucky and all of Tennessee, Northern Alabama-Georgia-Mississippi-Louisiana-and Arkansas got smashed with the worst ice storm on record for the affected areas.
Two giant storm systems collided, followed by a low dipping Alberta Clipper.
We had 3-4 inches of ice and then 2 feet of snow, in the Nashville-Murfreesboro area. No power for 3-4 weeks in towns, more than a month without in rural areas.
No plows, no sand, no salt. Road travel was painful, driving in deep ruts in the ice and snow. The cold continued for nearly 3 weeks. I spent the first 10 days sleeping on the couch of grad student friend who had an emergency generator.
It was the worst ice-snow storm on record for the much of the Deep South, for a damn good reason: the last of a mini-cold period (1965–1981), just the right climate cycle patterns (PDO and NAO cold phases) to build large cold air masses during winter, and - for the US - the first major volcanic eruption, scattering an enormous ash cloud in a belt that spanned the northern mid-lattitudes.
Thanks, Mt St Helens! Very fine ash caused a major uptick in precipitation for much of the US, Europe and Central Asia. Combine that with ash-cloud and sulfate-induced cooling, and you get a helluva winter and a bumber crop of tornadoes.
In my cup this morning Mokalbari Estate Assam from Upton.
The directions said 4min - it was very dark at 2min so I stopped.
It's a decent Assam. Glad I didn't go longer.
Have a nice day everyone!
The directions said 4min - it was very dark at 2min so I stopped.
It's a decent Assam. Glad I didn't go longer.
Have a nice day everyone!
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Feb 8th, '09, 12:00
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After recently buying a nice wood DVD/CD storage unit a few months ago to display more and new wares, I am finding that I need another one. I think that answers the question. I currently have at least 5 display units that are home to teawares. Tea ... I have the TeaFridge!!! I try not to keep too much tea open at any one time, but seem to have a lot open now. Open tea seems to be spread out all over currently since I do not have one space big enough for all of it.
In my cup, a crazy good start to the TeaDay. A supreme blend of Gyokuro Kame from O-Cha and a mysterious gyokuro from Sal. This was incrdibly good. SweeTea had her share while Pyrit, Gandalf, Honi Belle, Wulong and a rare appearance by Katie who all actively watched.
In my cup, a crazy good start to the TeaDay. A supreme blend of Gyokuro Kame from O-Cha and a mysterious gyokuro from Sal. This was incrdibly good. SweeTea had her share while Pyrit, Gandalf, Honi Belle, Wulong and a rare appearance by Katie who all actively watched.
blah blah blah SENCHA blah blah blah!!!
Sal, When you re-discover something, is it like having something brand-new?Salsero wrote:Never enough space. And the worst thing is that stuff gets lost in the shuffle and may not surface for months or years. Oy!
I don't have that much teaware, but somehow have commandeered a large area of a kitchen closet for tea.
This morning I'm having more of the homemade orange spice blend I made the other day.
The cabinet above the counter filled rapidly. And now there's a space in the pantry for tea tins. And part of the counter has teapots.
Yunnan Noir this morning, yum.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
--Tang Dynasty
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
--Tang Dynasty
A bit more room would be very nice to have, especially since my teas and tea ware are a bit scattered throughout the house at the moment. I have a small collection of stuff in my room, more stuff in a cart in the dining room, and a few more teas and my zoji in the kitchen. It works fine for now, but at some point, I would like a small cupboard of my own for my tea stuff.
This morning, I am finishing off the last steeps of YM that I started last night.
This morning, I am finishing off the last steeps of YM that I started last night.
Feb 8th, '09, 13:49
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I desperately need more space. I've rearranged my kitchen cabinets twice now to free up lower shelves for tea/teaware use. And I'm once again out of space. I'm going to have to go through and donate a bunch of stuff to Goodwill or something to clear out another shelf or two.
Drinking iced white pear this morning, haven't had time to brew anything yet.
Drinking iced white pear this morning, haven't had time to brew anything yet.
Feb 8th, '09, 14:28
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Glad you came through everything safe and sound.kymidwife wrote:And last night, at midnight, I had my first real matcha... pictures are forthcoming soon. Yes, I know... madness to drink it so late, but I only stayed up til 0130 and then slept like a baby.
Matcha, YAY! Can't wait to see your pictures!
oooh, and my paper crane project has its first stamp of approval!
Good luck with the crane project!! from a crain- cheryl crainGeekgirlUnveiled wrote:Never, ever enough space.
In the matcha thread, I mentioned I purchased a new chawan (so what else is new? they are quite the little addiction,) it arrived, and I used it yesterday and today in honor of my new 365 Project - 365 days of paper cranes. This is day 2. wish me luck.
You fold beautifully.
Love your chawan- beautiful- prob the most striking I've seen. I would love to join the matcha club but need to focus on my current love- sencha and gyokuro. Hopefully this summer.
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I don't need more room for tea, in fact I plan to shrink the amount of space that I devote to it. At the beginning of January I did something sobering: I put all of my tea into a spreadsheet including the original weights and the current weights of each.
I was stunned, and, No, I'm not telling you much tea I have. Anyway, I am now vacuum packing everything that isn't currently open as well as all of my good dancongs and TGYs and rock teas; I'm concentrating on finishing off oddball items; and I am sticking to the tea budget that I made earlier this year.
Until my stocks dimish to an acceptable level, the only new teas that I plan to buy are Japanese greens (I really enjoyed the Uji miyabe) and some new Taiwanese oolongs, and maybe one more sheng cake.
After that, and I hope it happens this year, I plan to explore rock teas from Tea Gallery and dancong from Tea Habitat.
I was stunned, and, No, I'm not telling you much tea I have. Anyway, I am now vacuum packing everything that isn't currently open as well as all of my good dancongs and TGYs and rock teas; I'm concentrating on finishing off oddball items; and I am sticking to the tea budget that I made earlier this year.
Until my stocks dimish to an acceptable level, the only new teas that I plan to buy are Japanese greens (I really enjoyed the Uji miyabe) and some new Taiwanese oolongs, and maybe one more sheng cake.
After that, and I hope it happens this year, I plan to explore rock teas from Tea Gallery and dancong from Tea Habitat.