In the meantime I've been going hog-wild with teas. Now that I have a great place to store loose teas, I went and bought some nifty stuff from SpecialTeas.com and English tea Store.

My favorites so far:

Dragon Pearls Green Tea. It's a China green tea that comes in tight little hand-rolled balls of whole leaves from the first flush of the season. Not only is it yummy, but it's seriously cool looking.

Earl Grey Royal. A bit stronger than your usual Earl Grey, and I think I like a milder one best, but still and all-time favorite.

There's another favorite out of my recent order, but I can't remember the name right now and it's no longer available at SpecialTeas.

I also got some Rooibos which comes from southern Africa. The tea turns a characteristic red color after it's been fermented. And I got some Pu-erh from China which comes in little pressed and wrapped bowls.

Needless to say, I've been enjoying tea most mornings with my breakfast. I still need to get myself a nice Yixing tea pot for the green teas, and maybe a one english set with a warmer. I'm also throughly intrigued by this Cuia and Bombilha for Yerba Mate. I'd never heard of this before.

I think I'll go have a cup of tea now.

Netflix
5 April 2004, 2:39 PM

Ah yes. First there was TIVO, and then there was Netflix. I really like TIVO. I really like Netflix. And that's all I have to say about that.

It's invigorating to any gardener's spirit. I've been busy with my own growing garden. My herb tripled in size and I'm just about glowing with pride over it. We've decide to try to fill one flower bed on the side of the house with herbs and some red salvia and banksia rose. Hopefully the deer will leave 'em alone. At least my protected garden is thriving. The hanging baskets are in profuse bloom and the one particular kind of petunia even seems to take the heat well. Here's hoping it'll survive the summer. We gave the black-eyed susan vine a trellis to clamber up, and we set out a pretty bistro set for outdoor dining.

We did a lot of tree-trimming too. We didn't take any live branches - just dead ones and scraped a lot of ball moss off of other branches. What a differences! The trees look taller, now that all the dead stuff underneath has been cleared out, and they look neater and greener with o much of the ball moss removed. It's tedious work, but well worth the effort.

I also weeded one flower bed that was completely overgrown, and was so proud of my efforts until the next day. Mind you, the flower bed still looked good, it was just that my backside was sore. I'd used a small wooden stool to sit on the whole time so I wouldn't hurt my lower back by bending over too much. It worked - my lower back was fine, but my butt was bruised! I should have added a pillow to the wooden stool. How embarrassing.

Yesterday we drove to my folks place to help 'em out with some computer stuff and got a chance to see the bluebonnets at their peak. They were lovely all around San Marcos and Austin out to Bastrop, but the best was between Brehnam and Hempsted. There were seas of wildflowers and it seemed that everyone was out and about, doing the obligatory picture-taking in the flowers. We're going to try to do the same. Our neighbors across the street have a good stand of bluebonnets that people have been stopping by to take pictures in. We're going to try to get a picture of our kitty, Mysty, in the middle of the patch.

We've got our own mini-patches starting. I spread seed last Fall, and we do indeed have some coming up this spring. They have a long way to go yet, but it's a start. I'd love to have the whole front half of the lawn be nothing but a sea of multi-colored wildflowers in the spring and most of the summer.

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