Times sure flies when you are wasting it!

Yes, through the holidays and the full moons and celebrating and the temporary relief of pain that the session with pain pump had brought me, I sure wasted time these past few months!
Now, THAT is what I call a run on sentence!

With editors and publishers and being a administrator on another Witches blog, I haven't had time for my own tea blog.
Which is a really awful thing considering how many wonderful tea things I received over the holidays!

Great! I jujst realized that I still need to shuffle my new tea pics over to Flickr before I can post them here. I am really behind, aren't I?

Let's see, how about a listing of some items I recently got that involves tea?

I received, somewhat unbelievably, FIRST Flush Black (FF02) tea of the darjeeling Variety.
Also, I got SECOND Flush and the Silver Whites teas as well.

I must say that it was an actual delight to taste first flush tea leaves. To see them unfold in the steamy water and to see how different they looked in the strainer when compared to regular black tea from box. The taste was heaven.
To quote a favorite uncle of mine when he was drinking Irish Whiskey, "T'is like Angels dancing on me tongue!" The first leaves of the season have a floral tea taste.
Wihout going into a soliloquy on the tastes of the other teas, I will go over what else the tea fairies brought unto me!

A 4 cup Brown Betty Teapot. Perfect for swirling those tea leaves.

A Victorian Era silver sugar tongs. Beautifully patterned, heavy silver.

Believe it or not, I got an actual tea plant! Camilla Sinensis herself! Her name is Tessie, (I name all of my plants).

I got a lead free pewter tea strainer, or should I say another to add to my growing collection. I do love the celtic twists on the handle of this one.

AND, FINALLY, I got a tea caddy! This is beautiful mahoghany wood with burled edges. It has 2 compartments in it. Since this is a modern reproduction, there is no lead linings or tin papers inside the chest. It comes with 2 keys so I can serve it people who have a good set of tastebuds can enjoy the quality. For those without, they can have bagged tea!

The caddy came from Monticello, home of President Jefferson. You can see the caddy I have at this link. To say the very least, the caddy now holds my first and second flush teas. I am not ashamed to admit that the first flush is already gone...but I have ordered more when the 2006 season is right.

I think that may cover it. No, wait. My very good friend gave me a stretchy bracelet with tea pot beads and charms on it! I wear it with another bracelet I had made myself with tea paraphenalia on it!

There, that's done then.

Look forward to pictures very soon.

I am spending my days of late in bed with my back stablized. Although this little laptop is networked to my main com puter in my office, I cannot quite find the file folder with the pictures on it. This means I must wait until the "God of computers and beloved of me" gets home from work!

Until we meet again,
Brightest Tea Blessings!