I'm drinking the Mengku 2006 "Big Snow Mountain" tea today. I thought I had written something about it before, but I can't find it, so here goes again ( Read more... )

I frequently consider writing something about politics. However, the times when I'm most motivated to post are also the times I'm least capable of writing. I think this is often true of me and important things ( Read more... )

Taking a break from talking about horrifying drug side effects to instead talk about tea ( Read more... )

I got the new nail polish colors I ordered yesterday and I've been playing around with trying different effects. The new nail polish colors turned out to be rather more pastel than I had thought they were going to be.( This is me experimenting trying to get a color gradient with the mint blue-green and light purple. )

A giant swarm of bees decided to go swarm on the entrance to my workplace this afternoon. Cops came and roped the area off with yellow tape and are keeping people away. I went out the other door and around the block to see; it's a mass of bees about the size of a person looking like they're trying to cram themselves into the entryway of the ( Read more... )

The kombucha made from the dead tasting 8252 didn't turn out very well. The fermentation really brought out the smoky flavor of the tea, which was almost unnoticeable before. The kombucha made with the shui xian oolong turned out pretty well. What was even better than either of those was what I got when I mixed them though; the flavors were very ( Read more... )

Work is happening. It's going pretty well, but it's left me tired enough that I haven't had time for much of anything else. I have been substituting money for energy for everything I can (buying lunches instead of making them, taking car2go instead of the streetcar, etc). I am just starting to get over that. I finally fixed my flat so I could ( Read more... )

I have done the 20% of the work that gets me 80% of what I want in terms of organizing my tea drawers. I think it's going to stop there for a bit. I have the tea sorted into puer tea for aging, puer tea that is ready to drink now, tea for making kombucha with and all other types of tea. It's that last category that could use work. However, I ( Read more... )

I decided to go out for a short walk this afternoon. I thought maybe I'd go up the hill... and then maybe I'd got for a walk on the trails in the park... and then up to Pittock mansion... and then I wound up at Hoyt Arboretum enjoying the lovely sequoias. Somehow it turned into a 3+ hour hike, mostly along the Wildwood trail. And on my way back ( Read more... )

My latest batch of kombucha (which I'm just trying now) is brewed from Shui Hsien oolong from Tea Zone. It makes for a fabulous, complex, sweet kombucha. The next batch, which I put up yesterday will be from the dayi 8252 cake.