What is in your cup?

[dreams]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Don't tell anyone ... but I had a pair of bell bottom hip hugger jeans with vertical red/white/blue stripes ... that I lived in during some formative years of my life.

Paired with the T-shirt and vest and beads?
**I look back and cringe when I think of what we use to wear (or not).**

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I had that floppy hat and the bell bottoms, too! And one summer I thought it was cool to stick a tiny seashell or two onto my cheek. Why? Who knows...

Aw, I wish I would have thought of that. We painted flowers on our faces. My hair was so long I could sit on it and I loved wearing my hat with flowers in the band. Sometimes my hat had beads wrapped around it and a peace symbol pinned on it. Memories....

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

We lived in a commune in Southern California, in the foothills north of Pasadena, from '68-'71. You can only imagine how we dressed... or didn't dress. God bless all hippies. Wish I could remember more about it...

I'm just glad we didn't name our son MoonFlower or HeartSong. Nice enough names but not so suitable for today's working world.


Stitchawl

Nice. You lived in the commune time when it was still true peace, love, etc and not what happened when so many kept coming to California and ruined the Haight-Ashbury district hippie life.

What's wrong with MoonFlower or HeartSong? How about Frank Zappa's choices of "Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen" for his kids names?

What's in my pipe cup? Hot chocolate.

[maianhvk]

@ Iri: Shakira rocks!

Still Dilmah's Ceylon.

[astra]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Time for another mug of Golden Assam TGFOP1

Is it good? I have Assam Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe Tea from Fortnum and Mason but have not tried it yet.

Cuppa #2
Assam Mangalam.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by dreams

Nice. You lived in the commune time when it was still true peace, love, etc and not what happened when so many kept coming to California and ruined the Haight-Ashbury district hippie life.

It was a wonderful period in my life. I was just back from the war, and I found a place to avoid the 'Machine Grind' of a 9-5, while learning how to be a human again. It's what I needed greatly at the time. It was heaven after a year of hell.

What's wrong with MoonFlower or HeartSong? How about Frank Zappa's choices of "Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen" for his kids names?

Not a thing... for the time and place. But do you know any successful heart surgeons named Moon Unit? How about any company CEO's named Thin Muffin? Time and place... time and place.

What's in my pipe cup? Hot chocolate.

Don't bogart that cup my friend. Pass it over to me...


Stitchawl

[desertblues]

I just had a pot of black tea in the most wonderful Persian garden I've ever been. Sitting in the shade, on an oriental rug, being completely exhausted from sightseeing and eating 'like a beggar' (=only rice).

Tomorrow afternoon/ evening, you can read all about it.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I just had a pot of black tea in the most wonderful Persian garden I've ever been. Sitting in the shade, on an oriental rug, being completely exhausted from sightseeing and eating 'like a beggar' (=only rice).

Tomorrow afternoon/ evening, you can read all about it.

yAy! almost home!

[astra]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I just had a pot of black tea in the most wonderful Persian garden I've ever been. Sitting in the shade, on an oriental rug, being completely exhausted from sightseeing and eating 'like a beggar' (=only rice).

That's why I don't travel to odd countries. I prefer comfortable chairs when I am eating


A mug of Lapacho.

[Steve Vernon]

Same as before - cold black coffee, strong enough to stand up and bark!

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by astra

Is it good? I have Assam Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe Tea from Fortnum and Mason but have not tried it yet.

Try it. I think you'll like it. It's rich enough to taste, but not overpowering. It makes a really nice afternoon tea. Better in the afternoon and evening than in the morning.

I think I just talked myself into a cup...


Stitchawl

[GeoffC]

juice of carrots, apple, celery, spinach and a slice of ginger .... delicious !

[astra]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Try it. I think you'll like it. It's rich enough to taste, but not overpowering. It makes a really nice afternoon tea. Better in the afternoon and evening than in the morning.

I think I just talked myself into a cup...

OKiedokie


After lunch Pu-Erh aged.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

We lived in a commune in Southern California, in the foothills north of Pasadena, from '68-'71. You can only imagine how we dressed... or didn't dress. God bless all hippies. Wish I could remember more about it...

As a punk I used to wear a T-shirt that said "Never Trust a Hippy"

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by astra

That's why I don't travel to odd countries. I prefer comfortable chairs when I am eating


A mug of Lapacho.

I like to lay down on a soft oriental rug nowadays

Water in my cup ; had soup and salad for dinner.

[astra]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I like to lay down on a soft oriental rug nowadays

I agree with this bit



A cup of after dinner Pu-Erh...just finished
A cup of Assam Assam Hattialli FTGFOP now.


I received the first of the two parcels with new teas
3 China Black and Genmai-Cha.

I tried Gen-Mai-Cha today and like it. It is the second Genmaicha in my short tea-life and it is better than the first one, from NBTea. It is smoother with a hint of sweetness that is very elusive almost not there but is there.
There was a picture of Genmai-Cha on the online's website, but I thought it was just a marketing trick, because it shows some sort of white flower or popcorn? I was wrong. This white stuff is present in tea


Another oddity is China Black.

Yunnan Black Golden Tips
Golden Needle
Finest Keemun Mao

The same steeping instructions for the three.
All 4 (including Genmai-Cha) are advised to be rinsed with hot water...like the tea master on Masterclass in Tea Smith in London suggested.

80-90°C water
Can be re-infused approx. 4 times.

Black tea re-infused? and not 100°C?

So far, I like PekoeTea Online Store. Interesting teas, decent prices, efficient package - resealable foil bags.

[Stitchawl]

If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning,
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this land,
I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between,
My brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3No )

Yeah... I've got fire in my blood and I'm ready to roll! Something about Saturday mornings really gets me moving. Today need a really strong tea to match the mood... so I chose China Black, brewed with a bit more tea leaf and a bit longer steep. I can almost chew it.

Originally Posted by astra

That's why I don't travel to odd countries. I prefer comfortable chairs when I am eating

I travel to odd countries just so I CAN get comfortable chairs when I'm eating!

Originally Posted by orlok

As a punk I used to wear a T-shirt that said "Never Trust a Hippy"

Now that I'm older and perhaps wiser, I think you might be right... partially.
That T-shirt should have read "Never trust a Hippy unconditionally."
It's a matter of 'what' you can trust us with.
You can trust some with your money, others with your wife, still others to be sure to water your garden. You can trust a few with your stash, one or two with your food, and all of us to love you completely... as long as you share.

In the words of the Jefferson Airplane;
All your private property is target for your enemy. And your enemy is we.
We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fu@k hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
But we should be together

... and we were.


Stitchawl