Locate the much beloved though somewhat battered tea tray that has seen you through thick and thin (mostly thick).
Add one cracked sugar dish and one slightly over the top creamer.
Make some weak tea. Nothing too strong dearie! The sick need their rest. They need not be fortified to muck out the stables today.
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I have been trying to find a gift for a friend and have finally… maybe…. possibly….. kind of….. decided on getting this friend a tea set…
Now all I have to do is decide which tea set.
ARRRRRRGHGHGHGHGHG!Why do their have to be so many?!?!?
I think I could spend the rest of my life looking at tea [...]
We are in the middle of a slush storm here in Kansas, which is perfect weather to curl up with a good Gladys Taber book… or any good book for that matter. In fact, it is my fondest hope to spend some time curled up with a good book later today. I have been re-reading [...]
A mother found two of her children sitting on a bank of a lake in a beautiful garden.
They were listlessly watching the koi swim around.
“Did you see the entire park?” she asked them.
“Yesssssssss.” They groaned, “We saw it… we’re tired… we’re bored… we want to go back to the cousin’s house. When can we go?”
“Did [...]
Seriously!
Can you get more exciting than comparing one Japanese Garden with another?
Can you?
I think not!
Let’s begin shall we?
First of all, the SF Japanese Garden has a lovely little tea shop which you stumble upon at almost the exact instance you enter the garden.
This little open air tea shop serves an elixir of life [...]
