Long Time No Post

Immortality Tea

Okay, it hasn't been that long, but it has been a little while. Sorry, I've been under the weather and life has been more than catching up with me. I've been drinking a lot of tea, and even taking some pictures, but I haven't been writing much about it. I will try to be better.

I shattered the beautiful clear ForLife NewLeaf mug that I was using for photographs so you could see the infusions I was drinking. Oops. I hit it with a pillow on accident and it fell off my table onto the heat vent. Yes, that meant glass everywhere. I wasn't 100% sure I liked the mug other than for pictures.

Shamrocks and Shenanigans

I replaced it with a white ForLife Curve mug like I had before. I like the weight a lot better, and I wasn't completely sold on the silicone lid/infuser holder that came with the NewLeaf mug. It seemed to hold scents from various teas if I wasn't careful with it. The Curve mug just isn't quite as nice for pictures.

Moroccan Mint

I did recently get a whole bunch of tea I ordered from the internet delivered to my house. I was gone for a few days and many, many packages showed up. I look forward to sharing them with you. Two different subscription boxes (although one is a February box for a subscription I have signed up for, and not a new month's box.) Tea from China, which is a replacement for an order that went into a post office and never came back out. Tea delivered from Boulder. I'm a happy camper.

Starry Night

So to tide you over, here are some pictures of tea I have taken in the past week and a half. (You can tell when I had the NewLeaf mug and after I shattered it.)

In the beginning...there was tea

So after my husband started making fun of me about how into tea I've been getting and calling me The Teaminator, and then telling me I needed to start a blog, I joked about it with him for a while, but I didn't take him seriously. And then I started thinking about it a little more seriously. Why not? Why not share my journey with other people? I still feel like I'm just starting out.

So where did I start? I was drinking tea bags at work. The Bigelow green tea is what they were stocking. It's not bad for bagged tea, but it was leaps and bounds better than Lipton black, oversteeped and nasty. So I experimented, started following the directions on the bag. It was a lot better than it had been.

pinchy tea steeper. It works, but not for better quality teas
(photo from Amazon)

Then there was a tea seller at the local farm market. I bought some tea, and a little pinchy tea steeper.  I quickly replaced the pinchy steeper with an awesome Curve steeper mug from ForLife which worked better. And I bought some loose teas on Amazon. It was a start. It was my start.

I found a local company was selling loose tea at my grocery store. Cool. They had some similar teas to ones that I'd bought on Amazon, so I tried these. I liked some better, some worse, but they were lower cost. I started trying other teas they were selling. I liked what I was trying.

This is now my go to mug. Love it. (photo from ForLife)

So now here I am. I've just started buying teas off the internet, some shipping from China, some from Japan. I'm trying different things than I ever tried before: new methods of brewing, new styles of tea, new equipment.

And this blog, it will be the story of my journey.