Tea Time.... Relax with us and have a cup of hot tea!

[poodlechicks]

Hello and welcome, CG!

I heard from a dentist that if you sip some water along with tea, it might help wash of the stain before it sets. Might be too late for me

We forgive you for drinking coffee (just kidding I like coffee, too. I just don't drink it often.

Weather's getting warmer here, so I am frantically cleaning my garden to start planting. I can get my peas in now. So excited!!! With fruit trees, it's a hit and miss with me, but I'm generally lucky. I'll try to plant some more for shade and protection (as well as yummy fruit) this spring.

I haven't had any luck so far rehoming my cockerel. The only interested party PMd me from Pakistan. It's a lot of miles for a little too to travel. The funny thing is that he's becoming very nice

but still not a hit with the ladies. They really hate him.

Well, hope everyone enjoyed the holiday and have a great week. I'll be dancing around in the backyard with my chickens to celebrate spring!!!

 

[TeaChick]

I'd like to join this tea party.

Just got finished reading all the previous posts.

I'm a big time tea drinker among coffee drinkers at work. I used to break down and drink coffee at work for something hot in the winter, but I have to add so much powdered cream and real sugar (artificial sweeteners do not taste good with coffee) that it wasn't good for my teeth. I can use the artificial stuff with tea so at least I'm not rotting them as I'm staining them. Now that work has gotten a Keruig machine, I can get hot water and make my own tea to drink. Hubby, also a tea drinker, is a plain Lipton guy, but I prefer flavors...just about anything goes: fruits, mint, etc. I'm currently drinking tangerine tea at work and vanilla chai or blueberry at home (but almost out of that). Best way to get different flavored tea for me is ebay or gift boxes at Christmas time. I get some Bigelow or Celestial Seasonings but the selection is limited. I'm considering buying flavored syrups (again limited selection at local grocery store so looking online).

Oh, back to the teeth staining properties of tea...bleach is great for the kitchen ware, but for my teeth, I'm trying a new toothpaste. Got a High School reunion coming up this fall and while I don't want dazzling artificially white teeth, I don't want yellowish either.

I have a 16 year old son so I'm not much help with the college talk. I'll have to learn from you all.

I also have an 11 year old son. We have ducks (DS#1), and chickens (LF me, bantams DS#2) - make my post for BYC.

I'd like a fruit tree or two, but haven't had much luck getting shade trees to grow. A couple of summers ago, drought killed my blackberries. I have to make jams from store bought fruit.

I had a hawk get one of my girls two winters ago and this Christmas/New Year's I had a bald eagle in my backyard making me worry but thankfully it ate the coon I killed and left my chickens alone. Lucky you who were able to scare them off before it got any more.

That's all I remember reading from here without going too far back into the history and dredging up more.

CG

You're more than welcome to the thread!!!!!
I hate the taste (or more appropriately the aftertaste) of artificial sweeteners in tea and in coffee.
I live in the middle of nowhere in the Deep South, so it's only been recently that I've been able to get much variety beyond "tea" at the local grocery store. Even still, most of it is Lipton, Luisianne (sp), and the like. I like "sweet tea" as much as the next person, but I also like to have several blends of a good quality black tea.
I found that H&S (H-something and Son(s) is a brand that comes in metal boxes and they are loose teas in those pyramid shaped mesh bags. They're better than Twinings powder in the paper bags.

I'd like fruit trees too. They say the best time to plant fruit trees is ten years ago, so I'm way behind. lol Especially since we've been living here for about five years now.
We have blackberries out back. The girls are so kind and generous to go out there in the thorns and pick them by the bucketful for everyone!!!
It's a little bit of a let down to have to use store-bought fruit to make your jams, isn't it? Maybe you could get fruit from a local farmers' market?

We get hawks flying over our yard all the time. With the kids in and out, thankfully they haven't gotten any of our chickens. Well, there was that one time that we lost a chicken while we were gone for the day, and we think that might have been a hawk.

That was very brave of you to go back and read all the posts. We'd have welcomed you to just jump right in where we are. =)
So glad you joined!!!

 

[TeaChick]

Hello and welcome, CG!

I heard from a dentist that if you sip some water along with tea, it might help wash of the stain before it sets. Might be too late for me

We forgive you for drinking coffee (just kidding I like coffee, too. I just don't drink it often.

Weather's getting warmer here, so I am frantically cleaning my garden to start planting. I can get my peas in now. So excited!!! With fruit trees, it's a hit and miss with me, but I'm generally lucky. I'll try to plant some more for shade and protection (as well as yummy fruit) this spring.

I haven't had any luck so far rehoming my cockerel. The only interested party PMd me from Pakistan. It's a lot of miles for a little too to travel. The funny thing is that he's becoming very nice

but still not a hit with the ladies. They really hate him.

Well, hope everyone enjoyed the holiday and have a great week. I'll be dancing around in the backyard with my chickens to celebrate spring!!!

I drink coffee and then tea. Doing school work, it helps to stay caffeinated all day long or else...

I'm sorry about your cockerel!

I'll have to get back there and dance with my chickens. Maybe it'll help me focus when I get back in here to glue my eyes to my computer screen.

The kids have been working in the garden. Watermelons, cantaloupe, potatoes, several different herbs, sunflowers, and some wheat (the boys wanted to plant it and it came up)

DH cleared around a tree in the front yard. He said I can put some flowering herbs in there like a tea garden; I'm thinking lavender and chamomile, but I need more ideas. I already have spearmint planted with the other herbs. Any other tea-type herb ideas would be more than welcome!!!





@CGinJCMO , you mentioned your DS having bantams. My DD has bantams too. What breed does he have?

 

[poodlechicks]

Tea, when is your semester over? Hope you can rest and relax soon. How wonderful that your are getting your veggies/fruit/flowers all in!! All w the help of your kids!!
Mine are not interested at the time

As if the right time for them to plant is going to wait till they're ready. But at least DD is open to planting flowers this weekend.

A tea garden is a good idea. I have had lavenders before, but they don't thrive in my garden. It might be the soil type along with high humidity and low drainage. Though I did many things to fix these problems, they didn't survive, so I stopped buying them. Chamomile is so beautiful in the garden. You can plant echinacea, bee balm, lemon verbena (this one will probably need much more space than the clearing around the tree), lemon thyme, and rosemary. I also use raspberry leaves for tea, so raspberry bushes could be a yummy addition. My garden math follows the logic of chicken math. If you follow my advice, your hubby will have to do much more clearing

 

[TeaChick]

Tea, when is your semester over? Hope you can rest and relax soon. How wonderful that your are getting your veggies/fruit/flowers all in!! All w the help of your kids!!
Mine are not interested at the time

As if the right time for them to plant is going to wait till they're ready. But at least DD is open to planting flowers this weekend.

A tea garden is a good idea. I have had lavenders before, but they don't thrive in my garden. It might be the soil type along with high humidity and low drainage. Though I did many things to fix these problems, they didn't survive, so I stopped buying them. Chamomile is so beautiful in the garden. You can plant echinacea, bee balm, lemon verbena (this one will probably need much more space than the clearing around the tree), lemon thyme, and rosemary. I also use raspberry leaves for tea, so raspberry bushes could be a yummy addition. My garden math follows the logic of chicken math. If you follow my advice, your hubby will have to do much more clearing

This is the fifth of eight weeks, so in three and a half weeks; I think the date is May 8.
Yeah, my oldest is doing most of the work, but the boys like getting dirty, so they help and my younger DD does whatever work I ask her to do (she's such a good girl).

Congrats on getting your DD interested in planting the flowers; let us know how that goes. =)

I'll have to be careful with the lavenders then. Thanks!
Those are all great ideas. I like the chicken math version of gardening math!!! lol
Actually, the bigger my tea garden (he called it a "flowering herbs garden" to begin with, I kind of ran away with the idea of a tea garden)

But the bigger my tea garden, I mean flowering herb garden is, the less mowing he'll have to do.

 

[3goodeggs]

You are on the quarter system then?
I used to think I liked quarters until U of F switched to semesters. Then I liked semesters.
More breathing time.

I think my husband says he has a few more week to finish his class that he is teaching. A lot more work goes into it than the pay he gets out of it.
So al the green house work fell on me again.
So I resigned.
or retired.
at any rate the words,"I QUIT!!" came out of my mouth.
I do that about three times a year, so he doesn't take me seriously.

 

[TeaChick]

You are on the quarter system then?
I used to think I liked quarters until U of F switched to semesters. Then I liked semesters.
More breathing time.

I think my husband says he has a few more week to finish his class that he is teaching. A lot more work goes into it than the pay he gets out of it.
So al the green house work fell on me again.
So I resigned.
or retired.
at any rate the words,"I QUIT!!" came out of my mouth.
I do that about three times a year, so he doesn't take me seriously.

Yeah, most of the courses offered by my school are 8-week format; I had one that was 16-week format, but that's it. I hate the 8-wk format; I've taken classes I don't even remember taking. Ugh!!!
I feel like I'd remember more of the material and concepts better if I had four courses at the same time for 16 weeks than two at a time for 8 weeks.

Yeah, teaching is something ya just don't do for the money. lol My mom taught high school math, I taught pre-school (3-year-olds), and now I'm teaching homeschool. Some might think a lot of that doesn't count, but the point is no teacher I know has ever been paid much at all, and they are certainly not compensated for what they put into it (not good ones anyway).

Yup. My DH doesn't take me seriously when I quit either. It's a shame that they don't take us seriously. We should find something to retire/resign from and do so verbally (instead of just not doing it anymore) and then see if they take us seriously!!!
Maybe not?

IDK, we'll see.

 

[poodlechicks]

3 GE and Tea, you are so right. My sister was a teacher and the amount of work she brought home was incredible. Definitely not paid enough, that's for sure. Unfortunately, she left her teaching job. She was a wonderful teacher, the kids adored her.
How's homeschooling going for you, Tea?
I homeschooled one of my children for a year, but she begged to go back to school

On a different note, I found a place upstate that hosts tea tasting every afternoon! They claim to have the rarest teas. I can't wait to check it out.
Today, I drank a large cup of coffee, though

 

[3goodeggs]

It happens to the best of us.

I drink it all. I just had a big mug of honey lemon and ginger.
Not really tea, but it was hot.
Is it spring there yet?

 

[poodlechicks]

It is! Last week it was in the 60s and I was happy. This week it's been in the 40s during the day and 30s at nigh

But it's supposed to get better. Still better than -20.