I slept better last night. Could it be that I didn't have a coffee yesterday? Inquiring minds want to know. I've tried drinking tea instead of coffee. It left me feeling empty and unsatisfied. Coffee is viscous and visceral; so many complex flavours. Tea is watery (like a tart!) and has too much tannin.
That was a surprisingly poorly constructed paragraph, as is this sentence.
I spent two hours in the garden today, or should I write, that area around my house that might someday be a garden. The lilac bush needed pruning in the most desperate of ways. The plum tree is doing well, and I've been thinking up a plan for what to do next. Everything that isn't a pretty plant will be covered in landscape fabric and mulch.
Who doesn't love the word mulch? Speak now, so I can mock you.
Exercise, sunshine, and accomplishment. I should go into gardening as a profession.
Comments (4)
All the mainstream fags prefer to be "landscapers." I think you'd make for a wonderful gardener, all earthy and covered in dirt. There would be more opportunities for showers! Do you have a whole plan drawn up for the garden? My mum always used to have big stacks of paper with plans and details of what plants would be going where and when they'd bloom.
Posted by ben | February 28, 2005 6:46 PM
Posted on February 28, 2005 18:46
Well, the ultimate problem you have is that you don't drink *good* tea. :)
Go to Murchies. Pick up some English Breakfast loose tea (not in teabags) boil some purified water (from a britta). Put two tablespoons of the tea in a pot (ideally one with a strainer but you can strain after the fact) and pour the boilign water over the tea leaves.
Let this sit until it's nice and dark. :)
Get back to me if you stil think it's watery and unsatisfying.
Personally, I find coffee upsets my stomach and bitter and burnt in flavor. (Having said that. I've been drinking more coffee at work and begun the journey down the path of being able to differentiate between coffee types).
If you want more body to your tea, add a little milk and sugar which accompanies tea much better.
The penultimate problem is that tea and coffee aren't replacements for each other. They serve different purposes and leave one unsatisified for the other. Tea is a means of relaxing and winding down. Coffee is about go-go-go.
The Pen-penultimate problem is that tea really doesn't reduce your caffiene intake.
I've become a bit of a tea snob and quite regularly spend 40$ at the local tea shop on various types of wonderful teas. (of course it makes me over 100 cups of tea so I hardly feel bad about the process).
There are some excellent meditation techiques to improve one's sleeping situation. Self-hypnosis apparently works as well.
Posted by Majeric | February 28, 2005 7:09 PM
Posted on February 28, 2005 19:09
That settles it. We shall have tea the next time I'm in Vancouver. I've flat out decided, there shall be no varying.
I've not planned that obsessively about the garden.
I've a scrap of paper, with some drawings on it.
I've not included plan names, or blooming dates.
I've always wanted to go to Bloomingdales.
Posted by michael | February 28, 2005 8:56 PM
Posted on February 28, 2005 20:56
Afternoon Tea at the Fish House sounds like a plan.
They serve Tea in bodems.
Posted by majeric | March 1, 2005 9:00 PM
Posted on March 1, 2005 21:00