Lifelines

Thanks, it’s nice to be back. I won’t guarantee that I’ll be posting often, but here’s what is happening: I have decided to take the leap and make my business bigger, which means that I have to do a ton of homework.

I’m writing a business plan for the first time, and putting my inventory on spread sheets that actually help me keep track of the tea instead of making me feel faint with anxiety. I’m using Quickbooks, too.

Meantime, a friend has recently turned me on to the joys of drinking Oolong tea brewed in a little tiny teapot in the afternoon. Expansive is the best word for it. As most of you know, I only use organic tea, which presents a challenge when searching for Oolong, but so far I have found some great ones, and soon I will get them all posted on the website.

I have stopped making smoothies every morning with cannabis, more because it was taking too much time than anything else, so now I take an anti-inflamatory until the next thing comes along.

I would love to post more, but am spread way too thin with the re-invention of the tea company. Oh, and I am putting together a tea festival for 2013. Stay tuned!

This morning I’ve had two cups of tea, which is my habit. I love tea, and drink it all day long, but those first two cups are the ones that get me going and stimulate my mind. It is foggy again on the Mendocino Coast, but I have high hopes that the sun will break through today.

Yesterday evening I realized that I have to accept the harsh reality that I have to cut back the growth in my yard. I’m a great believer in permaculture, and I seldom weed. I also seldom cut anything back. Last winter I realized that the blackberries were out of control and asked my husband to dig them up. He never got around to it, and now I don’t want to cut them back until we have picked all the fabulous blackberries that are developing on them. I will have lots of blackberries to use in smoothies through the winter and will be lucky if the vines don’t eat my house.

There are a lot of other things that I can cut back though and I’m looking forward to the exercise and the change. We have mountain lions where we live and I was reading recently that they use ambush as a means to catch their prey. Our yard is a perfect spot for a mountain lion ambush. I guess I’d better get to it soon. We have a huge cherry tree that probably measures about thirty feet at it’s widest part, and underneath it the thimbleberries have taken over, creating dense undergrowth. The chickens have done their best to trample the thimbleberries to no avail, and now I imagine a mountain lion hiding in there whenever I go into the yard. I think I’ll start there.

Time for a smoothie and another cup of tea. After that I will let the chickens out and attack the yard with some strong clippers.

There is nothing better than a cup of tea. Whether I enjoy it alone by the fire or on a beautiful morning outside or with friends, it is always a thing of joy. That’s why I started the tea company. All of the other stuff (the business end of things) is just so I can turn people on to a good cup of tea.