Happy Little Trees

I just drank a cup of Mighty Leaf Tea. That stuff is so amazing. I don't know why I like it so much. It could be because the tea is chunky and smells nice. It's also in a nice silky teabag.

As a child, my impression of hot tea was not favorable, but mainly because of the teabag (what a gross word). A friend of my mother's drank hot tea, and I didn't like the way the teabag looked after it had been used. I remember eyeing it, hoping it wouldn't come near me. I still have a bit of a problem with teabags, even now that I've become a tea lover.

Here are my teabag rules:

1) When drinking a hot tea from a to-go establishment, wait until the tea has brewed, and remove the teabag before drinking. Dispose of the teabag somehow/someway. Whatever you do, don't drink the tea with the tea bag in it! It's like a slug on a string!

2) When drinking hot tea from an in-house establishment, it's perfectly fine to let the tea brew in the small teapot provided. This only applies if you are given a separate tea cup. It's also helpful to leave the teabag in the pot so you can possibly brew a bit more tea with some new hot water.

Maybe now I have just identified myself as a crack-tea-pot of sorts by typing out these rules that once only lived in my head, but I felt I must explain. Maybe there's more people like me with a love/hate relationship with teabags.

Also, this posting has nothing to do with the teabags used yesterday in the Tea-Party Reenactments. From the news footage, most of the bags I saw used were Lipton, which is okay with me.