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Thomas Sampson from Andrews & Dunham Damn Fine Tea

We are experiencing such a heat wave here! I was out doing errands for less than an hour, and felt completely sick and nauseous by the end. After I was home awhile and cooled off in the air conditioning, I decided to play “Pretend it’s October.”

If you would like to play, make a pot of your favorite tea that you like with milk and sugar (that would be Thomas for me!), grab your favorite pastry (that would be a pain au chocolat for me!) and sit on the sofa eating and drinking and pretending and say things like, “Good thing we made a pot of tea! It sure is getting nippy, it being October and all!” and “Oh! I may need the blanket! I am chilled in this October air!” and “I just love tea and pastry when the weather is turning cold!”

If you are impressionable, like me, it will work for awhile :)

Thank you once again ashmanra for this extra magical tin of Thomas.

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ashmanra
ashmanra 2012-07-07 16:31:54 -0400

Once, last year, I took a cold shower and cranked the a/c just so I could really enjoy my hot tea! :) It may BE October somehow…I have a huge, ripe pumpkin in my garden that I didn’t even plant!

gmathis
gmathis 2012-07-07 16:40:52 -0400

Don’t forget to light a candle that smells like cloves and spices or pumpkin. Mmm! Smell those lovely wet leaves. I wonder where I stored the long underwear when I put it away in April…

Azzrian
Azzrian 2012-07-07 16:54:09 -0400

Lovely idea! I’ll play this evening when I have more time to enjoy!
Ashmanra – that is SO cool about the random pumpkin!

JacquelineM
JacquelineM 2012-07-07 17:25:46 -0400

gmathis – ack! I didn’t think of a fall spiced candle! I’ll have to do this again tomorrow :)
ashmanra – a PUMPKIN!?!?!? He hee :) I wonder where that seed blew in from.
Azzrian – if you do it in the evening you can pretend even more things about “How early it’s getting dark!” etc ;)

ashmanra
ashmanra 2012-07-07 19:04:16 -0400

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24998856@N06/7523444624/
Here you go, Jacqueline! That should put you in the fall mood for sure! It is bigger than a basketball! I am sure one of the seeds from our jack o’lanterns fell out of the composer and just took off in the pile where hubby mixes the soil!

gmathis
gmathis 2012-07-07 21:39:11 -0400

I rummaged around in my paper stock and pulled out all the fall colors and started thinking about making Thanksgiving cards…

ashmanra
ashmanra 2012-07-07 21:55:06 -0400

Um….composter, not composer!

JacquelineM
JacquelineM 2012-07-08 08:16:53 -0400

ashmanra – a beauty! You have this year’s jack o lantern all ready, it being October and all. ;) P.S. My burgundy with a yellow center mums are blooming, that’s pretty October, too!

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I love to cook, bake, read, paint, knit, do needlework, and garden. I need my coffee, but I LOVE my tea. I work at an Art School, and I am currently taking classes in order to become certified to teach.

I enjoy writing tasting notes, but have decided not to numerically rate teas as of 9/14/10. For an explanation, see my looooong tasting note about Mountain Malt from the Simple Leaf.

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Chinese black teas
A good “milk and sugar” English style black
Earl Grey (classic, and in all variations!)
Vanilla teas (classic, and in all variations!)
Jasmine, Rose, Violet and other froofy, flowery teas!
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Flavored Rooibos
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