Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!

Ooh from where?

Here! The brown one :) http://www.ebay.com/itm/321108625852?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Oh my those are so cute! Especially the blue one (:

Those are so cute! But you use your extra tea liquor…that phrase does not compute. There is never extra

My tea pet (two feet from Verdant from years ago) rarely get watered, but if I use my gaiwan I will pour the little bit that I can’t fit in my two mini-cups over the feet. They do look better when I keep up with it, but @mj says, there is never extra. :)

Lol. You can also use them for the water that you warm the teapot and cups with :P

I never drink the last sip or two because I don’t like the little dots that collect at the bottom, so when it’s oolong I “feed” it to my Yixing pot. You can always do that.

That’s a super cute tea pet! I’ve always wanted one, but I don’t know if I’d be able to “feed” it enough. Perhaps I’ll revisit the idea after I move.

Enjoy them all and hope you have power now or at the very least soon.

The black jasmine pearls have been growing in my appreciation. I got 100g when they were selling them in sample packets @ Christmas!

Steepster didn’t tell me you commented!

We still don’t have power but we have great neighbourhood support and fortunately moved all our meat in the freezer to other freezers with power. We had purchased 1/4 of a locally raised cow in the Spring and were very concerned about losing what we had left. I am at work and enjoying tea now though, for once I am glad for work!

If you read my initial tasting note about the pearls I was pretty disparaging about the base and the price but over time I came to adore the jasmine, appreciate the base and lucked into a good deal. They were the same price as Teavivre’s (non-jasmine) black pearls so I bit the bullet.

I’m glad your friends could help you out! I hope that you get your power back soon, and it is nothing like my friend suffered through this winter (17 days! She was for once glad to live in an older house with working fireplaces).

It sounds like your impression was similar to mine of this tea. At first I didn’t particularly like the base as well, but I did like it more than the tealux jasmine black. Now I enjoy them.

There was a big midwestern ice storm a few years ago, we didn’t have power for a few days and it was super cold outside. No one could drive anywhere, so we ended up heating up canned soup over candles using our Thanksgiving buffet set up, and wearing lots of clothes/blankets to keep warm. Luckily we still had hot water so we could run the hot water for steam to help get warm too.

I remember that ice storm!! Crazy stuff.

I’ve been really lucky the most I’ve ever been out is a few days. My friends power just came back in time to host Christmas dinner ( divine intervention?). The storm did allow for some unique experiences though like ice skating on the street. On the other hand my roommates sister was a refugee in our house for over a month after the ice storm that hit eastern Ontario and Quebec in the min 90’s. They lived in the countryside and were a low priority for the utility companies.

Once the food was saved, the worry was off. If it were winter we would have to have a generator as we run a wood furnace but it needs electricity to circulate the heated water. Either that or let everything freeze which is not a good plan. We borrow water for toilet flushing from our neighbour with a generator. Many other areas have power so we can go somewhere with power for things like tea. I am on mug four at work today. MMM!

Also, 17 days is insane. I don’t know how civilized I would feel at that point. We have gotten to know our neighbours better though, maybe that would seal the deal.

Enjoy your teas – don’t you love when mailmen just leave packages rather than sending them to jail. Mine too has recently been leaving them – just makes everything so much easier. :))

I think our mailman really likes us, he often comes to the door just to be nice (and we have a lot of steps up to our front door). He always has this booming HELLO! and acts like it makes his day to see us. Might be the cookies I made for him one day.

That’s awesome Dexter. I agree it makes everything so much easier, it’s such an improvement from the previous substitute mail person who wouldn’t even attempt to make a delivery.

Sounds like it Marzipan! Our previous mail person was wonderful, and knew a lot of people on her route that’s one of the reasons why the in between substitute was so frustrating!

Here are the beans!
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Those beans are cute! What’s the deal???

I have no idea! I’ll have to ask them when I do my order confirmation if no one here has an ideas. It’s the two beans with writing on both sides.

Oh those beans must be lucky beans( just guessing)

Awww, love the beans, never seen them before, thanks for sharing….lol, maybe they are cute little tiny mini teapets?

That would be cute, but they seem to be real beans.

They are lucky beans!

’ It is a kind of lucky beans, the above are carved Chinese words of blessing and so on. You can also put it into the garden, it will be able to sprout and growth. ’

yay for lucky beans

Lucky beans!!! I just guessed. Lots of luck;)

Lukcy beans!!!

yeehaw!

It will keep you busy for sure ! Enjoy! Can’t wait for your notes

boychik, my goodness, I was already busy with all the new teas I got on Saturday! Lol. Too many kind people sending me ridiculous amounts of tea samples! :) AND I have more coming from Whispering Pines and The Persimmon Tree! #firstworldproblems

This is awesome!

TheTeaFairy, clearly I am developing a problem! Teehee. I’ll definitely be going on buying (and possibly swapping) hiatus after the rumored Butiki sale! :P

Well then I can join you Cameron…I plan for Butiki to be my last order until Black Friday…sigh, at least that’s the plan.

Well I don’t know about that long… Lol! Almost all of my teas are sample sizes (although TeaVivre’s samples don’t really count as sample size…) so it shouldn’t take me long to sip a lot of it down. Butiki is the last company than I’m dying to try, so I don’t see any reason for spending after that. :)

That is a good tea day!

Oh no!!! Don’t give up hope Lariel, I just got mine today. They do look very nice and well packaged…i really hope you get yours tomorrow :-)

I haven’t received them either. Everyone seems to be enjoying theirs. WANT.

Aaaah! I envy you Tommy…I’m in Canada, so I’ll have to wait a little longer.

LOL, I did the same as you, I have two orders coming back to back…just could not resist the 4th of july sale and the new irresistible El Dorado!

Yay for Den’s!

Hey that’s a good customer service story :)

davidstea is always super creative with customer service issues. This is just great, super happy for you Cheri :-)

They did take care of me, and Natalie tracked down that my tea was in the wrong package. She was fun and funny when we emailed, and definitely surprised me.

Is Vanilla Orchid Oolong good? It sounds good.

I haven’t tried it yet. I’m still in the middle of two tea boxes at once.