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Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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Flowering tea or blooming tea (Chinese: 香片, 工艺茶, or 开花茶) consists of a bundle of dried tea leaves wrapped around one or more dried flowers. These are made by binding tea leaves and flowers together into a bulb, then setting them to dry. When steeped, the bundle expands and unfurls in a process that emulates a blooming flower, and the flowers inside emerge as the centerpiece. Typically they are sourced from the Yunnan province of China. Flowers commonly used in flowering teas include globe amaranth, chrysanthemum, jasmine, lily, hibiscus, and osmanthus.

Flowering tea in its current form was developed in China in the 1980s, and first became popular in Western countries in the early 2000s. Some sources state that the general concept of bundled tea leaves is several centuries old.

Flowering tea is generally served in containers made of glass or similar transparent materials so that the flowering effect can be seen. The bundles can usually be reused two or three times without the tea becoming bitter.

Happy Friday!
I've been MIA this week and I am not even caught up on reading - it really has been THAT kind of week. Four medical apts on top working late and DH being gone two days and I think I could sleep for a week and then clean for a week and maybe then my life would start to feel under control. Well, that's not happening, is it?
Working from home today. DS and DBD are leaving for a scout trip this afternoon (it's Fri-Sun), and so DH and I want to go to the movies - if Mandalorian is actually still playing.

TaDas
- breakfast and coffee
- dressed to shoes
- snacks for kids made
- kids off the door
- internet time

ToDos
- morning routine
- alternate work and cleaning

Braindump
work
- comments to GT&C - deadline is today
- work on CC the report
- mailbox work
- long term reminders
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- pack DS and DBD for the trip
- drive them to train station
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for June
cleaning
- clean kitchen
- clean living room
- clean downstairs bathroom and hallways
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
laundry
- load of lights
- load of colors?
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- work on cleaning out the carpool
- work on cleaning out the garage
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

“Be the person your coffee thinks you are.”
—Liz Vassey

Good morning Trissie and thank you for an interesting account of flowering tea - I'd heard of this before, but never had it! I hope you get your date right with DH this evening.

Yesterday it stopped raining long enough for me to have a good session in my front garden,.and I also had a chat with Dnextdoorneighbour D about our roof verge. She ready knew there was a problem as Painter J had shown her a video he took of her roof before he left,.to show there was no damage there, and, of course.our disintegrating verge showed in that. A little "spin" from me saying I was worried about big bits of mortar starting to fall out if we left it and she's happy to accommodate scaffolding on her patio, and also happy that it will be done this summer/ autumn before the winter storms . I just need to chat with Dnextdoorneighbour C now, but the disruption wont be nearly as bad her side ( I just need to remember to buy a small box if grass seed and give her some compost when it's done,.so we can repair the two small holes.im her lawn from the ladder).

Today we're off to a slightly later start - DH had a very good time.eoth the men's group last nights and was late back. It's still very cold for June (the central heating actually kicked in yesterday evening), but today we have a sunny start, there's only a 20% chance of rain, and the wind has dropped I'm planning some time in my garden today. ( hnjljl .. 990 -Matilda's contribution!) I must renew my library book, and I would like to do some little jobs like polishing.my.shoes and bag. The windows also need a clean, but I need to wait until it's definitely.go8ng to be dry,.and also for DH to vacate the office /spare room. (Maybe tomorrow?)

Today's list:

Cuddles on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
QT
Physio exercises
Up, shower, personal care and dress
All cats fed
Take Freddie out? ( If he wants to go!)
Breakfast and meds /supplements -me
Rubbish down to bins
Go for my walk
Run hoover round downstairs?
Quick dust sitting room?
Garden time - can I feed pots? A little deadheading?
Lunch
Delicate /wool wash
Clean shoes
Polish bag
Fold laundry and PA
Clean sheets and towels out of the airing cupboard
Does DH have choir practice?
Cats' supper
Our supper
Bed at a reasonable time!

Extras:
Renew my library book - must.do this today!

Garden extras:
Trim.bits on hedge
Weed /deadhead
Check if Virginia stock is showing yet?
Pull out any more forget-me-nots.thet have gone over
Sow more.virginia stock?
Cut.grass
Feed pots
Sweep anywhere?

So far this morning I have taken Fred for his walk and had a very long chat with DF CW. The weather is still dry, so out in the garden next!

SHEM:

“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Alice, Alice In Wonderland

Today's list:

Cuddles on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
QT
Physio exercises WIP
Up, shower, personal care and dress
All cats fed
Take Freddie out? ( If he wants to go!)
Breakfast and meds /supplements -me
Rubbish down to bins
Go for my walk
Run hoover round downstairs?
Quick dust sitting room?
Garden time - can I feed pots? A little deadheading?
Lunch
Delicate /wool wash
Clean shoes
Polish bag
Fold laundry and PA
Clean sheets and towels out of the airing cupboard
Does DH have choir practice?
Cats' supper
Our supper
Bed at a reasonable time!

Extras:
Renew my library book - must.do this today!
Very long chat with DF CW

Garden extras:
Trim.bits on hedge
Weed /deadhead
Check if Virginia stock is showing yet?
Pull out any more forget-me-nots.thet have gone over
Sow more.virginia stock?
Cut.grass
Feed pots
Sweep anywhere?
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Morning kittykatt. It sounds like you have a plan for the repair that everyone will agree to. Mandalorian is still showing here, Trissie, so hopefully you can see it.

1-pick up Little bit
2-more breakfast if she wants
3-refill bird feeder

4-cooking class drop off
5-half of longer walk

Menus:
Friday-sweet Thai chili salmon with carrots and zucchini
Saturday-birthday
Sunday-birthday
Monday-turkey and Greek salad lettuce wraps
Tuesday-leftovers

Events
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit cooking class 9:30-11:30, library, pick up prescription
Saturday-Little Bit’s party, pick up birthday cake
Sunday-dinner out for Little Bit’s birthday, walk with friend @9

Weekly House Blessing-
Detailed cleaning of dining room- scrub floor
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-Oct doc appointment date
Extra stuff


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet sites
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD33
-walk