Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 10, 2022

Sunday Funday

The only green tea I like is Candycane Lane. I has peppermint and vanilla.

As I said yesterday (or maybe early today…), I received my “Behind the Scenes With Burt” book several days ago after a long delay. It’s wonderful! I’m enjoying it a lot!

Every night I fill a jar with water, pop two tea bags in and put the lid on. That’ll steep until morning. Yamamotoyama’s green tea with roasted rice is one of my favorites. They also have a nice oolong.

I like green tea and black tea and white tea. Ilike Constant Comment black tea and green tea. I also like vanilla chai tea. You may have gathered that I like tea, but not herbal teas, though mint tea is good for digestion. I used to like Earl Grey teas, but then the bergamot oil in it started bothering my stomach. Excuse me, I’m starting to slosh a bit…

Green tea doesn’t need such additions as kale or pop rocks… (Well, maybe a touch of honey on occasion…)

My choice is Gunpowder green tea – tasty all on its own.

Silly Woman, green tea has caffeine. I actually like the taste of it, and the EGCG benefits are worth it. Standardized green tea extract in capsule form is an option.

Now, if you were talking straight ginger tea, I’d agree with you. It even anagrams to my reaction to it: “entire gag.”

Most varieties of teas dehydrate me. That kind of misses the point of drinking liquid.

Fun fact: “Witch” is a gender-neutral noun. I have no idea how it came to be applied solely to women. (shrug)

The greenest tea I’ve ever had was at a zazen temple in Japan. I drank all of it because it would have been rude not to.

It’s a bit tricky, brewing green tea. If the water’s too hot, and the tea is over steeped, it can be bitter and unpleasant, not refreshing at all …

I have decaf green tea (plain and lemon-flavored) for night-time consumption. I enjoy it.

OT: Prayers and boops for Carmelas’ dad. He is in the hospital for fatigue and dizziness. He is 85 and has been diagnosed with pneumonia and maybe congestive heart failure. He doesn’t want to let them do the catheter heart scope, is very tired, hardly eats and has coughed up a little blood. He has said that he doesn’t think he will make his next BD (August). Carmelas mom is a very educated retired nurse so she is well aware of what is going on. I ask for peace and comfort and restoration for the both of them and the entire family. Thank you.

I wonder how the Reporters would react to a tea ceremony? Best green tea I’ve ever had!

I drink black tea 6 days a week. I just ad milk and one Splenda.

Relatable!

Eons ago all kinds of teas were

- and that’s a fact in history, I swear! -

Sweet and colorful like life in past

Until – and none of you would have guessed -

A certain guy

(Please don’t ask me why)

For lack of teabags took

His old sock instead, oh what a kook!

The tea’s taste got stale and it was seen

That it’s rich colors turned puke-green

Somehow, I don’t think she’ll buy it very often.

Puck is absolutely correct about the taste and smell. I had to drink quite a lot of the stuff in Japan, so I must be very healthy. Anything that awful must be good for you. There is also green tea ice-cream, which I do not recommend, and green tea KitKat, which is an offence against the laws of men and the laws of nature.

But if you drink Earl Grey tea, you can imagine that you live in Ickenham Hall or Blandings Castle.

I once made a tea with pine needles while on a camping trip. Wasn’t too bad, definitely not something that I would drink for pleasure though.

OMC, the Woman’s face in the next-to-last panel!

I saw an ad for a Ninja tea and coffee maker and now I want one. You can put your own blend in and alter the amount of time it steeps plus delay brew it and keep it warm (plus ice/cold brew if desired). I want one! Unfortunately it costs the same as the machine (which is a lot) to ship to Europe. On another note, at an art thing once, I was fed a cup of good old English tea with a tea spoon – in a nod to japanese tea drinking ceremonies. It was quite an odd experience.

The Womans face in panel seven says it all! Lol!

:-D

My daughter calls tea “boiled leaves”.

It’s difficult to say she’s wrong.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: Nothing like a cup of hot tea and a scone after a hard day’s work. Maybe I’ll curl up with a nice scroll to fall asleep.

At the Royal Pantry

Thomios: You want a tea to help relax you? How about a nice cup of my special Nitey-Nite blend.

Elvis-Anum: Sounds like just the thing. Now I just hope I can avoid a Thwump from Lupinium.

Thomios: Not to worry. He’s spending the whole day with Avenger and family.

Elvis-Anum: And Pucmkosis already had the Zoomies today, so he should be fine. Now to find the right scroll to curl up with.

At the Royal Library

Beatrixia: I have just the scroll for you. Here’s What to Do With a Box, all about boxes.

Elvis-Anum: Perfect. Just the thing for a quick four-hour nap.

Beatrixia: Do you want me to make sure you’re awake for dinner? Thomios is making his special ham and more ham supper tonight.

Elvis-Anum: Sounds great. Have Lupinium schedule 5 pm Thwump.

At some point she’s going to try kombucha, and the boys will have to apologize for today’s report.

OT, Finn is in the building.

Well observed, Puck, there is nothing like a cup of refreshing Japanese green tea if you want to spend the night upright in your bed and possibly with palpitations.A Japanese friend keeps gifting us the stuff, we drink it and are wide awake for the next 48 hours no matter which brand we sip. In my youth I achieved similar results with Oolong from Taiwan, may be green tea is not for me.

♥I do love Pucky with a pointer and a chart. ♥

And we all know what Puck thinks of kale.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Sleepy Time Tee .

I don’t drink anything green. Doesn’t matter what it is. I drink Earl Grey Tea because it’s the closest to the blend my grandmother used to make when I was a kid and she used to blend her own tea. I don’t anymore, but I lived near a little tea shop and they were able to replicate it pretty closely and I’d bring it home and use a tea ball and let it steep properly…I still have hers. I miss that ritual sometimes. Most people don’t make tea like that anymore. They’re in too much of a hurry to enjoy making it.

Don’t know much about swampy tea

Don’t know much stuff witch-y

Don’t know much about herbs you took

Don’t care much for your tea-tastin’ look

But I do know that if you can brew

And I know that if cats love you too

What a wonderful world this can be

- Lou Adler, Herb Alpert, Sam Cooke – Wonderful World

I eagerly went to BCN today upon awakening, happy to read a Sunday episode about Lupins party, hoping to catch the cats in an apartment-wrecking frenzy!! I got…tea.

Oh Georgia, thank you so much for my first LOL moment of the morning … it’s a good thing I know not to have anything in my mouth before I read or I’d be searching for a new keyboard (again).

It was Puck’s first comment that undid me, as he comes close to mirroring my own feelings about green tea. For me, it just tastes like pointless water with a hint of grass; given all the mystique and hype that surrounds it, it was a definite let down. I recently received a tin that theoretically contains “green tea and mint”. Sadly, it tastes of neither tea nor mint. I wonder if it will make good compost?

Elvis “snerking” to get the full-flavored smell of the tea is priceless!

This is the first day I learned that Pop Rocks are medicinal. Oh, I guess the chart is “magical”, and they are that.

“you can tell it’s healthy because it looks, smells and tastes like a swamp” Fantastic :) laughed like crazy :) My fav is marshmallow leaf and root tea. Soothes all sorts of stomach/bladder stuff.

Nosiree! I’ve tasted WORSE tasting swamps!

I mostly stick to “iced” tea in the summer. For a truly refreshing experience, mix half tea/half lemonade and pour it over ice in a tall glass; it is called an Arnold Palmer.

P.S. I am feeling better. Thank you all for your inquiries and good wishes.

Also known as coffee!

The Woman would make a fantastic witch. She certainly has the tools, the ability to brew potions, and of course four excellent cat familiars. Don’t forget the fantastic witch’s lair with all her stone animals and possessed boxes.

Prayers and best thoughts for both.

The only good bedtime tea is chamomile herb tea.

I gave up on herbal teas. Most of them have SO MANY INGREDIENTS that I knew there would be something in there that wouldn’t agree with me.

I did some work for the delightful women of the (Korean) Won Gon Buddhist temple, and they served me the best green tea I have ever had. Not swampy, but floral and spring meadow flavor notes. I am a devoted coffee fiend, but I really enjoyed their tea.

No Elvis, the tea isn’t a chore. It’s cottagecore.

1.) Purrfecting tea is an art form.

2.) MOST Witches ( and certain wizards..ahem) own black cats. What says you Puck?

Okay, I’m odd (but you know that). No tea, green or otherwise, keeps me awake. Green tea is okay, but I prefer black teas, and usually have at least three mugs a day.

Those of you who are truly tea devotees may be interested in The One Taste of Truth, Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea by William Scott Wilson, Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boston, 2012.

When I was in chemo the only tea that I could stand was Lapsang souchung, and I drank gallons. Now, I’ll only drink it every once in a great while, making one cup rather than a pot. Maybe some day I’ll like it as well as I did before chemo.

Except for peppermint, I avoid all herbals (multiple doctor’s recommendations). A shame, because there were a few I really enjoyed.

With tea, one can contemplate anything.

I love tea :) I have a whole collection of herbals, as well as Liptons (Which I used to drink with Mama), and Australian Afternoon, which was blended by our then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. It’s yum!

I make my own magic brews mixing different types of herbal, at least Jason says so :)

Just stick with regular tea, Woman.

I love panel 4.

“Astrology apps” LOL

If green tea smells like a swamp, you did it wrong.

And I’ve never had a chore making green tea. The chore is cleaning up after. At least if you’re using loose leaf. Used to go for tea bags, but then I discovered loose leaf and first spoons and then a tea pot with a basket, for making tea. I make both green tea and herbal teas in that tea pot.

Some teas can keep me awake at least half of the night. Ironically enough, one of them is called “Sleepy Time”

Bonnie Lockhart’s Witch Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUvXg7VhKsI

Be warned. This an earworm, albeit [clears throat] a charming one.

Pucky is just sooo adorable in all of his panels today

I’ve found (many years ago, that is) a great tasting green tea! Celestial Seasonings Honey Lemon Ginseng. It is so good I always squeeze out the bag to the last drop! Yum! Sure, it is bagged named brand stuff, but . . .

In panel seven, the Woman is reeeally attempting to convince herself. Refreshing. Yeah. That’s it.

I was laughing out loud by the time I got to Pop Rocks and shawls! And Elvis’ “snerk” face! Beyond delightful. My God, how I love this strip!

Hahahahahahahahaha this is a good strip