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My cat has a very weird hang-up about going downstairs to eat unless I go with her. She’ll just lurk in my room giving me the evil eye as I try to work on my computer or get downright whiny until I finally take a break and escort her downstairs… once we are both on the bottom floor, she will happily eat. Don’t know why she can’t be a strong, independant woman who can eat by herself, honestly… in any event, since today she was doing her thing, I decided I may as well have a tea break while I was sitting there letting her take her nibbles before I got back to what I was doing, and brewed a small pot of this from a sampler so old I should be ashamed. Doubly so since it is green tea (the packet says it is an Autumn 2017 harvest, cough cough). Ah well, I’m still going to drink it. With everything else going on in the world, I think drinking expired tea is the least of my worries…

It smells surprisingly floral, an aroma I’d expect more from a green oolong than a green tea. I do get a somewhat beany scent from the aroma as well, but it is overpowered by the perfumy florality. The tea is a goldenrod color in the cup, and the flavor is like some of the more floral Bi Luo Chuns I’ve had in the past. I’m getting that vegetal beany/pea sort of flavor I usually taste in a Bi Luo Chun, but I’m also tasting a sweet orchid/lilac flavor that I most often taste in green oolongs. There are also notes of hay and minerals that settle over my tongue towards the end of the sip. I really like it! Neither flavor really overpowers the other, and while they may sound quite uncomplementary, the taste is very pleasant.

Flavors: Beany, Floral, Green Beans, Hot Hay, Mineral, Orchid, Peas, Vegetal

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 0 sec 2 g 14 OZ / 400 ML
tea-sipper

What about keeping a bit of cat food upstairs? But that just means your cat loves having you around. :D

Mastress Alita

When I go to bed at night, I actually do have to move the food dish upstairs! (It was the only way I could stop her crying in the night when I first brought her in!) During the day I tend to leave it in the kitchen, though. Just to lessen all the trips hauling the thing up and down the stairs, heh.

tea-sipper

Oh jeeze. Maybe she just likes to see you move the food around. haha

eastkyteaguy

I have one who requires constant company as well. I can’t sit down anywhere in my house without her jumping on me. Bending over is dangerous too, as she likes to climb me and sit on my shoulder. There is no longer any such thing as a peaceful trip to the bathroom. She literally has to go everywhere with me when she’s awake. Bizarrely, she will not sleep in my bedroom. Instead, she sleeps outside my bedroom door. Her new thing is crying and rattling the door if she doesn’t think I’m getting up early enough. Needless to say I have not had much sleep in the last couple of days.

tea-sipper

That is very bizarre, eastkyteaguy. If only there was a cat psychologist…

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tea-sipper

What about keeping a bit of cat food upstairs? But that just means your cat loves having you around. :D

Mastress Alita

When I go to bed at night, I actually do have to move the food dish upstairs! (It was the only way I could stop her crying in the night when I first brought her in!) During the day I tend to leave it in the kitchen, though. Just to lessen all the trips hauling the thing up and down the stairs, heh.

tea-sipper

Oh jeeze. Maybe she just likes to see you move the food around. haha

eastkyteaguy

I have one who requires constant company as well. I can’t sit down anywhere in my house without her jumping on me. Bending over is dangerous too, as she likes to climb me and sit on my shoulder. There is no longer any such thing as a peaceful trip to the bathroom. She literally has to go everywhere with me when she’s awake. Bizarrely, she will not sleep in my bedroom. Instead, she sleeps outside my bedroom door. Her new thing is crying and rattling the door if she doesn’t think I’m getting up early enough. Needless to say I have not had much sleep in the last couple of days.

tea-sipper

That is very bizarre, eastkyteaguy. If only there was a cat psychologist…

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