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Happy Sunday!
After a friend introduced my wife and me to Harney & Sons tea by giving us a Tin of their Earl Grey Supreme, I took a look at their website. I saw free shipping over $59 and a 20% military discount, so I now have a few new teas on hand to try.
First up is this Assam. I found that it pairs quite nicely with a Buck 107 Scout. And it tastes good, too.
After a friend introduced my wife and me to Harney & Sons tea by giving us a Tin of their Earl Grey Supreme, I took a look at their website. I saw free shipping over $59 and a 20% military discount, so I now have a few new teas on hand to try.
First up is this Assam. I found that it pairs quite nicely with a Buck 107 Scout. And it tastes good, too.
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A relaxing Friday evening cup of tea with a 440C Buck 112 in Koa wood and a little Never Dull.
I was raised a liquid Brasso man, and still prefer it, but for some things, Never Dull wadding is just too stinking convenient.
I was raised a liquid Brasso man, and still prefer it, but for some things, Never Dull wadding is just too stinking convenient.
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Happy Saturday!
There was a lot going on at the breakfast table this morning. Twinning’s English Breakfast Tea has been my go-to favorite for well over 10 years. About a year or two ago I got interested in loose tea. I never liked the taste of plastic or metal tea diffusers and found this glass set on Amazon a year or so ago. The glass infuser that sits in the glass can be used in other mugs, as well.
All of the loose tea I have tried the past year or so has been large chunks - whole tea leaves - and that has worked great with the glass infuser. But I recently bought some loose breakfast teas, English and Irish, that are more finely ground. Some of the grounds flow through the glass infuser. Not a lot and it’s not a problem to have a few in the bottom of the cup, but I found these do-it-yourself tea bags to play around with. They may be more trouble than they’re worth, we’ll see.
I’ve learned how much loose tea I like of the larger, whole-leaf, type teas, but wondered how much of the finer-ground type is best to use, and how I can reliably and repeatedly measure it easily without weighing it out. When I started with the whole leaf teas I did weigh it for a couple of weeks just to get repeatability until I learned what looked right to just get a pinch from the tin.
So this morning I cut open one of my favorite tea bags and weighed it. 2 grams. Then from curiosity I poured it into a teaspoon measuring spoon. 2 grams was just less than a full teaspoon. I shouldn’t be surprised, of course. I suppose a teaspoon was given that name for a reason. LOL!
The tea dumped out of the commercial tea bag was more finely ground than the loose breakfast teas I bought, so I’m guessing a full teaspoon of that will be pretty close to 2 grams.
The bottom line is that I satisfied my curiosity and learned something that my grandparents and great-grandparents would have laughed at me for - something that was a part of their daily lives before tea bags became so cheap that they started buying them.
I’m more than confident this Cowbell and Buck 112 in 440C will handle anything that arises today.
There was a lot going on at the breakfast table this morning. Twinning’s English Breakfast Tea has been my go-to favorite for well over 10 years. About a year or two ago I got interested in loose tea. I never liked the taste of plastic or metal tea diffusers and found this glass set on Amazon a year or so ago. The glass infuser that sits in the glass can be used in other mugs, as well.
All of the loose tea I have tried the past year or so has been large chunks - whole tea leaves - and that has worked great with the glass infuser. But I recently bought some loose breakfast teas, English and Irish, that are more finely ground. Some of the grounds flow through the glass infuser. Not a lot and it’s not a problem to have a few in the bottom of the cup, but I found these do-it-yourself tea bags to play around with. They may be more trouble than they’re worth, we’ll see.
I’ve learned how much loose tea I like of the larger, whole-leaf, type teas, but wondered how much of the finer-ground type is best to use, and how I can reliably and repeatedly measure it easily without weighing it out. When I started with the whole leaf teas I did weigh it for a couple of weeks just to get repeatability until I learned what looked right to just get a pinch from the tin.
So this morning I cut open one of my favorite tea bags and weighed it. 2 grams. Then from curiosity I poured it into a teaspoon measuring spoon. 2 grams was just less than a full teaspoon. I shouldn’t be surprised, of course. I suppose a teaspoon was given that name for a reason. LOL!
The tea dumped out of the commercial tea bag was more finely ground than the loose breakfast teas I bought, so I’m guessing a full teaspoon of that will be pretty close to 2 grams.
The bottom line is that I satisfied my curiosity and learned something that my grandparents and great-grandparents would have laughed at me for - something that was a part of their daily lives before tea bags became so cheap that they started buying them.
I’m more than confident this Cowbell and Buck 112 in 440C will handle anything that arises today.
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Happy Final Friday in May!
My son and I played hooky a couple Friday’s ago and met my brother up in Gettysburg. We had breakfast at this great little diner - the Gettysburg Family Restaurant - where I bought this mug. It's smaller than most mugs/coffee cups used in American society today - more like what I remember my grandparents drinking out of in their kitchens and at diners. And I like it. For the nostalgia, and for the smaller serving sizes. I can have a few cups of tea scattered throughout the day instead of feeling I need to limit myself to one larger cup in the morning, with maybe a second in the evening.
This Buck 112 Ranger in Koa wood and 440C was riding in my pocket that day as we toured the battlefield. Upon entering the bookshop/museum building, the young lady at the door asked if we had any knives. I politely held out my wood and brass Buck. She looked at it, and hesitated, before telling me I could come inside with it, but warned me to keep it in my pocket. There were no signs posted (unless I missed them), nothing saying that they were prohibited, or a certain size limit, etc. Maybe I'm reading her body language completely wrong, but I got the sense that she wasn't supposed to let me in with it. That's not the first time similar things have happened to me. One other such example that sticks out in my head was going into a courthouse to do some genealogy land records research. I knew to leave my pistol and a larger pocket knife in the car, but had a Buck 704 Maverick (gentlemen's knife - single blade slipjoint, wood) in the pocket of my suitcoat. I put it in the basket with my keys, pen, etc. to go through the metal detector. The sheriff deputy looked at it in the basket, paused, seemed to reconsider, and handed it to me, allowing it in. Again, maybe I'm misreading the body language and am completely wrong, but I got the feeling that my little slipjoint was technically prohibited, but he let me keep it.
What's my point here? I'm not sure I have one, just ruminating on my observations over several such examples. Over the past couple of decades my physical appearance has morphed from young, lean, hard-charging Leatherneck, to middle-aged, dad-bod, with graying hair - the ultimate disguise!). My wife and I have four kids - I've spent my fair share of time in hospital emergency rooms, maternity wards, etc. I quickly noticed as a younger husband and father that nurses and doctors talked to me and treated me completely differently based on my attire - even when I spoke and treated them exactly the same regardless of whether I was dressed for lawn and tree work, or was coming from work or church. I started the habit of taking the extra four minutes to change clothes before going to the hospital for any reason - I always wear khaki pants with a tucked in, collared shirt, and a belt. And the nurses, doctors, and staff treat me differently, talk to me in a greater level of medical detail, and give me direct answers to my questions.
Same thing with my pocketknives. I'm collecting more and more data points showing that a traditional, wood and brass/nickel silver, single blade slipjoint or lockback, without pocket clips, thumb-studs, Spydie holes, anodizing, etc. that is carried in a pocket and not clipped to the edge of one, is given a pass far more often than not. Especially when I'm wearing khaki pants, a tucked-in collared shirt, and a belt.
Just my observations that are, to me, interesting.
My son and I played hooky a couple Friday’s ago and met my brother up in Gettysburg. We had breakfast at this great little diner - the Gettysburg Family Restaurant - where I bought this mug. It's smaller than most mugs/coffee cups used in American society today - more like what I remember my grandparents drinking out of in their kitchens and at diners. And I like it. For the nostalgia, and for the smaller serving sizes. I can have a few cups of tea scattered throughout the day instead of feeling I need to limit myself to one larger cup in the morning, with maybe a second in the evening.
This Buck 112 Ranger in Koa wood and 440C was riding in my pocket that day as we toured the battlefield. Upon entering the bookshop/museum building, the young lady at the door asked if we had any knives. I politely held out my wood and brass Buck. She looked at it, and hesitated, before telling me I could come inside with it, but warned me to keep it in my pocket. There were no signs posted (unless I missed them), nothing saying that they were prohibited, or a certain size limit, etc. Maybe I'm reading her body language completely wrong, but I got the sense that she wasn't supposed to let me in with it. That's not the first time similar things have happened to me. One other such example that sticks out in my head was going into a courthouse to do some genealogy land records research. I knew to leave my pistol and a larger pocket knife in the car, but had a Buck 704 Maverick (gentlemen's knife - single blade slipjoint, wood) in the pocket of my suitcoat. I put it in the basket with my keys, pen, etc. to go through the metal detector. The sheriff deputy looked at it in the basket, paused, seemed to reconsider, and handed it to me, allowing it in. Again, maybe I'm misreading the body language and am completely wrong, but I got the feeling that my little slipjoint was technically prohibited, but he let me keep it.
What's my point here? I'm not sure I have one, just ruminating on my observations over several such examples. Over the past couple of decades my physical appearance has morphed from young, lean, hard-charging Leatherneck, to middle-aged, dad-bod, with graying hair - the ultimate disguise!). My wife and I have four kids - I've spent my fair share of time in hospital emergency rooms, maternity wards, etc. I quickly noticed as a younger husband and father that nurses and doctors talked to me and treated me completely differently based on my attire - even when I spoke and treated them exactly the same regardless of whether I was dressed for lawn and tree work, or was coming from work or church. I started the habit of taking the extra four minutes to change clothes before going to the hospital for any reason - I always wear khaki pants with a tucked in, collared shirt, and a belt. And the nurses, doctors, and staff treat me differently, talk to me in a greater level of medical detail, and give me direct answers to my questions.
Same thing with my pocketknives. I'm collecting more and more data points showing that a traditional, wood and brass/nickel silver, single blade slipjoint or lockback, without pocket clips, thumb-studs, Spydie holes, anodizing, etc. that is carried in a pocket and not clipped to the edge of one, is given a pass far more often than not. Especially when I'm wearing khaki pants, a tucked-in collared shirt, and a belt.
Just my observations that are, to me, interesting.