I haven’t been having many epic tea experiences lately, just drinking lots and lots of what I often drink. But this tea stopped me in my tracks yesterday to sit and admire it.
The first times I had it years ago I noted it had strong sweet potato notes. Years later, I described it as creamy and smokey. That is what I got yesterday.
I was trying to clean up my tea shelves and saw a sample of this in the box, and I th8nk I have a whole bag in another box. I decided it was a good candidate to go with my cookies in the sunny spot in the yard. I didn’t expect to be bowled over, but I was.
The first year I tried it I said I would prefer it gong fu style without food, but this smokier season is brilliant with food. It is very nearly like Grace Tea Russian Caravan. I am having it again today because I enjoyed it so much.
Some fun news – mrmopar and I have been very, very busy digging around on the internet because I noticed some of the places he talked about visiting and one of them is a town where my grandfather’s family came from. My mother didn’t really know him as she was raised in an orphanage but we knew who her parents were. I decided mrmopar and I might be distant cousins in my Virginia line so I wrote to him and asked if he would share his grandparent’s names, which he did.
Well, surprise, surprise! We ARE related, but more distantly than I thought and from before the families moved to America. (Both sides have mostly been here since 1690-1750. They are primarily Scottish, Irish, English, and Welsh.)
My ninth great-grandmother is his eleventh great-grandmother, way back when they still lived in merry olde England! The generations are somewhat off because my mother was a very late in life child for her dad and I was also for my parents. When this happens over repeated generations, two people of the same age can end up being “removed” cousins, as happened with us.
I am tickled pink, even if it was so far back! We have had a lot of fun tracking these things down and I am proud to be a cousin, however distantly, to mrmopar!
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Derk: heehee! Yep, it is true!
WILD
Yes, and I am tenth cousin to his paternal great grandmother and his maternal grandfather through the same woman! She was born in 1600. :)
Indeed cousin! We have to visit sometime this Summer.
WOW lol. That’s just awesome. Tea is in both of your genes! :D
Ha ha! How true! It passed on through all those generations!
How immensely cool. I’m impressed you were even able to track all those people down.
It’s such easier to find this in US than here. I have found my ancestry to around 1600 as well, but it was exhausting, as it was lots of different countries, Austro-Hungarian empire, Czech crown, and they stayed in one region, but hard to find.
Happy to you both though!
Love it! You genealogy people absolute amaze me! Will somebody adopt me?
gmathis: I can’t, as you can adopt only minors here :D
(I do have circus blood on one side of the family … great-aunt and uncle were cook and roustabout crew on the company train :)
That would be challenge to track it down!
Martin – I have a few lines that end just a few generations back with no clue where to look! I don’t think there is anyone in my tree who was from more than a few hundred mile radius since 1690-1750. That makes it easier.
Gnathis – send grandparents names and I will fetch a branch or two of the tree if you like!
That is awesome :D
WHAT
Derk: heehee! Yep, it is true!
WILD
Yes, and I am tenth cousin to his paternal great grandmother and his maternal grandfather through the same woman! She was born in 1600. :)
Indeed cousin! We have to visit sometime this Summer.
WOW lol. That’s just awesome. Tea is in both of your genes! :D
Ha ha! How true! It passed on through all those generations!
How immensely cool. I’m impressed you were even able to track all those people down.
It’s such easier to find this in US than here. I have found my ancestry to around 1600 as well, but it was exhausting, as it was lots of different countries, Austro-Hungarian empire, Czech crown, and they stayed in one region, but hard to find.
Happy to you both though!
Love it! You genealogy people absolute amaze me! Will somebody adopt me?
gmathis: I can’t, as you can adopt only minors here :D
(I do have circus blood on one side of the family … great-aunt and uncle were cook and roustabout crew on the company train :)
That would be challenge to track it down!
Martin – I have a few lines that end just a few generations back with no clue where to look! I don’t think there is anyone in my tree who was from more than a few hundred mile radius since 1690-1750. That makes it easier.
Gnathis – send grandparents names and I will fetch a branch or two of the tree if you like!
That is awesome :D