Today's Picture: 082 (4/18)
Apr. 20th, 2009 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanAlas, I forgot to take a picture of anything on April 17th, so there is no TPic 81. Nevertheless, picture 82 is of:
Saturday's shopping, or at least the tea-related paraphenalia obtained therein. One of the things about Japan that will never cease to amaze me is how easy it is to spend over $100 in a day. I came close to doing that on the 18th, although I did so buying things I need for the Rectangle (such as a frying pan and a lidded garbage can--summer cockroach season is approaching).
In this particular picture are my new teapot and 2.2 liter thermos. I brought back about a metric ton of high-quality jasmine tea from Indonesia last month, but had no way to prepare it, to say nothing of any way to keep enough hot water on hand to get the optimal amount of tea out the grounds.
I'd been planning on buying a teapot for months as it was...but $16 seemed too much to pay for the teapot I'd had my eye on. So I went to a different store and got this one...for $19.95. Yeah, you figure that out.
The thermos came from a neighborhood recycle shop. I'd planned an in-and-out trip, but ended up spending close to three hours there interpreting for a French couple that were trying to buy chado antiques. That was a blast, and I think I made friends of the shopkeeps.
That will be all.
Saturday's shopping, or at least the tea-related paraphenalia obtained therein. One of the things about Japan that will never cease to amaze me is how easy it is to spend over $100 in a day. I came close to doing that on the 18th, although I did so buying things I need for the Rectangle (such as a frying pan and a lidded garbage can--summer cockroach season is approaching).
In this particular picture are my new teapot and 2.2 liter thermos. I brought back about a metric ton of high-quality jasmine tea from Indonesia last month, but had no way to prepare it, to say nothing of any way to keep enough hot water on hand to get the optimal amount of tea out the grounds.
I'd been planning on buying a teapot for months as it was...but $16 seemed too much to pay for the teapot I'd had my eye on. So I went to a different store and got this one...for $19.95. Yeah, you figure that out.
The thermos came from a neighborhood recycle shop. I'd planned an in-and-out trip, but ended up spending close to three hours there interpreting for a French couple that were trying to buy chado antiques. That was a blast, and I think I made friends of the shopkeeps.
That will be all.
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on 2009-04-21 03:06 am (UTC)