August Sipdown Prompt – Campfire Day: drink a smoky tea.
This is a bit lighter than the Dammann Freres tea of the same name. The base for this Theodor offering is from Taiwan and the smoke is not quite as strong and meaty, but I love both.
I had intended to have this earlier in the day but Ashman is home and doesn’t love smoky tea so I made an unsmoked Lapsang for breakfast. Then I was going to have it after breakfast but we ended up going out of town a little unexpectedly, first to The Woodwright’s School (where Roy Underhill HIMSELF gave me an unfinished candlebox that he made on his tv show long ago so that we can finish it and it even has a SECRET CHAMBER!!) and then we went to do a little kitty sitting out of town which also involved setting off Superanna’s burglar alarm.
I love lapsang with ice cream and I was determined to do this prompt on time so I had it after supper with some homemade vanilla ice cream. I dearly hope that the caffeine does not keep me up all night. I usually don’t have caffeine after 3 pm so we shall see.
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Whaaaaat, a gift from Roy Underhill?! That’s amazing, ashmanra!
I was so stoked! But ashman has advised me that there is only the wood for finishing the body of the box and that he will have to build the top, the drawer, and add the bottom. The top compartment is for holding spills, and ashman gave me a spill plane from the 1800’s for Mother’s Day a couple of years ago! Ha ha! Pretty much the only woodworking I can do is make spills!
Roy and the school are so awesome, by the way! We are so sad at the closing of the school and the antique tool shop above it. Ashman purchased about 18 planes, mostly from the mid to late 1800’s. There is a tool chest I would so totally buy – only from about 1910 but still really nice – but it is huge and we don’t have room for it.
I just learned what spills are! There’s something about planes, isn’t there? They are such a beautiful and iconic representation of classic woodworking. Happy for your acquisitions — what a gift that you were able to get over there. Sad, too — I did not know all of that was closing down. :(
Roy is working on a new book, and indictated he will be teaching again after that but we don’t know when or where. I really, really hope Ashman can take some more classes with him!
Whaaaaat, a gift from Roy Underhill?! That’s amazing, ashmanra!
I was so stoked! But ashman has advised me that there is only the wood for finishing the body of the box and that he will have to build the top, the drawer, and add the bottom. The top compartment is for holding spills, and ashman gave me a spill plane from the 1800’s for Mother’s Day a couple of years ago! Ha ha! Pretty much the only woodworking I can do is make spills!
Roy and the school are so awesome, by the way! We are so sad at the closing of the school and the antique tool shop above it. Ashman purchased about 18 planes, mostly from the mid to late 1800’s. There is a tool chest I would so totally buy – only from about 1910 but still really nice – but it is huge and we don’t have room for it.
I just learned what spills are! There’s something about planes, isn’t there? They are such a beautiful and iconic representation of classic woodworking. Happy for your acquisitions — what a gift that you were able to get over there. Sad, too — I did not know all of that was closing down. :(
Roy is working on a new book, and indictated he will be teaching again after that but we don’t know when or where. I really, really hope Ashman can take some more classes with him!