Fall 2012 Tea

My latest results. Didn't drink as much tea last semester, only 11 bottles. Not sure why.  Maybe it was colder out than usual, or I was in a bigger hurry and so went to Driftless less?  Anyway, I only have a few semesters' worth of info, and, as a responsible scientist, shouldn't be trying to draw any conclusions from a small data set.

More Iced Tea Data

I finally took pictures of the Honest Teas that I drank in spring semester of 2012, as well as the few I had on my visited down in the summer of 2012. 

The results? Spring semester I drank 20, summer I drank 7. Fall of 2011 I drank 21, so there was a slight decline from fall to spring. (Keep in mind I don't teach in the summer and drive down less than once a week.) However, there is still not enough data to come to any conclusions. I must continue to drink my teas, keep them, and photograph them. I'm already building my fall collection.

Spring 2012

Summer 2012

Thank You Package!

Awhile ago, I posted a blog entry about my collection of Honest Tea bottles in my garage.  (Currently I've had 12 this semester.)  I put the photo and info on here and then didn't think about it.  Well, last week I got an email from someone at Honest Tea who said they saw the post and that they wanted to send me a thank you package.  Is that not totally awesome? I was shocked and excited.

It arrived today!

Here it is! What could be inside? Tea, perhaps?

Indeed, tea! Twelve bottles!

Six bottles of unsweetened green and six bottles of unsweetened black, my favorite kinds!

Also a nice reusable shopping bag and a bracelet!

Thanks, Honest Tea!!!

Tea bottles

I drink a lot of tea.  Hot tea, iced tea.  Loose leaf or in tea bags.  Day or night.

On many afternoon I stop at Driftless Market to get a bottle of Honest Tea iced tea, usually black but occasionally green.  Their unsweetened flavors are just amazing. (Sweetened might be okay, but I hate sweetened bottled tea, so I've never even tried it.)

I decided last semester to track just how much of this delicious stuff I drink.  It started because I accidentally left a few bottles in the garage: somehow they didn't make it the short distance from my car into my actual house.  So I started collecting them.  Below, all the Honest Tea I drank in the fall 2011 semester:

I drank 21 bottles.  Not as many as you might think, but Wisconsin winters are cold, and by December I didn't really want a chilly iced tea for my commute home.  All but one were black tea.

What will be interesting (well, to me) is when I have done this for several semesters.  Then I will build the photos into a bar graph, showing tea drinking as function of time, in semester increments.

At this point in the spring semester I have had 9 bottles.  I think that number will pick up as the weather gets warmer.  I'm sure everyone will be excitedly awaiting the results.

Cross Stitch Finished

I finished my cross stitch with the quote from Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog.  Here it is:

I don't know if you can tell in the photo, but the green embroidery thread is the exact same green of one of the types of tea bag wrappers that Connie used on the frame.  

I have it in my office, right above where I have my electric tea kettle, mugs, and box of looseleaf tea.