Galpal Shannon Burnett of Conscious Living Partnership came by yesterday and we had the most fun time catching up together.   I like when I need to meet with friends and we have tea at my place.  It’s more relaxed and we have complete privacy and no interruptions.  Plus I get to bring out all my teas and honeys and stevia and neat saucers and teapots.  I’d made some iced raspberry clementine tea in case we wanted iced.  We first toasted with white grape juice in my best crystal, with fresh mulberries floating on top.  I told her they were from my tree, then I took her on the yard tour.  We walked right into the tree and nibbled mulberries right off the branches. We’d kind of limbo under the branch and catch it in our teeth.  They are so sweet right now, and more of them are ripe every day.

It’s been a few years since she’d seen the whole place so we wandered around and I showed her the gardens.  My big kitty Izzy knows her, so he let her walk right up and pet him.  I wanted to show her what a loquat fruit was but could not find a single one on the trees.  The squirrels have taken them all.  They are the size of a big grape, the texture of a peach and have a thin skin like a peach.  The taste is rather tart  and a little acid, the inside of the skin is especially tart.

Shannon’s home backs up to a nature preserve, so she has acres behind her and she gets to see bunnies and birds playing in their own environment.  To me that’s crucial to my own sanity, that touchstone of nature every day.  I sent her home with a pint of fresh mulberries.

Oh yes and we did business as well.
I love my life.