{"id":8878,"date":"2010-05-06T01:36:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2011-10-23T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T01:41:53","slug":"shannon-burnett-comes-to-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/shannon-burnett-comes-to-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Burnett comes to tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galpal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shannonburnett.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shannon Burnett <\/a>of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consciouslivingpartnership.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conscious Living Partnership<\/a> came by yesterday and we had the most fun time catching up together.\u00a0\u00a0 I like when I need to meet with friends and we have tea at my place.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more relaxed and we have complete privacy and no interruptions.\u00a0 Plus I get to bring out all my teas and honeys and stevia and neat saucers and teapots.\u00a0 I&#8217;d made some iced raspberry clementine tea in case we wanted iced.\u00a0 We first toasted with white grape juice in my best crystal, with fresh mulberries floating on top.\u00a0 I told her they were from my tree, then I took her on the yard tour.\u00a0 We walked right into the tree and nibbled mulberries right off the branches. We&#8217;d kind of limbo under the branch and catch it in our teeth.\u00a0 They are so sweet right now, and more of them are ripe every day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a few years since she&#8217;d seen the whole place so we wandered around and I showed her the gardens.\u00a0 My big kitty Izzy knows her, so he let her walk right up and pet him.\u00a0 I wanted to show her what a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crfg.org\/pubs\/ff\/loquat.html\" target=\"_blank\">loquat fruit<\/a> was but could not find a single one on the trees.\u00a0 The squirrels have taken them all.\u00a0 They are the size of a big grape, the texture of a peach and have a thin skin like a peach.\u00a0 The taste is rather tart\u00a0 and a little acid, the inside of the skin is especially tart.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon&#8217;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.\u00a0 To me that&#8217;s crucial to my own sanity, that touchstone of nature every day.\u00a0 I sent her home with a pint of fresh mulberries.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes and we did business as well.<br \/>\nI love my life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/shannon-burnett-comes-to-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Shannon Burnett comes to tea&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/shannon-burnett-comes-to-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/shannon-burnett-comes-to-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/shannon-burnett-comes-to-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Shannon%20Burnett%20comes%20to%20tea&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/shannon-burnett-comes-to-tea\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galpal Shannon Burnett of Conscious Living Partnership came by yesterday and we had the most fun time catching up together.\u00a0\u00a0 I like when I need to meet with friends and we have tea at my place.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more relaxed and we have complete privacy and no interruptions.\u00a0 Plus I get to bring out all my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17095,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/17095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}