« newark is getting old | Main | don't be evil...ish »
June 06, 2006
iced tea
My plans for the perfect glass of iced tea began this morning. On Sunday my sister-in-law gave me her old sun tea jar, and this morning I filled it up with filtered water and dropped in six bags of tea; two of Earl Grey and four of English Breakfast Tea. The jar went onto the balcony in the sunshine for about five hours. Around 2:30pm I suddenly realized I had no ice. I also remembered that the two empty ice cube trays in my freezer were empty because I had inherited them with this apartment, and there was an odd white crust around the bottom of most of the cube-compartments --"odd" being defined as 1) I don't know what it is, and 2) doesn't wash out easily. I nipped a bit of un-iced tea from the fridge, and it was good, but it wasn't what I'd envisioned this morning.
I went to Target in search of ice cube trays; I wanted something colorful, rubbery, en vogue that made oddly shaped ice cubes (it's been that kind of day). Target had no such ice-cube trays. It's rectangular cubes for $1.50/per tray, or pleasingly oval-shaped cubes for $0.99 per two trays. Such synchronicity makes my usually indecisive shopping easy and quick.
Three more hours pass until one of the trays looks like the cubes are mostly frozen. I knock them out and sure enough, several exquisitly oval-shaped cubes rattle into my glass. (I later learned that a few of them harboured a watery reservoir which setup a fine iced-tea fractal: bubbles floating in inside the ice-cubes, as ice-cubes floating in a glass of iced tea, as iced tea floated around in my mind for most of the day.
 |
Lots of wonderful things come my way every day. But it's rare to want something so simple all day and then to finally have it. I just had to tell you about it.
Posted by joel at June 6, 2006 07:52 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.chezjoel.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/399
Comments
theiced tea looks good
what are the buildings in the background?
Posted by: uncle jim ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.chezjoel.com//nav-commenters.gif)
at June 9, 2006 01:35 PM
In the background is a mausoleum. I like to sit with my beverage and contemplate eterni-tea.
Posted by: Joel at June 9, 2006 08:35 PM
Eterni-tea, I get it. Man, you are so lucky. I wanted that sun tea pitcher. I'm coming over.
Posted by: El Fid at June 21, 2006 09:24 AM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)
