cat paws washed in green

cat paws washed in green tea

That's what madrone bark tea tastes like and it is not unpleasant. A bit like green tea, ginseng, and the smell of a cat's paw pads... with a hint of raspberry and lemon. It's tastier than it sounds. Margit Roos-Collins describes it as tasting like a musty old book in The Flavors of Home. On our way back from the Kings Mountain geocache L. and I picked up a bunch of it and put it in a folded paper, aka my Clan medicine woman's otter skin pouch.

L. mocked me greatly, but I notice she kept picking up the cinnamony curls of the paper-thin bark. That was wise of her because after the nuclear apocalypse she is going to be thanking her lucky stars that the medicine woman with the otter skin pouch made of an old YMCA flyer taught her how to procure and make some delicious tea. If you make it and it's bitter, you steeped it too long.

We wussed out on the first cache because it was too downhill and uphill again and we felt lost. I require food, chocolate and juice for a hike like that.

Spent the rest of the afternoon looking at new TVs and then in the school supply shop on Industrial Blvd. picking out posters for M's room. He seems cranky and stuffy-nosed, maybe allergies, maybe a cold. He just passed out on the couch.