Just another challenge: Finding the tea bag on the kitchen floor

When wet tea bags fall, they never make a sound.  They fall, they often create a stain, and they lie there just waiting for you to find them and remove them to the garbage.

This is probably one of the things that I need to ensure does not happen too often or that if it unfortunately does that I am able to clean up any stain that it may leave.

However, the most irritating thing is when I unexpectedly find a wet fallen tea bag or when I know that it has fallen and then I have to hunt for it.

It becomes even worse when I step on a wet fallen tea bag and then my clean up task becomes even more cumbersome.  All of this can happen to anyone but for someone like me who has precious little vision, it becomes even more difficult.

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Staying alert: Being aware of potential tea stains

As someone who enjoys cups of tea on a daily basis, I make very sure that my counter is void of those testy tea stains. As I can no longer see if I leave them on my kitchen counter, I am triple careful whenever I make myself a cup of tea. I have a little tea bag holder that I drop my tea bag into and I do this over my kitchen sink. Then, after making my cup of tea, I wipe down my counter just to make sure that if any stains were there that they are now gone.

Of course, there is no guarantee that I will catch these stubborn stains but I can only try. This is probably one of the most difficult challenges for me as a vision-impaired person: to determine whether or not there are tea stains on my counter because one cannot feel a tea stain.

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Hot Tea With Lemon

Ah yes! Those delicious hot Christmas drinks! Hot, tasty, flavourful, and so much more. So fragrant, and just the thing to go along with some Christmas cookies and other goodies.  Just the thing to sip slowly before going off to bed. Or even taking it to bed with me.

This is what it is all about! Hot drinks on a cold winter's night while sitting and listening to the winds banging against the windows of my house. Hot drinks! Sitting at my kitchen table on a quiet night with my hands wrapped around my mug! Hot drinks! Relaxing on my couch with the TV turned

low and my sweet smelling drink in my hand!

Ah yes! Wonderful moments for a lifetime! Not even Covid could deprive me of this!

I'd like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas! Happy holidays! But most of all! A 2021 that will bring us lots of blessings, good things, and hopes and dreams to be fulfilled.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

Joyeux Noèl!

Feliz Navidad!

Buon Natale!

Happy Hanukkah!

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Good times: Having tea with the family

I always enjoy having tea with the family and, as a matter of fact, I enjoy this activity on the whole.  However, I always need to adjust my strategy whenever this happens.

If the tea is a sit-down tea whereby you can order from a menu, I need to have someone read the menu to me and then the fun begins.  If each person receives their own plate of goodies then I normally get someone to tell me how my goodies are arranged.  I normally order tea so that when it comes I again depend on someone to help me find the cream or milk.

I can usually pour my own tea from the tea pot but there is always someone there at the table to render assistance.

If the tea party is a buffet event then here is where the trick of the trade comes in as I would need to depend on someone to assist me at the buffet table.  I would ask them to tell me what is being served and then to help me retrieve what I would like to have put on my plate.

This is just another routine task for me if I attend any afternoon tea event.  I will say that there is always someone there to assist.

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A fond memory: Remembering Chris's tea stains

Those were the days when I had such good, functional vision.  When I had enough sight to be able to see stains and spills on counter tops.  When I could just simply use a cloth or paper towel to clean them up and it was always so much fun and fulfilling for me when I could clean up Chris's tea stains.

At that time I lived in Montreal and I would often go over to visit Chris and have a wonderful cup of tea with her. Along with the good company I would sample her delightful baking. 

Chris was a terrific hostess.  She cooked and baked so very well.  She moved around in her kitchen with little effort and I always admired how she could do it all so well without any incident.  She was almost totally blind but it did not stop her from being a wonderful culinary master.

I used to enjoy cleaning up her tea stains.  There they were, just sitting boldly there on her counter, waiting for me to wipe them away.  Chris would always be amused at how I would attack her tea stains and we would both laugh after I had finished getting rid of them.

Wonderful memories for me to keep forever.

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Testing the cup of tea

I do not think that my way of testing a cup of tea to ensure that it is either warm enough or not too hot is any different from that of a sighted person.

Here is what I do. I simply stick my finger into my cup, making sure that when I do so I aim for the top of my cup. I go very gently and gingerly and the tip of my finger is my thermometer.

Sometimes I burn my finger tip but with practice I have learned how to stick it in the right way so that I feel the least pain.

I also have another technique which is not as effective as the one above. I wrap my hands around my tea cup and this tells me, or rather gives me a fair indication of, how hot the contents of my cup are.

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