Christmas came early!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Papa's Got a Brand New Gourd
A very groovy friend of mine got her hands on a big gourd, and (knowing that I am a yerba mate drinker) fashioned a cup for me. I am still soaking it in hot water, and scraping out the white pithy lining of the gourd, but I love the thing, and can't wait to use it. You can just see the mouthpiece of the bombilla sticking out from inside the gourd:
Christmas came early!
Christmas came early!
By the sacred gourd of Brian Cohen!
ReplyDeleteIn Stanley G. Weinbaum's science fiction stories, there's a variety TV show called the "Yerba Mate Hour".
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Every hour can be yerba mate hour... if'n ya got yerself a gourd.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had friends like that.
ReplyDeleteI am newly introduced to the world and concept of yerba mate.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have been to South America (it was Rio, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires on a whirlwind business tour). Mostly we drank small cups of incredibly strong coffee at ever meeting (i.e. 4-6 times a day).
I'm just now getting back to sleep...
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it's gourd-eous!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a worthy gourd!
ReplyDeletethink of the fun frothy beverages that can be sipped out of that!
jealous!!
think of the fun frothy beverages that can be sipped out of that!
ReplyDeleteNot as big as a beer-boot, but there was no $75 deposit.
$75 deposit.
ReplyDeleteyou folks really need to come to Milwaukee.
Done. I can be on the train to Milwaukee like soon.
ReplyDeleteB4 - you come too.
It'll be fun.
Ooops, I wrote I'll be fun.
Well, that too.