Ocarina + Tea. It's Like They Know Me.

Apparently around here it's mug-smashing season. Over the past month we've managed to smash a whole bunch of mugs around here, including, tragically, my two favorite mugs. Dangit, I really liked that grey stoneware mug.

So as a consolation prize, and also showing my foolhardy optimism when it is uncertain whether mug-smashing season is over, I've ordered a couple new things to drink out of.

Like this:



BUT HEY WHAT IS THAT? It's not a mug, and also it has holes in it. What gives?

Dudes, you are looking at my very own musical teacup, a Teacarina.

Yes, the thing is totally musical, and a mouthpiece is set in the rim. It's a four-hole ocarina that plays one octave in the key of C.



Also, you can put tea in it.



A shot of the interior, because it is pretty.

It's not as big as my late lamented Favorite Mug, but by god it makes music, and it's kind of fun to see how the music changes when you actually have tea in it and the temperature does things to the resonating chamber. Though I wouldn't recommend playing too vigorously that way. Seems like a good way to get tea up your nose.

Let's hope teacups are exempt from mug-smashing season, because this thing's going to provide me hours of entertainment.