Happy Lunar New Year!

After breakfast today Sandy, one of Mom's mahjong buddies, came by with a present for Lunar New Year, which begins tomorrow. She brought a box of dim sum and a Chinese roasted chicken from Royal Kitchen.  Guess what we had for lunch!

Dim sum & roasted chicken from Royal Kitchen.

Here's the legend of what's in the dim sum box; we're not sure what "MR" is. Or is it "MK"?

Sandy stayed a while to talk with Mom and shared some info about the mahjong group. We found out Mitsie broke her shoulder in December when she was on Maui returning from a funeral; she fell while she was walking on a flat surface. (I used it as a teaching moment to tell Mom that is why I keep telling her to use her cane.) Betsy had some back pain, which went away, but then she started having pains in her knee and is now also walking with a cane. Sandy herself was having problems with her sciatica. Needless to say, they have not played mahjong since the week before Thanksgiving; they are hoping to all be well enough to play in February.

I checked out the orange tree after I hung out the laundry. I have been watering it regularly; its got a whole bunch of flowers again. The flowers are scattered around the entire tree. The clump at the center bottom of this photo is the same one seen in the photo on January 16th; it had 11 tiny oranges then, today there was only 1. Hopefully each of the new bunches of flowers will yield at least one full grown orange.

When I went to the humane society today I heard a bunch of frantic peeping as I got out of the car. I looked around & saw a bunch of chicks trying to get up on to the curb near where the hen was scratching around in the grass. They finally made it and joined the hen at the puddle of water. It's going to be interesting seeing what happens to the 8 chicks since there are some feral cats running around the grounds of the humane society.

Chick #8 is out of the photo, running around in the parking lot.

The blood stain in Mom's 100% cotton nightgown has been in it for about 5 weeks. Oxi-Clean did an amazing job on it; the blood stains are now very faint. According to the Oxi-Clean directions, some stains will take more than one soaking and washing.

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The blood stain in Mom's black 100% cotton nightgown has been there for about 4 weeks. The blood stains are also faint, like in the flannel nightgown above. But since it has a dark background and busy pattern, its very hard to see when the nightgown is being worn. The Oxi-Clean does not appear to have affected the vibrancy of the colors.

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The food stain on my 50%cotton/50%polyester sweatshirt has been there for a couple of years. The Oxi-Clean got more of the stain out than all the washings that the sweatshirt has been through since getting stained. I will try a couple more soaks and washes to see if more comes out with each treatment. I will also be buying a larger container of Oxi-Clean!

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Happy Birthday to Misha!