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The day was beautiful, cool but bright and airy!\u00a0 We are under a “high winds” warning until Monday evening.\u00a0 We walked out to the garden and inspected the whirlygigs, and they were spinning away, a good thing as the birds do not care for the motion and colors.<\/p>\n
Robin popped over at 9:30 AM and picked up Mary and Colleen to go “shopping.”\u00a0 Robin needed a red shirt for this evening’s soire\u00e9 at the Elks!\u00a0 I stayed home and had three hours to work around the house.\u00a0 I did the laundry, replaced the water filter in the frig,\u00a0 worked on my filing system, fed the dog, and generally kept busy.\u00a0 \u00a0I also ordered a new cover for our 10’x14′ foot umbrella; the weather finally got to it.<\/p>\n
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Thank you, Amazon; it will be here Wednesday!<\/p><\/div>\n
They returned around 1:00 PM with bags of treasures.\u00a0 Mary found her “go-go boots” for the upcoming dance and got an ugly Christmas sweater on sale!\u00a0 She also found a neat red blouse with Chinese inscriptions, which I naturally translated for her using my excellent linguistic skills.\u00a0 It said, “Eat At Joe’s.”<\/p>\n
Remember,\u00a0 economics studies usually reveal that the last year is the best time to buy anything.<\/p>\n
We all took an hour’s nap in preparation for this evening’s dance.\u00a0 When we got up, Scout said he was going next door to play cards, but he asked me how his partners always folded when he had a good hand.<\/p>\n
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Next time I will show Scout how to tie his tail down!<\/p><\/div>\n
At 4:00 PM, we set sail for the Santa Ana Elks Lodge for the Jam Session, a celebration of the Chinese New Year, and we had Nine Karat Gold playing!<\/p>\n
Visit the Elks Chinese New Year’s Website for all the pictures.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Did You Know?\u00a0 <\/strong>According to legend, Chinese New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian (a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains) during the annual Spring Festival.\u00a0 The Nian would eat villagers, especially children, in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n One year, all the villagers decided to hide from the beast.\u00a0 An older man appeared before the villagers and said he would stay the night and get revenge on the Nian.\u00a0 The old man put red papers up and set off firecrackers.<\/p>\n The day after, the villagers returned to their town and saw nothing had been destroyed.\u00a0 They assumed that the old man was a deity who came to save them.\u00a0 The villagers then understood that Yanhuang had discovered that the Nian feared the color red and loud noises.<\/p>\n Then the tradition grew when New Year was approaching, and the villagers would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns, and red spring scrolls on windows and doors, and used firecrackers and drums to frighten away the Nian.\u00a0 From then on, Nian never came to the village again, and Hongjun Laozu, an ancient Taoist monk, eventually captured the Nian.<\/p>\n Colleen joined us for the festivities and is getting to know all our friends, a good thing!!!<\/p>\n The amazing trio!<\/p><\/div>\n ???????? W? \u00e0i w? de h?o q?zi!\u00a0 Big time!!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Ah So!<\/p><\/div>\n If Colleen’s foot were not in a boot, I’d have her out on the dance floor (and so would three other guys!)<\/p>\n I am enjoying family!<\/p><\/div>\n What does it say?\u00a0 Only your hairdresser knows for sure.<\/p>\n Mary and I hit the floor for every dance, not requiring us of the left arm!<\/p>\n My secret to dancing is never letting my left hip know what my right hip is doing.<\/p>\n Swinging with a star!!<\/p><\/div>\n Mary encouraged me to dance with the ladies who do not have partners, and it was my pleasure to dance with Brenda this evening; we even did the “butt rub.”<\/p>\n I got her smiling!!<\/p><\/div>\n On the way home, we stopped by Aces Bar and Grille and danced some more.\u00a0 We hijacked the jukebox and played oldies but goodies.\u00a0 Most people enjoy us arriving and getting rid of the horrible bar music that runs all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day was beautiful, cool but bright and airy!\u00a0 We are under a “high winds” warning until Monday evening.\u00a0 We walked out to the garden and inspected the whirlygigs, and they were spinning away, a good thing as the birds … Continue reading \n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pix-5279-650x860.jpg\")
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