Lots to pack when visiting relatives and parents!

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Lots to pack when visiting relatives and parents!

To welcome the year of the rat!
The Rat (Chinese:鼠) was welcomed in ancient times as a protector and bringer of material prosperity. It is the first of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Rat is associated with aggression, wealth, charm, and order, yet also associated with death, war, the occult, pestilence, and atrocities. The Year of the Rat is associated with the earthly branch symbol 子.
In Chinese, the word 鼠 may refer to either the rat or the mouse. Therefore, in this context, Year of the Mouse and Year of the Rat are interchangeable terms.

When fireworks were weapons of mass-destruction 🙂

The MINI SUV… quite an oxymoron if you ask me.
Anyways… considering the Chinese New Year is coming, I plan to try to blog at least everyday for the first five days of the New Year and also to take my DSLR with me.

Came back to work after taking a day off to service and fix the car and saw this on my desk. A strange assembly or construction to be sure but I think it’s the origins of how the first people decided to erect the Stonehenge.

