A stunningly beautiful day--an early walk with Rainey.  We talked a little bit about the treatment her daughter is undergoing for possible leukemia.  

Right now, Fumiko is in the garden, on the ladder up in the grapefruit tree.  She wants to make grapefruit juice.

Sunday Robert and I went to Chinatown. We looked at all the shops and ate dim sum. I was looking for more Chinese slippers (I've been wearing them for 40 years, and only wear this one type of slipper.)  The prettiest are the black velvet with a sequinned dragon, but those might be an endangered species.  I didn't find any.  The style are changing, so I had to buy the red ones with sequinned flowers--pretty but rather boring in design.  I also bought an elegant little Chinese doll with hip-length braids. 

At night, I'm still immersed in reading the travel tales of Paul Theroux in his book Riding the Iron Rooster Through China.  I love it and don't want it to end.  I'd never be able to hold up visiting in the frigid Siberian and Mongolian wintertime.