September
September is my parents' wedding anniversary month. (They live in Japan.) This year will be their 53rd anniversary!
Our anniversary month is next month! October. It's going to be our 26th.
9/07/2025.
When I see familiar faces on Miami University social media pages, I'd be happy and joyful. This time, I found him. I know him because of his wonderful wife and three daughters.
It reminds me of the video from last year. It's about my husband's lab. I revisited it and repost it here, in case of your curiosity. You like it?
Entry#452. 9/07/2025
Our son graduated from the college with bachelor degree (Biology major with Art minor) in May 2024. He was so into Art program at that time, especially ceramics. I wrote about it in two pages.
12/06/2022& Dec 2023 (12/26/2023. and Entrt#19. 12/13/2022)
I have no idea how much he is skilled/skillful or what level he is in. Only thing I can tell is he does almost everything of making ceramics and of pottery stuffs. He has his own glaze recipes. Except for baking process because he doesn’t have his own kilns.
After graduating from the college, it seems he doesn’t have much time to throw pots.
We have a new friend through The Bridge adaptive sports and recs. She has a daughter who is an adaptive athlete. She is a retired professional violinist. She makes pottery for the community. Recently she shared the photo of her t-shirt with us. That made me curious very much. It’s in Japanese. It says “菊練り 三年”.
菊練り kiku-Neri = spiral wedging
三年 san-nen = three years
It is a pottery/ceramic terms/phrases in Japan.
Here is some explanation from internet,
“Three years of spiral wedging, ten years of using the potter's wheel” - in Japan, this phrase has been passed down since ancient times to describe the number of years of training required to be recognized as a fully-fledged potter.
This t-shirt looks so wonderful to me.
“Spiral wedging for 3 years” sounds very important to become a real potter. At least in Japan.
Then I asked our son about it. The spiral wedging. He knew about it, of course. He sounded so confident to do it right. My eyes were wide open and I feel I’m proud of him very much. You should ask him about ceramics when you see him.
Do you think you can do this technique "spiral wedging"?? I don't think I can do it. No, not at all.
Entry#451. 9/07/2025.
I am still a beginner road cyclist, feeling more confident each seasons. My bicycle was upgraded and "evolved". I got bike jerseys and bike pants/shorts. I have bike gloves as well.
You can see my bicycle evolution here Entry#242 (4/14/2024). If you know cycling worlds, you would laugh seeing them. I laugh every time I looked it back.
My husband and son suggest that I should start using clipless pedals. Do you know about them?
I am so afraid to try them. That's why I've still not tried them yet. The website says, "Most people get the hang of it pretty quickly, in days or even hours. Like depressing a clutch pedal to change gear in a car, it soon becomes natural and unconscious.".
However I am not so sure about it. Well, if you know me, we can easily imagine that I fall down again and again with my feet attached to pedals.
If only I could try them on before purchasing them for real. Hmmm. Everyone says you could ride faster with clipless pedals. Would you try them?
I attached two videos. You can see what "falling" part looks like. That would happen to me for sure. You agree?
Note to myself. Our beloved bike shop in Oxford, they installed pedals for my blue road bike when we purchased it. It has anti skid/slid/slip nails (I think it's called that). Recently I finally felt it worked pretty well.
This link explains about anti slid nails as well.
9/05/2025.
My husband and I do long distance rides sometimes. Over 26 miles or almost 30 miles. Two routes have ice cream shops during the rides. Of course, we stop by there to get extra energy (sugar into our body) and finish up the rides.
Funny. I have pictures of me having a ice cream. Look at me. I look like I'm so happy from bottom of my heart, don't I? What a collection(!)
9/04/2025.
Sometimes I love taking advantage of being an on-call caregiver. Especially on the campus. I do hope it's not any violation of College rules, though.
One of my husband's classes is for biology-major freshman, all of them. It's a huge class. Because of the huge number of students plus accessibility for a wheelchair, this class is located in the business department building, not in the biology department building. It's also a little bit unique class.
I went to observe the first class just like I did last year. It's very interesting and "refreshing" at the same time to me. Freshman students look so young and innocent at this point.
9/01/2025. Monarch Butterfly update.
No Chrysalis yet.
9/01/2025.
I am not a big fan of baseball games nor football games (ML nor NFL). Sometimes I just need to catch up with the news about them. I believe most of you out there are big fans of them. And of course, you all know about Shohei Ohtani, don’t you?
I was impressed when I watched the TV commercial clip here. (There is no YouTube video of it, though. Only on this site, or on TV.)
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/B1hT/major-league-baseball-no-way-shohei
It’s so wonderful to know he is super famous and talented. They created the chants “No way, Shohei.” Wow.
Shohei Ohtani got my attention very much, especially about "Getting interviews in English". I can see he sounds pretty good to communicate in English with his teammates and others. He switches using Japanese from English for making long sentences/responses. It seems that's his preference. It is very interesting to me, that is very similar feeling to me. Making a speech in English is my forever future goal.
9/01/2025.
September is here. It's been so beautiful nice weather with sunshine in our town. It makes me smile a lot, especially in the morning. How about your area?
My mind is full of things to think back related to autumn weather/smell. Cross country runners. The new semesters. Autumn cycling. Lots of falling leaves = cleaning up my yards/driveway. Hopefully we can make it to attend "The Great Pumpkin Roll Ride" this year. We had do miss it last year because of the bad weather. It was sad.
https://greatpumpkinrollride.com/
So fingers crossed this time. They have 3 distances to pick.
"There are three ride distances of 34 mile, 50 mile medium and a 63 miles metric century route. Our ride features rolling scenic terrain over low traveled rural southeastern Indiana roads."
Can you guess which one we will pick?
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