March
3/31/2025.
Do you remember about Mr. Joe Motz? Go down scroll to find Entry#376 (3/08/2025). He finished 3000 mile canoeing by himself!!! Amazing. Way too fantastic! I'm sure the TV news would happen soon (not yet though). I will find it later. Here is a video before his challenge back June.
Once again, I am happy that I was able to capture photos of two (Mr. Motz and my husband) together, the before his long journey and the middle of it as well.
3/30/2025.
My old memory just popped out of my mind the other day. It’s weird but it’s related to Christmas season in Japan. I want to share this story because it’s so funny.
There is a fancy place called “Sapporo Factory” in my home town, Sapporo, Japan.
Here is their website.
https://sapporofactory.jp/guide/
It was the place where young people went and enjoyed their time (like malls in the States) at my young era. (I’m not sure about the latest news about it at all.)
In Christmas time, Santa Claus (figure) appeared at the chimney of the brick building. Just like this photo.
When I saw this Santa for the first time, my husband (we haven’t married yet at that time) said,
“See that Santa on the chimney wall? He will climb up the chimney day by day until Christmas Day to the very top. That means the maintenance guy of this company has to move Santa up a bit every night. Yup, until Christmas Day! Isn’t that something?!”
My eyes were so wide open. I was so amazed and loved that entire idea. What a joyful display!
Don't you think? I wanted to visit to see how high the Santa climbed up, I wanted to visit every week until Christmas. My heart was full of joy at that moment, really.
I admired the maintenance guy very much for the time consuming work. How nice.
But next moment, he said “I’m kidding. It was a joke.” I just wished that was true. I still love the idea even now. I wonder if this company still does this fun tradition or not. Hmmm.
3/29/2025.
The temperature gets warmer and trees/plants are sprouting. It feels so good in spring. How is your garden?
Here are my backyard.
My front yard. And I got a "new member" this year. (The last photo!) We will see how it survives for its first year in my garden.
Entry#385. 3/28/2025.
Today was a joyful day with some challenges, new type of challenges. I’m glad that everything was situated, managed and accomplished.
My husband and I invited a new friend to come over our house to try on one of my husband’s handcycles. We, actually, didn’t know what kind of disability she had. But we wanted to show her, introduce her, give her a chance to ride on. That was our goal today.
She is one of the members of “The Bridge adaptive sports Flying Pig 10K handcycle division athletes”. She hasn’t tried to ride on a lower-seating type of handcycle before. She has done with an upright handcycle.
Here is a set of drawings “types of handcycle”. Her machine is like (e). This time, she tried a machine like (b). Do you see the difference? (My husband's racer machine is like (d).
My husband wanted her to feel the differences of two hahdcycles. He wanted to know how she felt about it.
My husband and I had to be careful (with our son’s help) when we helped her to transfer her body from her wheelchair to handcycle.
It was quite a challenge for all of us. I was so glad that we made it. Especially her bravery and dedication to the new style of hahdcycle, that was awesome.
Just because her disability and pain condition, this machine wouldn’t be the best option for her. Even so, I was happy for her that she tried it. It was so much fun to myself after all. I am happy for my husband that he gave her a new opportunity anyway. We learned something new. We discussed together. We used our brain a lot.
After all we had fun together.
I am grateful that I got knowing about her and I will be in touch with her in future.
P.S. She is a wonderful Jazz singer!!
P.P.S. My husband's right thumb is working well so far. Fingers crossed.
Entry#384. 3/25/2025 Pottery/ceramic
Our son is a skillful and knowledgeable self-taught potter, I can say that. I know he took many ceramic classes at Miami University. He has his own glaze recipes. He has his own portable wheel at home. He just doesn't have his own kiln. It is great that he has something he is really passionate about. I believe so.
Since I wrote about his pottery and his pots/bowls and more in my blog before (however I wrote them so randomly), I want to list them up here so that we can look them up easily. Also it would be fun to look back at "ceramic stories".
(Just an inconvenient issue with the Free blog app is "we cannot go directly to a specific entry". Please try to scroll down to find it.)
Entry#190 12/13/2023 + 12/26/2023. (*I LOVE these Japanese style big heavy tea cups!)
Entry#216. 3/06/2024 + 3/27/2024
He is a working man now and doesn't have much spare time to throw pots any more at home. But he is still a ceramic lover + a throwing-pots lover. And my husband and I, we both are proud of his personality.
If you see him somewhere, ask him about pottery. He would love to chat about it joyfully.
3/24/2025.
When I encountered the new movie trailer which attracted me very much, I share the trailer with my husband and son. And ask them how they think. I found this movie "The Friend". I really want to watch it someday. How about you?
I cannot stop searching about Bing the Great Dane and keep reading about Bing.
https://www.fotodanes.com/?page_id=1623
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/naomi-watts-bing-great-dane-the-friend-training-toronto-film-festival-1236132913/
I'd love this movie, I'm pretty sure.
P.S. Do you have abundant Sunshine right now? We do! And my husband's right thumb is healing gradually (so as we hoped). I put our both machines into our van. Well, we will see.
3/21/2025.
How is your spring decorating going? Did you put eggs up on your fence?
And inside, too.
Entry#383. 3/20/2025.
Title: Part 2 of ER visit. (Please read “Part 1” first. Entry#382.).
After we arrived at the ER hospital, I felt much calmer. And again I was making sure my husband had enough catheters by his side just in case he needed to do catheterization in a room. No matter what happens, he needs to think about the timings to empty his bladder. No matter what. Especially visiting the ER could take a long time. We need to think ahead and be prepared.
Once I got calmer, I was able to observe our surroundings and people. Such a difference compared to myself right after my husband got right thumb injured on the road. (My son always tells me that I shouldn’t panic.)
My husband’s pain still looked bad. The ER doctor came in. He examined the thumb, held it tight, squeezed it (so as I saw) and something was done. It was just a minute or so. Then my husband said “Ohh, so much better.” He was talking about the pain. I don’t know much about dislocation (fingers, shoulders, arms…). It sure looked painful. I was impressed how the doctor did that quick procedure. Then wonder if every medical doctor can do this “fixing dislocation” procedure? All of them? How do they practice it? (I sound funny but I was very curious about it.) I was amazed that much anyway witnessing putting back a dislocated thumb.
3/19/2025.
Do you remember how much we LOVE coffee? Especially my husband. We can talk about coffee beans, cappuccino, pour over and more endlessly. We have tons of photos at many coffee shops. Funny.
After he became a paraplegic, we received tremendous support from our local lovely cafe, Kofenya. Their baristas are wonderful and sweet.
You can see my “cappuccino cups tower” photos on 3 pages. Entry#5 (3/26/2022), Entry#12 (4/04/2022) and 5/09/2022.
Some of baristas left town to pursuit their dream jobs and they are blooming there to do what they love right now. Sweet.
Luckily we still have some connections with them through texting and emails. I love hearing from them. I got a message with a photo this morning(!) It made me so smile and I’m still giggling right now. I want to show you these.
Timeline goes, May 2022. Aug 2022. Mar 2023. The last one: I got it today! Hopefully they will visit our town again someday and we can hug again.
3/18/2025.
(I am still writing "Part2" story. Not quite finished yet.)
Instead, I have a news to report. Do you remember that I tried to send a small package to Portugal before Christmas 2024? Here on 12/17/2024, I wrote about it. Guess what? I got the package back today.
So this package traveled to all the way to Portugal and stayed there for a while (since 12/05/2024), then finally traveled back to the States, came "home".
It was a bit sad that it couldn't reach out to my dear ballerina friend. But thinking of the loooong trip this package did is kind of fun.
3/17/2025.
How are your daffodils right now? Mine just started blooming. But there are not much of them in my front yard. At least we can see them in my backyard from inside. Love the color every spring.
3/16/2025.
My husband and I are so happy and excited to read this article + watch the video. Because this fabulous professor was in my husband’s lab. She was his “apprentice”. We spent many times together (even myself as well). We have many fun memories together. I have to tell this. We attended her wedding, too.
https://stories.unca.edu/tiny-tardigrades-big-discoveries
We are proud friends of her indeed.
This photo (below) is from the article.
Entry#382. 3/16/2025.
Title: Part 1 of ER visit (I cannot get used to it, not at all.).
I wrote this phrase before, “I am a jinx” or “I am jinxed”. Especially right after I get excited about my husband’s well-going daily life, something scary happens. This time wasn’t an exception. I updated about the start of our handcycling training season on 3/10 (in the morning).
The weather was super perfect in the afternoon . Warm and sunshiny. We were so ready to pedal outside. Our plan was a short quick biking in town, a usual route including inside the Oxford Community Park.
On the way to the park, several familiar faces waved to us that made me more joyful. I guess I was way too excited for pedaling.
At the south side entrance of the park, it was a left turn. There was one car waiting to come out from the park toward this way. I was right behind my husband as usual. He turned left first. Next moment, I saw his handcycle went totally sideways (his right side down). I shouted “Oh, no. No.” I jumped off from my bicycle. In my mind, my thinking was “I need to pull his hahdcycle with his body up to the normal position, the right side up.” So I did. Carefully but with mighty force and quickly. Always thinking about “Don't mess up his legs, hips and feet.”
Once his handcycle got back on wheels right side up, I was thinking quickly “Now we just need to be slow to pedal back home.”
I thought so until I heard my husband’s words. “I think my right thumb was broken.”
What?!
He looked so much in pain. The color of his thumb was turning blue.
From this moment, my mind was working hard.
“We need to go to ER. What are we going to do? I need to get my van to get his wheelchair. So I leave him here alone, I bike to home to get it and drive back here. Can I do that? Can I just leave him here alone?”
Then my husband said “I don’t think I can get off from hahdcycle with usual way because I cannot use right hand.”
Oh. Oh?!
“Now I need adult helpers, at least two, preferably 2 men. How do I do? How do I do? I need to stop a car right here on the road to get a help? Or I bike home and grab my neighbors to bring them here with my van?”
Then all the sudden one car stopped in front of us. (The driver noticed something wrong here.) One cyclist came back to us to check on us. (He passed us once but he saw something odd, maybe.) We had 2 adults (!!) (gentlemen) with us (without any trouble). They offered us extra hand saying “how can I help?” It was just right timing and I was grateful for these young two gentlemen. However (you know me) I was too serious that I couldn’t talk to them in English. I kept talking to my husband in Japanese. I must have looked awkward.
I knew my husband was thinking so hard about the best way of his paraplegic body under this situation/condition. How can he use their help to situate himself to get to ER hospital.
Here are what we did.
I biked home as fast as I could (about 3 mile) leaving my husband with 2 helper-men on the road. I was just glad that 2 men were willing to stay with him. I drove back (our minivan) with his wheelchair and his daily bag with catheters because he cannot go anywhere without catheters no matter what.
At this point, our son left his work asap to meet me home. (He was in the middle of work.)
We got everything for my husband at the place he was stuck with his injured thumb. We, 3 men and myself, were ready for transferring him from handcycle to his wheelchair. In fact, we had never done this transfer before. (My husband is always using his arms/hands to transfer himself to anywhere. Sometimes with someone’s tiny push.) Two men hold his each shoulder and a man and I hold his each leg. Pulling him out from handcycle and putting him on a wheelchair. It worked. (I was relieved.)
Next, putting him into our van. How do 4 adults carry my husband into a passenger seat? Can you imagine that? It was hard and tricky indeed.
Reclined the passenger back (backrest) all the way down (made it flat). Two adults pulled him from inside(!), two adults supported him outside the door. (He was on wheelchair.)
Once he seated on a passenger seat, I was able to load both handcycle and wheelchair into a van (in a back seats area). We could drive to ER at this point.
We couldn’t thank two gentlemen enough. Without them, we couldn’t survive. We just know their first names only. I do hope I could reach out to them someday again. I do hope so.
We arrived at ER safely. To be continued to the PART 2 (what happened at the ER).
In case you wonder, fast-forward to conclusion. It was only dislocation of his right thumb. No broken bone. He is a lefty. Not serious injury. He was lucky. (I assume I can say that.)
Part 2 coming up.
Photo: The right before we started pedaling in the afternoon on 3/10.
Entry#381. 3/15/2025.
Tomorrow, our son will be 23 years old. I am a proud mother here, seeing the man he became for today. I am jealous about the numbers of his “experience” in his 22 years. And I am sure that he will get more and more precious experiences in his future.
Photos of him.
Went to Mongolia.
Got his biology bachelor degree.
Finished triathlon with his buddy.
Worked in Idaho/Montana. Working for GreatParks, Hueston Woods State park (Ohio state parks & watercraft) and MU climbing wall (Outdoor pursuit center).
Climber, motorcycle rider, skier, outdoor/nature lover and throw-a-pot-at-home lover. And more. I cannot keep up counting. Makes me so smile.
Entry#380. 3/14/2025.
There was a special lecture at 4:00pm to 5:20pm in Japan. It was a retirement celebration for my husband’s mentor-professor. He visited us after my husband’s injury to check on us and cheer us up. I wrote all about it at Entry#59 6/25/2022.
As you can see “our connection”, we couldn’t miss this wonderful special lecture. We wanted to watch his talk definitely.
It is a wonderful network era all over the world indeed because we could attend to this lecture from the States through Zoom. Only one tiny problem was time difference between Japan and USA.
We got up at 2:30am and started watching his lecture talk from 3:00am to 4:30am.
We made it. I am grateful that I was able to witness this. Huge congratulations to Dr. Hayashi on his retirement!
I think this photo below from June 2022 is very precious.
P.S. By the way, did you gobble up a pie today to celebrate "Pi Day"??
3/13/2025.
I am beyond amazed. I visited the local public library (my favorite place) to see their Seed Library with my own eyes.
I wrote about Seed library last month at Entry#368. 2/23/2025.
The Seed Library collection of Oxford Lane library is HUGE! My eyes were wide open and I couldn’t step away from it.
It seems there are quite a good number of patrons to use this system. Wonderful.
And see the wall decoration display?? I love looking at these closely. Wondering which librarian lady did this great job? Fun!
Entry#379. 3/13/2025.
How much are you familiar with “osteoporosis”? Me? Not much. I know the term (meaning of it) My mother is taking a medicine for it everyday. (I guess my father starts taking it soon.) They are in their 80s now.
I am not sure how much of over 80 years people take osteoporosis medicine. Most of them? 50% of them?
Taking osteoporosis medicine means “making bones strong”?? Maybe not that simple. (I really need to study more about it, I feel I have to.).
After my husband and I started SCI Spinal Cord Injury life, as you know he is a biologist, he quickly learned about SCI persons’ body (mechanism and risks related to).
Among all of the health concerns he learned about after his SCI, bone density was a tricky one. (More serious than we thought.)
No longer walking, running, and jumping around would affect your bones and their strength, but when you try to live with SCI, it doesn’t feel as important. Because bone density is more of an insidious problem.
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I understand “over years” part. I didn’t think that osteoporosis happened to my husband so soon.
He got injured in July 2021. In June 2022, he fell from wheelchair and broke his toes. (I was shocked.) I still remember when we visited Doctor’s office to meet a doctor after the X-ray was done. The Orthopedic surgeon doctor rushed into the room saying “What’s going on? You are in 40s, your bone shouldn’t be that look.” He meant osteoporosis. He didn’t know my husband was paraplegic at that point. Then he knew.
-A bit scary story here.- (from social media)
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Entry#378. 3/12/2025.
My dear sweet forever mentor friend (former librarian) has wonderful energetic grandchildren, 6 of them. I’ve been enjoying to hear about them from her very much. It’s my good source of energy and kids’ activities nowadays. They teach me a lot. I love everything they do.
One of them, he is a member of high school robotics team. His team competed in a big event in Arkansas.
https://www.rossrambotics.com/team3201.html
I was excited and curious. I wanted to know what was happening there. I was able to watch livestream matches. At the same time, I searched internet and tried to understand the rule of matches. It’s great to know about these young people who are into engineering fields. I imagine their future, getting into the manufacturing field (cars, aircraft, trains, robots and more). That’s awesome. I want to say thank you to my friend and her grandson who gave me some excitement.
Additional fun part was discussing about the robotics matches with my husband and son. Fun bonus moments.
3/11/2025.
Our son is a good sport. I'm thankful for that. Just like this photo. I wanted to show the actual size of my Christmas cactus. So I needed a "human" next to it. Here he is. Are you smiling?
Entry#377. 3/10/2025.
Since my husband discovered the joy of handcycling (thanks to the Bridge adaptive sports and rec, a nonprofit organization in Cincinnati), a life without handcycles never exists for him now. It’s not about winning races. It’s about a quality of life stuff. Very fortunately, there are several types of handcycle just same as bicycles. As he gets older (70s and 80s), he might not ride on a racer handcycle but he still would have options to enjoy handcycling with different types of them. That’s very wonderful, and I am grateful.
For now, at age 51, I can see that he is enjoying to pick handcycle races thinking “Which town can I go to compete? Which distance race, Full marathon, shorter or longer?”
Then we talk about training details. Like I said, it’s not about winning the race but it is still a competition. He knows the atmosphere at the race at the starting line and high level adrenaline in everyone’s brains.
This preparation process is the same as running races he used to attend before his injury. He was a Japanese Kendo 剣道 けんどうathlete when he was in a high school. He was at high level for it.
Setting a goal, training hard, knowing own level and PR time (plus speed, cadence, power and heart rate) then building up own confidence.
Are you laughing? Yes, he has his daily job and is busy enough during daytime. Sometimes it feels like “Cannot have time for training. Impossible.”
Without training, attending some races could be miserable or sad.
The last season, we had a phrase “When the Sun shines, we go bike.” And we tried.
This season, we picked another phrase. “The Sun is UP, it’s a Hill-work!” Just because he wants more strength especially for uphills. For handcyclists, climbing on uphills is the toughest and hardest job. He has to get some kind of willpower as well.
Sometimes we wonder. What if he is a fulltime athlete and he can train all day long and all year long??? Well, we would try to cherish our current times as 51 years old adults. That’s it.
We will see how much we “battle” against uphills in this season. At first we need warmups with pedaling outside. Spring handcycling /cycling time!
The Sun is up, it’s a Hill-work.
3/09/2025.
The Sun is up! Yes, it's the time of the season. Handcycling + cycling. I must be ready for putting all into a van. See? Don't forget wheelchair as well.
Entry#376. 3/08/2025.
Today was an Epic day for my husband and me indeed. Do you remember about Mr. Joe Motz? He is doing something extraordinary and something very hard right now for a great purpose.
https://www.cincinnatigives.org/story/Paddle-For-A-Purpose
I wrote about it in July 2024 (scroll down to Entry #276 and #280).
He started a long paddle journey with his beautiful canoe (his own handmade) total 3000(!) mile! He started in June 29th 2024. My husband joined paddling with him for first several miles on Ohio river. Yes, Mr. Motz still keeps paddling (right now).
Here is a photo of my husband with Mr. Motz in June 29th 2024, and a photo of current donation data.
My husband told me “He will be paddling by our favorite bike trail in Hamilton today.” in this morning. So we tried to catch him on our sight (at least from the bike trail). Guess what?
We made it!!! Thanks to my husband’s awesome calculation/estimation/guess, he pinpointed Mr. Motz’s “portage” point. And we found him.
See how much this reunion is epic and wonderful. We were beyond thrilled and joyful. I was grateful when he paddled to the other side of the river to see us, he was off from his canoe to walk up the riverbank to meet my husband (since he had stay on the bike trail because of his wheelchair). It all happened so quickly. He showed us his “sail” open on his canoe when he took off to continue his canoe journey. We were happy for him that he got perfect sunshine and nice tail breeze to push him faster. He is a legend and a hero to me. He gave us more energy indeed. Yes, my husband has to get back on handcycle race training right away.
Entry#375. 3/07/2025.
I’m overwhelmed by tons of social media videos sometimes. If that happens, I just stop looking at. On the other hand, I’m astonished at video editing skill of young generations. I just need to pick what I like and I am interested in. That’s a survival skill in our world with countless information in these days, I assume.
Sometimes I encounter several useful videos (especially) related to full time wheelchair users. I am grateful to know these info/ideas. Their explanation and presentation are very professional and very informative. They are inspiration indeed.
I want to share one video here. It’s about the cost of manual wheelchair. I am still learning about it because purchasing process itself is not that easy plus it’s not cheap at all.
If you are curious about her, here is her official website.
https://www.annasarol.com/
As my understanding, wheelchair users could buy a wheelchair every 5 years if necessary, claiming through an insurance company. However this process is very complicated and time consuming. I need to write more another time. One thing here. My husband is 51 years old. He is active and a handcyclist. However an insurance company says "Over 50 years old wheelchair users don't need to use lightest and very active-use wheelchairs because of their ages." Something like that. It is frustrating very much.
Just because my husband's current wheelchair didn't fit perfectly (the fitting process was not right), I keep hoping that his next wheelchair would be better. Until then I need to keep learning.
3/06/2025.
When I wrote about Julia Child on Entry#356 2/02/2025, I was thinking of several "baker"-friends. Imagining they would go visit to the exhibition of Julia Child. I had not seen anyone's posts about it for a while. I was wondering. Then one of my sweet friends visited the exhibition with her daughter! That news made me so happy and joyful.
That made me borrow 3 books from the local public library.
These three books make me curious and wonder so much. I'm loving them already. I'm going to dig them in. This is gonna be very interesting and fun reading. I found one quote by her.
Entry#374. 3/04/2025.
One news jumped into my eyes. The RiseUp production will perform “Something Rotten!” the Musical in June. Guess where the show location is gonna be?? Miami University Hamilton Parrish Auditorium. Are you guessing what I am thinking?
I could drive there by myself without a problem, yes, I could. (Now you might roll your eyes.) Driving range is always an issue for myself. That’s me.
Anyway I cannot miss this opportunity. I’ll think about it. I am smiling.
Then this show “Something Rotten!” sounds so familiar with me really. I did think hard and I remembered. I know this show, I attended once to watch this title. It was Union County High School (UCHS) Musical show in 2023 (!) I attended alone by myself.
https://whitewaterpub.com/news/2023/mar/01/uchs-musical-something-rotten/
I knew several singers in the show. One of them was a tall stylish daughter of my veterinary assistant friend. I didn’t know her daughter much directly, but I know my friend. She is an artist, too.
Then many great memories of UCHS Musical shows came back to me all the sudden.
Because of my forever “boss” librarian. Her three children were in UCHS, two of them were in several musical shows.
My professor friend and her wife. Their four children were in UCHS, I watched two of them performed leading parts!! Their performance and singing levels are super high! Outstanding. I can keep taking about them forever.
So my another new project started. Remember? I’m studying on the Musical “The Little Shop of Horrors” of Talawanda High School drama club production.
By the way, the very first show of “Something Rotten!” was in 2015. Is this show popular? Do you know about it? The last note. It’s gonna be a bit difficult to understand a whole show to me because of the setting time period of Shakespeare era. Hmmm.
As you can see, I am a Musical-show lover.
I gotta add these here. It's full blooming, see?
Entry#373. 3/04/2025.
In Japan, March 3rd is a seasonal festival day called Hinamatsuri (Hi na ma tsu ri ひなまつり、雛祭り).
The very first top tier is the only tier set up for many families, おひなさま and おだいりさま, but there can be up to 7 tiers. My mother has the 7 tiers set(!)
This photo was from my mother this year. As you can see, she did a great job to decorate all stuffs. It has to be a certain specific order and it cannot be changed a tiny bit.
According to Japanese tradition, leaving the dolls up for too long will hurt a daughter’s chances of getting married(!). This is why many families rush to take down their display in a week after March 3rd which can be a tedious and time-consuming process. See? That's why I admire my mother a lot.
I thought about something similar, about taking down a huge set. It's a bit similar to a huge fancy expensive Christmas tree decorations. Don't you think?
This photo (below) made me happier. My mother on the Hinamatsuri day 2025. See the dolls-set behind her?? The photographer is my father, of course. Every time I ask them "Take photos and send them to me.", they are not so up to it because they don't know much about camera app nor selfie. But I'm grateful that they still share some with me.
Entry#372. 3/02/2025.
My phone weather app notified me of “abundant sunshine” for today’s Oxford forecast. It made me happier. My husband took me to the Cincinnati downtown area, our favorite area = Washington Park area to go to his favorite cafe. As usual, we didn’t know much about events that were happening through the weekend.
However coincidentally I read about Cincinnati ballet last night. My eyes were drawn to the news about their ballet show “The Wizard of Oz”!
It got my attention quickly and firmly because I love the musical show of The Wizard of Oz and the movie as well. Plus we used to live in Manhattan, KS. We love hearing about Kansas stuffs always. I’ve not heard about the ballet show of Oz before, not at all.
According to the website, the very first original ballet show of Oz happened in 2018 by Kansas City ballet(!). This 2025 Oz show is their (Cincinnati ballet) 2nd time ever. Sounds wonderful. You got curious, yes?
Then here we were in front of the Cincinnati Music Hall not knowing the show time at all.
Today was their LAST show day (starting at 1:00pm). We walked by at 1:10pm. Guess what we saw??
Ta-da!
You can guess how much I got excited. My husband teased me saying “but we are not here for the show, aren’t we?”
I was simply happy though. Why not? (This was a kind of epic coincidence, I assume.)
3/01/2025.
My Christmas cactus updates on the first day of March. Well, they still have extra energy to bloom in this month, maybe celebrating our son's birthday month or St. Patrick's Day.
Did you know today was "International Wheelchair Day"??? Did you?
Entry#371. 3/01/2025.,
Our son graciously gave me a ride when I needed to return a brand new handcycle to the Bridge Adaptive sports (at their headquarter place). My husband borrowed this new machine to try it out. Since it was one hour drive down to Cincinnati area, I offered him to be my driver.
It was a smooth process thanks to his help. On the way home, we usually drive by our wonderful friend’s house. They are very close friends of us, they are both veterinarians. We know their awesome 2 children (both grown up already).
I told my son “I’m going to yell HELLO from a window this time to them even though I don’t know if they are home or not. Maybe not.”
In a next moment, he drove into their driveway and parked. “Why don’t you go and knock on the door?”
What a sweet gesture. So I did. Unfortunately they were at work. I missed them. But we greeted their dog by the door. And this was an awesome bonus! We finally greeted their HORSES!!
Annie and Mackey! I admire my friends a lot for taking care of horses (besides their professional work = taking care of tons of animals, all kinds).
I cannot imagine that I would have a horse as a family member. They did.
It was a pure joy to meet their sweet ladies on a sunny day. I thanked my son, of course. There isn’t much occasion like this (he drives me to somewhere), it was a good day.
YAY.
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