We got Wasabi greens and we pickled them with soy sauce.

Staff A: “It is very hard to make them moderately pungent. “

Staff B: “Well, Why don’t you ask Ms. S?”

Ms. S: “It’s a bit hard to make it good.”

Staff B: “Can you give it a try?”

Ms. S: “Why don’t you do it? Let me see you doing it!”

Well, we love the pungent taste of wasabi!

A happy new year to all of you!

 Our residents at Haruhi-en Niho had good time on the first day.

 I asked them at teatime of what new year’s first dream they’d had.

Ms. U: “I had no dream last night. Or rather, I rarely have dream, hahaha!”

 Ms. H: “Me neither. Maybe, dream hesitated to show up not to bother me.”

 Ms K: “I did not have one last night but had one three days ago….Very vivid one.”

Q-taro: “OK, Ms. K. Let me ask you the same question after three days.”

 Ms. S: “I had scary one. Someone was chasing me! I couldn’t recognize who it was.”

Q-taro: “Ms. S! it was me, wasn’t it? Because I guided you to the bathroom around at midnight.”

Ms. S: “Really? Was it you?” (All laugh)

A year has passed since Ms. K moved into Haruhi-en.

She was writing winter greeting cards back then.

The time has come!

Q-taro: “Ms.K, are you planning to write new year’s cards?”

Ms. K: “I’d love to!”

Q-taro: “How many cards do you need? Have you had any other letters from somebody so far? ”

Ms. K: “I believe I’ve had none…because only two months have passed since I came here..”

Ms. K was write greetings on each card thoughtfully, reading each address repeatedly.

At Haruhi-en Niho

Ms. U told me she used to get up early.

So she gets up at 5:30 here as well.

She wanted to do something to kill time.

I asked her to peel persimmons for breakfast.

That’s like her. It didn’t take time for her to get done.

I also asked her to get rid of its calyx, but..

She looked like doing fencing!

The blade stuck through the air once.

Well, I could not take the pic because I ceased her at that time.

What would Mr. Doi, a cooking specialist, say, of he watch it?

Anyway, that’s the way she used to do.

That’s not because she became demented.

Everybody has his own peculiarities…That’s the way of human nature..by Mitsuo Aida?

But many behaviors doesn’t come to make sense by only their abilities.

This is a good place. Come and see us.

We have guided tours as requested!

At Haruhi-en Niho

BS card of TV is one of the top items get lost.

Well, I do want to pull this out, while staring at it, if you ask me.

How come this card is made and set as anyone wants to pull out? (LOL)

Anyway, we never watch TV without this card.

So we decided not to pull it out and to take somewhere.

Anybody? Please make a device for the dementia.

By the way, I used a steel hunger to make a protector.

It’s not a labor to make it night by night with a resident.

I felt like being Bonhei Hayano.

Hehehe.

Ms Y’s family brought us brilliant flowers!

It excited us very much.

“Wow! how gorgeous they are!”

“Gees. How big they are!”

“I do love such brilliant flowers as these!”

“What a surprise! So beautiful!”

“It is such a flower. As for me, not bad.”

Staff I cooks something using a kamado (cooking stove) outside every month these days.

He planned to cook chikuzen-ni this time.

It was about to rain, though.

It would be fun, even if it rains, because we have a special cheering party here.

Q-taro: “Excuse me, Ms. General Manager! How did it go?”

Ms. H: “Well, no idea. I’ve done nothing about it.”

Q-taro: “Really? I’ve seen you doing these or those, here and there..?”

Ms. H: “Not at all. Ha-Ha-Ha.”

As for going out, our residents usually go to a supermarket for grocery shopping with us, or to a DIY store to get groceries, tools, vegetable seeds and so on.

Sometimes, they go to a restaurant with their families, or they take part in their memorial service.

They sometimes go on a day trip.

Other places to visit are, well, exhibition, museum, library and more..

We visited Mr. M’s home with Ms. H who loves outgoing, this time.

Then, we went to the seaside nearby, at Aio area in Yamaguchi-shi, where Mr. M used to go fishing.

It was not familiar to me, though I was grown up in Yamaguchi-shi, too.

Well, the sea makes us feel nostalgic, doesn’t it?

I felt strange to read the report of outside training session of a new staff.

New staffs of other group homes worries about different thing from ours.

“Recreation activities get stuck in a rut.”

“Do you know better recreational activities?”

Our new staff answered, “We don’t do such recreational activities.”

New staffs of other group homes were surprised at it very much.

Well, it is not enough.

We have sometimes opportunities to hold some recreational activities, such as harmonica performance of a volunteer.

Our staffs are not troubled with recreational activities, but troubled with letting the residents lead ordinary life as we do.

We always response our basic principle at morning gathering after breakfast.

We often ask a resident to write it again and again, because we often lose one after another…

Here is not ‘spot-the-difference’, but ‘spot-the-humor’.

Look at the two photos, and spot the humor!

The resident who wrote this always write it correctly.

But this time, he chuckled to himself, hearing staffs reading it and laughing at what he wrote.