At Haruhi-en Niho

He bought a new shaver, by his salary of, his specialty, sharpening kitchen knives.

When he was using his shaver the day before, he said “ouch!” So I checked the shaver and found the blade had a crack the day before.

Well, he needs to buy a new one… Oh, he’d saved enough amount of money to buy new one! “Why don’t you buy new one by your own savings?” After all, He got a new one as I proposed.

It is not special to buy what you want by your own salary. A bit of help enables people with dementia to do the same as we do.

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!

At Haruhi-en Niho

The video which had been recorded the other day was broadcasted on 24th, this month, on which you could see our residents working outside our grouphome.
The male resident, the major character, gave us a good smile when he saw himself sharpening knives on the TV program, though it was a dinner time.
The female resident who was on it also gave us a big smile.
Actually, this kind of surprise bring them a good refreshment.
We’d like to try to put their abilities to use more and more to enrich their daily lives.

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!

By Yamamoto

Ms. Y got some money in her savings box.
It is a good sound to shake the box.
It is precious money that she got by working at Production Unit.
She said “I want to work and get more money to eat out (to eat Udon).”
I wish the day come soon.

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.”