At Haruhi-en Niho

I came to work a bit earlier to water plants with our residents

-Before breakfast at the dining room -

Q-taro: “Ms. Y, let’s water plants before breakfast!”

Ms. Y: “Water plants? Why me? How come I’ve got to do it?”

Q-taro: ”Ms. S, let’s go and water plants!”

Ms.S: ”Where are you going? Oh, by the way, long time no see! Where have you been?”

Q-taro: “I’ve been hiding myself… in the teacup!”

Ms.: “Kidding me!”

Ms. H: “Hey, let’s go and get it done quick. Ms. S, let’s go!”

Q-taro: “Wow! Thank you very much, Ms. H! It’s like you, the champion of the year 2015 on watering goya.”

Ms. S: “Hahaha”

- Before breakfast at the garden of the backyard -

Q-taro: “Hey, Ms. S, you don’t have to weed. I’m asking you to water plants!”

Ms. S: (She keeps weeding.)

Ms. H: “O.K. Let me do it all.”

- Before lunch at the deck -

Q-taro: “Oh well, Ms. T, are you gonna water plants?”

Ms. T: “Yes, someone asked me to do so!”

Q-taro: “Your son would scold you, if you said such!”

Ms. T: “No, he wouldn’t. He would get angry if I did such as watering plants!”

Q-taro: “No kidding! You always say your son is nice to you, don’t you!”

Ms. T: “Oh my! There are full of weeds around this violet. You should’ve weeded.”

Q-taro: “Are these weeds?”

Ms. T: “Don’t you know that? If you leave them, there would grow tons of weeds! (LOL)”

At Haruhi-en Niko

Getting hot recently.

There were more staffs than usual, doing extra things!?

 Q-taro: “Let’s go out, Ms. K, Ms. S, and Mr. Y! (at around 1 pm)”

Ms. K:”Where to are you gonna take us?”

Q-taro: “Well, how about footbath around at Yuda-onsen, or wisteria at Ikkanno?”

Ms. K: “Oh, my pleasure! I do love flowers!”

 Then, we decided to go to see wisteria at Ikkano, one of the most famous places at Niho.

She is the person who usually arranges flowers at the entrance hall and the living room of Haruhi-en. 

She really loved it, though the wisteria was at bad harvest year.

As a matter of fact, compared with that of last year, it looked much poorer.

I promise that you love it much more next year!

At Haruhi-en Niho

We bought fresh fish and asked Mr. M and Ms. T to clean them.

Something different than usual?

There was not N staff, a skilled cook of Haruhi-en today.

Can K staff handle this?

Yes, she can!

All she has to do is to prepare necessary kitchen things and ask Mr. M and Ms. T to do it. That’s it!

Mr. M cleaned only one and had a break.

Ms. T cleaned one after another, saying “I can’t ” or “I don’t know”.

I’ve heard that Mr. T used to be a famous legendary female cooking staff around Yuda-onsen.

She never use sugar but only soy sauce for stewed dishes.

N staff said “A skilled cook seasons dishes by intuition.”

…I see!

At Haruhi-en Niho

Grouphome is a place to provide everyday life to the people with dementia.

We do laundry every single day, and sometimes do needlework.

Q-taro: “Ms. T, can you see this hole on the pants? Can you mend it?”

Ms. T: “Wow, what a big hole! O.K. Give me a needle and a thread.

I’d better use a sewing machine, though.”

Q-taro: “Don’you have one, do you?”

Ms. T: “A sewing machine? I guess there is one at my house.”

Q-taro: “Why don’t you ask your son to bring it here?”

Ms. T: “My eyes got dim. I can’t see very well.”

Q-taro: “You must be kidding! You’ve already done with sewing and knotting a thread.”

Ms. T: “Oh my goodness! Who did this?”

Q-taro: “It’s you!”

Ms. T: “Really?”

At Haruhi-en Niho

We can’t go without a digital camera.

Absolutely necessary for taking residents’ daily activities and for our publicity activities.

All of us take tons of photos every day.

My mentors are Pe Hayashiya and his wife, Pa.

We take bunch of photos like these.

We often change batteries.

As far as changing batteries, I’m really good at it as Kouya no shounen Isamu, little boy Isamu in the wilderness.

(Guess my age!)

Care workers tend not to be good at it!?

We often miss the perfect shots, being short of batteries.

Well, not many times, because we still have plenty of such chances(LOL).