At Haruhi-en Tsuwano.

There was a fitness promotion festival held by our community the other day and we took part in it as participants with our neighbors.

They provided various exercise programs for our enjoyment.

Everybody was enthusiastically doing activities together and the place was filled with joyful excitement.

We tried bilboquet.  Maybe, it is something that makes you nostalgic for those good old days.

Mrs. T was told tips on bilboquet by a local resident and then, she did it beautifully!

For lunch, we ate vegetable curry, which was cooked by members of local ladies group. It was full of vegetable and very delicious(^^)/

In the afternoon, we enjoyed playing ball throwing game. The staff workers accompanied our residents tried to throw as many balls as possible into a basket, and managed to put only one ball in the basket. But, the kids members in our team played it very well, so, our team won a game. Marvelous!

We are now looking forward to next year’s festival.

We are so blessed and grateful, always.
Thank you all.

At Haruhi-en Niho

We have an expert of making pickled Japanese plum here. She is Mrs. Y, a resident here.  The other day, we asked her to make pickled Japanese plum. Other residents helped her out with it. It takes a while for fresh plum to turn into pickles with some salt.

The next day, Mrs. Y checked on it. She looked into the container and said…,

Mrs. Y: It looks like it has not dehydrated enough. Maybe, we need to add some more salt.

Staff: How much salt are you going to put?

Mrs. Y: Actually, no idea!  We must find it out by making small adjustments. It is trial and error. Everything works that way, don’t you think so?

Staff: Maybe yes. (…well, she is an expert of making pickled Japanese plum, anyway.)

As June and July are the season of Hydrangea in Japan and it is coming into bloom here and there, we headed off to the site in Hatagasako, Tsuwano, called Hydrangea road, (“Ajisai”-road), the other day.

Even though it was a drizzling and cloudy day, we all got excited when seeing the beautiful scenery of Hydrangea flowers in the car.

“Wow, this is so pretty!”

“Magnificent!”

“I’m gonna bring along my son here next time.”

They looked completely captivated by the pretty Hydrangea flowers.

“Feeling so good!”, took a deep breath.

Not only Hydrangea, we encountered….

Mrs. M: “Oh, is this a dog?.. It looks too big for a dog… It looks like a cow. ”

Mrs. T: “It is eating so much!”

The cow was just eating grass. She was watching it in amusement.

I think that we can enjoy the Hydrangea season for a while and hope that we can visit some other sites during this wonderful season.

At Haruhi-en Tsuwano

Cute guests from Tadachi Jidou-kan (pre-elementary school) brought us their homemade tea leaves.

They sung a song written about tea pickers cheerfully to encouraged our residents.

“Thank you for coming!”, “Come and see us again!”

They were all smiles even after seeing them off, saying “How cute they are!”

Thank you very much for visiting us!

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