Bathing a stray dog ​​in a mountain stream, counting countless saplings, lending out rubber boats, and methods of analysis. > Bonds Gallery

We are coming down the mountain path.

To the left, a stream flows down.

I am taking a stray puppy with me.

I am going down with two or three friends.

However, I look at the stray dog's paws.

Ah, the stray dog's ankles have been severed. That is why thick calluses have formed on the severed parts.

And there are visible scars there.

I feel so sorry for the puppy; my heart aches.

I take the puppy into the nearby stream and give it a bath.

My friends help too.

- I'll speak nicely to the leader later.

- What do you mean?

- I'll tell him that you two helped bathe the stray dog.

I'm trying to tell the leader that my friends helped, but

my friends don't seem to understand.

We go into the stream water that comes up to our knees

and wash the puppy thoroughly. ...

I count the numbers. The ones in front are tree saplings or long objects.

1, 2, 3.... I count the numbers to organize them.

But the numbers grow enormous.

Hyejin, who is diligent and hardworking, counts the trees.

There are so many trees planted in the furrows that I think I can just write down 3-4 from the left and 3-4 from the right.

But when I try to write them down like that,

there are so many trees in the middle that I can't omit them.

The space for writing is running out.

Counting the number of trees planted in the furrows is too much; it exceeds expectations.

We count the quantity of these.

H's team leader, Dh, is standing next to her. He is the team leader who has been working with us for a month recently, filling in for our team leader.

Countless tree saplings planted in the furrows...

...

We pass a small waterway.

Someone asks me to lend them a rubber boat.

I readily agree to lend it.

To the left, a waterway about the height of a person stretches out. Next to it is a road.

I walk along with that person.

We launch the rubber boat into the waterway and tow it along the road beside it.

"Ah, how do I unload the boat...?" the person next to me says.

We have reached the riverbank.

I survey the waterway leading from the waterway to the river.

A narrow channel leads into the river. Although it is shallow,

I just need to tow the rubber boat out. I step into the mud and tow the rubber boat

pulling it toward the river. There is no problem.

Ah, the person who borrowed the rubber boat from me is from a scuba diving group,

and several people are planning to scuba dive in the river using the rubber boat.

I feel a bit flustered. It is a boat I used to ride alone with a friend, so I am a bit self-conscious now that several people are going to ride it.

However, since it is wider than the boat I used to ride, it seems like several people can ride in it.

As people get on, the boat starts to sink slightly.

I attach additional buoyancy balloons to the left and right sides of the back.

That stabilizes it.

I observe the inside of the rubber boat.

There is mud on it. About a hand span... it got there from people using it. I see fragments of seashells in the mud.

Ah... seashell fragments have sharp edges, so they could damage the rubber boat.

It bothers me. I also feel a bit regretful about lending my boat to other people.

...

I turn my head to look to the left.

There is writing I wrote on the baby formula can.

This place looks like a laboratory. They analyze certain objects.

I do that work too.

The writing on the baby formula can is what I wrote when I used to do analysis work.

That is my handwriting.

Next to me,

someone from another country—who looks like a German—is asking about the analysis method over the phone.

It is a diagram showing water being boiled inside a glass container and then passed through to analyze.

It is a method of analyzing the substances inside as they pass through the water.

- Dh is asking if this is the correct explanation for the distillation method.

As I pay attention, Dh deliberately speaks louder, as if to make sure I hear him.

It seems I know more about the analysis methods and have already made a judgment about the situation.

- We are better off boiling and distilling than pressing.

There is also chromatography, but

I explain it to those who use a different method.

There is a tremendous amount of work involved, but they are handling those problems on our behalf.

It seems they have delegated our work.

It seems we handle only about 1% of it, and the rest has been left to others.

I know it by feel.