The temperature has soared to 38 C this week (around a 100F) and we are hot! Garry and the boys have been swimming in the pond (I even went in on Saturday) Garry and Maxim worked on putting the steel on the shed (attached to the house) roof last Monday. They had hoped to do the milkhouse roof, but had the wrong trim for it. So today (Monday the 14th) they got it on- they nearly finished around 10 am this morning (see photo) but ran out of screws. Victor brought more when he came this afternoon and they finished just as the rain came down (thankfully the thunderstorms came as promised- the corn was starting to curl in the fields.) Maxim has been busy welding freestalls last week (and will be this coming week too.)
The garden is growing (we have done a little watering this last week) as you can see-the zuchinni and the green beans are blooming, the sweet corn is tassling, and we have been picking a bowl of sugar snap peas everyday. I had to pull up my spinach and freeze it this week (Moosha is checking out the pile I was sorting outside today)as we are heading out to western Ukraine for a EFCCM-Europe conference in Uzgurod. When we get back we'll be eating beans and zuchinni, I hope. Seth was tired of spinach- spinach soup, stirfry, risotto and even spinach cake!
Sunday afternoon we drove into Zaporosia for a farewell picnic for the trek team that we met here in the village, four young people with the Evangelical Mennonite Church, who are flying out through Vienna today on the way to Canada. Hopefully they are enjoying their evening of sightseeing, it is a beautiful city. They had been in Ukraine for 7 months and even got to experience summer weather with the temperature hitting July norms this last week.
Seth and Jonah have nearly finished homeschooling- just a chapter of biolagy and some math to go! We will be done before Seth flys home to the farm for the summer!
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