While we were gone last week Maxim worked on welding the stalls. Since we were unable to find a source for the metal loops that separate the cows, Garry found a design on the internet, and Maxim made a gig to weld places of pipe together to make the stalls, since we don't have a way to bend the pipe. The tiestalls have shorter loops than freestalls like we have at home so the cows can turn easily to leave the barn when they are untied from their stall. As you can see this is finished. Garry has been working on the outside of the milkhouse this week, Jonah gave him a hand a few times as he was nearly finished with school work. The boys did finish up on Saturday with both getting 90% on their last biology test, and the last of the math.
The photo with EFCCM is here is to remind me of a story. Garry hopes to build relationships as the Christian guy who helps out his neighbours. Garry has been giving away a piece of rebar here, a little wood to the people in the village who come over and ask- mostly the guys who worked on one of the cement projects. One of the men who worked when the Steinbach team was here is married to the village school's English teacher. He came over with a note she wrote "May I use your big scissors for one day?" He was asking to borrow the big bolt cutters Garry bought to cut rebar, they had not used them before and thought they were great, so he used them while we were gone and here they are back in the barn.
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