Cats and Dogs (and walls)

Took a cute photo of Mooska's baby kitten in the house last night- it climbed up on the spinning wheel. The boys often bring it in to play, some afternoons Mooska carries it to the door and waits on the stoop for someone to open the door. After spending most of her days outdoors since spring, she's thinking that the house is warm and a great place to hang out. She is even tolerating Needles, Jonah's kitten. Needles has turned into a very healthy-looking kitten since getting that needle from the vet a couple weeks ago. The cats may decide it's a little too busy in here, since just before dinner Andrei(the neighbor who painted and helped out in the summer) came over with not one- but two puppies from somewhere in the village. Last Sunday Garry asked him if he could find one. They have became Marco and Polo for the time being, with Jonah claiming the short-haired one and Seth the long-haired- more collie-looking one(Marco).
Last night we got some rain, but by mid-morning the sun was coming out. Today was busy as Victor had the wood Garry needed for the rest of the shed delivered and came with Doreen around eleven am. Doreen has just come back to Ukraine and is going to teach English in Karamatorsk (spelling guess) She was here last fall one day while visiting to say goodbye to Ukraine- she taught English in Dnepro at the university a few years ago- but decided God had other plans for her and she was coming back to Ukraine. She was excited to see the changes here- last year I was still "camp cooking" in the summer kitchen as the reno was progressing- now we have a real home- kitchen and all! I even found a cake pan for her to take for her apartment- I have bought a glass one and don't use my sqaure silicone one anymore (I still use the rest of the set a lot- loaf, muffin, round and bundt cake pans- they were great to pack in the luggage when we came.)
Doreen toured the barn before dinner- she liked the taco casserole so much she took home the recipe- I tried it out because it uses taco ingredients but no tortillas- we have been unable to find taco shells for 5 months- they used to sell imported ones at Metro. After we ate, she washed dishes (I love company) and then we went out and took some pictures when Garry called Seth and Jonah out to help put up the back wall for the machinery shed. With the beams up, you can see how big it is. Jonah said "this is little" -it was much easier to put up than those beams in the barn for the haymow! You can see Doreen talking to Garry in one photo- we were enjoying the warm afternoon sunshine.
Afterwards, Garry built some cross-beams and stuck them up- tommorrow they will square them up and nail things down. Garry took down his form in the pit this morning and he and Maxim cut it and made one for the short side- they will be making cement to fill it in the morning.