Fall is fast approaching- cooler weather is here, so Garry is hurrying to finish his cement pouring. Garry, Victor and Maxim have been prepping for a shed (about 33 x 20 feet) to store machinery (and the tractors as the barn fills up) to get them out of the rain. They dig holes on Saturday afternoon for the poles. Victor thinks that the site behind the house was where the Mennonite barn stood- according to the stories he was told the barn was hit by a shell and burned during the war. So they were watching for interesting things as they dig the holes. You can see our collection of good Ukrainian shovels that have dug all the holes around here- behind the cat, leaning against the outhouse, but the handles have been replaced on most of them a few times. Garry is making a repair on one in a photo- the handle broke, so it became a shorter shovel.
Meanwhile the guys who started digging the brewers' grain pit (about 6 x 10- 5 feet deep) on Friday finished it up before dark Saturday (they had to take some time off to sing at the village celebration.)
Today Maxim was welding poles in the morning, Garry was putting together a form to make the back wall of the pit (they will remove it and use it for the front on Tuesday) After lunch which featured homemade donuts (seth took the photo- he was excited) the guys went out to do the cement. Seth and Jonah ended up helping mixing and moving cement for an hour and a half (that's Seth in the baggy sweatshirt and skinny jeans- I got Jonah a sweatshirt after I took the photo) Garry and Maxim finally got the poles set straight in the cement, by five o'clock when i took the photos they were spreading the slag around on the rest of the driveway- we are going to be ready for the wet weather when it arrives- as long as the cement is done- it will take the rest of the week to finish the pit.
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