rain and sun

Tuesday was drizzly in the morning. Garry took a couple photos when he went to the Vettenka in the village (aptenka is drugstore- this is the animal drugstore) to get some mastitis treatment. Garry and Maxim finished cementing the last piers for the shed, and Maxim went to spread "a din" - one- load of manure for someone in the village- of course it was eight instead of one or two. After lunch the rain started to come down for real, and Garry and I headed to the city- he dropped me at Metro for groceries while he went downtown to the bank. I snapped a photo as we passed the road construction - they are building a gas station. It rained for the rest of the day.
Wednesday was kinda of drizzly in the morning but turned into a beautiful day. You can see the leaves have really come off the walnut tree in the photo of the barn- combination of last week's frost and yesterday's rain. About 15 C today - much warmer than lately. Garry was busy pulling his form down in his pit and putting it back up on the other side ( he decided to leave them on for two days since the weather is so much cooler now) He and Maxim got the cement made and filled it up before lunch.
Garry was hoping to get the beams up for the shed today, but it didn't happen. Maxim got a few brackets welded on as you can see in the photo, but Maxim spent most of the afternoon walking a heifer home that Garry bought. They were supposed to pick her up on Tuesday afternoon, but Garry got Victor to call the lady to say it was too wet. Since they couldn't find anyone to drive the heifer here, Maxim had another long walk from another village- getting home just as it was getting dark.
Meanwhile Garry had a cow in heat today - she is the open cow- bred in September before they came here. Obviously not her first time either, so we really needed to breed her today. Victor called around- no AI available- so they took her over to the neighbor's little bull and he managed to do the job- hopefully she gets pregnant - she is giving 18 liters a day, better than her friends but many of them are calving in a couple months.
We are car-less for a few days as parts are getting painted from the repair on it. Since they took the parts off and it was sitting in the yard (as in the photo) the guys decided to put it inside the barn- it may rain before the pieces are dry and back on!