Sunday morning as he comes in from the barn – “Garry you are late- it’s after nine” (time to leave for church)” No, it’s after eight- time changed- I was wondering why the ladies weren’t done milking when I went outside at seven- time changed.” “Why didn’t anyone tell us?” “Oh—Victor did on the phone yesterday, and Andrei when he phoned about church being on Karl Marx today”(it’s election day in Ukraine –for local government, and the building where we normally meet is a polling place). “But you didn’t tell me...........”
Victor is spending the weekend in Kramatorsk- He went with Doreen and the Bellamys – Orben and Trish have been giving family life seminars in different churches. Doreen is moving into an apartment there so she can start her English teaching ministry. So he did not make his usual milk run out here last night, but we are dropping plastic cans with 104 litres of milk off at his church so it can be sold as it has for the last month. Max and Garry load the giant jugs in the back of the car before getting dressed for church, after feeding the cows (after the ladies milk). It’s a good thing we bought the Lada 111 Universal –it’s a hatchback so they fit in nicely upright. (It’s called that so you can put anything and everything in there)You can see Garry and Jonah carrying one into the Baptist church in one of the photos.
We had a nice visit with Doreen on Thursday night when we went for groceries (the day we finally got the car back from the final paint-repairs.) She was at Metro getting a printer and a few things for her apartment. We went over to Dafi (the mall) and had a snack and talked for an hour. Doreen and I had blini (stuff rolled in a thin pancake- mine was chicken, mushroom and cheese and she had a dessert fruit one.) Garry was hungry so he tried the new Chinese place at the food court and some sushi rolls (while Chinese food is rare-sushi is very popular- the in-thing- in Dnepro.)
Saturday morning Garry and I arrived at Metro at nine am- we were going to try Puzata Hata breakfast there- but it opens at ten. So we bought a case of paper towels for milking, and a six-pack of paper towel rolls for puppy clean-ups- we missed that aisle on Thursday, and headed to McDonald’s for Mc Muffins, hash browns, large coffee for him and large orange juice for me (three times bigger than the coffee)- almost like home.
After we got back I had a great time watching the Flyers beat Pittsburgh- the poor Penguins- they were shown losing again in the evening before college football live and again after the World Series game was over this morning. The 8 pm Eastern baseball games come on a 3 am (the next morning) live here. They show them twice more that day too. Meanwhile, Garry was off for his last load of the ten tons of alfalfa. When he got back and unloaded we had taco salad (Metro did have some imported nacho chips in stock.) Maxim was busy doing some plowing- he had borrowed a plow from someone in the village- the garden was too wet to use the disc. Before he was done plowing other gardens, he had a flat tire on the tractor- there’s a photo of them working on getting it off the rim so Max could take it to be patched. We saved Maxim some pizza- I made 5 last night (that’s one per person, but I did not eat a whole one.) MacGyver was putting out an oil well fire in last night’s video—with dynamite from an abandoned mine, of course- Lots of explosions.
I have included some photos of things we saw on the way to church- a man walking four cows down the middle of the road in the small town of Nova Swit on the highway, the construction on the road by the new gas stations going up (the police were there catching speeders- someone put up a 50 km sign there.) Church was upstairs on Karl Marx (the premier downtown street) – it’s where they used to meet before the present location- I took a photo of the praise band (excuse the blurring- they just don’t stand still when they’re singing), attendance was good and it was warm in the room (in February we met there and it was cold) no overhead today so I couldn’t sing- I can follow along in Cyrillic(Russian alphabet) normally- Garry was singing though. His Russian has gotten so good that people try to talk normally to him in the village- then he gets lost- if it’s easy stuff, he’s able to communicate. Tonya was our wonderful translator again today for the service.
After church we found phone cards to buy, got lunch at Puzata Hata,(where we saw a bridal party infront as we walked up- in photo)then tried to find the boys a new TV (the one in their room went out to the summer kitchen for the ladies.) We also got the puppy a collar so he can stay outside sometimes, in the dog house Seth built for puppy #1 with the tie-out chain I brought from Canada in August for puppy #2.
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