Our baby turned 15 yesterday- Jonah now six teet tall and no where near finished growing. Garry had a phone call the night before from Victor- some lady who knew the former school director (whose share we are now farming- Garry's first rental last year) Had called him. She no longer lived in the village and had been trying to get paid her yearly share for six years and had taken the former collective guy to court to get it (and control over her land- which we are going to rent next year now) Anyway the rent is paid to people in the village in barley grain, straw - a certain amount per share. However those people who have left, if they are lucky enough to get anything from him, get a lesser amount in cash, because they cannot take their grain. So on Tuesday she came to the village, signed for the grain she was owed, we paid her for it and had it trucked it to the mill to be ground and stored for feed for the cows (buying grain ahead was on Garry's list of things to do before we leave in two weeks). Thursday Garry and Maxim start building a bin in the hayloft to put feed in.
While Garry spent most of the day on the grain buying project, I made a special dinner- speacial chicken (a recipe of my Mom's originally from the Hornerstown Baptist Church cookbook published around 1975) and baked potatoes- from those potatoes the guys found in the field on Monday- it was done cooking around one but we finally ate when Garry came in at 2:15 - I had just told the boys we were eating at 2:30 no matter if they came. Maxim was tied up with the paperwork for the grain- he ended up eating his dinner at 5 when we had the cake, ice cream and presents. Jonah had been waiting all day to find out how many books he would get for his birthday. You have to know that the answer five was so exciting because there are really no English books to be found here- for sale or loan- and certainly not the ones on Jonah's list (older teen fantasy-sci fi- spy- just released series he's already reading mostly.) He was pleased with his other presents- new orange shorts, rubber experiment kit, a Racko game and thinking putty (really big ball of silly putty-like stuff in a can.) You can see the boys stretching it out in one of the photos. After opening the presents, Jonah blew out all the candles- Seth was hoping that one would relight.
Jonah finished off the book from his sister this morning and has started on his second book while we went to the dentist this afternoon. They did a special exam to check their progress (x-rays) and Jonah has to wear his nightly headgear for another three months - with another set of elastics at night to boot- but they think he will be about finished next fall. He's a real trooper, always puts it on every night on time, so I think the dentist's this part is really important speech was not needed! Seth's braces may be on longer however- they say one side is further along than the other. He hopes to be done by next year, so we'll see. You can really see a difference since they got them on in March.
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