Sunday morning it was raining. Maxim decided he had to plow because the borrowed plow would need to be returned so the boys had to help Garry feed the cows and load up the milk for Victor's church in the car before we could leave for church. We drove to Victor's church to drop off the milk- they sell it after church is over and apparently attendance is up since the milk came- Victor sells it for less than the price at the market- he has a couple women who sell it for him. Production is still good - he had 140 liters to sell yesterday.
The rain fell on and off all day, the temperature was about 11 C so Garry and Jonah did not wear coats - you can see by the photo of the praise team in church that not everyone at Morningstar was as warm as they were- one of the singers even had gloves on!
After church we were supposed to meet up with the Nickles (missionaries in Kirva Rog working at the orphanages there) but it was delayed so we hung out at the "Most" shopping center(mall). They had brought two of the local girls that work with them full-time, and two of the graduates that are students at university and work with them part-time to Dnepro to meet missionaries, and were staying with the Bellamys for the weekend (well Trish and the kids- Orben was off teaching this last week and was not back home until Sunday night.)
By the time they could meet us for lunch somewhere it was going to be after three and Garry was wanting to get home to feed the cows before dark - so suddenly Trish ended up hosting us for lunch at 2:30- with an army of female helpers chopping, mixing and making open-faced sandwiches. We had a great time meeting the girls and mixing with all - I took a photo of the gang as we were leaving the Bellamy house. The group from Kirva Rog were heading back on a two hour marshuka ride shortly after we left. Of course it still was dark when we got home, Garry went out to the barn to help Maxim, who was feeding the cows as the rain was still falling.
This morning the headlands still needed plowing- Garry and Max picked up some pototoes from the field he had plowed- apparently it wasn't all planted in pumpkins- as you can see in the photo of them in the back of the car, they are way bigger than the ones we grew in the garden!
The guys made and poured some cement around the brewers grain pit- to keep the feed cleaner, fixed a tractor tire. By lunchtime Maxim was off to finish plowing- Garry told me yesterday how they got the borrowed plow- it was still attached to the guy's tractor, so they had to drive over and get it by lifting it and turning it around to put on our tractor- the other tractor had no battery. Garry and Victor were off picking up a load of straw bales that Garry plans to stack up as a insulating layer for the canvas wall in front of the cows. Seth and Jonah moved the puppy's house to a new spot between the summer kitchen and shed, hopefully Polo will get his chain less tangled up in the new spot. Today was more wet and muddy than rainy, and still warm enough to go outdoors in your t-shirt (I hear that it's snowing in Manitoba).
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