that apparently I can't sleep it's 1:20 am and I have been in bed for three hours trying to fall asleep unsucessfully in spite of the fact that the suitcases are packed, the last load of laundry is drying on the rack, the boys cleaned up their room, and dissected the cow eye for biology- it comes up for module#9 -we just finished 7 and plan to get three done while we are in Canada- after getting it into Ukraine in my luggage in September- it was a nice scientific preserved specimen I ordered from a homeschooling supply company- I was not bringing it back home again! As you can see Seth read the directions while Jonah did the cutting- when they do a microscope experiment, Jonah reads and Seth finds and they take turns drawing the required pictures (Seth's drawing, like his writing is neater than his brother's- Jonah has the disadvantage of being a lefty.)
Garry and I had an uneventful trip into the city later this afternoon, we went to one of Tanya Yatsenko's English classes- to listen to their presentations about Kiev. We now know what to see there if we ever get someplace other than the airport (which is acually in Borispol) and the train station! The students (older teens in photo) did a pretty good job, but they did have much of the same information to recite- except the final presenter- a guy who talked about the history of the football (soccer) team. I know a lot of info about culture, churches and the founding of Kiev- generally thought to be by three brothers, their sister- there is a monument in Kiev- which is named after the oldest brother.
We dropped by Victor first for tea and I took a picture of his new entry Garry helped build the day of the "car fire." When we got home it was cold in the house (except the boys rooms- the pipe was very hot there), the water was not pumping through the system properly- Garry added water, but it does not seem to have solved the problem yet. It's not that cold now, but it seemed warm outside when I tossed Mooshka out- I had missed doing it earlier- the reason she came to live in the village was she does not understand the use of litter pans. I then discovered that the door is unlocked and the key is missing - there were 2 keys but I haven't seen the other one in weeks. So now I have something to do in the morning- hunt for the keys if I ever get to sleep.
Garry's truck of ground grain is supposed to come then- after it didn't come today again- he says now he knows to order it a week before he wants it. They are getting extra brewers' grain and putting it in a pile as the beer factory is closing for a couple weeks on the 16th- no product- no by-product! They are feeding a lot of it to stretch the hay supply out - they hope to buy more hay in January.
The brewers grain has definitely helped production- the ladies are milking only 17 cows now with over 250 liters of milk a day. The ladies dried off four more cows yesterday(they must have given about 2 liter a day each- hardly worth washing them off). The guys are feeding the dry cows that old hay they harvested in November- along with a bit of corn silage and brewers grain. Maxim decided to mix the drycow feed together so they eat it as they were gobbling the "good stuff" and not eating the hay -so they are getting a hand-mixed TMR.
So its 2:30- guess I'll upload a couple pictures for you- let you know when we get to Canada- well maybe Friday. 3:20---I am going to get some sleep- i promise!
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