It is beginning to look a lot like... Christmas....December 2nd and we woke up to snow outside this morning- a blanket of white covering the ground. Garry says it was cold outside feeding the cows this morning- he had me put warm gloves on the “what we need to bring back from Canada list”. They fork the corn silage into the bucket of the loader from the pile outside twice a day, they tried using the bucket to scoop it the first day, but got too much dirt in it.
It has been about -7 C all day, with a cold wind blowing. The snow made Seth decide that Polo could come in the house for the day- even though it was as cold or even colder yesterday. Jonah did decide to wear his shoes for their daily walk to the store to buy bread (and chocolate bars- too cold for their usual ice cream treats) he has been wearing his sandals until today. They even found hats and gloves to put on.
Garry bought a string of Christmas lights for indoor use, we have no tree for them, it looked like lots of work to put them up on the beams, so we ended up hanging them on the old hay rake (made by Victor’s father) that hangs on the living room wall. There are eight settings, so they blink or fade at various rates.
Today Victor brought Pastor Andrei (from our church in Dnepropetroesk) and his wife (they were married in August) out for dinner at one o’clock- and they arrived at 1:05- surprising me as I was just finishing the corn chowder (Victor normally runs behind schedule). The salads and taco casserole were already done for the second course, so I phoned Garry as he and Maxim were hard at work in the barn all morning. They were working on the feed bin and the straw wall.
Around three o’clock we finished talking (and tea) and they headed outside for a tour of the barn. I got a photo of them in the milkhouse as Victor was filling up a jug of milk for them to bring home. We are having people from the church out for lunch and a tour after church on Sunday- apparently the sign up list has grown from 20 to 40 people coming now (unless the weather keeps some home.)
It has been about -7 C all day, with a cold wind blowing. The snow made Seth decide that Polo could come in the house for the day- even though it was as cold or even colder yesterday. Jonah did decide to wear his shoes for their daily walk to the store to buy bread (and chocolate bars- too cold for their usual ice cream treats) he has been wearing his sandals until today. They even found hats and gloves to put on.
Garry bought a string of Christmas lights for indoor use, we have no tree for them, it looked like lots of work to put them up on the beams, so we ended up hanging them on the old hay rake (made by Victor’s father) that hangs on the living room wall. There are eight settings, so they blink or fade at various rates.
Today Victor brought Pastor Andrei (from our church in Dnepropetroesk) and his wife (they were married in August) out for dinner at one o’clock- and they arrived at 1:05- surprising me as I was just finishing the corn chowder (Victor normally runs behind schedule). The salads and taco casserole were already done for the second course, so I phoned Garry as he and Maxim were hard at work in the barn all morning. They were working on the feed bin and the straw wall.
Around three o’clock we finished talking (and tea) and they headed outside for a tour of the barn. I got a photo of them in the milkhouse as Victor was filling up a jug of milk for them to bring home. We are having people from the church out for lunch and a tour after church on Sunday- apparently the sign up list has grown from 20 to 40 people coming now (unless the weather keeps some home.)
Garry and I were planning to go to Marina’s tonight for a Christmas party- there will be students from Summer Institute there as Thursday is her English discussion group that they are invited to at the end of Institute each year. Unfortunately when we got into the car at 5:30 to leave it was drizzling- freezing rain. Garry got some water to clean off the windshield, but it was completely iced over from the rain falling before we even drove through the village. So we decided to turn around and stay home. Better not to chance driving on icy roads, and wrecking the car. The temperature outside still reads -6 but Garry says the wind is blowing out of the south tonight instead of the north like it was this morning. It is supposed to be 8 above on the weekend, so the warm air must be on its way.
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