Today the heifer-to-bull-calf ratio improved again! There was a new calf born and its a girl, with a little white spot on her head. I got Garry to take some photos this afternoon while he was outside. That's 3 heifers to 8 bulls born since October (mostly in December and January). The temperature inside the barn was at negative 3 degrees C (zero is frozen water temperature for Americans)but only the waterbowls at the ends of the barn were frozen this morning. The grain bin is nearly empty and they were hoping for a delivery Saturday, but maybe Pawnedelnik- Monday, so Garry and Maxim went to the mill this afternoon and pick up a few bags of grain to feed until then.
It's warmer in Manitoba than here (of course it was the other way around when we were there) and the cold snap isn't supposed to be over here until next week Thursday. The house kittens have taken to sleeping on top of the radiators, and as long as it took the bed to warm up last night we may have to join them. Garry just went outside to feed the cows their evening grain and says that there's nothing like a walk in the cold to wake you up! He is pleased that some of the fresh cows are milking 25 liters a day now. The truck came with ten more tons of brewers' grain yesterday.
In spite of the cold the kids in town are out in the after school with their sleds- the old-fashioned wooden ones with metal runners. Garry told me that you see people using them to pull stuff home from the store (summertime its mostly bikes and old baby carriages that are used for transporting goods if you don't have a car, motercycle, or scooter.) Garry took a picture of the boys across the road- you might recognize the older boy- Andrei worked here last summer painting, and his little brother Serosjia is four I think. They came in afterwards- the little guy loves to come play with the boys' nerf guns. He kept shooting Garry in the head with the darts until they had to go home around 5 pm.
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