So this morning when Garry checked the weather on the internet, of course the forecast for the week has changed from sunny until Friday to 50% chance of showers for Wednesday (and the rest of the week.) So Maxim spent the day cultivating the field again in the hope that the rain holds off and they can plant this week- along with eight gardens as he was heading back this evening. Here are some other ways people are getting their gardens cultivated- the people-powered harrows (the lady next door hired a guy to harrow here garden- you can see him in the background of one of the pulling the giant thing out of the hole photos) This evening I saw the guy with the white horse harowing the garden behind ours- back behind the silage pile, and this morning there was an old tractor blowing clouds of exhaust as it worked up the garden beyond the little alfalfa field two houses over.
Garry hooked the tractor to the disks this morning after finishing feeding the cows and cleaning up the barn this morning. He went around the field he was hoping to burn off- but the stuff didn't want to burn- too damp with the sun already hiding behind the clouds. The ground was really too wet to disk anyway.
After lunch Garry had to drive to Dnepro to the dentist so I went along to get some groceries while he was there. For some reason my SCU card wouldn't work in the ATM, so I had to wait until he returned to go though the checkout. Getting grivna from the cash machine is the easy way to change money here (you can exchange US dollars or euros at banks and money exchange places, but except for the 5 dollar change for foreign transactions the cash machine is great - try to find ones that will give more per transaction to make that 5 dollars worth while.) Too bad the camera battery was charging- as usual saw great photo ops while without it- like a white horse pulling a full load of hay on the outskirts of the city- with a big red tassel on its bridle.
I grabbed the camera when we got back for the photos of the neighbour pulling the big block out of the hole. Several guys worked getting a cable around it, and out it came- looked like it weighs a ton. Even the babushska came over to the fence for a closer look (or maybe she was telling Victor how her chickens might fall in the hole- I didn't ask.) It's now sitting on its side further up the fence. The boys were back to work on the hole until dark (around 8 pm.) Victor had come while we were gone, bringing the bags of pea seed in his van. It's even treated seed- at least the plastic burlap bags are dyed purple- so it should have some fungucide on. They still need to get the oat seed - the guy that is supposed to sell some has been unavailable- there had been discussion of getting barley seed instead. So either there will be lots of action in the morning, getting ready to seed---or not much at all, just watching the rain fall.
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