Planting and cleaning ...

Maxim's brothers are home this week, so he is off on his Easter vacation trip home as of 6 pm tonight. He was going to leave earlier, but was busy spreading manure until then, Garry took over until the milk buyer (Oleg #two) arrived about 7:30. The reason for the manure spreading was the fact that the sanitary inspector is supposed to come on Wednesday (tomorrow- Garry found out after lunch today)- to investigate the complaint made by by the babushka next door about smell from our barn. So we'll see what happens.





Yesterday the milk surplus all disappeared, and what was in the tank from today is mostly gone (Oleg two got 600 liters) The airseeder went back (Garry, Max and a neighbor are emptying the last of the seed in the photo) and Maxim got finished with the field rolling today- yesterday he kept getting interrupted by milk buyers(Garry went into Dnepro to buy a new jack for the car- and got delayed. It was a good thing Garry had no flat tires when he drove down to Crimea- he had forgotten the welded jack had broken last week when he had a flat.)




Garry ran the rotortiller (if you are wondering it's a Dnipro tiller- made in the rocket factory) over part of the garden again yesterday, next to the onions he planted with his brother before the rain came- they are up already, so I planted some spinach and peas with the "help" of Polo (I let him off the chain) and Mint- who tried to eat the pea seed. Whenever I called Polo because they were going away, he would sit in the middle of the row I was planting and wait for me to pet him. I decided to wait to plant another row. There was a breeze blowing today, making it feel cooler outside (it was 15 C on the thermometer.)



With the guys busy- Max spreading manure, and Garry getting the pump plug wired so he could pump milk right from the tank into Oleg's van (it worked, but will go better once we get a valve for the end of the tank so it can be pumped from there- I believe they pumped it by putting the hose into the tank- not as efficient as it could be. The tank guys were back to day as the regulation is not right- it keeps cooling the milk until frozen- but I did not hear if it is working correctly now.

Any way since everyone was working, Garry came in the house around 4:30 to get the boys to feed the cows. When they help Garry he shovels and feeds the brewers' grains-but today Jonah did it- he told me when he came back in that the brewers' grain is heavy compared to everything else and like quicksand- apparently he slipped off the piece of plywood to stand on while shoveling in the pit and had one leg in up over his rubber boots.



Never know what you'll see when you look out the window!