It’s a balmy 14 degrees Centigrade (as Ukrainians say- well maybe they think it’s a little cool, but the centigrade part)- its April already, the crocus are blooming, the tulips are getting further up in the front yard, and Victor is spraying the fruit trees he trimmed last Saturday. We had a tableful at dinner- 9 people (the four of us Garry’s brother John, Victor, his son Denis and daughter Dasha.) Dasha doesn’t eat much, she’s ten, but she did take an extra helping of the corn- we are still eating from last year’s garden, and it tastes really good. We also had had lasagna, potato and cabbage salads, and I warmed up the leftover April Fools “cake” – still have some left for anyone who likes quick bread with chicken and tomato sauce inside. Victor had brought some plain donuts and cinnamon buns, so no one has eaten the lemon cake I baked yet. They are suspicious- it looks very much like yesterday’s April Fools cake.
The guys- along with several Ukrainian lads today- are digging yet another hole(next to the other two storage pits along the fence line but closer to the house) to become a pit for the brewers grains- as you can see, they had a small or maybe large problem- it is already full of something. Victor says there was supposed to have been a windmill on the property one time, so this may be the foundation- it has four metal rods sticking out of the cement and appears to be bricked on the sides. They are digging down around it- the pit is supposed to be a meter deep, and they are not there yet (neither the meter of the bottom of the object!) The two finished pits are full- we got a load of brewers’ grain on Tuesday you can see Garry filling the wheelbarrow full while getting the cows' dinner in one picture. Garry plans to build a low cement wall on three sides of them to hold more in (sometime when they get more fed so the level is below ground level.) There is one more hole digging in the plans-they will get good use out of the forms they made. He would like to be able to get an entire 27 ton load eventually, and put it into the pits and cover them, for when the brewery is closed down for weeks during winter holidays.
News flash- they did get down underneath one corner of the object so the hole should be empty on Monday when it is finished. The thing appears to be one meter deep (and about a foot underground- so this hole will be a little deeper- Garry says he wanted it a little bigger anyway.
This morning Garry got the cows outside for a morning romp in the barnyard for the first time this spring- here are him and Max hooking up a couple of cows- it took a while to hopefully get them back in the correct stalls to enjoy their morning feed. The milking ladies let them know if they were back in the right places when they milked at noon, I'm sure.
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