Everything is fine...

You may have noticed that I did three posts yesterday- I have a confession- I was staying up late waiting to see when Garry's plane landed in Toronto. When I finished the third one I saw that the Aerosvit flight from Kiev and landed almost an hour late in Toronto. I have not heard from him, but my sister-in-law meessaged me that he had arrived in Exeter. He took the overnight bus (it was good enough for me) to the airport Monday night, and it was top secret- his parents did not know he was coming. They are celebrating his Dad's birthday this weekend and most of his family will be there- he has four sisters and four brothers.

Today Victor registered the name of our co-op, it is Franzfeld. Victor choose it because originally Nikolipolia (Mikolipolia in Ukrainian) was two Mennonite villages side by side- one was Nickolifeld (Nicolas'field in German)and this side of the village was Franzfeld.




After that he drove into Dnepro with us for the boys' dentist appointment- the bottom braces came off and they got fixed retainers on the bottom behind the teeth, and next week the rest come off and they get the other kind of retainers for the top- and we pay the rest of the bill plus an extra 35 grivina for the boxes they go in when not being worn.





Yes, everything is going fine with Garry gone...except the candydish at the dentist's office which broke into many pieces- Jonah's was right it was an accident waiting to happen with the rearrangement of the seating with the glass topped-end elephant table into the middle of the benches- he was trying to squeeze in next to me when more people came in- he did catch the glass mug before it hit the tile floor.

The corn did get sprayed for weeds today - Victor went home after they finished the field across the highway at 8:30 tonight- the big dairy farmer did it for Garry since Garry chopped his haylage. They spent a half-hour trying to get the brakes unlocked on the water truck when moving from one field to the other. The rain is holding off- there is some in the forecast for tonight. It only needs two hours to set before it rains.

Maxim was busy when the dry cows and heifers came home with a truck buying brewers' grain, and the boys went out to help, Max and his friend counted quick and saw 9 had turned into the yard and chased after the group heading down the street. Meanwhile Seth and Jonah decided that they should chase the ones standing there into the barn. A few minutes later Jonah came around the front of the house with the two missing heifers - they had snuck over to the wrong side of the yard. Max was relieved to find out there were 11 in the barn when he got back from running up the street.

So everything is going fine with Garry gone ---even a new milk buyer today- coming for milk next week on Monday. I am hoping for more sleep tonight- Oxana's guys showed up to buy milk and banged on the window at 5 am this morning, which woke me up after a couple hours sleep. The milk truck took the rest before seven when the cows went out to the field (with our 11 heifers and dry cows) so the milk tank was empty and washed this morning!

Garry flies out of Toronto Sunday evening (with the time change he gets back to Kiev around noon Monday) and plans to bring parts for the chopper, and some bucket milkers as luggage.