Friday afternoon we had company and it started raining enough to make mud! Garry came in soaking wet from chasing the heifers in the barn before we ate pizza that night (and excited about the rain.) It has officially got the corn growing fast, and should have the new seeding of alfalfa growing back strong after the barley came off this past week.
Stacy, our visitor, was sick in bed (with flu we think)when we waved our other company goodbye on Saturday morning just before Victor came, along with the guys to install the airconditioning unit in the main room in the house. I admit I laughed when they were finished installing it and the cord hanging down inside from the unit was two feet above the outlet below, but there is an extension cord attached now- which is hiding (mostly) behind the TV- and I plugged the power bar for the TV and other electonics around the corner behind the couch.
Seems to work as planned, drawing a huge amount of humidity out of the house on Saturday, as the thounderstorms rained some more on us and others circled around- as you can see in this photo on Saturday evening as Garry chased the heifers back in.
The ducks are enjoying the weather. We are now at 12 ducklings- one was lost under a cow- both little yellow ducks are still there- but they wander pretty far from Momma and Poppa duck at times. Garry says he had to take off his sandals and socks to wade into the puddle at the end of the barn Saturday to chase in three ducklings merrily swimming by themselves in a large puddle outside in the barn yard so he could shut the doors before the heifers came home. I think Momma duck counts two yellow ducklings lots of striped ducklings...good to go!
Sunday morning and Stacy and I were feeling better and went off to church with Garry and a couple jugs of milk. Maxim reported that shortly after we left another storm that put the power out hit the village. Luckily the power was back on before the milk truck arrived at 4 pm (it had not come on Saturday) so Max could pump out the milk. The generator comes on Tuesday. We only had 36 people write the test to attend English Institute on this last Sunday afternoon of testing and were home before 6 pm, after driving through a monster downpour the last 15 km on the highway. Sorry didn't take the camera to church today but snapped a few outside when we got home. Things are really soaked- water standing in the pumpkin fields as we turned in the village- when you could see that far again- most of the cars were pulling off the road since it was raining so hard, we were almost swimming!
Garry went to bed early as he was feeling ill- I told him we shouldn't eat sushi for lunch! Maybe it was puddle splashing.. or the flu. Hopefully he's feeling better in a couple hours- I am posting the middle of the night because the internet was down after the storm for a couple hours.
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