Garry took a walk just before dark tonight, Maxim had phoned from his home village (he left after I returned home from Dnepro this afternoon- he has a wedding of a friend to attend) to say that someone had called him to say Garry had missed getting a heifer back when the herd came home tonight. I went out and took some pictures but missed Garry coming back with the heifer- he said he found her standing in front of the village bar in the road yelling since she was lost. The confusion was because as we left this morning one heifer had returned home so Garry thought that there was only eight heifers to get in. But the guys must have chased her back (Garry had driven into Dnepro and returned home with the mission Lada so we can go to the Summer Institute picnic Saturday.)
Garry is busier than he thought this weekend-he had planned to try skydiving with a friend from church but he couldn't fit it in it was too early in the morning since Saturday will be the first of ten days of caring for the village herd (I got my wish) -he has hired some of the same boys who have been helping bale straw (they load the wagons and unload them into the mow) They are also the same boys who feed the cows when Maxim is busy - you can see one filling up buckets of brewers grain for a customer while he is shoveling a wheelbarrel full for the cows in the barn this afternoon. Check out the little wagon that the babushka was going to pull home with her buckets in.
He is also busy with preparing for the Bible camp as its called here (like VBS) in two weeks he has gathered a crew of Russian speakers (most know some English) who will live at the house and run the camp, Monday through Friday. Julia has come out this weekend and her and Marina (the one helping with straw) are explaining the lessons to Garry (the book is in Russian) since he will be the camp director and do the opening assembly each day. This will be the same week as the final week of my teaching English, so it may be a little busy here. And next week he needs to bale another 5000 bales of straw, too.
here's Mint over by the petunias in the fallen tree trunk- he gets tied up every morning and let loose in the evening- after the neighbors chickens are in their sheds.
The boys at home in Manitoba are busy trying to finish making hay before taking part in the St Labre 200 go-kart race this weekend, hopefully they finish before they have to start building. They had some equipment breakdowns. Looks like it will be a fun weekend (and hot too) if you want to check it out- the website is www.stlabre200.ca
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