You can't walk on the brewers grain

You can't walk on top of the brewers' grain pit if you are a big heifer walking back up the lane to the barn. Why? Because you'll sink into it, even though it looks solid. Just like you can't walk on the manure lagoon, right boys? A certain nine year old was a lucky boy the day he tried it- there was only a couple feet of manure and he got out, while his younger brother and friends watched. He had less luck showering and putting his clothes in the laundry to hide the evidence, because I sniffed out the story, and he still gets teased about it.

The heifers came up the lane from the road when the village herd came home about 6:20 , I saw them go past the window, and almost went out to take photos. Too bad I didn't because Garry came in with a story a while later. It seems one of the seven heifers stepped into the brewers' grain pit as she headed toward the barn. The heifers walk past the pits twice a day, everyday; but most of the time, it looks like a hole and they stay away. Most cows are convinced any hole is a bottomless pit and they avoid them, it's almost impossible to convince them to walk over or through them.

Today however, the brewers' grain pit was level with the surrounding ground, as we had a delivery yesterday. Garry did not get to cut into one of his tubes after all, as they didn't sell any on Monday, since they had been told no deliveries until Saturday. However, Garry told Victor to call back and say that he had money for another payment on the brewers' grain in the tubes (they agree to a payment plan.) Garry supposed that there was none coming this week because they were bagging it somewhere and sending all the trucks there, and they brought a load around noon Tuesday. So the people in the village were able to buy it again today to feed their cows and pigs.

So the heifer floundered around in the brewers grain, which was still pretty warm, since it had been hot when it came yesterday afternoon, and it has been feeling like summer again this week. Think sinking in quick sand I'd guess, so Garry had to get a rope around her horns and pull her out with the Boriks (the loader tractor has a name- its the brand name painted on it.) She got in the barn no worse for her adventure, just wet.

Maxim has been busy welding this week, for different people in the village, so he comes in around eight o'clock to shower and go out (he has a girlfriend.) Have I mentioned that he is buying a house in the village? It needed some work, they have cleaned up a jungle from the yard, a pile of assorted junk and treasures from the inside of the house, but discovered a large crack in the back of the house. The last day that his brother was here they took off the addition room/porch/garage off the back of the house, that's why it's two colors. (sorry photo has been trying to upload for more than an hour- maybe next time- I'm going to bed it's one am) So it seems that the way to fix this is with a band of metal around the top and bottom of the house to pull it together (or keep it from getting further apart?) and Maxim was welding there today at noontime.

Yesterday Garry asked Maxim if he is the best welder in the village, since people keep getting him to weld for them. Maxim said there is another very good welder but he is old.

Garry has a new job this fall. Since Seth and Jonah are not here, he has taken on the job of buying bread. The boys always took a break from homeschooling around 10:30 am and walked down to the store to buy our daily loaf or two of bread (along with some ice cream bars, or candy and sometimes Pepsi in little glass bottles.) Nadia at the store told Garry she really misses seeing the boys everyday, after two years. The trick is to get your bread after the truck brings it to the store everyday and before its all sold. Sometimes there isn't any in the afternoon. Garry has however discovered a new and really tasty kind of bread, when the regular stuff was sold out at the store last week. It's ochin cosnee (very tasty) so he tries to get it everyday now (its a little more expensive, but softer.)

Been rearranging the furniture - that's right children, I'm cleaning house, and with Seth and Jonah in Canada, I am getting Garry to help move furniture from room to room. If you're going to clean under something, you may as well put it in a new place!