As dusk was falling yesterday, we were doing a brisk business in brewers grain, there were two boys with a bicycle getting a feed bag full, and a motorcycle with trailer getting his little trailer full, he had a little trouble getting the engine going when he left, but eventually he got out the driveway. Garry said the horse and wagon were the first ones in Wednesday around 4 pm.
Wednesday evening around 6 pm we were headed into Dnepropetroesk on the highway, with the problem heat (water line) pump, my laptop, and a few things to do. Garry had been under the weather all day, (he has a cold) but decided we could go in and get the insulation for the porch/entryway he started building back in the middle of June.
Wednesday morning the man came to start bricking up the outside of the project. We are using old Mennonite bricks to cover it to keep up the character of the old Mennonite house we live in. He works as a bricklayer in Dnepro, I think. He got about half way up the walls, when he returns he will need some kind of scaffolding to finish. It is not costing anything, since he traded Maxim for some welding Max did for his heat system. It looks like Garry and Victor need to find 100 more bricks, though.
Now that the bricks are going on, Garry wanted to start finishing the inside of the room. He is going to insulate the walls and put chipboard on the inside. He said he could paint it whilte like he did in the milkhouse while we were buying the insulation at Nova Lenya . I said "white?" and he laughed and suggested brown - to hide more dirt.
When we got to the store, Garry got a handcart before coming in, I was waiting halfway across the entryway, looking at a Comfy (electonics store)ad a helpful girl had handed me while Garry was at the cash machine in the corner, getting some grivna out, with his cart pulled right up behind him. Suddenly I noticed a man pushing Garry's cart toward me, one-handed. I said Isvaneatcha (excuse me) and grabbed the other handle. Luckily Garry came toward us and told him it was his, since I had run out of Russian and so he went off to find his own outside.
After buying the insulation and a sharp new utility knife to cut it, we drove over to Dafi and had a bite to eat while I uploaded some blog photos amd Garry met Victor to pay for our internet in the village- it had quit working sometime before Wednesday morning so we were unable to connect, sadly we can't figure out how to track usage with our new service. Garry had been wanting Victor to show him how to
put money on with the machine at the mall and now he knows how to do it himself. We grabbed some Mc Donald's drive-thru for a snack on the way home.
This morning Garry tried taking the pump off the electric system (it's the backup in case Russia turns off the gas to Ukraine) since Victor had told him they were exactly the same. After cleaning out a filter we have water going around the entire system, the house is heating up nicely!
Today is more cloudy and cool (6 C this morning) than wet, and Garry is working on the inside of his entryway, putting up the insulation, so they will have a nice place to leave all their barn boots and coats. Polo will come into the entrance but won't step through the second door into the house for some reason. I think he'll figure it out before winter.
I admit I may have a crochet addiction, I have been making a lot of stuff for the girls for Christmas, here are the owls and the play sushi I have been making, I have switched to Barbie clothes now.
Jonah's cat seems to have a lingering injury from when he got hurt 10 days ago, he limps on three legs and his front shoulder is swollen, like something is broken. Needles seems happier about staying indoors with the cool wet weather anyway. He still moves really fast when he thinks there is something good to eat, and can jump up on the furniture.
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