Inside, outside,

Inside



As I said last week Garry insulated the inside of his entryway, he hopes to get the walls covered with genuine Canadian chipboard this week. Of course that depends on how he is feeling, since he is still coughing a lot, and didn't sleep well last night- at three in the morning he took some medicine and watched the World Series game since he couldn't sleep. I drove the milk into Dnepro with Garry in the passenger seat of the Lada, so we could bring the milk to Victor's church. Unfortunately, Maxim is feeling sick today also, and I think I am catching it.
I certainly hope we are all feeling better by Wednesday- Garry and I are supposed to take the overnight train to Odessa with one of Tanya's English classes, and after a full day of touring the city, we return on the overnight train, getting back to Dnepro around 9 am. Then taking nap after we drive home (at least that's my plan.)



Outside






The bricklayer finished the outside of the entryway last night, and as you can see, using the old Mennonite bricks made it look like it belongs on the house. He did a nice job around the window and door, you can see there are not many leftover bricks in the photos- Garry plans to clean up the mess around the porch on Monday.


more outside



This is the canola field across the highway (here they plant it in the fall, unlike in Canada where it is planted in the spring) next to the corn field we had this summer. That is the one field we have plowed up for next year, Garry is waiting for two more weeks in hopes of getting some rain. The tractor will use less fuel if the ground is not so dry. Some farmers have been plowing this week, though.

There are a number of fields that are in winter wheat along the highway to the city, the really nice ones look like emerald green lawns - some are a little thinner and not so green.


While our crops are all harvested, there are some cornfields between Dnepropetroesk and Zaporosia that are still waiting to be combined. I think all the sunflowers are combined now, there was one or two fields still standing two weeks ago. There is a soybean field that isn't harvested along the highway too, you don't see a lot of soys being grown here.