Delivery again

The feed truck showed up before dark on Tuesday. Unfortunately, it left more than an hour later, still full of feed. Maxim and Andrei spent more than an hour trying to help the driver unload it, Garry spent an hour out there in the cold also, after he got done talking to our son who had called from Canada. They filled the truck with feed without checking the auger that unloads it- which was full of something frozen at the bottom of the truck. The driver asked if they could just shovel it out and upstairs into the feed bin, but Garry rejected that plan! The driver wanted to leave the full truck here, but Garry told them they had to find a warm place to put it until it thawed.



It was supposed to come before lunch today (Thursday) but it was about three when it pulled into the drive- hopefully it is actually getting unloaded this time. Even Ukrainian dinner (lunch) time is around two. The guys ran out of grain this morning, so Maxim was ready to go pick some up today, but Victor called this morning to say they had called him to say it was coming.

Garry took off at one o'clock with 400 liters of milk in the car, plus the smetana -sour cream and cottage cheese, if he managed to pick it up at the neighbor's house- he came back for his phone he forgot because the gate was locked and the big dog was inside. Victor sells the milk on Thursday for 8 grivna (about a dollar) a liter, which is better than Canadian price. Of course, in the summer the price here in Ukraine drops to half that or less! Hopefully it is warmer next week Thursday so Victor can get his van started to come out for milk (it's a diesel engine) or Max will have to take it in.





Garry had to drive to Zaporosia first to pick up our plane tickets (Victor already has our train tickets to Kiev) because they weren't there when he went in Tuesday.
Then he was meeting Victor in Dnepro, they need to get a power of attorney done so Victor can take care of signing for the house down the street we have in the process of buying for about two years. Garry was going to sign the papers today, but the lady needed one more official's stamp or paper to sell it, so it has to be done while we are gone. Then Garry is playing basketball tonight, luckily I reminded him to carry his gym bag with his shoes out the door!

The feed unloading must not be going well, its been an hour and Max has not come in to money to pay them yet. Hopefully they are getting something out of the old truck, I can hear it running out there. Just stopped, maybe it's done... Max came in smiling, it's in the bin. He took some water out for the boys (the guys working) and found 3000 grivna to pay for the grain. Now we have feed for a month or more!

Today seems to be warmer than it has been, Garry and Maxim got the water running to the cows for the day instead of watering them with buckets, like they did on the really cold days. The cows should be able to drink all day today. I did ask if the reason was also because Max's brother returned home yesterday so they'd have to carry it all themselves. Garry laughed.

Yesterday we went into Dnepro in the afternoon to meet some people, and then went bowling at 5:30 at Most City mall (its near one of the bridges - most is bridge) and it was really cold walking in. When we left at seven the wind had died down it seemed warmer (only -12 C) outside. Looks like the forecast is calling for warmer weather with snow next week.