wrapping up for a few days

  The blog will be out of business for a few days while I travel home to Manitoba for two weeks. I am taking the overnight bus to the airport in Kiev tonight for my May first flight. Garry says he'll do some posts while I am gone this time so we'll see if he does! Meanwhile Needles can nap all he wants on the computer when he comes inside; with the nice weather he actually does want to be an outdoor cat, unless it's raining.




Garry is very excited, his corn is up already, the first field they planted is not quite as good as the other two, there seem to be a few missed plants where seeds didn't get planted. Most farmers here are waiting until next week for the official corn planting time, but there are some other corn and sunflower fields that have been planted. It has not frosted since April 4th. The corn fields are being sprayed for weeds today, and maybe insects, at least I heard that maybe since there are some bugs chewing on the plants. Garry has hired the vegetable grower to spray, he has nice equipment to do it, at a reasonable price. Another hot day out, the corn should really get growing now.

A smiling Garry out standing in his corn field on Saturday.

It's our lawn, Garry was rototilling it up today to get rid of weeds.
Now that there is water he is thinking of planting grass

 Garry is very happy with his new heifer calf born Friday, out of the cow he wanted a female from, she's black and white and 75% Holstein. They named her Barbie. Right now we are still selling all the milk we are making to the regular milk buyers, about 500 liters a day; although the price has dropped to 3 grivna a liter (under 50 cents now) We are making less milk than this time last year, since not all the cows calved at the same time like last year, which may be a good thing.

my favorite yard flowers are just blooming, today the petals were coming off
the fruit trees  in the wind, looked like snow swirling!