Bits and bites and pictures

Monday they spent some time waiting for this truck to be ready
 to do the pour,  on Wednesday all 3 trucks arrived on time.

Garry is still busy with his cement pouring, even with John and Maxim gone. Maxim had to go home to his village- about a two hour drive to take care of some family problems, his father is ill but Max should be back later this week. His brother Andrei is still here, but he fell off the motor scooter Tuesday evening while going to buy some more fuel for the generator, he is still pretty sore today because he scraped several layers of skin off his right arm and shoulder and a big piece off of his left palm. Apparently the fuel container started to fall and he reached for it and lost control. Since it is Maxim's scooter, he was fixing it yesterday before his brother comes back and sees it.

Monday afternoon a truck brought the pipes for the barn

They put them in the precept (wagon) so they can move
 them easily when it is time to install them

We were gone to Zaporosia at the time, Garry wanted to buy some bolts and other parts to fasten the pipes to the cement for the freestalls in the barn, since they would need them before today's cement pouring. Seems like he is running out of donated funds, there may not be enough to finish the next section to pour. So maybe the project is stalled for a while, Garry was hoping to order the freestalls that will attach to the pipes so the guys could weld them while we are gone the end of June. There is a mission conference in Hungary and then we will fly home to Canada for ten days for Seth's high school graduation, and Josh and Krissy's wedding.

Kintaskiya Kookna (Chinese cooking)

We went to the chinese restaurant while we were there and were pleasantly surprized, it seemed that after the first time, it was never as good (we were very excited as this was the first Chinese restaurant we found here), but Tuesday's choices were delicious, even the cold squid spicy salad. The chicken dish was kung pawl chicken or as close as we have come to it here. You order off a Russian menu, so you are never sure what you are getting...

The power had gone out at 9:30 in the morning, apparently a maintance thing, it was supposed to be back on at 5 pm, I found out at lunchtime from Garry. We had broderbrat (sandwiches) and the guys fired up the generator so the ladies could use the milking machines for the afternoon milking at one pm. Victor was out for the day, he had brought dessert. He also brought the rest of the fence pieces, so they painted fence in the afternoon. It looked like rain all day (and again Wednesday) but it never actually rained.

the generator

I had just picked a huge bag of spinach I planned to freeze around 11 am, figuring the electric would return soon. I ended up doing it between 10 pm and 12:37 am, after we got home and the power was back on. Just the thing to keep you up at night! There were bowls of water a pieces of chopped spinach all over the kitchen when I went to bed. I also finally got the load of laundry I put in at 9 am finished running through it's cycle around midnight.







Here are some other photos from the last couple days....

Needles thinks this is his chair, he naps in it whenever he comes in

Box prefers the couch and my crocheting

English signs are popular, there is another food stand
in Zaporosia called Burger Kings

 Our trip to Zaporosia on Tuesday- the on top of a Lada photo was taken in the city as we drove home, it was almost dusk. The chairs would wobble when he hit a bump or hole in the road.

On top of a Lada-
                     two large armchairs

The boys that Garry used to play soccer with three summers ago are tall now

 Wednesday English class

Making rockets with Tonya's class

Ready for countdown

Fire! How high did it go?

Interested bystander behind the boys

This was Tonya's graduating class from her English school, they have been studying with her for six years, and are between 14 and 18 years of age. We had several people walking by that stopped to watch the rockets going up, like the babushka who kept getting closer to see better, and  even a marskutka driver who stopped his van along the road and watched one of the last ones as it was pumped up and launched!