Today in the village

Garry and John did some driving this morning, the frozen semen for breeding cows ran out last week, Garry and Maxim pulled some fallen straws from the bottom of the liquid nitrogen tank, but they used the last one on the cow Garry bred for someone in front of the house on Tuesday. This morning was when the guy who takes care of semen was going to be in the office in Dnepro to sell him some. They had to take that shiny new highway over to Dnipropezhisk to refill the liquid nitrogen first. Garry tells me they were on coffee break when he arrived at the old bull stud, and that's why the other office workers told him he'd have to wait, but the bookkeeper decided that she could help him right away. She he paid her, and got the paperwork so he could visit the lady with the big tanks of liquid nitrogen and the pail and gloves (see last September for the post when I went with Garry to the bull stud.) They were in Dnepro by 11 am to get the Canadian bull semen from the Canadian- Ukrainian dairy commission office, and home before one o'clock for lunch.

Our 90% chance of rain for the day has not produced any real rain yet, just lots of wind and drizzle so far. However, the guys are busy with the new fence project. Victor brought out the first sections of the new picket fence we are putting across the front yard, and they are painting them under the machine shed.

They just fit in the van

So far the village herd have not noticed the string fence

Looks like Tom Sawyer kind of fence painting

When I went outside to take that last painting photo, there was a sudden loud crack and crash, the wind took down a big part of a tree next door. It did not fall on the the babushka's house, but it landed on her well. The guys all went to look over the fence...

Hopefully the thunderstorms predicted overnight show up with some rain....or Friday.

The wind caused some power problems, some houses were out of electricity for a couple hours, and Yana stopped to ask Maxim why the "malinkee dom" - the summer kitchen she lives in with her mother had none, a check in the house and we discovered that not everything was working on the stove- we were down a phase, which meant that the pump would not work for milking tonight. However just before Garry and John left to play basketball, the power went out altogether. Luckily by the time we located flashlights (just in case) it was back on, with all three phases, so everything is working again.