Not really enough rain...

Monday night as we went to bed, it continued to rain, thunder booming and lightning blinking around the edge of the window blinds. When Garry woke up, he said maybe it had rained enough to keep him from working... but no, he did not come to Dneproprotroesk with me when I drove off to teach English. There were puddles outside, and all the way to the city, but they were able to get chopping the corn around nine am. There only was the one rainy night, it did cool the temperature down a little for a couple days, but it really isn't going to help the crops much, even the ones that weren't already drying up from the drought.

Andrei pushes a wheelbarrow full of silage into the barn

So the corn crop was all silage by Wednesday afternoon. The pile was hard to pack down, lots of long fluffy leaves in the mixture. Right now the cows are getting some corn silage to eat, along with lots of brewers grain, and 2 bales of hay they share a day, and they are giving a good amount of milk now, as I mentioned last week.

Garry cut some bad corn for another farmer into silage Wednesday afternoon and Maxim has been cutting some another farmer swathed (cut down) although that farmer was planning on leaving the best part of his field in the hope it can produce some grain.

The whole gang at SEI 2012

Meanwhile week two of English teaching is completed, with Friday (when Garry came along) being our annual Canada day with special events and almost every student and teacher dressed in red and white. I am in the middle with a red cowgirl hat.