Saturday hay and feed report

 Here it is Saturday already, Garry has been raking hay this morning, and when he gets back from a meeting about the trade school, he plans to get it baled up. No brewers' grain sales today, the beer factory has been shut down for two weeks, the last load they bought came out of a tube. Garry got Maxim to phone, it seems that beer production may start again on Monday, so Tuesday is the earliest they can get a new load.

 Unfortunately, they never brought Garry any loads of brewers' grain to bag up in tubes like last year, so it doesn't look good for feeding our cows or the rest of the village's cows this winter when the beer factory has its month long holiday shut down. Last year we fed and sold to people in the village out of several tubes during January that Garry put up in July. That is one reason why Garry is trying to get more hay or silage put up for the winter.

Garry went out to stack bales on the wagon on the first load - the good alfalfa - but hurt his back when they hit a bump, so he stayed in the house while Maxim went out to bale up the weedy field of hay. It is about 100 degrees again today, it has heated up the last couple days after some cooler weather, so the A/C is on in the house again.

Look at all the nice bales!

Garry says that they got 120 bales, and will likely get as many bad. er weedy ones. There are no bad bales anymore, because of that new baler he bought this spring. It didn't break a bale today- he says it has made only 3 or 4 broken ones since they started baling this spring, all nice solid bales, that don't fall apart putting them in the barn like the ones from the old baler. He is very happy with his new baler.  It is so hot out that they are going to put the rest in the haymow in the morning when it is cooler.

Polo is our only dog now. Last week when we got back from our trip south, we found out that Donna the puppy that Max and Andrei found in the snow last winter, had given birth to 5 puppies. Since Max has been working on his house to move in soon, Garry told him to take her over there to protect it, so she and the puppies, and the doghouse Seth built went there a few days ago. Two days ago Maxim took Mint over too, because Donna wouldn't come out of the doghouse. Once she saw Mint, she was happy and bouncing all over. They have been tied up so they could see each other since spring, when they got in trouble for chasing (killing) some of the babushka's next door's chickens.

Getting ready to head back to the city on bicycle

We had some visitors over the holiday weekend- yesterday was Ukrainian Independence Day, a friend from church biked out from Dnepropetroesk yesterday. They are heading back late this afternoon, hopefully they make it before dark.  They toured the barn and camped out by one of the ponds outside of town.