Piles done and yet to do- updated

Garry and Maxim had no trouble chopping the alfalfa on Wednesday, but as he thought the heavier, muddier prosso millet has been nothing but trouble today. The heavy dew had them waiting until after Garry taught at the school this morning, Max raked the barley he had cut the morning before. The chopper broke after one and half loads and they were back here working on the insides. They did get more done after that , but quit after dark when the blower got plugged up.

 They will start chopping early on Friday, as soon as the machine is fixed, because there is rain in the forecast. Hope it goes well as we have to go to Dnepro in the afternoon at three to pick up our police check forms for our residence card renewals, they have to be picked up in person.

Still working on getting the photos from last week up, but I am uploading some on the trade school blog today.

Update- Friday morning Garry was up before dark after a night where he kept waking up, worrying over his silage harvest, he said he'd be relieved when it's finished. Ten am and the windy overcast weather turned into rain, (Box the cat, who insists on going outside at night lately, was meowing at the door to come in) but the sun broke through a half hour later, when I went outside to take this photo as Maxim returned with a wagon full to add to the pile. Hoping all goes well until we have to go to the city.

Well, maybe not, its noon and the chopper is parked in the yard, no one around, maybe they are going to finish another way, since it looks like the machine has got prosso in the pickup. Garry had said they had someone who could bale and wrap it if the chopper didn't work as the backup plan.

Turns out they did finish, although there is about a load of barley left in the field. They got three loads of the millet done this morning and started in the barley field, where it started to rain as they were switching the full wagon for the empty one-- from the loader tractor to the one Garry was chapping with and they could see it raining hard on the far end of the field. Soon it was too wet to continue---Garry managed to get up the hill and out of the field with the tractor. He was surprized to find it so much drier when he got home. They will just chop the rest next week to feed the cows.

Our trip to the city went fine, we even went bowling and shopping for groceries, along with picking up the paperwork and getting photos taken for the next step of paperwork Victor will take care of.