Coming and going

Garry has been a busy boy, between teaching the students to milk and keeping up with stuff on the farm. Thursday he gave the students a test on cattle judging and feed rations before my English class. On Thursday evening he was very excited to report when he came in from the barn that the heifer that calved had the tenth heifer calf in a row! The two boys who were helping milk (Sasha and tall Maxim, I think) were excited to see their first calf born, now everyone will want to see one even more than before.

Garry is going over the cattle judging reasons part of the test with Nika

Andrei is behind Masha, Garry's translator

Muddy yard - Sasha is shoveling brewers grain to feed the cows

On Sunday tall Maxim went to church with us, it was his first trip to Dnepro.

Tall Maxim pouring a bucket of milk into the tank

Yana is helping teach the students, that's Alina putting on the milker

 The trade school students

Learning to milk.....

This cow is saying "who's that back there?" (Vadim)

Nika's parents are excited that she is learning to use the milkers, they hope to get one.
 She is one of our non-orphan students from a nearby village.

The weather has continued to be spring-like (by Canadian standards anyway) with the temperatures being 10 degrees C some days. It has been overcast, a little rainy, and muddy outside in the yard. However, there is snow in the forecast for Tuesday, when we are taking the overnight train to Kiev with the students to see the Farm Show there. I should have photos for you later this week.  Andrei, (pictured above) our Max's brother will miss the trip to Kiev, he is getting his shoulder operated on tomorrow. He hurt it while we were in Canada.