Icy morning...

We have rain in the forecast, it started yesterday so the mud is back outside. It got cold overnight, Garry was amazed that the power did not go off as the outdoors, trees, powerlines, were covered in a layer of ice. It is dripping and chipping onto the ground still at 11 am. The rain is supposed to continue for the next week.

Garry says he paid for 35 tons of brewers grain and maybe got 30 into the pit. They dumped it over at the "new" barn and brought it over here in a smaller truck (the new delivery truck can't get into the yard. Seems like some feel off the truck before it got to the village.

Garry was disappointed with the results of the students end of term exams. They did OK on the written exams on Monday but on Wednesday when they did the oral exams (the kind they will be doing at the end of the year with the state supervision) for his class on diseases and for the anatomy class most of them did poorly, some that did well on his did not on the other, so they will be doing a make up written exams on Tuesday.

We have kittens in the house again, we should have gotten Box"s kittens fixed too as they are both girls, and the one Andrei calls Gabriella (Mini-Box) had two kittens yesterday for International Women's Day - March the 8th is the biggest holiday of the year here. You should have seen all the guys buying flowers yesterday in the rain in Zaporosia, either plants, tulips, roses, and even balloon flowers. We were there for a basketball game.