I hope, we are waiting for our improved service, but yesterday we were in Dnepro and Garry purchased a new mobile link from the peoplenet people, ours broke just before we left for Doreen's last Thursday.
To update a few recent stories, this week the metal thief returned with his wife and baby daughter, they were telling how they only had bread in the house to eat. Garry almost gave him back his car without making him redo the welding because mother and baby were crying, but then he and Max watched the Dad pull an expensive pack of cigarettes out of his pocket for a smoke, so they did have him do the welding right this time after they showed him where it was bad, before he was finally able to return to Zaporosia in his old Volga car. He promised to never steal again... hopefully not in our village anyway.
The cement blocks are disappearing over at the barns,(see the post called a long day)there were only a few gone when we returned, but they are back for more. Garry says they are probably reselling them as new for a road construction project and making big bucks.
We had a few problems with the car on our trip back from Kramatorsk, it was running really rough by the time we dropped off our rider in Dnepropetroesk, but we stopped at Victor's house to pick up the empty milk jugs for the next morning and headed for home. We almost made it, the car stalled right after we turned onto Centralna (our street in the village) Garry phoned Max, but he was gone to a wedding in Kherson, so one of our students, who happened to be walking by, called Andrei and asked him to bring the tractor. Andrei still has his one arm in a cast from his shoulder surgery ( he returned from the hospital last week Monday, we found out later he had snuck out, they wanted to keep him for a while longer, but he couldn't take anymore- he said hospital food was worse than the food in the army) Anyway a few minutes later Serosia (the neighbor) roared up with his Lada Samara (it's a hatchback) and towed us back to our yard.
So Sunday morning we couldn't drive into church, the car problem was decided to be a timing belt problem, which one of the neighbors tried to fix that afternoon. Victor had to come get the milk for the churches, he was in early, while I was still feeling the aftereffects of our bumpy ride... we managed to leave Kramatorsk by 2:30 on Saturday afternoon and got through the really bad part of the trip (see a long day post) before dark, only hitting a few bad holes, no tire problems, but maybe it did not help the timing belt, which slipped.
So the car was fixed for Monday when Garry drove to Zaporosia for a school staff meeting, broke again Tuesday, we had to cancel the Mere Christianity English book study, because we couldn't drive into Dnepro. Wednesday I really wanted to get on the internet (I had some stuff to do for the boys) so I went along to Zaporosia with Garry, for his meeting at New Hope Center - this one was a board meeting for the school. We left early - with my computer so I could work- because he was going to pick up baby furniture for Marina (our missionay in Dnepropetroesk is having a baby in July and had found used stuff to buy on the internet) He programmed the GPS before we left, and after dropping off someone we had given a ride to the city at Mc Donalds, and getting a couple of Mcmuffins; we set out to fill the back of the car. First we went to house where the lady had a dresser with a baby changing top and bath tub top-- she was disappointed that she could sell her crib too, a guy helped Garry carry it out, Marina had phoned to tell them we were picking it up this morning. Then we followed the GPS to another part of the city Garry called Marina and she phoned the second lady who found us parked by the Sushi Bar downstairs. She had all the crib parts neatly wrapped in plastic, and Garry managed to get them all in the car.
After his meeting we left for Dnepropetroesk so we could deliver the crib and pick up some groceries, however after getting the stuff up to Marina's apartment, Garry realized we were going to drive right past MOST City Centre, and decided we should go bowling, and check on the internet stick at their kiosk. He planned to win while I was down but I bowled with lighter balls- 13 pounders- than normal and threw carefully to not hurt myself, and won one game and missed tying another game by one pin when I almost picked up the split in the tenth frame. Afterwards we stopped at Victor's to pick up the milk jugs for today, and then finally got some groceries. Garry visited Victor's normal Thursday customers before he played basketball, and he says he could have sold more milk than he had brought tonight.
The internet problem is not quite fixed yet, so won't try loading photos tonight, I'll try again soon.
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