Happy Easter and stuff

Easter billboard 

Today is a holiday in the village, Easter Monday. Across the road there has been the thonk, thonk, of banging on metal as they try to straighten out their metal gate with a big hammer. Yesterday someone was learning to drive and did not stop in time.

Garry managed to get two sets of salespeople out today however, at the same time this morning as things often work out! They people who sold the new chopper came out as promised to oversee the first use of it, so they went with Garry to the alfalfa field. Everything worked fine, the cows are somewhat undecided if they like eating the very wet and  green new feed.

Ready to go

Seems like the black cow is digging in for the alfalfa

There's that baby kitten from the shed- she moved to the barn

The other guys who showed up brought the new sprayer. After paying the bill for using the sprayer for the corn (which including product was more than Canadian prices) Garry and Max borrowed a different one to spray the sunflowers, from the guy who grew the corn for Garry the first year we had cows. It was the same model as a Russian?Ukrainian? one that they had considered buying earlier this year. Maxim liked it so they decided to get their own.



After they paid for it they spent the afternoon making recommended alterations to it (Tour, the guy they borrowed one from told them where it had problems) welding some parts into place that had a crank to adjust-- the three point hitch of the tractor will be able to adjust height anyway, and reinforcing some of the framework. It has a 40 foot spray boom, that folds manually as you see, and attaches to the back of the tractor. They bought some Russian weedkiller earlier today, I seem to remember that Garry said something about the spring barley needing spraying for weeds.

working under the lilacs

Easy to fold up

Last week we took a quick trip to Kirvoy Rog to see Daryl and Molly with Tanya a friend from Dnepro - we even ran into the Nikkels at the mall that evening, so we saw the whole EFFCM team while we were there! We had a good time, and had a walking tour of downtown too.

The weather is about 30 C (80s F) daytime now

Garry and the marathon man in the lead again

walking past the kids rides and games

The city is proud of its Cossack roots like Zaporosia- the chestnut trees are in bloom

The winter canola fields are bright yellow now

and finally my personal mission to keep flies and extra cats out of the house... two closed doors are better than one---shut both doors on the bootroom!