Demo continues

Today I went over to take more photos next door, the guys have nearly finished the demolition part of the project. They have hauled a lot of stuff out. The babushka's son will be back to pick up some things too.

In this photo you see a pile of what was a bunch on mud bricks from walls in front of the garage.



I even found some pottery things to add to my collection of old stuff.

One of the unique features of this old Mennonite house is a barn room. I am pretty sure the chickens lived here! There is even a spot to tie up your cow, Artom is holding up the chain.

 That is our young friend and tractor drive Vlad in the other other photo, he is taller than all the Rudei guys now! if you look by his leg you will see the hole for the chickens to go in and out of the house!

Here is the small high window in the barn room from the outside (opposite side from our house), there is one larger window in the room (light blue paint in photo). We'll have to figure out how to keep this window feature, (and weather proof it) when we turn this into a student bedroom. We will be replacing the windows in the house, as usual, but want to keep the trim and shutters outside. That chicken entrance will get blocked up, and we will need to pour a cement floor and drywall the walls!

Garry tells me the tree needs to go it is overhanging the roof and could become a problem. This back part of the house is in worse repair than some of the other walls.

 There is a trap door (that will be in the other small bedroom when we are done) that hides the stairs to a tidy little root cellar.

Right now there is a back door near the barn room, Garry plans to eliminate that and turn what was a toilet into a three piece bathroom.
Here is some photos of the back yard out that door. The toilet was purple, we'll buy a new white one.

Here are  the front rooms that will be the bedroom/ sitting rooms. Garry is deciding where the en-suite bath and closet and second spare bedroom will go.  The rest will be living/dining and be open to the kitchen. the wall between it and the kitchen came down this week.

This morning the girls made borscht, since it was Saturday and they get to sleep in on Saturday mornings while the new boys milk the cows since it is a non- school day. All I did was find things they wanted, normally I cook the big meal of the day. Garry likes having the three extra girls in the house, he says he will keep them until just before I return from Canada in March. 

Max and the four guys who came for lunch (since it was Saturday) liked the borscht. The girls ate theirs when they got home from afternoon milking, except Leila who was off, she ate with us and the boys. The girls said they would eat more when they get home from the Saturday night excursion to a youth church in Dnepro. Max volunteered to drive, so Garry got to stay home with me!

(Did I say I"m flying home next week to watch some of the granddaughters while their parents are on a mission trip? I am and hoping to see the new grandbaby when he or she is born!) 

Leila was excited to go over and clean after lunch. Last week they found a bunch of old plastic toys they took back here. 

A little snow fell this afternoon