Snowy Ukraine

Well it did start snowing Saturday night and it continued Sunday morning. I was feeling sick all night (my fever was back from the plane) so I decided to stay in bed, while Garry, Eugene, Nelly and the girls were off to Dnepro for church. Garry said if Victor's milk wasn't in the car he wouldn't have made the drive before they left.

I napped for a while, then made a pot of soup around 11 am so they could eat when they got home, and went back to bed. Next thing I knew it was 2 pm, and no one was  home so I fell back to sleep until they came in at 3:30.  They had soup and bread Garry got at the store in in the village.

He said it was a very slow ride home to the village, the highway was icy and the snow blowing across making it even sloppier. He could only drive about 60 KM and on the way they saw a tractor trailer jackknifed against a tree and several stuck cars in the snow.

Most of the night you could hear the snow and wind scratching against the windows. Monday morning there was a pile of snow outside, and Garry and Eugene got busy moving it before working on the house reno.











Eugene and Max started working in the house in the morning while Garry and I were teaching our classes. I have promised making pieroski (filled buns) for Wednesday's class.



Then Garry and crew continued working on getting ready to pour cement Tuesday for the floor, leveling it and getting the plumbing pipes in the ground. They also unloaded trucks with supplies. Delivery is to the yard, not off the truck in Ukraine.

Fortunately snow moving was happening- there was snow in all the nearby cities- but the delivery trucks made it in this morning and afternoon with supplies for the build.

Lunch was a bit of a potluck with me adding dishes and warming the leftover soup when Garry invited the guys (Max, Artom and Vlad) in because the girls are still here- they will move to the apartment Tuesday or Wednesday so I can get things ready for the team to move in. We have ten people arriving (nine from Canada) to help with the reno or with the VBS or spring break camp for the village kids starting next Monday.