Village News or a busy week

It was an event-filled last week or so in the village. We were up to 18 students after picking up another guy from Kirvoy Rog the Friday before and we had our annual Thanksgiving celebration dinner planned for that Monday.

Sunday evening, Garry got a phone call as we were getting ready to test the jacuzzi tub at the Crawfords. He didn't want to answer it because had just breed his sixth cow of the day, and had been driving all over to different villages, but wanted to make sure there was enough hot water to fill the tub since there wasn't the first time we tried it.
Note to the Crawfords- both hot water heaters need to be turned to maximum. Also if you do that and have two electric heaters on, you may blow the main breaker for the house. It is a shame that we cannot heat the house with gas as planned this winter. The company cut our gas line because of the renovation and it is going to take months to get through all the red tape. We are going to run a line from the barn, since we don't use much there anymore.

The phone call was not from someone wanting to breed a cow. He checked who it was since it had rung a couple more times, when he went to flip the breaker back on. It was Nellie and Garry had to go talk to Julia. Oksana (who got married last year) had gone to hospital in an ambulance. The village nurse thought she might have an etopic pregnancy.

They did surgery that night, Max drove in and gave the doctor 1500 grivna to operate. She was bleeding internally, so it was a good thing he did. No cash means no care in Ukraine. She came home the following Monday and looks good. They think she is still pregnant because it was twins and one was in the uterus, so we will hope and pray all goes well.

Monday morning two of the guys weren't there. Andrei who had been here for only ten days and we had celebrated his birthday with cake and gifts the previous Monday, and Sasha Bonderenko who has left before, took off after attending church in the village on Sunday. We're still hoping to track them down, we've had some leads.

I spent the day getting food ready, I cooked two big turkey breasts in the crockpot, one at the time, with BBQ sauce, and we had shredded turkey sandwiches. I also made pies and stuffing. I recommend the shredded turkey, it was really moist.

Victor brought out Daryl and Molly Porter (our boss as Garry says, he's the Europe Area director) out in the afternoon and they got to celebrate Thanksgiving with us and the students and staff who were there.





Tuesday  Garry was not teaching so we drove the Porters back to Dnepro, they were safely back in Kirvoy Rog by evening and we having picked up some stuff were back working on the Crawford's house.

Wednesday Garry taught class and we raced off to buy mirrors for the bathrooms and some other stuff late afternoon and got to Kamaskoya for our SEI followup class there. We went to Big Burrito restaurant. Never go there, it is not a burrito that they call a burrito on the menu. Fries Mexicali was wedges with chopped dill on... gas station hot dogs are better by far.




Thursday morning I taught cooking class - we made chicken noodle soup and Garry worked on the house. In the afternoon we left for small group at Steve and Jo's early because Garry had more cows to breed on the way.

Friday more cleaning tile for me and getting ready to paint the floor again. Some of it needed two coats but we still needed to walk on it to get to other parts of the house to work.

Then we were off with the puppy to get her shots and the vet and returned the guy from last week because he wouldn't work in the barn (it smells too bad apparently) Well, we hoped to get Happy vaccinated but ended up with flea stuff and have to bring our car sick puppy back sometime... then we got stuck in a traffic jam and Garry was late for class and afterwards we got stuck in another traffic jam on the way to SEI follow up group! We did arrive by 6:45 to open the door, and not too many people were already there waiting.

Saturday it was back to work for me, at the house until two when I started making pizza dough. Second week in a row my Friday shopping was to feed the whole group of students. Steve and Jo came out to the village around 4:30 when Garry got back from teaching English in Dnepro, they had a student meeting like Just Youth but just for our guys while I cooked nine pizzas for the snack.



Sunday we went to church in the village and on Monday we worked on the house and packed for Spain!