Almost done

Yana's house is almost done, she's moving in soon, although the running water may not be running until the end of the week or so. The guys are still working on the final cement coat of the water cistern.

Garry has a few finishing touches, connections for plumbing and baseboards ends to put on he picked up at the hardware store over the weekend.  He got the students to move some furniture into the house from storage in the cheese house.  He wants to clean up in there in case we need to start making cheese. More on that in a later post.

 For the BC guys, the washing machine was installed just on the other side of the bathroom wall near the cellar access cover. The wooden cover got a coat of brown stain that really blends with the tile.

The gas stove is hooked up, it will look good next weekend when Yana's mom Jenya comes to visit next weekend.

I did some final paint touchups and grouted the tile flooring in the bathroom and kitchen on Friday and Saturday before I got caught up on my crocheting. 

Garry had done some painting and grouted the majority of the white tile in the bathroom and windowsills.  I just had to do the backsplashes he'd tiled on Thursday.






As I was leaving Yana's Saturday afternoon after finishing the floor grout (I had run out of grout powder the day before so we raced through the Dnepro Nova Lenya as it was closing Friday night after our English group meeting to get some stuff) she came by on her bicycle after afternoon milking and told me I should take a selfie, with a big smile on her face. As you can see, the grout is dark gray.

Garry plans to get back to building the heifer barn Monday.  It's really warming up outside and Garry has been trying to get Max to start planting but he says they have to wait for the apricots to bloom, and until five days after the big farmer who planted his corn too early one year and it all came up and froze so he had to replant. The rest of the corn seed came and its piled high in the spare bedroom. 

Garry did do some planting,  in our garden, he bought a little hoop greenhouse for the garden and planted some of our pepper plants in it. He also planted carrots, radishes,  beets today. His onion sets are up already. 

Daffodils are starting to bloom, we found this one near our meeting in Dnepro Friday evening. 

The forsythia is blooming in the city near the river now, and the willows in the village are starting to get leaves. Spring seems to be really here now.