The sun came out

Thursday the sun reappeared and Garry and various helpers went back to making trusses. However the compressor broke Thursday so after the afternoon staff meeting we went to Zaporosia to buy a new one so he could work the air gun to shoot hundreds of nails into each truss. He got another four hours of building in after we got home because our Thursday night small group was canceled. 

Team leaders, Kolya and
 Valentina stirring the pots of spaghetti 

Friday morning he was working mainly solo until cooking class was over. The grad guys and girls all come to my class.

 Who wouldn't want to come when we eat what we make. Some of the students have even made some of the recipes at home. It was a fast class yesterday,  by 10:15 they had finished eating their one pot spaghetti and were walking home with a package of frozen ground beef for every two people. 

Kolya and Oksana are having a baby boy so I gave them an outfit I crocheted.  It's the first one I've done from the pattern and I'll have to make it a little bigger for a Verhoog baby.

However by the time we left for Garry's English classes in Dnepro at 1:30, all 21 trusses were finished or the parts were ready for the guys to assemble that afternoon.  Next they will have to turn them over and glue and nail the other side before they can hire a crane to help put them up.

I still haven't walked over for a photo and Garry is too busy to remember to take one. However I got a picture of the gates Max is welding together in the shop when we traded vehicles (the old Mercedes van isn't working,  so Max is driving one of ours, which is why I need to walk over to the new farm for photos). We drove the little car to Dnepro .

However, Monday will likely not see much done on the barn, because it will be dry enough to plant. I am told it should take about a week to plant the rest of the sunflowers and the corn. Thursday afternoon Garry stopped and dug up a sunflower seed from the field to see how they are growing. Look at the little sprout!

We just had a couple of frosty nights Wednesday and Thursday, but next week it should be in the 20s (70s for Americans). By then the sunflowers will be up and the alfalfa growing taller,  we need to cut hay soon, we're running out in about two weeks.