Here and there again

I am writing from Manitoba today, I left Ukraine Wednesday afternoon and arrived later Thursday afternoon to a beautiful Manitoba spring day.  I ended up in London a little longer than planned but made my connection in Toronto.  Manitoba weather was a real change from Ukraine where its been getting rather hot.

Garry and I never did get out to take some crop photos before I left, but he put some up on Facebook today so I could put some in the blogpost.

 On Tuesday we drove down to Molachansk to buy more semen, Garry had run out and had been having to tell people he couldn't come breed their cows when they phoned him. Two ladies from the office filled the tank with liquid nitrogen after making a funnel by cutting  the top off a 5 liter water bottle.

As soon as we got back, five hours later, at 6 pm,  I  made pizza and we had the cake I made in the morning to celebrate Alona's birthday.  She was delighted with her present, a new beading kit to do.

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Friday was rainy here and its raining again this morning. I have seen about half of the grandkids and kids so far. Plan to see the rest sometime today.

Garry is hoping for a big thunderstorm in Ukraine but so far they are missing Nikoliapolia.  He says they have had a bit of light rain, but no significant rainfall. He had to run home during church in the village today because it started to rain and he had the baby turkeys and geese in the wire cage he built them so they can spend the days outside.  He put a piece of plywood over it to keep them dry. He puts them inside at night with the heat lamp on though. He has promised me a photo of his cage,  but none have appeared yet.

Monday someone is supposed to be out to the village to show them how to operate the new irrigation equipment that they bought so they can irrigate the hayfield.  This week the guys have been busy putting driplines down in the cornfields. Garry says you can see it in the photo he took. See the black lines crossing the rows?

They may have to get irrigation going on the corn if the big thunderstorm doesn't come. The sunflowers won't have irrigation but are off to a great start with the rain we had earlier.  They are so big now they may not need a second dose of weed spray, they may grow so fast that they shade the weeds out.

The wheat fields look good too. As you can see the grain heads are forming.

Even more exciting,  they were able to move some heifers into the new barn on Saturday.  Garry says that they still have some welding to finish before using the second side of the barn, but it should be ready soon. 

Garry says that they ran out of coffee mugs today. He realized that no one could run the dishwasher and they were all in there dirty. Two days ago, only two of the three electric phases were working in the house, and it's not fixed yet. Sounds like the same phase that went out when a car hit the pole in front of the house when the team was here last year, which means that the oven, most of the livingroom and kitchen outlets and everything in the big front bedroom where the girls sleep are not working. Garry ran an extension cord to the dishwasher to clean the dishes today. Hopefully the power is fixed soon.