I had a nice time chatting with Victor's daughter Dasha before flying from Borispol to Munich, where her flight left much earlier than mine. However, unfortunately she got major delayed in Chicago before getting to her destination.
Micah, Crystal and Andromeda met me at the airport in Winnipeg just after nine pm. You'd think I'd sleep in the next morning, but I was up at four am. Of course five hours of sleep seemed plenty after a couple airplane and train seat naps over two days.
I saw more of the kids and grandkids and Max Boradin at home yesterday. Did a bit of cleaning with Max's help, too. Today will be more of the same, planning to watch the guys play softball tonight, and weed my flowerbed. Tomorrow it's out to Morden for corn and apple (festival) and hopefully picking up my car, if Jessica's is finished being repaired from hail damage. If not I may be out there until Tuesday.
I've talked to Garry a couple times already. On Tuesday he drove a couple students in to see Alona and the baby at the hospital, because it was Danil's first birthday. He left them there while he drove across the bridge to see our friend Marina for a few minutes and he got stuck in a huge traffic jam again going back across the bridge. He'd told the students he'd be gone an hour, and it took three. However, he looked through the glovebox while he wasn't moving and found his bank card he'd lost two weeks ago. That will come in handy since mine is here with me.
Unfortunately the washing machine that we picked up on the way to the train station Monday afternoon didn't want to start. It had gone in for repairs last week and has running out of work clothes. While I was typing that, I remembered the washer doesn't turn lights on until you turn the dial around to reset it. Luckily Garry did turn it this morning before taking it to Dnepro again. Clothes were washed.
He said they finished chopping the smaller corn field on Tuesday, and Wednesday he and the guys were busy pulling up the little dripline tubes in that field. They were a third done Wednesday, and as of the end of Thursday, they had 3/4 of the field done. Meanwhile the other guys took the chopper to the big cornfield.
They had their first day without a breakdown (it's been mostly small things but all six days they had to stop for a while to fix the machine) but were going around the headland all day. They filled three wagons each time around. Max says the high end of the field is not as good as the bottom, but it's better than last year. He says that in two or three more days there will be enough in the bunk, and they'll let the rest of the field dry down and harvest it as grain this fall.
He's combining more sunflower fields so they'll be selling that crop soon. They are going in the shed for now. The first two fields were only 7 or 8% moisture, but the fields planted a week later were more like 14%, so they waited a couple days for them to dry a bit more. It's been over 35 celcius (90s F) this week, so that will happen fast. The plan is that early sunflowers should bring a higher price because there are a lot of sunflower fields around this year. Not a spectacular crop, but all the fields (this year we have a lot of smaller fields planted in sunflowers, the big fields were in wheat) but no bad fields, either. The rain came just a little late, we think, but it helped some.
On Tuesday Alona told Garry that Danil might come home Friday according to the doctor. However, they needed the space, so Garry got to pick them up Thursday. They were having a watermelon eating session at 8 pm, when I called about the washer. Leila, Valentina, Julia, Dima and Sasha Boderenko, who finally returned (he's been coming back for months according to his phone calls).
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