Next, please!

Well, I was able to enjoy our last couple days at the sea with less symptoms from my summer cold. On our last night there we went over to Victor's hotel to have dinner with his family, they had arrived that afternoon for vacation. Victor is really enjoying spending weeks with his grandkids.

 Saskatchewan teacher Bev really seemed to enjoy walking around, buying souvenirs at the seaside. Clay and I went for one last swim in the pool Friday morning, even though the temperature of the air and pool had dropped quite a lot from the previous days, while Garry went to swim in the sea.

 We drove back to the village Friday afternoon, stopping at the mall in Zaporosia for a late Mc Donalds lunch (hey we were all used to eating lunch after 2 pm while teaching anyway) and bought some groceries so I could make pizza for dinner.




Victor said Max (who had just returned from the sea) had a problem with the skid-steer, and had to fix the feed mixer. It turned out he was making feed for the cows Friday morning and the bucket fell off the skid-steer into the mixer, which was running. Max had to do a lot of welding to fix both pieces of machinery.




When we got home, I noticed a few things out of place in our room, and eventually we realized that someone must have thoroughly searched our room, because some things were on different shelves, boxes were left open that had been closed, and my clothes hamper did not have the shirt I spilled pickle juice on as we left the Saturday before on the top of the pile. Early Saturday morning I noticed that  my old phone was in my underwear drawer, it had been on one of the shelves. We took Clay and Bev to Dnepro to catch their first flight on the way home. It was mid-afternoon when I remembered that the "new" used phone we'd bought from Clay had been in that drawer when we left home the week before, I searched the drawer twice, then the other drawers in case I'd been mistaken about which drawer it was in. Nope, the expensive phone was not here anymore. They left two cheaper smart cell phones (including my Samsung they must have found first, I would have never even missed that one) and one LG I'm pretty sure they did not find. They also took half a bag of tootsie rolls from my sock drawer, but so far, nothing else seems to be missing, there wasn't any US cash in the room, except for a couple of 20s, which are still here.

Update, looking for something in my sock drawer this afternoon. Found the phone. 98% sure it was not there Saturday. Someone definitely moved stuff around in the room... all's well that ends well?

The girls were not in the house all the time, during afternoon milking often both are working, seems like someone knew the schedule and that Garry is not big on locking doors. At least it seems they did not steal anything from Clay's suitcase, although it arrived in Saskatoon with no wheels!

The students were excited that we were back Friday or maybe just because they wanted to know when they would get their three days at the sea! They are going on Wednesday, when the weather warms up again.

Saturday Garry was excited about possible rain in the weather forecast, and Sunday morning it was wet, and got wetter while we were at church in the village with the girls. Garry and I had surprise translation this week, as Olga Rubel, John's translator was there. It's always nice to touch base with her. It was a birthday celebration after church with tea, cookies and candies for one of the ladies. There were about 20 people in church this week, Olga brings a couple ladies from another village who used to attend here when she comes.


It rained pretty much all day. Garry checked the rain gauge over at the Crawford's house Monday morning (Garry got it long ago, but never put it up, Scott said he wished he had one, so I found it) and discovered it was the most rainfall of the summer, 1 1/2 inches or 37 mm. The guys can roll up the irrigation lines in the cornfields. The corn has matured a lot in the last two weeks, so Garry thinks they can make silage when the custom guys are in the area this week.


Monday morning I was washing sheets again, because we were expecting company, Steve and Jo and the boys. The boys will be staying with us for six days or so while their parents are off on an anniversary trip to Italy.

Our missionary friend Jessica is coming back from the states in a couple days and will probably take them the last couple days, since its an eight day trip. Garry took Steve and Jo to the train station this morning, and will pick them up next week.

It's sure to be an interesting week... again