Sunday

It's Sunday night,  eleven pm,  and this time tomorrow I'll be in Kiev,  just getting off the train and heading to the airport (hopefully with all my things) for my flight to Munich at 6 am Tuesday.  Victor's daughter Dasha will be on the same flight,  but she is going through Chicago to her destination while I will, strangely enough,  be going to Denver to get to Winnipeg.

Today was as busy as any other day. I made pancakes for breakfast,  not too many because only Leila and her stuffed dogs were home. Valentina had headed out to Dnepro early to go to Central Baptist with her friends.

Old and new Muktar

We went to church in the village (most of Morningstar church is off to camp still) and sang lots of songs and tried to follow where they were reading in the Bible.  It's a bit tricky without  a translator.  Leila and her dogs walked to church with us too. The ladies even said hello to Muktar (her favorite) as we came in. However,  Garry's Russian is good enough to promise one of the ladies a loan because she's going into hospital this week.  At least she isn't having a gall bladder operation,  last year we got to see the gall stones after the service, after helping out with another ladies operation.  

We planned to  take Nikolai and visit Alona and little Danil at the hospital after lunch, but Garry went out at one to drive the chopper.  There's still a lot to chop, it's slow going with the old machine,  they have had to stop and fix something at least once every day.

At five Max took over and we drove into Zaporosia with Nikolai.  Valentina was just walking into the village as we were going out.
Amazingly Sunday morning,  the truck was back and filled some of the holes on main street in the village.  Now it's possible to miss the ones left. The Crawfords won't believe it when they get back in a couple weeks.

When we got to the hospital,  Alona and the baby got to come outside with us. We left Nikolai there and headed over to buy some stuff at  Nova Lenya. Since Julia and Dima got back two weeks ago,  he's been working on repairs at the barn, and he wanted some electric wire, among other things.  They also needed a new shovel over there. Garry went to get that stuff while I found some Pampers and baby wipes (store brand, but all disposable diapers are called Pampers here) for Alona to use at the hospital.

We got some Sharma to eat and headed back to drop off the diapers and pick up Nikolai.  The car wouldn't turn over after he helped her back upstairs with the baby, with the diapers and a little more cash for medicine tomorrow.

Luckily the hospital is on a  hill,  so Nikolai and I didn't have to push too much before it started. We might need a new battery for the little car.

One more stop, or two actually, before we got a bankomat that would give us the amount needed for the loan.  We didn't stop the motor until we parked in the driveway.  The sun was setting as we drove into the village.

Nikolai asked about the shovel,  so he took that. We drove to the barn to check the corn silage pile. Still a lot to chop yet, this year Garry wants to fill the bunk.

Garry had gotten a phone call about breeding a cow while we were still in Zaporosia,  so he headed off in the van to do that, after giving the money to the lady, who was waiting with her granddaughter at the end of the driveway when we got home. Hopefully this improves her health,  she was in hospital earlier this summer.