He's here in Manitoba

Garry did arrive Tuesday evening as scheduled.  We spent a couple days in Winnipeg at the dairy conference before coming home Friday afternoon.  Garry did drive into Steinbach Wednesday evening for choir practice,  he'll be singing Sunday morning,  and on Christmas eve,  too.

We got to see a few of the grandkids at the conference in Winnipeg,  they are growing more every day, it seems.  Yesterday afternoon when we got back to the farm, Garry got to meet two week old  baby Nova.

Back in Ukraine,  they have been milking and running all the power for the barn for two weeks today with the generator.  Max switched from using the oldest Belarus to run the generator after about a week to using the big New Holland tractor.  Most recent update on the transformer is that it needs another thousand dollars in repairs,  hopefully it will be fixed this week. The tractor was going through about 70 dollars in diesel fuel a day, I think Garry said.