Almost done

Or I could title this post...while here in Manitoba we have extreme cold warnings and a snowstorm on the way, Garry is complaining about mud everywhere in the village! Apparently he is having trouble driving to the farm, he can't take the little car.

He says that they are nearly done with the deconstruction of the old house.  The have saved a pile of bricks and moved them to the shed at our house.

They saved some lumber and beams to build with, Garry hopes to get Neil to make them a kitchen table from some of the boards. They also have cut up the rest of the wood for firewood and have moved it to the two houses that heat, or supplement heat with wood.  Thanks to Scott Crawford I have more photos of the progression, or regression of the house.

Garry tells me he was in the city on Tuesday and because it had been raining and stopped he had turned off the windshield wipers and accidentally turned off the headlights.  From October to April you need daytime headlights in Ukraine.
Since he thought they were on, a policeman pulled him over at the checkpoint for not having his lights on. He said the young policeman was very nice, even when he noticed the insurance had run out on the white car. Instead of impounding it, he let Garry drive home with a warning to get some right away. He actually bought insurance from a guy in the village who told him he should buy cheaper village insurance instead of the city insurance we've been buying.  Less than half the price, too.

Garry hopes to get the big loader over to finish the cleanup and flatten out the site, while the warm weather lasts.

It seems that we get a big snow around the end of January nearly every year, the students are hoping for it, as there hasn't been any real snow yet.

Here's some more photos from Scott,  it's really disappearing!