Building continues

Garry says he feels better working outside building than he did resting in the house. Yesterday and today, he, along with the Rudei guys and the students have been busy building. The roof is on (trusses and OSB, shingles are still to come) and the windows are in. Tomorrow they will go pick up the remaining building materials because more and more things are closing because of the virus quarantine.

Here are a few pictures of the progress: Monday, rafters went up (they built these last week in the shop). It was cold, unless the sun was out.

They put the rafters up without a crane, by hand and ladders.


Nikolai has been in the hole, cementing the sides of the cistern for days, still on the first coat (it needs three).

Now Tuesday photos, including a lunch photo.That's Monday's lunch above. Garry told me Tuesday morning, not many would be working, I wouldn't need to make a giant pot of soup. Until 11 o'clock, when he said there were lots of them working, as he left to buy more supplies! It takes almost an hour to get the big pot boiling, but they had a chili/rice soup to eat at noon!

Since early today, restaurants are closed (except takeaway), malls, movie theaters. The schools have been closed since last Thursday. Trains, buses and planes in country are not running. Basically gatherings of more than ten people are now banned, and grocery stores, drugstores (and those stores selling personal products), gas stations, pet food stores and hospitals are allowed to be open until its over (at least for now).  So far the big building stores are still open... maybe because they sell pet food?

The Crawfords had shopped at METRO (like Costco) on Sunday and said everything was normal. They went there again today and discovered no meat left, lots of empty shelves and their Russian teacher Ulzana who went with them wanted to buy baby wipes and someone bought all of them (hundreds of packs) while they were at the store. They saw them on the shelf but they were going to wait until they were leaving to get them. Opps!

Monday evening we went into Dnepro to change the dates for our Egypt Red Sea trip that we were originally taking with the Rempels after the build. The excursion company messaged over the weekend, we can't cancel but needed to pick a week before October.  Originally we were leaving on March 29th, so we changed it to April 30, since while at the travel office, I got a message that Max Boradin's graduation is not happening until fall. We planned to go home to Manitoba for that.

Before picking up a dozen more bags of cement for the guys working on the cistern, we ate inside at KFC, it was mostly young people there. The servers were wearing masks.

I may need to go buy some soup making supplies tomorrow. We'll see what kind of soup we end up eating this week and next!