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Thursday Garry had the guys busy building posts, nailing two by sixes together to make posts for the big pole barn. He said Nikolai looked at the big square he'd staked out for the machine shed and said they were going to need a lot of cement. However, they won't,  since this will just be for equipment storage, he's just planning on a dirt floor.

Nikolai is still working on cementing the second cistern, near the "old barn" behind our house, it's the one for water for the cheese house, while Vasili is digging the third one, which will be a water storage basin for the Crawford house. In the photo, Kolya is digging, but after one day, his brother is working solo.

Thursday afternoon Garry tried to stick the posts up with man power and the bobcat over at the "new barn" for the hay or straw shed extension. He came home in pain, after he accidently stepped in one of the meter and a half deep holes with one leg, which caused his bad knee (the one he had the ACL surgery on, attached to the foot he had surgery on) to slam down on the ground. The students were so worried they thought he'd gone to the hospital, and there was a rumour going around the village that he was in hospital with a broken leg. We know this because someone from Zaporosia phoned Garry to ask how he was.

In actuality Garry had showered and gone to get a haircut. The girl that used to cut his hair when we first moved here 11 years ago is in the village at her parents' house for the last couple weeks since the quarantine closed down the hair salon she works at in Zaporosia. Apparently they reminisced about the first time she cut his hair, when she was seventeen and just started haircutting school. Garry had met her parents at the pond, swimming with our boys, the first month we were here when his communication skills were mostly gestures and drawing in the dirt. Somehow they told him they had a daughter who cut hair. The first time he went to the house, she was too scared to actually cut it. She hasn't cut his hair in years now, but he saw her and asked, because hot weather is coming before we know it.

He discovered on Friday morning that his back hurt more than his knee when he got out of bed, so he's trying to take it easy for a couple days. However, today he's been out of the house since seven when he went to breed a cow, he says it feels better than yesterday.

Friday morning we took a drive south of Zaporosia to Jessica Wyman's project (house of Cmpassion, she hopes to build a home for foster kids, they were supposed to get the approval a week after the government offices all closed for the quarentine. She's once again on hold). Garry had gotten me to message her about borrowing the post hole auger she bought a couple years ago when they built their fence around the property. We visited a bit, since we haven't seen her in months. Garry admired the alfalfa field she planted to get rid of the weeds that were growing, and her two blueberry bushes and flower garden.

One the way home we made a quick stop for our Easter dinner meat. The malls are closed but the grocery store inside was open... and weirdly the phone cover kiosk. I guess that's essential for Ukrainians?