For lunch I left footprints in the garden- and saw a hedgehog curled up in the grass- picking spinach for lunch. It started pouring just before I went out. The last two days we enjoyed a spinach salad with beets, walnuts and cheese, but tomorrow it will be a spinach strawberry one. (Turns out they went bad overnight, so no salad)
It didn't rain until we were back in the village, even though we were driving toward some spectacular clouds on the way home.
We stopped to get a better photo of the wheat field by the highway as you turn into the village. I thought the one in the last post was over-zoomed so you couldn't really see the wheat.
Garry always says it can never rain too much here in Ukraine for the crops, but it may slow down spraying for weeds if it keeps it up. However, he says there aren't too many weeds in the fields and with the way the corn and sunflowers are growing they may canopy over and shade out the weeds.
I took a photo in the worst sunflower field- I'm told they spread manure on it and plowed it in the spring, the other fields were plowed and cultivated once last fall, so they were smooth and came up nicely, while this one has some plants just coming out of the ground. Mostly I took it because its right next to the barn and Garry decided since it was wet Friday morning we could check cows.
I also took a photo of the little Kubota tractor that came from Canada in the shipping container, the bobcat (which also was donated from Canada) was broken and they used the Kubota to clean up the aisles in the barn. It took almost a week to fix the bobcat, they had no trouble finding suitable bearings but had to get the housing for them rebuilt at a shop, and it didn't fit the first time they tried it.
Well this post got interrupted, I had been writing while Garry was off for the weekly shopping trip on Saturday night with the students. Valentina had wanted to go so I volunteered to stay home with Angelina, since it seemed easier than taking a two and a half week old baby shopping. Everyone still needs masks to go in the stores. This was the point when she woke up from her nap, and needed changing, bathing and feeding. Just as I got her settled back in her chair, Vika, Alona, little Danil and new Sasha showed up and hung out, so that was it for Saturday night.
Garry reported that just as they returned home from Zaporosia, the far side of the village had a huge downpour and water was running in the street over there. Here, not so much, our off and on rain yesterday amounted not a lot, but it's pretty muddy in the garden.
So it's Sunday morning and Garry is out so I'm typing again. Here's Garry's fish story. Last week people were catching fish next to the road going to the barn where it goes between the ponds.
According to Vova, this is the first time in three years that the fish in the pond got trapped up in the reeds when we had the inch of rain. It only happens when the pond level rises and falls again quickly. Here's some photos Garry took Friday around noon. It had been two days since the big rainstorm, so it's amazing most of the fish were still alive. They took the little live fish and released them back into the pond, and Yana and Vova took the dead ones home to feed to the cats.
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