The weekend plus

Thursday and Friday the guys were busy baling up the wheat Garry cut, it's piled under the hay/straw shed at the new farm, ready to feed to the dry cows. They worked the field up right away, hoping to plant the millet Friday evening, but it was Saturday before it was planted.

That's because we had a thunderstorm that fell just after the guys finished baling. Thursday night Garry said they thought there would be three more wagonfuls to bale, but it was six. They were happy to get between a quarter and a half inch of rain.

They were happy not to get as much rain as they did in Dnepro. Garry and I were in the city Friday afternoon helping an English teacher friend with her student testing for the end of the year. The storm hit while we were there and there was hail, wind and water flooding the streets. We even saw trees down and the (electric) tram lines were down on a major route- the 11- so traffic was being rerouted on the street as they were in the road as we left the city.

As we drove out a second thunderstorm hit and you could barely see the cars as it pounded down, with the road having flooding as traffic tried to go along the main highway out of town.

Saturday evening we missed the thunderstorm that hit Zaporosia while Garry took the students for the weekly trip the grocery store/mall. The van was pretty crowded so I stayed home with the baby. She slept long enough for me to phone my dad for twenty minutes- I hadn't talked to him in weeks.

Sunday we went to church in the village again. I picked another big bowlful of peas, as both our garden and the Crawfords are producing and we are picking both places every two days with them in Canada. Garry did some hoeing.

 Monday we missed the thunderstorms again, although it was still hot and humid. First thing in the morning we did herd check, half  (4 of 8) the cows were pregnant. We had a picnic with the students in the Crawford backyard. Garry got his feet muddy again fixing up the irrigation system, he walks through the cornfields finding and fixing leaks.

Its Tuesday night, we had a thunderstorm and a downpour for a few minutes around five today, and there's been some thunder in the distance tonight, but no more rain yet.  Strangely the electric went off around 4:30 and came back on in the middle of the storm. I had to change crochet projects as it was hard to see.