Building trusses

  Garry got all the supplies ready and all the wood they had cut for the trusses and found the nail gun from where he had put it away last year. He and the students got half the trusses built on Tuesday. He said that it took a while to get everything lined up, these trusses are asymmetrical, so off by an inch with the first piece means it's really off by the last one, as you can see there's a lot of pieces, but eventually they got it going well.

This morning they had to wait to start, Garry had to drive to Dnepro to buy more liquid nitrogen and bull semen, because he was out again. Tuesday morning he shook out the tank for a second time because he'd used the last one the evening before, finding three more straws (doses of semen) and he used two of them before Wednesday morning. People are calling him to breed cows in villages all over these days since the cows have been out on pasture for a month or so now. Sometimes repeat customers, but many new ones, like on Tuesday evening. 

 They also were waiting for a lumber delivery because they ran out of two by fours. The problem with having lumber sitting around is someone decides to use some. Garry says lumber has gotten more expensive now. By five pm today (Wednesday) there were only five more trusses to make. They're making 24, this heifer barn will be a few feet longer than the first one. 


Garry needs to go to the city in the morning while the students are in class with Larissa, it's the last Christian ethics for the year. They ran out of the tubes of glue for the truss building. It takes a lot when they are putting them together, it goes on all the plywood squares you see in the photos, and they are on both sides of the trusses. 

With Victor back from Canada, Garry had the Tuesday  staff meeting at eleven am outside in the yard. He said it was a nice break from working on the trusses. He says he's trying to not work past five pm since he still needs to take it a little easy after having covid. However, often that just means he's driving around, breeding cows and picking up supplies from the city for building, like he did Tuesday night and then falling into bed exhausted at 8:30. He told me that he was taking it easy tonight, since he could wait to go buy glue. Of course, someone could still phone or come to the door to say their cow is in heat, could he come breed her?