Working

 I'm busy isolating in Manitoba, keeping busy crocheting and video chatting with the family. Meanwhile Garry has been busy getting ready for his cement pour, pouring the concrete on Saturday, and helping Victor (who just returned from visiting his family in BC) with some runaway bees, among other things. It was Alona's birthday on Saturday, so he bought her a cake and gave her the present of baking/pizza making stuff I'd prepared before I left. Plus he has to feed and water his chicks every couple hours in their box. 

Here's few photos from Saturday.

The cement trucks came in the morning, so Garry was busy with making sure the forms would be ready, since he thought it was coming mid afternoon. As soon as they were done with the cement pour, Victor discovered that some of the bees from the big hive were swarming. They landed in a tree in the neighbor's yard, so they were able to recover them and put them in an empty one, so now we have three. It looks like the queen did make it in the box when they shook them in off the branch. It seemed that Victor, Garry and Max didn't even get stung, but it was lucky it happened during Victor's first trip out to the village since he returned to Ukraine on Thursday. 

He was pretty tired by the time he got in the house around 2:30, and had a phone call to go breed a cow in a nearby village, so he told them he'd come around four. He's pretty much back to normal, but still needs to nap on busy days.

Garry had to find some help to get the forms off Sunday, and it took a while but they got them off. Monday morning he plans to get some of the students building the trusses, and this week they need to start getting the dripline in the cornfields and the sunflowers are going to be sprayed for weeds. They have four leaves now and they just need a couple more to be ready for spraying. 

The chicks will be ready to move over to Julia and Dima's coop sometime this week so I won't hear cheeping everytime I talk to Garry. Apparently the sound coming from the spare bedroom is driving Box (the cat) crazy.