After a busy week in Kramatorsk, Garry drove back to Dnepro leaving his apartment at four am Saturday. Pastor Yuri rode along with Garry because he was teaching at the Bible School in Dnepro that morning. Garry got busy as soon as he returned to the village. He got a call to breed a cow for someone before he even got home.
He picked the peas in the garden and got a bowlful to freeze. While he was gone they had gotten the driplines in the corn fields and started connecting them to the layflat hoses. Garry is anxious to get them ready, not that the plants need water, but the corn needs fertilizer, which they apply during the summer by adding it to the irrigation water. Of course, it rained while he was gone, two and a half inches. They finished connecting the driplines in the large field Tuesday and just have the small field left to roll out the layflat and connect all the driplines now.
Garry decided to mow the hay, starting with the oats in the new alfalfa seeding. (Oats are a nurse crop for the baby alfalfa plants). They are about four feet tall (or about a meter for you metric thinkers) and thick. In fact, it's still too wet to bale yet on Wednesday, but they will start baling the older alfalfa field. It was 24 degrees at seven am with a predicted high of 33, so it will get drier. Sunday when they started mowing the forecast was calling for rain midweek but now it's moved the rain to Sunday.
He even made cherry jam Sunday afternoon with Alona and Vika stirring the pots. They also helped make salads for Monday's student dinner. They managed to not get rained on this week.
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