To be continued...

 

Just realized I never finished that last sentence in the last post! They did do some concrete work last week and this week, with another truck yet to come sometime. They are increasing the manure storage pad behind the barn, knocking down the little wall and making a bigger area with a taller wall. Since we are milking a hundred or more cows, there's a lot more manure!

The forecasted rain did not amount to much last weekend. It rained more Saturday afternoon than any other time, but not enough to get that wheat growing. Thursday morning, Bear and I walked in a cold drizzle, but I'm told the forecast for later today is for real rain. We will see. About half the winter wheat is planted, the last sunflower field combined had to wait for the stalks to dry some so they would break up when they disc it. 

The most exciting thing last weekend was Garry got his first Pfizer shot!  He'd about given up on getting vaccinated against covid before flying back to Canada, since it seemed foreigners were never going to be eligible in Ukraine. We all know how hard it is for him to wait to see the farm for two weeks of quarantine, but it was looking like what we'd have to do. However, we spoke at Lena's English school on Saturday, afterwards she went with Garry to the Jewish center and he got the forms. We went to Victor's house, he helped fill them out (he said it was the same form he helped fill out the last time they tried to get Garry vaccinated).  Sunday morning we went back first thing with a pile of ID and documents and it worked! He only had a sore arm the next day, too. 

He can get the second one in three weeks. Unfortunately that's when we booked the trip to Sharm el sheikh (Red sea, Egypt) with Max and his wife and daughter, and Yana, so it will be four weeks before he gets it, plus two weeks wait before he can get his certificate, so we won't be flying back until November. Our kids are figuring that Manitoba will be in a lockdown of some kind, like the last times when we flew home.

The second most exciting thing was when we went to Victor's we picked up the repaied washing machine. The girls and I are still trying to catch up on washing dirty clothes after two weeks without a working one. Looks a little iffy, it's banged up, but still working almost a week later. Hopefully the two loads out on the line dry some before the rain starts.