Still at the lake

 

I think we'll be at the lake until the boys start doing corn silage in St Labre. Garry is enjoying fishing and his dad arrives tomorrow for ten days of fishing and visiting. He was going to come out right after we returned from Poland, but Garry tested positive for covid. Luckily, this was nothing like last time (yeah, antibodies and vaccine) he was only really feeling sick two days. Last weekend we were in Ontario for a niece's wedding. 

Back in Ukraine, Max has the old chopper out and with three wagons they are making corn silage, he says they have been going for three days and may be done in about five days. 

Here and there

 Here in Manitoba we are hiding out at the lake house. 

In the village in Ukraine, they have two new students, both

19 year old girls with disabilities who had to leave Melitopol (one of the cities taken over by Russia).  In the the photo they are the girls standing up near Nikolai- who's holding baby Sofia- at a picnic in Oleg and Elena's yard. They are living in our house with Valentina and Leila.

Back in Manitoba

 Here's few photos I copied off facebook from our people in Ukraine.

Although Garry really wishes he was able to go visit our guys in Ukraine, we are back in Canada now. Our flights to Budapest from Poland went fine and we had a wonderful time visiting with our fellow EFCCM missionaries about an hour outside the city from Monday until Thursday morning. We actually left a day early, because the cost of a one way flight was about twice the price after that!

On Wednesday we were able to squeeze in a visit with our friend Jessica, who had flown in to Budapest and was going back to Uzgorad, where she's been since the beginning of the war. She drove over to see us, talk about Ukraine and hug. We even got a selfie before she went back to Budapest to sleep at a hotel before driving back to Ukraine. 

You don't have to wear a mask on most flights, and the seats are very full on planes. On our flight from Amsterdam we were stuck with the two inner seats of four for 8 1/2 hours. It left an hour late so we had to hustle to get our flight to Winnipeg, but we made it. 

Garry decided to keep busy today by assembling the Ikea cabinets for the island in the kitchen. We'll be in church Sunday and then a family birthday party before heading to the cottage for a visit and lots of fishing with Garry's dad next week.