Update

 So he is in the village, and all is well. He's been busy getting ready for the barn repair. The steel for the roof actually won't arrive until next week, probably just before Jack and the guys. Max is driving over to Moldova to pick them up.

Meanwhile, Garry has been to Dnepro to the Canadian- Ukrainian Dairy Commission office to buy semen, and to the place to get liquid nitrogen, he still remembered where it was. He actually bred a couple cows for someone the first day he was in the village, but they needed to buy more to resupply the tank. 

I forgot to say that Garry saw lots of farmers in the fields as he went across Ukraine, tractors working land, planting and fertilizing. Our guys have been busy this week, pulling up the last of the water lines and plowing up the last cornfield that was combined this winter, planting alfalfa, and some barley as as cover crop with it. They also planted eight gardens in the village in alfalfa, and some barley for a neighbor. 

Yesterday Garry, with the help of the two new Yulias repaired the wooden picket fence in front of the house, three of the posts were broken, today he had one repainting the fence. You may guess it's warm there, the crocuses are blooming and Garry was looking for his shorts to wear!

Today he was off buying rebar and cement, they were getting ready to repair the foundation on one side of the barn, the gas block to build the two long sides of the barn was delivered. They have hired three guys who will start that on Monday. Garry also helped load and unload a couple loads of straw they purchased from a farm in the next village. 

Time springs ahead in Ukraine this weekend, so he gets to miss an hours sleep a second time this spring. 

Please keep Rolling Fork Mississippi in your prayers, where the tornado was last night, it's actually the town where Garry's parents would go every winter to help with a mission there, where Garry helped build a house in his mother Mary's memory a couple years ago. Garry's dad had been there for a couple months, and just returned to Ontario at the beginning of March.