Garry bought lumber on Monday and got building calf pens with the students. They finished them today. I think he said they made 20, so hopefully there will be less double calf pens. Right now all the calves have pen mates, not ideal for preventing disease spread, or frostbite (wet parts of calves, like ears can be damaged, and fall off, because they like to suck on each other, slightly less of a problem in Ukraine than Canada, but it can happen). They also made little boxes for the calves to eat grain feed from in the pens.
Garry's been preg checking cows every morning. That's one of the things they can't do when he's gone. He said there were two new calves born this morning. Last night when we talked he was cooking dinner for the girls in the house, including Valentina, who is due to have her baby any day now.
The photo is of Oksana, who was milking this morning. She has two children now, Kolya must take care of the kids while she's working.
Tonight (it's morning here, but evening there) he's at a birthday party for Sasha Borchuk. Looks like they are having a good time with piles of open face sandwiches, cola, fanta, tea, candies and cake. Garry was having a slice of bread with tomato, and sardines when we video chatted. I see baloney and cucumber sandwiches too. It makes me wish I was there with the gang.
That's Max climbing a giant pile of sunflower seeds to check if they are heating up, they were a little wetter than they like when they were combined. Garry said they finished insulating the doors for the chicken barn today. The solid walls really makes it look different inside the old tent barn!
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