Building and other things

 I was away for a few days, but been video chatting with Garry everyday. He said they got a lot of work done in the last two days. Yesterday he was so tired, he fell asleep about 7 pm, still dressed. He said he woke up sometime in the night, changed for bed, put on YouTube and fell back to sleep. He woke up when he heard the girls in the kitchen and thought it was 6 am, but it was 8! He says he tried to take it easier today. 

He hasn't sent any photos from today's work (he says he left his phone at the house) but I think he said they have about 50% to build yet. They took apart the second of the three small dry cow sheds on Wednesday, and started removing steel off the third today. They are reusing the wood and steel off the old sheds in the new building. I do have some photos from Wednesday and earlier in the week. Garry bought a second ladder for the guys, it's too muddy to use the tractor in the barnyard.

The only things they can't use are the posts, they are rotting off. We are unable to get pressure treated lumber, they painted them with something, but it didn't help much. That's why they bought old cement utility poles for the posts, and put them two meters into the ground. They hope to eventually get more for the hay shed, because the posts are having the same problem there. Andrey is welding a framework to the tops of the posts, so they can attach the lumber, he can get five finished in a day. 

Their load of lumber arrived on Wednesday, since the new building will be much bigger than the three old ones combined. The plan is that the water will run off the roof outside the barn yard. They have had a bad problem with mastitis in the fresh cows during the rainy winters and even cows not eating enough when the mud is belly deep in the colder months.  They also plan to pour more concrete in the barnyard between  this new shed and the feed bunk. 

Friday is supposed to be rainy and Garry is going to dentist for his final appointment. He meets up with the guys for the train back to Poland on Wednesday I believe.

 Last Sunday he went into Dnepro for church and afterwards spoke with the students at our friend Lena's English school. Of course he forgot the Canada buttons I sent for them, but he plans to see Lena at church on Sunday and give them to her for the students.

You might notice some green grass under that lumber. While here in Manitoba, I've been shoveling a bit of snow, Garry sent me this video of the bees. Spring will come here, too, never fear.