Saturday

 

As you can see the crocus I planted 15 years ago are blooming at the end of the driveway in Ukraine.

Today Garry got a haircut- no photo, but I saw it on the video chat- and was helping with the hayshed rebuild. I now have a photo of the cement posts (new ones for 80 dollars each) that went in on Friday, there was a post hole digger and a crane that put them up. 

He bought some plywood, today they were taking apart broken trusses that they will repair on Monday, because they are reusing the roof of the old hay shed. The cement posts will have a metal framework to attach the roof to. The new hayshed will be stronger and posts should stay straighter than the wood ones the original was built with, for about the same cost per post. 

One of the guys said that it was too bad that Phil was not there to bring out refreshments like they had when Jack's team was there in October.

The tractor driver Vlad found something in the field they were harrowing today to get ready for planting. A drone had crashed  in it since it was plowed in the fall. They think it was a surveillance or maybe practice drone, it doesn't look like it had a bomb on it. Garry says they were cautious, some bits had broken off it. Someone carried it to the edge of the field so they could finish prepping the field.

The wheat fields are turning green, and the fruit trees will be blooming soon, it was 23 C today, but the forecast for Sunday is rain. Garry will be going to Morningstar church in Dnipro and visiting with our friend Lena's English students.