Hey, just thought I'd update the blog. Garry is slowly getting over jetlag, he's close to being in this time zone after a week. I'm starting to feel more normal, the meds I'm on has dropped my heart rate about 10 beats a minute, so it's taking some getting used to.
Garry had a message from Max today, the changes he made to the cows ration has the herd giving even more milk than when he left last week. Garry figured out that milk production has gone up 25% since he made the changes a couple weeks ago while he was there. They have got more beet pulp and bagged it up, too.
Here's a photo of the bigger better milk tank that was installed after Garry was in Ukraine last spring.
This is a photo Garry took at Max's house before the two of them took a couple hour drive to visit a dairy farm on Tuesday before Garry came back. They had heard about a German Kontakt missionary farm and made arrangements to see it. They have been in Ukraine for a long time, not milking many cows (20, I think Garry said) and are making cheeses also. Unfortunately, neither Max nor Garry remembered to take photos there.
Garry was in Dnipro a few times while he was in Ukraine, the last Saturday he went to the meeting that the Morningstar church has for an outreach, I can't remember who was speaking, maybe Daryl Porter, but afterwards Garry went to the Most City mall downtown.
He said there were two guys playing piano downstairs, most stores were open with minimal lighting as there were rolling blackouts often the last weeks he was there (and still now because Russia keeps knocking out power plants). He said there was a big cheer when the power came on while he was at the mall. Probably because Mc Donald's would reopen with the power on, he said they were lining up to order, even though it was still closed when he left.
