Leaving soon

 Just two more days to get ready to send Garry off to Ukraine. Last week he found out Max needed parts for the mixer wagon, and the company is from BC, so they shipped them to Steinbach Wednesday morning and hopefully they arrive by Monday afternoon. They weigh 20 pounds (20 at one pound each) so he may be taking a second suitcase if they get here, because he already has parts for the mower and the John Deere corn planter to go... and a few gifts from me for everyone. 

The donated mixer wagon came in the shipping container that Jack put together years ago, and it gets used everyday. It's the second time they needed new knives for it (they will weld them into the tub to turn and chop the feed around to mix it). They eventually wear away so much they are ineffective. 

Hopefully how to get them in a suitcase will be my only problem!

Getting ready

 

Well I had my heart ablation on the 10th and it went well, although they aren't sure the problem is solved. Time will tell, and so for now I stay on the meds. I'm starting to feel normal again, it was a slower recovery than the first one.

Meanwhile we are gathering stuff for Garry's trip, we'll see what I get in the suitcase around those things Garry is packing- he's bringing some parts to repair the corn planter. Just think, he'll be there for corn planting this year. Hopefully the snow will melt while he's gone! For now, he's here for another 8 days. 

This week he went fishing on Lake Winnipeg Thursday with a friend from church and caught a pickerel too big to keep. By the time he's back home, hopefully the ice will be out of the lake and we will be able to get out in the boat.

Dates are set

 Tomorrow morning I'm having my heart procedure, so I thought I'd update the blog. Garry and Daryl leave March 31st for Moldova. They arrive there on April first and will have a day to recover and maybe see the sights before Adam arrives late on the second and they drive to Kirvoy Rog the next morning. 

So Garry won't get to the village until the third, and he flies back April 30th, but he'll still have a few weeks there. He says it's ten degrees Celsius in the village today (he was talking with Max Rudei's brother Roman, who's here at the farm in Manitoba.) He also found out Max was able to order the part to fix the payloader from China, but it won't get there for two months. It broke a couple weeks ago and fixing it was going to be very expensive, now it's less money but more time. 

So three weeks to get his bag packed with gifts and parts for the farm, and his toothbrush and a change of clothes. One of the Yulias had her birthday recently and they had a celebration for her.