It seems like time sits still at times, but in regards to doing a blog, the time flies between posts! We spend a lot of our time working on Russian and we have language lessons twice a week with Ulzana. We are enjoying Ulzana's teaching, but Scott is still struggling to get the right words matched up for using in sentences and other topics. The challenge is to keep at it and hope that one day the light comes on in a greater way.
Last Monday as we were planning our day, Garry told us that they were butchering a cow and if we were available to help, there would be some meat for us. Throughout that day we mainly deboned the meat to turn it into hamburger. Shannon made some stew meat and we keep a few ribs to make a meal and it was tasty. Nice
BIG ribs!
Spring is well on the way here and today we are experiencing the best rain we have had this year. It is steady but gentle and will be great for the crops that are in, the crops still to go in, the alfalfa and the yards and gardens. We have planted the bulk of our garden and this week the apricot trees came out in full bloom. Victor has some bees in Garry & Teresa's yard and the trees were humming with their activity.
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| Blooming Apricot trees |
We have tulips all over our yard in no particular fashion and hopefully this Fall we can try to re-organize them. We also have peonies and roses and other plants that we don't know. We are hoping they are beautiful flowers and not aggressive weeds! The tulips are on the verge of bursting open. One started yesterday, but today is too cool and wet to open.
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| Daffodils |
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| Tulips are loaded and ready to bloom |
We have been doing some work in a shed in the back yard getting ready to move our chickens to it. Scott went out in the rain to take a picture of the roosts we built on Saturday and found that the roof is fairly porous. The main problem is at the seams. There is so much junk and debris on the roof that the rain just builds up and comes through. We will try to rake it off and then take a broom to it once it dries.
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Chicken shed
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| Chicken shed with roosts |
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We are removing an old shed in the back yard. Some boards we used for the roosts and others, if they are decent, will be used for firewood. We found a couple of good 2x4s as we need to replace some rafters in the chicken shed. Hopefully we can get back at it later in the week as the back yard is very muddy when it rains and it rained well today.
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| Old shed |
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| Old shed coming apart |
Yesterday, Scott preached at Morningstar Church in Dnipro and Victor's daughter, Dasha, interpreted the message. This was just her second time to interpret at church and she did very well.
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| Scott and Dasha |
The message I preached was from
1 Thessalonians 5:18. Below is the passage in Russian. In English it is,
"Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Can you notice the difference in the languages? Ha Ha, right? Now you can understand where Scott just might be having some struggles! But we give thanks in
ALL circumstances, even with the language challenges!
After church, we stopped and bought some roses for Shannon from vendors on the sidewalk. We bought seven beautiful roses for my beautiful bride! Notice the picture after the roses. Keep your eyes open while driving in Ukraine!
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| When manhole covers are off, this is how they are marked! Keep your eyes open! |
Today, we transplanted our plants (Scott helped Shannon) as she is the main transplanter! We have lots of tomatoes, big and small, peppers, rhubarb and celery.
We have some more pictures of Yana's place. We will hopefully get some more later on, but you can see the amazing transformation that has taken place. The water isn't running yet, but hopefully soon.
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| Dining room / living room |
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| Kitchen |
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| Bedroom |
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