The rain came, and more next week would be nice, too!

Happy to report that this week the rain came to the village on Monday. This time Dnepropetroesk was not very wet that day while Garry was there teaching English (for more about this read my regular blog), but he had heard that it had rained more in the village. When he got home in the afternoon, only one of the three phases of electricity was working and while I  talked with him that evening there was another thunderstorm and all the power went out.

Garry was smiling though because the corn should be able to keep growing now, and we should get grain corn- especially if it rains a bit more next week! Apparently it really soaked everything, because I just talked to him and they went out to check on the fields on Thursday evening and he said they got stuck in a wet place and spent more than an hour getting our Ford out of the mud.

 Friday he told me that there was no rain in the forecast and hot weather coming next week 35 C (getting close to 100 F) so they would likely start chopping some of the corn that was planted early for silage. However, the rain should help the later planted crop... and definitely only planting enough next year for silage in a dry year. The sunflowers look better than the corn, but in Ukraine they are considered the crop that always grows!