Land flowing with milk and honey

 

We have a great day in Orlofka complete with a fellowship meal.  The team brought honey for everyone..

Three hour lunch break

Everyone worked hard this morning .. renovating the boys house , welding the garage doors, preparing the banya and holding tank for siding and sorting supplies ,then after lunch we headed up to the kashar for a couple hours of horseback riding 

Yesterday we had a mishap , but today we got the new window .

 

Coal deliveries and working around the farm

Lots of canning today .. 45 litres of pickled beats .

Some repairs done to the garage door.  Long over due after the car fiascale.

30 jars of pickled peppers  , then on to the beats .

Stoped at the mountain school so set up a battery back up for the computer so we had a little play. 

Oops .. loading lumber one board went a little long . But a new window is on its way . 

Out on more coal deliveries  .. we brought one older gentleman to tears when we arrived . 

Quentin is off to do some hefty pruning in the orchard .

Stuffing peppers 

We were given some wild bore so we cooked it u last night 

Yesterday we hosted a ladies conference up at the Kashar. 

Each lady was given a bottle of honey and a choice of seeds . 

Lots of little repairs around the farm.

More honey bottled .

The team is hard at work chopping veggies .

And more coal deliveries 

 We are still on need of $695 for a load of coal to be delivered to the orphanage that we took shopping .. please consider helping.

We started delivering high into the mountains , and so far we have stayed in front of the snow line as it moves down the mountain ..  today we picked up a couple hitch hikers that got stuck in the snow last night in the mountains where we were delivering coal.  We brought them back to the farm , gave them a nice hot Late and a warm lunch before they headed off ... Heading south ...

Celebration when the coal arrives .

We were back into the mountains today to deliver coal and put the seats on the swings .  

With the coal each family will also get a food package with everything to make a ploff celebration meal as well as a sack of flour.   

It was kind of strange the things we take for granted ... The kids were so excited , but sat on the swing and waited for something to happen .. we had to teach them how to swing their legs to get things moving . So we thought we should show them how the slide works as well.   This is when we decided we needed some sand to make the landings softer.

It was about 2 hours later some of the guys went back up with a truck load of sand.  Already they were making Borsolk with the flour, 

And the rooster was plucked and cleaned and on his way into the pot.

The guys got busy pruning the apple trees . 

We are expecting rain today so we picked peppers and beats for doing some inside work today.

7.7 lbs .. that's a good size for a beat . 

We got some plowing done as well , later this week we will be planting garlic and spinach for the winter.

Today we are hosting a women's conference at the Kashar so they went up last night to bring water to the holding tanks .