Spring is here
I love it. Life! This week, I was out in the sunshine trimming fruit trees, raspberry stalks and dragging a heavy rake-like instrument across a newly plowed garden and feeling like I was free again! The winter was long but when the life that Spring brings eventually shows up, it happens all of a sudden and… delights!
The family is fine. Pris is doing well and back on top of things after a bout of illness that knocked her about. The kids are busy with school coming in to the end of the school year. Jesse is studying Physics and grateful for help from Shane and Blake (A Canadian teacher who is here for a couple of months). Jesse and Marie go into Kiev once a week for several hours of Ukrainian study. They are stretched, showing aptitude and loving it.
The little girls have been waiting for a month until they could go outside in shorts and a T-shirt. We’ve made going “bare feet” a kind of celebration in our home – something requiring twenty degrees on the temp. gauge. We’ve finally arrived and they love it. Angel found this long icicle during the melt of the late snow a couple of weeks ago. It seems incredible that all that snow has gone now.
Both cars are at the mechanics again. When I took the van in the other day, Ura, the head mechanic, was drunk and didn’t remember much of what I told him. Today, I broke down again and had to get a tow (thanks Bruce). Ura seems like a good mechanic who is a fairly nice guy if you overlook his drinking habits and language, which marks him very much in the blue-collar camp! I’m going to invite him to the outreach event we are going to have on the 12th of May.
Tonight, we have “Student Night” again. If I’m up to it, I’ll be again presenting the gospel message and calling these young people to commit their lives to God.
Mr. Adam Gilchrist is set to don the pads again in a little over 10 minutes and YouTube is kindly streaming the game live. I originally thought that I would be “sacrificing” cricket when I first left Australia 20 years ago, but thanks to the development of technology… I get to see Gilly bat again!