A few more pics from our full day in the therapy garden for Stephen’s Home. The tulip tree I pruned, a lot, taking off all the dead branches. Now we wait and see if any new life begins. Very hopeful as there is still life […]

So compare Tuesday’s picture with today ~ after a lot of hard work and many buckets of cement that Maxim walked back to the therapy garden plot. These will be the bases for the metal columns that will hold up arches for the grape vines […]

It was a warmer sunny day today out at the building site, a lot happened. Maxim and I worked in the garden to prepare the grape vines for the base of the  trellis that will begin to go up this Thursday. I’m going to be […]

This next week the first layer of concrete flooring will be poured. You can see in these pictures the preparation for this, as the floors are being pounded down with wood and metal mallets, tossed again and again. The house rather reverberates with the sound […]

Yesterday was the start of some rainy days were are having. My mood has been rather down as well, having learned that our Tulip tree in the center of the therapy garden is dying. Compared with so many other things, this seems quite unimportant. Though […]

A warm sunny day, what a delight. all the bedroom windows look like these, on the left in the house parents quarters This floor has been pounded and is ready for the first layer of cement to be poured. looking out from the utility room […]

Yesterday the windows started to be placed. A bit of clarity for the location of a few was required today, so Maxim and I went out to Darivka and did so. They’re pretty, and it was good again to see that the men who are […]

March 25th God is always full of surprises this little one is for my sister Wendy, with love a sweet reminder of the childrens book by Beatrix Potter of the sweet little hedgehog This is my new assistant, Sasha, and this particular sunny day we […]

I worked out at the site today, it was a warm day and felt so good to be out  at the Stephen’s home plot. There’s clean up that needed to happen after this winter.  What was amazing to me, after our last work crew that […]

March 20th It was a wonderful day spent with Oksana, sharing with her as we drove out to Kahovka. She was really glad to be back as she has a good friend there now. We spent time with them sharing a meal at a local cafe […]