First dacha week!

We went out to our dacha on Monday and just came back yesterday. It was wonderful to have so much time outside! We hope this can pretty much be our summer schedule: weekdays at the dacha, weekends at home. That's what we did in Russia, too. Here it's even more convenient, because our dacha is right near the church. In the evenings, Will can just run across the road and be there. Well, kind of across the road; it's really through the "woods,"* over the railroad tracks, down and up the valley, then across the road. But it's still closer than coming from our apartment.

We're probably headed back to our dacha tomorrow, and we have friends coming on Thursday, so we'll be both away from the computer and busy.  (They'll be staying at our apartment, while we're at the dacha.  We can spend days together, and then go to our separate "homes" for the nights.)  Still, I'll try to have at least one post scheduled to show up here during the week.  Watch for that.

I'll just give you a few photos from the past week.  The rest of them are here.

*Once again, I will mention that there are no woods here. However, there are nice "plantings." (I can't think of a better way to translate that.)  Once Jaan was telling someone from church something about a forest in Russia. Her response--with big eyes--was, "I was in a forest once.  It was scary!"   Recently, in Sunday school the teacher asked who had ever been in a real forest. Our children were the only ones who raised their hands.