Cloudy with a chance of rain

You want to hear something amazing about the weather? It was warm! Okay, it was summer, not so amazing. But it was WARM! Yes, I heard you the first time... I mean it wasn't Hot! it was WARM. Why? It was supposed to be hot. But God provided us with some comfortable conditions. he had it rain. Every evening, I think with only one exception while out in the village. It cooled the next day just enough to keep us at a bearable temperature. It was a bit hot, but not too bad. We were all thirsty day long, but nothing terrible and there was usually a bit of water to be had anyways. The rain never truly inconvenienced us, expecting the ONE time it rained after the camp as we were hanging out with the kids. That time, I had a "shower" after Michelle said I could probably have one in this kind of down-pour. Not an inconvenient, but Marina went running with one of the boys and fell, scraping her knee and foot pretty badly. This ended in giving the Lord more glory in the end, as  she healed. The rain let up just a little after that and we walked back in the sunshine.

I thought it was pretty cool, that God sent rain to cool us off.

--Scott

Climate

Short post: The plants and weather: If you are reading this and are from southern Canada or Northern United-States, you will have a very simple picture to draw: Take the plants we have, and voila. A few changes, near the southern Ukraine since it is close to the Black sea. Therefore the weather is more like Northern United-States. There are a few apple trees, walnut trees, full sized grape vines (not the wimpy little bitter things we get around Ottawa), pear trees, so-on so-forth. The weather, is like here, seasonal and therefore goes through "fazes" of rain, cloudy, dry, a bit of snow, and so-forth. Real simple picture to paint isn't it? Have fun :P

--Scott