Friday, September 18, 2009

Visitors From Afar


We have been enjoying having Allen and Tanya staying with us since Wednesday. I understand they will be heading out on the rest of their cross country tour on Sunday. Ky came on Monday and Lyn arrived here yesterday. The picture above was taken of Al and Tanya and Ky having lunch with us out on the patio.


Al and Tanya gave us this model of a traditional Ukrainian stove as a gift. I was looking up information about these clay/ brick stoves called the "pech." I found some examples of these stoves as shown in the pictures below. The left one was called a Russian stove and the right one was called a Ukrainian furnace/stove. Tanya said the Russian stoves are usually plain, and the Ukrainian stoves decorated like the model stove they gave us.

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