Remonting

One balcony installed. It’s awesome!

And yes, window screens have finally been invented in Ukraine – and we will have them in all rooms! Woohoo, no more kamikaze flies and mosquitoes!

The renovation continues to make slow but steady process. One enormous hurdled has almost been leaped – moving the gas water heater to the corner instead of smak-dab in the middle of the kitchen wall. It took nearly a month of patience and persistence, plus a few other qualities, to finally get the gas company to agree to do their job. We are now more grateful than ever that we bought an apartment that already had a gas water heater. The other one we bid on didn’t have it, and we can only imagine the utter nightmare it would have taken to get all the necessary permits to have it installed. Yany loves to talk about how he’s going to battle corruption in Ukraine – good luck, dude!