Category: Russia

Another mans trash is another mans treasure…

I have been trying to figure out what and how the kind of cable to anchor the barn with. Buying a cable strong enough to put serious tension on is expensive and I was trying to gather the items that would allow me to span the front to back of the barn and use a large come-along to put tension against the front of the leaning barn. Not straighten it, but equal the gravity pull downward upon it…

Then as I was walking near the forest in the middle of nowhere land, I found a treasure. It was dumped near a pile of trash, bad people dump trashy stuff in the middle of nowhere all the time….I guess they did not want this huge cable. Not rusted and or anything, just very very heavy…

It is 1.25 inches thick and exactly 10 meters long….32.8 feet long….with a knot on either end. Could not image wanting to tie a knot into a cable like that, but I will utilize those knots, for I sure will never get them untied… 😉

A cable weighs about 2.9 per foot at that size and so it is about 95 pounds. I had to drag it over two kilometers to get it home. Up and down the little hills, around the trees, over the many ant mounds, across one deep ravine and finally I trudged into the backyard…

The cable actually pulled me off balance three times and I ended up on the ground. It would get stuck in something like a anthill….ouch…

I will use it to pull from the top front to the bottom back and pull it tight. If the building falls over after this? It will roll in one piece with all the support I have on it now!

WtR

The garden must be done!

Three times is the charm as I use our new little tiller (6000 rubles cost). It is amazing how good this tiny thing is and it just destroys the ground. I dug up lots of rocks, rags and trash. This area is at the barn and it was full of animals for many years. The worst thing that I kept finding was strips of a very tough black cloth. About a half dozen strips tangled up the tines of the tiller and forced me to have to stop and unwind them. Just like sucking a rag up into a vacuum. They were buried deep and not rotted at all. Not sure what they had been used for, but they were everywhere…

The eagle is at 30X optical zoom and not the clearest. But he or she was watching me from the distance, as it sat near the river. They are monstrous birds…I see two most of the time and they have a nest nearby…

This morning I will finish the potato patch and start on the kitchen garden at the other home. No more freezing and it is time to plant the gardens…

We will have onions, garlic, beets, lettuce, carrots and of course potatoes…

Going to rain this afternoon, therefore, I have to get some things done this morning. First though, gotta walk and wake up. Walking is important and it helps keep the heart good…

WtR

My phone spit out a video to me. Still not sure where it came from, but it is of my images I take as I walk and they called it, Out and About…

I like it and after much trouble trying to get it in a size and workable format…

Well there it is. My walks around TRV…

WtR

Good question and I am glad to see the question asked. After all I have been asking this same question for months now. The way the US and the UK are acting, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark…“ (Act-I, Scene-IV – William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet)….you know, I had to read that play when I was a kid!

Beijing has called on Washington to address the concerns of its own citizens about the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic, while condemning American politicians for shifting blame for the crisis squarely onto China’s shoulders.Asked to comment on a series of American media reports on the US government’s slow and often inept response to the health crisis on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang relayed some of the questions raised by the reporting, asking whether Washington may have swept information about the virus under the rug.“Recently there have been many voices in the United States that question and worry about whether the US government has responded to the epidemic in a timely and effective manner,” Geng said, adding his hopes that the US would soon answer their questions. They wanted to get the facts straight: when did the first case occur in the United States? Is the US government hiding something? Why is it so desperately seeking to pin the blame on other countries and international organizations?

Source: ‘What’s the US hiding?’ Beijing slams Washington’s Covid-19 response & ‘desperate’ attempts to pin blame on China — RT World News

‘What’s the US hiding?’ Exactly what I was thinking and have been saying…

WtR

Svetochka sent me a link. She keeps me informed!

Big graph at top of info is interactive and the links say: Got sick (red), Conditionally infected (yellow), Recovered (blue), Died (black)…

Next with the people graph: Children (red), 18 to 64 years old (green), Over 65 (blue)….green is winning so far…

Next graph is areas: Ryazan District (Where I am at. The worst hit so far.), Erminsky District, Kasimov, Klepikovsky District, Miloslavsky District, Pronsky District, Rybnovsky District, Sapozhkovsky District, Sasovo, Skopin, Spassky District, Chuchkovsky District, Shilovsky District…

Then farther break down nearest to the Tiny Russian Village: Sarai area — 15, 2 in Sarai (Big Village), 2 in Sysoi (Across the river and walking distance.)…

So therefore, the “King Corona” is within walking distance of our Tiny Russian Village. Just a hop and skip across the Para River (About a 5 kilometer walk.) that I take images of all the time…

I really dislike, “King Corona”…

So therefore, as I tell Svetochka in Moscow!

It is time to be even more careful and stay away from people…

King Corona is like cockroaches: Where you have one, you have hundreds hidden…

WtR

It is Jr. and Big Bubba at it again…

Israel and USA

It sure takes a special type of country to attack an innocent country and their friends within that country at their behest. Countries that are already suffering under illegal and immoral sanctions put on them by your best Big Bubba friend. Why are hardly anyone protesting these atrocities? To cowardly to even speak up? Therefore, I want to protest publicly, right here on this well established blog, so my hands don`t get soaked in the blood of innocent people by the collective guilt attached to this deafening cricket type of silence, per media and individual countries and people…

Syria accused Israel of carrying out airstrikes on a military airfield near Damascus just before dawn on Monday, saying that its air defense units had “confronted the Israeli aggression. ”Though the Israel Defense Forces did not comment on the allegation, the attack came a day after Defense Minister Naftali Bennett hinted that the military was poised to take action in Syria. “Keep your ears open. We’ve gone from a policy of blocking [Iran] to pushing it out,” Bennett told the 103FM radio station on Sunday. It was the third attack on Iranian targets in Syria attributed to Israel in the past 10 days.

Source: Syria reports Israeli strikes near Damascus | The Times of Israel

Israel does not even try to hide it anymore!

This is an act of war and if the USA was not bullying and crushing so many countries and destroying these countries through sanctions and illegal activities. Israel would not get away with it, just like they would never have had “The Bomb” except Big Bubba gave it to them…

Israel has again, just like the USA for many years now, continually instigate and desire a response that which they will utilize illegally against said country…

When countries bully other countries they put themselves in the position that they never can stop the bullying. For they live in fear of retaliation that they themselves instigated in the first place and Israel has been an instigation from the very start, when it was illegally instated as a state…

It is simply an act of war, just like if you walked up to someone and out of the blue punched them in the nose….but they will not punch you back because your ten foot tall friend is standing laughing at them, behind you with a baseball bat…

Jr. and Bubba at it again…

WtR

Not long ago I posted what to do with lots of bananas that are getting black and extra ripe!

Make a banana treat recipe, when you got too many bananas…

I basically posted this recipe of mine for my Sweetpea Svetochka and to help her get rid of too many bananas. She had over zealously gathered too many bananas in the coronavirus times…

I am so proud of my little sweetpea and she made herself a wonderful treat…

Who knew that my recipes were any good at all?

Sveta said she added a touch of cinnamon to it and she has enjoyed her creation!

WtR

Decided yesterday to make the front stairs safe. I am not much of a carpenter, but I do what I do what I can….they are solid and very strong ad will last for years. The old ones were getting dangerous and it was a need to be done, not want to be done…

The barn supporting is done and now all the doors work like they should and I have increased support inside and out. I have plans to repair and paint the roof and find some steel corner braces. Then I will be officially done…

I may relax this weekend….kinda tired this morning and I do not even remember falling asleep last night. Laid my head down on the pillow and ZZZZZZZZZZ…

Today: I will walk my morning walk, if the weather holds, I will finish tilling the potato garden and I have to replace a blown short piece of heater hose on Sammy the Volga….and oh yes, I have to replace a circuit breaker this morning before I use the electric tiller…

And you wonder why I get up at 2 to 3 a.m. every morning?

Never dull in the Tiny Russian Village…

WtR

People cannot see a virus…

People cannot accept what they cannot see…

People desire to be skeptical about what they cannot see…

People dislike being told what to do…

People are basically simple-minded…

Then someone you know, either family, friend and or a very important person in your life, dies from King Coronavirus…

Skepticism and disbelief turns to sorrow and fear…

For at that point, whether you can see King Corona or not, you realize that he is really out there and waiting for you. That person you had just die in your life from the King Corona should have lived many more years. Even with diabetes and or what ever issues they have. Their productivity to life in general is gone….and you the proverbial student within their life may have been the one to kill them…

Eg….As in a case that I just found out about: A very important Russian cancer “Doctor of Surgery” at mid sixties in age, while helping on the front line in fighting this King Corona, died from the King…

The King Corona does not care and he will cut your life short, even while most around you are all okay and carrying him from new host to new host. If you have a weakness for him to exploit, he will take you from earth and in a very bad way…

That my friend is why I am careful around everyone and wear my mask when I go to the Big Village and wash my hands a bunch and try to stay as self-isolated as I can, so that I can still be productive in life and hopefully one day, when something comes along and changes the situation, I can get back to a semblance of normality…

I know more than a few who have died of King Corona and many are very important people and those people, even though they were old and had other health issues, they were still a very productive part of the future and advancement of mankind…

King Coronavirus does not give a damn whether you believe in him or not….nor whether you believe this is a hoax or not…

WtR

PS: I surmise and consider that if I die at 70 from a virus that we could keep from getting and I would have lived to 80 otherwise. I consider those ten years a good thing to have lived and experienced life. – I myself personally could have died twenty + years ago from heart issues, and or from a brain tumor. Yet I have had twenty good years more in life and I would like a few more, please!

To put in more crass and simple terms: There are times it just ain’t worth trying to be a badass with a foe who does not give a damn!

Sometimes as I go about my business and find myself working to repair things all around the homes. I stop long enough to take in what is around me…

Kinda like stopping and smell the coffee…

Yesterday, I felt a shift in the weather and looked up as I was finishing a project and the sun was bright, but you could feel something coming. A storm a brewing…i

Yesterday was cold and brisk. The wind was relentless all day…

I finished the barn, now today I have to clean my mess up. I also had to track down a electrical issue. The main breaker blew and would not reset. I spent two hours tracing each circuit and finally found the issue, an old wall socket had fried out. The house looked like world war three, as I found that somewhere in the wire to the socket was now a dead short. Thus, I pulled that circuit in complete and rewired the line. New plugin and new wire and I was back in business…

Never dull and never bored in the Tiny Russian Village…

Today I have to go to the Big Village, for I need to buy a main breaker set….seems that the dead short has weakened one breaker ad now I have a buzz sound under load. Not worth playing with, just get new breakers and replace them….that should solve that…

By the way, within 15 minutes of that image above….it started to snow and sleet…

I just love the Tiny Russian Village…

WtR