Windows to Russia

Oops, you did not know that did you. Well it is and it is almost done… The first convoy was treated as a precursor to World War Three, but this time I have found nothing about it in the west. In fact the east is talking it up, but the west, has looked the other […]

Trying to pace myself, but the good weather will hold only so long and I have to get it done. I have to accomplish the roadside part of the fence this year. Next year I will have a chainsaw, but this year, I just have a pruning saw and it works. I cut posts and […]

Those who think they know best what the world needs, will start a war, if that is what they determine is in their best interest. Worrying over it, discussing it no end, trying to figure the next move are all wonderful if wasting time is your goal. However while I sit and write articles and […]

In an interview for the ITAR-TASS project Top Officials Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Washington and some European countries had made a decision to isolate Russia long ago… Over the more than ten years in office as Russia’s foreign minister Sergey V. Lavrov has appeared at thousands of news conferences and granted hundreds of […]

The bell rang today… I sat down a cried today, for the most beautiful sound in the whole world, rang out over the valley. The people came in cars, walking, riding motorcycles, riding bicycles and even in wheelchairs and crutches. They all came up the hill and they all listened to the most beautiful sound […]

Today I give you an image of the monk (his head) and a bell. The bell is being raised and the monk is observing. There are six bells or eight bells? (According to who you talk to!) These bells are actually being installed as I try to watch. Oh how I would love to hang […]

This is the most telling information about what happened in the last month in Ukraine. The East beat the West… KIEV, September 08. /ITAR-TASS/. Some 1,200 prisoners of war captured by militia forces in eastern Ukraine have been handed to the Ukrainian government since a ceasefire took effect on Friday evening, President Petr Poroshenko said […]

Exact copy of the whole report and a link… The Hague, September 9, 2014 Preliminary report points towards external cause of MH17 crash No evidence of technical faults Flight MH17 with a Boeing 777-200 operated by Malaysia Airlines broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number […]

Above some Herons who are camera-shy… The village is staying busy and it is due to the monastery. Monks everywhere and now heavy equipment everywhere also. They are leveling the monastery territory and going to fence the monastery by next year. I see that next year the monastery will most likely have a car bridge […]

On September 4-5, Wales hosted the most recent NATO summit. But instead of addressing real issues related to the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan and the crises in Iraq, Syria and Libya, the allies obsessed over the mythical Russian threat. Moscow, which released a sensible peace plan for southeastern Ukraine the day before the […]