Year: 2014

Sveta and I talked and it looks like I will be staying in the Russian village until the end of September. Then we will take our yearly trip to Tunisia and enjoy a few weeks of leisure. Then back to Moscow, Russia and settle in for the winter. It will take me probably two years (Actually three, the way I work!) to get the village home in the shape that is needed to allow people to live comfortably all year around. That time frame to leave from here this year, puts me at around 5 months living in the village and it has been wonderful for my health…

It looks like Sveta and her mom might take a trip to the Crimea or secondary to Sochi and spend a few weeks letting her mother get some sea water waves and sea air. There also is some other family affairs that are going to happen and I and Boza will stay out of the way. So the best place for Boza and I is in the village…

Next year I will come to the village at the beginning of April, after spending the winter accumulating the supplies to work on the village home and stay until September again. Sveta and I are trying to figure out how to stay in Moscow three months, Tunisia three months and the Russian village six months. Actually technically, Kyle would like to live in the village full time, but others are involved and I must bow to the masses… 🙂

Well I am limping Sammy the Volga along until I can figure out how to fix her. I have tore up a lower control arm shaft in the front drivers side and while I am able to drive her, it will tear the tire up very quick. I was too rough on her and she is paying me back. I will see when I can get the parts and see if I have the tools to do the job? Otherwise we have to search for that rare bird in Russia, an auto mechanic, because everyone does his own work 90% of the time…

I am going to town on Friday and I will try to pick up the parts to fix her then and any tools that I need. Then I will see what I can do. The issue is that it is going to be hot next week and I have to be careful. Therefore, I will stock up on lots of food and work at a snails pace to fix the car. I also have a carburetor to install and some other parts to boot… (Looks like once a week trip to town will be the norm now!)

Then before I drive back to Moscow, I will get two tires for the front of the car and I have been studying how to align a Volga front end by string / tape measure method, so that she does not eat tires as I tool on down the road…

The photo above is my connection with the outside world and it just plain works, (Notice the fine details and workmanship? This is a very delicate device and soon I expect  to receive signals from Mars and such!) I have; Last Result: Download Speed: 3517 kbps (439.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1076 kbps (134.5 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 88 ms on 10 July 2014 10:13:05. It is almost as fast as what I have in Moscow, Russia and is very sufficient for what I need to do out here in the Russian Village…

That lean to that you see behind the house is full of (bless their pea pickin’ little hearts) tons of rotting wood. Wood that Sveta and her family hid from sight and is now getting ready to tear the back of the house down. Everything is crumbling… (bless their pea pickin’ little hearts, as the mice and insects love what they have done…) Yes a future job for me to deal with and soon…

Last night I easily was able to receive a 40 meg file from Sveta out of her cloud storage and now I have the complete manual to rebuild anything on our Volga. I do all my work on line over this connection and find it sufficient for everything, even if I wanted to down load movies and such, but I have limited data (15 gigs a month), so I do not do such things (as download the latest Hollywood movie,) here in the village. The internet is very stable and I am sure that Megaphone is curious at who is using all this data, way out in the middle of nowhere…

“Just me!” Said the little birdy!

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

This is the start of the Russian Village Posts and this is the page that will be presented from now and tell the end of summer when I have to come back home. The blog is above in an easy to find link. This page / post / article / whatever will be full of all the posts of the Russian village on Windows to Russia. There are 500+ posts so far about just the village and I will be doing many more this summer…

It is village summer time 2015; enjoy the posts…

Soon I will switch this page to 2015 village winter posts. I think after I get back from Estonia, I will switch to a new page…

Another day…
Leaving…
Leaves are changing…
Sveta…
Sveta arrived…
More than meets the eye…
Russian Friends…
Fish Heads and Coffee…
The Old Plow…
Here is where I write…
Sunday Coffee Thoughts…
Yummy Beets…
8 liters of pickled beets…
Duck Season…
A Rainy Day…
Beets and Carrots…
Village Water Issues…
Wonderful Day…
Coffee and Creamer Thoughts…
Russian Mouse Trap: Video
A Boza Walk…
Running out of fruit and berries…
Painting the village home…
Vova has a girl…
Saturday and Rain…
Windows 10…
Beta-Blocker be gone…
Short Days and coffee thoughts…
Gonna Paint Today…
Bear’s Borscht…
Johann Pachelbel it is a German Baroque…
Ouch…
Still here…
Do not work…
It is Saturday…
Potato or Potata…
How do you know?
Garden harvest Starts…
Vova says HI!
Trip to Big Village…
Russian Youth…
Life is a water bucket…
Always Coffee and Thoughts…
Thoughts of Coffee…
New Hawks…
Coffee Thoughts…
Raven Brigade…
Sisoy…
Tuesday and Village Thoughts
Old Images…
Always something…
Life Flows…
Orthodox Party Time…
Walk your way…
We walk the old road or try to…
Side Yard…
Morning of friends…
Coffee is good…
Berry Time…
Boza, Russian families and healthy…
Bestest friends…
Big Village Day…
Huge Storm Last Night…
Feed Me…
Just a guy…
Bell Ringing Coffee Thoughts…
It is never too late…
The Moon…
What do you do?
Garden doing great…
Park Bench…
Building Again…
Hungry little devils…
Blessed Water…
Bird Sanctuary…
Fix those windows…
Power power is so nice…
Sunrise to Freedom and the monastery…
The Russia I Live In (Part Two)
Gully Washer…
Coffee Pot in heaven…
Another Big Village Thought Trip…
Drying Wild Strawberries…
It was in the dark…
Mr. Hawk…
Garden is growing…
Yummy Tummy Time…
The weather is a mixed blessing…
Lunch Today…
The Water Source…
The Little Things Matter…
My what a day…
Wild Strawberries and thoughts…
Sunday thoughts…
George the Bird…
Avto Magazine…
The Garden…
The Russia I Live In (Part One)
Old Kodak Camera…
Windows of Russia…
Grocery Day Big Village…
Catch that shot…
Madhouse…
More lazy Sunday…
Lazy Saturday…
Roof survived the storm…
Old Village Photos
Outhouse roofing…
Life Is…
Moth…
June and cold…
Sunday Market…
Boza wants to fly like bird…
The past is being unearthed…
Another Boza Walk…
Talk about windows…
Mosquitoes…
Water Buckets; mine and yours and tidbits
Sunday and Hotdog…
The Bell…
In the woods…
Saturday and lazy
Orthodox Holiday
Over Did It…
This Morning…
Coffee Time in the Russian Village
Our Village (заря свободы)
Boza the great hunter…
Broken Finger…
The village homes…
The gates are up…
Nightingale
Photo Day May 13th, 2015
Laundry Day
4:38 A.M. and Boza and I out walking…
Boza and Bear the bachelors…
Victory Day 2015 – Good Times…
The Bumble Bee Dance…
Supper Time…
Can you find the lizard?
Just some village photos…
Washed away but never gone…
Sunrise to freedom the village in Russia…
Almost Cried When I Finally Made it Back to Heaven
Next Few Days…
Coffee Village Thought Time of the Year…
Winter is still strong in Russia…
Time to think about the Village… (2015)
Start 2015…
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End 2014…

The U.S. has been given a red line and if the U.S. is wanting a war, then cross it, or else shut the hell up and go back to playing footsie propaganda with the American population…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Wednesday said he would not recommend anyone attack the Crimean peninsula, even if it is an attempt to return it to Ukraine…

“I wouldn’t suggest that to “anyone.” We have a doctrine of national security and it clearly illustrates what actions should be taken in this case,” Lavrov said during a press conference in Moscow with his Italian counterpart Federica Mogherini.

I have learned well that Lavrov says what he is told to say and this is what Putin has told him to say. Soon Putin will express his expectations and this is the way it always is and the way it should be in any governmental system…

Crimea is Russia and Russia is Crimea and if anyone wants to try to take it, then go for it, for that means you crossed the Russian border and it can not be made any clearer than that…

The psycho sick twisted USA has now received a red line and if they desire a war that damn bad, then go for it and we will all see what happens and I will tell you one thing, Russia will not sit back and watch the U.S. build troops and equipment up to attack her, like all these little countries have to do…

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Son: Gee dad, Why is America amassing a trillion dollars worth of war equipment on our borders?

Dad: Never mind that, they have illusions of grandeur…

Son: But I like our country just the way it is!

Dad: Well the U.S. is a psycho sick twisted country and they want our resources and they want to shove democracy down our throats and up our behinds…

Son: So we are going to die!

Dad: Sighs…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Boza and I are bachelors again for at least 10 days. Maybe longer and maybe not! Therefore I decided to post some pictures that Sveta and I took, mostly by Sveta…

The Martin family of birds thrive in this village. The Bell Tower is a Purple Martin / Scissor-tail Swallow haven and the old packed sand dunes are a Sand Martin delight…

I put a picture of me! I have so many e-mails that tell me I am a Russian and lie about being and American. Seriously, people from America have such issues with someone who would even try to live in Russia, much less think Russia is a fantastic place. Seriously, they hate me for it. Therefore, here is a photo of me to hate even more. Yes I exist and in this photo I am trying to look at the structure of the bridge we found. The part I am standing on is the spillway of the lake…

I posted this many years ago and decided to bring it forward, for while some of the information has changed, the time frames have changed, the needs and desire have not and most likely things will change a million times before they are done. The data given in the post is accurate and important…

The St. Nicholas Monastery boundaries shown above in red subsection located within the village called Sunrise (Dawn) of Freedom in the Sarajevo district of the Ryazan Region (white outline,) was founded in the late 19th century. Before the revolution, it was a female monastery. In 1918, was closed, and gradually over the years of Soviet occupancy it was destroyed…

Reopened in 2007 as a monastery once again and is currently being restored…

I have done the best I could and translated most of what has been written. This was written by a Orthodox priest and it was very hard to decipher at times for me…

In Russia (Soviet Union), a lot of monuments of pre-revolutionary architecture, which for many decades of neglect had led to a very deteriorated condition. In fact they are in a dilapidated condition. It is the duty of present and future generations to return these buildings back to life. Restored churches and monasteries, and renewed in their worship, it can become important tourist attractions and centers of Orthodox Culture in Russia and the places where they are located. This is a special class of monuments, with a special destiny in history and the future…

The Nicholas-Bavykinsky convent in our village also suffered a tragic fate as others in the Soviet times. Several buildings long gone, the remaining buildings, including the tower, are in a dilapidated condition. One of the photos we can see through the eyes of the territory of the modern artist Nicholas Bavykinskogo nunnery in its original form…

Today some experts say that the remaining dilapidated buildings could be saved by conducting restoration work and even these works have been started: make the roof and windows of the altar. This is certainly a drop in the ocean, but still a beginning that can be appreciated. Ryazan Eparchy of Russian Orthodox Church took under his wing the monastery (which is now in the process of transferring ownership of its buildings), and hopes that someday there will be a fully operate the Monastery back in the same spot as the original…

Moreover, the prayer room temporarily resides in a rehabilitated house of village called Dawn of Freedom. Vicar of St. Nicholas Monastery Abbot Bavykinskogo Guri, now resident in this home and conducts daily worship. The brethren of the monastery: monk Clement (Acting Rector of the church in a. Panic), Fr Paul (Acting Rector of the church in a. Sysoev), Fr Peter (the rector of the church with. Fighter, part-time cleric Nicholas Bavykinskogo Monastery) help him not only to conduct religious services, but also on other issues. With the help of a novice monk, Galina, does household care – cleaning, laundry, cooking, and it is directly involved in the acts of worship…

Father Gury said that Galina is a good novice, and she has kept almost everything in the church by a lot of female labor…

Restoration of the monastery – it’s not one year but many years, and it will require a huge expenditure. Unfortunately, there is no money in the monastery treasure. For the money and all assets have been stolen over the years. People, for the preservation of the Orthodox radeyuschih antiquity we have many, and a lot of sacrifice, but sacrifice a lot of money to churches – one. Benefactors may exist for Nicholas Bavykinskogo monastery, but not sure when it will be…

A road to the temple needs a bridge over the river now, so people can at any time get here by normal transport. Road signs have already been acquired for the monastery. Today, people have to make a long detour through the village Borets, a settlement for the fish ponds. For this reason, not many parishioners here it is. Although they come to the monastery, even from other districts, to venerate the icon of the main temple – an icon of St. Nicholas, revered by people of St. George icon, an image which, according to the abbot, was miraculously appear. When the icon was transferred to the monastery, it was all black, and that it is generally an icon, knew her former guardian so reminded…

When was the bridge was over the river, then the people came to worship more, and donations did increase. Diocese allocates funds to a house of worship, helping the Foundation of St. Sergius of Radonezh, but these funds, no matter how hard you try, is not enough. Indeed, even such a small temple still needs great in everything. Yes, and to continue to work at least to restore the roof, the monastery should be clear from the old collapsed debris, so that you can install the new wood. But this, as you know, needs money, as they are needed for the manufacture and design estimates…

To tell the truth, there is no room for eating in the rebuilt home for monks. Father Gury mentioned that supposedly promised to donate the local trailer for this purpose, but they do not hurry to do it. (Trailer has been delivered this summer!)

Abbot, according to Galina novices and local resident Nina Ivanovna Frolova, doing everything to ensure that services were held here, as it should, so that more people come here to pray to God. His soul is going through worries – when it moves forward.
– I’d love to see in life, as here everything will change for the better, as there will flow the monastic life, – said the priest.

People are different in the world they live: and bad and good. And all the way to the temple of his own. In some it is shorter than in others – longer. But from the standpoint of the spiritual, moral. We hope that the world is still more good people who are capable of real good things. There are people here in Russia, there is. They were always, always do good works. Is it not a good thing – the restoration of St. Nicholas Monastery in Bavykinskogo Sarajevo area and construction of a bridge across the river? The most that on is good and the good work. We hope that such people exist, and they will respond and help in the reconstruction of this brilliant monument of the Orthodox culture in saraevschine. New bells are needed also for the tower!

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

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How simply sad and pathetic to measure a man’s worth by the value of his paper assets alone. If that is the metric that we find most compelling to use, then it is far better to be consider a loser on the planet “Usury…”

There are far more important metrics to measure the worth of a human being, but the blind cannot see, and will remain ignorant of the truth until the time for retrogression has come…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

“So what do you do?”

A lot depends on one’s age.  If you are young with much of your life still ahead of you, get the hell out of this sinking, stinking, rusty old tanker and find some small, peaceful, independent, and self sufficient “ship” on which to reside.  If you are old, like me, find a comfortable deck chair, settle back, relax, enjoy the music, and go down with the ship knowing that you have lived the best life, at the best time in history, in the best possible place the world has ever produced and simply watch the end of that utopia…

Na! I decided to act half my age, like I did not have six heart attacks, brain tumor, diabetes and several other issues and I went to Russia to live with the best Russian girl on earth…

It is there, that I found a comfortable deck chair, settled back, relaxed, enjoying the music, and without the rusty old tanker (since I was never the captain in the first place) knowing that I have lived the best life, at the best time in history, in the best possible place the world has ever produced and simply watch the end of that utopia and still have the best life, at the best time in history, in the best possible place the world has ever produced and simply watch the end of utopia from across the pond, in Russia…

Simply because I decided life was still worth living and I was not too old or too sick to start over…

We are never too old and that my friend is the simple fact…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I received hundreds of propaganda regarding the three Israeli teens, while I am sad they died, the after affect is what makes me very sad. Typical of Israel as with the U.S., they use the deaths of these teens to promote destruction and hatred toward Palestine or what ever is their target at that moment. As I have pointed out a thousand times on this website, “We take what we want to believe and use the media to drive home the lie until it becomes the truth!”

The truth is, Israel has no idea that Palestinians are behind this situation and Israel does not care, it was just an excuse to take hatred out and kill more innocents. Regardless of who dun-it, the Philistines are to be blamed, because it fits the agenda…

While I received hundreds plus propaganda articles from the Israel side, I received one lonely article from an American, who is concerned. That is all I received to try to help the other side, so to speak…

I spent two days reading about this, all the while being slammed with articles of mass duplicated data to tell the world about how terrible the Israeli’s are treated. The Israel internet has a bunch of old ladies and willingly or not, they pass all the state media on like it is a duty to perform for God himself. I find half of the passed on data is from bots sending from infected computers…

So to the Lopsided Sadness in the worlds media. I post this information and we need to get our act together and start waking up to reality, but then we would have no one to blame, would we…

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“Your news outlet has most likely heard of and reported on the 3 Israeli teens whose bodies were found. The recent turn of events in the West Bank and tragedy has hit home for local Palestinians as well. Mohammad Abukhdair, only 15 years old, was kidnapped by Israelis, stabbed to death, and his body was burned and left in a forest. His family is mourning, just as the Israeli families are mourning. Please honor Mohammad’s memory by contacting his family and sharing with our nation who young Mohammad was. His first cousins, and direct aunt and uncle live in Sacramento, California. They have agreed to do interviews with the media. You can contact Wadha Abukhdeir at wadhapal@yahoo.com or 916-893-4059.”

Israeli authorities have not allowed his body (Mohammad Abukhdair) to be released to his relatives for burial, except on one condition, that his family signs a statement that he was killed in a family dispute; and that he was not abducted, and that there was no Israeli settler involvement. Four of the Abukhdeir family members, who happen to be Mohammed’s closest friends, were detained for questioning to get a “confession” about their involvement in Mohammed’s death…

Some national contacts to start with:
CNN: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
MSNBC: mediainquiries@msnbc.com
NPR: atc@npr.org (National) insight@capradio.org (live interview) news@capradio.org (written article)
LA Times: Davan.Maharaj@latimes.com / melanie.mason@latimes.com

Please post any other contacts in the comments!

Please share widely. This is only one life of millions of Palestinians who are not only affected but also constantly portrayed as villains whose existence should be wiped off the planet. Please help ensure Palestinians’ stories are humanized. Please remember Mohammad and his family and all those who are suffering from injustice in your prayers.” – via Ustadha Maryam Amireb

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May we stop killing teens and then lets stop killing everyone to boot, Nuff said…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

US Representative Eliot Engel of New York, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee; Representative Michael Turner of Ohio, chairman of the US delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; and Massachusetts Representative William Keating, the top Democrat on the House Europe subcommittee, have asked for the U.S. to buy the Mistral Warships out from under Russia, force France to sell them to NATO…

Now that would destroy France and her business confidence with the world…

This isn’t only about Russia. This is about American politicians trying to intervene in affairs between two independent nations that are not America. Nor have anything to do with America…

Now as to negative comments against Russia put out about by the American citizens themselves… Who elected the above politician? That answers why we so hate the world…

By definition you have to blame the people of America for what America does, country or government. We have a government of/for/by the people. The people make the choices that the politicians carry out. If it were not so, the people would elect new politicians, but they do not…

The American people are the problem…

Don’t like the sound of that? Then change what is happening…

Buy them from whom? Russia has already paid for them. They want to buy ships from Russia? A truly exceptional country, full of fools…

By the way! These are the damn ships that I said from the beginning are ugly, worthless and Russia should not buy…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The house of cards is crumbling and the east is building a new foundation, slowly but surely…

The west ignores what it wants to go away or it attacks what it can not ignore… and the east builds it and develops it, for they have to grow and the west keeps trying to subservient the east. The west is scared and scared is dangerous…

For the long ignored and long feared BRICS bank is almost ready to become reality. Therefore, war is an important option to try to stop these “renegade” countries from exercising their rights to a free world. We destroyed Libya for the banking issue, we are trying to destroy Syria over banking, We want to destroy Iran over banking and Russia is on that list. There can be no bank not affiliated with the central control system of the west and the ones who fight it are the ones who are being murdered, at all costs and the BRICS bank is pure fear in the Wests eyes. This is a banking system that ignores the western system and that means it will build its own future…

Each BRICS member will put an equal share into establishing the start-up capital of $50 billion. The bank is most likely going to be located in Shanghai. Though I do know that Russia and South Africa have designated a city that they would like to see the bank located at. The decision will be made soon in a meeting in Brazil. The BRICS bank system will then after its initial start-up, set up a joint $100 billion emergency swap fund for financial crises available only if needed, to meet the BRICS bank’s obligations…

The rumor (?) has it that MIST (Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey) is showing a desire to join this new banking system, for security against the western pressures of finance…

The BRICS bank is an attempt by and for emerging economies to challenge the US-based global lending institutions…

That my friend is why the west is scared. So do not interpret warmongering as bravery and fearlessness. For 99% of the time warmongering is nothing but simply being scared of what the future might bring and the losses that you could endure…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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