Windows to Russia

The night before was hell and full of fever, slight pain and very messed up sugar levels. That should be a sign to me, but I still have things to do and I still get them done. I worked all day yesterday and about 6 p.m. all hell broke loose. I passed a kidney stone […]

I can’t wait. Svetochka comes tomorrow and I am so glad. I will be busy getting ready for her and then I have to spend a few days getting ready to leave for a few weeks. I will be back, for a garden has to be prepared and planted. This year I will quadruple the […]

Hollywood uses North Korea and Russia as the bad guy all the time. North Korea put out a video that shows the USA as the bad guy and the USA needs to be destroyed. Sounds very Hollywood to me and while I dislike either side doing such games and videos. What does it matter? Hollywood […]

Sunshine means laundry day. Time to get ready for Svetochka to come. Boza and I need to look our best for our sweet pea… The lake is almost ready and they got the hatching ramp put together and a bunch of new stakes cut to mark the feeding spots. They almost have the lake ready […]

This morning is beautiful. The sun came up and Old man Winter left her alone. She is out and about as we walked and I hope she stays all day. The issue is that it will be about -6 tonight and I suspect with the wind coming from the North, that it will be colder […]

Well I will wish everyone a Happy Easter, but Orthodox disagrees with the western world and says Easter this year is on, “Sunday, May 1 : Orthodox Easter 2016” and so thus, I follow the eastern Easter nowadays… Over a month apart this year… I will be honest, Easter in the west is very commercialized […]

I was watching the village yesterday. I told you about Father Pavel and several churchies coming by. They all brought food and that was wonderful. You can never have enough food and a few times this winter it got pretty thin around the village for foodstuffs. It was just the thoughts and actions of the […]

Vova came by and we sat and talked a few minutes, then along came Father Pavel of the monastery and he had two young men from the Big Village school helping him deliver bags of food to us three Tiny Russian Village people. He asked how everything was and after taking some pictures of him, […]

This morning as I walked Boza and we watched the world wake up. A thought crossed my mind. It was again about freedom and the misrepresentation that we have instilled in the term freedom. We toss the word freedom around like we do the words hate, love, liberty, God and thousands of more… The coffee […]

Looks like after the early morning walk, that I will have to try out the snowshoes. It snowed all night and is still snowing like crazy. Soon the snow will be too deep to get around in. The snowshoes will allow me to at least get down the hill and let Boza think has has […]