Day: June 10, 2016

Just photos all in a day in the Tiny Russian Village…

This hedgehog we found has such a bad attitude, that it had to be a girl! 😉 Not really, but I will call her Henrietta anyway. Boza found her at the side of the road and she was in a bad mood. She hissed, called us names and told me to tell Mr. Hedgehog up the hill, that she did not care for his advances and she wants to be left alone… Mr. Hedgehog…

So we passed the word on and Mr. Hedgehog shed one tear and went looking for another girl…

Today we received the wood to fix the back wall of the village home. Cost 3000 rubles delivered. That is about $46 dollars and someone sent a donation today for $50. Talk about answering a orison and a need. I had to have the wood and Boza and I decided to not eat for a few weeks to get the money from the budget, Well; not eat as much. Then bang, here came the exact money to pay for the wood. Talk about answering a orison and a need…

Did I tell you that I love peonies?

Our bench for babushkas as they walk to the monastery is becoming a good thing. They use it every time they come up…

The T-rose is doing great and I suspect that next year it will bloom. It is rooting now and getting new growth and I must figure out the best way to protect it from the harsh winters here. Did I say I love roses…

The caterpillar looks like a common Western Tent caterpillar in America. But who knows? Not sure!

The fish are being fed four times a day now and getting big…

Just things I love and take pictures of as Boza and I walk or work…

WtR

“Daimler AG is a German multinational automotive corporation. Daimler AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.” Plans to localize production of Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Russia, skirts the issue of never ending sanctions. The plant will be built at the Esipovo Industrial Park in the Moscow region. The new plant will assemble E-Class, S-Class, A-Class model sedans as well as ML and GL models. The company intends to produce 25,000 cars annually. Specifically for the Russian market. Mercedes-Benz can not afford to lose that market. Thus, the Russian Trade Ministry has agreed that German automaker Daimler AG can begin the assembly of Mercedes-Benz vehicles in the Moscow region, according to Deputy Director of Transportation Vsevolod Babushkin…

“The plan has been approved by the ministry and is currently awaiting the green light from the regional authorities,” said Babushkin to the Rambler News Service…

This is the kind of things I have talked about in the past. Russia expects car companies who want to sell cars in Russia to locate themselves in Russia (due to sanction games by the west.) If you do not want to put your technology where your mouth is, then find another market. In the case of the Mercedes market in Russia, Russians love those Mercedes… 😉

You see lots of Fords in Russia! Why? Because they build them here…. Things like this are happening all over Russia. This is just Daimler’s way of telling the US and EU what they can do with their illegal sanctions…

WtR

When in a Tiny Russian Village, the comforts are what you make of it. If you are lazy and ignore all around you. Life gets rough and you have no one but yourself to blame. You let your fence collapse, that is your fault. You allow your house to fall apart, that is your fault. Anything can be fixed, stuff and parts are all around. A collapsed home that no one has lived in for many years is a treasure trove of parts. A piece of steel laying on the ground, after being dug up by the bulldozer, is a repair piece for the car. It is what you make of it, that is life…

Therefore, while I get comments about how stupid it is to live in squalor, I actually live in grandeur!

I have said before, “It is the little things that count!”

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The above said, now I must slow down…

Today, I must stop and smell the coffee! I realized last night that I have been driving myself to hard. Once again, I find myself driven. I do it to myself and no one else is to blame. That is what pushed me to become a corporate big wig and what almost killed me. Why I even feel guilty enough to write about it. I have to write this and realize that I have pushed too hard…

I still feel guilty and am self-driven to work harder. I never have enough time to get done what I have to do. In my world of corporations, tomorrow was always too late and too far away. Tomorrow was money lost and time was expensive…

Here in the Tiny Russian Village, I am learning, life not lived is lost and time is perfect tomorrow…..

It is called, “Balance!”

Can you say, “If I die tomorrow, I would be happy with my life?”

I can…

WtR