Windows to Russia

Mowed the yard yesterday and started to thin the garden. I had a huge wonderful salad. It had spinach, turnip greens, rutabaga greens, carrot greens, onion greens, garlic greens and beet greens. Then I used garlic salad dressing and ate the best salad I have had in a longtime… So I took some pictures of […]

Yesterday, hundreds of people came up the hill or mountain as most call it and if you walk it, you think it is a mountain by the time you are done getting to the top. There was a holiday for the monastery. They spent time at the newly found cemetery and it rained cats and […]

Svetochka sent me a link to an ad that is run in a local website. The link on the ad goes to the link farther below. It is a site about our monastery… Николо-Бавыкинский мужской монастырь Скопинской епархии Русской Православной Церкви = St. Nicholas Monastery Bavykinsky Skopinsky diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church At website… […]

Sometimes walking has benefits… Boza found a hedgehog and this hedgehog told us in his hissing voice like growl, “Please leave me alone! I am out looking for a girlfriend and they are hard enough to find, much less if you two are hanging around!” Boza and I took a picture and left. For life […]

Yesterday, a bulldozer came up our hill. The operator circled around the bell tower area and I thought he was going to fix our roads. I heard him shift the tractor into high and he started to take off down the hill. He was leaving and I hollered and ran after him. He saw me […]

Bye bye, Butterfly. RIP the greatest… Died at 74 and in my eyes, this ended the era of the greatest heavyweight boxing times… Lots of memories in Ali fights and I followed him to the end. He was a great statesman and tried to change life and make things better. His actions and deeds extended […]

Boza and I got up at 4 a.m. and after about a half an hour and a cup of coffee, we walked to the bell tower and Boza did his thing. He likes doing doggy functions at the bell tower. Then we walked home and watered the garden. Ten buckets later, everything was watered… I […]

Finally the ducks are starting to accept us and this morning they decided not to all run away. I have tried for weeks to get images of them and they have done nothing but run. This morning though, they all ignored Boza and I and they played in the duck pond… The back side of […]

I still have the fan shroud to put back on and clean up the car. Sammy the Volga is leak free now. The old water pump was a surprise when I pulled it off; it had been JB Welded for cracks and half packed with gasket sealer. Sammy never ran hot, but we had a […]