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The Tiny Russian Village is full of mushrooms. Not long ago we had the first crop of these monster mushrooms everywhere and now they are back in even more numbers. They seem to pop up over night and then a few days later are going away. The weather has been perfect for this variety of mushroom and they are invading us. If I stop posting? You will know that the mushrooms took over the the Tiny Russian Village and we have met our demise…

The problem is; If these mushrooms where the ones everyone likes to eat, then we would win the battle, but it seems that this mushroom, no one cares about and they flourish with no predator. Therefore, you can see these umbrellas all through the fields. Nothing but worms eat them and that is only when they start to rot from age…

I like them and think they are really cool…

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Yesterday, the birdbrains acted like a bunch of collage kids trying to squeeze into a phone booth. Well at least in my era they did such things. The bird feeder had a record number of birdbrains stuffed into it and I watched how they pushed all the seed out onto the ground and just looked out from their feeder. They finally decided to go to the ground and eat all that seed, but not before acting like a bunch of rejects…

It was so stupid to watch, that I finally started to laugh and instead of running away as they usually do. They all got quiet and stared at me. I stopped laughing and thought about the Alfred Hitchcock movie, “The Birds!”

I told Svetochka later on the phone, “If you do not hear from us for awhile, then maybe “The Birds,” ate us!”

Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!

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Well….Sammy the Volga is in the shop!

She has gone to the doctor to get a new heart. Her engine was on its death bed and she needed a new one. The transplant is underway and will take three or four days. From what I am understanding, as per normal, they will pull the old engine and transmission and drop the newer one in. That is the easiest way and also assures a matched gearbox to the engine. That is the best way. Besides, our gearbox has showed signs of aging and needs replaced also. This kills two birds with one stone…

Seems strange to be in the Tiny Russian Village without our trusty Volga. She is part of the family!

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America seems to be getting some flack tossed at them! This is what happens when you mettle into things you have no reason to mettle with and or if your reasons are execrable! That seems to help sway future desires for revenge to the positive side…

Thus, the terror mongering begins by the media and the politicians. Maybe they should admit where the issue comes from and looking into the mirror is the first place to start. If America terrorizes other countries, then expect retaliation, for many many years down the road. People who have families destroyed by the military complex of the US, will wait and get revenge and get revenge and get revenge…

Maybe, just maybe, we should have stopped our representatives from invading countries that we have no reason to be invading? And…..

Maybe we need to change how we look at the world. That is a good start…

Really the image above might seem to be funny, but when you live outside of the borders of the US, it does not seem so funny and the real issue is; Many Americans look at the world this way!

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Did you know that there is a slew of legal movies on YouTube. Full length and if you stay with the foreign films with subtitles, you can find some seriously good movies. Movies that are fun to watch. Just do not mess with the Hollywood movies, they might jail your ass for life! But grab a Chinese movie and enjoy. Or grab a Bollywood movie and have a good time watching how movies use to be made…

If you are into Sci-Fi like I am. The animated movies all over YouTube are incredible. Quality is fantastic and it is amazing to see movies made from PlayStation, they are really good…

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Millet – grab some millet and feed your birds. In Russia; millet is around 20 rubles a kilo. The birdbrains will love it and if you toss in some oatmeal flakes, they will go nuts. I also am going to try millet as a cooked product and if it works, will eat millet also. Boza says, “No Way!”

Well….winding down this article. Oh yes, I rebuilt the wood burning stove yesterday. Today I will fire it up and see if all is good. It is cold people! +2 this morning and I suspect frost this week. Gotta get ready…

Have a nice day!

WtR

I need to be at the Big Village at around 10 o’clock. Then I leave Sammy the Volga for the week, until she is done. I am going to take a picture of the engine she has right now and then I will take an image after she is done. There is going to be a huge difference in what she has for a power plant. She is going to get a much more modern fuel injected engine and this should give her another 10 years or so in life. Gone is the propane fuel system and gone will be the carburetor system. We will gain about 60 more horsepower in new to new, but in our case, running on only two and a half cylinders, we will gain at least 100+ horsepower in the real world. The propane, while very money saving in the years gone by, has destroyed the engine in the long run. This is the case many times with old engines and alternate fuel sources. Sammy’s old engine also was destroyed by fuel or lack of it, in the form of benzine. Sammy was designed to run on 70 octane leaded fuel and all that is available for years now is 92 octane unleaded. The 80 octane that we ran for years (and has been phased out now,) was terrible and unleaded, it has all taken its toll on Sammy’s engine…

But she ran and ran! We have put ten’s of thousands of kilometers on her (with buying her at 100,000 plus kilometers originally) and she rarely complained…

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Therefore, I will also go to the store and get food, for Svetochka is coming Wednesday and she wants to eat! I will meet her at the walk bridge and we will walk home. The same today, the guys working on the car, will drop me off at the other side of the river and I will walk the two kilometers home. This is the normal way for the Tiny Russian Villagers to get around. We also have a bus stop another few kilometers away and can use a bus to get around. Buses run constantly in Russia and that is a big help in getting around…

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Woke this morning with blood sugar at 5.2 mmol/l. That is good! Had to eat finally, could feel the hypo coming on. My body still struggles to keep sugar inline, looks like a rest of my life issue? Exercise and eating properly is 80% of the battle….

About a week and Boza and I go back to our home in Moscow and then we start the mad rush to get everything done. Boza has doctors to see, I have doctors to see and I have to get ready for a hard winter. This week we will harvest the crops and we are going to have some huge carrots and beets. I am still getting tomatoes and strawberries and we will have hundreds of pounds of potatoes…

All in all the garden was very successful and will supply food for the whole winter easily. That is the name of the game!

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In Arizona, USA – you might want to look over your shoulder as you change your kids diaper. You may have issues with childcare?

http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ArizonaRevisedStatutes.asp?Title=13

The problematic part of the statutes is in the definitions section (13-1401).

‘3. “Sexual contact” means any direct or indirect touching, fondling or manipulating of any part of the genitals, anus or female breast by any part of the body or by any object or causing a person to engage in such contact.’

I see a future of crap with this stupid Arizona law and deranged spouses will use it to try to destroy their ex-spouse… Don’t wipe that kids butt or genitals when they crap their pants…But then they will get you for child neglect if you don’t clean the kid…

http://www.azcourts.gov/Portals/0/OpinionFiles/Supreme/2016/CR150348PRHOLLE.pdf

The wording is shear bunk and interpretation has been left wide open, for all to see what they want to see…

We swing like pendulums and never seem to be able to keep an even keel…

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Just had to mention the stupidity above at Arizona…Such things are a State of the Union issue, cancer spreads fast if not controlled in any form. Just look at California; many of the things that have messed up life for the rest of the country start in California and California is a mess!

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Warmed up this morning, +8 degrees and really not bad out. Seems I am getting use to the cold already. Boza and I walked already and we chased some mice around the house. This is the time of the year that they come in from outside as fast as you can get rid of them. I just heard one in the ceiling area! Give me that shotgun Mable!

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Elections in Russia and the Russian news sites are swarmed with TROLLS! I mean they are out in droves, attacking Russians as the Russians try to just talk about their life. It is really sick and there is three main bases for trolls to come from – Australia, Britain and the USA. Never seen the likes of a bunch of idiots from these countries spouting off about Russia, Putin and democracy. You can just see that they are paid and are very transparent. Surprisingly, many say they are paid and are proud of it…

It would be funny, except they invade all sites, if given half a chance. I know, I dealt with it for years, until, I figured out how to deal with it. Does’t happen anymore and my site server thanks our hosting company… (https://www.1984hosting.com/) It is the best there is…

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Oh my! It is 4:30 a.m. and Boza wants to walk again. I have things to do and get ready for dropping the Volga off at town. Have a nice day…

WtR

US-coalition forces struck the Syrian airbase at Deir el-Zour: The US Administration Defends ISIS… (No not a question, just the truth.)

TASS News Agency: According to the Syrian government forces’ command, 62 servicemen were killed and 100 more injured in an airstrike by the US-led coalition near the city of Deir ez-Zor:

Russia comes to conclusion that the US defends IS — Foreign Ministry

“If this is the case, then maybe this is exactly why the US side does not agree on publishing the Russian-US agreements on Syria,” Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said… More: http://tass.com/world/900514

MOSCOW, September 17. /TASS/. US airstrikes at the Syrian army lead to the conclusion that Washington defends the Islamic State (terrorist organization banned in Russia), Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Rossiya 24 TV channel on Sunday.

“If we had suspicions earlier that this is in defense of Jebhat al-Nusra (terrorist organization banned in Russia), then now, after today’s airstrikes at the Syrian army, we come to a scary conclusion — the White House defends IS,” Zakharova said.

“If this is the case, then maybe this is exactly why the US side does not agree on publishing the Russian-US agreements on Syria,” she continued. “We demand explanations from Washington – whether this is a deliberate policy to support IS or a mistake,” she noted.

According to the Syrian government forces’ command, 62 servicemen were killed and 100 more injured in an airstrike near the city of Deir ez-Zor. Russian Defense Ministry’s official spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that on Saturday, “from 5pm to 5:50pm near an aerodrome of the Deir ez-Zor city (Syria), the aircraft of ‘anti-IS coalition’ (two F-16 and two A10) delivered four airstrikes at units of Syrian government forces which were surrounded by Islamic State terrorist groupings,” Konashenkov noted.

More:
http://tass.com/world/900514

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The US’ sudden attempt to “help” the Syrian army fighting ISIS in the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, which resulted in a strike that killed and injured dozens of soldiers, does not look like an honest mistake, Russia’s UN envoy told journalists at the UNSC meeting.

“It is highly suspicious that the United States chose to conduct this particular air strike at this time,” Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin said.

Churkin questioned why the US suddenly chose to “help” the Syrian army defend Deir ez-Zor after all these years, recalling how American forces just observed terrorists’ movements and did “nothing when ISIS advanced on Palmyra.”

More: https://www.rt.com/news/359691-us-strike-syria-unsc-churkin/

It is now clear, we (United States) supports the ISIS and therefore; since we admit that we did this and we is the USA, that makes it all good!

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Samantha Power the Queen of the Neocons and a person who has more power than Obama in America; speaks out her ass, as always…

During the emergency UN Security Council meeting on Saturday called by Russia only hours after a US-led airstrike degraded Syrian Army positions leading to the death of some 80 soldiers and “paving the way” for a major Daesh offensive, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations refused to offer remorse but instead laid the blame for the crisis in Syria directly at the feet of the Russian Aerospace Forces who she says is “bombing civilians” and the Assad regime who she claims gave rise to Daesh.

“Why are we having this meeting tonight? It is a diversion from what is happening on the ground. If you don’t like what is happening on the ground then you distract. It is a magician’s trick… we encourage the Russian Federation to have emergency meetings with the Assad regime and deliver them to this deal,” said an aggressive Samantha Power. “What Russia is alleging tonight is that somehow the United States is undermining the fighting against ISIL. The Russian spokesperson even said that the United States might be complicit in this attack… This is not a game,” said the diplomat before going into details on the United States fight against the terror group. “The Syrian regime that bills itself as the fighter against ISIL let the group grow and grow. ISIL took root and prospered right next to the Assad regime,” said Power. “The best way to fight ISIL and al-Nusra Front is to stop bombing civilians and deliver the Assad regime. Assad’s tactics have been a gift to terrorists. There is a better way forward, but Russia really needs to stop the cheap point scoring and grandstanding and focus on what matters. The implementation of something that we have negotiated in good faith with them.” “We regret the loss of life, but since 2011 Assad’s regime have been striking Syrian civilians relentlessly,” exclaimed the American diplomat in an attempt apparently to justify the violation of the ceasefire or to downplay the urgency of the meeting at hand. Some who watched the statements by Samantha Power described it as the US Ambassador to the United Nations blaming Assad for US warplanes bombing his forces.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160918/1045422315/samantha-power-obama-russia-syria.html

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An Obama administration official offered an official statement of regret for the loss of life caused by a US-led airstrike against Syrian Army positions in violation of a ceasefire — an attack that led the Russian Foreign Ministry to wonder whether the White House is aiding Daesh.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/news/20160918/1045421812/obama-regrets-airstrike-syrian-army.html

“Sorry we made a mistake!” says the USA… (It was only an airbase for Syria!)

Thy name is, “Chaos!”

WtR

Boza and I were walking at 5 a.m. and met a few guys staying at the Tiny Russian Village, to go duck hunting. One of them was a veterinarian. He was looking at Boza as we all talked and then said, “He is blind!”

I told him, “Yes!”

Then he did a few things as Boza stood there quietly and he told me that as soon as I get to Moscow, have him checked, but not much will help. The They can help any discomfort, but it looks as though he is not in trouble at that area. He petted Boza and his head and told me, “Your friend?”

I said yes and he scratched Boza behind the ears. Then said, Good friend!

I walked home and thought about Russian guys and have 90% of the time found them very intelligent and observant. This group was the same and they were on their way to their favorite hunting spot. They had their sons with them and they were all professionals in businesses. I meet many good people out here in the middle of nowhere and it is interesting. While I have never met them before, they knew who I am and were really happy to meet the American finally. It looks as if the Tiny Russian Village grapevine has expanded and included all family members of the villagers…

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Thus a cup of coffee, which is Oh So Good and here pretty quick I have to go to the Big Village. Boza and I have walked three times already and I will leave at around 7 a.m. Boza is already sleeping again and in 20 minutes I will leave. I hear the boom of the shot guns these guys have and they have some very nice double barrels, by the way. Most use 12 gauge or about 70mm and one even had a 10 gauge. The double barrels that Russians use are extremely high quality and many are British made… And yes there is lots of guns in Russia, just not handguns and unnecessary type weapons. But they have some fine double rifles and shotguns. Don’t kid yourself what a shotgun can do with slugs, or some of these double rifles with solid jacket bullets. When they hunt wild boars, they are using some heavy powered weapons…

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Svetochka comes on Wednesday (Happy Bear!), the engine is pulled from the other Volga (Happier Bear yet!), Have to pull the money donated for the engine being done this morning (Happy again!) and this next weekend I have to go back to Moscow. (Grumble and rumble Bear!)

Time to get Boza to the doctor, me to the doctor, my cracked tooth done and leave Russia for a few weeks. This all has to be done in a month and then I need to get back before winter sets in and snows the Tiny Russian Village under!

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Well, time to go! Got lots to do when I get back and I want to get to town before it wakes up. Just too busy for me when all the Big Villagers get up and going…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Here is an article for all to read. This is in public domain and comes from Harvard. Take it how you want and believe it or not! This is not a eastern study and not from proclaimed evil countries. It is simply a deep fact study of reality and what is and has happened to the USA…

WtR

Took some images yesterday and today. It is cloudy and as I have talked about in the past, “Do not come to Russia and expect sunshine all the time!” In fact sunshine is lacking most of the time…

I said I would try to get an image of the little red tree. This tree in the field is my indicator that autumn is here. It reacts first with it;s beautiful colors and sits in a field all by itself. It sits in an old cow pasture and just glows with all its beauty in the fall…

They finally got the dam cut and I decided to take a new image of the Tiny Russian Village showing our nice clean road. Boza is in the image and you can see him listening to the fish. The fish are splashing and roiling in the water. They are saying, “It is food time!”

+2 two this morning and I need to get out to feed the Birdbrains. Boza ate a big meal, after we walked for over an hour in the dark. I have discovered that we can walk in the dark still, as long as I use a good flashlight and keep the light right in front of Boza. This helps his vision that comes and goes. Last night I took him out and did not take the light. I had moved the Volga and he ran into it. I felt really bad and I will not do that again. Can’t take things for granted when we get old…

It is raining and will rain all day. The auto market comes today, but I have to count out coins for today’s trip to get food. I will tap the rainy day funding, in my desk drawer. I need to get cottage cheese, cutlets and cookies! 😉

Boza just came to me and his eyes are bothering him. It is as if he looks at me and says, “Daddy, can you help me?”

Him and I will walk again, after I feed the Birdbrains…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Sooner than later, Frost is coming…

Boza and I went and flooded the wells this morning. That means we turned on the big well and pumped water until it overflowed the smaller wells. The upper small well was getting cloudy and I decided that washing them out would be a good idea. Therefore, at 2 a.m.Boza and I were walking the Tiny Russian Village, while it rained and flooded the wells…

It was +4 this morning, raining and foggy! Today will be around +10 degrees and it looks to be going down hill from there. We will have a few warmer days, but winter is almost here. I will take the big camera today and get a picture of the most beautiful tree. It changes color first and sits in a field by itself. I just love the tree. Boza and I walked several times to it and I know autumn is here when this tree changes…

The deciduous forest is changing and we have several spots where it is mixed within the coniferous forest. It gets so pretty as you can see the treetops peaking out from all the green pines. When all is green as in summer, they blend well and do not show up, unless you know where to look. So, I will try to get some images today…

Yesterday, a rainbow appeared (Actually look close and you will see two!) It was very short lived and never became a full rainbow, but it was there. So beautiful and so becoming of the Tiny Russian Village, Rainbows make me feel good…

Boza and I had to run home, for the rain came fast and furious. According to my weather system, rain for two days is predicted. Looks that way to me and so far the device is pretty accurate…

There is a ton of data available now. The coldest day in the past years, was -35.7 C degrees and the warmest was +38.3 C… (That is like a 100 degree swing in seasons!)

It is long underwear, coats and hat weather. I think the gloves need to come out from storage also…

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Trying to get the car in to have the new engine put in. For in about a week and a half Svetochka comes to spend a week and then we leave for Moscow. Boza has to get to the doctor…

He could see some today and the walk was easier. He was able to see the flashlight and follow me in the dark. I use the flashlight and shine the light in front of him as he runs in front of me. It helps him to see at least the area around him. At my age, I struggle with night vision also. Seems to be a curse of old age…

I have developed a system of Russian words for commands as he walks. Then a few English ones also. I tell Boza when to turn left and right, He knows sit, stay, come here and many others. Mostly in Russian of course…. He is a smart dog and you can teach an old dog new tricks…

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Due to normal Russian rules, I have to leave the country. This happens twice a year and really it is okay! How and what we do this year is going to be up to Boza. If Boza needs surgery, then I will make a short run to a place like Kiev, Ukraine and or Tallinn, Estonia and come back cheap and quick. If not, Svetochka and I want to spend sometime away from Boza and have some time together. Russia has wonderful inexpensive areas to go to and enjoy the sights. Hotels or rooms in almost all villages while traveling are dirt cheap. Every small town and up, has comfortable rooms for rent and is the only way to travel…

Therefore, the future of what we do is based on what is going on with Boza. We will know in a few weeks. He is comfortable and happy. Yesterday, even not being able to see, he carried his ball around, tried to dig up a mole, scared a kitty and found a mouse in the field. He is doing good and you can tell that dogs use nose and ears for most hunting issues…

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I am still losing weight, I am almost there. It looks like I am about 105 kilos. That is around 231# and or 16.5 stone, according to how you measure weight. 5 kilos to my goal weight. I want to settle at a 100 kilos for half a year or so. I feel better and this crazy new fad of promoting fat people as normal, is going to kill many people, we as a race, need to be thinner. I travel the world and fat people are everywhere, just more fat people in the Americas and Europe than the rest of the world. Sometimes too much of a good thing is not a good thing…

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This year I have snowshoes to help get around and having to walk to the well a kilometer away, they are going to get used a bunch…

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Well, I need to go. I just checked the wells and I have tons of stuff to do. I may not get any good pictures today. It looks as if the sun has run away to hide…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Russia has taken the step and I see interesting things coming this way. Sailfish OS an OS that was given birth with Nokia many years ago and Microsoft tried to kill it, as they finally finished off Nokia. This operating system which is for smartphones, has been given a new life and I have the perfect phone to use, to start my studies on Sailfish. I have watched this OS since the old days and have really hoped that someone would get it going…

https://sailfishos.org/about/

Looks good and I will use the new integrator and a messed up Fly Phone to try this out. Could just be the ticket to a new beginning…

https://sailfishos.org/develop/hadk/

This is what free markets are about, something that has been almost lost in the Western World, as the past free market kings, try to stifle the new! Kinda like someone who becomes president of the USA and totally convivially forgets all the promises that he made to become president. Happens every time….. Kinda convenient, huh!

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Got up at 3 a.m. and blood sugar was at 5.6 mmol/l and my head was stuffed up from the weather change. It was +4 and the wind was blowing. Not a pleasant beginning for a day to be fore sure. I fired up the computer and the first tidbit of news? Putin has poisoned Hillary, with Trumps help!

I have lost all ability to think that the west has any credibility and this kind of stuff, confirms that very thought. The western press of the governmental forces has run with the story, as if it is truth. Here is a Washington Post article and that is for you wannabe hate people. Yes, they are running dribble in the western press and actually it is all dribble in the western press…. Nothing is ran as news unless it meets a purpose of degradation and we all see an occasional good article, but that is washed away by all the other lies…

I thought the west has been smacking on the bottom feeder list for awhile, but it seems that the western world has decided to become a bottom tunneler and feed off the soil below the surface… Makes me proud and I am sure that most of you will lap up the story of, “Evil Russia and Putin’s buddy Trump,” like a crowd of people at a free buffet…

You could not make this stuff up…. We have lost the track that reality was running on, quick, someone grab the track switch and redirect the train, before a crash happens…

It is not the fact that someone will say this, it is the fact that with all that is wrong, the western press focuses on something like this as smoke to cover something else; something like Hillary maybe?

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A Blind Dogs Poem

I cannot see you Mummy, when you cuddle me so near.
And yet I know you love me, it’s in the words I hear.
I cannot see you Daddy, when you hold me by your side
But still I know you love me when you tell me so with pride.
I cannot see to run and play out in the sun so bright
For here inside my tiny head it’s always dark as night.
I cannot see the treats you give when I am extra good,
But I can wag my tail in Thanks just like a good dog should.
“She cannot see. The dogs no good” is what some folks might say
“She can’t be trained, she’ll never learn She must be put away.”
But not you, Mum and Daddy You know that it’s alright,
Because I love you just as much as any dog with sight.
You took me in, you gave me love and we will never part,
Because I’m blind with just my eyes, I see you in my heart

~ Sherrill Wardrip ~

I had to cry this morning…

Boza is 100% blind. It comes and goes and soon he will be totally blind all the time. I take it harder than he does. He will be checked up by a doctor in a few weeks, but I think it is not going to be good regardless. Boza is blind…

He is tough and takes it all with a grain of salt. He runs and leads the way. It just is that he does not understand that I keep him on a tight path. But it is important that he is the leader, but a leader that knows his path. He is proud and happy, but only because I work hard at walking him. No more letting him run amuck. He is curtailed and has learned what I want. I lead him with words and use noises, such as clearing my throat, to let him know where I am at. He is in no pain and is happy. Dogs use the nose and ears more than anything, so he has a whole world to explore anyway. He knows who has been on his roads and he knows who has been bad or good…

We took Boza in as a gas station doggy. A puppy that would be dead now. He was running on a busy road and needed a home. Born in a village, he is 100% Russian, thus very at home and secure in our Tiny Russian Village…

I had to cry this morning, for my buddy is blind and he does not care! I hope that I could be that good about things in life. Boza has taught me a lot about life…

The tears fell and I will make his last years as good as I possibly can. That is what friends do…

WtR

I had a comment that expressed that Americans probably give lots of donations? 1% of the total donations come from the Americas and that means from the bottom tip of South America to the tundra of North America in Canada. The other 99% comes from the rest of the world…

Europe as a whole is the biggest donator, with Germany in the lead. Russia as a country is right behind Germany and the UK is waltzing around there somewhere. My biggest reader section is the USA! Next is Germany and Britain follows right behind. Therefore, out of readers, the US with its thousands of daily return readers, ignores donations as a whole. Yes, we have had donations come from America, but they are few and far between, per reader…

Case in point; Sammy the Volga is getting a new engine. It has to be done and Sveta and I are scraping the money together to do it, today someone came through. From Russia, a donation has come to put in her new engine…….

Yes! From Russia! The money for Sammy the Volga’s new engine comes from within Russia…

As per policy, no names but a big big thank you!

Sammy will hopefully get a new engine this week or next week at the latest…

Another interesting tidbit; India is the largest Asian area donator. It is surprising and yes we have a solid readership based in India. The Chinese while as large a readership, have never donated anything, but we have had donations from tiny islands all over the world. It is very interesting to track such data. Just like tracking data from who comes to read and for what reason. But it comes in useful at times…

I do thank the world for donations and yes, I may have centered my readership on America, but it is the rest of the world that pays to keep Windows to Russia online and to pay for basic living in Russia…

I said I track data and this is the kind of data that tells me something!

It should tell you something also. Once again people need to think and realize that there is a whole world out there. The world is not stop at the borders of the USA and the world is really doing pretty good and we need to join that world…

Therefore, thank you to all who have donated and we will soon see Sammy’s new engine…

I hope if all goes correctly? But life goes in circles and sometimes things happen…

WtR