Windows to Russia

My home; Zarya Svobody and or Dawn of Freedom (or better yet,) The Tiny Russian Village…

Just a recap of some of the many images that I have taken…

This Tiny Russian Village, as I call it; Sunrise to Freedom. Is my freedom and it, plus my Svetochka, have saved my soul. I have grown, I have become healthy and I have gained a new lease on life…

Boza, Sveta and I hope that you enjoy the past images. I know that I did, as I went through them again…

WtR

The Tiny Russian Village is getting less people all the time. I am all alone on the bottom side and so the wells are staying fuller than when the village is fuller. Therefore, it has been three days since filling the wells. But, I am filling them this morning. Boza and I got up late, due to getting in bed late and for once we had daylight as we turned the wells on. I feel like I have been run over by a big fat truck and they did not stop to see if I was still alive…

Ate wrong, slept wrong and took my pills at the wrong time for my heart…

It looks as if around Tuesday, we will get the car back. It is running and almost ready. They will tie up a few loose ends and it will be done. It is getting the new exhaust, new heater core and several other new parts to round the old girl out. One thing that has been lacking with Sammy the Volga is the heater and we are going to get that fixed this time. One thing about Russia is that if the car heater does not work good, life gets rough. No air conditioning is needed, but have that heat working…

The young man running the shop came out to the Tiny Russian Village last night and picked Svetochka up. She got to the train station on time and talked to me before bed. I finally fell asleep around midnight. We found out something interesting last night; people in the Big Village do not all know where the Tiny Russian Village is! These poor guys got lost, our mechanic had the son of the head of the orthodox Church in the Big Village with him and they have never been out to our end of the world. Big Village is like a huge city in comparison and people always give this American a strange look when I tell them I live in the Tiny Russian Village called Kommuna…

Crazy American!

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Svetochka just called and she is doing good. She is back in Moscow and plans on taking a bag of carrots, potatoes and beets to her mother today. The fruits of our labor will be given to family, so that family will share in the results. Food from the villages is very important. It is grown with no chemicals and free of all contaminates…

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Almost ready to turn off the wells and my cup of coffee is almost done. I think since I feel so bad today; it is raining, my sugar levels are messed up and that imaginary truck keeps running over me, I will end this early today. I have some images to post, but I will think about that later, after I get sorted out. Boza is sleeping again and the place is warm and cozy. Svetochka said she really missed us and I can tell that she loves the Tiny Russian Village again…

They bought this place many years ago for Sveta’s son Misha to spend summers at. That is a very strong tradition for Russians. Kids spend summers in the villages and dachas. Mandatory and if you do not, you are a bad parent…

It dawned on me that I may be watching a little kid in a few years, as I work on the Tiny Russian Village home…

If that happens? He will learn English, how to plant gardens and how to fix fences and stuff. Sounds like a winner to me….I need a helper, even if he is a little one…

WtR

Aleppo,Syria is the main goal! Once Aleppo is freed, all western hope for a gas pipeline from Qatar is destroyed. That is what all this Syria issue has been about. Qatar needs Aleppo to run their pipeline, or better yet, the gas pipeline for Europe. Qatar could not do it due to manpower, but the Western Empire with Qatar money, their CIA factions and their military has started this whole crap storm in Syria.  Now Russia has, after allowing America to hang itself again, is on a full scale bombing of terrorists and Syria is going to take Aleppo back…

Russia allowed America to stick its nose out and try to make a deal and Russia simply has called the Western Empire’s bluff! You better hope we are bluffing…

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said, “If you say to me the West is too impotent, I would have to agree. I would have to agree that, since we took those decisions in 2013, when those red lines were crossed, we have not really had a viable military response, or any kinetic response to what is going on. I don’t think there is any real appetite for such a thing.“

Russia allowed that rope to dangle and the west pulled it around their neck and hung themselves. Russia is fed up with the games and it is time to clean Syria up! America and cronies either have to give up or go to war against Russia…

Right now America, through the biggest Neocon Samantha Power is crying a river of hate and disgust. It is pathetic, so it does not even get interesting or funny to hear what is going on…

Fact is; If the Neocons get their way, we will be at war with Russia real soon. Is that what we want? War with Russia? Is a war with a country that will bring hell down on our country, even if we win, what we want? You seriously think that Russia can not put a hurt upon Europe and America, before we take them down? If you do, you live in box, in a cave somewhere in la la land…

I imagine Moscow in calling that the United States of Chaos in bluff will in time bring forth the facts that the USA and European governments have sold out to the highest bidder in the Middle East. This is all geopolitical and games of assets and resources. Why else would we push a country like Russia and to a lessor extent a country like China to the brink of war. Just as if it was all a game and if we get them to back down, we win. The point of backing down has been passed and the Western Empire has crossed way too many red lines and can not find their way back. Not without losing face in it status within the world community. Thus, we have hissy fits being displayed from certain factions of the Western governments…

Big issue; normal people and countries try to get along! But when you want it all and no one else to have any, then it can get very bad. It is greed and power and that is all it is about…

The Russian people, Russian government and many others smart enough to see what is happening, realize that a World War is building right now. Lets hope that America does not have the stomach for such a war. Lets hope that sanity prevails! Lets stop the few warmongers and get the world straight again…

Syria has become at least the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied or bombed, and in which American soldiers have killed or been killed. And that’s just since 1980…

Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria.

Whew, I guess calling us a sick country is too weak of a word!

Why do we allow this to happen? Looks like we have personal issues and need to see a shrink. maybe a few sessions on a couch talking about how our mother ruined our lives would help! Lets wake up and get real…

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Chaos:

Pentagon officials refused to say whether they would obey President Obama…

In an unprecedented act of terrorist reprisal the rebels shut off the water supply for 1.5 million residents in government controlled West Aleppo causing an almost unheard of humanitarian toll with UNICEF raising the alarm of an imminent danger of mass childhood fatalities if desperate families are forced to drink contaminated water…

“It is time to say who is carrying out those airstrikes and who is killing civilians,” Samantha Power said. “Russia holds a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. This is a privilege and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.”

“The Russian bid to bring peace to Syria is very, very near the end of its life and yes the Security Council needs to be ready to fulfill our responsibilities,” said Britain’s UN ambassador Matthew Rycroft.”

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Want to read what Russia thinks about all what the west is doing?

Read this article and get some information…

http://theduran.com/heres-summary-sergey-lavrovs-speech-un-general-assembly/

WtR

Svetochka has found her new love of life in the Tiny Russian Village. I have been transforming the old village home into something that is cozy and almost modern by village standards. I have a bunch of work left to do, but the work I have been doing for two years is showing. Svetochka has found that living here is comfortable and more than acceptable for a good life. In a few years Svetochka will be able to draw pension and then she can live here full time. I need to get pictures of Sveta, but she is the one running around taking all the pictures and Boza and I are the objects many times of those snap shots…

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Svetochka helped me and after the stairs were put on the outside of the shower house, we put the roof on the building. We double layered tar paper and this morning it is raining. The inside is dry and comfortable. I built a bench seat in the shower house and now it will sit until spring. Winter is here and no shower out there right now… 😉

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Coffee time; We went yesterday to see Sammy the Volga and she is getting done, slowly, but getting done. There is a wonderful group of young energetic guys, if not a little bit hungover at times from the party nights, working on her. They are a entrepreneur driven group, one of them is even a local cop in the Big Village. I call times like this, growing our roots deeper into the community, through spending your money locally. I could have got Sammy back to Moscow and spent the money there, but that would mean nothing to Moscow, for Moscow to me is just another western style city. Money spent in the Big Village grows exponentially and fruitfully within the community…

The boys (all in mid twenties,) all make money, the parts stores all sell parts, the local grapevine is buzzing with gossip about the American, the pie store sells pies to the five guys working on the car and many other places are involved in the money working its way around the community…

Speaking of money! We have received several donations for getting Sammy fixed and I just got a special repeat donation this morning. It was from the very first person who donated on January 18th, 2016. They did not specify for what and I want them to know that their donation, just bought Sammy her new electric fuel pump. Several other specific to spend only on the car donations, have also (big oops here,) installed complete new exhaust on Sammy. Oops, The exhaust is on the opposite side of the engine now and we got enough money to go from engine, all the way out the back with new pipes. Thank you all for the donations. For any extra money that we have personally saved will be spent on Boza and most likely eye surgery to try to save some of his vision…

We will be able to either save some vision or he will have to have his eyes removed. Then prostheses eyes will be put in. We are praying for saving some vision and will hold to that thought as mandatory to thinking…

I always say, when it rains it pours and Boza has had a rough summer all the way around and Sammy has been struggling to keep going. Lucky for Sveta and I, we are doing good….Knock on wood!

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Looks like during October after we get Boza settled with his verdict on his eyes, I will leave Russia for a week or so. I do not have a choice and this is when I take a train to another country and stay out of Russia. Russia does not always make it easy to survive for us expats at times and this is one of those, does not make a damn bit of sense, moments. My Russian friends get all upset that I have to leave Russia. They do not see the reason and I am glad, for I thought I was the only one who thought that having to leave, even with a three year visa, is stupid….Did I say, “Stupid!”

Border crossing is always the most stressful times. You never know what rules have changed and what is going to happen. Russia is good about changing the rules and ignoring the fact that they tell no one about it…

Keeps me on my toes…

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Sveta leaves tonight and the guys working on Sammy the Volga will pick her up and take her to the train station. Sad face time… 🙁

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I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time. – Charles M. Schulz

Have nice day and I will be back tomorrow. Have to fill the wells tomorrow and hopefully finish weatherizing the village home. Boza and I should be back in Moscow by next weekend…

WtR

Well! Svetochka just purchased train tickets back to Moscow for Sunday night. No option, Sammy is going to take a few more days! The engine is in, but and there is always a but, it just will not happen in the original time frame. Therefore, Boza and I stay one more week at the Tiny Russian Village and next weekend if all is good, Svetochka will come Friday night and ride home with us after a few days in the village again. This is not what we planned, but it is the only option right now…

I told Sveta that we would drive home after it is done and all will be good. But she wants to come back and ride with us. Svetochka loves road trips and she loves cruising the highway with her guys. We like when Svetochka is with us too…

Today we go to the Big Village to see Sammy the Volga and make sure all is getting done. They (guys working on Sammy) will come and pick us up and take us to the Big Village. The guys are working hard on her, but they seem to have a parts issue and parts take a couple of days to get them. It is all good and we need to go to town to get more food, because it looks like Boza and I will spend at least another week here in the Tiny Russian Village…

Truth is; We do not wanna leave! Oh well! I also want the car done correctly and the guys should not hurry to achieve something that will be Jury-Rigged to get it done…

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Oh that coffee is so so good. I think I will have two cups this morning and a cup of hot tea to boot!

It’s going to be a good day, yesterday was sunny and cold, but sunny! Did I say sunny? Today the same and we will get lots done. Yesterday, we harvested our crops. Over a hundred beets, a hundred carrots, hundreds of potatoes and tomatoes galore. We had strawberries, but Svetochka has been eating them as fast as she finds them. She is fun to watch, her face lights up with delight when she finds a strawberry that she missed the first time. Then it is yummy and smiles…

I love that girl!

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We have a whole dehydrator full of mushrooms and they will be done this morning. We ate mushrooms and ate mushrooms, but still had too many mushrooms to eat left over. So, I am drying them. They will be great for soup, along with all the dried tomatoes and turnips. I have dried untold thousands of items total this summer. Soup is a Russian mainstay and I will be making soup all winter with all the goodies I have in stock…

I am thinking about dehydrating potatoes, they will store easy that way and will last for years that way. In the food service world I worked in, dehydrated potatoes is a mainstay for price control. So easy to hydrate and use for many things… Dehydrated potatoes in soup are the cat’s meow…

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Sveta and I need to take the wheelbarrow to the pine forest and gather pine needles to winterize our plants. I figure if we can get the pear trees through this first winter alive, they will make it. The rose is going to be another story and it hopefully will be protected somewhat by its proximity to the home. The little pine tree, still loves his “protection can” and wants it all winter. No! He wants his big can around him for the winter… 🙂

Who am I to argue?

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I can feel it! I hear it! I see it! It is going to be a hard winter. The people are talking, the animals are busy getting ready and the ones who were going to try to stay, have skedaddled. Old man winter is beating his chest, as he wakes from his short sleep. I keep looking around and wonder, what happened to autumn?

That’s Russia for you and Boza & I love it!

WtR

Svetochka takes pictures constantly. This is a few she left on the desktop of the computer. So I posted them…

Boza (who has lots of pictures of him) and I seem to be in front of her camera all the time. 🙂

We were mushroom hunting and we found a whole bag full of delicious mushrooms. We found the mushrooms prized by all the Tiny Russian Villagers and these mushrooms were in our yard and the small field next to our home. If you look closely at the image with Boza, his ball and me picking them. You can see the mushrooms right in front of Boza. Small brown domes and this year, after about five years, we had another crop of them under our birch trees. Then we went to a small cluster of birches near our yard and finished loading up the bag with yummy mushrooms. These mushrooms in the field had evaded the eagle eyed villagers. For one thing Tiny Russian Village people do is constantly mushroom…

I think that mushrooms rank up there in healing powers, along with honey, garlic, basil and even cabbage leaves for throat issues. Mushrooming is serious business and a Muscovite will drive all day to get to there famous mushroom spot, that only they know about…

We have such a spot in out yard and every few years it will produce a bunch of mushrooms and now I found another spot that no one has discovered. So keep it a secrete, will you? We like our mushrooms also, as well and or too… 😉

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Got and e-mail…

Well my extreme distaste of your nation harbors ever so slight pity on the ones who understand what your country has become. I only hope you and the likes of you can change this course your country has taken, but I don’t see it happening. The USA (you) will be the cause of more wars and greater wars till your country disintegrates from within, or is destroyed through other means. The freedom of the world now depends on the destruction of the USA, removal of its stranglehold on the world financial system, military occupations, terrorist funding and and destructive global influence.

I answered:

Not all of us, is correct. But for you to harbor any pity is too lose the edge over what we do as a nation against the world. There are still some people who think freely in this country and or other western countries. There are still some of us left here and or there, we are just treated like crazy people when we voice our opinions. We are attacked by both the fearful peasants and the driving force of the governmental agencies. Both sides feel they have much too lose and everything to gain by keeping the status quo…

That is the new normal in America and even the west, to treat the remaining free thinkers as crazy lunatics…

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That is how I feel and yes I am crazy in most eyes…

That kind of crazy that never stops a job he has started and when I believe in what is correct? I will fight to the death, good or bad and I have been alive a long time doing just that. So there must be something in the method of my madness!

There are times we must stand up and fight! If you always turn your head and look at the pretty propaganda, they will play behind your back, as you are distracted. Gathering gumption and clenching your fists is sometimes the only way to drive yourself to do what is needed…

I care about America; I know that we have always been a corrupt nation, but when they did not impress upon us little people and allowed us to live in freedom of simple actions and curtailed in many governmental pressures. It was all tolerable….Cops were the friends, you could eat and drink what you want, carrying a beer open on the street was not a crime to humanity, smoking was okay (bad for you but okay!), children could be children, a fag was a cigarette butt, Gay was still a woman’s name and a word of joy and so on and so on…

Look we did not fool ourselves; we knew our government was a piece of crap…

But it, the government, stayed out of most of our affairs… “Not anymore!” , said the little chickadee…

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The truth is; We are all crazy!

You are crazy if you do not want to change things for the better, you are crazy if you hide behind locked doors, you are crazy if you accept governmental nanny state as necessary, you are crazy if you hate big government, you are crazy to want raw milk, you are crazy to want to collect rain water, you are crazy to question orders of the police, you are crazy to be gay, crazy if you are not gay, crazy if you are a communist, crazy if you are a Zionists, crazy if you want to abort children, crazy if you want to have children, crazy if you believe in God, crazy if you wear furs, crazy if you have tattoos, crazy if you don’t pay taxes, crazy if you pay taxes, crazy if you listen to Fox News, crazy if you don’t believe all that New York Times says, Crazy to want to walk and not get mugged, crazy to walk at night, crazy to tell the truth, crazy to lie, crazy to let your kid ride a bike without protection, crazy if you do even let them ride a bike, crazy to spend your life raising a family, crazy if you try to work a job and raise a family, crazy if your kid is left home alone, crazy if you do not want to pay out half your paycheck in childcare, crazy to be fat, crazy to be skinny, crazy to think for yourself, crazy if you even think at all, crazy if you dream, crazy if you stagnate, crazy if you loan money, crazy if you save money, crazy not to buy a new home, crazy not to buy a new car, crazy if you did buy a new car and can not afford it, crazy that you can not keep up with the “Jones’s,” and lets end with, you are crazy to think others are crazy, for they think you are crazy for thinking they are crazy and everyone thinks everyone is crazy, for not doing exactly like they want you to do and as a bonus ending – to top it all off; Big Brother our government is crazy, but we are scared to death of that “CRAZY”!

And that my friend is the worst crazy of all!

WtR

The stove is probably the most important item for winter in the village home. That is assuming that your roof is sound, your walls still standing and no one has made huge holes through the house like Swiss Cheese. The stove is what heats your home, cooks your food and boils your water for coffee and tea. The wood stove keeps Old Man Winter outside and you warm inside…

Yes it is old and yes it is not fancy. But it works and Boza and I stayed comfortable last winter, with +30 kilometer winds and -33 below zero. It got frosty… It is not the cold, it is the wind that is the killer…

I work on our websites and write Windows to Russia, as Boza lays next to me on the couch. He likes his warm spot and he can lay his head on my lap if he wants to be scratched behind the ears. Boza my buddy…

I just love these mushrooms popping up all over the place…

Boza and I live a very simple life…

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Svetochka made it here safe and sound. She is sleeping away this morning and is happy as a bug in a rug. I built a fire for her last night and it got a little warm for me, but she was happy…

We are hoping that today we get a sign from the automotive gods, that our car is ready. It is hard to be patient and so far away from our car. It is not like I can walk down the street to the local shop and say, “HI! Need any help?” The help word makes mechanics cringe and shudder. They also may get the job done faster, if they think you may come everyday, every hour, Uh; every minute, maybe even live in the shop with them and say, “HI! Need any help?” Heaven forbid trying to help… (Then again they may hurt your ass also!)

All the while you have no idea what you would even do if they said, “Yes, go grab that crescent wrench and turn on the huge propane tank valve at the dumpster area and smoke a cigarette. Please!”

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Have a nice day…

WtR

Yesterday, I sat with about five people, all Russians and all villagers…

They are very upset at the state that America has become. So many Russians have in the past adored the USA. It has ideas and democracy sounds so wonderful too so many in the world. But!

What is happening now is Americas own fault. Russians listen to news from all over the world, not just, as is supposed by the west, just Russian news outlets. Someone like my buddy Vova has satellite TV and he can see news from all over the world. Several others have the same and being a Russian, they only believe half of what is said by their governmental services. Russians are smart and know crap when they see it. They also know crap when it is excreted from mainstream media out of the west. There are still wannabe believers. But they see the light at the end of the tunnel…

Obama has definitely become a very hated individual, for his lies and games have permeated the world and have destroyed all goodwill that was left in the world, toward America. Russians know that it is not the people in America like them that are doing this destruction, but they also know that sometimes you have to rise up above the leaders and dance upon their heads. The point has to be made and when enough is enough, change things. Russians do have a history of being patient for long times, but when the need arises, they will come out in the streets. Not the paid lackeys, but the regular people. They will stand and fight for what is right…

When they are happy with their leader, they support that leader and do not question why things are done the way they are. Russians are very trusting and very happy with long term leaders. The issue is, “Do not break that trust!”

No one, but no one running for president of the US, is considered worth a hill of beans and Obama and his administration have become akin to the the devil himself. This is what comes from illegal sanctions and the repercussions of such sanctions will mar the future deals for many years. The US has lost the worlds trust and we can not count the paid lackeys such as Britain and Israel. These bought puppet scared countries, have to do what is said, or suffer and loose what goodies they have. Rule by bully is a bad way to run the show…

Then as I was sitting there and listening (?) to what was said. They all turned to me and I realized that they had asked me something. I was in thought and did not catch it…

I was asked what will I do? I was confused and then after a few more words of where will I go and what happens to me, if war breaks out? AND they do expect and understand that America is pushing for war! They understand that America and the west is in deep issues and war is basically the only way to clean the slate…

Russians know war. War has been on their doorsteps too many times in their history and they know what they see happening is real. Not a made up game of thrones to have a good time with. These people wanted to know if I would go back to America if forced or would I stay with them? Vova said something like, “Boza sleeps on couch and you have a bed in my room, if needed. Kommuna (Tiny Russian Village) is small and safe!”

I sat and thought about what was said…

They switched subject as if they understood I was thinking. They talked about who was thinking of staying in the village all winter this year. Several people are working on their places and we may just have five or six people this winter staying. Then a guy named Nikolai asked me, “What is wrong with Americans!”

That is a good question and surprised me. I have said many times that Russians are intellects and they want to know about why things happen…

I said one word, “ленивый” or in our letters – lenivyy…. (idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy, shiftless, inactive, underactive, sluggish, lethargic; remiss, negligent, slack, lax, lackadaisical)

Hate me all you want, but most Americans I know fit the above. Some don’t, but many more do than not. And it seems that the only thing that gets them off their ass, is to have those words above threatened…

The above word, “ленивый” is what becomes of a society that has too much handed to them. Too much food, too much free, too much money, to much anything. When you buy off the people through entitlements, that you really do not have a right to have. You have been paid to be what they want you to be…

Much of the world is bought and paid for through glorified entitlements, it keeps the masses happy. The kings can party in splendor and caviar, while the peasants party with beer and hotdogs. All are happy until the hotdogs and beer disappear…

Enough of that sidetracking…

Russians understand this word (“ленивый”) well!

It is very looked down upon! The Russians still feel that you must walk in your own shoes and make your own way. The difference in west to east is that family and friends are expected to help make your way. Not governmental services and not state services. But simply, you do what you have to do to make it in the world and when you do? You are a better person for it!

If that means leave the country? Then leave! If that means pull up old railroad steel ties, then sell them! Then do it. If that means to steal a bridge to use somewhere else? Then do it. But do what it takes, for survival is the number one issue and Russians are survivors…

Everything is fair game in Russia and it is the true wild west at times. Just a wild west with intellects. They will punish their own, when needed and ignore everything if needed. They will stand up and fight when needed, but they will give you every chance to alter your path of destruction…

This my friend is what America sees as weakness in Russia. The Russians keep trying to work with America on the world stage and America, who is slapping Russia on purpose, sees only that Russian is weak. The opposite is a fact and we have woke the Russian Bear and she has cubs and will do what it takes to protect them…

My single word gave them a pause in thought. I could see the gears turning and the thinking’s about who they know the same way. Russia has its share of stupid also. In fact Russian actions within their world, can seem pretty stupid to outsiders. At least until you live with them and see their existence firsthand…

Then you realize that Russians live life and many stand on their own feet and are proud of that fact. With that life come stupidity. I call it thinning the weeds!

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I had to smile watching this video! Let the girl dance and who cares what anyone thinks…

Ignore the few huge cities and realize that Russia still has her roots, This is so Russian that I am amazed…. This what the Russians kids that live around these villages where I am, look like. They are good looking kids and very smart. They are not rich by any means, but yet they are! They live life in freedom…

The boy has several videos on his channel and he is not bad playing. I am guessing the little girl is his sister and I thought about how many times I have watched Russians play their music. They play with spoons, instruments and even just their hands, as they slap at the wall. It is all soul release and it is good for you…

Made me genuinely smile and so does the fact that the villagers want me in their life…

WtR

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