Happy Bear and Dog Day! (Счастливый медведь и день собаки)
Svetochka is in the Tiny Russian Village…
Kyle and Boza
Year: 2016
Boza and I walked to the big well tower and flipped the switch to fill the wells. We walked about one hour and in half an hour we will walk back to the big well tower and turn it off. Vova filled the wells the other day and I am topping them off to get through the weekend. City folk come for the weekend and they get testy when they do not have water… 😉
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I finished, with exception of building a gate, the apple garden fence. Now I can start on the shower house! Too many projects and not enough time…
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Svetochka comes today and Boza and I are very happy. Today I clean inside the home. I have been working outside so much, that I forgot about the inside. Boza is laying on my spot of the bed and is snoring away, as I write this, soon we will get going and turn off the big well. Time flies in the Tiny Russian Village…
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A thought came to me! I am watching America as it does to her own people as we do to the world. America is trying to be a world policeman and many Americans think that the world needs, must have, desires, wants and begs for the US to be the World Police Man!
Far from the truth and if we would leave the world alone, much less our own people, the world would be a better place!
Many would disagree, but I see a USA Police state at home and a USA Police State wannabe all over the world…
Just a thought and since I was part of that military driven police state world wide. I know something about the mindset and desires that are going on behind the scenes in the Western Empire…
Kinda reminds me of Mamma Eagle; She rules her lake area with an iron fist or better yet, razor sharp talons. She terrorizes the rest of the creatures in this area. Now if she decides to broaden her horizons? The valley would be in turmoil. For within this valley are hundreds of hawks and eagles. It just is that she is the biggest thing around…
One day she will get old or careless and things will change, but until then, she kills who she wants and whenever she wants…
Want something interesting? The little birds gather up on her and she flees, as they buzz her like fighter jets on a bomber in the sky. So it tells me that if we gather together as the little people, we can stop what is happening around us….numbers matter…
Have a nice day!
WtR
Big trip yesterday and we picked up an extra person from the village as they walked to the Big Village and took them with us. As I said I would try to do; I took the camera and took some images. This is the main shopping area of the Big Village. It has many homes, but I concentrated on the area that I always shop at…
The Big Village is where you just about can find anything you want. Actually the only thing I have failed to find at the Big Village is a mouse pad for the computer! Mouse pad? Blank stares ensue and after a dozen places to find one, you give up and use a cardboard tea top like I do! 😉
The last image is important to me…
The old name of the Tiny Russian Village is translated to Dawn of Freedom and I call it Sunrise to Freedom. This image is just that; Sunrise to Freedom…
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Gone fishing! Caught these last night at the river. Good eating and the river is teeming with them. Voloda (I have lots of Vova’s, thus, Vova is my best buddy, Voloda is a good friend, Vladimir is in village once in awhile,) next door makes his own bait. One part cooking oil, one part black bread, one part fish food (from the fish guys) and mix well. Let sit a day and go fishing. He calls is рыба корм (reba corm) which actually means fish food! 😉
Yes I am free, may not be rich, may not be fancy, but, I have good friends, fresh air, open space, real water, good health, perfect woman, crazy dog, lots of critter friends and a Mommy Eagle that terrorizes the lake area. It just does not get better than that…
Have a nice day…
WtR
Bird Sanctuary brings the Greedy Gobblers…
Now that is what “Life is About!”
I love birdbrain greedy gobblers…
WtR
I took a picture of our new finished gate this morning. Then I heard a knocking noise. Boza ran to see what was up…
We found Wilbur the Woodpecker (yes I name all my buddies) and he was busy as a bee. He likes eating our bugs in the trees and old fence posts and he let me get some images of him for once. He likes our yard and usually runs away real fast, so I never get pictures of him…
Wilbur has a good home….Thanks Wilbur for hanging around…
So I took his picture and sat and listened to him do his job of getting the bugs in the apple trees…
Have a nice day…
WtR
I have decided to take the camera with me today to the Big Village. I will try to get some photos of where I go to shop. The Big Village has literally everything you would need, except McDonald’s and that we do not need!
We will see what I get for pictures…
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Boza and I walked twice this morning, once to check the wells and they will wait until tomorrow to be filled and second time to see our friends in the valley…
Ralph the Raven was playing with Boza and George the Birdbrain was singing from the power lines, near the dam. All was good until a couple of new friends showed up. Of course I never have a camera when I need it. Henrietta and Harry the Hawks came to say hi! Ralph had a heart attack, George was peeking out from the pine trees and Boza was confused as to why his friends left…
Therefore, It became very quiet, for the Herons and all else decided life was better somewhere else. But I stood and watched and listened. Henrietta was on one telephone pole top and Harry on the next one and they made faint shrills at each other and for the first time, I heard clicking noises. I stood silently and Boza being a good boy, stood with me and we listened…
I imagined the conversation was some like; I will take the big bear and you get to eat the dog! But most likely it was something like; Hey baby, I love you! For the sounds were quiet and cooing like…
They are a couple and I must set up shop early one morning at my bench in the valley and try to get some good pictures of them…
So we have a regular set of new visitors, who greet us every morning in the fog that is prevalent now…
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I met a friend this morning walking and he was going fishing. It looks like I am starting to get the fishing bug and may need to get a pole. It seems the river is teeming with some really good eating fish. They are a perch of some type and the meat is tender, white and delicious…
Guess I gotta check into starting fishing again…
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So, off to the Big Village today…
WtR
by John Stanton
The world knows that the 2016 US presidential horse race features two cartoonish characters that are perhaps the most polarizing figures in American national politics. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appear at a tenuous moment in the world’s history as economies struggle, infrastructure collapses, nations crumble, and the political systems, at least in the US and Europe, are viewed with disdain by a majority of citizens.
In the USA, the drumbeats for war seem to be getting louder. US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter uses a truncated version of David Letterman’s Top Ten List to rank the most dangerous threats to the USA: 1. Russia; 2. China; 3 Iran; 4. North Korea; and 5. Islamic State/Terrorism. The demonization of Russia and the references to Islamic State as a cancer or virus recalls Whitehead’s Cannibal War Machine.
Like or hate Trump, the media bias against him for challenging the neoliberal order is astonishing, harkening back to Cold War thinking. He is vilified out of fear he might shake the old order up: Reorder NATO, work with the Russian president, focus money on US infrastructure.
US Crushing it in Asymmetric Information War
The US is waging a highly successful asymmetric war against Russia which that country can hardly match given the US Instruments of National Power (INP), one of which includes “media” under the INP “Information.” The mainstream media propaganda campaign against Russia has been so successful that a Russian swimmer who served a suspension for illegal drug use and was cleared to compete in Rio was booed by fans and publically admonished by an American swimmer. The US does not even want the viewing public to see the flag of Russia raised during an NBC broadcast at the US Olympic Games. US sportscasters, and their counterparts in US owned media outlets in South America, pound into the viewing public’s collective minds that Russia is “enemy number one.” The penetration of the DNC computer network blamed on Russia comes at a moment when US dominated media coverage of the Olympics can be used to amplify the information warfare campaign against Russia and its comrades in Carter’s Top Five enemies list.
The New York Times, Washington Post, mainstream/cable news reek of polemic and government “officials” in a stunning disinformation campaign while at the same time they try to dismiss Clinton’s continued flirtation with the FBI/IRS over email, the shenanigans of the Clinton Foundation, and her militaristic “love a man in uniform”, and her coup instigating past. Even former military commanders and the CIA have gotten in on 2016 presidential campaign.
General Martin Dempsey, USA (Ret.)–former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)—and General Joseph Dunford, USMC, and current chair of JCS, are so alarmed at this development that they publically warned military personnel about getting involved, vocally, in the 2016 presidential election.
Sharknado
It’s like a Sharknado movie or better still, a nutty cartoon. Perhaps it is better to think of Clinton and Trump as the cartoon characters they are.
Cruella de Vil was the evil female villain in 101 Dalmatians. She is described by Wikipedia as being “the tyrannical figure in the marriage, and her husband as a meek, subservient man who seldom speaks and obeys his wife entirely. Cruella expresses her sinister interest in the Dalmatians, remarking how she and her henpecked husband have never thought of making clothing from dog pelt before. Yet seeing the spotless skins of the newborn puppies she is revolted and offers to have them drowned at once; her way of getting rid of animals she views as worthless, including dozens of her own cat’s kittens. Upon a second visit to the house she picks up the mature puppies and treats them like clothing to be worn.”
Replace puppies with 70 percent of the US population and you get a fine sense of what she really thinks about the vast majority of Americans. If she had her way she’d get the names of all the citizens who will vote for Trump and have them pilloried or sent to the gulag.
Trump is the Captain Klutz of the US political scene. He is running close to Cruella in spite of his wacky statements and the clumsy carnival that is his campaign. It is like watching a bizarre Saturday Night Live episode (one in which Trump appeared).
Captain Klutz, or Ringo Fonebone, can’t handle the “normal” life, according to a Lutz fan site: Klutz “usually succeeded in capturing the bad guy in spite of himself. As a child, Fonebone did nothing other than read Brap Man, The Blue Blockhead, Baboon Boy, and other comic books, leaving him with little aptitude for normal human activities.”
Trump is a bona fide member of the US “1 Percent” having lived anything but a normal human life and who knows what his reading list included. His gaffs somehow earn him more supporters, like Captain Klutz’s goofball actions help save the day.
Klutz remains within 10 percentage points of Cruella.
John can be reached at jstantonarchange
Today, I will count the coins! I am one of those savers of all coins. I did it in America and continue here in Russia. I use them for a rainy day and my rainy day has arrived….I need another dehydrator and they have one at the Church Village for 3000 rubles…
I have two drawers full literally and a center console in the car full. I know I can get very close to enough to buy that dehydrator and it is time. Tomorrow, I go to the big village and if I find a better deal at the Big Village, I will buy that. If not, then I will stop on the way back and buy the one at the Church Village. I have to do something to keep up with the thousands of apples, tomatoes and such!
Yesterday, I dried 40 tomatoes, two loaves of white bread and today 40 apples (with cinnamon and nutmeg!) I am stocking for the winter and I am running out of time. I will simply adjust the budget someway to replace the money. I like to have a nest egg, even a small one, for emergencies…
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We have hundreds of our own tomatoes, but people keep giving me tomatoes out of appreciation as payment for things I do around the Tiny Russian Village. The people talk about how the village is coming back to life. That I have brought new ideas and desires, by living here in the Tiny Russian Village…
I thank them and take the reward, for to turn it down is an insult and even though I do not see what they see, I accept what is given and now I have to try to save what they give, instead of tossing it in the trash. I am by myself and can only eat so much. But I have found the way to store my food, for 5 to 10 years at a time. Dehydration is the key…
Money saved on not buying much food is what will pay for the new dehydrator. I even have 50 eggs right now and I am lucky that they store a long time….Still have maybe a 1000 apples to do. But will most likely rot before I get them all done…
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Svetochka seems to love her grouchy bear, even when he is grouchy and that shows me how wonderful she is. She knows and sees through me and she knows I love her very much. Life has made me stern and or grouchy to many, but life is how we grow and develop. If you have had to put a young kid down, with explosives strapped to him! Then you would understand, that grouchy is preferred to insanity! I chose grouchy, grumble, cantankerous and asininity!
It is a far cry above “non compos mentis!”
Besides, under all that grouchy, is a smile face waiting to get out! 
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The west has reached a new low in the treatment of Russian Paralympic athletes. In fact, I have been stunned at how low they went. I thought the gutter was it and they proved that there is a lower spot to grovel to and start crap again…
Russia has been banned from the Paralympics in Rio and for no other reason than political. I have talked about how the Western Empire will destroy the world and you are seeing it in your lifetime. There are many ways to destroy things and the West has begun her decline and the death tentacles are slashing all around in the throes of collapse. As assassination is and being done even to supposed allies…
“Et Tu, Brute?”
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Have a nice day, I gotta count coins…
WtR
Вот мой дом (Here is my house,) Моя жизнь (My Life,) моя собака (My Dog,) наша прогулка (Our Walk,) друг ( the friend,) деревня (the village,) туман (the village,) and новый день (a new day!)
Tiny Russian Village (крошечная русская деревня)
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Did you take your walk today?
You really should….
WtR
I work around Russians, I use Russian products and I watch the Russians out of curiosity, everyday of my life. The Western Empire really tried to destroy Russia and unless the Western Empire jumps on the war wagon and attacks Russia out of the blue. Russia has beat the West at its own games!
I eat 100% Russian made, Russian processed, Russian grown food. I use 100% Russian and or Chinese made tools, implements and that includes items that are for everyday living, such as detergents and toilet paper. The main thing is that it is all quality and inexpensive products. Be they food or tools…
I feel for Venezuela, they could not pull off the same thing that Russia did and have suffered greatly. The attack was basically the same and for the same reasons. Just as Brazil has been attacked and China is being harassed. It partly falls under the BRICS issue! The Western Empire may have slowed BRICS down, but it is not dead and is marching onward and will show its head again, much stronger at that point…
I bought milk per liter last week at 29 rubles. Sterilized and good for almost a year. I bought white bread for 19 rubles a loaf. I bought my favorite cottage cheese at 59 rubles a container. This is the norm for me and this also extends to anything else I buy…
If I desire really cheap and okay, I wait and use AliBaba/AliExpress and have stuff shipped to me. I find with a little bit of effort on my part, that I can gather what is necessary, easily and quality is next to anything bought anywhere in the world…
Russia has developed, with the help of western men and women, who have decided that America has stepped off the deep end, huge herds of cattle in Russia. I am seeing herds of cattle now that reach 60,000 plus heads and growing. I see farms with western men all over Russia and they are lending their expertise. This is a straight shot at America and is called brain drain…
Russians learn fast:
I have talked about that a Russian is an intellect and now Russians have expanded the farm industry beyond just needs for Russia. Russia is going to become a agriculture powerhouse and feed the world. I keep talking about this and it is and has come true already in many areas of farming. A little help goes a hell of a long ways…
One area that has just stunned me is the Russian cheese area. Russians have learned to make literally every kind of cheese in the world. I adore the Russian Colby Jack and I just found a sour cream cheese that is to die for. It is so smooth and mild. It just is perfect…
I hope the west fails in its attacks against Brazil. The Western Empire has done nothing to help the Olympics and everything to destroy the Olympics in Brazil. Just as they did too China and Russia. Sad and pathetic is the west. What happened to sports goodwill and helping each other? Politics?
The West failed!
It failed so bad, that it hurts itself, back into not just a recession, but back into the depression that it tries to lie all the time about. The West is failing and has run out of options, well, except to just keep borrowing money, printing money and stealing money!
The last few years of governmental policies in America and the EU, have actually helped China and Russia to grow. It has helped the world to steer the ship in the right direction. But these policies have stop gap measured short term issues, minus any long term help, for the West and I am not sure that even the chickens will come and or be able to come home to roost, for the coop will be gone!
One thing that you need to learn is; Do not believe what the Western Press is portraying about the rest of the world!
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Another thought!
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain”
I am proud to be able to watch what is happening in Russia and I live it daily. I try at times to see what there is to be proud of America, but when the governmental policies do nothing but hurt our country and we as people living there, act like a damn bluegill on a shiny hook! Then I have to shake my head and wonder at the true stupidity of what is happening, brain drain, financial issues, ignorance of life around the planet, war, hate and many other issues…
I still love my country, but we no longer own our country! We have no say in what happens and we hold out our hand and greedily take everything given to either fill our mouths and or fill our need for distraction. We expect the government to protect us, feed us, nurture us, teach us and hold our hand. Somewhere we lost our feet and no longer stand or even want to stand on our own two feet…
When we do stand on our own two feet…
You are not allowed to stand on your own two feet. It has been this way for a long time and has only gotten worse. Much worse! I use to say, “Wake up!”
I think it is too late for that and staying asleep, may be better for most in the end!
WtR