Windows to Russia

Well I will wish everyone a Happy Easter, but Orthodox disagrees with the western world and says Easter this year is on, “Sunday, May 1 : Orthodox Easter 2016” and so thus, I follow the eastern Easter nowadays… Over a month apart this year… I will be honest, Easter in the west is very commercialized […]

I was watching the village yesterday. I told you about Father Pavel and several churchies coming by. They all brought food and that was wonderful. You can never have enough food and a few times this winter it got pretty thin around the village for foodstuffs. It was just the thoughts and actions of the […]

Vova came by and we sat and talked a few minutes, then along came Father Pavel of the monastery and he had two young men from the Big Village school helping him deliver bags of food to us three Tiny Russian Village people. He asked how everything was and after taking some pictures of him, […]

This morning as I walked Boza and we watched the world wake up. A thought crossed my mind. It was again about freedom and the misrepresentation that we have instilled in the term freedom. We toss the word freedom around like we do the words hate, love, liberty, God and thousands of more… The coffee […]

Looks like after the early morning walk, that I will have to try out the snowshoes. It snowed all night and is still snowing like crazy. Soon the snow will be too deep to get around in. The snowshoes will allow me to at least get down the hill and let Boza think has has […]

It is a beautiful world that Boza and I live in. No traffic, no smog, no people, no hate and no trash everywhere. It is a world of solitude and to many, that would be a death sentence. It is not a life for all, but it should be a life we all need. It […]

I was taking my pills this morning. Those nemeses of life as you get older and frailness walks upon you. At one time I took up to 40 pills once a day and another 20 later in the day. This morning I realized that I have been working slowly but surely to wean myself off […]

This morning at 4:45 a.m., Boza and I went for a walk. It was dark, scary and snowing! I always carry a flashlight at the dark walks and it is a good flashlight, rechargeable and allows me to see a long ways in the dark. I put it to use this morning… First thing when […]

How about a cup of coffee? Even a cup of tea would be perfect, just grab something and stay warm. For it is snowing and snowing and snowing. I look out and the world has gone white, again and now I can not see past our fence and the fence is almost faded away. It […]

I drove to the Big Village and picked up some food. It was rough and Sammy the Volga had to be on her best behavior. We ended up sideways in the road a dozen times. But she is a Volga you know and understands Russian roads… I decided to buy a treat… I found a […]