Year: 2016

Vova has rabbits and more rabbits. Rabbits to Vova are very important and a very important crop, for food and money. People come from all around to buy his rabbits and he has a never ending supply of them. Rabbits breed like crazy and thus a sustaining entrepreneurship…

Yesterday, I helped Vova feed the rabbits, little piglet ducks, chickens and Big Mia. He has a happy farm and the ducks just quack like crazy when daddy comes around… 😉

We were lucky and some of the snow melted. It was -4 all day, but since the sun is positioned better and the days are longer, we had enough heat from the sun to do some melting. I hope today does the same. Last night was -15 again and it was crispy cold this morning as we walked. We found our bridge has finally washed out and will miss the ability to cross the river…

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17: do you stop to wonder why the west refuses to give answers, or at least straight answers? I do and then when another jet goes down, such as the one recently in Russia. I find that 99% of the time straight forward information is the norm. Not hiding all the facts and twisting facts to meet the narrow criteria. It has been very hard for the west to spin the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as a Russian issue. They have tried and we now see that it has become a hidden Pandora box, for if the truth becomes known, it opens a whole nest of lies. These lies from day one pointed at Russia and the liars know this and still cover it all up. The problem I see is that too many people in the west, want to believe that Russia is evil and Putin is a dictator…

It really is simple; they lie and we accept the lies as truth…

What does that say about us?

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Myself, I think that we should put a chimpanzee as president of the USA. No, seriously…

I think we would find that we would be better received in the world and we would find that nothing would change as to our policies. For the presidential position of the US is probably the most restrained position on earth. For anything else would be called a dictatorship by the west…

Some people would say that we have one (a chimp) now, but that is really stupid and ignoring the fact that a chimp would have at least a 50% chance of getting things correct. Just simply throwing a dart at the board would do a better job at world affairs than what we have allowed to become our government. Obama (who is white when he needs to be and black when he needs to be,) is just the puppet and figurehead for a whole power structure that tries to look like they care about us little guys…

The truth is, there would be many more people backing a chimp (think power of PETA,) than who we have running and have had as president of the US, for as long as I can remember. That is the level and state of affairs that we have allowed our country to fall to…

Seriously; I would vote for a chimp, before voting for Hillary or Trump and or any one of the others, that are trying to run as president. That is the state of affairs in America…

Does that make me a racist?

Na, I am just a realist…

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I have got to say something about Trump; I would not vote for him (see above,) but I see that he has woke a serious storm and if the powers to be are not careful, this storm will become a hurricane… (Trump is good for TV ratings I am sure!)

With a huge chance Hillary will be ramrodded into the presidency; Lets hope the storm does flatten Washington DC with the winds…

I think (I hope,) that it is time for God to step in and show us he cares about us as humans. For soon we will be in trouble over our heads and trouble that we can not control. But then it is our fault and God does not have to help self induced folly at its finest…

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I guess I am going to try to get to the Big Village today. Or maybe not! I am thinking about the subject right now and am not sure that I can get there. Oh well!

WtR

March 20th, 2016 is the first day of spring… And the picture is small, because spring has sprung the wrong way. Spring in fact got lost and we are in the middle of winter, but then it is Russia and I have said we have long, long, long winters…

How about what Boza and I experienced this morning? Is that called spring? I am not sure, but I think it looks kind of like winter still. Oh well, I guess our little weather station was correct and the big weather stations online and TV were wrong… 😉

Have a nice day…

WtR

I have said very little about Ukraine. It is a subject that upsets me tremendously and a subject that causes me anguish. East Ukraine is one of the most wonderful places in the world, or at least is / was until Kiev and the west decided that killing the people was the answer to all the worlds issues…

I have seen much in life and I have been involved in this same sort of destruction of a country. It seems that whether we want to notice, see and or accept the fact, our country (USA) is a country that will take lives of innocent people and use them to destroy anyone in her way…

We do not target just the military in countries, but we sanction and bomb the civilians in that country and I know, for I have been there and done that. A perfect example is Japan; we nuked out of so called necessity, two Japanese cities. We Nuked these cities of civilians… Why? Because we could and because we don’t care about human life…

It is “WE,” for “WE” accept such behavior on the part of our governmental services…

Russia had nothing to do with what was started and agenda instilled in Ukraine. The fact that we have installed Saakashvili and other passport hold Americans into various governmental positions in Ukraine, is the perfect answer to any inquiry. And actually Russia was very constrained as to what was happening and America would never let something like what we did to happen in Mexico or Canada. So what is the issue and why is Russia condemned? America started it…

Ukraine was a favorite place of mine to spend time in. I have spent many hours walking the streets of Kiev and many hours, days and even months, living in Ukraine. What has happened to Ukraine is a crime against humanity and I can attest to that personally. I do not and have not lived for long periods of time in Syria, Libya and other war torn countries. But I have lived in Ukraine and spent many hours talking and getting to know the people there. I know what Ukraine was and it was a wonderful country…

I have helplessly watched my government destroy Ukraine, all for a geopolitical game of checkers and I have seen Russia play chess back and America losses at every move…

I do not have to try to see what is wrong with the picture. I live what is wrong with the picture everyday and it become more clear as everyday goes by. I watch a emboldened US government brashly expanding its death squad and our gov knows that we will do nothing…

We are exactly where the western admins want us. Under their thumb and they will slaughter us to keep us there…

I hurt everyday because of what we have done to Ukraine and yes, we did it and allowed it. Even after we found out the truth, we still looked the other way. Just look at Europe, they have all stuck their heads in the sand and let a handful of politicians rule their existence. Sanctions that bite the EU more than Russia…

Why?

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A friend on Facebook posted this video…

I had to cry, then I had to post it and as my soul reached out to cry with me. I realized how important Russians are to me now. Russians have a soul and it is old, wise and deep…

Мой друг…

WtR

It was -15 (Weather station said so!) at 5:00 a.m. and it had snowed most of the night. This morning was a frozen winter wonderland and it was so beautiful as the sun came up in a crystal clear sky…

It seems like a fairy tale as just a few days ago, I was burning rubbish and cleaning the yard. But if you remember, I had to get to the Big Village and get food and supplies. For my weather station was predicting snow and lots of it. It said Thursday, but the snow held off until Friday night. Regardless it was accurate enough for me…

The three big weather reports online said some snow to no snow at all. Our little station said, “Bull!”

Now the weather station predicts, “-5 and sunny all day!”

It will be about two weeks before I can get out with the car again. Thus you see why it was important on Tuesday to get to town…

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Seriously! What is it with people in America always telling me and many others online, to go live some where else if I do not like the USA. I never said I do not like the US. I think that the principles we now are upholding suck…

Everyday I get told to move out of America. They toss it at me like it is a great big and powerful insult. They attack me with a statement such as typical as this, “Why don’t you find you a country that best fits the freedom that you seek? I never been to any other country where there is better life than this one, why do you think there’s millions that want to come here? And millions more that want what you have, so suck it up and change what you don’t like, be senator or a president .”

I get this all the time…

It makes me laugh, I live in Russia and oh, I know that you believe Russia is the next thing to North Korea and China, but I can burst your bubble and prove it different about Russia, but China and NK, I do not live there and can’t express what it is about. But I promise that it is rapturous information against them, being spewed daily by the west…

Seriously, I am told most of the time and presented as hate and spite, “Just leave!”

I have been to at least 50 plus countries in the world. I have yet to find a country that is as we are told it is in the western media. Not a single country…

Yet Americans act like telling someone that they should leave America is a threat. It is not a threat unless you simply believe all the western media tells you. It is an incredible world and the attitude that I see from the west is what makes me wonder,what is wrong with us…

Do you truly believe that the world stops at the US borders?

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Besides for all you people who think you are scaring me, humbling me and causing me to shiver in my boots. I already live in Russia and I live in a Tiny Russian Village with three people living in it, including myself. So I think I am seeing the real Russia and not the Russophobia Russia that the west constantly presents to the masses…

I also lived years in Moscow and found Moscow safe and wonderful. (No wild gangs of native Russians cutting heads off and raping and pillaging the dogs and cats. No really!)

I am not living in fear…

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A Flydubai Boeing-737-800 (FZ981) has crashed during landing in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. All the passengers and crew on board have been killed…

Need to say a prayer this morning, for all the relatives of the people who died…

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I am going to read a book today…

WtR

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. – Karl Kraus

The other day I counted sixteen ravens floating above the bell tower. Our family of huge ravens has discovered a new treat in life. They float on the updraft created when we have a northern wind and play for hours during the day. I have watched them just float in place, like a helicopter and not move hardly at all. They can rise and fall and turn and never flap their wings. It makes me wish that I could do the same…

Several years ago we had only two huge ma and pa raven. But the family is growing and doing well. They actually are a blessing around the village. They clean the village of all the junk that people toss around. I watch them and they are really good about keeping the Tiny Russian Village scrubbed up. They play in the village all day, but live in nests in the huge forest nearby. I have yet to find their nests, but I will this summer…

The tower was covered in pigeons, but the ravens have moved them out and taken over the tower. That is fine with me and Boza and I have reached a neutral territory with these ravens. At first we (Boza and I against Ravens from Hell!) fought and disliked each others presence. Now we tolerate each other. They even land near me as I sit and watch with one eye on food and one eye on us. Boza likes to wait a few minutes and then run as fast as he can to chase them. they seem to have gathered a delight for teasing Boza and it is a win win for both parties…

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Our road is frozen every morning and can be traveled, but after noon comes, it becomes a sandy mud bath and it is steep enough to stop almost everything that tries to come up it. There is one UAZ that has fat aggressive tires and it makes it. Other than that, we have people get to the second hump in the road and slide back down. They are making a mess of our road, but since mainly sand, it all smooths out in the end…

As you see we still have snow…

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I have been cleaning the side yard and the back of the house. I have to get it all cleaned up and all the good wood stacked. Before I can build a chicken coop. It is a mess and yesterday, I burned and stacked half of that mess…

I listened to the geese passing by overhead all day and it was wonderful. I also heard what I call freshwater seagulls. They are coming back by the thousands…

I worked too hard and too long yesterday. I am paying for it today. But I made a huge dent in the mess and maybe tomorrow I will feel up to hitting it again. I can not wait until it is clean. You can not even walk through it, or at least until yesterday. Boza and I can now walk around and through the mess now. I am burning the rotten wood and to the left of the image above, you can see the piles of boards I am building. These boards are going to build a chicken coop and by next year, we will have chickens. The old chicken coop is on the right of the image and is on the house. that I have to change. I have to make a free standing unit not attached to the home…

Soon the yard will be done all the way around the home…

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I want to thank people for donations, the last donations are going to go for getting the garden supplies bought. I also am trying to find some white lilacs. The purple we have are fabulous, but I want to have white on the opposite side of the yard. I have not seen white yet in Russia, but I am sure they are available. The yard I am working on was a jungle of wood vine and cherry trees. The cherries were wild and terrible. I want to have white lilacs in there place…

I also want to try to grow Tea Roses. My favorite type of flower. I am not sure if they will survive the winters here, but I want to try. Vova has looked over the garden area and is getting ready to rototiller it up, as soon as the ground warms up and snow is gone. This year we plan carrots, potatoes, beets, radishes, turnips, pumpkins and who knows what!

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We talk about flying like an eagle, but after the last few days, I would be glad to fly like a raven. They are having so much fun and I wonder why we as humans have forsaken such fun in life. We have many things that we can fly like a raven or eagle at and we seem to keep ourselves grounded and unhappy…

I am going to fly like a raven today and float in the air…

Have a nice day…

WtR

WtR

I am so happy with Windows 8.1 and so unhappy with Windows 10. There really is no comparison between the two and livability is the reason that Windows 8.1 is the best. Windows 10 has so many idiosyncrasies that it makes it hard to love unless you simply have plenty of resources to waste and throw away into Microsoft’s lap…

But Microsoft continues to “TRY” to put Windows 10 on my computer. Five times I have had to remove and or hide updates and I can not allow updates without my looking them over first. I have installed two programs to watch out over this occurrence and it is getting old, old in the fact that Microsoft is trying to shove something down my throat that I have tried and dislike so much that if they continue, I will switch to Linux and be done with Windows…

First program below in block quote and I run it every time I have Windows updates and this is actually a redundant program, but has helped me to keep Windows 10 at bay…

I Don’t Want Windows 10
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This program removes the Get Windows 10 (GWX) update (KB3035583) from an infected Windows 7
or Windows 8.1 system.

How to Run
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Click on “I Don’t Want Windows 10.exe”

“Side-by-side configuration is incorrect” Error
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Run “vcredist_x86.exe”, located in this folder.

I think I have removed the necessity to use this, but it’s there just in case.

REDISTRIBUTING THIS SOFTWARE
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You may redistribute an unmodified copy of this software for free to anyone that wants it.
This file, and both the application and the vcredist file must be present, with all their
contents unmodified. The VC++ files are property of Microsoft Corporation and are subject
to their terms of use.

The program above is a non installed exe and you run it manually as needed…

This next program is a watch dog type program and it installs and gyards your system. It works and works good. I use the above program as a feel good situation, simply for my brain to function better… 😉

GWX Control Panel:

Version: 1.7.2.0
Date: January 24, 2016
Platform: PC 32/64
* Download Installer *
-or-
* Download Stand-alone *

This is a free tool that can remove and disable the ‘Get Windows 10’ notification area icon on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Recent versions can also disable ‘Upgrade to Windows 10’ behavior in the Windows Update control panel and do much more. See the user guide at the Ultimate Outsider blog. You can still download GWX Control Panel as a standalone executable if you don’t like installers. Please see the “GWX CONTROL PANEL RELEASE NOTES” section at the user guide for MD5 and SHA-1 checksums of all official releases.

I am giving these links not because I get anything for doing it. I think people need to have ability to stop companies like Microsoft from invading your life if you so desire…

The GWX is the best and just install, read what to do and do it. It also allows you to reverse everything and allow Windows to update…

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To be honest Windows 10 was smooth and worked good. At least on the surface, but things that mean alot to me were showing up and not least of all; the data usage on a very limited data situation was not controllable. That just makes n sense to me. For I am sorry Microsoft, but not all of us live with a golden spoon in our mouths and we have limitations to what we can spend on things…

I personally thought that Windows 10 is going to be a huge expensive financial mess in the future and I guess my distrust of Microsoft makes me think that we will pay for “Free Windows 10” at one point or another. I won’t and that is simple. I will ride Windows 8.1 to the end of its life and beyond…

I am not going to review Windows 10 and or Windows 8.1; I will just say that Windows 8.1 is the best Windows I have ever used and I really liked Windows 7…

Windows 10 just stepped on my toes and tried to upset the apple cart…

I dislike my apple cart upset…

WtR

My second cup of coffee after walking with Boza for an hour this morning, is excellent! Boza and I got up at 5:30 a.m. instead of an earlier time this morning. We were tired, for I went to town, then decided to clean the yard. I knew snow was coming so I better get some burning of rubbish done before it snows again. I know it will snow for two reasons…

1. Every old injury in and on  and my body hurts like hell and I have too many injuries from all the years to list…
2. Our weather station told me so yesterday and today is hollering that the pressure is steadily dropping and it has a image of clouds and snow.

So when Boza and I took off for our long walk. The sky was perfectly clear and by the time we were back, the sun had tried to come out and Old Man Winter decided to start a fight. Right now as I look out the window, the sun and clouds are playing hide and seek. It is -7 outside and looks to be a rotten day in a few hours…

The air pressure is dropping and dropping steadily. Our weather station is right on, on that account…

There is one issue with the station I have to try to correct; I temperature sensing unit is inaccurate during the day. At night it is dead on, but the way the device is designed, the sun affects the temperature as it heats up the casing that hold it. The case is design for ventilation, but as anything even white color, absorbs heat from direct sunlight and therefore, my sunny readings are high on the temperature side of things. The more sun the higher the variance. My issue is that they put the light sensor and solar panel attached to the top of the temperature sensor…

Erroneous readings are the daytime norm. I have to figure out how to shade the temperature sensor to keep the sun from raising the temperature due to absorption of and or primarily because the long wavelength, or infrared, portion of the sun’s radiation resonates well with molecules in the material and or literally any material. Thus I have to figure out how to let the resonator effect happen, but not allow the sensor to be resonating as well…

While some people may think that I may be trying to cheat the system, it is the other way around. The system is cheating me of accurate readings and anyone who goes out on a cold sunny day and works for hours, will understand that working in the shade feels much colder than working in the sun. Thus, the true temperature is more akin to the shade level than the direct sunshine level…

Got it “Kemosabe”?

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Yesterday I traveled to the Big Village and everything went good. I only had a few spots that I wondered if I would make it, but since it froze so hard, I could skate over top them. Sammy the Volga was happy to get out and she was going to show me she could do it and do it she did. Vova was surprised and so was a bunch of the lake workers. But when you got mud tires like we have on our Volga, mud is not an issue. Well unless it is deep mud and then we have an issue…

I picked up three cases of Boza food, a bunch of Kyle food, flea and tick drops for Boza (yes the ticks are out,) a vacuum cleaner, some WD-40 spray, and some more odds & ends. I was a bad boy and bought a small pound cake and some roll and or wraps, with ham and cheese inside. Ooh they were so good and I so messed up my blood sugar, but hey once a month will not kill me and everything was back on track by evening and this morning I woke with a 4.7 mmo/l reading. That is good and I am happy. Happy that I cheated & made my brain satisfied and happy that I only cheated a little bit. So now back to the daily grind of watching my diet… 🙁

I read an article about a man who died of Diabetic Shock two years after losing a bunch of weight. It kinda struck me as something that is scary. He died in a hotel room as he traveled and it just seems wrong. Not wrong that something was wrong, but to loose weight and then succumb to low blood sugar. I will honestly say that low blood sugar can be scary and I have dealt with it too many times. People who do not have sugar issues have no idea about the roller coaster ride we go on many times, even if we do not cheat on food stuffs…

I believe that many diabetics prefer to live life on the high side of sugar and that is wrong and deadly also. High levels are a slow and terrible death. Limbs to be lost, internals to be strangled, nerves to destroy and many other slow long term issues that make life suck. Diabetes is a wicked illness and can sneak up on you no matter how healthy you are…

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I must not be boring too many people, for readership is growing. I have toned down about America, not because I feel different and not because people do not want to hear it. For my readership is much larger when I expressed opinions about the issues in the USA. No, I have toned down about America, because I no longer consider it my home…

Home is where the heart is and Russia is in my heart and soul. I know people go to America and feel the same way and I do not fault them with that. But people fault me for falling in love with Russia and thinking that Russia is a wonderful country. I fell in love with a Russian woman and that is not what makes you fall in love with a country like Russia. For I would love Svetochka as much in China as I do in Russia…

Falling in love with a country has to do with more than just ideas and ideologies. It has to do with what is inside yourself and what your soul tells you. I am not driven by money and if I was, I would not be in Russia. Russia has ample opportunities to become wealthy, but you have to be a person out of the normal flow of life in Russia to be rich and or filthy wealthy is actually looked down upon in Russia. Success is not as glamorous to the people in Russia. Trust, friends, self-sufficiency and surviving at all costs is a much more stable and respected life…

Russians value people far more than westerner people do. That will be expressed as disbelief by many readers, but I know and I live the life. Russians make a friend and they find that being with that friend makes them smile, then you see that famous Russian smile that eludes the western people in all the images taken of the individuals in everyday Russia. For a smile has to be sincere and when Vova and I laugh and joke, we smile and all pain goes away for the duration of that smile. The same when Svetochka and I smile. I probably smile less than her by far, but when she smiles at me, my heart always warms to a toasty brown and glows inside me. For a smile is the most powerful weapon on earth and they should be used with care and respect…

In the west we smile just because we are told we have to or we are bringing down society…

Russia is very different in many areas than the western world. A perfect example is; Friends do not say thank you for things others do. It is assumed and expected that you appreciate what was done. For they would not have done it in the first place if they wanted to be thanked and praised. Praise is another form of thanks and most in Russia care not to be the center of attention. The center of attention is for extroverts and a society of introverts and intellects are not prone to narcissism…

I have learned that even a Russian extrovert is equal or less than per comparison, than an introvert in America…

That is why I garner so well with Russians, I am an introvert in America and thus at home in Russia…

For someone like me the western society is a baffle as to why it survives and why people are comfortable in it. We are what we are and need to be where we need to be. That is why borders are so daunting to me, for those borders of countries hurt us people that need to find their place in life. And after watch the immigration fiasco going on in Europe, I have to seriously doubt the reasons given for border control in the EU. Millions are just walking across the borders with fake passports and no passports; kinda stupid, why have borders at all?

WtR

1. Big Village for food…
2. -12 Celsius this morning…
3. Bright sunshiny day and -2 as the high…
4. Two cups of coffee before I start…
5. Boza stays home…
6. Drivers License…
7. Money…
8. Will Sammy the Volga make it out?

I will be back later and let everyone know what is going on. This is the last chance to get out for a few weeks. It is suppose to snow for a week straight. Therefore, got to get extra food…

Where oh where has spring gone…

Russia and her winters…

WtR