Yesterday, Boza got in real bad shape. He reacted to the medicine that he is taking for his eyes and it was a close call. I had a long day yesterday and today I will watch him closely. So life is what it is and I will do what I have to…
See you all tomorrow…
WtR
This is Russia…
Why do we hate Russia?
They are just like you…
WtR
China’s fault…
[contentcards url=”https://sputniknews.com/science/201705291054076916-company-says-wannacry-from-china/”]
No it is North Korea’s fault…
Wait, I thought is was Russia’s fault…
Trying the Russian Connection and Snowden Connection; I just WannaCry!
Maybe next we can point the finger at Iran…. I would think that one of those countries, “Did it!”
Sad how easy it is to predict western governments actions…
I just WannaCry…
WtR
Rain and more rain…
Grab a cup of coffee! I did and it is excellent this morning. I found a German brand of coffee on sale and it is really good. I am noticing German products appearing all over the stores. It seems that Germany no longer cares about following sanctions and are trying to garner back some lost sales in Russia. Cheap cheap cheap…
Kinda just a thinking morning.
It looks like in the first week of June Sveta, Boza and I will go to the Tiny Russian Village. Sveta will stay one week, then leave for two weeks and come back for one week. Then we will come home to Moscow again…
Boza’s doctor goes on vacation for about a month and we will use that same period of time to go to the Tiny Russian Village. We have work to get done on Sammy the Volga, plant white lilacs, tend to the single rose plant (if alive still,) tend to our tiny pine tree, rebuild the back wall of the village home, close the village home down for the winter and let us all get fresh air and clean living…
Svetochka wants Boza and I to stay the winter in Moscow and we love our little girl and will do as she wants. It is better for Boza to stay near his eye doctor and I still have lots of tests to run. I have to get a cat scan as I said in an earlier post and make sure that my brain tumor has not tried to come back. It is all good though…
Want some interesting info?
I can get a CT done at my clinic I use for 7000 rubles. Okay that sounds high in number look of 7000, but convert to dollars. 7000 rubles = $123…. and that varies according to the daily rate exchange…
Seriously people; everyday I get shown how pathetic Americas healthcare system is cost wise. My complete healthcare is under Russian control, I just pay for my services, whereas Sveta gets it free. I am not saying that American healthcare is bad, I am saying that you pay way too much for the services provided and if you would travel the world, you would see how expensive healthcare is in America and you get the same services almost anywhere in the world…
The truth is, “Many times you get better service in a so called third world country! At much less cost…”
Dollar for dollar we are being ripped off in America…
More info!
Oh and yes, the clinic is within easy walking distance to our home. Everything is within walking distance. Quality medical, quality dental and everything imaginable to buy for everyday life just around the corners. It is amazing, a world set up to ignore cars and caters to mass transit and walking as the mode of transportation…
The real example of not nearby is for Boza, veterinarians are few and far between. Russians just have not gathered that their doggies need care also. Thus we have to drive to get Boza taken care of. I am telling you that if you were a veterinarian in America, you could come to Russia and make a fortune. Just like ranchers have done with beef, pork and chicken. The market is wide open for entrepreneurship in Russia and the freedom is how it use to be in America…. many years ago…
More info!
Russians have discovered salad dressings (or sauce as they call it.) The market has exploded with dressings for salads, steaks, chicken and what ever your fancy is. We just bought blue cheese dressing and have been using a mushroom dressing for awhile. But now they have so many flavors that I was jumping up and down for joy…
10 years ago such a thing was impossible for Russians to imagine. You have sour cream and or mayo and that was that. Now the shelves are full of Russian made sauces and they are damn good…
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Mayonnaise no longer is the undisputed queen of sauces in Russia. Sour cream based sauces are taking over slowly but steadily…. Also Russians have developed some wonderful ketchup…
Well Boza had a good walk this morning.
At 6 a.m. Boza and I got up and went walking. We did not have any issues with other doggies and Boza was feeling okay. He did his doggy stuff and we came home to eat and take his medicine. He is sleeping under Svetochka’s side of the bed and those two will sleep for several more hours. Svetochka is a bed bug on the weekends. She is up everyday at 6 a.m. and when a weekend comes she likes to sleep and sleep and sleep. 😉 So does Boza. If mommy sleeps so does he…
Well have a good day and I will watch it rain…
WtR
Russians are demure: Definition of demure – reserved, modest and or serious…
This includes attachment to all aspects of their life. Be it from gathering food to feed the family to defending their country. Not a perfect world, but a modest, moral and intelligent world about all things pertaining to them. Russians would rather be left alone and stagnate, as long as they have the basics of life; all is good…
But do not push a Russian in the wrong way. They and I have learned to be this way. They will silently look at you and remember exactly what you have done and never forget what is happening. A Russian is sharp as a tack and does not understand what it means to bluff your way through life…
This makes Russians easy to live with and they accept outsiders (who are sincere,) into their lives and will care for these outsiders. A typical Russian does not understand many things that the west has propagated from mole hills to huge mountains of disinformation…
A Russian does not understand the issues that have become forefront in the west…
Political correctness, lawsuits constantly, cops interfering in your business, following rules to the tee, working 80 hours a week, living for money and on and on…
Russians understand somethings though…
Children come first, long vacations must be, many holidays, real food GMO free, being lazy, money is a necessity not a desire, peace, quiet and on and on…
Yes there are exceptions to every rule, but a Russian in general is just like many Americans in the older days…
That is what I have said for 10 years now; “Russia is like America 50 to 60 years ago!” and like America it is changing slowly but relentlessly…
I hate to see it happening, but I understand and am thankful to live in a society that places value still upon morals and children…
If you live in a place like Britain and or America? It is doubtful that you can understand anymore what is being said by me. You have changed too much and I guess I have not changed enough to accept what the west has become…
Russians cannot embrace accepting everything at face value, without doubting the implications of it all. They do not accept homosexuality as being wonderful (nor do they condemn), they do not accept all children being equal and deserve the same prizes to appease the masses, they do not accept money as a necessary evil or for that matter as something we need at all, they do not accept ownership of the earth by a few humans, they do not accept that your rights means you can impose and or hurt others in your quest for your goals and power, they do not accept that we do not have enough food to feed the world, so on and so on…
In Russia the acceptance that we are all different is universal, but the acceptance that you have a right to impose it upon others is the red line. Be an example; a homosexuality is fine, but be homosexual behind your doors. Same with be heterosexual, but keep it behind your doors. Society norms are important in Russia, just as culture and history is very important. Russians have a whole bunch more years behind them than Americans do and thus they have a whole bunch more history to mull through and see what works or not…
As always individuals stand out in contrast to the norms, but the term “stands out” is the factor. Russians quietly step around such factors and get on with their lives…
Just do not point fingers and tell the Russians they have to embrace the rights of a thong wearing homosexual man dancing in a parade! That will not go over well and that is as it should be. Wear the damn thong in your own home and dance there. Kids do not need to accept things as normal when it is really not…
Yes that is right and that is what they think is normal and as I said, “I doubt seriously you can understand anymore what I am saying.” and or want to understand and or care to understand. That is your business, just keep your business away from my/our business. We do not want to see and accept it…
I had hard adaptation:
As in all societies, there is a fine line between right and wrong. That is acceptable, but it become rough when you travel. Knowing the riles of life in another country is a good idea and being a good boy or girl in that country should be priority. Just because you like something in your country, does not mean the country you visit will see that as acceptable…
It is easy to temporarily adapt to a country as you visit…. But to live there takes much more effort. I spent years adapting to a new way of life. I was helped by the fact that my past life as I grew up was much like the life I saw before me in Russia…
So I was lucky in many ways. Plus I have a wonderful Russian woman who helped to pave the way. Between here and I we made it. Was not easy at times. Russia has been hard for this expat to try to adapt to all the rules and regulations. For while Russians may ignore most rules, an expat does not have such leeway to ignore such rules that govern your stay in Russia…
Visa issues changed so many times in 10 years, that I gave up trying to write about it on WtR. I simply say, “Do your homework before you try to come to Russia and you will do fine!”
At one time I was leaving Russia every three months for up to a month at a time. Now I get three year visas and all has settled down. Knock on wood and stick a thousand needles in your eye…
I have become Russian:
Always Time for Life…
That is too be expected. I have been here 10 years and more. I understand that American Cowboy type behavior is not the way of life and intimidation does not work in Russia, like it does in America…
I expect no help from any agency in Russia and I will never accept help from anything to do with the American embassy and consulate. I will utilize our embassy as a business and nothing more. A business to deal with America and her idiosyncrasies…
If I was tossed in jail in Russia, I would never accept and or try to call my government. They have done nothing for me and have hurt me much more than helped in my past…. I will stand on my own two feet…
Being Russian is much more than a term. Being Russians is a culture, an attitude, a way of life and being acceptable of the world around you. It is a way of life that understands that the world is not perfect, yet even as things fall apart?
There is always time for a shot of vodka, dried smoked fish and or squid, a chuck of raw garlic and or onion and a cuppa of tea…. to wash that biscuit/treat down with…
WtR
PS: Tidbit of information…
Just do not think that you can shove your beliefs down my throat and threaten me! As is the norm many times in our world…
The Japanese officials also said that they have given Rosselkhoznadzor the right to include Russian enterprises in the register of exporters of finished pork and beef products to Japan under its official guarantees, the watchdog said. Japanese experts inspected two Russian companies – Miratorg Agribusiness Holding’s Kaliningrad subsidiary Miratorg-West and Ratimir in Primorye – and cleared them to export to the Japanese market.
[contentcards url=”http://interfax.com/newsinf.asp?y=2010&m=2&d=4&pg=7&id=730981″]
From 10 years ago and importing almost all beef, pork and chicken; to know totally self-sufficient in all three. Russia is becoming an exporter of all three above meats…
It has been amazing to watch this happen and all it took was sanctions to stimulate the desires for a better life, a life free of servitude by the west…
No wonder the west hates Russia…
WtR
PS: You should keep a link for the home page of Interfax. You can find Russian news and more there and it is worth looking at daily…
The lunatic is on the grass.
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.
The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.
Brain Damage
Pink Floyd circa 1975
Just kinda how I see it…. Pink Floyd what a band…
WtR
Boza has been pretty sick during the day as he is medicated for his eyes. The medication is causing his issues and we go back today to see what we can do to help him. It makes me grouchy to see my buddy like a zombie…
I hope the eye medicine is worth it, for sometimes the cure is worse than the illness…
This is me today!
WtR
US tourism? Seriously why do we Twitter such trash? Twitter this and Twitter that…
Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!
Kinda like saying the millions of Americans going to North Korea have to stop going… ~Sarc~
Get it? Millions of Americans cross into NK! Oh…..forget it, you don’t understand…
I see it like this…
1. So the US is trying to restrict travel to a country just like how North Korea restricts travel of their citizens…. Good idea?
2. I really doubt there are enough visitors from the Us to support its hospitality industry let alone its war efforts…
3. Actually getting into the DPRK with all their restrictions is very similar to getting into the US having your phone, laptop and flash drive being confiscated and being told to hand over passwords… Lately I think the US has surpassed NK in restrictions… America the land of the strip search, feel your privates, irradiation, no water bottles, mothers baby milk is taboo on the plane and by god take that belt and shoes off…
4. Seems to me that the US leads the pack in the world kidnapping other peoples citizens and holding them illegally against their wills and their governments wills… Russians are high on the illegal jailed citizens…
5. Just another step in closing Americas borders…. and simply just more fear politics and America is the king at fear/scare politics…
We really look stupid in the worlds eyes… and no, the west is not the world…
I would love to go to North Korea, but my government has made that a near high an impossibility…
WtR
Boza and I walked a very careful path this morning. It seems that my rant yesterday was accurate and right on the money…
The last attack came from a dog about the size of Mia in the village. The owner could not control the dog and this really could not be called a dog. More like a damn horse…
Seriously, this dog dragged the old man walking it like he was not even there. I finally got in three kicks to the head and it decided to back away a second. It was trying to kill Boza. (Boza is lucky, he has very thick fur.) I grabbed Boza and picked him up in my arms and the dog tried and partially succeeded to bite me. I kicked it once more in the head and finally as it backed away the owner got him under some control…
I heard apologies, but apologies not accepted. Sorry but too many times we were attacked yesterday and three of them were unleashed dogs bigger than Boza and thank God, the last time was on a leash, though he could not handle the dog…
I just stared at the guy and the dog and realized right there that I will have something to protect Boza and I, since the brain-dead are not able to understand simple laws of nature…. I did not even cuss or act the fool…. I simply stared at two stupid idiots. The idiot and his dog idiot…
I carried Boza out of sight and out of mind…
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Boza has a new harness. Above is Boza’s harness on him. The collar is a bad thing for doggies, as we find out, collars increase eye pressure tremendously and while in a young dog it may not matter, in an older glaucoma doggy, it matters a bunch…. Pulling on the lease collar around his neck causes issues… and everyone has to pull their dog once in awhile…
Now Boza is handsome and has a new coat, as I call it…
Svetochka thinks Boza is the most handsome doggy in the world…
That is just right…
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Boza and I need to walk! Time to sneak around and keep from being eaten…
WtR
