Not very available in the past, but as I have said many times, Russians are producing and producing everything now…
129 rubles for 350 grams and I had to try it. This morning Boza and I had bacon wraps and they were oh so delicious…
It is a life’s simple pleasures…
If you actually stop and smell the roses once in awhile? Then you may find in that whiff of fragrance, an idea that life is only simple pleasures. Simple pleasures are wonderful, for they take no energy & strain to enjoy or love. Even magnanimous joys can be overpowering to the body and soul, not to speak of preponderances as they tear you down. So allow the simple pleasures to envelope you. They take nothing from you and give so much in return…
Now if I can just find a decent Mexican food source!
Svetochka is back in Moscow & Boza and I are looking at the next few weeks alone again. Then we will drive back to Moscow and I have to leave Russia, get my health checkups and other no fun things.Then back to the Tiny Russian Village to start major rebuilding projects, for which we have a ton of boards waiting still under the snow. I will finish the shower house, build a chicken coop and get the back wall of the home rebuilt. I also have to start cutting wood again for the wood stove…
We are without water in the Tiny Russian Village…
About a month now and it looks like we may be without a long time. Our village is just too small to matter to the bigger world and as we must do in the real world, we make our own way…. Soon the snow will not be an option and it looks as if I will have to go to the source in the woods and dig it out. We have a source of water, but it has been neglected over the last 10 years and needs some work. This is the original source of water that the Tiny Russian Village was founded near and what the monastery developed as a water source, time to redevelop it…
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Vova is upset that I have to leave for awhile. I am his mainstay in the Tiny Russian Village. Sometimes he seems to be more upset than I am…. But he has a growing rabbit farm and is busy trying to get new cages built for all his new rabbits. He has discovered that Russians love rabbits to eat and will pay a good price to get a rabbit cleaned to stew…
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Boza needs to walk… 😉
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Boza has been walked…
I am now sipping my second cup of coffee and Boza ate three packs of doggy food. This is a good thing and him and I will get back on track today. We miss our sweet pea, she is our buddy in crime and always wants to go and do what Boza and I want to do. Svetochka amazes me at times, she really is a tough girl and will walk off the end of the earth with us…
She sat buried in snow for about three months. I finally could get her cleared and yesterday, I fired her up. The new engine fired right off and she started to purr like a kitten. Svetochka, Boza and I went to town yesterday morning and got water and some more sunflower seeds. Birdbrains have eaten everything in sight. Sammy needed a few adjustments after she warmed up, but she ran like a top and Svetochka sat in her copilot seat and grinned all the way to town…
I have to say; A Volga is one fantastic car and I know. I have owned two of them in Russia. The first one was stolen, stripped and burned. Her name was Nelly. But, Sammy is newer and is a road car and a half. Just a dream to drive on the main highways…
Svetochka found a new cell phone for me. It is made, raised and born in South Korea. This is not a phone that can just be bought anywhere and it is a phone sold through KT Powertel. A huge SK PTP phone system…
The site above is one of the few sites that advertise such a phone. Like I said, it is specifically designed for South Korea. But…. It works perfect in Russia and is waterproof and crush resistant. I think this is my Christmas, New Year and Birthday gift. Sweet Pea is and knows what I need…. Bear and his toys and lets hope this phone survives?
Best phone I have ever seen and used. Would like to get another KT Powertell phone for Svetochka and use the PTP to communicate in the Tiny Russian Village… Like a walkie talkie…
I guess she got worried about me and no phone soon in the village. That could be an issue and I was on my last phone. It was borderline and the thought was going through my head to buy a used Nokia to get by. But now all is solved…
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The next few days will be cold here in the Tiny Russian Village. -7 this morning and -10 later tonight. It looks like about four days of Old Man Winter trying to keep his former glory, but spring is here and the snow is melting. The days are getting longer and longer, plus it is time to dream about what to plant this year in the garden. I have decided to plant sunflowers, for their seeds are beloved by the sparrows and chickadees in the winter time. We kept hundreds of birds alive this winter that would have perished. They sing good morning and goodnight everyday. Very thankful birdies to say the least…
It was a very very hard winter and Boza and I learned survival this winter. Days and days of -25 below cold, toughens you up…
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We got a huge carp from Vova. I cleaned it carefully in -5 weather, as my fingers froze, then cut it in half. Svetochka had two good meals from this fish. Svetochka, like 99% of the Russians, just simply love fish and eat fish as often as they can. Carp is a Russian favorite and Svetochka had some tender, delicious carp this last week…
Boza will rest today and I will start getting ready to clean the backyard and lay out the plans for a chicken coop. Next year we must have chickens. Fresh eggs are a must for a good life…
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Time to go! The sun is shining, the air is crispy cold and life is really A-Okay!
Have a nice day and come back to see what is happening at the Tiny Russian Village…
The stars were in reach and we could see them twinkling upon a world that had great potential with us at the lead (and) then we allowed our eyes and minds to wander to the splendorous twinkling buried within our souls… within us all is an equal form of depravity that never allows morality to rest upon its laurels… – Kyle Keeton
Going to have to communicate with my two buddies and tell them to be careful…. Walking after dark only near the home and carry a bazooka for protection… 😉
That is the Tiny Russian Village for you…
Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my! & a wolf to boot…
“I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
The stars were in reach and we could see them twinkling upon a world that had great potential with us at the lead (and) then we allowed our eyes and minds to wander to the splendorous twinkling buried within our souls…. within us all is an equal form of depravity that never allows morality to rest upon its laurels… – Kyle Keeton
So glad Svetochka is here and as usual it takes Boza and I time to adjust to having a new person in our life. Boza and I are so ridged inn our pattern, that it is actually rough on us at first. But do not get me wrong, we want our Svetochka here with us. It is just that Boza and I need that repetition to not forget where we are (as in a blind doggy.) Then for me to take my pills and keep my vitals all in line. But! We have adjusted, only Windows to Russia suffered for a few days…. No posting and for that I am sorry…
Svetochka is a good girl and I see now that in a few years when she retires, we will spend the rest our our lives right here in the Tiny Russian Village. Plans are being made and the truth is, a few years is nothing. I have been around this Evil Russian Country for almost eleven years now. Oh! How! I! Have! Suffered! 😉
Since Svetochka has been walking the doggy, she also takes bunches of pictures…… Below…
At train station?
Interesting items…
Sveta on the train…
Sveta starts village pictures…
Svetochka walking Boza
and walking
and walking
Ralph the Raven came to say hi!
The bridge is still there…
Our roads
The baby birds saying goodnight…
Good night!
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In the top images are trees marked for removal. The forestry department has been diligently working all winter, marking trees. Boza and I have not wandered into the forest all winter. But yesterday, we did. While our sweetie pie slept, Boza and I went to the forest at sunup and looked at what these guys on skies have been doing. We found out and after looking over the forest for an hour or so, they have been busy. Thousands of trees have been marked for removal. They are going to thin the forest this summer. It is a cash crop you know and the weakest and worthless for cash trees have to go. To allow the best to get telephone pole size….
Of course my mind is at work and the idea of sneaking 50 to 60 fence posts is working at the back of my mind. I need that many to do our whole yard with a new fence and therefore, I am a Planning Bear, looking to save money…
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Spring is here…
I am so excited, Boza is dancing and Svetochka wonders if we are nuts at times, but then she gets into the mood of things and dances also…
Doggy
Bear
Svetochka
That is what is going on in the Tiny Russian Village…
I have thought long in hard during the past years…
Should I get Russian citizenship and tell America to bug off? Big question and lots of thinking has gone into this question. There are still benefits to keeping my USA citizenship and up till recently, I would have said, “It works, so I will keep my US passport!” Then…
The last few years it has been very much anti-Russian from the American side. Not just someone like me spouting off about them damn Russians. But the Main Stream Media has acted like paid lackeys and gone way off the deep end. Now our, mine and your government of America has lost its gourd and I have been put against the wall…
This is not a joke and is something very serious that is happening in America. The witch hunt is on and I am damn for sure not going to become a victim to that witch hunt. We all know how terrible history has been during witch hunts, involve hangings, firing squads and burning at the stake in most cases…
What am I talking about?
The now Attorney General Jeff Sessions and (past) National Security Adviser Michael Flynn where the start of a serious witch hunt that should scare the living daylights out of anyone who has contacts with Russia. This is akin and mimicking the old days, when McCarthyism was formed and exploded all over our faces…. It is a witch hunts that as always, one side has immunity and the other is hunted down to be burned at the stake…
The media, the democrats, republicans looking for there gravy train back and a whole bunch of deranged snowflakes (Made up of 72 fake emotional genders, as I last looked Facebook has at least 58. I also last looked and we really still only have two important realistically usable genders, but who am I? that makes me stupid in many eyes…), are all running around with anti-Russian on their forehead and pointing fingers at everything that has come near Russia…
My mind has been made up, by what is transpiring now in America and much of the Western World…
I live in Russia, I am married to a Russian, I write about Russia all the time, I write about what is wrong with America all the time, I live in a Tiny Russian Village, I have lived in Moscow for years, I drive in Russia, Talk in Russia, I walk in Russia, I eat in Russia, I sleep in Russia and my life is Russian now…
But even all that I just spouted in the paragraph before this one, is almost not enough to send my passport packing…
What is enough is the fact that America has gone off the sanity end of Anti-Russian propaganda and it has now become, Truth in their eyes. That is the issue with propaganda that is based on nothing but lies to begin with. You have to sell your soul to believe what you say and then sooner than later, you forget where you even got the information from in the first place…. That is the beauty of a human. They can literally ignore and function somewhat, all information that does not please them….and or makes them feel good inside…
Therefore…
Since I love Svetochka (soon eleven years together) and I think Russia is a really moral, stable, with abundant freedom and liberty, plus being a friendly country! I have to start the process to become Russian…
This is serious enough to worry about. Will I run into issues even traveling within vassal states of America? Such as Britain, Estonia, France, Spain and so on?
I would never want to hurt Svetochka, by not being able to return to Russia. It would destroy her life, as well as mine. And that my friend is a real possibility, for America, my home country…. Has now gone McCarthyism 2.0…
I am probably the most cell phone destructive person there is…
I helped push a car out of the snow in the Big Village a week ago and during that process, I crushed my cell phone. I used a backup phone and dropped it again a few days ago, yes, it is broken now also. I am trying to figure out how to turn a brick into a cell phone? Maybe that would last?
I still have one more, but who knows how long it will last.It is an old android and works okay. Touchy to make a call with, but works. I assume that soon it will be dead. Cell phones just do not last with me. I either crush them and or they just go up in smoke as i use them. I have glued cell phones back together, I have taped them back together and I have used string to hold them together. But they all die and usually die when I am happy with said phone. You can imagine why I would not buy a $1000 phone. It just makes no sense. $20 phones last just as long as a $1000 dollar phone…
Lucky for me, I can buy a cell phone in Russia to make calls with, for no more than 600 to 700 rubles, brand new! ($10 to $11)
Svetochka uses a cell phone for years and years. Me! I am lucky to get six months of full time use out of one, thus I keep several cheap ones around to rotate them. Just sad, plain sad, that this bear can not keep a cell phone for very long…
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+1 outside and raining!
I feel like a Mac Truck has run over me as my arthritis is in full gear and accelerating. Oh, I hurt all over! May have to take a pain killer it is so bad… 🙁
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I have come to a conclusion…
Tucker Carlson debated DNC senior adviser Zac Petkanas on whether gender is biological or a social construct.
“If your sex is what you say it is, then what prevents me from playing on a women field hockey team?” Carlson asked. “What prevents me from getting convicted of a felony and demanding to go to a women prison? It’s a real question.”
“It’s not a real question,” the visibly befuddles Petkanis responded, before attacking Carlson. Petkanas said they were ‘silly hypotheticals’, “There are no examples of this,” insisted Petkanas.
I have to say Tucker has got it right. Yes I said a MSM got it right…
There are too many BATSHITCRAZY people in the earth. Clean up in isle 3 please and while you are at it, empty “file 13” please……
