Windows to Russia

Not long ago I posted what to do with lots of bananas that are getting black and extra ripe! Make a banana treat recipe, when you got too many bananas… I basically posted this recipe of mine for my Sweetpea Svetochka and to help her get rid of too many bananas. She had over zealously […]

Decided yesterday to make the front stairs safe. I am not much of a carpenter, but I do what I do what I can….they are solid and very strong ad will last for years. The old ones were getting dangerous and it was a need to be done, not want to be done… The barn […]

People cannot see a virus… People cannot accept what they cannot see… People desire to be skeptical about what they cannot see… People dislike being told what to do… People are basically simple-minded… Then someone you know, either family, friend and or a very important person in your life, dies from King Coronavirus… Skepticism and […]

Sometimes as I go about my business and find myself working to repair things all around the homes. I stop long enough to take in what is around me… Kinda like stopping and smell the coffee… Yesterday, I felt a shift in the weather and looked up as I was finishing a project and the […]

Kinda proud of Russia. They got her done and just in time… Moscow’s brand-new infectious diseases hospital has admitted its first patients, despite construction having begun in mid-March. It comes as Russia recorded over 5,600 Covid-19 cases in a day, with the peak still approaching.The 800-bed facility’s completion is a much-needed antidote to the country’s […]

The deer are out and about. Smaller deer than what I am use to in the US when I hunted a bunch… Swallows are all finally showing up and that means mosquitoes are coming soon… Eagles everywhere and they do a good job at self-isolation. Yet really they kinda dislike everything in the first place. […]

If all you knew about this country came from the likes of the Washington Post and the Guardian, you’d be forgiven for thinking Russian streets were teeming with balalaika-playing bears, AK-47-wielding communists, and KGB officers Cossack-dancing in the snow. By now, you’d have thought such caricatures would have gotten old, yet despite the current trend […]

Joke of the year so far! Trump said during a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic last Saturday that “I received a nice note from him recently. It was a nice note. I think we’re doing fine.” But: North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said there is/was no letter addressed to Trump “recently” by “The Supreme Leader,” […]

Other than not having my Sweetpea with me. Self-isolation is fantastic… But then I guess anyone who loves a very isolated Tiny Russian Village would say that! When you are as grouchy as I am and only likes to have one person at a time to even communicate with. My choice would be Svetochka and […]

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Orthodox Christian faith. Twelve weeks of preparation precede it. This is made up of pre-lenten Sundays, Great Lent, and Holy Week. The faithful try to make this long journey with repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and study. When the feast finally […]