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 zealouslyContinue reading Well someone made a banana treat…

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 barnContinue reading Built front stairs on our home in TRV and whatsoever else is needed…

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 andContinue reading Let me explain something about King Coronavirus…

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 theContinue reading Sometimes as I am working in TRV…

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’sContinue reading Moscow’s brand-new infectious diseases hospital…

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.Continue reading TRV and images…

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 trendContinue reading But I swear there are KGB officers Cossack-dancing in the snow, Really ~~

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,”Continue reading Trump did get a nicely handwritten note from Kim Jong Un…

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 andContinue reading This self-isolation thingy during King Corona Virus times…

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 finallyContinue reading Easter: The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead