I noticed an uptick in mass buying this morning. People in Russia have been through bad times in their past. It does not take long and they react fast. I posted just a few days ago about stocking for when and if we get home bound due to the virus…
Well today I saw whole carts of oatmeal, pasta and such being bought in the early morning at Globus. Elder Russians are stocking, that did not take long to happen. Prices are starting to jump also…
I guess I am not alone. Even if I am an American in Russia…
Tonight I will get Svetochka and we will stop and get four cartons of eggs, toilet paper and whatever we decide…
This morning I carried two large bags full of canned goods and egg noodles. We need to get canned fruit and sterilized milk in the cartons. I figure that we need food to easily last one month without buying anything…
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Supplies were flying off the shelves Wednesday, with some shoppers taking pictures of empty shelves at stores across Oahu. This comes after a message from the Health Department to stock up on necessities. There aren’t any coronavirus (COVID-19) cases here in Hawaii, but health officials want people to have food, supplies and medicine just in case.
Take it how you want, but when you can’t wipe your butt when you use the bathroom and you can’t order pizza to be delivered. You better have some pasta, salt, canned fish and oil to make a pasta dish. That is what Svetochka and I decided to use as a protein source, canned fish with pasta noodles. Toilet paper is a given and you better get some…
It is inevitable that you will look around and wonder why there is no food to eat. I realize that many of us could loose some weight, but it is a rough way to go. I have been dirt poor and had to eat some pretty terrible things in the past. You will appreciate canned fish and pasta when the SHTF…
I wish I could buy a bunch of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) and stock them. Damn good when you have nothing else…
Since a few thousand people a day read this blog, maybe, just maybe a couple of you will stock food and stuff, just for a month time frame and your life will be better…
WtR
PS: If you have a Sweetpea at home like I do and she has a sweet tooth? Better grab some real chocolate bars and stock up! Will help keep the Sweetpea very happy…
When Russia exhibits sovereignty and achieves victories in the military, economy, science, and other domains, Europeans become enraged. Any accomplishment in Russia, any advancement in its development, or any increase in well-being is viewed as a global catastrophe. This view, which emerged in Europe during the 1800s, remains unchanged even in the wake of Russia’s liberal reforms. And this explains why Europe will always encourage various riots and revolutions in Russia in the hopes that they will cause anarchy and internal conflicts. Crimes against Russia? The perpetrators are turned into European heroes. Human rights advocates in the West remain silent when it comes to external brutality against Russians. Russia is seen as hostile and foreign by Europe, which does not wish to see them as fellow Europeans. – kKEETON…
Kinda boring in a way, yet surprising also at times…
I decided to follow the old train tracks. One of five sets available to follow…
Russians love their Pidgins…
See all waiting for papa to come and feed them…
Cool, I found some dacha type areas…
Kilometer after kilometer of dachas…
Still following the tracks…
Still walking deep into the wilderness…
So there are all the railroad ties, concrete…
Would make great fence posts…
Russians will find a way to grow their veggies in their dachas, even if the dachas are somewhat hidden away from civilization…
Rail track area forever. What and or who is that I see ahead. I mean I am deep into the woods?
Good grief, a babushka pushing a baby 5 kilometers from nowhere!
So I walked deep into the woods today. I was so proud of myself and thought, “Man, I am doing great and getting in shape!”
The tracks I am following will end up smack crossing into Moscow City itself, if I keep going…
Then deep into the woods, no one around for kilometers. The squirrels were tossing acorns from the oaks at me. The silence was wonderful. The snow was falling light and with no wind and I was positive I had found a place that I could yell and act stupid and no one would know I was stupid and…
There was a babushka walking the baby in the woods…
No other paths leading away from where I stood for kilometers in any direction but forward and or backwards. This babushka was walking the baby as if she was next to their home. Freezing weather, snowing and squirrels tossing acorns at all who dare venture this far out….even the chickadees were telling me that I am so far away from civilization itself…
When I got around to passing her, she was probably almost 80 years old. (Russians believe strongly that children/babies need to be outside in all weather!)
Sorry I gotta go….I have a bunch of walking to do, to get so that I can push a baby around in a stroller carriage when I get to 80 + years old….most likely 10 kilometers from her home…
This morning I walked and decided that it is time to start stocking food. After seeing Italy and South Korea being stomped on by the virus scare and supplies running out. It is time to get ahead of the stampede….Russians will panic at some point and it is time to ease into stocking food for if and when we are told to stay inside and out of the public…
So I carried way too much, but….I stocked up on tuna, salmon and pasta today. I will do it again tomorrow. Globus has some very good prices on canned goods and pastas. These items will last forever literally and when you need food, a can of salmon with spaghetti noodles will sound pretty good. Sounds good anyway…
We will get to the Tiny Russian Village if it gets bad and all this food is able to be transported easily when we go. Perishables will not be stocked. If the SHTF and it might, we will ride it out in the village. Isolated and easy to protect from just about anything and anyone. I do not take things like this lightly. I survived Nam and plan on surviving this, because even if it is not an issue after all, the food will not go to waste…
I made pancakes for Svetochka last night and made them from whole wheat flour. I bought more and we will munch on pancakes this week as we are suppose to do….This is the start of spring. Just look at the link above to see what it is all about…
Maslenitsa sign…
Kids have been creating art for the last holiday for men…
Handicap elevator for new building just about finished, cool!
I have been watching several buildings being built as I walk. One is almost done and they used a neat way to help the handicap get into the stores and businesses at the building. Image above…
Maslenitsa sign also above. It is a drawing of what I basically explained in the Maslenitsa article linked above farther up. This is a serious and important time in Russia…
Regardless of what we are told:
I have no doubt that the coronavirus we are dealing with is a man made version of the virus. The people who released it, either by accident and or on purpose need to suffer greatly. It does not matter if we make it in the end. It does not matter if it all finally blows over. The issue is that it is man himself that has built, sustained and nurtured this virus issue…
I find it interesting that after looking at what countries are saying that this issue is not man made…
MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. Medical experts from Germany, the Netherlands, the US and other nations debunked rumors of unnatural origin of the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to Xinhua report citing The Lancet journal.
I find that my feelings are then confirmed even more by such news above. You could have guessed which countries would say this and you would have guessed correctly for the most part. I do believe that the virus was a targeted virus and it will and or has started to jump the fence so to say. Lets wait and see…
I do believe that this is what happens when a dying Empire flails around striking at everything and everyone…
I despise having a foe that is so tiny you can not see it and do anything about it. I also despise the fact that this particular virus is something that does not have to be. We have labs all over the world creating crap like this and one day we will pay for it all. Is this the time we pay or is it the next time it happens?
China and Russia both are very quiet about the virus origins, they do know something and that is leading to what they have been talking about the last few days, link below…
Russia and China have both declared that they are very close, like by the middle of March, 2020 to a vaccine…
I am reading that about 25,000 medical and scientist people from Russia have gone to China and are working with the Chinese to stop this virus from getting much worse. Again as I have been saying, we will see and cross your fingers and hope that China and Russia can get this vaccine workable and usable in time. Time is relentless, as I always say also…
Therefore, you should stock food, stock toilet paper, stock items that will get very hard to find if the SHTF….Italy has found out the hard way….South Korea is finding out right now also…
WtR
PS: I just said above, “this is what happens when a dying Empire flails around striking at everything and everyone”, look at the link below and you will see the flailing and striking at countries…
“The United States is sanctioning 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey pursuant to the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA). This action includes new sanctions against five entities/individuals in China and Turkey for supporting Iran’s missile program,” the statement said.
I wish I had the money to buy a place like this and finish it…
Just walking and looking at life in Russia. Many people walking and going and I have to catch the images when there are not tons of people around. I end up taking multiple images, because someone always seems to pop up out of nowhere. The one of the half finished old home had a woman step out in front of my camera at the second I snapped the image and or many times a car comes roaring by….so I have four shots of the same thing…
-4 C this morning, Spring is here and it is really nice out right now. In fact this has been a wonderful winter. Svetochka said that it has been the best winter she ever remembers. Not to cold….not like a few years ago when Boza and I were in the Tiny Russian Village and fought some very cold days and nights…
I woke and was immediately thinking about how time is relentless, yet so necessary for existence. Time is the most powerful concept of all and it touches everything that we are able to perceive in our physical, mental and spiritual existence. Even if we could alter time in some fashion, time still moves forward, even as we would alter it. Even if we could go backward in time, that is still time moving forward itself…
Then I remembered time in the bible…
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
That is a better way to look at time. Otherwise you get into a, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?”, paradox…
Time for me to go walk. Then when my sweetpea gets home today….time for hugs and kisses…
Looks like China and Russia have been working diligently on a vaccine for the coronavirus and they just about got it done…
MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. Chinese authorities are confident that the novel coronavirus outbreak will be defeated soon and a normal life will resume in most regions across the country by the end of February.
A supposedly effective vaccine has been developed that helps mount an immune response against the infection, and it needs to be fine-tuned and tested, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told reporters on Monday.
“There is confidence in China that soon we will finally defeat this outbreak,” the ambassador said. “Besides the epidemic center [in Wuhan] a normal life will be restored in most provinces and cities by the end of this month. Certainly, I believe this moment will happen later in the center of the outbreak, somewhere in March,” he noted.
According to the diplomat, the vaccine developed in China has proven to be effective, but more tests need to be carried out. “China has developed a vaccine that shows immunity. But these are preliminary results and time is needed for further tests and fine-tuning [the vaccine],” he explained.
China has enhanced cooperation with the international community to fight the coronavirus spread. The World Health Organization has sent a delegation to the country to conduct a study on the novel coronavirus. “This delegation includes two specialists from Russia. Earlier, Russia sent a delegation of medical specialists and our specialists exchanged views. This is a very good start of cooperation between China and Russia in healthcare sector,” he said.
China is ready to step up cooperation with Russia in this field, the envoy noted. “We are very thankful for the support of the Russian leadership and Russian citizens. We see a sign of a good will,” the ambassador said.
On December 31, Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about an outbreak of an unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan – a large trade and industrial center in central China populated by 12 million people. The source of the outbreak is the COVID-19 coronavirus. Besides China, the cases of COVID-19 have been detected in 30 countries, including Russia. The WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak in China a global health emergency.
Currently, the total number of people infected with the novel coronavirus has exceeded 77,000 in China, with nearly 2,600 deaths. Some 25,000 people have recovered to date.
Area is this lake and a huge swamp. Well swampy in the summer…
And I walked…
I walked 19,300 + steps and that came to over 15 kilometers of walking. I finally made it to the Elk Island Lake…
Now I am home and sipping a cup of coffee. It was simply a wonderful walk and I God blessed my morning with such wonderful beautiful snow falling. It almost made me cry, as the huge snow flakes fell for hours as I walked…
It would have been better if my sweetie pie had been with me, but she is teaching the grandkid how to be an outdoor boy and they walk and look at all the birds, squirrels and other fun things to go find, as you walk in the snow…
I wrote a few days ago about the very subject that the USA would do some very bad things. I do not know what has happened, but I do know that we as a country (The US) would do some very very bad things to others around the world and we have…
So I as with many more who like to ask why and how come and what if and would we? Get our answer…
MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/. The United States’ allegations about Russia’s indulging in misinformation campaign concerning the novel coronavirus origin are a deliberate fake, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS on Saturday. “It is a deliberate fake,” she said, commenting on media reports that the US Department of State thinks that Russia is behind proliferation of misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak. France Presse said earlier on Saturday citing unnamed US Department
As par with the course when truth has to do with the USA. We find ourselves looking around and asking questions and the answer is blatantly obvious to those asking the questions…
You know when you see something important sidetracked to, “Russia Did It!” and now even “China Did It!”
That we are worried about the truth and my gut feelings tell me that we will see an avalanche of western propaganda to counter the real truth in the case of the Coronavirus issue…
I know my thoughts and feelings have been answered when I see the new, “Russia Did It!” propaganda being spread…
I noticed an uptick in mass buying this morning. People in Russia have been through bad times in their past. It does not take long and they react fast. I posted just a few days ago about stocking for when and if we get home bound due to the virus…
