Windows to Russia
Yesterday was warmer and a very nice day…
Svetochka and I went to the Big Village and got a few things. Drove around and checked out the surrounding world and found that once again the Covid-19 lock-down made a ghost town out of our world. That is okay, we enjoyed looking around…
Have a nice day!
WtR
Doesn’t matter what and why in the end. It just matters that the Covid-19 shutdown of everything literally in Russia has stopped the progress of things getting done for us in TRV…
TRV: Culvert pipe is being delivered “probably Friday”…Today that is, by the Fish Farm…
Nope, Culvert did not make it and the Fish Farm let everyone go a day early of the official lock down. Not my call and not my decision and life is that way….best laid plans of mice and men…
Next year is a new year and it will get done when we come again to TRV…
This is how I look when waiting patiently for others to get things done…
Well as I waited earlier in the post above. Some things happened and some things did not…
Sammy the Volga car is okay….Sammy the Volga model ended up back in the USA because you know Russia is an unknown country you know….Culvert was a fail thanks to King Covid….Sweetpea showed up (Yippy)….and the miracle of all miracles, the electric company installed a new power pole…
So I would say close enough to call it perfect… 🙂
WtR
A big pipe same as used to fill the fish lakes in spring is being given to us to put in a culvert for our driveway. The Fish farm is done emptying the lakes and true to their word, they called Father Pavel and then Father Pavel called us and by this weekend we will have the pipe for the culvert…
Then Father Pavel of the monastery will coordinate and get the work crew here to put it in. The crew cost us like a 1000 rubles an hour, but the Fish Pipe, given by the Fish Owner is at no cost and delivered free by the Fish Guys working at the Fish Village….seems kinda all Fishy, Huh! 🙂
Therefore, today we wait for the guys from the Fish Farm to come with the pipe. I have lots to do and will tear apart the old telephone pole that the electric company left so sweetly in the way after they pulled it out of the ground. Fire up the chainsaw to cut pole down to smaller pieces and get out the hacksaw to cut the steel bands around the concrete piece and wood pole….then haul it away. Oh and keep the concrete part for a corner fence post in the yard…
I thought it was nice of them to leave the old pole for me to deal with, yet even if I grumble, I realize that waste not want not and will utilize much of what they left for other projects…
Once the culvert comes, a guy who wants to do the concrete work at the ends of the culvert after it is put in the ground will come by and look-see and we have to schedule the backhoe to come and do its job…
Never a dull moment at the Tiny Russian Village…
Now where is that culvert again?
WtR
From “FaceMash” that allowed basically you to rate which ‘hot girl was hotter’….to “Facebook” which had a seedy and non profit for years beginning and allowed university students to connect and now, after many more seedy issues we have….”Meta” so that we can all live in the Metaverse ** and leave that nasty old fashion Social Media behind…
** Metaverse is a speculative future iteration of the Internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe. The metaverse in a broader sense may not only refer to virtual worlds, but Internet as a whole, including the entire spectrum of augmented reality. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
Are they still gonna have sock-monkeys in the Meta World?
Are kitty cats still gonna be front page prominence?
I dunno & I don’t care & it’s gonna happen anyway!
~Welcome your new god!~
WtR
New news on the package from the USA:
As we all know it was shipped to Kenya and was expected to be sent to Russia from there? Nope! It sat in Kenya for about three months and now it has appeared back in Chicago, USA….(Tidbit, looks like Kenya does not even have a way to send it on to Russia in the first place? Soooo…)
Tracking number: UH037881365US
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Jul 13, 2021 16:07 / USPS / MATTAWAN, MI, 49071, USPS in possession of item
Jul 13, 2021 22:43 / USPS / GRAND RAPIDS MI DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
Jul 14, 2021 03:21 / USPS / GRAND RAPIDS MI DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX, Departed USPS Regional Facility
Jul 14, 2021 06:29 / USPS / CHICAGO IL LOGISTICS CENTER, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
Jul 14, 2021 12:38 / USPS / CHICAGO IL LOGISTICS CENTER, Departed USPS Regional Facility
Jul 14, 2021 13:35 / USPS / CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
Jul 17, 2021 00:00 / USPS / In Transit to Next Facility
Jul 18, 2021 18:08 / USPS / CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Arrived at Regional Facility
Jul 18, 2021 18:08 / USPS / CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Departed USPS Regional Facility
Jul 19, 2021 08:03 / USPS / CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Processed Through Regional Facility
Jul 20, 2021 10:44 / USPS / CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Processed Through Regional Facility
Jul 22, 2021 14:27 / USPS / CHICAGO, UNITED STATES, Arrived
Jul 22, 2021 20:45 / USPS / CHICAGO, UNITED STATES, Departed
Jul 24, 2021 09:49 / USPS / DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Departed
Jul 24, 2021 14:15 / USPS / NAIROBI, KENYA, Departed
Oct 24, 2021 16:28 / USPS / DETROIT MI NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
Oct 24, 2021 17:39 / USPS / DETROIT MI NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Departed USPS Regional Facility
Oct 26, 2021 11:47 / USPS / CHICAGO IL LOGISTICS CENTER, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
Oct 26, 2021 11:58 / USPS / CHICAGO IL LOGISTICS CENTER, Departed USPS Regional Facility
Oct 26, 2021 13:02 / USPS / CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
Oct 27, 2021 05:20 / USPS / CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER, Departed USPS Regional Facility
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View more: https://postal.ninja/en/track/yQzX7a
It was looking bleak for the package:
Everyday the package from the USA looks to have been eaten by the postal monster…
Some how someone in the USA decided that Korolev,Russia was Nairobi,Kenya? Or maybe someone in Dubai decided that? Or maybe the postal gods were bored and wanted a Volga to play with awhile?
What ever the reason?
The nice friend of mine, whom is the creator of the Volga model, in the US, is close to getting the package back….what shape it is in? He can only guess at this point, but the package is close to finding its way home…
~~ All I know: It is not Russia’s fault! It never even got near the Russian boarder! Russia did not do it! ~~
See: Now you have actually seen something that “Russia” actually did not do…
WtR
Time to check/winterize Sammy the Volga and what happened to the model?
Sammy The Volga Model is done and working out the shipping issues…
I guess we all take after someone in the family and not always your parents & we really have no idea what we look like from a distance and how we look to others as they see us…
A major reason that my brain connects to grandpa is that he died very old and my dad died very young and so connection with a dad who looks younger than I do is harder to accept than one of my grandpa….who by the way, I look a bunch like him, built like him and grumpy like him…
My dad was a much smaller man than I am and Grandpa Stroud again is where I get my build from…
But regardless, as Svetochka sneaks these pictures of me, and I grumble about it….all I can say is…
Hi Grandpa Stroud!
WtR
Svetochka turned to me and said, “I don’t know what is happening to America?” as she hears about the latest US antics from the Russian news…
I said as I focused upon this new information, “Proves my point that no one is in charge and most of them are nuts!”
So before you act ignorant yourself about Russian news sources telling truth and that is just not good enough. The source below is straight from the horses mouth…
Source: 9 FAM 504.4 (U) PRE-APPOINTMENT PROCESSING
9 FAM 504.4-8(E)(1) (U) Definition of Homeless Cases
(CT:VISA-1398; 10-21-2021)
| HOMELESS NATIONALITIES | SELECTED IV PROCESSING POSTS |
| Cubans | Georgetown |
| Eritreans | Addis Ababa and Nairobi |
| Iranians | Abu Dhabi, Ankara, and Yerevan |
| Russians | Warsaw |
| Libyans | Tunis |
| Somalis | Nairobi |
| South Sudanese | Nairobi |
| Syrians | Amman, Beirut (For Palestinians with Syrian Travel Documents) |
| Venezuelans | Bogota |
| Yemenis | Djibouti |
Russia is now at the stage of wondering if the “Psychotic USA” is ever gonna get some much need help mentally?
“Something important broke down in the State Department long ago, and they cannot repair it,” Zakharova wrote in a Facebook post. For many years, American diplomats have been destroying the consular system in Russia that they had not created: they closed consulates, reduced the number of consular staff, experimented with how our symmetrical response differs from a mirror one
Source: US places Russians on ‘homeless nationalities’ list, diverting immigrant visa seekers to Poland — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
And…
The US State Department has told its citizens not to travel to Russia under any circumstances, with Washington suggesting that Americans could be kidnapped, arrested, tortured and even supposedly jailed on trumped-up charges.
~~ Damn Russians are barbarians! ~~
The loonies are running the USA Asylum….be very careful and run fast, for they will catch you if you sleep…
See the US is Loony and more Loony….everyday!
WtR
At one time it was a big deal to have a reputation and professionalism in all jobs and occupations. Thus, when the a newspaper found that they erroneously reported an issue and that issue was not true, they retracted it. They did not act like they never printed it. They corrected the fact, whether they intentionally lied in the first place and or just sloppy journalism is for us to decide in another situation…
This situation that has become the norm in journalism is basically a, “Post/Print what I want and so what if it is a lie!”
If they are forced to retract?
It grudgingly is posted around Grandma’s Recipe section and the Cat Obituary section….if it did not get deleted by Fumble Fingers Malone who delivers coffee to all the ~~ Professional Journalist. ~~
WtR
Journalism use to retract lies front page, now they retract the truth front page…
So my little SweetPea made it and she is all snuggled as a bug in a rug in her bed this morning…
Worn out, she hit the bed around 7:30 p.m. and in about two seconds she was asleep. She sleeps much more than I do and I was out early also, except I was up at 1:00 a.m., tried to go back to bed and to no avail….I suspect that she will sleep until at least 8 a.m. and I will have to be a patient bear…
So made coffee, heated up a bite to eat and started to see what the world is up to?
Since I still have things to get done around the Tiny Russian Village; I will plan how and what order I will do those thingy things…
WtR
What? No way? Miracle? Help, We never dreamed that the electric company would do what they said they would do so fast….okay, faster than a speeding Russian is normally… 🙂
Bless their little pea pickin heart…
It was perfect and yet as my grandma would have said, “Perfect is in your mind, for there is no perfect, just wonderfully enough!”
But even perfect has a mishap…
They tore our line lose from the house. When they yanked and tightened the cable, no one saw the connection pop on our home contact area. Just one connection and Vova saved us. He saved the Tiny Russian Village for many years from terrible electrical issues and yesterday, he got to be a hero again…
Thank You Electric Company, Thank You Father Pavel, Thank You Vova and last but not least….Thank You God!
Svetochka and I are very thankful to not have to spend the winter worried about our roof being torn out…
WtR