Windows to Russia

See, being grouchy, waiting and looking even grouchier helps…

This is how I look when waiting patiently for others to get things done…

Father Pavel called and said that he had a good talk with the Electric Company Boss and they will get the rotted electric pole replaced….(I am using my imagination and letting it imagine how a “Orthodox Monk” twists arms to get things done. I imagine, “Monk Mafia!”, Yes I like it)

The culvert is on its way thanks to the Fish Village and father Pavel again…

Ivan our mechanic in the Big Village has gotten the parts for Sammy the Volga, so this weekend Sammy goes to stay at the Big Village…

And NO, the Russian Post Office has no idea where the package from the US is, so far! (Oh to be me….how do I tell Sammy the Volga, if the post office ate her baby car model? I should never have shown her pictures of the model…)

Another day…

WtR

I would like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with this guy. This is not a smart ass thing I say. I actually would love to sip coffee and listen to the line of Bull this guy would spin as you talk. Mikheil Saakashvili is one of those people on this planet that is able to help you understand the degree of mental illness present within the human mind. We all have it, yet some just live by it and to get more insight over a cup of coffee would be fantastic…

At the end of a previous article I added the tidbit about Sassy in love…

Georgia: See Sassy get Brassy, see Sassy appear, see Sassy arrested, see Sassy wanna go home!

Well it seems to be true and his wife kinda seems to have been kept out of the loop on this love affair. Which seems normal if you are cheating around on someone…

The wife of former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili has described her shock at his unexpected declaration of love for a top Ukrainian lawmaker before dramatically flying back to his homeland to be arrested and put on trial.On Wednesday, Sandra Roelofs revealed that the news of her husband’s relationship with Yelyzaveta Yasko, an MP from the governing Servant of the People party, came out of the blue.”Many confused friends and associates are asking me about my personal life. I will not hide from you that the content of the video, made on Friday night, was unexpected for me, and the form it took was completely unacceptable,” Roelofs wrote on Facebook. Source: Bombshell announcement ex-Georgian president Saakashvili is in love with sultry Ukrainian politician came as surprise, wife admits — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Sassy Sassy Sassy, you are in a pickle and now your wife is gonna kick your “Brassy Sassy Assy” also…

Sassy have you not ever heard of the saying?

“You went full retard man. Never go full retard.” – Tropic Thunder.

So all I can say is…

~~ Free Sassy – Free Sassy – Free Sassy! ~~

WtR

Plans and more Plans…

So long ago, so many many posts ago…

You know how many keyboards I have worn the letters off the keys on?

Yes and all these years later Russia is still putting up with intentional degradation of its character, by the West!

WtR

Weighs around 50 kilos (110 pounds for you Americans) and after sending Svetochka a few pictures to verify what I knew already. I decided to get this 1982 Soviet Union made heater home and see if it is as good as I suspected….now I understand how bad life had become for me….I was carrying this heater that weighs almost as much as I have lost in kilos. Being fat is a bad thing people and don’t kid yourself that being fat is all hunky-dory….better listen you “body positive fatsos”….it is the perfect ticket to diabetes, heart issues, arthritis issues and a dozen more fat related issues…

I know all about it…

I guess it is made in 1981 and sold as a 1982 model? It is in great shape except where someone who was not very knowledgeable tried to rewire it. It has varnish coated wires within the insulating jacket of the plugin cord. They wired a new cord spliced to the old varnished wires and did not clean the varnish off and as I grew up with lots of devices with varnished wires (Insulating mainly against moisture usage/issues!), I was taught how to splice non-varnished wires to varnished wires…

I imagine that someone tried to repair the device and found that something as simple as what I described above, made it look as if it really was a bad device?

Varnish is not a bad insulator against electricity…

I checked it over good and fired it up after fixing what needed to be fixed and after it warmed up the 3 to 4 cm thick steel plate, it was an heating animal. It is rated at 220 volts and a 1000 watts. But it puts out heat like three modern electric heaters running at the same time. Then with so much mass, it took almost two hours to cool down. I see how this will be a very important addition when -30 C. (-22 F) hits in a winter night…

Very glad to have been in the right place at the right time…

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Father Pavel called and asked if the electric company had replaced the rotted pole….nope and he said he was personally meeting with the man in charge and having a discussion with him about said electric pole…

Father Pavel is a good man and he is one who tries and does his best to do what he says he will do. This is becoming an uncommon trait in our societies nowadays…

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-3 C this morning and it looks like either today and or no later than tomorrow the fish guys will have the lake empty and done. Then the owner of the lakes and fish farm told Father Pavel that he will be bringing out a ten meter culvert pipe to our home. Just had to get done with the fish first….they are giving the pipe to us free. All we have to do is donate to the monastery the so much needed cold hard cash, so that it can pay some wages to all the people helping to work on it. That sounds like a fair deal to me and Sveta has already sent a donation to Father Pavel…

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So, I believe that I may just take a walk and see what is happening around the village this morning. You never know….I might just find a super duper Soviet heater?

WtR

Sooner than later, you’ll need to take a grocery bag full of the “Dollar $” in order to buy a McDonald combo meal:

If someone had said to me a long time ago…

That my teenage memories of picking a young gal up for a date (and after meeting her dad), filling the fuel tank on my car, eat at McDonald’s for two, go to the movies, buy popcorn – candy – drink for two, go to the county fair after the movie, all for less than five bucks (and I still had enough money to grab two bean burritos from Taco Bell after getting that gal home by 10 p.m. to keep her dad happy)…

If someone had said to me that one day that “$5 Dollars” would hardly buy a Big Mac!

I would have thought that they were stupid…

WtR

I have to say that there has been all kinds of speculation on Ukraine’s gas transit system and deliveries through this country. I would like to reiterate that under the contract we have to pump 40 billion cubic metres of gas through Ukraine’s gas transit system per year. In the first nine months of 2021, Gazprom increased its supplies, or should I say transit volumes through Ukraine, by more than eight percent. We have every right to believe that we will exceed our contractual obligations in terms of gas transit through Ukraine. Further increasing these volumes does not make economic sense for Gazprom, since costs will also be higher. It is much cheaper to supply gas using the new pipelines, saving us about $3 billion per year for the supply volumes in question. In addition, I would like to inform those who actually care about preserving the environment, instead of just using this as a political weapon, that the new pipelines that were launched over the past years or are about to become operational can reduce CO2 emissions 5.6 times thanks to their new equipment. Accordingly, supply volumes go up, while emissions go down. This has to do with the superior characteristics of these pipelines enabling them to pump gas at a higher pressure.Everyone must know this. – Source: Meeting on development of the energy industry • President of Russia

Mainly what has to be remembered is that the Ukraine gas pipeline is at max for its age and ability to safely carry gas. Ukraine has failed to upgrade its pipeline over the years and now it is a ticking time bomb waiting for the mistake to happen…

You should have all facts before pointing fingers and blaming all others…

WtR

Update:

“But one mustn’t increase it further. Everyone keeps hinting us: increase the supply through Ukraine even more. It is dangerous to increase it! The gas transit system there has not seen repairs for decades. If we increase the pressure, the pipe will probably just burst. Europe will be left without this route at all,” Putin noted.He explained that the wear of the Ukrainian gas transit system is above 80%.”Nobody wants to listen to and hear anything; everyone only seeks to accuse Russia of something,” the head of state concluded.

Source: Further increase of gas transit through Ukrainian system dangerous, Putin notes – Business & Economy – TASS

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The peacefulness this morning was as during a slow rain shower. Except it is cold and the rain drops are thawing frost and the leaves are the fat rain drops weaving to the ground…

I sat and enjoyed the little monkey birds chirping and sipped a cup of hot coffee….I realized in the video that you can hear the fish guys emptying the lake of fish. That background roaring is water being pumped in a massive stream to aerate a small area of lake stuffed with lots of fish…

Good for the soul to just listen and watch…

WtR

I am waiting for the electric company to do their job, yes I know good luck with that…

The electric company jammed their van on a boulder and left it in the road and I moved it. Thank you guys for the boulder…

I am waiting for a package to come from the USA…

Sammy The Volga Model is done and working out the shipping issues…

Sammy the Volga Cardboard Model…

I am waiting for some parts (three sensors) for Sammy the Volga to fix the startup idle issue since it got very cold outside….an issue that stems from work we had done and had to have redone….and still finding issues…

Poor Sammy the Volga…

 

I am waiting for a culvert pipe to be delivered from civilization to ten buck two, our Tiny Russian Village…

I am waiting for pigs to fly and put on lipstick…

I am waiting for world peace and harmony (Good Luck with that)…

I am waiting for my SweetPea to show up on the 18th of October…

Well that is my look, as I get everything done that I can do within my powers and then I have to wait. Actually, that is my happy face, you know, because I am waiting…

This is also the look I give when people tell me that I am a fake American living in Russia to promote propaganda!

Enjoy my happy face….look a pig flying, Oops no lipstick…

WtR

PS: I am also waiting for why metformin that I take for blood sugar stability smells so damn bad… Lordy Be…

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic and Republican senators urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to expel 300 Russian diplomats from the United States if Moscow does not issue more visas for Americans to represent Washington in Russia. Source: U.S. senators suggest expelling 300 Russian diplomats amid embassy dispute | Reuters

Here is a copy of the letter:

Letter to Biden.ssci-04oct21

Hmm….I remember when Obama, threw many Russian Diplomats out of the US, at Christmas time, five years ago!

Kinda pissed this morning; Good job America close those Russian Consulates…

Now we whine and throw tantrums for years because we lost access to our spy network in Moscow, owing to the fact that Russia actually retaliated to our aggression. If the USA tries to expel more, then they will lose even more of their “spies” over in the US Embassy in Moscow…

Here we go again and again and again…

WtR

Father Pavel and his Tiny Russian Village monastery project is a good thing. Svetochka and I support what is happening. At first we were conflicted, yet after all these years and seeing what is being done, the only way that TRV will survive is if the monastery rebuilds itself to actually that, a monastery again…

A visit to the monastery of St. Nicholas – Посещение святой обители святителя Николая

Before the village, before the school for the deaf, blind and dumb, before the monastery was destroyed in Soviet Times….there was a very special Female Monastery by itself upon our hill/mountain. Founded here because there was a natural water source and a holy water source nearby…

Gods Place: A Blessed Water Source…

If I was a rich man?

I would sink the millions of dollars that I don’t have and drive the rebuilding of the monastery to its former glory. I would even push to return to the female monastery status. Yet, that will not happen. Yet, we will give what we can and hope that more and more gets done…

Village / Monastery Images from the old days…

Our Village Monastery in Russia – The St. Nicholas Monastery…

There are very few places in the world that God is present. Man has destroyed so much and so raped the world in so many places. Man has lost so much that has been freely allowed to him and with all that man has lost his spiritual way…

The Tiny Russian Village is a place where God still speaks/acts/motivates freely and all we have to do is listen/feel…

This is even after the almost total destruction of this monastery by some very bad individuals at the past times…

I can honestly say that the elder spirits are at peace now at the old village and God still has his hand on guiding the place. Humans are not always good at listening. They even found the cemetery finally….they had whom I called a Preacher Boy before Bishop Mathew and then Father Pavel and Preacher Boy brought set backs upon TRV that took many years to straighten out…

The importance of TRV to me is paramount for many reasons. Sometimes the reasons are not clear to me and life pushes me away from the goal. Yet, I see what is and what can be at the Tiny Russian Village with its very unique monastery…

WtR