Windows to Russia

I love deplore the childish Mindset within the so called Western Elite, they opt out of long term contracts and instead gamble upon “spot pricing” with Russia on gas. They rather play the American game of “spot prices”. For within the casino – like the roll of the dice, pull of the one arm bandit and or the spin of the roulette wheel and or dealing of the cards: it is addictive…

Once “spot prices” hit too high?

They blame Russia for holding them at gun point, for self inflicted wounds!

Remember, “If you play you pay!”

or

TINSTAAFL: There is no such thing as a free lunch…

WtR

“Gas supplies to China over the Power of Siberia continue growing. On October 31, supplies at the request of the Chinese side reached a new record level and were more than 19% above daily contract commitments of Gazprom,” the company says.The Power of Siberia is the largest gas transport system in Eastern Russia for gas supplies to Russian consumers in the Far East and to China. Export capacity of the pipeline is 38 bln cubic meters of gas per year.

Source: Gas supplies to China over Power of Siberia record high — Gazprom – Business & Economy – TASS

WtR

Starting to look like we may all find out sooner than later…

Who run Bartertown?

Not who you think and or made to believe…

WtR

My SweetPea is so cute: She grabbed the concrete part of the pole and tugged on it. No, it did not move and she said, “Nope you are not gonna move it!”

This little Russian girl who is half my size….makes me smile and that brightens my life!

But without farther adieu, we still tugged and twisted and pulled and rolled it from near the new pole to where it is now….I used a tow strap and lifted it one side at a time and dragged it a few inches at a time….everything else is gone…

Now what to do from this point?

WtR

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:

Suck it up, Twinkle toes! That package will get there when they damn well decide to get it there…

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…

Sammy the Volga Cardboard Model…

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…

Typical Tiny Russian Village attire and yes this is that American living in Russia…

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