Windows to Russia

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It does not matter to me that you wanna hate Russia and Putin….what he says is how I feel about life as we watch it unfold in the world and that is what counts to me. The world needs more Russia and more Putin… Putin at 2021 Valdai Discussion Club was in fine form and […]

The Duchess of Sussex has made her most overtly political intervention yet, sending an open letter to two senior US figures on proposed parental and sick leave legislation….It was written on the Sussexes new post-royal letterhead, which prominently uses their titles but not their official cyphers. Source: Meghan Markle writes to US politicians saying paid […]

In order to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and to protect public health, the President has announced that October 30 to November 7, 2021, inclusive, will be paid non-working days. Corresponding recommendations were given to highest officials in the Russian Federation regions. The Russian Federation Government was instructed to determine working arrangements […]

NATO bombarded the Great Man-Made River in July 2011, obliterating a key to the regular citizen, a life blood foundation: an atrocity and most definitely a war crime in anyone’s book….but we all watched and picked our nose as we contemplated other things… The United Nations “Human Development Index” as I was reading it, gives […]

Sammy the Volga made it home and she purrs like a kitten as she idles happily and really jumps when you push the gas pedal down. It is a nice thing when your car is happy. I knew that with the new (used) engine we put in years ago, that with older used engine comes […]