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Now I found a nest of Wagtails living at the car shed. At least they did not try to block the door. So now got to be quiet at the rear of the home area…. 😉

Love my baby birds and I will mow with the, yesterday rebuilt electric weed eater. I decided that since it rained all day to fix a few things. The weed eater was put away after it started to breakdown many years ago. Now it is as good as new….as long as the weather will be good, I will get to mow…

I am searching for all the nests, so that I can know where to be extra careful. The yard is a bird sanctuary this year…

I guess little birdbrains like me?

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I dunno, I think that worms would not be tasty!

At 4:30 a.m. a huge bumblebee was sipping nectar at the plum trees…

A little bird was watching him and asked…

Why you up so early?

Now I could have asked the little bird the same thing and yet that would just then make them wonder why I was up so early. I myself have been up since 1:30 a.m…

The bumble bee grumbled and buzzed and said, “The early bird gets the worm!”

The little bird, whom lives under our roof overhang, thought a minute and flew to the ground and grabbed a big fat worm…

After munching his tasty treat….he said, “You know you are right!”

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PS: Yesterday there were thousands of bees in the plum trees and it was interesting to see one big fat bumble bee buzzing all by himself this morning. Smart bee, yet it was 5 degrees C this morning….tough bee!

A teenager has been detained by security forces in the Russian city of Kazan after a bloody attack at a local school left at least nine dead and more than a dozen wounded on the first day back after a 10-day national holiday.

Source: ‘I am like a God’: Kazan school shooter’s chilling message revealed as Putin orders gun control probe after nine killed in attack — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Very sad…

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Home sweet Home!

Well well…

A pair of Wrens have taken up our front gate. They are hiding between two boards at the gate lock area and that means that my gate has become inutile….not usable/worthless for awhile…

It just makes my walk to mom’s home twice as long. Yet I need the walking exercise and it is all okay!

Light blue speckled eggs and mommy wren does not trust me yet. Yesterday the nest was empty and wallah, today it has two eggs and a grouchy mamma sitting on it… 🙂

Actually a very safe spot…

So out the back gate and around the yard I go to mom’s home now to do my work…

I love baby birds and wren are a very good bird to have. I am looking for field sparrow nests also. I think they put them up very high in the maple trees and the pine trees? I was hoping to find them in the plum trees? No way so far…

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Well finally Sammy the Volga is doing really good and how she should have been from the factory!

Sammy the Volga has finally for the moment, gotten all her major issues done. The latest, but I am sure not last, issue was one of the carrier Bearings on the drive shaft(s). Sammy the Volga has a three piece drive shaft. When I have constantly asked why? Two piece? Maybe? Three piece? Why? Then the young guy who has been working on Sammy asks, “Did you replace the driveshaft at one time?” – “No! Why?” Then we find out that many Volga’s came with a one piece shaft and that it was considered much more reliable and better by far…The three piece shaft is in a straight line. Is not a lot longer than my arm in complete and makes no sense as to ground clearance and reliability type of standpoint. The opposite in fact is true. We have so many more moving parts and so many more things to go out in such a short space, that it makes no sense…

Source: Windows to Russia

It is interesting and why I love the Volga. Parts from many other Russian vehicles fit our car. Now Sammy has a UAZ Hunter drive shaft on a GAZ car…

They also created and rebuilt a new transmission rear mount and put new shocks on the rear axle. Also the rear differential front bearing was replaced and all was done for 20,000 rubles. Parts and labor…

I simple am in disbelief at the difference this has made. When I took it in a few weeks ago? It had already eaten another universal bearing. I guess the old drive shaft was just worn out and could not do its job anymore…

Now in the same place that the first image shows above fit in, the second image is what is in place and it actually has better clearance than before…

Amazing at what car manufactures do!

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Victory Day in Russia

Den Pobedy is the music and song for Victory Day…

Translation:

Victory Day, oh how far from us it was,
Like a dwindling ember in a faded fire.
There were miles ahead, burned and dusty
We hastened this day as best we could.

Chorus:

This Victory Day
Air saturated with gunpowder,
It’s a celebration
With temples already gray,
It’s joy
With tears upon our eyes

Victory Day!

Victory Day!

Victory Day!

Days and nights at blast furnaces,
Our Motherland didn’t sleep a wink.
Days and nights a hard battle we fought—
We hastened this day as best we could.

Chorus:

Hello, Mother, not all of us came back…
How I’d like to run barefoot through the dew!
Half of Europe, we have stridden half the Earth,
We hastened this day as best we could!

Chorus x 2

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PS: Russian lyrics

День Победы, как он был от нас далёк,
Как в костре потухшем таял уголёк.
Были вёрсты, обгорелые, в пыли —
Этот день мы приближали как могли.

Chorus:

Этот День Победы
Порохом пропах,
Это праздник
С сединою на висках.
Это радость
Со слезами на глазах.

День Победы!

День Победы!

День Победы!

Дни и ночи у мартеновских печей
Не смыкала наша Родина очей.
Дни и ночи битву трудную вели —
Этот день мы приближали как могли.

Chorus

Здравствуй, мама, возвратились мы не все…
Босиком бы пробежаться по росе!
Пол-Европы прошагали, пол-Земли —
Этот день мы приближали как могли.

Chorus x 2

We in trouble it looks like!

The price of a bitcoin token may easily grow to $1 million over the next five years, according to CoinDesk Learn Editor Ollie Leech. “Bitcoin is going to $1 million a coin. I actually believe that it will, at some stage, with just the scarcity aspect alone, it makes it an incredibly exciting asset to hold… Bitcoin is uncontested,” the journalist, who focuses on cryptocurrencies, told Yahoo Finance.

Source: Bitcoin could easily skyrocket to $1 MILLION per token one day – CoinDesk — RT Business News

Oh really?

Up Up and Away….with Bitcoin today!

Now I know Uranus is going to have Bitcoin on its surface! ~~

My my and if it does? (The Bitcoin Saga.)

Bitcoin just shot past the Moon, is Uranus the next stop?

If it shoots to the next galaxy then does that mean the dollar will be something like 100,000,000 $ for a loaf of bread?

Seems like this is not going well, except for a very few…

Heck lets just make it $100,000,000 per coin and get it over with… (Weimar Republic – Zimbabwe anyone?)

FYI – 1 BTC = 1 KG of Gold…

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MOSCOW, May 6. /TASS/. A one-component COVID-19 vaccine dubbed Sputnik Light has been registered in Russia, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) informs.”The Russian Ministry of Health, the Gamaleya Research Center and RDIF announce the registration of the one-component vaccine Sputnik Light against the novel coronavirus infection. Sputnik Light is the first component of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine,” the message says.

Source: One-dose COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik Light registered in Russia – Society & Culture – TASS

Earlier article on WtR…

New Trials: Sputnik Light, single dose vaccine

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and…

I finally waded to the well house and found the off switch was broken…

So instead of fire? We can all drown in a few days!

Tiny Russian Village…

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