Year: 2021

Ten years ago I painted mom’s home. It was not the best job, for at the time I was very sick and in bad shape. But this time? I am still hurting from life, yet able to pace myself and get things done much better. 50 kilos of weight loss help with that issue…

For you British that is almost 8 stone lost and you Americans that is around 110 pounds. I have lost over one of those standard bags of concrete that I use to buy in America. Grab a bag of 94 pound concrete and walk around all day? Not fun…

I have been confused and interested at the same time with all the stories floating around about the fire in TRV:

Exciting yesterday in Tiny Russian Village (Let there be fire!)

But ignoring all the heroes and the villains, 99% lies anyway, I have silently listened and looked…

I have figured it 99% out. I have pinpointed how it started, why it started and we will not talk about how started it. Nor about anything more to do with it. No one died, only two homes that were empty and falling down burned and the fire people kept the woods from burning down. That could have been a very bad thing. For the path it was taking would have hit several small villages…

Games people play…

Therefore, it will be a bright bright sunshiny day today and I will paint some more…

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Lets hope that it does not freeze like last year?

I will get images of everything else soon as they wake up. The white lilacs are doing good and the pear trees are about ready to be sprayed for creepy crawlers….I hope that the pears bloom good this year. They are getting old enough now…

Looks like a good plum year so far in the Tiny Russian Village…

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So I can imagine Boris, Ivan and Olga (Putin anyone?) the Russians stood outside the White House with a state of the art Ray Gun zapping passing citizens and watching the people run away clutching their heads in agony… ~~

It’s so sad yet at the same time hilarious that the American Gov expects anyone to believe this rubbish…

They admit they don’t know how they do it but it must be the Russians with energy weapons attacking Americans and now the word is that Russia is attacking Americans on American soil…

So the Russians must be sanctioned for this atrocity….Wait a minute, they don’t know exactly what the symptoms are or how they occur but it must be a evil demon Energy Ray from the Russians!

Two US officials experienced symptoms similar to ones suffered abroad that were probably result of directed energy device

Source: White House investigating ‘unexplained health incidents’ similar to Havana syndrome | Washington DC | The Guardian

A government-commissioned report provides the most definitive explanation yet for “Havana syndrome,” which struck scores of American employees, first in Cuba and then in China, Russia and other countries.

Source: Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies – The New York Times

Ex-CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos believes he was targeted while on a visit to Moscow.

Source: Is Russia targeting CIA spies with secret weapons? – BBC News

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says there will still be US presence in Afghanistan after the pullout of American forces is completed.”We’ve been engaged in Afghanistan for 20 years, and we sometimes forget why we went there in the first place, and that was to deal with the people who attacked us on 9/11. And we did. Just because our troops are coming home doesn’t mean we’re leaving. We’re not,” Blinken said on Sunday on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”

Source: Blinken Says Troop Pullout From Afghanistan ‘Doesn’t Mean We’re Leaving’ – Sputnik International

Pull out? The Taliban were right recently and said that the US is not doing what they said they would do…

Surprise surprise surprise – Not!

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She sent me this link to a rehearsal for the upcoming parade in Moscow. It was a live stream and is all about a holiday that Russian has. Important stuff if a Russia citizen….it is an actual link to YouTube and a actual news source in Russia. About an actual event coming up in Russia and yes, it is all actual, factual and really news that is true and not fake….except if you are an American in the USA living in a bubble of deceit….then it needs to be blocked. Strange thing is that she sent it from Russia to Russia, not to the USA and a person living there. Looks like they intercept and scrub all links and data you use on Viber?

Svetochka got to find out how it feels to be innocent and have social media block you, I am well versed in such happenings!

Then, she was blocked by Viber, for she sent the link through Viber on her computer…

They unblocked her for 24 hours and said if she does anything bad again like this, sending a nasty, terrible and evil Russian video link, she will be blocked forever….one more strike and you are out…

Svetochka said, “All they want in the USA are sock monkey people!”

Yes my Sweetpea, the west is full of sock monkey’s and it will not get better…

So Sveta and I moved from Viber to Signal. And it works better than Viber, get Signal to stay in touch with each other… https://signal.org/en/

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Russia responded to the European Council’s sanctions against six Russian nationals of March 2 and 22, 2021…

The Russian foreign ministry published a blacklist of eight EU nationals who were banned from entering Russia. The blacklist includes David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament; Jorg Raupach, Berlin’s chief prosecutor; Ivars Abolins, chairman of Latvia’s National Electronic Media Council; Maris Baltins, Director of the Latvian State Language Center; Jacques Maire, a member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Asa Scott, Head of the CBRN Protection and Security Division at the Swedish Defense Research Agency; Ilmar Tomusk, Director General of the Language Inspectorate, Estonia; Vera Jourova, Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency…

But they (west) says Russia is bad…

Wonder who is starting all this crap anyway?

Not Russia…

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Big tradition here in Russia:

One week before Orthodox Easter the Russian church celebrates Pussy-Willow Sunday – an analogue of Palm Sunday. Few people know that this holiday has also Slavic past. Its name before Russia’s Christianization was Вербохлест (Verbohlest) which meaning is “to whip with a pussy-willow twig”.

Source: Pussy-willow Sunday | Slavic holiday | Russian holidays

So today I walked this morning and brought home some pussy willow twigs…

In the Russian Orthodox Church, the Sunday before Easter is known as Pussy Willow Sunday (Ве́рбное воскресе́нье)…

That was last weekend….better safe than sorry! Besides walking is good exercise…

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Russia will have more days of the May break time. In an attempt at breaking the spread of Covid-19. The spread caused by sending kids back to school and 90% of the people ignoring the mask rules and in general not caring. Hospitals are full and it looks bad for right now…

Sveta’s son has a friend that is now fighting his second round of Covid-19…

President Vladimir Putin has said that 4-7 May are likely to be decreed non-working days, other words, in addition to the long weekends of 1-3 May for Labor Day, the holiday will be extended through Victory Day. He announced his decision at a meeting with the head of the federal sanitation-oversight body…

So, that means holidays from May 1st to going back to work on May 11th. Except my Sweetpea has to work the 4th on. The big Gazprom Bank needs to still deal with international trade and such…

So the Tiny Russian Village should be busy during this time as everyone tries to get to the dachas and plant their gardens…

Kinda suspected such a thing would happen. Lots of covid-19 in our home building in Moscow. Lots of youth getting it now and the suffering goes on…

Letting the kids back to physical school set this off…

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Official word so far is:

In the village of Zarya Svoboda, Saraevsky District, on Monday, April 26, after lunch, the grass caught fire. Fire brigades left for the village at 15.13. In addition to them, fire trucks from the forestry, the “Para” fish farm came to extinguish them. In total, 6 pieces of equipment worked on the fire.

The fire spread very quickly over the area and soon covered a large area, and at the same time two houses, of which practically nothing remained. The burned-out area is 2 hectares.

“The fire started with dry grass,” says Alexei Nikanorov, senior inspector of the supervisory department. – It is too early to talk about its reasons, a check is being carried out, but it is possible that the human factor is to blame. If the involvement of people is confirmed, then the culprit will have to answer before the law to the fullest extent. The punishment will depend on the damage caused. If that amount is more than 250 thousand rubles, this is already Article 168 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Destruction or damage to property by negligence), which provides for a punishment of up to 2 years in prison. ”

By the afternoon of Tuesday, April 27, the conflagrations were still smoking and in some places even tongues of flame were breaking through.

https://ryazpressa.ru/v-poselke-zarya-svobody-saraevskogo-rajona-iz-za-pala-travy-sgoreli-dva-doma/

So now the non smokers blame the smokers. There was someone from Moscow hanging around and ran away. So on and so on…

Dunno…

We are lucky the whole Tiny Russian Village did not burn!

If the wind had been the opposite direction the whole village would have gone whoosh…

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Exciting yesterday in Tiny Russian Village (Let there be fire!)

Digital realities over Real-Life realities:

Everyone is a movie star. Everyone is a politician. Everyone is a walkway model. Everyone is something they are not…

Okay, not everyone, yet billions of people on the internet everyday are pretending to be something or someone they are not…

Some get rich being fake…

Photoshop on images has to be at an all time high. It use to be only magazines and we knew that the models were photoshopped. Now Photoshop has become as important as the warpaint that women put on. Both a cover for imperfections. Imperfections that make all of us who we are. Heck, women on social media all look the same anymore….kinda like painting all the cars the same color…

Boobs not big enough? Tweak them….Butt not big enough? Tweak it!

It is a bad thing that is happening and now we have grown a generation that believes it is acceptable!

Interesting article on the subject:

Just how much make-up and Photoshop magic is involved in a photo shoot? We’ve shown the before and after photos of girl’s with and without makeup in past articles and have debated on the use of Photoshop in creating a final image. Now see it in action with this video of a model being manipulated from normal to barbie in just 1 minute and 12 seconds!

Source: Time Lapse Video Shows Extent of Photoshop Retouching on Model

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They really changed her from looks to body form…