I sit here in the Tiny Russian Village and plan my day. It is about 10 degrees and humid. Autumn is here and the trees are turning. I will show pictures later in the week, for the trees are just starting to turn and they are beautiful… I have the well running and filling the […]
I have dried 600 apples. I am at 300 tomatoes dried and counting. I will do another batch of tomatoes today and the vines are full of green delicious tomatoes. The apple trees are almost bare and I will eat my one apple a day, until they all are gone. The beets are huge and […]
I woke with sugar levels at 5.3 mmol/l, No sugar pills for two days. Last night was the withdraw night! I checked my vitals constantly and found everything was good. But I fought the worst demon that I ever fought! Don’t ever let anyone tell you that medicine, any medicine is not addictive. Maybe withdraw […]
The Birdbrain Hotel is doing a fine business! Every morning I have apple and cherry trees full of birdbrains waiting not so patiently for their buffet! They talk to me when I go out and sit and watch them. They seem to be say, “Hey lazy ass! Get the buffet set up, we are hungry!” […]
I guess I am using myself as a case study… I am trying to stop what so many with diabetes have happen to them. The fact is; people seem to think they will live forever and nothing becomes of their inaction’s, ignorance and or looking the other way! Diabetes is an aspiring wicked disease and […]
Power down, power up! Internet down, Internet up! Rinse repeat and start over again… Therefore, I will post this tiny post and hope all gets to go back to normal later… Three times since trying to write this small post! Power down, power up! Internet down, Internet up! Rinse repeat and start over again… Have […]
I was in a quandary! I had no idea how I was going to get the wood, much less the money for the wood, to build a shower house and a propane housing outside. Thus, I have been patient and whiling away coins for such a purpose. Then along came a few donations and solved […]
Two a.m. and I wake with the realization that my blood sugar was getting low. This is normal and for the first time in many many years, it was without taking any sugar pills (as I call them,) before bed. Boza and I were sound asleep by nine p.m. and five hours seems to be […]
As last year, wood is very important. With -30 C and below temperatures, life would be rough without plenty of wood to burn… Therefore, as autumn has approached and the heat has gone away, it is time to gather the wood piles and it takes three at the very least. I have two split and […]
Video was given to me through a link with a comment. They wanted to know is this true? Yes, Russian woman are actually all these things, give or take a few things per personal bases, but they are what you see in the video, at least most of them in general. The word traditional is […]