My experimental T-Rose is just about ready. After a rocky start it has really rooted itself and now actually has a total of 4 buds ready to bloom soon. I did not expect it to do anything this year and it was simply an experiment. The experiment will conclude next summer, if I can keep […]
Paradox: reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. That is me to a Russian… Yesterday I talked with two young Russians. They were walking the monastery and the woman was wandering if Boza would bite. Then after I expressed that he was safe and nice, she proceeded […]
It is Sunday, the coffee is great and it is cooler this morning. I keep hoping the world will slow down and stabilize, but the powers to be have a different agenda… A failed “setup” Turkish coup, U.S. military operations out of Turkey’s giant Incirlik Air Base suspended by Turkey and No One, but No […]
The coffee this morning is perfect! Not as perfect as on a -30 degree day, but still perfect in all its glamor and glory. Coffee is, “Soooo….the flow of life within the body, mind and soul!” Coffee seems to transcend all boundaries, both physical and mental… * * * * * * * * * […]
I was going to dig up several potato plants today. I simply love new potatoes and wanted to get a few for eating with turnips. The turnips are the perfect size and definitely ready to harvest, but I stopped at one potato plant; twenty one small to medium potatoes off of one scraggly plant. 21… […]
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. – Mother Teresa […]
“Nice” the city, many deaths! I absorbed what happened and the first thing that waved over me was. A truck killed 80 to 100 people. Much more efficient than a gun. Yet there will be no calls for removal of trucks. Not stupid as it sounds. Anything can literally be used to kill, including you […]
A trip to the Big Village is and can be an interesting diversion from normal Tiny Russian Village life. Yesterday, I ended up with three people going with me and it was an interesting time. Two of them were born and raised in the Tiny Russian Village and I was shown the hospital where one […]
My mood today is reflected in this video… I play a version of this radio broadcast every once in a while. I find no faults in what he says and I find that we did not listen then and definitely do not listen now, to what this man said to us for many years. Paul […]
This morning at 4 a.m. I started to fill the wells. I had turned off the water at the pump and was tidying the wells up and making sure all was good. I was walking down to the well near us and I heard people wailing and chattering. This was about 6 a.m. and the […]