Windows to Russia

Sveta yelled yesterday from the yard at the village house. I ran out to see what was up and found Sveta and Boza hugging a tree and a bad attitude snake being very aggressive with them. It seems that Boza heard the snake first as it crawled toward Sveta as she was reading. Sveta knew […]

I just think that this church is one of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen. They have been working on fixing it back up and I am glad because these are the parts of the past that need to be saved. The walls of a church like this are a meter thick of […]

Sunday the day we rest and go to the market. We will not work today, but we will load up on veggies and fruits from the market. We also always buy socks and other clothes at the market. Every Sunday in Sarai a big village near our tiny little village, they have a huge market […]

That cup of chicory is always better in the village. Today was no different and thinking’s always go with a good hot cup of beverage. Today those thinking’s have settled around Shashlik (шашлык), Real Pepsi and that Fence… Even though I am diabetic, I had to try the real Russian Pepsi Cola. In Russia we […]

It is a shame that the West can not grow up and accept facts as they really are. Abkazia does not want to be part of Georgia and that is final. I don’t care about all the other republics that want the same thing all over the world. I am talking about Abkazia and they […]

Sveta and I just spent a long day getting things done. We got our two 50 liter propane bottles filled, we picked up 50 meters of rolled fencing, we talked with all the neighbors and caught up on all the gossip and we took lots of pictures of the village and the town near by. […]

Oh my goodness what a wonderful Thursday morning this was. Sveta had her green tea and I had my chicory. It was so nice to be in the village. We arrived yesterday and as always on the first day it takes forever to get everything in line. You have to go through a reversal pattern […]

Update (August 25th, 2011): Ukraine showed her face and we got what we needed to pinpoint a little closer the blockage. Windows to Russia is being blocked again in Ukraine. But we know the origination area this time. We are going to find out the bottom line before it is over… 🙂 The web gods […]

The Russian head of world chess says Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told him in a telephone call that he was in Tripoli and did not intend to leave the country despite an onslaught by rebels. “I am alive and healthy, I am in Tripoli and do not intend to leave Libya. Do not believe the […]

A Russian special correspondent for Izvestia newspaper has been operated on in Zintan, Libya, after a serious wound to his leg he sustained while reporting from the front line near Tripoli on August 22. He is now waiting for evacuation to Russia. After he was shot, Orkhan Dzemal had to wait for around 12 hours […]