Windows to Russia

~~ Damn coffee shop is closed this morning in the Tiny Russian Village. Guess I will have to make my own? Don’t you hate it when that happens? ~~

Sammy the Volga made it home and she purrs like a kitten as she idles happily and really jumps when you push the gas pedal down. It is a nice thing when your car is happy. I knew that with the new (used) engine we put in years ago, that with older used engine comes future work and sensors are a thing that seem to go out in sets. Lucky that Sammy is an old car and does not have a sensor to check on everything. Six had to be replaced and there are six only to replace it seems in the first place. Age wears us all out…

Spent 10,000 rubles on her and it was well worth it. Just in time to go get Svetochka and enjoy a week in the Tiny Russian Village with her…

I am going to the Big Village and fill the car up with Benzine, grab two cans of white spray paint, a very long drill bit (to go through a wall) and some electrical supplies. Today I am going to do some electrical work in the village home and need to get my ducks in order. Gonna add a second breaker box to a separate extension of the home and then that will solve any power supply issues I have, as I have a need come up. Trying to drag a extra long extension around the house from one side to the other is a pain and I am always up to no good and working on something in the corner of the yard, that needs electricity. All summer I fought this issue and will fix it today. Going to be freezing cold all day, so working inside is a good thing…

I hope for Saturday to have my SweetPea with me in TRV…

~~ Darn Starbucks in our Tiny Russian Village is closed this morning! That is just a sad state of affairs and typical third world problems. What to do? ~~

WtR

It was never great except for the few. Hype, smoke, mirrors, and mindless bravado is all it ever was…

Like most everything in the world when it involves humans!

WtR

I really am!

So it ends up the same as last year:

The end of October and my SweetPea shows up (lets hope nothing else comes up to stop this) to get back home with me. It has been a very bad year for loss of friends, coworkers and family to the Covid-19. Life is definitely changed by King Covid and will never go back to the same as it was. A friend Sveta knows through work for many years, whom she worked with through her job has died of Covid-19. He was the Engineer of Services for IBM, a very intricate part of the server software, maintenance and whatnot issues for IBM in Russia…

This just puts a whole new level of pressure upon Svetochka….this mans replacement will be hard to find (if IBM can even find such a replacement this day and age) and Sveta has to take upon herself even more of a load with the lack of experienced long term IBM Engineers to fall back on during issues with the IBM servers. It has created a paradox….for Sveta should be retired now and that will not happen for a long while. There is no one at one of the largest banks in the world whom can do what Svetochka does and to find someone for the ancient IBM system is nigh impossible. Switching to a newer system takes a bunch of time, money and infrastructure changes…

The King takes another and another and another….he is a Bad King!

So soon, I will be back in Moscow, Russia and let the Tiny Russian Village have a break from my escapades…

Things are adding up to me:

The services through big companies from the West as the West is crumbling, are drying up and blowing away in the wind to the rest of the world. It is interesting to watch….for so many companies cannot even service their own countries now, much less keep the pretense of service of their goods in other countries…

This is a good and bad thing:

It allows new fresh faces to rise to the challenge, yet it always leaves a vacuum to fill for a time frame unknown. Thus, while we watch the thrashing of the Dying Western USA Empire….China, Russia and more are taking and developing their own survival steps to ensure their advancement in the future. yet it is a rough process for all involved…

Too many eggs in one basket and the basket is getting worn out and unraveling at the seams…

Just spent a half hour telling Foxy Fox who is boss:

A Foxy Fox disturbed the neighbors doggy. He is a good dog and deserves better than who he has as owners, but that is regressing….so since Big Dog as I call him was upset and I know his four types of barking very well, I went to see what was up. We had a Foxy Fox snooping in the village and Foxy Foxes are never wanted around a village, much less inside the village as this one was…

So, I pinpointed him with the flashlight and it is interesting to see that the dogs eyes glow green and a foxes eyes glowed white instead of the normal reddish glow in a flashlight beam. The dog had much better night vision than the fox did at this meeting…

I grabbed my stick and took a walk down the hill. I moved slowly and steadily and the dog was thankful to have someone who cared. This is serious business for a doggy, you know….Foxy Fox was obviously concentrating upon the doggy and did not realize that at 3 a.m. a human was sneaking about also….the moon is almost full and I got very close to the fox and could see him well. I hit the flashlight and he was just turning around to focus upon who was behind him and the reaction was priceless. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. I am telling you that a Foxy Fox can cover ground faster than a speeding bullet…

When he had gone about two hundred meters, he slouched in the tall grass and kept looking at me with those glowing white eyes. It is interesting to watch as they blink, it is like a small flashlight beam turning off and on. He is still out there and the dog gets upset off and on, but it is all good…

I find it interesting that people with dogs have no reaction to and understand that dogs have a language and if you take the time to know the barks, you know when something is wrong and or not wrong. But the neighbors….wouldn’t know if someone was in their yard or not. Even as the chained up doggy barked his warnings to tell his family that all is not good…

But I went and helped him to defend the Tiny Russian Village…

-4 C outside and it feels like it. Sipping coffee and warming backup right now. Cannot get a good image, but the color is evident and the moon is orange…

A Harvest Moon as we called it back in my days!

Poor Doggy, barking at the Harvest Moon, oops, I mean the foxy fox. I am glad that I could keep him company…

If he was my doggy?

Him and I would have gone fox hunting together and chased the fox around the village. As it is, we did okay together….but what good is a dog that is chained up?

Oh well, still a fun morning…

Removed the fat slowly and carefully. I need to lose another 5 kilos (sorta 10 pounds)  to get in safe weight zone, 195 pounds would be good…

I think I am done for today?

Yes I am and have a nice day…

WtR

Update: The Foxy Fox got into where the neighbors have Turkeys and got himself an early Thanksgiving dinner, Now you see that having a dog chained and not listening to him talking to you as he warns you of issues, makes no sense and it looks like they only lost one. That was because I was out at the early hours paying attention. Foxy Fox was scared away right across the road by me and that was what he was doing until I rudely interrupted him with the flashlight….Thanksgiving dinner with Turkey…

Moscow has announced that it will completely suspend the operations of its mission to NATO, two weeks after the US-led bloc expelled eight Russian diplomats for alleged ‘undisclosed espionage’ at its Brussels headquarters. Speaking on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also revealed that the NATO information bureau in Moscow will be forced to shut down as part of retaliatory measures.Earlier this month, NATO officials decided to slash the size of the permanent Russian delegation to the bloc, revoking the credentials of eight envoys, in response to what it called “suspected malign Russian activities.”

Source: Russia to suspend direct diplomatic ties with NATO from November with US-led bloc’s Moscow mission ordered to close – FM Lavrov — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Russia just leave them behind…

WtR

I realize that Nikolai was failing the last few years of his life. Yet he still gathered all that was needed as per material items and other supplies, to do all the projects and finish the home. Being in the mid 80’s before he died, I can see how the work changed that he performed and I have stayed true the best I can to leaving the good and bad. I straightened this and that and I replaced what he had projects in the working(s) and I understand even more about the man. The home is a tribute to Nikolai and it will stay that way as long as I live…

I have literally used everything in materials that he had stored and it took everything to bring the home back to its original glory. Yes it is just a Tiny Russian Village Home, yet, he rebuilt the core of the home after his sister died and it was in very bad shape. I wish I had images of that era!

I have tried my best to make a real home of the place and not a place that is stayed at a few months at a time…

One of the last things to do is to build a brick wood stove inside and I will next year, if God allows and willing, I will myself build a wood stove from scratch. I have made my mind up and if Svetochka is for it, I have been planning and drawing the designs to install the heat source. Nikolai had removed the original gigantic wood stoves so typical of Russian homes in the villages. I will not go back to such a wood stove, but I will be creative and blend modern stovepipe work with a small brick oven stove…

I like this video…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Russia does have rules for these things…
https://internet-law.ru/gosts/gost/60170/

The hate I got was violent in nature and the comments could not be posted over the article below that I wrote. People degrading Russia and acting all high and mighty from the USA…

Get this under control Russia, don’t act like a Guantanamo Bay by the USA…

Then something like this happens in full public view and no one, but no one did anything. So look in the mirror and look inside yourself and stop pointing fingers and get your house in order…

Woman Raped on train in USA: While Others Stood Around And “Did Nothing”, – CBS Philly:

Investigators say the sexual attack happened while others were standing around on the train and “did nothing.”“Were they watching? I don’t know. Again, we’re still going through the video but there was a lot of people, in my opinion, that should’ve intervened. Somebody should’ve done something. It speaks to where we are in society. Who would allow something like that to take place? So it’s troubling but again, we’re working on that and we’re trying to identify anyone that we saw coming on and off the El at that time,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Tim Bernhardt said.

Source: Woman Raped On El Train In Upper Darby While Others Stood Around And ‘Did Nothing,’ Police Say – CBS Philly

Excuse me:

If you asked Svetochka what would Kyle do in this case?

She could tell you in all honesty and she has seen personally how I would react to a woman being beaten…

The woman who is being attacked is a human being. It could be your mother, Grandma, sister or wife. People need to help and look out for each other, especially in these times of unrest, incivility, and hate! We must protect each other…

In my eyes: They’re are all the same as he is..

WtR

Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said that while there were other people on the train, it was ultimately a SEPTA employee who made the call to 911, which allowed officers to arrest Ngoy on the spot. ‘It’s disturbing that there were definitely people on the L, and no one intervened or did anything to help this woman out,’ Bernhardt told NBC 10.’I have no words for it. I just can’t imagine seeing what you were seeing through your own eyes and seeing what this woman was going through that no one would step in and help her.’

Source: Pennsylvania man arrested for raping a woman inside a train while other riders ‘just watched’ | Daily Mail Online

There is something interconnecting the different wonders within the times we live:

China’s fast rising, Russia’s become alive once again, the breakdown of politically-sanctioned racial segregation in Africa, the ascent of the BLM in the US, the emination of Islamic patriotism’s, and so on and so on…

The common topic in these is by all accounts:

The antiquated are trying to stop the reinvigorated…

The astute among us:

Whether we like it or not, will detect the undeniable trends; The simpletons will continue to attempt to blow against the coming storm….The West “is in” descension and the east “is in” ascension….It can be slowed, but as in the term inevitable, it cannot be stopped…

I am glad I found an old fashion girl:

In an old fashion country, with which to live out the last few years of my old fashion life….the future is not mine anymore, I, many of you and the ones in power had my/our/their chance to make a mark upon this world long ago…

Now the “youth” must do their thing….and one day they will be right where I am at right now, watching and cringing at the youth on the march at that time….but being human, I will not be here to see it…

WtR

This is no longer a case of one company or one person doing something…

https://youtu.be/5od8Wuv_AAY

It is now a case of the whole society from top to bottom doing something…

That “something” is what I question and wonder about!

It also is no longer a case of changing the direction that it is all going…

What use to be kept to the “Broadway” of life….has allowed Broadway to become life!

A gluttonous society that looks to annihilate kids for the sake of self-delight. You will possibly know the worth of what you lose when it is past the point where it is possible to recuperate…

I doubt you will ever see it…

WtR

PS: It would be hilarious, except we are past that point also…

PSS: Broadway: pertaining to, suitable for, or produced in the commercial theater, especially on Broadway: a Broadway show. acting…

СОФИЯ, 15 октября. /ТАСС/. Компания “Газпром” полностью выполняет долгосрочные контракты по поставкам газа в ЕС и не занимается манипулированием цен на газовом рынке. Об этом в четверг в интервью телеканалу bTV заявил заместитель главы Европейской комиссии (ЕК) Франс Тиммерманс, который находится в Болгарии с рабочим визитом.

SOFIA, October 15. / TASS /. Gazprom fully complies with long-term contracts for gas supplies to the EU and does not manipulate prices on the gas market. Deputy Head of the European Commission (EC) Frans Timmermans, who is in Bulgaria on a working visit, said this on Thursday in an interview with the bTV channel.

Source: В Еврокомиссии заявили, что Россия не манипулирует ценами на газ – Экономика и бизнес – ТАСС

There are two reasons reasons why gas prices are up all over Europe, one of them is a minor issue in the scope of things, and one very major and very serious in the nature it was allowed to become fruitful. The minor reason is that Brussels keeps postponing Nord Stream 2 at the behest of East European puppets and their masters in USA. The approval would solve the issue fairly fast for Ukraine cannot support through its antiquated system any higher volumes of Gaz (Gas). A all above issues are and are caused by self-induced wounds as per below paragraphs…

Now, the real issue is, and this is the real reason for the system to collapse, is that the EU rejected Gazprom’s offer for a long-term 25-years contract with a fixed price, and instead opted for “regulating” prices on the so-called “spot markets” as the way to get their gas and they did this for reasons that have no logic in my eyes…

So, now the “useless bottom feeders”, also known as “financial speculators”, are on gorging on the chaos. A chaos set up by the powers to be….You can be sure, this was very heavily lobbied by the financial lobby, of both Anglo-American and European designation…

It simply was a game poorly played for the masses and they few who played it are dancing in the streets with joy…

That is why they yell, “Look a squirrel!” and Russia gets blamed for the deeds of a few very rich and powerful people…

Hey, Look a Squirrel!

WtR

Интервью телеканалу CNBCПо окончании пленарного заседания форума «Российская энергетическая неделя» Владимир Путин дал интервью ведущей американского телеканала CNBC Хедли Гэмбл.

Source: Президент России

After the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum, Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Hadley Gamble, Anchor at CNBC, an American television network.

Source: Interview with CNBC • President of Russia

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