June 12th, 2016: Russia Day (Russian: День России, Den’ Rossii) is the national holiday of the Russian Federation. It has been celebrated annually on June 12 since 1992. It commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on June 12, 1990…
Us here in the Tiny Russian Village do not worry about this holiday. The big cites do and they go hog wild over this holiday…
Happy Russia Day…
WtR
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. – Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC)
I have always related to this quote and I find it interesting that quotes from the old are so accurate with the modern times…
I feel like the pine, as I am watching the lofty towers of my homeland crash and burn under their own weight and doing. Thus, no matter how lofty you see your country? Even the very top will get hit and effected by things and happenings…
We are all small when we look up and realize that mountain is just a speck upon the surface of our planet. When we stop and contemplate, we are but an ant looking up at that human stomping aimlessly around our home…
I am glad I am the pine and will bend and sway in the wind and hopefully survive even as the winds try to uproot you…
WtR
I have my doubts. I also question the arrests made by many cops all over the world, if they can talk about ending the usage of such strong arm tactics around the world. Were the arrested that bad to start with? A really serious criminal would have to be dealt with anyway possible (no one would be able to question the arrest of a mass shooter), but how many arrests are really serious in actuality. This backtracking to appease the masses is showing a massive flaw in the system. If you can contemplate disbanding/de-funding police forces etc…and stopping choke holds? Then everyone must question why it is what it is in the first place…
Kyle Keeton at WtR
My thinking as I walked at 3 a.m.
We must demand truth and quit accepting the lies at face value…
I do not (and you should not) take the western world seriously any more. However, western societies must be kept under a watchful eye 24/7 for their cunning malignancy makes backstabbing & bullying their regular habit, against not only so called foes, but also their allies are excluded only if the ally has enough external and internal pressures upon the west. The so-called “free media” in the “West” & the so called “democracy” of their governments….they put lies, slander, disinformation and exaggeration on countries like Russia, China, Iran and many many others. Keeping their ignorant, uninformed of reality, paranoid and condescending “readers” brainwashed with untruths and fabrications against the actual truth!
While it is true that all governments lie and twist truth at times for reasons known only to them….The west has lost all legitimacy in anything and everything they do. You would be hard pressed to find a single truth within the Western Empire and then you would find that the truth has been undermined with lies to start with…
I fear that it will only get much worse before it gets a semblance of being better….if ever…
Kyle Keeton at WtR
Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
‘US, Europe getting back SAME CHAOS they were sowing around the world’ – Russia’s FM spokeswoman on riots in America: The US supported destabilizing ideas, dividing groups against each other around the globe, but now the chaos they got at home is of the same nature, Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said.“By sowing chaos [abroad], they’ve got chaos at home,” Zakharova pointed out when asked about the reasons for the current unrest in the US and in some European countries during her appearance on Rossiya 1 channel. “Everything they’ve been embedding into the world’s consciousness – they’re reaping it now.”
That old saying holds true…
You Reap What you sow…
But many have decided to ignore God’s words…
I have been sowing a garden. What about you?
WtR
Yesterday, after an interesting yet very successful visit to the Big Village:
I found myself working all day and getting done a major project??? Except after getting the brunt of the project done? I found that now I have to stop and contemplate how to support the awnings open at varying degrees & how to secure them for the winter with locks and such…
I knew that there was a place in the Big Village that would most likely have the poly carbonate sheeting I was looking for. I was correct and I really like the guys running and who own the place. They are inquisitive and helpful. They like most Russians love to see that American trying to communicate in a world that is foreign to him. Normal communication is always fine for me, but when dealing with car parts and home parts beyond the normal. Things get interesting…
But, after all said and done. I came home with three sheets of yellow tinted poly carbonate and they cut them from a huge sheet for me. They could not grasp around the fact that I wanted three sheets 1 meter X 2 meters and not the whole sheet the size of Godzilla to take home. They kept saying, “Grab GAZelle and take home!”
A GAZelle is a Russian pickup truck:
You got one in your back pocket right?
Finally after breaking out the smartphones and using the Yandex translation app on each. We came to a final conclusion that I wanted three sheets of 1 meter X 2 meters in size poly carbonate with yellow tint….I did not have a way to get a huge sheet home and that green Volga was the way it was going to be taken to my home. Also that unless they grabbed a GAZelle and brought it to me and no I would not shell out money to be delivered and since I live in Communa (TRV) in the boonies of Russia, that was not going to happen…
Again, we finally came to a solution; how about they cut me three pieces full length of 2.1 meters tall and 1 meter wide. See to a Russian the fact I wanted 2 meters tall instead of 2.1 meters (Which is the actual factory height of the sheet.), it upset the equation and life was bad. So I said 2.1 meters is perfect and they cut me three sheets 2.1 meters X 1.1 meters…
They were happy, to get my money and I stuffed them into the Volga and went on my merry way. A situation that in my world in America that was at best a half hour time frame to do, was and became three plus hours. That my friend is the Russian way…
Everything you do in Russia, you have to call in all experts ~~, call the owner of the place, call the neighbors and ask the doggy on the porch also, discuss for a year or so and then finally decide that today is a good day to cut a sheet of poly carbonate for someone that is from America…
You must remember that when work is involved, such as something as important as cutting a sheet of poly carbonate roofing, that you must remember that the term work is the key factor…
You must also remember that everyone wants to know, “What the hell is wrong with America?” You got me, but they want an answer as to why America treats the world so bad? You got me….I am just a sweet peaceful bear of a man…
Life moves slow in Russia in the villages:
Therefore, I got my sheets and put them into the Volga called Sammy and went about my business. Doing what bears do, looking for my next exasperating deal to make…
Granted it was fun and I have to turn down multiple attempts of, “Do you want a Vodka to seal the deal?” Every new person to show up to investigate the situation, because the grapevine is humming by now wants to be part of the complicated process of poly carbonate sheet cutting. And it helps to say no, that I am driving and do not need to be in trouble with the police. They understand that…
Surprised they did not call the local news paper to investigate this process at large?
Now I am baffled:
See that always increasing issue factor at play!
I have to figure out how to make, buy and or create a system to allow me to prop open the awnings and not have them fall on my head and kill me a dozen times during the day, as the wind blows…
It is always a challenge to accomplish what I am doing and it is always a project that should take one day, becomes weeks, months and even years at times. I start this process last summer and come hell or high water, it will be done this summer. 😉
This is why I love Russia and very much the reason that I have lived much longer than I would have in America. Life has forced me to slow down and smell the coffee…
Svetochka would say, “That is just right!”
WtR
I met this man once many years ago. It was before he fervently threw himself into the media as he defended Russia…
I sit here this morning kinda sad. He was younger than me, yet I easily could have been dead the same as him at his age and even much earlier. He was 58 at the time he left us…
I read all his writings and kept up weekly on what I could find new as he wrote. He wrote and worked tirelessly to the end. I have posted some of his work in the past, dozens of articles posted in his early writings, to help him garner a foothold into the hate being spread about Russia. It worked and he became a name of honesty and accuracy about the situation of Russian situations. It was nice having someone who knew Russia as I do and wrote about the hate being pushed at Russia. I respected his work…
Jon Hellevig loved Russia every bit as much as I do. For that, I will always remember him…
RIP Jon, you and your work will be remembered and future thoughts by you missed...
WtR
”Whatever side you are on….let me assure you that I am not on it.”
Good coffee by the way!
In what is happening to the USA is what I have talked about that will happen ultimately many times on this website. But lets make something clear…
There are a hundred triggers that have started this issue. There is no single issue that has caused what is unfolding. I dislike Trump and have even as I voted for him, yet he is not to blame. I dislike the lethargy of American people about issues that are important, yet that is not totally to blame…
You have to gather all the molehills that people are concentrating on and put them together. This is not a gun issue, not a racist issue, not a financial issue, not a Antifa issue, not about liberals, not about the deep state, not about Boomers and definable not about hundreds of more issues….it is simply a pile of molehills that have created a mountain. A mountain so high that our government of the US is scared to death of it & so are the people of America and thus as with everything for many many years, they have been kicking the cans down the road and hoping, hoping and hoping….that it is your issue to deal with…
”Whatever side you are on….let me assure you that I am not on it.”
Unless maybe you desire peace, quiet, tranquility and freedom. Then I might decide to look at what you say. As long as you grab one molehill and think that is the issue, then you are still not looking into the mirror and seeing that person and country that has hundreds of molehills that add up to one big fat mountain…
Until you see that the US has and never has had anyone in charge, until you see your own faults in this system and until you and I and them and those over there standing aimlessly and those playing video games all day and all night. Until everyone wakes up and smells the coffee brewing in a pot of deceit and lies…
”Whatever side you are on….let me assure you that I am not on it.”
You all knew it was coming and yet we all, including me at times, decided to ignore it as it all unfolded. I even grab a molehill at times and get pissed about that molehill. But, I reality check myself & find that mountain has just gotten taller…
Politics, wars, hate, money and whatnot’s are about control and division of all people. All sides that have scattered to the winds of disparage, all have truths and lies involved in their construct and foundation…
Thus, until you start seeing the big picture?
”Whatever side you are on….let me assure you that I am not on it.”
WtR
I decided that painting before the massive rains hit was in order. I do mean massive rains. It was interesting…
The home will be basically all white and orange colored trim in a few places. As you can see…
This is our home we call Nikolai’s Home, for the wonderful man and his wife who owned it before us…
This morning after raining all night basically, I sat out on the fresh painted, almost all painted front porch. The birds sang and sang and sang. Now it is time for a walk and then to see if it is too muddy or not to keep working on the garden?
Have a nice day….oh and Fat Cat says go away! (He is one big kitty, I would listen to him if I was you. He is grouchier than I am…)
WtR
Paint fumes got to me yesterday. So today no painting, but working on the potatoes. I found a spot to dig soil and will alternate between pine needles and sandy soil. I will also fertilize as needed and for now, mother nature is watering very good. Kinda got muddy this morning as I worked…
Yesterday I picked up more white paint and more brush cleaner stuff. But I kinda over did the enamel paint thing and kinda feel yuck today. But up at 4 a.m. walked and posted on the website of WtR and thinking about cooking breakfast…
Tomorrow I will finish mounding the potatoes and sigh loudly. For then I start pine needles again…
Today it will rain and rain. So I will read a book while it rains and hope that I can get more done tomorrow (Like painting to be exact.). But since I am kinda lazy at times, I will read a book today…
WtR