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The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Orthodox Christian faith. Twelve weeks of preparation precede it. This is made up of pre-lenten Sundays, Great Lent, and Holy Week. The faithful try to make this long journey with repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and study. When the feast finally arrives, it is celebrated with a collection of services combined as one.

Source: Pascha – OrthodoxWiki

It is Easter yet maybe you would rather not have such heavy pensive thinking about Easter?

There, is that better?

Happy Easter from Svetochka and Kyle

WtR

Grouchy bear of a human and I love my coffee and my Sweetpea!

Us humans seem to be so out of touch with nature. We seem at times to be something not part of real life on earth. That could be the issue…

I walked at 5 a.m. and saw four deer, one fox, ten eagles, hundreds of ducks and a zillion tiny baby birds…

It may be cold, but the grass is growing, the weeds are sprouting upward and the sun came up with a smile. It seems that the only ones having issues are the humans and truthfully, our issues are self-instigated. Like the kid who tries to pick a fight at the sandbox, because everyone is having a good time. Yet that seems to bother that kid….adults are the same…

Foxy Fox, as I call him, was digging at the side of the road and I stayed still until he got what he wanted in his mouth. Then he looked around and saw me. He paused and thought a few seconds and slunk away toward the river. The deer were grazing near the river farther along my walk and they sensed me and decided I was possibly bad enough and bounded away into the woods. The little baby birds all watched me, chirped at me and ignored me, yet the eagles, ducks and ravens all considered me to be a threat and stayed far away…

But, everything was flowing and working as it should. Animals stayed away from the unknown and yet the baby birds who know me, come and look at me. They sing and dance in all the trees. Not a worry in the world…

Nature seems to have a handle on the earth. I do wish that us humans had even a inkling of the ability to be part of nature…

Everywhere I walk, I find signs of man…

Broken bottle, candy wrapper, crushed beer can, bulldozer tears in the ground, a backhoe remains that dug a ditch, old power poles, old equipment almost rotted away and a million other things. All of it is man made waste that uses resources in a wasteful way…

The fox has a home, dug by himself and we call it a fox hole. The deer bed down deep in the woods at night. The eagles build nests, huge nests, and reuse them every year. The baby birds eat the seeds from all the weeds, they do not think that weeds are weeds, the weeds are food. The ducks are getting ready to have their families and the grouchy hedgehog that I found also this morning is even grouchier than I am. If that is possible!

Us humans scare the earth and we use up resources for the rest of the planet as if the resources are endless…

I definitely do not think that us humans are natural to this planet and I realize that earth would be balanced and peaceful if we were not here. You realize that nothing on this planet would miss us if we disappeared, well except possibly cats and dogs who have been domesticated to the point of total reliance upon us…

But the wolf, hedgehog, fox, eagle and the bear could careless if we disappeared. They would thrive and balance with the rest of nature, as would the tiny little sparrows…

When I walk among nature and see the beauty that is there, how it will finally erase our remains after we leave. It would be as if in some many years, we would never have existed…

Really I do not think we humans are natural and good for earth…

Really we seem to not be from the natural earth!

WtR

Those that have an issue with trying to follow the traditions for Easter due to the Coronavirus may follow the following…

On the Great Saturday before Easter, Orthodox Christians traditionally go to the temple and consecrate (bless) Easter cakes, Easter and eggs. But this year, due to the coronavirus epidemic, many will not have such an opportunity. Therefore, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill blessed to allow home consecrate of the Easter meal for those who so desire.

Here’s how to do it: sing the troparion of Easter “Christ is risen from the dead, / amends death by death / to those who give life to the grave in tombs” three times, then sprinkle it with consecrated water (if any) with the words: “In the name of the Father and the Son and Of the Holy Spirit. Amen”.

https://www.mk.ru/video/2020/04/17/svyashhennik-pokazal-kak-osvyatit-kulichi-i-paskhi-doma.html

2020 is a strange year, is it not?

WtR

Besides going to take a walk this morning for the first time in two days?

It has snowed and rained for almost three days straight. But right now the weather has softened and it stopped raining. I will hope to take advantage of that and have a walk this morning, but until then lets see how lazy I have been…

Our barn has no cross bracing…

I finally figured out how and what to stabilize our barn with. It hit me after much research that the designs of a typical village barn is a very and I mean very piss poor design. I am confused as to why they would build such huge buildings with such a lack of cross bracing….yet it is the norm for 90% of the village barns I am seeing…

Thus, if given a chance they lean and get unstable easily. Ours was built on a slope and they never even compensated for that slope. Just build it flat on the slope and when new it had to have leaned, yet they did not care…

Now I am not able to pull the barn back upright, yet I am able to stabilize it where it is at. Money and equipment available designates that I utilize what I have and since the barn is still very viable, yet leaning some, I can solidify it in place for reasonable money and one person can do it…

The biggest issue is getting eight 4.25 meter big beams to install as cross braces. I will brace from the front top to the bottom back and create long bolts from threaded rod. Then I can brace from the diagonal beam to the front bottom corner and since the building is already leaning, this will create a new support section for the whole building. The logs for the foundation are about a foot across across and all I have to do is tie into those…

On the front of the barn, the previous owner Nikolai had attempted to brace with wood beams and four steel cross members. The steel cross members look like the frame from an old Soviet combine that the village had dismembered many years ago. They are seriously stout….I will reset these steel beams in concrete and keep them angled against the building as more insurance to the leaning issue. The steel beams are not doing anything right now and the wood beams are all rotted and crumbling…

All this work could have been for naught if when they built the barn, they would have just installed cross braces and created a reinforcement against side to side sheer forces…

I will not be bored…

Yesterday, while it snowed and rained, something interesting happened. Half of the homes electricity stopped working….yes it has been working fine. Yet out of the blue, I was hunting down an issue with the electricity…

Four hours later I had it fixed…

I have no idea how it had worked all these years, but the house was wired wrong. I finally found an obscured connection box and found that someone had wired, well to say the least, wired half-ass backwards. So while it rained and the wind blew like a tornado, I turned off the mains and rewired half the house…

I saw a few days ago that there was a slight flicker in some lights and was worrying about that and now I found the issue. It all works good now and I am still at odds as to how it worked at all…

You got me!

Going to put in two gardens, if it ever stops snowing and raining….One at our Nikolai’s home, big potato patch and one at Sveta’s mothers home. That one will be carrots, lettuce, beets, onions and garlic. Maybe a few tomato’s to give a little help with eating all the lettuce…

As soon as Old man Winter goes to sleep, I will do my gardens…

I still have to acquire seed potatoes and garlic. The rest I have already…

My computer set up in Nikolai’s home…

If you wonder where I write all my dribble from in the Tiny Russian Village?

This image is so true and so many ignore that Trump is this way… (Sveta sent this to me.)

LOL…so true and exactly what I knew he would be like…

When you are given evil in two variations and you have only those two to vote for!

Trump is what you get and or you would have Hillary and God forbid she would be president…

But evil is evil and stupid is stupid and we get what we allow in our lives…. LOL

USA = Iceberg…

I am going to go walk and look at the animals…

Have a nice day!

WtR

Woe is we, the webs we weave and yet we still run into the web and it is right in front of our face…

Much like the ABC report, the Channel 12 story alleges the US government was provided the information, yet “did not deem it of interest,” also stating Israeli health officials were made aware, but still “nothing was done” to prepare for the impending pandemic. “US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November.” https://t.co/mLOj0oz7PS How reassuring to know that both Trump and Netanyahu were warned about the Covid19 epidemic in *NOVEMBER* and neither did anything about it! — Tikun Olam (@richards1052) April 16, 2020

Source: Israeli TV says US intel warned IDF & NATO of coronavirus threat in NOVEMBER 2019, doubling down on claims dismissed by… US intel — RT World News

And after following links? It is true…

US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China already in November, Israeli television reported Thursday.According to Channel 12 news, the US intelligence community became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan in the second week of that month and drew up a classified document. US intelligence informed the Trump administration, “which did not deem it of interest,” but the report said the Americans also decided to update two allies with the classified document: NATO and Israel, specifically the IDF.

Source: US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China ingirl November — report | The Times of Israel

So we definitely knew about it in November and sat around acting like the party was all that mattered…

All the people in the Western Empire blaming China is why China will win. Men must accept responsibilities and try to do things to help their people. Be it a home, village, town, city, region and or country. Most people in the Western Empire are now just little children in the sandbox, who blame everyone for everything. But themselves, when no one wants to play with them and or they lie to mommy and daddy…

The truth will come out, even though the US (Western Empire) is trying real hard to cover that truth up…

Web of lies…

WtR

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273

Good video on this info…

For numerous decades, the American government has essentially been available for purchase, consistently going to the highest bidder. As a result, many Americans have tended to overlook this truth, as it is the simpler option. Thus, they often react with surprise when they learn that another country has gained influence over them…

In these circumstances, one might as well prepare a sizable bowl of popcorn and find amusement in the ridiculousness. If you opt not to do this, you may end up feeling quite frustrated. The choice is yours. Would you rather spend your time in laughter or in bitterness?

WtR

Purple flowers bloomed so wonderful and then Old Man Winter decided he did not like them and snowed all over our parade in the Tiny Russian Village…

Going to rain and snow for three days….two more days to go!

Go away Old Man Winter!

I love purple flowers…

WtR

Slept good, snowy, cold and coffee is superb and a thought struck me…

In 2006 I moved out of the US and found a world that hardly anyone in America knows about. I could not go back and live in America. The curtailing of freedoms that I would have to adjust to would be very depressing. – KK

Time to end any and all ties with the land of chaos…

WtR

Truth is truth, no matter who says it…

“The president is showing us his political playbook: blame the WHO, blame China, blame his political opponents, blame his predecessors – do whatever it takes to deflect from the fact that his administration mismanaged this crisis,” said Democratic representative Eliot Engel.

USA cuts WHO funding!

Don’t Play It…

Just making sure that isolation does happen against the USA…

I have talked several times about this and about how the US always blames everyone, but that person in the mirror…

This is a real world issue and it is looking like the US is more and more guilty everyday of shenanigans in the involvement about this Coronavirus issue…

Very sad to be proven correct and very sad to see a once great country stoop so low that even the gutter is tall and proud…

WtR

Just some images as I walk and stuff…

Snowing today and they say tomorrow also. Will work inside the home today. Finished our kitchen sink and will shave at it today. Nice having modern, well kinda modern things… 😉

Have a nice day…

WtR