Took a very long walk this morning, about two hours. It is so wonderful here in the Tiny Russian Village and I just had to go out to see the wildlife. I saw two deer, thousands of sparrows, two eagles and of course our dozen or so ravens. I wonder if they all miss Boza? I know I do…
I walked the lake bed, but it is almost too wet still to walk very easy. It is still interesting and I have to clean my shoes, for they seem to have gathered a bit of sandy mud…
Well I gotta get going. things do not get done by wishing for them to get done. That would be nice, though…
An RT Arabic crew peeked inside the US compound in Syria’s Manbij, abandoned by the Americans just a few hours previously. Footage from the scene suggests the US troops were in a hurry, leaving behind hardware and personal items.The troops pulled out of the base, located southwest of the northern city of Manbij, overnight and into Tuesday. The retreat follows the decision by the US President Donald Trump to withdraw American personnel in the face of the Turkish operation against Kurdish-led militias.
Looks like something from a Hollywood movie. The whole town of people just disappeared. I dunno what happened…
Main thing is that this is an illegal base within Syrian borders. We were not invited and we just invaded a country against their wishes…
Lots of good stuff to be had in that base….it should make you think about our actions in other countries….We could use some of that expendable tax money tossed our way. Seems to be an abundance of it…
Last night Svetochka hopped the train to Moscow and she is safe back home. I am alone again in The Tiny Russian Village and realize that I woke with no pain from arthritis and started to line out what I have to do to get winterized at our two Russian Village Homes…
In about two weeks Svetochka will comeback by train and after a few more days in the village, we will drive back to Moscow. In between for now, I will heal and get ready for winter. TRV is the place I go to get peace and quiet…
Svetochka saw first hand how I was able to toss off the constant and nagging pain and even dance again. Well dance as good as an old grouchy bear is able to at this old age…
Life is good…
Just wish my sweetpea was here all the time. Someday we will live here permanently, but until then I will work and get the things that need and have to be done….done…
I have talked about the water situation many times in our village and now after a summer of turmoil and people complaining and people being made to start paying for water. He he he….the local government has really messed stuff up… (Local government means the government from a nearby much bigger village. Since Vova is the only true full time villager now at our TRV…)
They put the water on a timer and run the wells everyday. The wells overflow and dump thousands of gallons of wasted water all over the ground and the electricity usage has gone off the scale. This is the electricity issue that the local government screamed about, saying that Vova was using too much…
So now that they think they have money coming in and are smarter than Vova and Kyle the American. They waste water and waste electricity,because they do not want to come out and push a button everyday. It is too far and too hard to get to our village…
Vova demanded payment to do the wells and instead of giving him a few thousand rubles a month they waste tens of thousands of rubles every month…
Sounds very governmental, does it not?
Sveta and I got a very important thing accomplished yesterday…
We got our two properties surveyed…
This has taken months to get done. Just like doing anything in Russia with the government, time is the most important thing. Money is not the issue, for literally everything you do is dirt cheap. But time has to be accepted as the true monetary outlay…
But, it happened and we have surveyed our new home and all of its land that should go with it and surveyed Svetochka’s mother property and all additions that were added over the years….if all works good, maybe within two years and or three years, Our homes will be totally legal in the Russian governments eyes…
As it is, I would be able to say that we have the only two properties in our village that are close to legal. The old Soviet ways are still strong in the boondocks. No one cared or needed to have papers on anything. You claimed it and owned it and if you needed more land to grow food, you fenced it off and acted like it was yours… 😉
This was the way you did it, because going through all the trouble to title stuff was such a pain in the ass…
Life is good!
Interesting tidbit: Almost all laws and rules that I had to deal with in America to get, obtain and keep property are exactly the same as they are in Russia. So to Svetochka’s surprise, I know what has to be done and in what order it has to be done. she knows how to work the system and with my knowledge of past usage of said systems, we get it done. Slowly but done…
I miss my sweetpea this morning and wish she was here…
Made it down to the Tiny Russian Village safe and sound…
In a few days I will post some images. The village is in mourning right now. The last full time occupant from the very old days has died. She was 92 years old and thus the village is quiet right now with her passing. I respect such times and will not run around and gather images of all the strangers and such…
I hope to see 92 years myself. Doubtful, but I can hope. It was just a few years ago that she still put in a huge potatoes garden and dug up all those potatoes planted, by herself. Image at 90 years old living by yourself and still be able to keep chickens, goats and grow all your and the families food. By yourself!
She was born in this Tiny Russian Village and lived here all her life. Worked the communal farm and then she worked at the school for the deaf and blind located here…
But….TRV is at the edge of winter. we have this week to get winterized and we will see next week roll in at freezing temperatures. That means all plants have to be covered, such as roses and water barrels out away. Winter does not wait for any fools in Russia…
Maybe I will see 90 and still be able to plant the garden?
Knowing how to get by and make things in life is part of survival of that life…
The most common broom you will find just about anywhere in Russia is a broom made from tree limbs. Brush type trees growing wild are the best. I watch as they cut limbs from stumps, trying to growing after the tree is cut down. They have certain trees they use that seem to make the best brooms…
It is the Russian way and they all have factory made brooms. They just do not like to use them…
I remember years ago an American man griping to me about his new Russian/Ukraine wife. He bought her tons of special newfangled cleaning stuff and she refused to use anything but what she was use to and made herself, she even cleaned the floor on her knees….it broke them up as a couple. Sad really, she new the best way to do things and did it…
It is interesting to see how many times they use one handle from a factory made broom and keep that broom handle in use for many years. It also cleans up scrub branches and puts them to use. Instead of tossing them into the dumpsters…
This is and that is Russia…and that is why when the %$#* hits the fan. They will survive and meany will not…
Russia Gate and it ensuing manipulated Hysteria. Is in its simplicity just a deflection from the fact that it’s the US government that is the one guilty of these very acts contained within the hysteria of the Russia Gate premise…
Download the PDF below in the link and have a read. Grab some coffee and or tea and sit awhile. It is 121 pages of truth…
HYSTERIA”If American democracy is destroyed within the next generation, it will not be destroyed by the Russians or the Chinese but by ourselves, by the very means we use to defend it”. – Senator J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT“American Militarism”, 1970, Epilogue
“It is an attempt to lay the blame at someone else’s door. This is not our problem. The problem is in US politics… The other team lost. They are reluctant to acknowledge the mistake. It is easier to say, “We are not to blame, the Russians are to blame, they interfered in our election.” It reminds me of anti-Semitism: the Jews are to blame for everything. We know what such sentiments can lead to. They lead to nothing good. The thing to do is simply to work and think of how to get things right”. VLADIMIR PUTIN President of the Russian Federation, (in response to a question from American journalist Megyn Kelly at the plenary meeting of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, June 2, 2017)
We are not enjoying the current developments, but we did not start it. It is stretching the truth to say that this is the punishment for Ukraine and Crimea. It all began back under President Barack Obama, long before Washington launched its “colour revolution” project in Ukraine. It began with Edward Snowden, who was stuck in Russia because he could not fly anywhere –his passport was cancelled. The US President, the Secretary of State and the FBI and CIA directors put pressure on us to surrender him without delay. We said we could not do so because all the accompanying information indicated that he was facing the death penalty. This is why Obama banned bilateral contacts and cancelled his visit ahead of the G20 summit in St Petersburg. By the way, we were preparing for that meeting an agreement on the further reduction of strategic offensive arms, which should have followed on the 2010 Prague Treaty, as well as a declaration that set out an agenda on strategic stability for many years to come. Obama’s inability to forgo personal resentment buried a very important document, which could have been put to very good use now.
It is Americans themselves who are destroying their own political system, even the very society structure and the whole country. They are doing it with their own hands, their own paranoid schizophrenia form of mindset and it is done merrily, without consideration for the consequences…
They even vote in support of their own ruination: without any assistance from a “foreign enemy”…
It took me three days, but after a bit of rewiring and alternator bracket jimmy rigging, I accomplished in putting a high amp alternator on Sammy the Volga….I even wired the tachometer to work at the same time…
I was able to install an alternator with 30 + more amps available (60 amp stock to 90 – 100 amps) and now it looks like we will have many less issues. Got power to spare for all the accessories. The only thing I will do in the Tiny Russian Village is to run a separate plug to allow Svetochka to be able to boil water for her tea…
Now that is living the High Life…
Once I discovered and it sunk in my thick head that it is the same alternator (With a bit of modification.) as fits a Citroen, Fiat, Peugeot and or a 3102 & 3110 Volga. I was able to search and find a very good price on an alternator. Thank goodness for Alibaba in China…
4400 rubles is what it cost us to get Sammy the Volga fixed. That is $67 give or take according to the day we bought it. You get use to daily variances in price after a few years. It is a learning process to buy at the exact moment, for if you buy smart, you will save many dollars….this alternator cost over $100 normally…
It is always something and I had fun doing it. Even if it was freezing cold outside the whole time… 😉
Putin was born on 7 October, 1952 in Leningrad… (That is now Saint Petersburg.)
Putin took some very rare time off and walked in the Taiga woods in Russia’s Siberia. Putin is a leader who loves his countryside as well as his people. Live long and strong Mr President…
