Up at 5 a.m. and walked Boza. Sveta is snoozing away after a long day yesterday to get to our Tiny Russian Village. I expect she will sleep to noon and then I will fix her breakfast or lunch at that point and we will plan our day… Vova and his LADA 4X4 Niva made […]
This is what 18 liters of benzine, Father Pavel of the Monastery and Vova calling every hour will help get done. I keep almost a full can of fuel all the time and they asked for benzine, not money, to get the job done. That is the way of the villages; vodka is money, potatoes […]
Boza and I took a very long walk this morning. I do not know how the day will fall, but somehow I have to get Sveta from the train station, even if I walk to the highway and walk to the big village. Actually lets hope I do not have to do that! 😉 But, […]
-27 yesterday for a low and -20 called for tomorrow as a low but, today +3 – OMG! Seriously, what a roller coaster ride… The snow is melting like crazy and when it freezes tonight at -11, I will be able to walk on the ice surface, which leads to another whole bunch of issues […]
Russian Window #3 (PDF) Web page: https://openclipart.org/detail/236997/russian-window-3 This is one of my posts today… By this time tomorrow over a thousand people will see this and hopefully a few of you will visit his site and look around. He has some great artwork and I see that he is growing in talent as the time […]
These images are this morning after the fridged cold yesterday and last night. The sky is clear, the wind is blowing hard and it is officially -27 C (around -17 F) when I took these images. Now the strange thing; It will get up to -2 this afternoon, talk about a temperature swing! The second […]
For the last two days I have been digging everything out. I know more snow is coming, but it makes it easier for the next time. I even cut a path so that Boza can run around the yard some (and he took advantage of it as he ran and ran) and I cleared the […]
I called Sveta and told her what I saw; I was watching two people walk across the lake bed. It is -25 below zero and the two people were an 80 year old babushka and her granddaughter of around 18 years old. They belong in the White Home as I call it. The granddaughter is […]
Really it is not, but that is what everyone wants to hear. I get e-mails wishing that I would die and or freeze to death. Sad really… I am so happy; Sveta is coming the 14th and it looks like she will have to take a taxi to the bus stop out on the main […]
It is going to get brutally cold by tonight, looks like it might hit -30 out here in the wilderness. I have to stack wood and shovel two feet of snow that fell last night. Boza decided that it was not fit for man or beast this morning and after taking a pee at the […]