Category: Russia

Which comes first?

I am heating the water to make a cup of coffee. Boza and I got up early and walked around to see what is up and going on. Not much really, when there is only 3 people living in the village, not a whole bunch happens exciting at any moment. So while the water is heating, I started to write, but now I hear the tell tell bubbling, hissing and gurgling noise that the kettle makes and I need to get my second cup of coffee…

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There that is better! I noticed that the winter has been long and I am able to tell by the amount of coffee I have left in the cabinet. I still have a lot, but I have used a lot. If you remember, I stocked up before prices got out of hand and most of the coffee I am using now is from about one to two years ago…

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Speaking of prices and stocking items; The good little puppet Obama has just extended the sanctions against Russia for another year. As an American, I say that sucks and we are stupid and self-destructive. I also say that Obama (and or anyone who is or who was in past the president in the US) can not be classified as anyone who controls his own policies and the fact that he is president of the USA makes me realize how screwed up and corrupt the complete political system is in the US…. Dammit people, we need to get our government under control. We are in deep recession (never left recession and or actually depression) and do you think sanctioning other countries that potentially could buy things is a good idea? Stupid is the word that comes to mind…

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I had to laugh at the media in America. The news is running story after story about people are  going to leave the US and go to Canada! They make it sound like a terrible thing to want to leave the USA. LOL – I like it…

Poor Canada is all I can say…

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I discovered recently that people in the USA are crybabies and they all want their way. Simply look at what is said and being done about Trump for president and you can see the whole range of antipathetic individuals express themselves and they are all crying and whining. I have been most amazed at the neocons and the tears just run from their eyes, as they try to understand how their world is collapsing and why we must have war, war and more WAR!

There would not be a whimper if Cruz, Rubio or Bush was able to make a stand. But Bush faded and Rubio and Cruz are fighting for second place. Now Hillary! She is a neocon dream and what ever! Hey vote democrat, that will show Trump and the democrats love war as much as republicans…

I rest my point about if there is any difference between political parties? NOPE!

Our warmonger is as good as your warmonger in a pinch…

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It is sad, but the western media is attacking Brazil just like they did Russia over the Olympics. The pathetic attacks have started and the making mountains of molehills is in full swing. This my friend is the epitome of the western world and the world would be a better place if someone would simply turn off the volume switch to the “Fat Lady Singing In the USA…”

Western Media attitude summed up: “Brazil sucks and the Olympics will suck there to…”

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Have a nice day and I feel great after getting all that off my mind… 😉

Oh and the question I asked at the beginning!

Coffee has to come first, for without coffee there is no thinking to begin with…

WtR

Terrible snow storm, rain, sleet, hail, wind and tons of snow. Storm that had it all…

The internet provider, which is also the cellphone provider, got squished, squashed and smashed evidently at its tower nearby. Since we are too far from civilization for other towers to take over, we were silenced effectively for the day. I had an occasional connection, but that only lasted for 30 to 60 seconds at a time…

Woke to this…

Then we went back in until good daylight and went out later for a long walk and found the Fish guys were bulldozing a smaller lake nearby. They left before we got there, but found what they had done while it stormed. Strange, they worked in the storm for almost two days and when it all quit, they left and definitely are not finished…

I am glad to see them doing this repair work. The lakes have not been filled properly for years and I guess someone decided to increase production by doing some maintenance work…

Boza and I walked this dam several times and I saw why the lakes were not filled all the way. The original dam was collapsing and the lakes would easily become one lake. Kind of hard to keep different species of fish separate that way…

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Moving slow today. Boza and I walked in the storm for almost three hours and today I feel it. Boza and I got up at 4:30 a.m. but went back to bed and now I am paying for sleeping extra. I am one of those people that when I wake, I get up, but if I fall asleep again, I almost ruin my day with sluggishness…

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Yesterday, I really did some thinking as I walked. My thoughts were toward the elections in America. I decided that this is my last thought about them, because seriously, they are not worth the time and or place to think about them. In fact thinking about the USA in general is worthless, for it has become a barrel of simple minded monkeys and they all fight over the last banana on the tree…

There is simply no way that I could ever accept Hillary Clinton as president and Trump? Well he is a billionaire, but what does that mean in the scheme of life. Billionaires are only billionaires because they know how to destroy the opposition. I know about destruction and undermining the opposition and someone like Trump will do what it takes to get the job done and damn those who get in the way. A self made man will not allow anyone to hinder his upward movement…

What is wrong with Hillary? Well lets put it this way. My feelings were right about Obama, Bill Clinton, Regan, Bush (1 & 2,) Carter and more. I have not been wrong yet about what an electable person will be like in office. I have a system and it works kind of like this. I see how my first reaction to them is, then I watch them as they do their work, job, campaign and or whatever. Obama is a perfect example, I watched him for two weeks and it became clear that he was bad news and BAD NEWS with capital letters. I was right…

Hillary is bad news and I mean BAD NEWS twice over and if she is president, we will wish for God to come save us. And I promise you; He will not save us from our own Folly…

If you think Bill Clinton was bad (and you should,) then when you meet the pants of their family Hillary Clinton, you ain’t seen nothing yet…

Actually we might be better off electing Bernie and allow him to be another Carter, for we need a break from destruction and Bernie would most likely keep that at a minimal? I don’t know, I really find him generic in many aspects and that may be good…

But I would not vote for anyone of them and this time I will not go through the process to vote. Heaven forbid if a person who has been outside of America for 10 years, should really give a damn who you elect. For the US has become way to weird for me and way to destructive, all in my lifetime…

Enough said about the US election process and I am done thinking about it. I do now believe that whoever is elected? Then we got who we deserve. Whether it is by cheating or legit, we will get who we deserve for we do not care enough to make sure it is done properly in the first place. We allow all kinds of rules and stipulations to cloud the issues and process, for we do not care and will never care…

This sums up how I feel and is good enough for me…

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160302/1035681348/next-us-president.html

“Politics today is about one thing and one thing only: maintaining the status quo between the Controllers (the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the corporate elite) and the Controlled (the taxpayers),” Whitehead writes in his article for The Rutherford Institute website.

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Gotta go walk Boza, he is giving me those sad doggy eyes and I have to make him happy. Have a nice day…

WtR

This morning I woke up and Boza and I ran outside to walk…

We stepped into an alternate world as we exited the door and found that winter had decided we were bad and snowed all over our parade. It was only -4 this morning, but still, what is the deal with the snow? Oh, who cares?

So Boza and I walked and walked and I took one picture. I did not have the energy to take more pictures of snow and more snow… 😉

Does it look like our car is going anywhere soon?

Though to be fair, it will get warmer this week and stay that way for at least a week. Cross your fingers…

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Father Pavel made it to the bell tower and his church. I had a long talk with him and to be honest, he is growing on me. I really like him and find him honest and interesting. I am a good judge of character, after interviewing many thousands and thousands of applicants for management positions in America, I have acquired a sense about people…

He is not perfect and some people have some issues with him, but we are all human and that is what makes us interesting. He tries and what he does, says and lives is Orthodox and we could do much worse than follow the Orthodox faith. He tries and that is what counts…

He is in an interesting position in life and he has to act one way around the women who adore him, another way toward the guys who follow his teachings and I see another side of him as he communicates with me and does not have to hold an pretenses or expectations around me. I am an American and he can let his hair down so to say. It makes conversing with him a man to man, instead of man to godliness interaction and I really think he enjoys such times and interchanges…

To be honest, I am studying the Orthodox faith and find it a breath of fresh air. I will see what my future brings and how my faith in God develops. I believe that how we believe in God and how we have expectations of religion is a personal issue and not for anyone to tell me to toe the line. Thus, I may believe what I see, but that is between God and I. For my belief is a personal issue with God…

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It seems history repeats itself, for I see a Holy War happening in the world right now. This is the same Holy War that has been going on since time began for us and came to a head around 1095. Nothing like a good long war to keep things hopping around the world…

Western driven Holy Wars were called the Crusades, which propagated from around 1095 until about 1291 CE. The purpose was to take the desired by all religious places in the Holy Land from the Muslims and or any others, who lived there, so it was intended as a war(s) to right wrongs done against Christianity? I question my accuracy on this…

Looks a whole bunch like these wars are still going on, at least in enough peoples minds to disturb the flow of life on this planet…

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I have discovered that I am not able to eat white bread anymore. In fact it seems better to not eat any bread anymore. I seem to have a wheat intolerance and it includes pastas and processed cereals. I have stopped bread and have had tremendous results to the better in bloating, bowel issues and gas issues…

But I love bread… 🙁

Life marches on…

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The three ring circus the US has for a political system is reaching epic proportions. In fact a three ring circus is not good enough to call it anymore. Looks like US politics and or presidency makes “Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus” look weak and pathetic. They would be proud to have such a circus to utilize to spread among the masses…

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Gotta go, I am going to read today. Just too much snow and it keeps on falling…

WtR

Woke up all groggy, the weather changed last night. It hit -15 below zero and then screamed literally upward in a few hours to -6. I was messed up and dimwitted. Some say dimwitted all the time, but this morning it was true. Then a cup of java and checking the e-mail and Boza and I went off to walk the wintry world we live in…

Sometimes the best images come from my cheap cellphone. It seems to catch what I see better and it seems to put color correct, when color is such a small spot in the grey white world I live in. That color is important, for it is what drives the senses and makes sparks of happiness inside your soul…

One day I will be able to drive out again. It is okay though, life is so much more than just driving and going somewhere. Life is what you make of where you are at, at that moment. Life is good even when life seems to be crushing you to death…

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Food is not an issue anymore. The need for food has decreased considerably and my body has adjusted to consuming less. If I eat too much, then I feel sluggish for hours. I have learned to eat what I crave and not what we are taught we should eat constantly. I have not had a craving for McDonald’s in a very long time and when I do go to the store, only certain foods meet what I need. Cottage Cheese is very important, bread has become nil and makes me feel sick anymore. Mandarins are the cats meow (little know fact: Russians just love mandarins and you can find them literally at any store, big or small.) peanuts are dirt cheap in Russia and my mainstay when I walk. The last time I drank a small can of diet coke, I was sure I would throw up and my body did not like it. I am sure that eating a Big Mac would devastate my insides at this point…

We eat too much and need much less than what we eat to comfort ourselves. If you work hard, your body will ask for more, but when we sit and play video games, our body asks out of boredom…

I realize that I am in an extreme situation, but it has dawned on me that your body asks for what it needs. Such as extra, vitamin D when the sun is almost non existent. Thus cottage cheese and cheese is in demand. Vitamin C is demanded from long days of isolation and limited varieties of food and thus citrus fruit is expected…

As I write this, I am spitting mandarin seeds in a small cup… 🙂

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I installed a very powerful outside light yesterday. It worked perfect, but I have to get an outdoor breaker box to wire in the system. I need to run an outside line to have electrical usage where I need it. Such as the chicken coop, wood shed, outhouse and usage in general…

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Well I need to go. I have tons of work to do on my websites, outside and I am trying to draw up plans to rebuild the outhouse, chicken coop and where to put a wood shed. I also have to start splitting wood and stacking for next winter. I can not understand anyone who could be board in life, with so much to be done. I am waiting patiently for the snow to melt so that I can turn the garden over and get it ready. I have so much to do and not enough time to get it done…

I guess that is life…

WtR

Got the washing machine out and washed some clothes. I guess I was being sadistic, for it was cold and my hands went numb. But I got clothes done and clean. Yes I waited until the clouds cleared and the sun came out finally…

Notice how Boza tries to keep an eye on his ball? I do not know why he does not trust me and accept the fact that I would never get his ball! Well — except when he is not looking… 😉

So I sneaked his ball away from him and we played for a half hour. It is called chase the ball and keep me from getting it. What a mean guy I am…

Now Boza is inside and sleeping! I guess I wore him out…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Long walk for Boza and I, just looking at the Tiny Russian Village on this snowy cold day…

WtR

Putin is serious and this is the red line that he has set. Watch and realize what being a leader is about. He tells it like it is and look carefully; He means business and the Russian people are abreast of what is going on. Russians are not being kept in the dark… (Unlike Plan B by the USA! ~Sarc~)

Time to end the crap in Syria and time to end the crap all over the world…

WtR

Yesterday…

This morning…

Spring sprung and bounced back. That is Russia for you, but it is started and will soon become spring…

They are filling the lake as you read this. The water is backing up and soon we will have a full lake. then come the carp and summer is going. I have said before, spring is short, fall is very short, summer is sometimes either way and winter is the ruler of seasons here…

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This really is an appropriately named village. Sunrise to Freedom just fits and when we spent three hours walking this morning, Boza and I decided that to not be free is a death sentence. I truly would rather die than be caged again. I have been caged many times and enduring anymore locked doors is not in the picture of life anymore…

I guess as long as someone thinks they are free, well that is just okay. I use to think I was free and all that stuff we are fed as we grow up. But now I know what freedom is and it is perfect and a state of the mind, body and soul…

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At -10 this morning and it was just plain beautiful and the sun came out. If the sun stays out, I will get out the washing machine and wash clothes today. Winter is long and hard on clothes, for you wash something and if it can not stay inside with you, it hardly ever dries. Also washing by hand is not they same as by a machine…

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Russia is doing something and Russia is up to something. The something is called gold…

I am watching over the years and now daily, the increase and production in gold and the buying of gold on a continual process. The Russian communist party has just announced the desire to make the ruble gold backed and I think we are seeing the start of the rumblings of a new monetary backed system. Actually not new, but revision of the older better system, that use to be in place in the world…

China is in on this process and the process entails dropping the US dollar from the picture. i mean dumping the dollar and not even carry ant dollars in the basket, so to speak. It is war and the US started it out of fear. Fear of lack of control and fear of independence and fear of too much liberty and the fear of to much freedom…

I have talked about this before and will again, but it is happening and is happening in our lifetime…

Scared is the west at such thoughts, for they really do not have any gold. They act like they do, but they have mostly paper certificates and the hold in your hand and cuddle type of gold is almost non-existent…

The east has gold, gold that you can touch, see, feel and taste if you so desire. Gold rush is coming and the west has sold all theirs and or printed paper to act like it is gold…

Just watch…

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I guess this is long enough today. i could write all day, but I have other things to do. Boza and walked and since the sun is shining and the weather perfect, I will work outside today. Besides, Boza wants to play ball and that sounds like an even more perfect thing to do…

Have a nice day…

WtR

This morning at 5:30 a.m. I got up and found that the world outside was dark, dreary, foggy and wet! Then I decided to get up and Boza and I went outside to check on the wild creatures that wonder through our yard at times and the woods nearby. The world is full of creatures that like to check on us and tell us that they have lived here, much longer than we have…

Something happened before bedtime last night and I will talk about that in a minute…

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First I will talk about what I found after we came back in to decided what we will do; Sleep some more or get coffee?

I fired up the internet and made a cup of coffee, this is the same internet that had given me trouble the night before and as I was wondering if everything would work? For I had switched it back to the WiFi modem and was not sure that all would work as it had been. It worked and all was good…

Then I started my e-mail and found a couple of donations. Thus as I was humbled in happiness…

First I will thank everyone who is donating and want people to realize that this is extremely important for my survival in the Tiny Russian Village. I have been in Russia many years (10) and have spent most of the time recovering from six heart attacks in the U.S. and a brain tumor, that almost killed me through chemo and that helped bring on the heart attacks on top of everything…

These last few years I have finally recovered enough to kick a bunch more pills and get back in shape. I found a Russian village home owned by Svetochka’s mother and the family has allowed me to stay in the village and actually live there most of the year. I have to leave and such at times, but most of my life is now in the Russian village…

My money that I had when I came to Russia all went to Sveta’s family for a purchase of a flat and that was all good. I could stay in Moscow for the rest of my life, but Moscow was really hard on this country boy and I was suffering and could never heal completely. Then I decided, with permission, to try living in the Tiny Russian Village. I started to heal and grow stronger everyday. I found an even better human living around me and in Moscow they are very good people, but in the village, they are deep old soul people and have accepted me with open arms. Just as Svetochka and her family has done in the past…

The reason that I am thoughtful upon this subject this morning is that I am trying to survive and get back on my feet. Sveta will sacrifice all she has for me, for she loves me deeply and I her. But at times people have to prove things to themselves and surviving in a Tiny Russian Village is not easy, at the best of times…

I have finally succeeded in starting a small online store. http://cellphoneofday.com/ – This store is in Sveta’s name, for my country is virtually the only country in the world that abuses people who try to better themselves and taxing us who lives outside of America is their way of making us feel loved… 🙁

This store brings in enough for very basic living and anything more is out of reach. That is all fine and it is my choice to live in Russia and such. (Though Russia and her wonderful cheap healthcare has gotten me back on my feet and was worth coming here for.) Therefore, I am trying to build a base for surviving in Russia, if things go bad in the worst way. The store is a godsend and helps me accomplish the same as a pensioner in Russia and that I can live on. But no extra, like website domains and hosting costs; though dreaming is always there, as I work on the store and imagine, sales and good money to survive comfortably and not burden Svetochka and her family…

Thus, when I get a donation and the donation is not specific for something, I can put that donation to use to help ease the budget. I realized that the donations are important and it gives me a feel for who is reading and what they see. Though I never dreamed that I would ask for money, but in this world I live in now, my past does not pay anymore and my future is what I make of it. My government has sliced off any help it should give and that is fine, for it was my choice and I do not want ties to the Uncle Nipple of life and Liberty…

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Emotions are funny things…

I cried when I received the donations this morning! I think it was because, yesterday, I was down and out with the weather and my arthritis has given me a fever. I spent yesterday chilled and burning up, all day long. I have a real issue with when my arthritis fares up and I wake in the night in sweats. It is hard on me and I have yet to figure out what to do. It is the main thing that the village does not help living in. Everything else is much better…

People send me suggestions, but nothing helps…

But here is why I cried…

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Last night Boza and I heard a noise at bedtime. We went out to investigate and found Hooty the Hoot Owl sitting on top our biggest tree again. He was screeching at the top of his lungs and Boza decided to tell him to shut up and go away…

The owl started to screech at Boza and Boza was barking to beat the band. It was Boza, growling and jumping at the tree trunk and in the top of the tree, was the owl, flapping his wings and telling Boza to shut up also. I could hear at least four more Hoot Owls in the woods nearby and everyone was yelling at everyone else… 😉

It was a real Three Ring Circus and was more fun than a barrel of monkeys dancing all around…

Then I had enough and yelled at everyone involved in this caper and off flew the owl, the woods got quiet and Boza went, “ruff ruff” one more time and with his tail curled over his back, went inside and said, “Thanks dad we took care of that and time for bed now!”

Then this morning as I received the donations, I realized that there is nowhere else on earth that I want to be. That I have to make it somehow and every Hoot Owl, Hedge Hog, Fox, Rabbit and a hundred other things and its, are why I am healing and getting better everyday…

It is a miracle, for when you have been on the operating table, been in emergency rooms dying. When they have to hit you with those paddles to start your heart and operate to save your life. Then your outlook changes, the way you see things change…

I know that if I want to live a long life, I have to figure out how to make it here in this Tiny Russian Village and do it for myself…

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I had tears in my eyes as I received a donation for an article I wrote awhile back. I said once to someone who wanted to blog, “You write about what you love, you talk about what makes you who you are and they will come to read! You just have to be honest about what you say and what you do!”

My heart has been stolen by Russia and a little lady named Svetochka has been the catalyst that began that. I owe my heart and soul to Sveta and her saving my life at a time that was the darkest in which I had endured…

Somewhere in that time frame, Russia became my home…

WtR

It is snowing and raining at the same time. Boza and I went to try to walk and Boza decided before me to turn around and get safe back home. The new day is grumpy and we are grumpy and we are sad. But why?

Sveta left and it takes us a day to get happy again. It looks as if the weather and sun is in the same mood and therefore, we all will be grumpy today and stay inside…

We will come back to see if things are better later… 😉

WtR