Category: Russia

Today, after the wild snow last night, we will attempt to get to the Big Village. Looks good outside this morning and Sveta and I moved the car to the top of the village to allow us to sit on level ground. Nothing else, we can sled down the hill with the car and hope for the best… 😉

Sveta picked the best time to come to the Russian Village, for it will actually warm up a few days, then it will scream, cold at us for the next month or two. Sveta will be back in Moscow before the screaming chill starts. We have to get to the Big Village and stock up on supplies. For I most likely will be snowed in for at least two months. We are hoping that Sveta can come down at my birthday time in January and stay a week. I can walk to the bus stop and meet her if that is what needs be…

When Sveta leaves on Sunday, it will be plus 6 or 7 degrees, now how is that for perfect timing?

Have a nice day and the next article is about a reporter who came from the regional newspaper and did an interview with me. I have Vova to blame and thank for that… 🙂

Cup of coffee time…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia

Fake gates on the bell tower!

That is what we found yesterday as we walked in the rain. They had someone with a huge printer print plastic sheets with an image of a gate from another monastery somewhere. I could see them from the road and thought at first, “They are putting up gates; yippy!”

But alas, not to be true and they are fake… 🙂

They also are putting concrete floors in the complete lower section of the bell tower and decent stairs all the way to the top of the tower. Looks like there will be lots of school field trips this next summer.

It also looks as if there will be soon a full time person living at the bell tower, it really is needed, because kids/young adults like to damage the tower in pranks as they are drunk and such. Sad, it seems that you cannot get away from kids that do that stuff…

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We bought Sveta a pair of valenki with rubber soles and a pair of pants, super well insulated. Those, with her fur coat and two sweaters allowed her to be comfortable all the way to the village. Sammy the Volga has an issue with heat production in really cold weather. I guess I need to fix that issue? For Russia gets really cold.

The village home was frozen and it took several hours of burning wood to get the home warmed up. The lakes are frozen and we saw guys ice fishing as we came in yesterday. Then as we pulled into the village, life became a better place to visit. The air is crisp and clean, the monastery radiated life and you could just feel the re-energizing of your soul. God is truly in this place and it is very obvious…

December will be warm enough in general, that I will be able to get the chainsaw out and at least cut up all those trees brought for firewood. The wood is seasoned oak and I must get a splitting maul this week to start splitting wood with. Looks like enough wood for two years easily. Plenty more where that came from…

Gotta go, Sveta is getting up and I have to cook breakfast. I already took my pills, drank two cups of coffee and time to sit down to eat. Have a nice day and I will be back tomorrow…

Windows to Russia
Kyle Keeton

I am going to go outside again and try to finalize the car. I still have a few things to do and I am crossing my fingers that all is working good. Deep inside of me something in my gut feelings; there is something else wrong with the car and I can not pin point the issue.

Therefore, I will check it once and check it twice to see what I find…

It looks like Monday morning bight and early, like 4 a.m. is when we will leave. The weather all week will be above freezing during the day and Sveta has taken off all week to enjoy life in the village.

Vova called and asked us to bring him a carton of cigarettes and 10 liters of benzine. He has been cutting firewood up for us since the wood was dropped off and he is about out of benzine for the chainsaw. Bless his heart, he is really waiting for me to get there. Sveta sees that now.

We bought a belated birthday gift for Vova. A huge bottle of cognac to give to him. That will keep him warm a few days and make him a happy villager. He is sad for he is all alone in the village! Not true; a woman is there who lives in what I call the white house, but they do not get along and thus, they ignore the fact that they are not alone in the village. 😉

Vova said it has been snowing like crazy and he is waiting for me to get there. Lets hope that we make it…

Have a nice day and see you in the village;  if the Lord is willing and the creeks don’t rise…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Today I go outside and freeze! -7 right now and a car awaits to be repaired…

I have been sick and not able to repair the car, we also are trying to leave this weekend to the village, but I am not getting things done. So lets get it done today.

New ignition coil? Check.. New fuel pump? Check.. New carburetor? Check.. Old warm clothes to ruin working on the car? Check.. Two cups of hot coffee to prime the system? Check……

Good lets go!

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Does anyone actually believe the Turks? Even the western Twinkies induced comatose people, should have a real hard issue believing what Turkey did was correct and moral.

Turkish military aircraft have pretty well violated the airspace of all of its neighbors.

Why Greece as an example: Data recorded by the Greek military has shown that Turkish aircraft violated its claimed airspace 2,244 times in 2014. By October of this year, Turkish aircraft had made 1,443 intrusions with the financially-weakened Greek military struggling to respond.

If all these countries being violated by Turkey shot down their planes for going where they have no right to be, there would no longer be a Turkish air force!

Turkey did not shoot down the Russian aircraft for violating its airspace, that was a excuse to cover its real reason. It wants to punish Russia for attacking its proxies (ISIS) in Syria.. and it uses NATO as a shield.

A shield the NATO countries are stupid to let Turkey use.. but then again most NATO countries and NATO itself is not exactly led by geniuses these days.

Time to wake up!

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I will be honest with you!

We have a lot to be thankful for and we better wake up. In the last few weeks we (western) tried to start World War Three, not once, but several times. Almost all actions against Russia, but a few pokes at China to spice up the pot. Are we stupid?

So this Thanksgiving lets be thankful…

Lets be thankful that Russia has patience, because if we had done to us what has been done to Russia by us, we would be bombing some countries with unrelinquished desires and pillaging.

So I am thankful that we are not bombing the hell out of each other, just because we prodded the Russian Bear for the hundredth time in the last year.

That Russian Bear has the patience of Job…

I am thankful this Thanksgiving and am going to make a pumpkin pie for Sveta. I also have turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and carrots this holiday…

Yes we have a world to be thankful for, lets hope we keep that world in one piece…

Stop the warmongers!

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The truly imbecilic Erdogan, a western puppet in all aspects, has royally setback his country, they will now lose out on the economic miracle of the Silk road Project, Turkey will remain wallowing in the 19th century, while the world created by the Silk Road Project fast forward to the 21st century. They will live to regret doing the US bidding of evil. What fools they are. The US and Europe economies are straining and are at the very doorstep of a deep recession, if not depression, because of the sanctions, overrun with refugees, EU members countries that are economic basket cases, Greece, Spain, Italy, and a great many of the former Baltic and Adriatic countries, they will not fill the economic void that is left by this foolish and other egregious acts of pure evil.

It seems that there are very few leaders in the world that actually care about their country they run. It is a me-me-me and forget about you world…

States are failing left and right around the world and none of it needs to happen. Oh and we get who we vote for and we people of the world seem to be unable to vote appropriately…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

There are terrible ninny-hammers all over the planet, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the western world at this moment in history. That means we must adapt or die, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your life. And that is why we must become aware of what is around us. Looking the other way gives jerks the only answer they need…

That you do not care what they do!

When a government is showing signs of insanity and pure narcissistic tendencies, then mix that with hate, spite, fear and warmongering…

We have a recipe for a failed souffle…

Have a nice day…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

After watching carefully; the comments will stay gone from Windows to Russia. Google agrees and has ten folded my traffic from its search results. This is on a site that has had literally no Google its whole life. We now have hundreds of Google a day and that is growing leaps and bounds.

The removal of the comment section was a two fold project and it has succeeded on all accounts. First was to remove trolls from the manifest and with those removals and other hate comments and such. The second part became a reality; Google increased traffic to WTR.

This day and age there is noway to have a discussion online without paid trolls interfering. These hate bots and hate humans are detrimental to the traffic you receive. That is why governments pay so much money too troll the networks. It is a control factor and a cheap way to destroy who they do not like.

I have said for years, “People read, but comments are one out of a thousand of those readers!”

When you have more comments than one out of a thousand, then you have trash; either through linking games, spam and or trolling. None of that is needed and you will still read, because that is what you do.

I may, when I get back to the village set up a way for people to ask questions and such. But I have to think about that and I will deal with that when I get down and settled for the winter. I will post from the Tiny Russian Village and I do appreciate real comments, but it is never any fun to get a comment that tells me to go away and die. 🙁

Have a nice day…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…