Goats Milk for Stolen Cherries…

We drank lots of goats milk this trip to our Russian Village. The Goat lady as I call her could not help herself and she picked and ate all of our cherries. She was almost caught in the act and to make life better, she gave us goats milk to calm the cherry theft escapade… […]

I Have Talked About John Deere in Russia Before…

http://windowstorussia.com/the-underline-of-russia-is-pointing-at-increase-in-food-production.html It is a John Deere world in Russia and I find it amazing as Americans talk down about investment in Russia, a lot of American companies are silently expanding into the Russian market and billions are being spent to produce quality products, under a labor reduced situation as it is in China and other […]

Transitioning from Capitalism to Tachytelism in the Anthropocene: A Framework by John Stanton…

Abstract Conceptions of post-Capitalist systems of governance, economy and human geography are undermined without the counsel of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, biology and psychology. Constructs such as capitalism and culture are creations of the individual and collective human brain and its emergent concept of mind. Those constructs are the product of genetic and cultural evolution. Advances […]

We Found the Russian Sunflowers this year…

Sveta had to go stand with the girls as they all had on their best smiles today. We always look for the sunflower fields and this year it looked like we would not find them, but luck held and we found sunflowers as far as the eye can see. Russians love salted or unsalted sunflower […]

Cold and Crisp in the Russian Village…

Cold! That is the word for the weather right now! Long underwear and long sleeve warm pullovers are the necessity today. The weather is just perfect after two days of rain, the cold front settled in and the sky is clear and crisp. The sun is almost cool as it hits your face, but you […]

New Bridge in the Russian Village…

The last time we were in the village they had such flooding that the bridges all disappeared from sight, washed away by the current. They have finally rebuilt the bridges and now people can get across the river to get to the big villages to buy groceries… Sveta told me that they use to take […]