Windows to Russia

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and I was thinking of the other day about how mad I got at another driver. The Russian driver is like the American driver, they only care if they get where they are going and will they run over you in the process. In America Road Rage […]

Here in Moscow, Russia where we live and even where our village is located 450 km down the South side of Moscow. Winter has enveloped us and will stay present for about 8 months… Sveta and I just got back from another village trip and less than a month later from the previous trip… That […]

Clean Monday. (On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the 1st week of Great Lent the Great Vespers the canon of St. Andrew of Crete is read). New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1930). Virgin-martyr Anna (1937). St. Sebastian, monk of Poshekhonye (1542). New Martyr John Calphas (“the Apprentice”) at Constantinople (1575) (Greek). Martyr Theoclitas, martyred with […]

This picture below is spreading like wildfire over the Live-journal net work of blogs… I will give you a few things that stand out easily… Putin has a halo… (Like a Saint does…) Medvedev is standing on a platform by Apple Computer… (Hmm…) The hat in Mayor Yuri’s hand… (Classic Russian…) Just have a long […]

In Russia, (just like in most of the world) they drink lots of beer. Well for the really thirsty beer drinker they have a super sized beer bottle…..

Sveta and I have a real issue in Russia finding shoes to fit me. I wear a size 49 Russian style and that equates into a size 14 and a half, American style… In America sometimes I could find my size in a good work shoe from Dr. Sholl’s and they were made in China. […]