Went to Big Village and found a bike basket. Was not really sure we would… When Sweetpea wants something she gets it… Then we got hungry… Last image is called, “Me hungry!” Basket was 700 rubles, about $10… Now my girl is happy and she went and rode about 10 kilometers… Typical day at the […]
Finally going to replace both rear side windows on Sammy the Volga…
First I tested it… It worked great… Now just install it completely… And now we have a good accurate oil pressure gauge… Still a work in progress, yet getting there and good… Sammy the Volga WtR
Both rear side windows are and have been seriously cracked for many years. Sveta and I are using dark tinted Lexan and cutting our own windows. Today we succeeded in cutting one for the left side. Tomorrow we cut the right side… These windows were cracked by the guys who repainted Sammy and they ran […]
Sammy the Volga survived my lack of abilities and everything is great except the fuel gauge will not work… 🙁 So I installed that last dash repair item and now no matter what I do. The gauge reads backwards. Thus, E is Full and F is Empty. The gauge reads very accurately and when it […]
Years ago the original mud flaps finally self-destructed and were never replaced. Last winter we found a new set about, like and or as close to original that can be found nowadays… So I spent hours getting the left over bolts out and installed new flaps… Then I spent hours installing a new longer shackle […]
When clinical Russophobes start squabbling – Polacks and Banderites alike – that’s a good thing. https://t.me/medvedev_telegramE/92 The proud Poles got into a spat with the neo-Nazis from Kiev over the mass slaughter of Poles during the Volynia massacre. The new president, Nawrocki, may be a card-carrying Russophobe himself, but he grabbed the issue with both […]
That is 21 cents and 24 cents for you Americans… Or better yet… A quarter buys a loaf of bread and you get those unwanted pennies back… In the Big Village I bought a loaf of bread. Nice size loaf also. It was at the main chain store across Russia and one we like to […]
Вопрос: Господин Министр иностранных дел России Сергей Лавров, добро пожаловать на программу Meet the press (“Встреча с прессой”). https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2042813/?lang=en С.В.Лавров: Спасибо вам. Добро пожаловать на встречу с российскими дипломатами. Вопрос: Большое Вам спасибо за то, что нашли для нас время после столь важной недели. Сразу задам вопрос о состоянии этих переговоров. Собирается ли Президент России […]
When my son and grandson were talking and telling about how things are becoming in the USA… I came to understand that the situation was significantly more dire than I had previously indicated on this site. Subsequently, I recognized that I had lost touch, and the common issue that arises is our tendency to exaggerate […]