Windows to Russia

For mayor of Moscow… Mikhail Balakin, Mikhail Degtyarev, Vadim Kumin, Ilya Sviridov and Sergey Sobyanin… Sergey Sobyanin is the incumbent. I do not have much care for him, but he will probably be voted back in….I like Vadim Kumin, but…I also like Mikhail Balakin… Sergey Sobyanin is just someone I cannot trust… But I cannotContinue reading Moscow Mayor election today, Sept. 9th, 2018

Getting cold though! Yesterday, Sveta and I rode 32 kilometers in a round trip. We followed one of the main water sources for Moscow. It was a beautiful trip… It is simple a wonderful place to ride bikes… I am trying to get Sveta to take a ride next weekend. We travel 50 kilometers oneContinue reading Svetochka and I getting ready for bike trip?

The video… The title song in full (below)… (Download – click and save as) My personal phones ring tone (below) if you like to use it? Yes I use it! (Download – click and save as) Some translation of the words… If I scratch the back of my head, it’s okay! There is only sawdustContinue reading Pesenki Vinni Pukha (песенки Винни Пуха) – The Song of (Russian) Winnie the Pooh…

How We Were: The Years of Hitchhiking: Recollectons of the Social Cryogenian The big roads were safe then, or we thought they were. Many of us, the more adventurous, poured onto the highways, just going, moving, looking. We were devotees of the long-haul thumb, crossing and recrossing the continent, dropping into Mexico, whatever. A camaraderieContinue reading Today the roads are empty. I’m glad they weren’t when they weren’t. – Fred Reed…

And if you live in the so called western world, your leaders lie! Simply lie… They just lie, lie and lie….and you let them lie, lie and lie… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/russia-gru-salisbury-attack-un-us-france-germany-france-canada-uk-theresa-may-a8525971.html This lying above goes hand in hand with this lying below… https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180907-us-has-seen-evidence-of-syria-preparing-chemical-weapons-in-idlib/ Because we really like our wars and need one bad to distract all theContinue reading Roses are red so is Russia, the answer to everything is – Russia, Russia, Russia…

Between 1956 and 1970 Gorky Automobile Factory or GAZ, located in the Soviet Union, produced a 3 part series of vehicles all variants of the name Volga GAZ-21. Russia: Volga Automobile, Part 1 (History) Love it… WtR

UN officials are once again expressing hope that fighting which has raged in the Libyan capital of Tripoli over the past two weeks is over, with the announcement of a new ceasefire between the UN-backed “unity” government and a militia. The two sides have been fighting through several ceasefires in that time, and has centeredContinue reading Maybe the UN should express hope about Chicago?

Amazon stock briefly hit a $1 trillion market cap Tuesday before falling off and leaving Apple as the only publicly traded U.S. company above the benchmark. Source: Amazon falls off $1 trillion in market value Soon we will all be Zimbabweans… Welcome to the real world… WtR

Still struggling from the flue and other issues in the last month, but this morning I was able to walk again and it felt good….it also is getting cooler. Fall is here the trees are starting to change and I still never found summer. I called, I looked, I even turned over rocks and logs.Continue reading Walked 12,000 steps this morning…

“The weather whispers…” by Svetlana Prostova “The weather whispers to borrow but jump.” Saying in Russian aeroclubs. Hi, That was a sunny day… I was one in the group of thirty, people who was ready to make there first parachute jump. I knew I was crazy but I knew I would make it. I wasContinue reading The Weather Whispers!