Windows to Russia

Tomorrow Svetochka leaves. Bear is sad, Boza is sad!

But; we are happy that she is able to come down and spend time with us boys and keep us in line. Sveta is the best girl in the world…

Today though, Sveta and I will walk out of the Tiny Russian Village and go to the Big Village. I blazed a trail two thirds of the way yesterday and would have gone all the way, but Boza was with us and we had to get him back home. It was hard to get him across the bridge, we had to have him on a leash and darkness was coming fast. He is blind you know?

We will leave at about 10 a.m. and meet a bus at 11:30 a.m. then shop quickly and then get back home…. Maybe Svetochka will take some pictures?

The snowshoes make all the difference in the world and from what Sveta is saying, she either has a set of walking skis and or ? and she is going to bring skis down with her next time she comes. It seems that almost all Russians have a set of skis and in school the children are taught to ski as normal curriculum. I have been confused as to why they did not have skis here in the Tiny Russian Village in the first place and then I said, “Duh!” for they never ever lived here in the winter time… (Boza and Bear are the first to live in the home all winter long!)

That is all and I have to get ready for the long trip today. Boza has to stay home, Sveta will follow my tracks I make and we hope to get to the bus on time…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Crazy Russians

Epiphany: Russians swim in ice-cold water to purify themselves

On the night of January 18/19, Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany, one of the most important religious holidays. Many people traditionally brave ice-cold water this night in a hope to wash away their sins. This is quite a worrisome night for doctors and rescuers as they have to stay on duty near water reservoirs, where the ritual takes place

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WtR

How about that tree?

Sometimes when you look at an image and realize the scale of what is contained within that image, compared to yourself. Then you sometimes feel humbled and realize how massive the world really is and how vast it extends away from us in all directions…

Something that we take for granted many times is a simple, yet complex tree…

A tree is a marvel and the size as in the image above, floors the senses when you actually look around you once in awhile. Trees are a magnificent example of a living organism that thrives on our planet and does not cause issues against the world. Trees are the atmosphere scrubbers of our planet. The more trees, the better the air we breath is…

Just like bees!

The little bee, is a marvel to behold! It works for us to help us supply food to the worlds belly’s and our own belly. The bee only asks (what) for payment? Just to be left alone? Yes, bees like to be left alone…

We humans kinda fail in the leaving the world alone; Don’t you think?

Birds spread joy!

Everyday, I have a yard full of tiny little creatures. They gather together from all over the village and sing their little hearts out, too garner my attention. Once they have my attention, they wait on the fence by our front door and get so excited as I put out seed for them to eat…

Birdbrains as I call them are really, very very smart. They are so important in the biological chain of life! Many birds pollinate also, just like a bee. Birds spread seeds all over the world and birds sing to us, to life, to the world and make beautiful music, when life seems to get us down…

Birds and the Bees and Trees…

More important than we humans are on this planet…

It humbles me!

WtR

Today you must find your happiness elsewhere!

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius

Therefore a bearish bear makes for………

See you tomorrow…

WtR

It was a good day in the Tiny Russian Village…

Vova made a rabbit stew for my birthday and Svetochka gave me some perfect gifts and even Facebook people sent some greetings. Svetochka has given me a helpful break from walking Boza constantly and I enjoyed my birthday..

Having Sveta around makes any day perfect…

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I felt privileged,

Vova only makes rabbit stew for very special occasions and my birthday was one of those occasions. Vova has a whole bunch of rabbits. They breed, eat and breed some more. He has to thin them and or else he would not have a home after awhile. He likes to keep rabbits at around 40 to 50 each. Thins them down to around eight in the early fall, made up of four breeding pairs. He sells them to people as income in the spring and summer. He would all winter and fall also, but no one can get up to the Tiny Russian Village…

So rabbits are a cash crop to Vova… Rabbits like to increase their numbers…

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Svetochka and Boza are just happy as two peas in a pod…

That makes me happy also…

WtR

I decided to sit back and watch America (The Land of Chaos,) and finish the soap opera that is running right now. This really is a historic moment….  In may ways, we are about to make or break the status of the USA in the worlds eyes. Well! Actually we have already destroyed our status as the good guy, but we have a chance to redeem ourselves in the mess we see. We could get at least try to get the OK guy status back….

You know? The status that says we will not try to change your government and destroy your country status…

I voted for Trump! It was a simple vote. I voted for Trump in the hopes that all the HELL America has been spreading against the world, would be turning inward on to itself, as it eats its own leg off…

Sorry people in America, but we all are tuned in and watching our favorite soap opera…

As Chaos and Coup Turn…

{I have reached a point of not caring anymore! Just leave the rest of the world alone America, and chew your own leg off at the knee!}

WtR

All I will say is this; It was a rough walk and if this had been two years ago. I would not have been able to do it. I have healed that much and other than sweating like a stuck pig, in 10 below zero weather. I did fine and my Sweetpea Svetochka, followed in my path and enjoyed life tremendously! (No, she actually had fun!)

The best way to describe the landscape that we crossed?

It was a rolling sea of snow! (And we were not on the shoreline!)

The is the thing about Russians; The harder life gets? The more fun they have, with what they got! It is hard to deal “bad cards” to a Russian…

Thus Svetochka is in the Tiny Russian Village and taking pictures as she always does…

I put the image of the chickadee at Sveta’s mother’s home for a reason. From Huge Moscow City to Tiny Russian Village; the little birdbrains are watching you…

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I am going to tell you something, “Russian women are tough, beautiful and intelligent!”

I know, I have one who keeps an eye on me and she is a wonderful sweet girl…

WtR

It snowed all night and drifted something terrible. You would swear we are in the Arctic at times. Today is a bad time for that though…. Svetochka comes tonight and our roads are closed off again, after just one day of reprieve…

Boza and I walked twice this morning…

The Snow has drifted a meter deep on much of the road leading out of the village. It is not even a smooth layer. It is deep strips of snow across the road from edge to edge. They are peaked at over a meter tall and even my tall boots are too short. I will have to walk to the river and check things out when it gets daylight, but it looks grim to get Svetochka tonight. I will have to walk all the way to the main highway. For nobody is going to get down this road of ours…

I already shoveled the paths in our yard and they filled in again. Not happy about what I am seeing, but, I will get Svetochka to our Tiny Russian Village home and safe and sound. I will take the snow shovel with me on a walk and cut the worst of the issues I find as I go along…

Hope I do not have to dig my way for three kilometers?

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I have to say something:

The American Presidential Inauguration is going to be interesting. It looks as though there could be trouble. Sad! But true…. It is what I talked about in several posts this last month or so. The USA is under an actual “Coup” and it will get much worse before it gets better. Very possible at this point, Civil unrest bad!

The difference in people is very clear now. When Obama was elected and half the country despised him. You did not see what is happening now, happen. Difference in people! Obama was elected and we took our lumps and grumbled and groaned, but we did not go out to destroy the country. Love for America is to great. Then you have the other side and find love for country is secondary to all other aspects… The Me-Me generation and that goes back at least two full generations…

Too be fair; we all go through this stage, but technology has created a Frankenstein Effect upon our kids and with that comes the elders who are trying to stage this coup. This is exactly what has been done to many other countries and now it is being done to America… (Good luck, just see the results in Iraq, Libya, Syria and many many more!)

I do not think that the liberal agenda will go down without taking the country with it. They feel privileged in their views and when Hollywood, the government and a bunch of rich sick old men are pushing such an agenda…

We got nowhere to go but to the bottom of the barrel…

America is a very divided country and it most likely will take serious blood shed to sort it out. Hope I am wrong. But I voted for Trump because of this very situation that is happening. For far to long, things have been terribly rotten in America…

Either it gets straightened out, or millions better leave, the ones like me, to find a better home to flourish in. I found Russia and found the old days again. Far from perfect, but safe, free and a happy place to live…

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Gotta get ready for Svetochka and walk the doggy again…

Glad I am here in Russia…

WtR

The Tiny Russian Village is deep in snow. Boza and I walk about six times a day for exercise and when I work on the computer, Boza sleeps…. Vova’s Niva has been pulled out of the lake and is waiting for him to walk to it to get it…

Boza is doing good and has adapted well to blindness. He has not lost his zeal for life and that was my biggest worry. he just charges head on anyway and that is good. Can’t let a little thing like going blind make a difference in living life…

I have said many times, “Boza keeps teaching me about life and how wonderful it is, no matter what comes up to bite you!”

WtR

America is a Liberal Haven…

I use to think that America was divided at about 70% liberalized and 20% conservative and around 10% just lost in the ozone. I realize that the spread is about 40% liberalized and 40% conservatives and 20% in the ozone of life crowd forever to be…

I was wrong at the split and for the last few days I have been thinking about how I missed the ration by so much. I do apologize, for I felt it was a lost cause. I still think it is lost, I can see that I was far from alone…

Silence may be Golden, but it also condones actions of others. The act of taking it and bearing with the crap is actually sometimes good and sometimes bad. You have to weigh and measure the opponent and adjust accordingly. Silence in the case with liberals is a very wrong thing to do…

If you look at what is happening and see that America is much more divided than even I thought. To be honest; I thought with the exception of just a small percent. America was a loony bin of liberal haven…

Don’t get me wrong, it is a liberal haven. I just did not realize that we still have a lot of people in America that have kept their mouth shut…

Big mistake…

The sides are out in the open now and we have Trump to thank for that. It took someone with a disdain against political correctness and other silly crap such as that to enable the conservative side to start expressing itself…

Opens a whole world of hurt, it does!

I see that half the country of the US has realized that a liberal mindset has taken over our news, schools, politics and literally everything that can push their agenda onto the rest of us…

Once again; You can not put your head in the sand and expect it all to blow over! Your ass is exposed, when you do that… Think about that statement a second and let your mind image, how stupid that is…

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I grew up with school teachers. My parents were a mixed mess. My dad was a conservative who had to accept liberal ideas or get fired and my mother was a liberal who embraced such games as a perfect life…

I grew up watching the spread of liberalism within our school system. The problem is not liberalism, but the issue is that liberals will use anything and everything to support their agenda. They also are very sheepish and will follow blindly those that take the reins. They also are very vocal and very very emotional. Emotional to the point of psychotropic in their actions many times…

We all realize now that this mindset has infiltrated Hollywood, politics, our justice system and our everyday life. Through this infiltration we have lost much freedom, liberty and justice for all…

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Can it change?

Yes it can, but we must get our heads out of the sand and look around us. Liberalism is not all bad and conservatism is not all good. Therefore, if we can find that happy medium, then we will flourish again. But as in every but, the sides have been drawn and division is on full steam ahead. A division that could destroy America and that my friend is what the plan is. A divided country is a easily controlled country…

I guess if I have to sway one way of the other, conservatism is the way I must land. I prefer a balance, but this last election has made it clear, liberalism has become a disease, a virus destroying the traditions of our American life…

I knew that when I saw these last few years the attack upon something as simple as the Confederate Flag in America, that the agenda was being shoved down our throats and if we accept such issues as normal, then we truly have lost and become sheepish ourselves…

We can change and get back a balance, but we must meet the issue head on now! Not tomorrow or the next day, but NOW!

I am tired of seeing movies, TV shows, award programs and many other media expressions, being used to promote an agenda that does not lay anything, but on a one way street. Our way or the highway is a very real liberal mindset and this last presidential election showed that…

It can change!

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Russia is very conservative…

And I realize that is why I meld so well into its society. I am comfortable in Russia, whereas in America, I found myself an outsider with no support from other conservatives. I was arrested for my beliefs and silence was golden to those who should have stood with me…

I believe in small government, handshakes, traditional values, free enterprise, private business and people being let to be people…

But, I do like change, if change is for the better and I do like to grow and develop, in all aspects of my life. That means we allow people to be who they are and we allow businesses to flourish even the bad ones and even when bad things happen…

Russia is as I have said before. Just like America was many years ago and I love to see entrepreneurs trying to make it. The entrepreneurs that screw up, are run out of town quickly…

I am a believer in Lemonade Stands and the freedom to open one up anywhere I chose. then if I pick the wrong spot, you are free to tell me that very thing. But nether of us should be stifled in those thinking’s and thoughts and both of us should be civil about things…

Never should governments interfere in our processes…. Society will regulate me and you…

Yes I know! So many could not fathom life without a governmental service. A government to tell us when to be good and when to be bad. We want to be told that raw milk is bad, we want to be told who to vote for, we want to be told to put on a seat belt, etc etc etc…

If you do not want all that?

Then why are we silent about our rights, freedoms and liberty being destroyed by others, within our midst…

I see no solution to the issue at hand…. I am going to walk the dog and enjoy life. For life is…

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

Humans on our planet earth are the greatest actors there are. No other creature on earth has a problem with letting life be what life is. But we pretend that we are something we are not and thus, we have become what we dread the most…

WtR