Windows to Russia

Last day in the village for a few weeks. It is snowing today and getting colder by the second. Looks like Old Man Winter wants me to remember him for all the fun we had this winter. But I will be back to see if he leaves the village alone after awhile. Got to leave […]

Oh my the shashlik was so good. The first of the year and a great treat for ending a long winter. As you see spring is here, but we still are struggling with cold and snow. But yesterday, Sveta saw a mosquito and I heard frogs croaking this morning, as Boza chased ducks and I […]

The night before was hell and full of fever, slight pain and very messed up sugar levels. That should be a sign to me, but I still have things to do and I still get them done. I worked all day yesterday and about 6 p.m. all hell broke loose. I passed a kidney stone […]

I can’t wait. Svetochka comes tomorrow and I am so glad. I will be busy getting ready for her and then I have to spend a few days getting ready to leave for a few weeks. I will be back, for a garden has to be prepared and planted. This year I will quadruple the […]

Hollywood uses North Korea and Russia as the bad guy all the time. North Korea put out a video that shows the USA as the bad guy and the USA needs to be destroyed. Sounds very Hollywood to me and while I dislike either side doing such games and videos. What does it matter? Hollywood […]

Sunshine means laundry day. Time to get ready for Svetochka to come. Boza and I need to look our best for our sweet pea… The lake is almost ready and they got the hatching ramp put together and a bunch of new stakes cut to mark the feeding spots. They almost have the lake ready […]

This morning is beautiful. The sun came up and Old man Winter left her alone. She is out and about as we walked and I hope she stays all day. The issue is that it will be about -6 tonight and I suspect with the wind coming from the North, that it will be colder […]

Well I will wish everyone a Happy Easter, but Orthodox disagrees with the western world and says Easter this year is on, “Sunday, May 1 : Orthodox Easter 2016” and so thus, I follow the eastern Easter nowadays… Over a month apart this year… I will be honest, Easter in the west is very commercialized […]

I was watching the village yesterday. I told you about Father Pavel and several churchies coming by. They all brought food and that was wonderful. You can never have enough food and a few times this winter it got pretty thin around the village for foodstuffs. It was just the thoughts and actions of the […]

Vova came by and we sat and talked a few minutes, then along came Father Pavel of the monastery and he had two young men from the Big Village school helping him deliver bags of food to us three Tiny Russian Village people. He asked how everything was and after taking some pictures of him, […]