Windows to Russia

Took some images yesterday and today. It is cloudy and as I have talked about in the past, “Do not come to Russia and expect sunshine all the time!” In fact sunshine is lacking most of the time…

I said I would try to get an image of the little red tree. This tree in the field is my indicator that autumn is here. It reacts first with it;s beautiful colors and sits in a field all by itself. It sits in an old cow pasture and just glows with all its beauty in the fall…

They finally got the dam cut and I decided to take a new image of the Tiny Russian Village showing our nice clean road. Boza is in the image and you can see him listening to the fish. The fish are splashing and roiling in the water. They are saying, “It is food time!”

+2 two this morning and I need to get out to feed the Birdbrains. Boza ate a big meal, after we walked for over an hour in the dark. I have discovered that we can walk in the dark still, as long as I use a good flashlight and keep the light right in front of Boza. This helps his vision that comes and goes. Last night I took him out and did not take the light. I had moved the Volga and he ran into it. I felt really bad and I will not do that again. Can’t take things for granted when we get old…

It is raining and will rain all day. The auto market comes today, but I have to count out coins for today’s trip to get food. I will tap the rainy day funding, in my desk drawer. I need to get cottage cheese, cutlets and cookies! 😉

Boza just came to me and his eyes are bothering him. It is as if he looks at me and says, “Daddy, can you help me?”

Him and I will walk again, after I feed the Birdbrains…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Sooner than later, Frost is coming…

Boza and I went and flooded the wells this morning. That means we turned on the big well and pumped water until it overflowed the smaller wells. The upper small well was getting cloudy and I decided that washing them out would be a good idea. Therefore, at 2 a.m.Boza and I were walking the Tiny Russian Village, while it rained and flooded the wells…

It was +4 this morning, raining and foggy! Today will be around +10 degrees and it looks to be going down hill from there. We will have a few warmer days, but winter is almost here. I will take the big camera today and get a picture of the most beautiful tree. It changes color first and sits in a field by itself. I just love the tree. Boza and I walked several times to it and I know autumn is here when this tree changes…

The deciduous forest is changing and we have several spots where it is mixed within the coniferous forest. It gets so pretty as you can see the treetops peaking out from all the green pines. When all is green as in summer, they blend well and do not show up, unless you know where to look. So, I will try to get some images today…

Yesterday, a rainbow appeared (Actually look close and you will see two!) It was very short lived and never became a full rainbow, but it was there. So beautiful and so becoming of the Tiny Russian Village, Rainbows make me feel good…

Boza and I had to run home, for the rain came fast and furious. According to my weather system, rain for two days is predicted. Looks that way to me and so far the device is pretty accurate…

There is a ton of data available now. The coldest day in the past years, was -35.7 C degrees and the warmest was +38.3 C… (That is like a 100 degree swing in seasons!)

It is long underwear, coats and hat weather. I think the gloves need to come out from storage also…

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Trying to get the car in to have the new engine put in. For in about a week and a half Svetochka comes to spend a week and then we leave for Moscow. Boza has to get to the doctor…

He could see some today and the walk was easier. He was able to see the flashlight and follow me in the dark. I use the flashlight and shine the light in front of him as he runs in front of me. It helps him to see at least the area around him. At my age, I struggle with night vision also. Seems to be a curse of old age…

I have developed a system of Russian words for commands as he walks. Then a few English ones also. I tell Boza when to turn left and right, He knows sit, stay, come here and many others. Mostly in Russian of course…. He is a smart dog and you can teach an old dog new tricks…

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Due to normal Russian rules, I have to leave the country. This happens twice a year and really it is okay! How and what we do this year is going to be up to Boza. If Boza needs surgery, then I will make a short run to a place like Kiev, Ukraine and or Tallinn, Estonia and come back cheap and quick. If not, Svetochka and I want to spend sometime away from Boza and have some time together. Russia has wonderful inexpensive areas to go to and enjoy the sights. Hotels or rooms in almost all villages while traveling are dirt cheap. Every small town and up, has comfortable rooms for rent and is the only way to travel…

Therefore, the future of what we do is based on what is going on with Boza. We will know in a few weeks. He is comfortable and happy. Yesterday, even not being able to see, he carried his ball around, tried to dig up a mole, scared a kitty and found a mouse in the field. He is doing good and you can tell that dogs use nose and ears for most hunting issues…

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I am still losing weight, I am almost there. It looks like I am about 105 kilos. That is around 231# and or 16.5 stone, according to how you measure weight. 5 kilos to my goal weight. I want to settle at a 100 kilos for half a year or so. I feel better and this crazy new fad of promoting fat people as normal, is going to kill many people, we as a race, need to be thinner. I travel the world and fat people are everywhere, just more fat people in the Americas and Europe than the rest of the world. Sometimes too much of a good thing is not a good thing…

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This year I have snowshoes to help get around and having to walk to the well a kilometer away, they are going to get used a bunch…

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Well, I need to go. I just checked the wells and I have tons of stuff to do. I may not get any good pictures today. It looks as if the sun has run away to hide…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Russia has taken the step and I see interesting things coming this way. Sailfish OS an OS that was given birth with Nokia many years ago and Microsoft tried to kill it, as they finally finished off Nokia. This operating system which is for smartphones, has been given a new life and I have the perfect phone to use, to start my studies on Sailfish. I have watched this OS since the old days and have really hoped that someone would get it going…

https://sailfishos.org/about/

Looks good and I will use the new integrator and a messed up Fly Phone to try this out. Could just be the ticket to a new beginning…

https://sailfishos.org/develop/hadk/

This is what free markets are about, something that has been almost lost in the Western World, as the past free market kings, try to stifle the new! Kinda like someone who becomes president of the USA and totally convivially forgets all the promises that he made to become president. Happens every time….. Kinda convenient, huh!

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Got up at 3 a.m. and blood sugar was at 5.6 mmol/l and my head was stuffed up from the weather change. It was +4 and the wind was blowing. Not a pleasant beginning for a day to be fore sure. I fired up the computer and the first tidbit of news? Putin has poisoned Hillary, with Trumps help!

I have lost all ability to think that the west has any credibility and this kind of stuff, confirms that very thought. The western press of the governmental forces has run with the story, as if it is truth. Here is a Washington Post article and that is for you wannabe hate people. Yes, they are running dribble in the western press and actually it is all dribble in the western press…. Nothing is ran as news unless it meets a purpose of degradation and we all see an occasional good article, but that is washed away by all the other lies…

I thought the west has been smacking on the bottom feeder list for awhile, but it seems that the western world has decided to become a bottom tunneler and feed off the soil below the surface… Makes me proud and I am sure that most of you will lap up the story of, “Evil Russia and Putin’s buddy Trump,” like a crowd of people at a free buffet…

You could not make this stuff up…. We have lost the track that reality was running on, quick, someone grab the track switch and redirect the train, before a crash happens…

It is not the fact that someone will say this, it is the fact that with all that is wrong, the western press focuses on something like this as smoke to cover something else; something like Hillary maybe?

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A Blind Dogs Poem

I cannot see you Mummy, when you cuddle me so near.
And yet I know you love me, it’s in the words I hear.
I cannot see you Daddy, when you hold me by your side
But still I know you love me when you tell me so with pride.
I cannot see to run and play out in the sun so bright
For here inside my tiny head it’s always dark as night.
I cannot see the treats you give when I am extra good,
But I can wag my tail in Thanks just like a good dog should.
“She cannot see. The dogs no good” is what some folks might say
“She can’t be trained, she’ll never learn She must be put away.”
But not you, Mum and Daddy You know that it’s alright,
Because I love you just as much as any dog with sight.
You took me in, you gave me love and we will never part,
Because I’m blind with just my eyes, I see you in my heart

~ Sherrill Wardrip ~

I had to cry this morning…

Boza is 100% blind. It comes and goes and soon he will be totally blind all the time. I take it harder than he does. He will be checked up by a doctor in a few weeks, but I think it is not going to be good regardless. Boza is blind…

He is tough and takes it all with a grain of salt. He runs and leads the way. It just is that he does not understand that I keep him on a tight path. But it is important that he is the leader, but a leader that knows his path. He is proud and happy, but only because I work hard at walking him. No more letting him run amuck. He is curtailed and has learned what I want. I lead him with words and use noises, such as clearing my throat, to let him know where I am at. He is in no pain and is happy. Dogs use the nose and ears more than anything, so he has a whole world to explore anyway. He knows who has been on his roads and he knows who has been bad or good…

We took Boza in as a gas station doggy. A puppy that would be dead now. He was running on a busy road and needed a home. Born in a village, he is 100% Russian, thus very at home and secure in our Tiny Russian Village…

I had to cry this morning, for my buddy is blind and he does not care! I hope that I could be that good about things in life. Boza has taught me a lot about life…

The tears fell and I will make his last years as good as I possibly can. That is what friends do…

WtR

I had a comment that expressed that Americans probably give lots of donations? 1% of the total donations come from the Americas and that means from the bottom tip of South America to the tundra of North America in Canada. The other 99% comes from the rest of the world…

Europe as a whole is the biggest donator, with Germany in the lead. Russia as a country is right behind Germany and the UK is waltzing around there somewhere. My biggest reader section is the USA! Next is Germany and Britain follows right behind. Therefore, out of readers, the US with its thousands of daily return readers, ignores donations as a whole. Yes, we have had donations come from America, but they are few and far between, per reader…

Case in point; Sammy the Volga is getting a new engine. It has to be done and Sveta and I are scraping the money together to do it, today someone came through. From Russia, a donation has come to put in her new engine…….

Yes! From Russia! The money for Sammy the Volga’s new engine comes from within Russia…

As per policy, no names but a big big thank you!

Sammy will hopefully get a new engine this week or next week at the latest…

Another interesting tidbit; India is the largest Asian area donator. It is surprising and yes we have a solid readership based in India. The Chinese while as large a readership, have never donated anything, but we have had donations from tiny islands all over the world. It is very interesting to track such data. Just like tracking data from who comes to read and for what reason. But it comes in useful at times…

I do thank the world for donations and yes, I may have centered my readership on America, but it is the rest of the world that pays to keep Windows to Russia online and to pay for basic living in Russia…

I said I track data and this is the kind of data that tells me something!

It should tell you something also. Once again people need to think and realize that there is a whole world out there. The world is not stop at the borders of the USA and the world is really doing pretty good and we need to join that world…

Therefore, thank you to all who have donated and we will soon see Sammy’s new engine…

I hope if all goes correctly? But life goes in circles and sometimes things happen…

WtR

Every morning the birdbrains are watching. They wait in the trees for me to open the birdbrain cafe. They are patient and sit quietly as I fill their buffet with food. In the cherry trees sit the sparrows and in the lilac trees sit the chickadees. This has become normal every morning. They wait until I leave and then as I watch from the door of the house, the war begins…

It was foggy this morning and all I could see were dozens of little dark spots watching as I filled the feeder. They got excited and started to rustle around and then I heard peeps. It sounded as if they were saying, “Your late, hurry up!”

Then when all was safe in their eyes. Down they swooped and it got noisy. The chickadees and sparrows mixed it up and they fought on the fence, on the feeder and on the ground. It soon became aerial attacks and during this whole battle, the food disappeared. Straight into their hungry little mouths…

I give them half a box of food once every morning and they know this. They know that soon it will be gone. I can not afford more and there is tons of seeds all over the fields. It just is a pleasure to feed the little birdbrains and fun to boot. I will at times sit and watch the little ones battle it out. The sparrows are greater in number, but the chickadees are slightly bigger and faster…

Soon the food is gone and they leave to go find somewhere else to play. They come back all day and check out the ground for scraps. There always is some and sometimes, I put out dried bread to let them have some treats…

The birdbrains are family now and they are fun to have around…

WtR

The sunset picture was perfect. I even turned it into my cellphone wallpaper…

Time to get the big camera out! The trees are turning and at +2 this morning, frost is right next door!

Have a nice day…

WtR

We got issues….

No one in America wants to talk the truth about 9-11 and all those people being murdered in the Twin Towers in New York…….Are you scared to talk about what happened?

No one wants to talk about the Pentagon being hit by a jet? Yes it is a big question mark actually!

No one wants to talk about the jet that hit the field and simply dissipated from sight!

No one except a few vilified people!

The rest of us people in and from America simply just accept that, “One man dood-it!

We killed so many in Iraq alone, that we are not even able to cheat a low kill number!

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/iraq-death-toll_n_4102855.html) Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday. – Shouldn’t we be mourning these people also? Since it was proven they did nothing and had nothing to do with the situation! We mourn our loss, but ignore the insanely amount we killed in Iraq…

We lap up the Hogwash as if it is tasty and a treat!

No one except a few, not scared to have their reputations tarnished for life…

I ask continually and look for answers to these thoughts…

1. Did the CIA cover up the forehand knowledge?
2. Who really had the reins at the White House the day it happened?
3. What the hell happened to NORAD?
4. Why was the finger pointed at Iraq?
5. What really hit the Pentagon and left no debris?
6. Who alerted many people working in the Towers, not to come to work that day?
7. Flight 93 – disintegrated?
8. How and why did the Twin Towers and other buildings collapse as they did?
9. How did guys who could hardly fly a Cessna, perform better than trained men trying to simulate the situation?
10. Why did China get to haul off the debris (steel) from New York?
11. 9/11 Commission?
12. Where did the energy required to collapse the buildings in free fall come from?
13. Why did the Twin Towers collapse to a fine dust?

Seriously people! There are a thousand questions to be asked and we need to all ask. We can still mourn those who died, but do we have to accept the story we have been given for the whole thing. Nothing adds up and that is not hogwash! The hogwash is what we have been fed…

People died, many people died on 9-11! (But many more died from our reaction against innocents!)

I think we deserve the truth and nothing but the truth!

I am tired of the Hogwash we are fed constantly…

WtR

You should read this, by someone who was there…

I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I was one year into my Wall Street career. I got up that morning just like every other morning and headed toward Union Square station to get on the subway down to 3 World Financial Center, the headquarters of Lehman Brothers. I had just purchased breakfast in the cafeteria when I saw one of the human resources folks from my floor yelling to evacuate. I was confused but I got my ass downstairs fast. When I got down there I joined the hundreds of others staring in awe skyward at the gaping hole in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. People speculated that a helicopter had hit the building, but I said no way. It looked like a bomb went off to me.

For two days the tractors have been roaring day and night. This morning I saw a John Deere 9620 with alternate track system, pulling an insane plow behind it. This monster has to have cost an arm and a leg to buy and it roars like a dragon as it plows the fields. I could not get pictures, but the images below are about what I saw…

I have talked about how huge John Deere is in Russia and they are growing yearly here in the evil Russian landscape… 😉

John Deere – John Deere – I have many more articles if you care to search…

This years harvest is huge and they are getting ready for the farming gamble and getting next years harvest going. Our Tiny Russian Village overlooks some of the most fertile land I have ever seen. The Russians have almost reopened all the old Soviet fields and in fact are starting to open unused land and clearing areas the size of small states in the world. Agriculture has become Russia’s forte and investment has 100 fold increased. Farming is the root of a country and without it, you have no future. Russia has land, more land and a bunch more land. They are using it and it shows…

There just is not anything that Russia does not produce, grow and or create and make. I am just amazed at the fact that I have been here to watch this revolution of growth and entrepreneurship….Just like the old days in America…

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Boza and I were a day behind in filling the wells. I was pretty sick yesterday! My blood sugar got messed up and it was my fault. Simple really, my fault! This morning though, I was at 5.3 mmol/L. that is good and I feel a whole bunch better…

So, I am writing this post as I fill the wells and soon will have to go and turn the big well off…

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I decided, due to serious driver issues for many older programs, to reinstall Windows 7. Mainly to do with Android driver issues and I am big into Android. That was the actual deciding factor and I went head and swapped it out.I really like Windows 8.1, but serious driver crap was getting in my way of progress. When you spend most of the time looking for drivers to make something to work, then productivity is lacking. I installed Windows 7 and within minutes after setting up my desktop. I had solved my android issues… That is what it is about…

I also after months of studying, disassembled my laptop and fixed my screen. Using a magnifying glass that Svetochka gave me, I found several bent pins in the connections and with a toothpick, I straightened everything back out. Took me and my big clumsy hands several hours, but I did not rush and succeeded. It was a good lesson for me in patience…

My laptop does not need an external monitor now and I am one happy Bear!

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Now that I have Windows drivers issues solved, I will get my images I have taken and post a few pictures in the next few days. I have been taking pictures, but, “Oh Well!” Things happen, you fix them and get on with life…

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Weather is getting cold, it has rained for three days and is touching upon freezing at night. that is Russia for you…

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Just turned off the big well. It will take an hour to stop running, for we have a water tower that fills first. I have this filling the wells down to an art. Blood sugar was just checked and it is at 5.3 and I need to eat in a little bit. Not really hungry, but if I do not eat, I will have issues…

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Sammy the Volga is running as good as she can right now. I ran another compression check and number one cylinder is very low. Number three is almost as low. Two and four are okay! Number one fires about half the time, at its best and number three fires about all the time. It has settled out and is waiting my decision on what to do with the engine…I guess we need to get it done next week?

It runs so much better that it is a hard decision to make, because spending money that needs to be other places is hard to do, but soon the car engine will die completely and Sammy the Volga is family, we do not let family die unless we can not help it…

I have been to town twice since getting the car temporarily fixed, it sings a tune with a miss in the engine, she is happy, but sick and she knows it!

The Volga is a tough car…

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Something sad:

Russians expect war with America. Or better against the West. China has sided with Russia and Iran has sided with Russia. There are many more countries and the truth is, Europe will be the battle field. If Europe could be smart, and that is if! They would drop the western games and slide on over to the East. They would embrace China, Iran and Russia!

For this time, the world needs to take the battle field to the USA! This is the only way that Americans will see the light. The fact is we have allowed the US government to mess the world up badly. Too many Neocons in too many important places. They are running rampant and the end game is coming…

The truth is:

The Russians will fight to the very last person. They have true feelings for their country. They are very and I mean very particular about who tries to abuse them. The abuse is flagrant and in the Russians faces, by the Western Empire…

Will you fight to the bitter end? Do you have what it takes! I know I do, but I am few and far between as per Americans. The problem is, that at my age, you either fight for what is right or do not fight at all. That is something to think about…

Russia is getting ready for war!

I mean they are getting the mindset and the physicality for real war and expect it to come to them. Many will die on both sides, but I will say again, “This time, no matter where war is started, if America starts a war with someone like Iran, China and or Russia, the war will end on American soil, with Washington DC turned to dust!”

If you had your act together, you would realize that China has been for the last 10 years, producing weapons at an alarming rate. Russia has been sharing technology and China has advanced tremendously in the weapons field. Russia has some amazing tech and even though America has very advanced tech, “The slaughter on both sides will be horrendous.” This is not a playground where kids get in a scuffle! This is reality on a huge scale and America will be burned deeply in this scuffle…

Many will live through it! It will be a different world when it is over. It should not happen…

It will not happen if people get off their asses and stop what the Western Empire is doing. If you can’t see what they are doing, then you have a bunch of studying to do…

The world is big enough for us all. No one or no country needs to control the world and the world is big enough to fight back…

I think this quote below sums up the difference in mindsets. I see Europe thinking about the past, but I see a bully pushing for the new dream war of delight on European soil. I think in the end, America will find itself alone and will either back down or go all out and try to take the world with it. That is sad…

“Most Americans view World War II nostalgically as the “good war,” in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese militarism. The rest of the world remembers it as the bloodiest war in human history. By the time it was over, more than 60 million people lay dead, including 27 million Russians, between 10 million and 20 million Chinese, 6 million Jews, 5.5 million Germans, 3 million non-Jewish Poles, 2.5 million Japanese, and 1.5 million Yugoslavs. Austria, Great Britain, France, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and the United States each counted between 250,000 and 333,000 dead.” – Author: Oliver Stone

WtR

Sorry lost track of time! I just realized that life overcame writing in the blog and that was that!

Nothing major, just internet was down one day and the car was down the next day. It has been thunderstorms and rain like cats and dogs! Then yesterday, I limped Sammy the Volga to the Big Village and Andrea a friend, helped put Sammy back on the road healthy again…

The picture above is of our old ignition distributor in the car and several weeks ago, I had bought a new one. I had a premonition about future issues and I try to keep certain parts available for fixing our car. I could not figure out what was wrong, it was a strange issue and seemed to be floating between ignition and or carburetor…

I adjusted and adjusted and adjusted…

Then it got worse and worse and worse…

With some footwork by Svetochka on the telephone, I backfired and stumbled Sammy to the Big Village and after much arm waving and pointing at various things. Andrea finally decided to pull the distributor and see what was what. We both looked at each other in surprise, when he turned the distributor over and there was this big hole on the engine side of it. It had been broken out from the inside. Something wanted to get out badly and obviously it did…

But the car still ran! Maybe not the best, but it still ran…

Now it did not end there. We decided that we needed to adjust the valves, check compression, adjust the clutch and several other things. There is a drive on lift in the Big Village that everyone uses to work on their car. Yes free, unsafe and no lawsuits regardless, if you kill yourself while doing your own work… 😉 (Part of why I love Russia!)

Now this is where my stashed rubles from donations come in. I have money collected the past year that had no specifications of its use. Yesterday, it was tapped to fix Sammy the Volga. We found clutch issues, also, and of course I knew about that, but just worked around it. Called adjust driving skills to the state of the car…

After all day at the Big Village, we had twenty guys from all over the village come to help or input their opinion about what we were doing wrong and what they were doing wrong and what girls were mean and who had beer and who had vodka and who is going to do what with his own car next and which car is better and after lots of part runs and small talk and lunch and this and that. The car (our car) was able to go down the road again, without stumbling and backfiring and shifted good to boot…

10 various auto parts, what seemed like ten hours and 5000 total rubles later, including the parts. Sammy went home as I sighed relief….Nice ride home!

It was fun, but I was wore out. These guys are half my age basically and they have energy to burn. I crashed and burned last night at around 7 p.m. and thus, I am up at 2 a.m. this morning! While I am sure that these guys were all still up and running as I was getting up!

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Sad news is:

Sammy needs an engine! She is running on basically two cylinders out of four! No lie, cylinders 1 and 3 are almost no compression. I have it lined up and will scrounge funds from “Peter to pay Paul” and next month, if all goes right. I will leave Sammy in the Big Village for a week and have a engine from another Volga put in her…

Our Sammy has the tried and true, good for (I can attest to this) millions of kilometers model 402 engine. Tough as nails and runs forever, except forever has come around….Sammy will get an engine that could not have been bought with her when new (model 406.) It is an engine from a much newer Volga…

Big difference in technology, between the engines. The engine that Sammy has (ZMZ-402) is very original all the way back to Volga 21 (1950’s) and the other (ZMZ-406) is only made since 2005! So, much more modern for the old girl…

The bad part is:

It will cost 45,000 rubles! But that is engine and everything…. Rebuilding the engine would have would run twice and or trice that and in the process we get a whole bunch more engine and usable power. But! When you get use to driving on two and a half cylinders, LOL, a Yugo seems fast…

WtR

Sammy…

Meet Sammy the Volga! If you never have before?

Sammy

I finally solved my cellphone issue!

I broke another cellphone, that is a common thing for me. I carry them with me with whatever I do and they get smashed. I am simply very rough on any cellphone and they do not last with me. I guess it is a personal issue and no matter how hard I try to protect them, they end up dead…

Always…

Well I have an old smartphone and after letting it sit on the charger for two days, it finally took a charge. I charged it fully and then went online to see about an updated OS for it. I found what I needed and spent yesterday revamping the whole phone. I stripped out what I do not need and turned it into strictly a phone and I don’t care about the fact it is very old android for an operating system. It has a great camera, good reception and the phone part just works. Hard to beat Android Gingerbread for reliability…

Therefore, I have a good working phone again…

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Boza and I got into another fight with the two trash dogs that run the countryside. They will probably stay away after this round. Boza and I whipped them bad and it is a good thing Svetochka was not here, she would have been terrified at the noise and stuff. This all happened at 5 a.m…

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I am struggling with Windows 8.1 and driver issues. This is a serious problem with Windows 8.1 and many of the issues are not happening with Windows 8. Windows 7 does not have the issues. I am contemplating going back to Windows 7 as I write this and really do not want to. I like Windows 8.1 and am very happy with it, other than driver issues and most of those issues are with Android devices. Just seems that I am not able to keep Android device drivers from being corrupted all the time. I am big into Android and it makes me a grouchy bear… 😉

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Got to hang the door I built for the shower house today! That is if it stops raining?

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We have so many tomatoes and for someone who can hardly eat tomatoes, this is nuts! I get a canker sore in my mouth when I eat tomatoes. The acidic level is too much for me. I can cook them and eat them, thus, I have been drying tomatoes like crazy. Lots of tomato soup this winter!

Seriously, there has to be a hundred tomatoes on the vine right now and some are just plain huge. Oh, I love eating tomatoes…

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The apples are almost gone. A few more days and that will be it. How I love my apple a day. I will miss our very delicious red apples. But I dried a bunch and will have apples for snacks all winter long. That is a good thought!

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Time to dig up the potatoes. Tons…

The beets are perfect and the size of a baseball…

The carrots are about six to eight inches long and sweet as can be…

I can’t eat all the strawberries that are being produced. I am trying, but you can only eat so many!

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Just checked the wells and they are done, full and ready for Tiny Russian Villagers to get water at…

Gotta go! Have a nice day and soon I will have soon new Tiny Russian Village pictures…

WtR