I expected nothing, but I received so much! I had a very good birthday and it seems that everyone around this area remembered, that I had a birthday. Vova got me a very nice coffee cup of insulated metal, Father Pavel from the Monastery gave me a bottle of cognac and an assortment of New […]
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No one in the west seems to have believed me and no one who believes, wants to admit it, but Russia while being hurt by sanctions, it is steadfast and not hungry. We (and that means this American,) is eating Russian made products and that is millions and millions of Russian made products and they […]
Up at 5 a.m. and walked Boza. Sveta is snoozing away after a long day yesterday to get to our Tiny Russian Village. I expect she will sleep to noon and then I will fix her breakfast or lunch at that point and we will plan our day… Vova and his LADA 4X4 Niva made […]
This is what 18 liters of benzine, Father Pavel of the Monastery and Vova calling every hour will help get done. I keep almost a full can of fuel all the time and they asked for benzine, not money, to get the job done. That is the way of the villages; vodka is money, potatoes […]
Boza and I took a very long walk this morning. I do not know how the day will fall, but somehow I have to get Sveta from the train station, even if I walk to the highway and walk to the big village. Actually lets hope I do not have to do that! 😉 But, […]
-27 yesterday for a low and -20 called for tomorrow as a low but, today +3 – OMG! Seriously, what a roller coaster ride… The snow is melting like crazy and when it freezes tonight at -11, I will be able to walk on the ice surface, which leads to another whole bunch of issues […]
Russian Window #3 (PDF) Web page: https://openclipart.org/detail/236997/russian-window-3 This is one of my posts today… By this time tomorrow over a thousand people will see this and hopefully a few of you will visit his site and look around. He has some great artwork and I see that he is growing in talent as the time […]
These images are this morning after the fridged cold yesterday and last night. The sky is clear, the wind is blowing hard and it is officially -27 C (around -17 F) when I took these images. Now the strange thing; It will get up to -2 this afternoon, talk about a temperature swing! The second […]
For the last two days I have been digging everything out. I know more snow is coming, but it makes it easier for the next time. I even cut a path so that Boza can run around the yard some (and he took advantage of it as he ran and ran) and I cleared the […]
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