Windows to Russia

The Tiny Russian Village has one thing that is definitely in abundance; Mosquitoes… Water sitting everywhere from all the winter snow melt and recent rains, means sitting water for growth of mosquitoes. The frogs are doing their best to eat them, but the swallows are just now starting to come home for the summer andContinue reading Mosquitoes are thick…

My opinion of course, but I read the news from all over the world. I do not and refuse to isolate myself to just a western media source. I can not think of something more reprehensible than the western press. The western press is so opprobrious, that I conceivably cannot fathom how they live withContinue reading Therefore is Lamentable – the Land of the Free…

Just some images of the Tiny Russian Village place we live… Today we need to finish the garden and goof off… WtR

Had to take a pain killer last night. Worked too much, Dug too much, walked too much, planted too much, hugged Svetochka too much and had to drag Vova’s Niva across a field to jump start it. Just too much in one day, but happiness is abound and I feel like singing like a larkContinue reading Worn out and happy as a lark…

I think that the image of a walking burger is so appropriate for Moscow and what I think about Moscow. If I saw that burger walking around the Tiny Russian Village, there would be a war. I would stomp that burger and run it out of town. Somehow it just seems normal in Moscow, butContinue reading Left Moscow and gone to heaven…

What else can be said? The village, a bike and the sabaka! Svetochka takes wonderful images. This is her idea of a perfect world… WtR

You watch as the US tries the same games in Russia as they successfully did in other countries. Russia is not other countries and Russia is stable. I see a backlash upon the US and it is growing… I see fear in the making within the US administration. Wake up people and drive that fearContinue reading Same game different results

To make the presidential Easter cake: 450 g wheat flour 130 g butter 14 g dry yeast 10 g vanilla 150 g raisins (soaked in brandy) 180 g sugar 10 g salt 60 g candied fruit 9 ml cognac 45 ml milk Grab a bowl – Pre-soak the candied fruits and raisins. Grab another bowl –Continue reading Russian Presidential Easter Cake…

The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Восточный Kosmodrom Vostochny “Eastern Spaceport”) is a Russian spaceport under construction on the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. When completed in 2018, it is intended to reduce Russia’s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first launch took place on April 28,Continue reading It is enough to get excited over, Vostochny Cosmodrome

Did not make it to the Tiny Russian Village yet! Delays and more delays and so we went to a movie yesterday. A movie that is made in Russia, by Russians and for Russians. It was really good. Called, “Flight Crew (Russian: Экипаж, translate; Ekipazh)”…… “This is not a film about heroes, but of ordinaryContinue reading Delayed, but Hey….its Okay!