Yesterday… This morning… Spring sprung and bounced back. That is Russia for you, but it is started and will soon become spring… They are filling the lake as you read this. The water is backing up and soon we will have a full lake. then come the carp and summer is going. I have said […]
This morning at 5:30 a.m. I got up and found that the world outside was dark, dreary, foggy and wet! Then I decided to get up and Boza and I went outside to check on the wild creatures that wonder through our yard at times and the woods nearby. The world is full of creatures […]
It is snowing and raining at the same time. Boza and I went to try to walk and Boza decided before me to turn around and get safe back home. The new day is grumpy and we are grumpy and we are sad. But why? Sveta left and it takes us a day to get […]
It interesting to watch people split according to party lines! You know? Yes you know! For you are doing just such a thing right now as you post fake trash on Facebook, blogs, and or spout verbally for all to hear… This is the split between Democrat and Republican; fiasco, that happens constantly and consistently […]
What a night! The winter storm blew the power out all night, the drifts got bigger and bigger, and the world was coated again in fresh white. It was wonderful and I kept the stove going all night and Sveta slept as snug as a bug in a rug… This morning we found this all […]
Yesterday I said that it would be fish day and it was fish day. I cooked a big carp, with carrots, cabbage, onions and spices. Then used my double boiler, I have created and steamed that assembly of food until tender and delicious. I knew it would be good, but never dreamed that Sveta would […]
Sometimes you simply wonder, does it ever end? Sometimes you just get tired of digging snow for months at a time… Sometimes you get grouchy… Sometimes the endless does end; for sometimes nature gives you hope; The forest is showing the ground around the trees and gives that light at the end of the tunnel […]
Spring is here… The lakes are being filled as you read this. That will take about a month to accomplish and we already have fish to eat. They sell the fish for 138 rubles a kilo, but as always we get it free. Sometimes in the summer I see so many fish that I am […]
Vova got his beast of a chainsaw fired up and he came down to cut up the oak trees brought in before winter. We got half of them cut up and the rest are still buried deep in the snow. Tomorrow, I will make a place to put the logs to get ready to split […]
Sveta took a bunch of images yesterday. Her camera is a Samsung Smartphone, one of those Zoom Phones and it works in just about any temperature. Thus she is running around and she is getting me grouchy and taking images, even if I do not see her taking them and by taking so many images […]