Windows to Russia

I took my cup of coffee and sat overlooking the lake this morning. I got up at 5:30 a.m. and felt good! Therefore, to celebrate, I watched nature and her bringing spring to us. Boza chased a fox, while I sat quietly and listened. After Boza calmed down and came back to his guard duty next to me; we started to notice things…

One an upset fox on the other side of the lake was whining, a huge tree behind us, was ram packed full of sparrows another tree farther over had as many chickadees and the ravens were gathered and talking about something in a very urgent tone…

Then…. The world got quiet…

From high up came a shrill and then one more from a little farther over. I saw the ravens almost lay flat on the ground and out of the clouds came the demon of last summer. The devil herself is back…

Mamma Eagle and Papa Eagle have come back last night and they are expressing their control over their domain this morning. The two huge trees full of tiny birds were still as church mice and the ravens became lumps of dirt and hoped that they were convincing. Down flew mamma and she swooped over the ravens, obviously they failed in hiding and shrilled at them. They were smart and stayed silent and still. The little birds all watched and I could swear that I could see thousands of eyes as big as silver dollars, watching the eagles from the big trees. Then I heard a yelp and the fox decided that he had better places to be, than attract attention from the eagles…

Boza and I sat and watched as the eagles swooped and soared above the lake at this point and they were playing rolls and dives as if it was a game. The ravens started to make small noises among themselves and I imagined that it was a pow wow to discuss this new arrangement in the Tiny Russian Village…

Boza barked then at Mamma Eagle and she swooped over us. I shook my stick at her and I swear she realized who we were. No shrill just climbing into the clouds. Ignoring the ruffians of the village (That is us!) Then in a minute, she did something I have never seen before and she landed on the top of the bell tower…

After a minute or so, with Papa Eagle circling above. She literally screamed a shrilling but beautiful, but without a doubt a warning to all. It echoed off the woods nearby and you could have heard a pin drop at that point…

Boza looked at me as if to say, “What about that noisy thing?”

I said out loud to him, “We leave her alone and she leaves us alone!”

With that Boza went down the hill to smell where the fox had been hiding…

As mamma eagle left the tower and her and papa flew in ever increasing circles and disappeared out of sight and mind, I watched twelve ravens detach themselves from the ground, from which they had become a very solid part of it and the communication became earnest and urgent again…

The trees full of little birds exploded with beautiful music again and the ravens made beelines to the forest where they have their nests. I am sure that there will many discussions today about the best way to handle the situation…

For the Queen has come back home after vacationing in the south and her servants must now get back in their pecking order to have peace in the valley, the hills and forests; where the Tiny Russian Village is located…

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The fact Mamma Eagle is back, is the sign that spring is definable here and I looked around this morning and saw little green shoots of grass trying to make their way through the dead weeds and stuff. Yes spring is trying to spring and hopefully Mamma eagle brought it with her when she came home…

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Politics could not ruin this morning if they even tried harder and all I will say is this, “Hillary will be the next president of the USA!” That matters not what you think and who you think should be president, she is on her way and they will do their best to cheat, lie and kill to get her to that spot. Are you able to stop her? Or do you like her? Or do you even care?

Kings and Queens must keep their kingdoms in order and you do what you must to keep it that way or if you get in the way. Trump and other GOP are just smoke to spread the fire thin…

Have fun, for more will die before then…

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I wired the outside lights to a breaker box yesterday. I now have 80% of the yard with lights on it and this will allow me to get much more work done. I felt terrible yesterday from fighting with my blood sugar issues, but I forced myself to concentrate and get a major job finished. I am glad I did and today, I feel good after looking over what I did yesterday. It works and works good. Now just one more outside light to buy and we will have the ability to work around the house all night if need be…

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For breakfast, I fried the last of the ground meat I bought the other day and fried two eggs in the grease left over. A touch of salt and I had a wonderful breakfast. It is the little things in life that make all a-okay. I just miss the bread… 🙁 but feel better without it… 🙂

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Little things are the real soul of life and we have forgotten that as we clamber for bigger and better things everyday of our life…

I went and got water and did not have to break the surface of the well to get water. That is a blessing…

Mamma Eagle is back and that is a blessing…

I feel good, Boza is happy and strong and Svetochka is happy. that is a blessing…

The sun is trying to come out from behind the clouds and…

That is and all above, are blessings. In a world that we should be thankful for what we have and are allowed to have by nature daily…

WtR

I woke at 3:30 a.m. and I was not sure what was wrong. I grabbed the sugar monitor and took a reading. My blood sugar was at Mild Hypoglycemia! (3.0 mmol/l or 54 mg/dl for Americans… Kinda too low…)

I woke with a headache and shaking. I was having a wild dream and was startled awake. Then after a minute, I realized something was wrong. I keep several candies next to the bed for such a reason. I have been diabetic for many years and it has been a serious battle at times. but, I have now lost so much weight that I have to start adjusting my medicine…

I know people will say that you have to go to a doctor and only a doctor understands and has the knowledge to take care of things like this. I wish that was true and I would be happy to trust doctors all the time, but I have dealt with this issue so long, that a doctor just shoots into the dark trying to help…

Best advice I ever heard is; “Check your blood sugar and check it often!” by Wilford Brimley; he is correct, even if it was for an insurance company. Liberty Mutual? I think…

I had one good doctor in America that diagnosed my diabetes and he cared so much that he even came to my place of work several times to check on me. I scared him at the doctors office the day that we did the test for it. I drank the super glucose stuff and literally passed out. Readings off the scale and they panicked as I set in the waiting room. He was good and spent the time to teach me what I needed to know. Sadly he died soon after, but I have been thankful for all the time he spent off the clock to be a friend to help me. Not many doctors like that anymore…

Since that time, I found doctors in America lacking and never caring too much about my condition. It seems that so many people are diabetic in America, that the doctors are becoming blind to the overabundance of cases. That is just my hindsight with America. You may be happy as a pig in a mud waller, but I was a grouchy pig in that mud waller…

Russian doctors are very caring, but simply only less knowledgeable as American doctors in modern diabetes and since there are many less diabetics in Russia than in America, the doctors here have very old fashion Soviet ways to deal with it. Well I found that I had to deal with it and keep abreast of it. I read constantly and discover any new issues with the condition…

Therefore, now I use a combination of what I was told in America, in Russia and what I find on the internet. It works 95% of the time, but lately since I have really lost weight, my struggle has been to adjust at the proper pace. It is a good thing and I suspect that soon I will be able to be on minimum dosages of medicine…

Just makes it hard until I find that new plateau and go from there…

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Boza has gotten an eye infection and I am having to do what I did last year for him. I use old black tea and wash his eye out. This is what is recommended and it works. Boza gets rambunctious and tries to dig up the world as he smells little animals burrowing in the ground. Then he gets dirt, seeds and grasses in his eyes and we go around and around. He will not listen to me to stop digging and I just save a cup of tea everyday to wash his eyes out if need be… ;

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Images above are just a few that I took with the cellphone. I use the phone because it is waterproof and as you see it is very wet and rainy. So we get what we get, until I could possibly find something like a special waterproof camera. Just too expensive and my phone does the job…

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Coffee this morning is really good. Nescafe is the best coffee there is. There are many that come close, but Nescafe has a slight nutty taste and is mild. That just seems to be the best for my taste buds…

I feel bad that I am not with Svetochka, it is International Women’s day tomorrow and here I am in the village and she is in Moscow. She said last night she was bored and I think she maybe wishes she was here in the village. For the village is never boring and never dull…

Do not forget the holiday tomorrow, it is just not Mother’s Day, it is Women’s Day…

Big difference and since it includes all women, you have a much higher chance of getting in trouble. The odds are you mom is already knows you forget holidays, but a less forgiving woman is more the norm. they are not your mom and get them a rose or two…

Yes this was a four day holiday for Russia. Very important!

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Have a nice day, Boza and I will go walk and see what the world is up to. It looks terrible out, but the snow is melting and that is a good thing…

WtR

Long morning and Vova once again keeps things interesting. Vova went to Majara to chase a woman he knows there. He knew better and he admits it this morning. But we guys are kinda stupid at times and his stupidity (or little brain as we call it,) got him buried deep in the snow…

I pulled the battery from the Volga of ours and we got the big 4×4 going at Vova’s. The 4×4 I wished I owned and off we went to pull out a LADA Niva that found itself over its head in snow. The big 4×4 is an animal and I am still yet to understand why anyone would want a small Niva, when you have a big boy waiting patiently to do the job? I have talked about this truck in the past…

Yup…

Then he got it (LADA Niva) stuck again and he had to get someone with a huge tractor to get it out, for this time he slid into a ten foot drift of snow… 🙂

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This is the original start of the article:

This morning I was walking Boza and thinking about what I said to Sveta yesterday. It was a thought that was building in me for awhile now and yesterday, it blossomed inside of my brain…

I can walk!

Okay to be fair, I have always walked or better yet, limped and limped slightly (varying on the day) for at least thirty plus years. I had serious injuries at an earlier time in my life, between massive football injuries and a few more war time injuries on top of that and I spent my life in more pain than anyone should endure. Every step was like stepping on a knife blade and or someone driving nails into my legs in various spots…

It was life and that was the way it was. I refused pain killers and decided that pain is to be lived with and walking is over rated anyway. so I spent the brunt of my life slightly limping and wishing to cut off my legs at times. I slept in pain, I walked in pain and I dreamed of constant pain. It is hard to imaging life without that pain, at least at one time it was…

Not walking made me gain weight and that just aggravated the situation. The more weight I gained, the less I did, the more I hurt the more I ate and so on and so on. Heart attacks, prescriptions and other tidbits lined up to make things worse and never better. Many times a vicious circle that seems to be unbreakable…

Then I lived and live now in the Tiny Russian Village. A place with sandy forgiving soil, a monastery of ancient times, fresh clean air, pure drinking water and no chemicals added to anything. I started to heal…

I was walking yesterday and after about a three hour walk, I realized that I was walking straight, steady and no limp. No Limp! That meant no pain, no weakness and no all night pain. I use to sit up half the nights and rub my legs just to get relief. No more…

I can walk again…. And I definitely thank God for that, then I thank Sveta for allowing me into her life and once again, I thank God for that also. Svetochka is the heaven in my life and the Tiny Russian Village is my assuage of life…

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I am worried about something:

Technology and war equipment is advancing much faster than our brains can comprehend. This is a sign of what I have talked about in the past; computers are creating what we are not able to create and thus, we are developing things that will soon control us and not us them…

I am watching Russia, US and China develop weapons that could only be described as SciFi and we push buttons on these devices and find that they kill very very well. We can everyday get farther from the battlefield and kill more people without meeting those people head to head or eye to eye. The human aspect is being taken out of this situation and war will soon be something akin to a God raining death from above, below and from within and he is not a benevolent God…

War is inhumane enough when you have to look in the eyes of who you kill, but when they are a little dot on a computer screen and you have the button to kill, it becomes easy to kill. Except, no one but the owners of these devices has “God Mode” as many computer game cheats have…

Can anyone say, “Skynet!” For one day we will allow the computers to do it all. For we are just human and humans as we all know, are lazy…

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This Flint lead pipe issue is amazing. We spent many years ago tearing pipes out of buildings and redoing water systems all over America. We and I can honestly say, I was in on some major work in Missouri and we had people breathing down our necks to get all the lead pipes out and do it right. It was terrible work and we had no choice but to take care of the issue. Peoples lives and health were at risk…

Do we live in a world of ignorance and why do we have such variances in degrees of completion and why do we allow laws to change, such as in 2001 the government changed how tap water was to be treated and we knew then that we caused a lead issue. So why was the lead pipes left to rot in so many places?

It also makes me think of the asbestos issue and it seems that we will never learn and always allow the god dollar ($) to rule…

This link is amazing to me. I am someone who saw the issue first hand many years ago and now we act like it will all be okay! In a year or so, >>> Health be damned… <<< Anyone questioning why these pipes are still all in the ground and being used? Instead of fixing many years after the fact, it was suppose to be fixed…

WtR

Busy today so drink some coffee; I did…

Have a nice day and I will post tomorrow or maybe this afternoon. Counts on what is going on in life, today is Big Village day, Vova and I are going on a grocery run. Kinda out of food…

WtR

Which comes first?

Yup!

I am heating the water to make a cup of coffee. Boza and I got up early and walked around to see what is up and going on. Not much really, when there is only 3 people living in the village, not a whole bunch happens exciting at any moment. So while the water is heating, I started to write, but now I hear the tell tell bubbling, hissing and gurgling noise that the kettle makes and I need to get my second cup of coffee…

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There that is better! I noticed that the winter has been long and I am able to tell by the amount of coffee I have left in the cabinet. I still have a lot, but I have used a lot. If you remember, I stocked up before prices got out of hand and most of the coffee I am using now is from about one to two years ago…

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Speaking of prices and stocking items; The good little puppet Obama has just extended the sanctions against Russia for another year. As an American, I say that sucks and we are stupid and self-destructive. I also say that Obama (and or anyone who is or who was in past the president in the US) can not be classified as anyone who controls his own policies and the fact that he is president of the USA makes me realize how screwed up and corrupt the complete political system is in the US…. Dammit people, we need to get our government under control. We are in deep recession (never left recession and or actually depression) and do you think sanctioning other countries that potentially could buy things is a good idea? Stupid is the word that comes to mind…

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I had to laugh at the media in America. The news is running story after story about people are  going to leave the US and go to Canada! They make it sound like a terrible thing to want to leave the USA. LOL – I like it…

Poor Canada is all I can say…

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I discovered recently that people in the USA are crybabies and they all want their way. Simply look at what is said and being done about Trump for president and you can see the whole range of antipathetic individuals express themselves and they are all crying and whining. I have been most amazed at the neocons and the tears just run from their eyes, as they try to understand how their world is collapsing and why we must have war, war and more WAR!

There would not be a whimper if Cruz, Rubio or Bush was able to make a stand. But Bush faded and Rubio and Cruz are fighting for second place. Now Hillary! She is a neocon dream and what ever! Hey vote democrat, that will show Trump and the democrats love war as much as republicans…

I rest my point about if there is any difference between political parties? NOPE!

Our warmonger is as good as your warmonger in a pinch…

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It is sad, but the western media is attacking Brazil just like they did Russia over the Olympics. The pathetic attacks have started and the making mountains of molehills is in full swing. This my friend is the epitome of the western world and the world would be a better place if someone would simply turn off the volume switch to the “Fat Lady Singing In the USA…”

Western Media attitude summed up: “Brazil sucks and the Olympics will suck there to…”

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Have a nice day and I feel great after getting all that off my mind… 😉

Oh and the question I asked at the beginning!

Coffee has to come first, for without coffee there is no thinking to begin with…

WtR

Terrible snow storm, rain, sleet, hail, wind and tons of snow. Storm that had it all…

The internet provider, which is also the cellphone provider, got squished, squashed and smashed evidently at its tower nearby. Since we are too far from civilization for other towers to take over, we were silenced effectively for the day. I had an occasional connection, but that only lasted for 30 to 60 seconds at a time…

Woke to this…

Then we went back in until good daylight and went out later for a long walk and found the Fish guys were bulldozing a smaller lake nearby. They left before we got there, but found what they had done while it stormed. Strange, they worked in the storm for almost two days and when it all quit, they left and definitely are not finished…

I am glad to see them doing this repair work. The lakes have not been filled properly for years and I guess someone decided to increase production by doing some maintenance work…

Boza and I walked this dam several times and I saw why the lakes were not filled all the way. The original dam was collapsing and the lakes would easily become one lake. Kind of hard to keep different species of fish separate that way…

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Moving slow today. Boza and I walked in the storm for almost three hours and today I feel it. Boza and I got up at 4:30 a.m. but went back to bed and now I am paying for sleeping extra. I am one of those people that when I wake, I get up, but if I fall asleep again, I almost ruin my day with sluggishness…

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Yesterday, I really did some thinking as I walked. My thoughts were toward the elections in America. I decided that this is my last thought about them, because seriously, they are not worth the time and or place to think about them. In fact thinking about the USA in general is worthless, for it has become a barrel of simple minded monkeys and they all fight over the last banana on the tree…

There is simply no way that I could ever accept Hillary Clinton as president and Trump? Well he is a billionaire, but what does that mean in the scheme of life. Billionaires are only billionaires because they know how to destroy the opposition. I know about destruction and undermining the opposition and someone like Trump will do what it takes to get the job done and damn those who get in the way. A self made man will not allow anyone to hinder his upward movement…

What is wrong with Hillary? Well lets put it this way. My feelings were right about Obama, Bill Clinton, Regan, Bush (1 & 2,) Carter and more. I have not been wrong yet about what an electable person will be like in office. I have a system and it works kind of like this. I see how my first reaction to them is, then I watch them as they do their work, job, campaign and or whatever. Obama is a perfect example, I watched him for two weeks and it became clear that he was bad news and BAD NEWS with capital letters. I was right…

Hillary is bad news and I mean BAD NEWS twice over and if she is president, we will wish for God to come save us. And I promise you; He will not save us from our own Folly…

If you think Bill Clinton was bad (and you should,) then when you meet the pants of their family Hillary Clinton, you ain’t seen nothing yet…

Actually we might be better off electing Bernie and allow him to be another Carter, for we need a break from destruction and Bernie would most likely keep that at a minimal? I don’t know, I really find him generic in many aspects and that may be good…

But I would not vote for anyone of them and this time I will not go through the process to vote. Heaven forbid if a person who has been outside of America for 10 years, should really give a damn who you elect. For the US has become way to weird for me and way to destructive, all in my lifetime…

Enough said about the US election process and I am done thinking about it. I do now believe that whoever is elected? Then we got who we deserve. Whether it is by cheating or legit, we will get who we deserve for we do not care enough to make sure it is done properly in the first place. We allow all kinds of rules and stipulations to cloud the issues and process, for we do not care and will never care…

This sums up how I feel and is good enough for me…

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160302/1035681348/next-us-president.html

“Politics today is about one thing and one thing only: maintaining the status quo between the Controllers (the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the corporate elite) and the Controlled (the taxpayers),” Whitehead writes in his article for The Rutherford Institute website.

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Gotta go walk Boza, he is giving me those sad doggy eyes and I have to make him happy. Have a nice day…

WtR

This morning I woke up and Boza and I ran outside to walk…

We stepped into an alternate world as we exited the door and found that winter had decided we were bad and snowed all over our parade. It was only -4 this morning, but still, what is the deal with the snow? Oh, who cares?

So Boza and I walked and walked and I took one picture. I did not have the energy to take more pictures of snow and more snow… 😉

Does it look like our car is going anywhere soon?

Though to be fair, it will get warmer this week and stay that way for at least a week. Cross your fingers…

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Father Pavel made it to the bell tower and his church. I had a long talk with him and to be honest, he is growing on me. I really like him and find him honest and interesting. I am a good judge of character, after interviewing many thousands and thousands of applicants for management positions in America, I have acquired a sense about people…

He is not perfect and some people have some issues with him, but we are all human and that is what makes us interesting. He tries and what he does, says and lives is Orthodox and we could do much worse than follow the Orthodox faith. He tries and that is what counts…

He is in an interesting position in life and he has to act one way around the women who adore him, another way toward the guys who follow his teachings and I see another side of him as he communicates with me and does not have to hold an pretenses or expectations around me. I am an American and he can let his hair down so to say. It makes conversing with him a man to man, instead of man to godliness interaction and I really think he enjoys such times and interchanges…

To be honest, I am studying the Orthodox faith and find it a breath of fresh air. I will see what my future brings and how my faith in God develops. I believe that how we believe in God and how we have expectations of religion is a personal issue and not for anyone to tell me to toe the line. Thus, I may believe what I see, but that is between God and I. For my belief is a personal issue with God…

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It seems history repeats itself, for I see a Holy War happening in the world right now. This is the same Holy War that has been going on since time began for us and came to a head around 1095. Nothing like a good long war to keep things hopping around the world…

Western driven Holy Wars were called the Crusades, which propagated from around 1095 until about 1291 CE. The purpose was to take the desired by all religious places in the Holy Land from the Muslims and or any others, who lived there, so it was intended as a war(s) to right wrongs done against Christianity? I question my accuracy on this…

Looks a whole bunch like these wars are still going on, at least in enough peoples minds to disturb the flow of life on this planet…

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I have discovered that I am not able to eat white bread anymore. In fact it seems better to not eat any bread anymore. I seem to have a wheat intolerance and it includes pastas and processed cereals. I have stopped bread and have had tremendous results to the better in bloating, bowel issues and gas issues…

But I love bread… 🙁

Life marches on…

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The three ring circus the US has for a political system is reaching epic proportions. In fact a three ring circus is not good enough to call it anymore. Looks like US politics and or presidency makes “Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus” look weak and pathetic. They would be proud to have such a circus to utilize to spread among the masses…

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Gotta go, I am going to read today. Just too much snow and it keeps on falling…

WtR

Woke up all groggy, the weather changed last night. It hit -15 below zero and then screamed literally upward in a few hours to -6. I was messed up and dimwitted. Some say dimwitted all the time, but this morning it was true. Then a cup of java and checking the e-mail and Boza and I went off to walk the wintry world we live in…

Sometimes the best images come from my cheap cellphone. It seems to catch what I see better and it seems to put color correct, when color is such a small spot in the grey white world I live in. That color is important, for it is what drives the senses and makes sparks of happiness inside your soul…

One day I will be able to drive out again. It is okay though, life is so much more than just driving and going somewhere. Life is what you make of where you are at, at that moment. Life is good even when life seems to be crushing you to death…

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Food is not an issue anymore. The need for food has decreased considerably and my body has adjusted to consuming less. If I eat too much, then I feel sluggish for hours. I have learned to eat what I crave and not what we are taught we should eat constantly. I have not had a craving for McDonald’s in a very long time and when I do go to the store, only certain foods meet what I need. Cottage Cheese is very important, bread has become nil and makes me feel sick anymore. Mandarins are the cats meow (little know fact: Russians just love mandarins and you can find them literally at any store, big or small.) peanuts are dirt cheap in Russia and my mainstay when I walk. The last time I drank a small can of diet coke, I was sure I would throw up and my body did not like it. I am sure that eating a Big Mac would devastate my insides at this point…

We eat too much and need much less than what we eat to comfort ourselves. If you work hard, your body will ask for more, but when we sit and play video games, our body asks out of boredom…

I realize that I am in an extreme situation, but it has dawned on me that your body asks for what it needs. Such as extra, vitamin D when the sun is almost non existent. Thus cottage cheese and cheese is in demand. Vitamin C is demanded from long days of isolation and limited varieties of food and thus citrus fruit is expected…

As I write this, I am spitting mandarin seeds in a small cup… 🙂

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I installed a very powerful outside light yesterday. It worked perfect, but I have to get an outdoor breaker box to wire in the system. I need to run an outside line to have electrical usage where I need it. Such as the chicken coop, wood shed, outhouse and usage in general…

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Well I need to go. I have tons of work to do on my websites, outside and I am trying to draw up plans to rebuild the outhouse, chicken coop and where to put a wood shed. I also have to start splitting wood and stacking for next winter. I can not understand anyone who could be board in life, with so much to be done. I am waiting patiently for the snow to melt so that I can turn the garden over and get it ready. I have so much to do and not enough time to get it done…

I guess that is life…

WtR

Got the washing machine out and washed some clothes. I guess I was being sadistic, for it was cold and my hands went numb. But I got clothes done and clean. Yes I waited until the clouds cleared and the sun came out finally…

Notice how Boza tries to keep an eye on his ball? I do not know why he does not trust me and accept the fact that I would never get his ball! Well — except when he is not looking… 😉

So I sneaked his ball away from him and we played for a half hour. It is called chase the ball and keep me from getting it. What a mean guy I am…

Now Boza is inside and sleeping! I guess I wore him out…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Long walk for Boza and I, just looking at the Tiny Russian Village on this snowy cold day…

WtR