Windows to Russia

I have discovered the pattern of development in this Russian village’s past. It was a female monastery to start with, then it became a village called Communal and that was a farm village, then it became a school for the deaf and blind and then it became just simply a village. Now we will add […]

I chose today, due to the cloud cover, to wash all the dishes and my clothes. It is hard on me to stand in the hot sun too long and I took advantage of a partly sunny day. If this day holds on to partly sunny, I will most likely install a carburetor on our […]

Many many moons ago the West started it (That impossible lenticularis motion of ignorance that the world seems to rotate through every few hundred years!) and actually, virtually everything is a failure, except for making the rich richer. We have made the middle class in the Western Empire a poor class, the poor are simply welfare […]

Sveta and I talked and it looks like I will be staying in the Russian village until the end of September. Then we will take our yearly trip to Tunisia and enjoy a few weeks of leisure. Then back to Moscow, Russia and settle in for the winter. It will take me probably two years […]

This is the start of the Russian Village Posts and this is the page that will be presented from now and tell the end of summer when I have to come back home. The blog is above in an easy to find link. This page / post / article / whatever will be full of […]

The U.S. has been given a red line and if the U.S. is wanting a war, then cross it, or else shut the hell up and go back to playing footsie propaganda with the American population… Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Wednesday said he would not recommend anyone attack the Crimean peninsula, even if it […]

Boza and I are bachelors again for at least 10 days. Maybe longer and maybe not! Therefore I decided to post some pictures that Sveta and I took, mostly by Sveta… The Martin family of birds thrive in this village. The Bell Tower is a Purple Martin / Scissor-tail Swallow haven and the old packed […]

I posted this many years ago and decided to bring it forward, for while some of the information has changed, the time frames have changed, the needs and desire have not and most likely things will change a million times before they are done. The data given in the post is accurate and important… The […]

How simply sad and pathetic to measure a man’s worth by the value of his paper assets alone. If that is the metric that we find most compelling to use, then it is far better to be consider a loser on the planet “Usury…” There are far more important metrics to measure the worth of […]

“So what do you do?” A lot depends on one’s age.  If you are young with much of your life still ahead of you, get the hell out of this sinking, stinking, rusty old tanker and find some small, peaceful, independent, and self sufficient “ship” on which to reside.  If you are old, like me, […]