Windows to Russia

Kyle

Last year the gates for the bell tower laid on the ground all summer. This year they have installed them and like everything else in Russia, no paint has been applied and they are rusting, more and more everyday. That is Russia, for people just do not paint and when they do paint it usually is a wild color, like bright blue or green or yellow and whole villages are painted in that same color. Sveta said that is because they only get a shipment of that color and everyone uses the same color of paint. Thus, many do not paint at all…

I find that black, white and green are common colors that I can find in our big village, but it is all oil based enamel and the idea of latex enamel is unheard of in the villages. Now in Moscow we can get latex enamel and we painted our village home with such paint…

http://windowstorussia.com/village-home-before-and-after.html

The house was wild at that time in its life, in the link above and below is a picture of the home right now. Two summers of me living here in the village is starting to show…

But back to the paint issue. yes some homes are painted in our village and that is good, a home has the highest chance of being painted over just about anything, though I have noticed that in the big village, people are painting their fences now. that has shocked me. Our village has actually a variety of colors and it is unusual. Most likely it is because of no one living here and no store is located in our village anymore. The people in the summer bring paint from all over, like from Ryazan and Moscow, which has a huge variety of paints available…

I suspect that the gates will be several years before they get painted and will have rusted a bunch by then. If you look at the image on top, you will see that originally they sprayed the gates with black from who ever made them. Nothing since then has been done to them. I say it is a miracle that the gates are up and still not laying on the ground like all last summer…

This is just another part of Russia that I love and I notice when someone paints, for it stands out in Russia and sometimes makes others decide to paint also…

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Last night I had about three or four Nightingales singing me a lullaby and they decided to sing all night and are still singing early this morning. It is beautiful and I tried to record their music, but only one cooperated, for I know they could see me and I could not see them. They were right outside the window and happy as could be to play with me in the dark…

Maybe I will get a better recorder, since they seem to want to sing me to sleep. I need to record them without me moving to get close enough to hear them. They are all over the yard and yesterday, I found several nests. I made sure not to disturb those areas as I cut out scrub brush, for I want lots of singing birds in the village yard…

It was funny last night, I sit up to record them and they shut up, then I lay back down and they sing and sing and sing. They also follow me around the yard in the daytime and tell me what to do, how to do it and why I should do it this or that way. Bossy little things…

At least one of them sang a little for me, but as soon as the others shut up, he then did the same himself after a few seconds. I will get a better recording, for this time I will be ready for them…

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Not long ago; Saakashvili was sent to Ukraine to help the poor people to recover from Russian invasions, yes many many many Russian invasions and those invasions just never stop… (~Sarc~)

Russia just keeps sending an armada across the border and poor little Ukraine is barely able to stop the beast of a bear. Why Ukraine must build a wall against Russia on the border and Ukraine needs lots of money and weapons to help fight against Russian aggression… (~Sarc~)

I wrote this article in the near past and got attacked server wise over it by the TSA and DHS in the U.S. – Rinse, Repeat, Rinse & Repeat…

Now Senator McCain has been asked to join Sassy in his endeavors of saving Ukraine and help stop these Russian invasions that happen daily, sometimes hourly, according to western news… (~Sarc~)

Georgia’s fugitive ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili and hawkish US Senator John McCain have been approved as members of the newly-formed International Advisory Group that will help Ukraine’s president in “conducting reforms.”

Saakashvili has been appointed as head of the new advisory group, says the statement on Ukraine’s presidential website.

Now lets get serious a moment; the image of Sassy and McCain is of two of the most pathetic terrorists on earth. These two terrorists are supported by the U.S. and allowed to run loose on the world. Sassy has been curtailed somewhat by all the arrest warrants for him, but McCain still roams freely from terrorist group to terrorist group, handing out money and promises of support by the government of the USA…

Is it me only or has anyone else noticed that when peace is prevalent in an area of the world, McCain shows up and talks with US supported forces and miraculously money appears, weapons appear and the direction toward peace switches and death rears its ugly head again?

McCain is one sick person and should be sent ASAP to an mental home. Yet we support his right to waste tax payer money and travel all over the world supporting terrorists…

You wonder who really is running the U.S., because it sure is not our president and it makes me claim once again, “The USA is run by thousands and thousands of wannabe Hitlers and Napoleons!”

It really is time to clean them up and out of politics…

Have a nice day…

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I was surprised this year that the fish village workers all have uniforms. They have never been made to wear them as long as I have been watching and that has been 8 years now. This year though, they are wearing a common uniform for manual labor workers in Russia. Same thing worn as by the road crews and city maintenance workers…

The images are from my new camera and I am trying to get use to it. I suspect the images will get better as I use it more and trying to use a 63X zoom is hard…

Other than that, I am going to try to get some work done. Boza and I walked twice already and the second time he was bored by me stopping and taking so many images. I took two hundred photos this morning and now that the fun is over, it is time to get to work…

Have a nice day…

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John Kerry in a whirlwind of activity, ascended upon Sochi, Russia out of the blue. The saving of U.S. international face and deeper internal depression financially has come home to roost. It squatted as a 600 pound chicken, right on top of Obama’s head and has stayed there. As all the U.S. administration’s dirty laundry is coming out and the lies are being exposed one at a time. The administration has found that taking Russia on was just a bite too big and is choking them to death as everything else slaps them silly daily back home…

Remember it was the U.S. who came running to try to stop the hemorrhaging of precious red blood and it was the U.S. that started the whole death bleeding in the first place. Nothing has been done by Russia except protect herself against aggression that was intentionally done to provoke war. Crimea was a byproduct of “American Aggression” in Ukraine and when it is all done, America will regret ever trying to bully Russia. We came damn close to war and as long as the U.S keeps illegal soldiers in Ukraine under the guise of training, war will stay on the forefront, above all else…

This surprise visit by Kerry came after a visit by Merkel of Germany, America lost its grip and mind with that meeting of Merkel and Putin, looks like isolation became the western issue not Russia’s. The Victory Day Western boycott fiscal failed and sent shivers of fear down the yellow spines of western leaders, as the backlash from boycotting is being felt all over the world. Rewriting history against the largest participant of World War Two just does not make sense in anyway. Russia was responsible for 3 out of 4 Nazi deaths and Russia lost around 26 million (?) people to that war. No matter how you want to look at it, the Russians themselves without hardly any weapons, fought back against germany and won. (Yes America did supply Russia with material and food items!) Sorry, but Americans dying in WW2 is nothing compared to Russian deaths. China holds the honor of second place and I bet you never heard that fact before?

You need to think of your grandma with a pitchfork killing an invader with a gun to get the picture in better view…

So after degrading ourselves (U.S.) to the max and looking like a horses ass in front of the world, again, we decide to try to slow down the bleeding of our souls to the devil himself and ask Russia whom we have treated like dogs tied up on the porch, to play games some more with us and be nice to the failing Western Empire…

What I see happened is; Russia was polite as they always are and listened to the line of drivel coming from Kerry’s mouth and sent him away with no results, whatsoever. Russia has redirected her ship and the west has lost the chance of a lifetime. It seems strange that the western world has hung itself and I guess the old adage of, “Give enough rope to hang yourself!” is true…

But Russia will out of politeness, be civil and work with the U.S. in limited processes…

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Last year we bought a small simple washing machine. I put it to use today and cleaned all my nasty dirty clothes, then after I was done and happy with the results and half the clothes almost dry…. Mother Nature decided a flash thunderstorm is in order and flooded the place…

I guess that is good for now my clothes are rinsed very well, but they will not be dry until tomorrow now…

The little machine does a great job and having air dried clothes brings back helping my grandma do laundry, she hung everything out on the lines outside, no matter what the season was…

Of course as you see in the image, Boza helps me do the laundry, his job is to stand in the path and get in the way. He does a great job at doing just that… 🙂

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The neighbor up the hill from me plays his music loud and proud every night. He likes to enliven the village as he presumes and in fact, his music is great, it is old Russian folk music 90% of the time. It is part of what makes the village the village and I would have it no other way…

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This is the old dormitory of the original female monastery. They are getting ready to rebuild it and turn it back into rooms like it was originally. It also housed blind and deaf kids, when during the Soviet times it was a school. They say it was in good shape for many years, until a fire broke out and burned it down. Though the walls are over three feet thick of brick, so the fire did not bother the main structure. Just the floors and roof…

I am looking forward to them starting on this building, I know that this building will be one of the easiest buildings to rebuild…

The monastery has just about removed all remains of the school. It seems to be a very important issue for the Orthodox church to make sure that only the original buildings and or foundations are left of the female monastery. Anything associated with the schools that were here are razed and destroyed…

I find that interesting…

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Well that is it for now, the rain has stopped and Boza and I will take a walk. The sun popped back out and it looks to be a beautiful evening. Have a nice day…

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6:15 a.m. we came home to eat and drink; Boza had three packs of his favorite dog food and I am starting my first cup of coffee. It takes a few days but we will settle into our groove and get a pattern going. Therefore with coffee comes writing and that is part of that same pattern…

I found a perfect chunk of log this morning to help prop up the car when I work on it and dragged it home also. I know Sveta will roll here eyes at the idea that I need to bring anything like wood home with me, when we have a yard full of wood, but the perfect log to stabilize a jacked up car is important and I found it… 🙂

They have installed a brand new lake pump and it is beautiful. I will try to get pictures of the new pump when I am able, they watch it like a hawk and I would imagine that it cost a pretty penny. Bright blue and it seriously can pump some water from the river to the lake. They started the pump last night and this morning the lake had risen over two feet and still climbing this morning. It is now fuller than last year and it was really full then. They are making money at this carp farm and that makes me happy…

Mosquitoes are waking up and that makes me even grouchier, but that is life! Therefore, I have to get the mindset ready to deal with them and learn their patterns. Everything in nature has patterns and all you have to do is figure out that pattern and you can make a go of life with ease and survive…

I also noticed that the Cuckoo birds are now in full mating season and the air is full of cuckoo clock sounds everywhere. It is really fantastic and as you walk the woods, you can almost feel like you are in the Black Forest in germany. In fact I think that we are much richer in Cuckoos than they are in germany now and if I was rich, I could create a new place to make cuckoo clocks, out here in the Russian Village. We have a bunch of Cuckoo birds…

So it is 6:50 a.m. and time for Boza and I to get busy. We have lots to do and unless I get off the computer and get another cup of coffee, Nothing will get done… 🙂

Have a nice day, for I sure will. For even grouchy bears have fun…

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The EU has made it clear that Ukraine future with them is a long ways off in the future, the Visa free issue for Ukraine is never going to happen and the only source of selling Ukraine products have been “bridges burned” to the ground (Russia,) for the EU does not want anything Ukraine has to offer, except using their resources and land…

Porko the Choco Boy president of Ukraine spends all his time appeasing the west, talking about war with Russia, wanting to kill his people and begging for money from any country he can get it from. He begs daily and actually spends more money than he gathers flying all over the world, looking for handouts. He reminds me of one of the beggars in the subway in Kiev, they are all fake and have more money than you or I…

He does all this and at the same time tries to maintain a chocolate factory in Russia, the very same Russia that he has declared to have invaded Ukraine 300 or 400 + times in over a year. Invasion by Russia is a daily item in Ukraine news and twice a day news from the Choco Boy’s mouth…

Now people want to play games with nukes and pronounce that Russia is going to use them against Ukraine, if Ukraine does not switch sides back to Russia. Get real people, Russia does not want Ukraine and all her baggage. Ukraine is a dead fish in the aquarium and no one wants to scoop it out. Including the EU and or USA…. The stink is getting bad…

I just visited a western country a month ago and the biggest two things I found were, NATO with weapons all over the streets and daily heroin needle sessions in the park behind the maintenance building in full view of the kids and moms pushing their baby strollers. Reminded me of the city I lived in called Covington, Kentucky; nothing but a drunk, pill popping, needle jabbing and dope smoking society day and night, all out in the open…

I guess the latest mouthing from our commander in chief of the declining US of A is a single offhandedly destructive voicing of his own doing and for the record, I did not say this, Obama did…

Mr. Obama said in an interview over TPP. “Think about the logic of that, right? The notion that I had this massive fight with Wall Street to make sure that we don’t repeat what happened in 2007, 2008, and then I sign a provision that would unravel it?” He added, “I’d have to be pretty stupid.”

“I had this massive fight with Wall Street”  (I as in he personally?) Hmm…. “I’d have to be pretty stupid.” Double Hmm…. Yes Obama, you said it and you need to think about what you said… (Read the article…) Miss that teleprompter do we?

Sorry but coffee can not fix the Western Empire…

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Sunday night and Boza and I drop Sveta off at the train station; Boza takes it real hard for a few days and does not eat properly and or mopes around like a lost puppy. This is the way it is when Boza and I become bachelors and this time it might be for about two months, before Sveta comes back to see if we have built a new bachelor pad or not…

Therefore, Boza and I will get use to being alone again and in a few days we will start rebuilding our bachelor pad and yard that we live in now…

Goals:

1.) Rebuild lean-to at back of home. It is collapsing… >>>>>>>>>

2.) Finish putting in the garden and caring for it daily…

3.) Finish removing a huge plum tree that never produced plums and tried to kill all the apple trees with suckers from the roots…

4.) Cut firewood for possible winter stay…

5.) and a thousand other things; like repair the body on the Volga car and repair the fence around the property…

The lean-to is vital to get working on as it is attached to the village home and is literally starting to fall down. To save the home is to save the lean-to. Plum tree is cut down, but now it has to be cut up and hauled away, it was a big tree…

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This last weekend in the village was busy, lots of people showed up to start their gardens and clean their village homes and that means that there will be lots of weekend warriors all summer long, trying to salvage their gardens every weekend. makes for crazy weekends and empty weekdays. It is kind of nice, get to see people for a few days and then peace and quiet all week long…

The Victory Day holiday is starting point for summer here in Russia and I plan on staying through the whole summer until the gardens are done and turned again for next year. Though at the end of October I have to take a trip to Estonia again and deal with business…

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The temperature is about 18 Celsius day time and 5 Celsius nighttime. Just perfect weather for Boza and I, but Sveta found it too cold for her liking and we had to start a fire every night to keep the chill away from her. Today I have to drive to the Big Village and pick up some dog food that we ordered from the local store. I also will stock up on groceries and stuff. Big shopping day for Boza and I, then I will most likely not leave again until next Monday. Once a week is the plan for going to the Big Village…

I was just out and looking at the cherry trees and they are almost drooping with the weight of the all the honey bees on them. The Orthodox church has a bunch of bee hives nearby and I can see why; with all the plum, cheery and apple trees blooming, the honey would be exceptional from these hives…

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Sveta sent me some images of her train ride last night and she had the best of all worlds on a train. She had a single plus-car and she enjoyed it. She also sent me an image of her food in Moscow, for I will not be there to cook and Sveta does not cook, thus she eats different than when I am there… (Besides she says it is diet time!)

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Well that is all for today, Boza and I have to get ready for going to town and Sveta promised some people down the way that I would try to change their propane tank for them. So therefore, we are going to try to see if they are up and get that done before going to town…

Hmm, town, I just thought about a little kiosk that sells pies and such. They have sausikas or pig-in-the-blankets in America…

So yummy good…

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