Windows to Russia

This tale ended with all okay, but it could have turned out deadly, for when Boza and I went hunting for creatures like bear, lions and tigers, we never expected to come across the ruler of the lands and the ponds nearby, of course; A giant elephant eating hedgehog… We had been confused as to […]

Eighteen days (Actually 16 days left, but who is counting?) of sticking a needle in my leg and then following up with about a month of pills to subsidize the same stuff I just injected. It is called Vessel Due F and it is suppose to help with plaque in the veins and arteries. Plus, […]

U.S. citizens have no desire or interest in supporting a neo-Nazi coup government in the Ukraine, and yet the U.S. government not only supports it, but even initiated it. Similarly, citizens of the E.U. have no desire or interest in losing relatively inexpensive Russian gas, but the E.U. governments have endangered that supply by supporting […]

I woke at 5am and the first thing I see is more reports and videos on West / Kiev Ukraine using white phosphorous on her East Ukraine people. Then I see where in a form of retaliation, a transport plane with at least 30 paratroopers from West Ukraine, has been blown out of the sky […]

Or until the Empire collapses… (And as Britain found out, forever is a long time even when they collapsed!) It is a no-brainer when it comes to Iraq and many other countries that the U.S. has interfered in. As I have written many times, “I am sure glad the war is over in Iraq!” Now […]

I had a grandmother that had a rough life. She, like many grandma’s of grouchy guys like me, lived through the depression times and did somethings that they would normally not do in life. I remember clearly a story that grandma would tell to me, many times over many years… Always ask who, what, why […]

Internet has been a interesting concept in the Russian Village, we have tried just literally every way to get connection and in the last few years we had 2G and it worked extremely slow but steady. Then Sveta found a coverage map for our area and we came upon the realization that 3G was about […]

Last night I did my laundry and hung it up to dry. This morning, early, I am scrambling to gather that still slightly wet laundry and get it inside, the rain is pouring and my almost dry laundry is getting soaked. That is the state of affairs in my part of the world, how is […]

We needed it, the plants needed it, the animals needed it, the dirt needed it and life needed it. What was so important? Rain, that is what we needed and yesterday we got it! Rain and rain and rain. Inches of beautiful ground watering, rain… Before the rain came rolling in, in the form of […]

It was, that now shan’t! That sums up an America that had the sparrow by its tail and instead of doing good, it produced nothing but resentment for its very existence on this planet… The coffee is really good this morning and as Sveta sleeps and dreams her village dreams, I sip a cup of […]