Morning everyone!
I thought I would spiel a few rambling thoughts this morning and I will start with our electrical situation in the Russian Village. Then I will talk about our new village washing machine and maybe wander around to anything else that excites me…
We were amazed and happy for within a day, one of the village guys (I call him Volva,) climbed up the tower and swapped circuits to put us back online. Then he called the power company and told them that they did not have to come out. That is how it is done in the village, for the power company would most likely have taken several days to get here, for it was not considered an emergency…
I have seen in the past how the villagers fix everything themselves, including messing around with the power lines. This same man who fixed the power in the village, ended up also rewiring around a power pole that broke in the storm the day before. He just does it and as with everyone, they all just do it. It is called survival… (more…)