My new treasure…

I am working on getting this wagon wheel up the hill, a big steep hill. Maybe Sveta can help me when she comes Friday, for the hill is long and the wheel is very heavy, the spokes are steel and the middle hub is cast iron. I found it while walking with Boza and have […]

Suggestions to Russia…

I have a very large readership that is connected to Washington DC and the Kremlin both. Neither side pays me (hint, hint and more hint), but they read the blog and they at times respond. Sometimes the response is okay and most of the time the response is in attack form, always from the DC […]

Shame on you: Western Mainstream Media (MSM)

Russian cameraman and journalist Anatoly Klyan, was fatally wounded in the stomach and died Sunday night. Along with a few other journalists, he had boarded a bus full of women (mostly mothers,) who were traveling to a Ukraine military base in Donetsk to demand that their sons be dismissed from the unit and allowed to […]

Russian Village Photo Day… (06-30-2014)

I did not think gates would be so soon, but they are serious and getting gates installed at the Bell Tower. They are pretty good, but definitely not near as heavy as the original. That is a sad sign of times and quality suffers in this day and age… I enjoy watching what they are […]

Train Ride In Russia…

A train ride in Russia is a wonderful experience and no two rides are the same. Sveta sent me this picture of what she saw as she spent 6 hours on a train, coming to the village… A train in Russia is so common place that it is “home away from home” and that is […]