our front yard

Hey what is in your front yard.  Over the years I have had cars, pickups, old cars, old pickups, running cars and pickups as well as the other kind, Tractors and other farm implements, barbique grills, friends eating Bratwurst and hotdogs, go-carts, an airplane without wings, strawberries, tropical flowers, mini-bikes, but today the rose Bloomed!

I am thanking the Fellow that made it.  It is an amazing thing.

Hope you have a bit of perfection in your life too.

ST

Camera out of my pocket

  Finally the sun shone while we were walking and I took some pictures as I was able through the trees of the Mountains and one fountain here along a main boulevard.  We live about a mile from some nice food stores and a reasonable restaurant.  the Bus costs between $0.13 and $0.26 each way but we often walk as it is nice and the bus is often pretty full.  The price depends on the type of bus not the distance or route

Here in our new home it is spring,  While still cool at times in the day when the sun shines it is quite nice.  The rain still falls regularly for now but when the sun shines the white on the peaks around the city is very pretty. 

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Several of the bigger buildings here have fountains and they are starting to turn them on again for the summer.  The streets while not so smooth seem to be paved for the most part, at least in the parts of town we have visited.  The cost of living is not too bad with the national bread costing about $0.27 a piece.  Diana and I can eat about one a day with other things.  As we get more staple foods purchased we will probably drop that to about half a loaf, 

We ventured to a Bazar this saturday and purchased some things.  We found the long lighters and bought one for our gas stove which has no lighter built in.  We also bought a good pan and some other small required items.  A coffee Grinder was high on that list, along with a "Tiger Blanket"

  

as we find the house is cool but not cold enough to turn on the furnace.

While out rented house is lacking on view it is quiet and clean with big open rooms and western furniture.  The kitchen is the least well equipped part of the house but Diana would want to get or bring her own things for cooking anyway to that was ok.

We did get internet but it is limited use in the daytime and open at night.  This will make it nice to chat with people on the other side of the world but is already causing issues with our sleep cycle.

S.T.

Camera in my pocket

Hi again,  We are here.  One of my friends seems to blog about reading books a lot.  not that that bothers me but I just realized I was about to quote a line from a movie.  It is not as impressive to post a quote from "Bukaroo Bonzi" as it is say Tollken or Lewis, or even Sam Clemens,  BUT this fits.   "No matter where you go there you are"  well here we ARE.  Pictures soon I hope as this is quite a pretty place in a post soviet sort of way.  The people in our new home are friendly to a fault and the Skyline is just about impossible to beat.  Even coming from the Colorado Rockies the hills around town are very pretty and rugged looking.  

As always language is an issue in a new land.  Here we are able to use Russian with most people and if they are really patient with us we can communicate.  Russian is not a language learned but rather snatched bit by bit from the obscure corners of the memory, Usually half an hour after the conversation is over.  The simplest words often hiding behind some Spanish equivalent, only to pop up later when they are no longer needed.  

Diana likes the word Da,  in Russian it means Yes, in Spanish something else.  She sometimes gets a bit confused which meaning to apply and it can be fun to watch.  Last week we tried a cafe.  I would say it was a new cafe but we have only been here a week so they are all new.  I ordered Plove which is sort of Rice, meat, veggies, and lots of grease.  It slides down nicely.  My plate was too much for me so we planned to share it.  The waiter asked Diana if she wanted here own plate.  She intended to communicate that she would help with mine.  Her reply did not exactly communicate that idea to him.  I think it was something to do with her pointing at mine and repeating DA, Da, Da.  Neither of us could finish our plate of Plove.

I have been carrying my camera around with me in hopes of sharing some of the nicer views we have here.  If I remember I have it, it rains, If I forget it is sunny and clear.  Much like russian at some point the three will converge Memory Sun and view and I will post some more pictures of where we now live.

It's not so much the curves that life throws you but the turns you chose to take that makes it worth while.

ST