Mel and I went for a walk yesterday. I wanted a croissant and a cup of cocoa, but I also wanted to buy a new mop. I've looked at the supermarkets and haven't found a suitable mop. All the supermarkets seem to have are very expensive mops with sponge-type heads instead of the fat yarn heads. I have a...

Mel and I walked over to the little coffee shop again today. On the way over he told me about some of the things he and the rest of the guys talked about yesterday in the Session meeting. He doesn't tell me everything, of course. :) When I commented about one of the issues they discussed, he decided...

No, not us! This firm, Rain Drops, has moved! Their new address is Naftovikiv 7. I have no idea where that is. :) Their two telephone numbers follow the address on the billboard. I think this is a very clever ad. The painting, The Volga Boat Men, is very famous. There is also a Russian folk song abo...

So, what have I been thinking about? I almost hesitate to write about it. However, as I told Mel yesterday, the whole subject reminds me of something that happened about 25 or so years ago. We went to visit good friends in another state. While sitting around talking, I realized that the church these...

Ok, call me sarcastic. I can handle the truth. :) :) Mel and I went for a walk to the city center on Monday. This is what we saw. All of these photos were taken on one corner. I know the direction is not quite accurate, but it's so hard to tell which way is west here (there are no mountains on the w...

I received notification this morning that NASA had published an article titled: Remarkable Flare Star Attracts Attention. NASA Science News for February 10, 2009A gamma-ray flare star 30,000 light years from Earth is putting on a remarkable show for NASA spacecraft. Highlights include ghostly x-ray ...

(This was on Facebook, but I decided to add it here, too) Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I w...

After reading The Hobbit again earlier this year, and after watching The Lord of the Rings series again this fall, I wanted to actually read again how the series was written by J. R. R. Tolkien. I don't have the books here, so I borrowed them. I also looked Tolkien up on the internet and read severa...

Yesterday afternoon, after church and Sunday School were over, Mel, Melinda and I went out for dinner. We used to do this almost every Saturday evening after the Ladies Bible Study, Kids English Class and Advanced English Class, but the habit has dropped by the side recently. No one wanted to go hom...

We got home yesterday morning around 10:30 am. Not sure exactly. I usually check the time and for some reason I never even thought of it yesterday. Maybe because I was just so glad to get home this time. The train was like an oven. We have had very few trips where it was that hot, thank God. We thin...