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… Sounds like the ‘heredity really matters’.

She came to visit us from the ‘Cossacks’ Country’ - a region of Russia traditionally called ‘Kuban’ (nothing has to do with ‘Cuba’, though, and I was reflecting on it here), with a main city of Krasnodar. In old times it was called ‘Ekaterinodar’, which meant a ‘big gift’ to the cossacks from Katherine the Great, a legendary Russian Empress .

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I’m reckoning now that particularly for me ‘Writing in English’ is a most challenging part of this whole blogging endeavor. Lion’s share of the time is consumed by a mere ’sitting and writing’ (i.e., excruciatingly slow processing of ideas and putting them into reasonable English sentences.. thanks Heaven, this process doesn’t require a lot of ‘Russian-English translation’ any more. However, I wish some of you would understand Russian well:).

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Well, we’ve just driven them back to where each of them has his or her ‘current ‘dwelling’ now, and here we are again, the two ‘empty-nesters’, and I’m going to explain what did the two previous posts mean.

So, today’s the Mother’s Day, and it looked as a pretty good reason for them to come and visit us, - ‘their folks’. So, they did.

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We get together tonight, our children ‘are visiting us’, - fairly rare occasion, by the way, - and Victoria has just invited everybody to ‘have a cup of tea’.

So. I’ll be with you in a second. Cup of tea

I got up early this morning, and found myself to be in a good mood for an ‘inspirational’ walk ‘around the block’. Here, in the Discovery Ridge area we are lucky to have a terrific net of walking paths. Besides, a quick glance through the window assured me the weather’s going to be good. As I put my cloths on and laced the shoes up, eager for my little outing, it occurred to me: I didn’t feel to be in a need for a ritual morning bust-up, usually served by a cup of coffee! Get dressed quickly, grab your camera, - and here we go! Read the rest of this entry »