Off to the city again in a few minutes. We were there all day yesterday it seemed like. We had Russian lesson for three hours, two hours there, two hours back… Oy! But we are very thankful for our teacher and for the opportunity to study with her. She’s highly acclaimed. Today, I am going […]
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More snow overnight. No power overnight. Thankfully, when we woke up, the power was back on. It’s really hard to do things here with power. Especially when the sun is not shining. The wind was very strong in the night and I suspect the icy power lines decided they had had all they could
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Christmas (Рождество) is very different in Ukraine. There are really two holidays back to back. First comes New Year’s Day (on January 1, of course). This is the BIG holiday. Beginning on December 20th, or thereabouts, the New Year’s tree stands go up all over. People decorate for New Years…not Christmas. It’s kind of
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Our first snow came on December 3. It snowed. And snowed. And snowed. And then it snowed some more. We have 2 days of snow and accumulated about 12-15 inches of snow over the three days. Since we haven’t had temperatures above freezing, the snow just stayed. Then a couple of days ago it snowed
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