Liankacreations

  Sunday proved rich in events: Easter, the flooding of villages, Cosmonautics Day, and the election of a new Hungarian prime minister. The ice breakup on the Tom River reached the Tomsk Region on April 10, and on the 11th, ice movement began within the city of Tomsk itself. However, due to several ice jams, the river eventually “froze up” again, and water levels began to rise. On the night of April 12, the water level near the Kommunalny Bridge—which I wrote about some time ago—exceeded the danger threshold of 890 centimeters, according to official local reports. Water spilled over the roadway beneath the bridge and began flowing into the Sennaya Kurya, a small river in Tomsk. That same night, floodwaters reached several villages in the Tomsk District. Because of ice jams on the Tom River during the spring thaw, water rose quickly, inundating fields and several streets. Approximately 100 people were evacuated. One resident said that before 2010, these villages did not flood. The r...

  “The asphalt washed away again, along with the snow”, “The patches simply "melted away" - Russian jokes about roads in spring. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?   I read online that some of the streets in Tomsk look just like our Hawthorn street, Elm street, you name it. However I have to admit streets in New Bedford are getting patched.  In Tomsk, the post-winter cleaning of sidewalks has begun. Over the cold season, 35,000 tons of sand-and-salt mixture were spread on the city streets. According to the city administration, Mayor Dmitry Makhinya has issued instructions to promptly collect the sand deposited on sidewalks and roads over the winter, before the spring winds begin and the snow melts. It is worth noting that the dust storm season in Tomsk typically begins in late April or early May, when the snow has completely (or nearly) melted and dry weather sets in. Do you remember my photos from a previous blog ? Well, in the outskirts of the city there is a lot of snow alon...

  Once upon a time, in another life, I heard the expression that you can't be pregnant a little bit (meaning that a woman is pregnant or is not; not about the stage of pregnancy). Now I'm thinking, you cannot be librarian a little bit . Well, I'm not a librarian, just a library assistant, but working in a library leaves a certain mark on my behavior - I can't tolerate unanswered questions. This week's question was, at what time of the day your son was born? The thing is, April 5 is my youngest son's birthday. I am usually not a person who would post on social media “ Oh today is my son/daughter's birthday..Dear baby, you’re so special, I learned so much with/from you, you are the best person in the world” …  I don’t do that, it’s too personal.  But yesterday my son’s mother-in-law contacted me and asked what time Eugeniy was born? I remembered that.  I did remember that. I thought I remembered.  How could I not remember, I have only two sons! I know for sure...

  I was working on my blog today.  As always, when I write in English I look for some info from Russia, often from Tomsk. One of the news upset me very much. Two residents of the Tomsk region were arrested on suspicion of transferring money to the Ukrainian military. A criminal case has been opened under the article on treason, the press service of the regional FSB reported on Wednesday. The officials don’t give the names and any details, or how they were caught.  On the basis of the investigation materials, criminal cases were initiated under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “High treason”. The sanction under it provides for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. To clarify, I was upset because they were caught. However, they can be simply innocent, and the case was falsified.  Recently a friend of mine mentioned that her friend “Russian wife” travels back and forth from the US to Russia to see her sick mother. We were talking that in gene...

  Sparrows mate, the neighbor’s  magnolia trees and our  Japanese cherry tree blossom . Crackle enjoys the sun, my husband is working. I listen to the book and smile. One of the main characters has absolutely no sense of taste, just like me on the second day of my vacation. The husband drew attention to the colors of clothes I was wearing: black socks, sneakers and a baseball cap, faded denim shorts, a blue T-shirt and a beige vest. I think my shovel doesn't care. I'm digging up the soil in the vegetable patch. I dug the ground for tomatoes yesterday. There's a video here . Yes, we've finally run out of rain. Dubai was unlucky. “Izvestia” reports that due to heavy rains, the international airport in Dubai was flooded. The runway literally turned into a river. Departures from Dubai Airport, which temporarily does not accept flights and does not work for aircraft production, will resume only on April 18. This was reported by an “Izvestia” journalist on April 17. I did no...

  Saturday in New Bedford was sunny, cloudy, overcast, cloudy, rainy mixed with snow and sunny again.  Is the weather weird or just different because of climate change? It seems like some things don’t change. Every year, in spring, floods begin in many regions of Russia. Because of the melting snow, streets and entire villages go under water. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia has already reported on 34 regions in which high water has been recorded. The Orenburg region suffered the most due to floods. The mayor of Orenburg, Sergey Salmin, demanded that residents immediately leave their homes in the flood zone. Otherwise he is going to evacuate them forcibly.  In the Altai Territory, high water flooded the village of Solnechny. To draw the attention of the authorities to the problem, the head of the village bathed in flooded water in the middle of the village.   I have to republish a post about Altai here pretty soon. In the Samara region, 9 districts of t...

  I'm starting to continue...to take collagen and turmeric. I kill two birds with one stone: I take dietary supplements and drink water (try to swallow these huge capsules without a lot of water). Why? I met the year 2023 with knee pain. Arthritis. All year I did various leg exercises and not only, sometimes I took pills, sometimes I used pain relief lotion and pain relief patches. The pain was dulled, but it did not go away completely.  A friend recommended collagen. You know what collagen* is …? I found and purchased collagen capsules on Amazon. I took it.  My nails strengthened, my hair grew, but my knee continued to hurt.  Then I heard from colleagues about turmeric (Google says it is very useful). I followed the well-trodden path: Amazon, capsules, take in. In autumn, when the humid weather ended, the knee stopped hurting. What helped? Riddle.  A few months ago, I bought collagen and turmeric again.  Spring is just around the corner, although it doesn’...