Home away from home

This is my first entry. The picture is from this winter but it sums up the Siberian experience
I've been working here for 3 years and I love it.
Russia is a very interesting country. An enigma wrapped in a riddle shrouded in a mystery.
I am continually amazed by this place.
I am always disappointed with the wealthy who, for the most part, robbed the country as the USSR dissolved and made fortunes while leaving the masses poorer and far worse off than during soviet times.
Your average Russian is, however, wonderful. Happy to share a glass of vodka and a shashlik (kebob) with you. They will make an honest effort to communicate with you and as the vodka flows communication comes easier (probably as coherence declines). We call it the vodka peravoicheck (interpreter)
I am happy here, although very stressed and over worked.
I've met the love of my life here. She makes me strong and keeps me in line.
My first posting:
After 24 hours in transit lugging 230lb of equipment I'm back in my Siberian home.
Its Summer in Siberia and the beer tents are everywhere. Drunken Russians abound.
It was -55 in January, last week it was +32, then the torrential rain fell. It was a rain of monsoon capacity
Galina and I drank beer under a leaky umbrella and where otherwise damp.
Nobody has ever come to Siberia for the climate.
I had an awesome time off but it was too short!!
I feel like my life is a hand full of sand and I'm missing fingers!!
pictures will come later as I can not find my memory stick
I sold my house in Calgary and moved back to my family farm.
While the woman I love is here my awesome children are back in Canada leaving me forever torn