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The Kondrativ Family
Nikolai and Luba. Married 35 years and still quite happy about it.
(or it could be my mom's creamy broccoli potato soup that they just ate)
Pavel. The malchick magnet (more on that in another post). He's about to brave the cellar to fetch some potatoes for Luba to make borst.
Sweet little Yulya in new Spring dress from Baba Luba.
Yulya and her loving babushka Luba.
(Nikolai has recently been promoting the moniker 'Baba Luba' for the babes to pick up and use -- which I think is very sweet and it also prompts me to break out into song everytime I hear it, "Hey BabbaLubba she's my ba-bay. Hey Babbalubba, I don't mean may-bay")
Here's Yulya putting up with Des and Zoe.
Luba frying fish. They go fishing a lot and I've seen and smelled a fair amount of fishiness to last me for sometime. I do enjoy eating it though.
A fish massacre.
The babes making peroshki with Luba.(She gave them beer bottles for rolling pins -- handy!)
A early Spring composition.(zoe in foreground on swing, luba at left and nikolai in middle and pavel on the right, in background)
Luba's tulips! The flowers finally starting blooming last weekend!
Here is the dom sweet dom in March
[I intend to upload a few more pics to the Russia in March photo album in the sidebar -- so avid photo watchers keep checking. done 6.6.08 -- now russia in march&april]
2 comments:
This is all really cool. How do you get internet there? Is it satellite? Dialup?
heyscott!
congrats on chicago!! another fascinating urban experience! i’ve been reading your blog a lot and have really enjoyed it! ellen is hilarious!
we get internet through dial-up which costs us three times more than what we paid in nyc (which was $23.90 a month for unlimited cable). we have to purchase an internet card every 10days or so paying approx. $20 each time. i think it’s for about 30hours. it goes quickly between the two of us! but it’s really great to still have internet access close to home.
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