The beginning I live in Russia. I have enough money to not worry about it. I have two sons and a wife. I have a car and a house. I must be happy they think. Why am I writing? To order my thoughts. From what should I start? Let's start from the beginning. I was born in usual family. My mother was a seamstress and father was electrician (really he was a control man but I am not sure that I translate it right). I was a second child in the family. I have younger sister and older brother. When I come to this world I had some problem and doctors made transfusion of blood. Eventually I survived. When I was 4 years old and I fell from the roof in winter from about 2.5 meters. I fell on ice but did not broke any bones. I lost my mind for a while. Doctor desided to send me to the hospital to watch at me for some time. To be continued.

Old Moscow video

Recently I watched video about old Moscow. https://www.facebook.com/moscowchanges/videos/1045973735435794/?fref=nf

It's interesting. What English-speakind men think of it? Please answer.

The worst time in my life Every day I hear from TV that life is not so good. I learn English and watch some foreign channels in English. I watch DW channel. It's European channel from Germany. Also I watch sometimes TED channel. They all say me that I am in trouble. I must to say that life is good really now. It's much better than 20 year ago. TV says me about sanctions. I don't feel them really. My life was not changed for last year dramatically. But I remember the worst time in my life. It was 90x years. It was difficult to buy a bread. Crime rate was high. USSR was broken. It was like to broke a heart. Stable and happy life changed to horror. Now I feel much better than at 90x. I am building my new house. It consists of two floors. It's warm enough to live at -40 degrees by C. I have two sons and a wife. I feel happy. The life is better than you think.

Cartoons for my son My second son is 2.5 years old. Sometimes he wants to watch cartoons. Most cartoons on TV is trash. So I decided to record old cartoons on DVD and show him. Sometimes I sit with my son and watch the cartoons. These are old cartoons I saw in the childhood. Now I see new meaning of cartoons and realized that cartoons from USSR are the best cartoons. The movements of heroes are not so fast as in the modern cartoons. They teach friendship, kindness, bravery and mercy. They tech to accept any problem with a smile. Today I've read the article at the Facebook about comparison of Mowgli cartoon from USSR and USA. Author implies that Mowgli from USSR is much better. So I am on the right way. My son's favorite cartoons are Cheburashka and Gena Crocodile, Winnie the Pooh.

Russian Snow You can see snow at September. But first snow always melt. Good snow started only at December. We started to change summer tires to winter tires at October or November. At December you can ski at the forest. Snow covers grass and tree roots. When temperature is about zero degrees by Celsius, snow is the problem. It's difficult to drive. From -10 degrees snow become strong and it's easy to drive. This temperature is good for health too. When temperature is zero you have a good chance to catch a cold. At January you can see large heaps of snow along the roads. The tractors must work to clean the roads from snow. At the end of March the temperature returns to zero. Old snow is dark. That's way it melt quickly. The rivers of water run along the roads. People smile to the sun and new flavour appeared in the air. The spring is here.

Russian tradition: summer cottages Russians has a tradition that started at 20 century. Russia was an agricultural country for many centuries. Russians love to grow something on earth and earth gives people a lot. When industrialization epoch started people leaved their lands. But many citizens started to have summer cottages. We call it dacha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha). When you are young you like to spend time at dacha with friends. You are talking and playing. You must have Russian sauna on every dacha. Russian sauna is a great place to have a rest. When you have children and wife you want to feed them and want to grow vegetables, fruits and berries. It's a great pleasure to eat berry from bush. Russian summer is short and you must work hard to have a good harvest. Russian summer cottages is a good tradition that gives health and food.

How Russians celebrate birthdays I've seen US movies and know how do they celebrate birthdays. Russian birthdays are very different. Birthday person must organize it's birthday. You can get fun and happy from presents when you are young. But when you are adult, birthday is responsible day when you must to invite your friends and serve round. Somebody wants to celebrate at the same day but often it's impossible and you have to organize it at weekend. From the morning you are preparing dinner. It must be salads, hot dish (meat or fish with potato or another vegetable), fruits and at the end you must have a cake and sweets with tea. The most popular present is money now. People become rich and have much stuff. So you don't know what to present. They already have what they want. If you buy something it could not suit for birthday person. When all guest come, all sit down at the table. Russians like toasts. I don't mean toast as bread. I mean speech. When you are not public person or leader your toast is short. Somebody likes to give long toasts. But others don't like it. If you have children at the table, they don't like to eat for a long time. Usually they go for a game to another room. Somebody think that Russians drink a lot. This is not true. English or French drink more than Russians.