Sunday Trip

ENT to a birding spot today...

Ive been wanting to go to a couple of the hotspots that are not too far away so today I went to Santee NWR, it's about 1 hr and 15 mins drive south of me.  I hoped for a good weather day and although it got warm by afternoon, it was a good day.  The birds mostly ducks that I went to see were pretty far back on the distant side of the pond, and hard to see with all the reeds and cattails in the pond...but I saw them...got a few  photos but my camera only zooms 60x closer....and it gets blurry when it's too far so I didn't get many good photos...but I sure had a pleasant day.  

I got there about 9:30 and started my hike...it's all walking there is no auto tour...you park and you hike! I did 4.15 miles on foot and almost 1.5 of the entrance road by car... I was dragging that last 1/2 mile back to where my van waited.  I saw 60 species of bird.  I got back to the van at 3 pm...and then the drive back home...used half a tank of gasoline...for the roundtrip. which is pretty horrible...with gas on the rise soon I won't be going anywhere.  I do wish I could buy that little car...but just can't right now. 

So I had a good day but I was also glad to get back home and put my feet up.  So I found a new Youtube to replace the Cat Lady and it's a couple.  A family in Russia, they have a one yr old daughter.  They are learning how to speak English from Youtube and watching old American Movies...its been very interesting to see how their life is in Russia.  The cost of living is very low...like they pay the equavelent of $1.80 for a Litre of gas...and they have higher octane than we do...they have 92, 94, 98 octane.  

Their income is low...he said for instance, a teacher makes $300 a month, a doctor $800 a month...and a policeman makes $1,000 and they take bribes so they make Dirty Money...as do the Politicians and officials...Fascist Corruption is controlling the country.  He says the police there do not serve n protect, they harass and bully people. 

Their food he said is garbage...full of chemicals...pretty much same thing as here.  They do not eat meat.  They live a simple type life and seem happy but I think they dream of moving the USA where people are treated fairly.  They better hurry.  Of course they are very upset about the WAR..and they wonder how life will change there because of it. 

Putin thinks he can reunite the USSR, do you think he will stop at Ukraine?  He want to be a World Dictator....and it would not surprise me to know Trump was part of his plan to subdue the world.  Trump would have pulled US out of NATO in his second term and then Putin would have cart 'blanche.  JMO.