Sunday, February 16, 2025

A change-of-pace for Sunday

 

Ads from 2:55 to 4:15

A day in the life of Old Believers in Russia in late August.

Darn that Patriarch. Just DARN it!
Milking cows, repairing equipment, processing milk, kids playing, picking berries and apples, cutting hay. At 12:00 they go to the woods and pick mushrooms (lots of beautiful, golden Chanterelle mushrooms!) and have a picnic and sing folk-songs. 17:45 the family is riding back home and then taking water out to the livestock.

6 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing!
    Its funny, every culture, every continent, everywhere... starts their meal prep out by frying an onion in a pot!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. There is a very good reason for that.

      Delete
    2. Frying anything puts millions of little globules of fat into the air: Bacon fat or fat with onion or garlic smell.

      Our tastebuds only sense sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami. Everything else is scent, temperature and texture.

      Frying foods lets our brains know that something good will be landing on the table and it is time to wash our hands and eat.

      Delete
  2. That's how you make strong families and communities. ---ken

    ReplyDelete
  3. Old Believer churches are quite elaborate, with lots of gold leaf and icons. Attended one just outside of Homer, Alaska when I worked there in the 1970's. Services in Homer were identical to those I attended in the USSR 10 years later, but lacked the KGB attendence!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Eastern "orthodoxy" is merely the eastern leg of the heretical Roman hijacking of Christianity. Suspiciously close to matching the legs of the golden statue in Daniel. Examine their doctrines in the light of Scripture and it becomes plain neither is Christian.

    ReplyDelete

Readers who are willing to comment make this a better blog. Civil dialog is a valuable thing.