Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Meanwhile, there is very fine and sparse, but snow. Zero degrees

An urgent joke:

A doorbell rings. A man with a huge drum is standing on the doorstep.

– Is this where I need to play at the funeral?

– How can you say that! The person is not dead yet!

– Oh, okay then.

Five minutes later, the doorbell rings again:

– Listen, can I leave my drum here with you for now?

(I don’t translate it to English as usual because it might be understood wrongly without having the proper context and without following what is happening in Russia on the political scene these days)

Yuki knows how to keep herself busy

“Wings, legs… The main thing is the tail!” (c)

Urgent joke:

Hello, dear, they just announced on the radio that some lunatic is driving the wrong way. Be careful. — One??? There are thousands here!

“Be careful love, it’s just been on the radio that some idiot is driving opposite to the traffic on the highway..”

“Someone…? These rascals are in hundreds!”

It turns out that the Shiba Inu is ranked first in terms of DNA closeness to the wolf. That’s why their howl is so reminiscent of a wolf’s—it’s in the genes. It also has two other noticeable traits—a fox-like pounce into snow or grass as if hunting for mice, and a clear reaction to strange dogs—he presses his chin to the ground and moves in small bounds, hiding behind trees, approaches the dog, and at the last moment can leap forward in one bound.

As I write this, he just can’t stop howling. He howls and runs between the door, the backyard, and the balcony.

Yuki’s voice broke out. It seems he saw some unrequited love from the balcony and started crying loudly. That dog is already gone beyond the horizon, but he’s still crying. Spring 😉 we went outside, took a trail. We’ve been running somewhere for half an hour already.

Our weather: The day before yesterday – snow with drifts and a blizzard, and minus six during the day. The day before that was plus 17. Today – minus five in the morning, and plus 17 again during the day. No snow at all

Current joke

(My translation to English is at the end)

Radio broadcast:

1966

Announcer (joyfully): Hello comrades, we are starting the concert upon

listeners’ requests. We have a letter from a boy Vanya from the village

Zabubenskoe, Vanya asks us to play his favorite song

“Valenki”. Please, Vanya, listen to your favorite song “Valenki”!

1976

Announcer (joyfully): Hello comrades, we are starting the concert upon

listeners’ requests. We have a letter from a student

of the agricultural vocational technical school of the town Zadnezabroshensk

Vanya Petrov, Vanya asks us to play his favorite song “Valenki”.

Please, Vanya, listen to your favorite song “Valenki”!

1986

Announcer (joyfully): Hello comrades, we are starting the concert upon

listeners’ requests. We have a letter from the director of the kolkhoz named after Patrice

Lumumba from the village of Zabubenskoe, Ivan Petrov, Ivan asks us to broadcast his

favorite song “Valenki”. Please, Ivan, listen to your

favorite song “Valenki”!

1996

Announcer (joyfully): Hello comrades, we are starting the concert upon

listeners’ requests. We have a letter from a deputy of the State Duma,

academician of the Agricultural Academy Ivan Sidorovich Petrov.

Ivan Sidorovich asks us to play the composition by Johann

Sebastian Bach “Toccata and Fugue in D minor”. (Even more joyfully)

Dear Ivan Sidorovich, please, DO NOT SHOW OFF and

listen to your favorite song “Valenki”!

1966

Soviet radio; We’re starting up a request show with our dear listeners. We got a letter from a boy from the distant village, Vanya Petrov, asking us to play “Valenki”, a Russian folk song. Enjoy it, dear Vanya!

1976

Soviet radio; We’re starting up a request show with our dear listeners. We got a letter from agriculture academy student Ivan Petrov, asking us to play “Valenki”, a Russian folk song. Enjoy this wonderful song, Ivan!

1986

Soviet radio: We’re starting up a request show with our dear listeners. We’ve just got a letter from the collective farm director comrade Ivan Victorovich Petrov, asking us to play “Valenki”, a Russian folk song. We are happy to put it on, comrade Ivan Victorovich!

1996

Radio: We’re starting up a request show with our dear listeners. We got a letter from the State Duma deputy and honored academician Ivan Sidorovich Petrov, asking us to play J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Don’t show off, Ivan Sidorovich, and listen to your favorite song “Valenki”!

What the heck! Yuki thought. Just yesterday we had 62F. Several days ago we had 77F! What kind of summer is that?

What the heck, the dog thinks, just yesterday it was 62F! And several days ago it was 77F! What kind of summer is this?!

An interesting lecture by A. Kostinsky on Leonardo da Vinci