Dacha

Mike on January 18th, 2009

Can you tell that I’m learning how to post videos?  Here are four short videos from our visits to Olga’s grandparents’ house. The Russian summer or country house is called the dacha (rhymes with gotcha).  In usage we say things like, ‘I am going to dacha’ or, ‘how was dacha?’. These videos are pretty poor [...]

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Mike on January 14th, 2009

Today, as I was gathering photos for the site, I ran across this picture. I proposed to Olga in the garden at dacha.  It was her grandmother’s birthday, August 28, and we were there to celebrate with her. Earlier that morning Olga and I both felt God’s clear call for us to be married (that [...]

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