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<font face="Arial">We finally made it to our new place, moving in
and getting all the paperwork done has been keeping us "a little"
busy. <br>
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Short pdate letter here:<br>
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Our pictures here:<br>
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I need to start finding and posting the pictures from the past
month+, those will be back dated and put in as I find them.<br>
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Events so far:<br>
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Arrived in Krasnodar 14 September to be met by two crazy ladies
(our sponsor and our lawyer) and driven to our new place.<br>
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Found out how much dust there still was from sanding the newly
"hard plastered" walls.<br>
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Got our arrival PCR random number generator test and passed.<br>
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Had an issue with our Internet connection so the technician came
by (on a Sunday!) and swapped out our fiber modem/router under
warranty. The new one he put in is 3x faster so no complaints
there.<br>
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Received 6 month temporary residency cards, longer is pending
additional paperwork... some of it hasn't arrived yet from the
US Gov.<br>
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Bought a car, a Niva Legend Urban. Turns out it's the LAST
Legend sold in this region, possibly the country. Due to the
parts shortage, the factory had been stopped and then </font></font><font
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face="Arial"> a few days after we got ours it </font></font>was
closed and all workers let go.<br>
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Received our INN numbers, like Social Security. They're back
dated to 2019 when our house got the occupancy permit so they
can send us a tax bill. We're mostly exempt due to age, but it
makes their paperwork clean.<br>
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Trips to the grocery store, to the main city of Krasnodar for
various paperwork, trips to the Ozon pickup point (like Amazon
used to be, just about anything delivered free to pickup
point... fast and cheap).<br>
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Oh yes, groceries, friends here left us some food so we wouldn't
starve... The freezer had a duck, goose, rabbit, various fish,
various meat filled pasta... and we also were given a big sack
of beets and carrots. A lot of this was from personal farms.
Nobody starves here.<br>
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Still not used to being able to take a shower for as long and
hot as we want without worry about water and fuel usage
penalties like we had in California. Water and natural gas are
cheap.<br>
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