Batumi is a city that rising. High rising to be exact. Every where you look high rise apartment buildings are going up, competing for who can reach the highest.
One has a two story sign along it base boasting 35,000 units for sale. Imagine that. 35,000 apartments in one building.
I don’t know the number of apartments in the building where I live. I am on the twenty eighth floor of a thirty seven story building. I have a beautiful view of the city and the Black Sea, but will that be the case after the building next door is built? I will still be within easy walking distance from the beach.
I love the ocean and the long walks on the beach.
It was storming today and I didn’t get out until after dark. That’s when I caught sight of these two self propelled cranes. They are used to construct the larger cranes that cling to the sides of the high rise buildings as they are constructed. They can reach up about fifteen floors and then the crane that they are assembling lifts them to the top floor from which they continue to construct that same crane up even taller. I haven’t seen how the disassemble the tall crane yet and how they get down after the building is built. I expect I shall soon. One of these buildings, under construction, will have to be completed sometime.
@MsTexasG So it looks like President Trump intends to end the Ukraine war in ten days. It will likely end in a flash. One that he won’t be able to take credit for because the moment he threatens Russia with his nuclear submarines. It’s Washington DC that will disappear in a flash. That radioactive dust circling the earth will be US!
A big shout out to the people who follow me. Unfortunately I’ve had to leave Russia. It became impossible to receive any funds from the US. I am currently living in Batumi, Georgia.
This is my family in the living room of my apartment in Kimovsk, Russia. I am a disabled Vietnam veteran. Seventy six years of age. My son Aleksandr (left), and my granddaughter Dasha (center) look in on me. Here, I had hoped to live out my retirement years.
I am decorating my living room with items that are truly representative of the Middle East.
I have a samovar from Tula, Russia. I bought it at a shop that specialized in samovar and was located in the Kremlin. My granddaughter helped me pick it out.
I have two Russian tea glasses with comemeritive holders.
I don’t smoke but I have a hookah. It is very decorative in bright red.
I have a porcelain fruit dish on a pedestal. It is a red and gold pattern.
I have a five branch candle stick for the center of the dining table. It’s useful when the electricity is not available.
I have two floor lamps. One is of Morocco design.
A print of a painting of a Venisen canal scene hangs over the sofa which is classical Georgian.
Three nesting tables and a coffee table and a large vase full of roses.
