Autumn feeling or fun with a drone near Oberliani square / Alexander Garden in Tbilisi. (The former and famous Hotel 'London' is located in this area) Music by David Hilowitz - Equilibrium I Cello version

Salty Garden Tavern is an awesome place located in Mlashe village, some 60 km from the nation's capital Tbilisi near the Bazaleti lake We discovered this place at the end of May 2021 and were surprised to learn that the owner of the tavern - David speaks some Latvian. Mlashe village Our mission is to support the development of our village Mlashe, protection of its ecosystem. Salty Garden provides working places to local people, therefore they won’t leave the village in search of the other job. Traditional crafts are valuable resources that need to be protected.  We have already employed two Mlashe’s families and some more are providing us veggies, fresh milk and meat. All veggies and…

Welcome to the fifthy (#50) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in June 2021. The last June we spent in Georgia and at the end of the month traveled back to Latvia, we did many nice road trips, kept going to the gym and visited swimming pool, English kindergarten for our daughter. Life is very good. I was doing quite a lot of awesome drone videography around both countries, discovered new places both in Georgia and Latvia. Rundāle palace and garden in Latvia from a drone flight From the perspective of dividend income - Last June was surprisingly good.  In total, we took  $128.31  in dividend income last month. Which is  quite awesome, for doing…

Lately, I've put my DSLR camera aside and mostly using DJI Mavic AIr 2 + phone for photography and video (mostly video).  The drone is an awesome replacement for a DSLR camera - you can have both video and photography, the only drawback - no audio, that's why I'm using a phone.  anyhow, recently I discovered an awesome place here in Georgia, the restaurant Salty Garden, I did some drone videography, did some mobile videos, made a nice short clip at the end, but I forget to take any photography - so I was left with no other option - export a single frame (s) from Adobe Premiere And here is how: From your timeline, with the frame selected press CTRL+SHIFT+E (or locate export frame icon under…

Restaurant Chiko near Apsindza is one of our best discoveries lately here in Georgia, the restaurant no only offers amazing and spectacular views but it also serves tasty cuisine for a very very affordable prices. First discovered in June 2021, when returning from Vardzia cave town, we made a stop here because of spectacular views and I really wanted to have a good cappuccino. I got both + more. The view that attracted After seeing this views when passing by, we decided to take a stop here and have a cup of coffee. The mountains are called - Aspindza mountains River Mtkhari passing by The views are just worth a million. Hotel under construction There was ongoing hotel construction works…

Weekend - turned out quite a nice video, despite a bad luck filming. Got a no-fly warning from monks at Zedazeni monastery and heavy rain ruined my plans filming at Birtvisi canyon. From the good - discovered how to use action track on Mavic Air 2. All the rest - enjoy! Music by Scott Holmes: Storybook April 9-11, 2021

Recently I launched my YouTube channel where I talk about stocks, options trading, and finance in general. Most of the filming and editing I'm doing myself. As I'm filming with my Samsung Galaxy A51 phone  and then importing video in Adobe Premiere Pro for editing I noticed that some of my videos kind of look weird as t they are in a "mirror effect" Mirror effect video Look at the T-shirt - the text is in mirror effect.  Now to change it  - select the video file and apply Horizontal Flip from the: Effects - > Video effects - > Transform - > Horizontal Flip Flip horizontal video in Adobe Premiere Pro Hope it helps!

On February 22, 2021, I bought additional 10 shares of LI (NASDAQ:LI) for our daughter's stock portfolio, paying $28.48 per share. Funds for this purchase were taken from my dad's inheritance fund. Li Auto Inc., also known as Li Xiang, is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Beijing, with manufacturing facilities in Changzhou Unlike most of my other buys - LI is not a dividend stock. When buying this stock I'm looking at potential value growth. We are now holding 30 shares with LI Our average buy price: $30.78 I plan to increase the total share count to 100 in a reasonable time frame (say the end of 2021) and once we have 100 shares start selling covered calls on it to…

In this short video, I'm answering a blog reader's question - how to find the best stocks to write covered calls on.  Transcript Hello everyone my name is Reinis Fischer and you are watching my YouTube channel, where I'm talking about stock investing, options trading, and finance in general. Today I have some great news I have got one new subscriber to my YouTube channel -  Carlos T if you're watching big high five to you!  Thanks for subscribing! I hope you enjoy the content! Alright, so today's topic I want to talk about is -   how to find the best stock to write covered calls on A few weeks ago a reader asked me a question -  how to find the best stock to write covered calls? Before…

Located in Abastumani village, this hotel features a shared lounge, garden, BBQ facilities, and free WiFi. Featuring family rooms, this property also provides guests with a terrace. The accommodation provides a 24-hour front desk, room service, and currency exchange for guests. We booked a family room for one night stay in mid-June 2021, and paid for that GEL 350 (with breakfast included). The place seems nice, kid friendly. We enjoyed our brief stay here a lot.  Abastumani residence Surrounded by pine trees, the area of Abastumani is a popular health resort.  All units are equipped with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, fridge, a kettle, a shower, a hairdryer and a wardrobe.…

The blog you are currently reading now is more than 7 years old. I launched it back in October 2013 on the Drupal 7 platform. During the years blog has expanded a lot and now is heldong a few thousand articles - zillions of photographs, more than 700 articles with geo location information and so on.  The more the blog grew, the less I wanted to do any upgrades between Drupal versions, but then come the end of June 2021 and I just did it. The past couple of days and hours I've been spending migrating my Drupal powered blog from version 7 to version 9.  If you are reading this, you are reading the migrated version.  Originally I started this upgrade path a few years ago, but was never happy…

Made a quick stop at Vilgāle today to check how our apt renovation works are going and made this short drone footage. There is some recreational potential at Vilgāle. There is a guest house, a Montessori school, some shop (s), and a huge Vilgales lake (a couple of months ago I met some Aussies here). Quite often properties go from the hammer in this village. they just sold kindergarten for EUR 20K (we wanted to buy, but hell - what would we do with a kindergarten) DJI Mavic Air 2, February 27, 2021 Music by Scott Holmes: Hotshot  

A few days ago I discovered this little amazing and free automated crypto trading bot from Trality and I feel very impressed. Trality is a platform for anybody who wants to profit from algorithmic trading without giving up the day job. At least not right away I like algorithm trading and I believe if done correctly then it can help to save money (and in the best scenario to make more). A couple of years ago I did some experiments with another crypto trading bot - Gekko, but I soon stopped using it, despite the backtests I was able to generate pretty impressive returns using simple RSI strategy (buy when oversold, sell when overbought). Back then I was trading altcoins on Poloniex, which is…

It has been a while since I last time compared the economic output of the former Soviet Union states. Last time I did, I had data for 2013, see: GDP Per Capita In Former Soviet Union Countries 2013 With the latest economic sanctions against Belarus I decided to take a look, how does each of the former Soviet countries stands now, the latest data I was able to gather was from 2019 (World Bank). Per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is a metric that breaks down a country's economic output per person and is calculated by dividing the GDP of a country by its population. For the ease of calculations GDP per capita nominal is used in following table Without further ado, here is the raw data  …

On February 1, 2021, I sold  all 55 shares of Washington Prime Group (NYSE:WPG) at $13.45 to purchase 10 shares with KO at $48.26 per share + kept some cash I've been holding WPG shares since late 2018 It seemed like a nice dividend stock, but later turned out one of the most disastrous stocks in my portfolio, falling from ~$7 per share to way below $1.  Once this stock fell below $1 I bought some more, idea was to go bust or make out like a bandit. Then WPG stock went stock split 9:1, and our 500 shares turned into 55, seems it was a smart enough move to buy additional 260 shares during the March 2020 market crash, if not that the result would be much worst. Anyhow - WPG now is the history…