April 2021

Lopota Lake Resort & Spa is ideal for those seeking a peaceful place to rest. Your personal piece of paradise is located in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia, surrounded by the famous Caucasus mountains, just 2 hours drive from Tbilisi, the nation's capital. Awesome weekend at Lopota Lake resort, made a few fly-throughs with a drone, night shots, and an active track. Spring is in the air. Music by: Urmuli - Suliko

Admiral Fish restaurant is located near Birtvisi canyon literally on Algeti river. We discovered this place a few years ago while hiking at Birtvisi canyon and have returned ever since, They have both a restaurant and fish farm on site, the place seems is run by Russian/Ukrainian business people. Here you can get a wide variety of fish food and caviar. It's said they deliver to Tbilisi fish also. Admiral Fish restaurant There is a place for parking, a kid's corner, restrooms, and really cozy gazebo's for dining. The best - it's outdoors. The restaurant is literally located on Algeti river. I…

On January 4, 2021, I sold  all 115 shares of Stone Harbor Emerging (NYSE:EDF) at $9.18 to purchase 10 shares with KO at $52.60 per share + kept some cash I have been holding EDI stock since September 2018, in general, I still like the stock, but my investment philosophy has changed and I'm not interested anymore to hold stocks without options From the money received I bought additional 10 shares of The Coca-Cola Company (KO) at $52.60 per share. With its quarterly dividend of 0.41 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 3.11% and will pay us an additional $4.10 every quarter…

On April 13, I bought additional 12 shares of Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) paying $12.32 per share. This trade comes as a "penalty trade" after I closed with a loss of some bad performing options contract on AAPL stock. The idea for penalty trade is simple - always when closing some options contracts with a loss, I will double up and invest in quality stock. I must admit I have been overtrading lately and making mistakes in the stock market. My total investment so far in NYSE:DB: 27 shares, 63, and I will start selling covered calls and try to offset some of the losses from the bad trades. DB…

While there are more powerful Intel Core I9 and even Apple with M1 chips available, Intel core i7 still is very popular In today's article, I've listed top 21 best selling laptops with 11th gen Intel Core i7 processor 11th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processors power the ultimate thin & light laptops with industry-leading CPU performance, discrete-level graphics, amazing AI acceleration, and great battery life. Intel® Optane™ memory accelerates launching the applications you use most. A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by…

A day in our lives - Husky moto park in Tbilisi, Manglisi, and Birtvisi Canyon in Georgia - failed attempt to press the record button with an active track filming motorbike in action was fully compensated with my free run and hide from a drone in Birtvisi. Filmed April 17, 2021 DJI Mavic Air 2, Adobe Premiere Pro Music by Scott Holmes: Hotshot and Stomps & Claps

Husky moto park is located on the left side of Tbilisi - Kojori highway, not reaching Mtatsminda. I had a chance to spend some 20 minutes at Husky moto park and filming Enduro ride with DJI Drone Active track (unfortunately I failed), so I plan to return here some more. What I know about this place, there is a school, tours and of course a club available. I was told that I could rent an Enduro bike and drive inside the track for about GEL 60/hour. Which seems reasanable.  Husky moto park in Tbilisi Husky Group was founded in 2016 and has become an official dealer of Husqvarna Motorcycles in…

On December 31, 2020, we bought additional 15 shares of Realty Income Corp. (NYSE:O ) paying $60.84 per share.  With its monthly dividend of 0.23 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 4.53% and will pay us an additional $3.45 every month (before tax).  Now, that's awesome! To finance this purchase we spent half of our options income in the month of December, see December 2020 Options Income Report - $2,692.38 We now hold in total 50 shares of O, In total, they contribute about $117.13 (after tax) yearly to our dividend income portfolio. Using dollar-cost averaging our …

On April 7, 2021, we bought 10 shares of The Coca-Cola Company (KO) at $53.24 per share. With its quarterly dividend of 0.42 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 3.15% and will pay us an additional $4.20 every quarter (before tax). Awesome! Ko is paying a dividend in the following months: April, July, October, and December, we will enjoy some small boost in these months We now hold 50 shares of KO, In total, they contribute about $71 (after tax) yearly to our dividend income portfolio. Using dollar-cost averaging our average cost per one KO share is $50.44 By now KO takes…

The GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti and RTX 3060 lets you take on the latest games using the power of Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd generation RTX architecture. Get incredible performance with enhanced Ray Tracing Cores and Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and high-speed G6 memory. Launched February 25, 2021 GeForce RTX are among the latest from Nvidia. In this article, I've listed 17 laptops with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU listed on Amazon A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on Amazon site, I might earn an…

Here is short drone footage from Uplistsikhe cave town in Georgia.️ Taken with DJI Mavic AIr 2, April 9, 2021, post-processed Adobe Premiere Pro. Should add more hyperlapses in the future videos. Music by Scott Holmes: Epic Cinematic Thumbs up

On January 20, 2021, I bought additional 30 shares of  American Well (NYSE: AMWL) paying $29.84 per share for our Partnership Fund. We are now holding 30 shares of AMWL in our Partnership Fund portfolio Using dollar-cost averaging our average cost per one AMWL share is $29.92 70 shares to go once we will be able to start selling covered calls and generate extra income from AMWL. We are looking to get there by March 2021 If we had 100 shares of AMWL today, we could sell February 19, 2021, covered call (monthly options) with a strike price of $35, to get a $1.25 premium. In case our shares…

On December 31, 2020, I bought 100 shares of Pennantpark Investment Corp (PNNT) paying $4.59 per share. With its quarterly dividend payout of 0.12 dollars per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 10.45% (before tax) and will pay us an additional $8.00 (before tax) every quarter. Awesome. There are two simple reasons we like this stock - it has a high dividend yield of about 10%, and we can trade both put and call options. PNNT has dividend payments in January, April, July, and September. We will get a small boost in these months. Also, we are looking to take at least an extra 10%…

On April 12, I bought 15 shares of Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) paying $12.35 per share. This trade comes as a "penalty trade" after I closed with a loss some bad performing options contract on RVP stock. The idea for penalty trade is simple - always when closing some options contracts with a loss, I will double up and invest in quality stock. I must admit I have been overtrading lately and making mistakes in the stock market. Anyhow, what do we know about NYSE:DB: Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and…

Most of the 64 GB RAM laptops come with the Intel Core i7 processors, also Intel core 9 is gaining momentum.  For a better gaming performance or high-end business use expect to spend at least $1,200 up to $3,000 for a 64 GB RAM laptop Top 20 Laptops with 64GB RAM (Gaming / Business) A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For…

Aparani Church of Saint George, Martkopi is located on Vaziani-Martkopi-Norio road, some 30 km from Tbilisi. The surviving foundation in front of it suggests that in ancient times a larger church stood here. The church was built by Dito Kakhurashvili in 2000, and in 2001 a 12-meter cross (authored by Zurab Matiashvili) was erected near it, which was blessed by Father Zaza (Bezhashvili) on the feast of Aparna. The Feast of Tabernacles is celebrated in the 3rd week of Easter Our must-go destination for apple twigs around Easter time. Seems this area is nice for some barbeque too. Taken April 4…

On April 7, 2021, we bought 4 shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) at $56.07 per share. With its quarterly dividend of 0.46 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 3.31% and will pay us $1.84 every quarter (before tax). Awesome! WBA is paying a dividend in the following months: March, June, September, and December.  It was agreed to re-invest and double up the previous month's dividend income to finance this purchase. As we took some $91 in dividend income in March, we doubled up this amount and bought 4 shares with WBA We now hold 4 shares of WBA, In total, they …

Welcome to the forty-seventh (#47) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in March 2021. The last March we spent in Latvia, but on the last day of March, we returned back to Georgia. There is some progress with our apartment renovation works in Vilgāle. But works have started to slow down.  Vilgāle apt update: Window Casing, Drywall ceiling From the perspective of dividend income - Last March was decent. The thing is it is about a year already I'm not focusing on dividends at all, instead, I'm growing my total portfolio using options trades.  In total…

On March 30, 2021, I bought additional 6 shares of Apple stock (NASDAQ: AAPL) paying $119.41 per share.  With its quarterly dividend of 0.20 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 0.66% and will pay us an additional $1.20 every quarter (before tax).  Not the biggest income, but when buying Apple stock I'm are not looking at a dividend alone. instead, I'm looking at a potential value growth and options income from covered calls. At the start of January, I got an inheritance of EUR 6,061 - I decided to put this money at work in the stock market, both buying stock and using…

Aparani Church of Saint George, Martkopi is located on Vaziani-Martkopi-Norio road, some 30 km from Tbilisi. Our must-go destination for apple twigs around Easter time. Seems this area is nice for some barbeque too. Here is some info I found about this place in Georgian: The single-nave, hall-type church is a late medieval monument. Aparani church near Martkopi The surviving foundation in front of it suggests that in ancient times a larger church stood here. The church was built by Dito Kakhurashvili in 2000, and in 2001 a 12-meter cross (authored by Zurab Matiashvili) was erected near it,…

Fun day at Sigulda / Made my first hyperlapse at Turaida Castle. The famous Ferris wheel, Gutmanis cave, river Gauja, and some other goodies. Filmed November 8, 2020

Ten years ago I first landed at the Tbilisi airport and for the first time took a step on Georgian land. That happened on April 1st, 2011 - I like this data - it's known Worldwide as a Fool's day.  With this article, I'm celebrating my ten years in Georgia. Unlike in previous year anniversary posts, today I'm going to re-post one day in my life from April 1, 2021 as seen on my Facebook wall 10 years ago on this date, I first put my foot on the holly Georgian Land. alone. now 10 years later returning as a family. awesome. in the cage the 4 passenger - Tīģeris Waiting to depart from Riga…