is a Russian artist who specializes in . She created this portrait of me in 2016, and when she gave it to us a year later, Rachel and I immediately made a video showing us opening and reacting to her glorious achievement. Here are links to this video, in 4 different formats.

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Hi Lana! I got your portrait. It's gorgeous. It's big and beautiful and it's so artistic and well-done. It just impresses me. I'm going to have to find space on my wall for this. My wall is covered with books. Let me show you. Oh god, there's art that's by who used to paint famous dinosaur murals and paintings, and the rest of our walls is just bookshelves, bookshelves, bookshelves! And we have a little cat who's playing with the wrapping. There. Koshka. He likes Russian wrapping. Eta Handrij. Maja Koshka. And those are pretty, pretty Slavic patterns. The person taking my spotlight is Rachel and, um, Hello! Am I going to have a chance to talk to Lana? Okay. So, I wanted to thank you for this. I've learned about pyrography. I knew nothing about it, and it's just amazing how detail there is in this. So, I want to thank you very much. And if there's anything I can do for you — like maybe build a web site — you have to let me know and I'll do it. And Rachel's going to send you a note also. (Finally, because I keep picking on her about that!) Just let us know what we can do for you, because we owe you "big time". Ochen sbaciba, yeah. Thank you. You made me look a lot better than I actually look. That's an impressive achievement for an artist. So I hope you can understand me. I don't speak any Russian. I think Rachel do you speak a little Russian? A little bit. Say something in Russian. I said "sbaciba". She's a fake! Ochen sbaciba. Okay, I'm going to take a picture of Lana, oh my god, I have to get that, right? I'm going to turn it up before I take your picture. There you go. Okay. This is Rachel. Hello! So now say something in Russian. "Something in Russian". Ochen sbaciba. That's basically all I remember. I also remember dostopremechatchelnosti. Well, you also know Menya zawout Rachel. I know dosvedanya. I know perestroika. Glasnost. Glasnost, yeah. Koshka — even though that's Sorbian, I think. I was very interested in Gorbachev. What do you think of Gorbachev, Lana? Let me know. Because in America we thought he was great in that he at least tried to liberate the Russian people. And I think Russia and the Soviet Union is better Come up! Oh! He likes to show books. No, I'm just not focusing. Anyway, we'll talk some more and we'll play a lot of chess Let me see if I can get a little bit of a closeup of Rachel. Whee! Look what she can do with her eyebrows. Pretty scary. Who's that making so much noise?? It's a little fur monster. I call him "The Kraken", because whenever he's released, he goes around destroying things. Right? But this is my favorite thing today. Oh my god, now we have to find a place for it. We'll find a place. Okay. We have spaces here. Okay. Oooogay. THANK YOU!