Construction and repair
Can our city dachas really be called villages? I think so, because we have gardens, animals, and the usual village problems. Civilization, in the form of gas and running water, arrived relatively recently. But there still aren't any roads... When we bought our house here... 
In the old days, the outhouse was built away from the house. It was usually a small wooden structure—a pit and a simple shed with a hole in the floor above. When it filled with waste, a new pit was dug and the toilet moved to it. This type of outhouse still exists in our village... 
In the early 1990s, my parents still worked on the state farm: my father was a tractor driver, my mother a milkmaid. However, due to the situation in the country, wages were paid in kind, not cash. In the fall, my parents would bring home a year's supply of grain, a couple dozen sticks of smoked sausage, and a few bags of Gulliver candies.