Materials from this page are moving to
their permanent home at
www.russian-horse-rides.com or
www.staritsa.info
Short working holidays
If you do not wish to part with roubles, dollars or whatever currency you happen to have, make an investment into our rural development project with the products of your hands or your head. If, however, operating a shovel under drizzling rain does not appeal to you, see Suggested $$ Contributions
Examples of work:
- moving gravel
- fencing paddocks
- collecting garbage along the Volga
- tree planting
- much more can be though up if we have a willing victim
Example
1.
Moving stones and laying walkways
Example 2.
Collecting trash along the Volga. These great places are populated by people who have not yet learned the art and skills of living on the land of their own. Or perhaps these are the communists that did not allow land to be seen as something of very specific value.
Visiting Americans, Philip and Tomke, collected 30 bags of garbage. The local newspaper people, naturally, wrote of it. A retired colonel by the name of Dubenko or Dubostoiko (dub = oak, and denotes, when applied to a person, someone impenetrable by reason) burst out with a diatribe on the pages of Staritsa Herald that printed the original story to the effectg that you Americans don't need to teach us how to make Russia into a land of mowed lawn, and that recent enemies should nto be allowed to run around unsupervised.
Daniel
Criss rendering this site into English. Largely a failed attempt because "this
Russian" (me) writes in an incoherent manner, he said.
Example 4.
Struggling with Toshiba and Microsoft products. Wish be bought a Russian-made RoverBook instead. It may be less reliable but at least any OS can be installed on it. The person who spent a day trying to solve our computer-related problem can stay in Dubrovki and ride his favourite stallion named Sur (Surprise) for a few days at no charge.
Another mega-project is to complete the construction of the bath house. This is now it all looks as of January 2003.
Yet another major project is to finish the hay shed. Needs to be fortified and covered with something resembling a roof. Now an old parachute serves to keep the rain away.
So, if you have no money but your head and your hands are properly wired, we will still be pleased to see you.
Pasha, Olesya &Co.
