Ignoramus30382 wrote:

On 2010-08-04, Wes wrote:
Ignoramus30076 wrote:

But you left a country were Dachas existed in a communist country. The disparity will
always exist. It is the way of things.

Dachas were not only for the privileged. We had a dacha too, about 1/6
of an acre with an outhouse. It was actually great for kids.


I checked out the dacha link on wiki after I posted. Should have checked first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha


The second picture looks at lot like ours.

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Come to think of it. We had a Dacha. Mom watched the tax sales and bought two properties
across the dirt road from her parents home. We are talking blue collar working man and
homemaker wife cookie jar money, not trust fun money. At the time we were living in
Indiana and the property was in northern Michigan.

The one property had a rough two story house dating back to the 1880's or so with a wood
shed with a outhouse attached. Three holer! It could have used some paint. T

The other property had a tiny hunting cabin on a site that was too small to fit both a
well and septic system unless the ajoining property owners, Mom, Grandpa, and Uncle Glen
allowed a set a side. She got that real cheap on taxes.

The grand parents when they retired built a new home next to old homestead and we moved
into the old one after mom divorced. Well, I didn't, I was off to the USMC but I did live
there for a short time after my enlistment until I could buy my own place.

Mom gave uncle the tax sales house, he took the two story part and moved it a mile or so
up the road and put a 100 year old addition on his ten year old house but that is another
story. Moving a house on your own can be a real challenge. That was back when a bit of
freedom was tolerated. Now he would be in a world of chit doing that.

Wes