Outhouses

Hey Chris,You think too much. Then you got me thinking about it.Ya think it has anything to do with moons, mooning or a b.a.? I dunno now I got to look it up somewhere thanks pal

My father told me it had to do with ventilation.The moon shape allowed the stink to go out, and fresh air to go in when the wind blew. The size and location of the moon was important in this design. A full circle would allow too much air in, and not enough out. A crescent was perfect.
The only experiance I had with outhouses, was with a friend of mine, and some M80s. We waited until someone sat down in the filled double holer, and threw a rock weighted M80 under him, and began to run. When it went off, excrement came up between his legs, and into his face. He was plastered. Then he began trying to get his pants up. Then he started chasing us. I was laughing so hard, I fell over. He almost caught me. Not quite though. Boy was he a mess. Now a days they would have the bomb squad up there, The Feds would say it was a terrorist attack, and it would be on the six o clock news, with 8x10 glossy pictures, and graphs and notations on the back.

The old one on the Farm had so many holes knawed into the wood from porcupines etc, that when you sat in there it was common for the big old bull snakes, who loved it under there by the way, to crawl out between your legs, not for the faint of heart! Ok we will go with ventilation for now. Chris.

P.S. Thanks for giving some thoughful insight, Don and I thought for sure you'd know the answer.

Why is it you bring up some odd thing and it brings out the flashbacks? Our family had a cabin in Minnesota on a lake of course. I remember going to the outhouse and there under the waist band of my designer cut offs were leaches. Never before had I experienced them. By the way I was 7yrs old and from the leach free west. Gotta go take lights down now.

They are simply a fact of life for peoples who swim in stagnent water or the shallow lake areas where the current can't get to circulate much and the mud accumulates. If you would have swum (is that a word?) in real water instead you would not have been "Leached" I hope I have cleared that up. Now I suppose that simply because you once sat on an outhouse throne you are king of the outhouses??? Really Don, come on!!!!!! Chris

In the old outhouse on my grandmother's farm her father had an old calender picture of his favorite bird, the Rhode Island Red. Chris