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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
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 Posted - Mar 21 2008 : 4:58:19 PM
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On the stories of Outhouses.
We used one when we lived in the mountains , on a small farm
Any hows.
There was this older man that lived in Smith county
A few years back,; maybe more.
The poor olderguy was using the out house and the out house fell in ;
I mean it actually did fall and he was in there
He was in there for a few days
The mail man happened to noticed that he didn't pick up his mail
He had knoced and knocked on the door; and went out to the back and and saw what had happened
The poor old man had rats, magnets etc all over him
He was ok ; but they had to give him shots and things like that.
He was lucky that the mail man was his hero
Pinkroses
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Mar 21 2008 : 5:05:36 PM
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We had an outhouse at our summer cottage while I was growing up. One time my dad decided that instead of digging a new hole, he would just "dissolve" the contents. So in his wisdom, he poured lye down the hole. That was an adventure I never would have missed!
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Mar 21 2008 : 6:15:52 PM
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We used one's when we went camping and I too was afraid of being bit in the nether regions by a snake!!! EWWWW!! Worse than that would being caught running away with my pants down around the ankles....oh my!!!!
Cheers,
Heather
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
2350 Posts |
Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 11:35:25 AM
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Liked yalls posts
When one goes to the outhouse ; one dosen't stay to long;
Or at least I did
I hated going to the out house
when I was a littl girl I was afarid I would fall in the hole ! Yuck!!pinkroses
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 12:36:09 PM
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Outhouses have never bothered me. Being a girl scout, it was ALWAYS outhouses at the camps I went to. We had one in the back yard, because my mom hated that we tracked water through the house in the summer when we got out of the pool to use the bathroom.
Actually, that outhouse came in real handy during the blizzard of '77 in WNY. No school for 2 weeks, our furnace blew up and the only heat we had was a small propane heater in the living room. All the pipes froze and broke and the water froze in the toilet bowl because the rest of the house was so cold. It was freezing out in the outhouse but at least it was usable!
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 2:52:14 PM
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This is a funny one about(one of) our outhouses we had in Canada.
Our friends came up to our camp for a week of fishing. The youngest boy and I were good friends. One day as all kids do we had a tiff, well he was mad at me so he took my brand new shoes and threw them down the hole!!! Me, I could of cared less I was bare foot all the time anyway, but somehow my mother wasn't the least bit amused. What is really cool is we stayed friends all the way through scholl when my family moved down here to New York.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4235 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4235 Posts |
Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 04:27:16 AM
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We had an outhouse for a year, the first year we were married. Well....my dh was making a quick run out there, pants undone, and half way down by the time he had the door open. Just about sat down, and bamm a squirrel came flying out of the hole! He he he, talk about the funniest thing you ever wanted to see. About gave him a heart attack!!!
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Aunt B
True Blue Farmgirl
108 Posts
Terri
Chillicothe
OH
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 03:46:08 AM
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MIL went in and came out with screemin' with her pants gathered around her ankles. She said she went in and pulled her pants down, sat down and then saw a copperhead snake in the corner and out the door she went!
I hated the out house when I was a child during the winter. Had to get all bundled up with boots and all to go outside to the out house and it was hard to wipe with a coat on and too cold to tinkle without the coat.
Aunt B
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 04:11:23 AM
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PinkRoses, I remember that story! I read about it in the Wythe County Enterprise.
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"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 11:26:18 AM
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My outhouse story is a little different. I needed to build a henhouse for my new banty chicks when we first moved here..nearly 6 years ago. I found an old outhouse at the back of our property, behind the hay barn and had my grown nephews come over one day and help me haul it to the place I wanted it. I took out the seat and all, patched th holes and painted it (with the kid's help) and it has been our hen house ever since. I will post a picture of it later on. It has worked out great. We have an old ladder leaned up inside for a roost and the hens lay their eggs in deeply bedded straw on the floor..always in the corners. We have since added another chicken pen and house behind it..but this is the main one.Great use for an old outhouse 
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Edited by - Aunt Jenny on Mar 25 2008 12:15:13 PM |
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Past Blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
1083 Posts
Brenda
Orchard Prairie
WA
USA
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Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 11:30:27 AM
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When my dad (who is now 74) was a little boy, they had an outhouse and he was rushing in quickly while playing baseball. Since he was in such a rush, he didn't check to make sure the wood "seat" was down. And so in he tumbled! They had to take a tow rope to get him out! Yuck!! He still laughs about that story to this day!
Hugs & blessings,
Brenda
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 1:27:29 PM
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| The first outhouse I remember using belonged to some relatives. They only lived there until I was about 4, so I must have been pretty small. It was situated on top of a small rise and I had to pull myself up the slick path by the tree roots sticking out. I remember it as a sheer cliff! But in actuality it was probably a slightly steep couple of steps for a grownup. |
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Out House Stories: Pinkroses
