Outhouse

I've got a new line for Jeff Foxworthy -
You're definitely a redneck if you have an outhouse in your yard, especially if it's in your FRONT yard.


ta-daa, look we (I) got. Ours has a crescent rather than a star on the door like pictured above.

The crescent moon cutout and the star cutout on the door of many outhouses goes back to Colonial times. In a time when few people could read, the crescent moon was the symbol for women while the star cutout was for men.

It is thought that the men, in general, let their outhouses fall into such bad shape that it was the women's outhouses that survived the test of time. The cutout also let light into the outhouse as there were usually no windows.

I kinda one for aesthetics but be functional, so for hygiene purposes, I had to rent one, and the company will clean it weekly. I'm telling ya, it never fails, you get out to the barn and it hits ya. Then, you have to run back inside the sunroom, kick off your muck boots, to protect the carpet in the RV, run inside and up steps, the 5th wheel RV has steps inside, to the bedroom/bathroom and by then you're in pure misery. My 53-year-old colon wanted an outhouse. I've just begun to decorate around it. Stay tuned: pumpkins, mums, etc are coming.

»§«:*´`³¤» ©Lois Caywood Guffy«¤³´`*:»§«
Just say all you want about living in the good old days.
I lived em' and I know there are more comfortable ways.
Now, imagine having to go to the little house out in back
Waiting until the last minute to hop out of your cozy sack
Running out into the night and wondering if you can wait
To answer natures call, that is, if you hadn't waited too late.
With your nightshirt a flippin and flappin in the breeze
As you quickly ran down the path to the house in the trees
Now folks, I say it with pride,
I cherish my old Sears & Roebuck Throne that sits inside.