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Ann, there used to be a stack of catalogs in the outhouse. An old calendar is still hanging on the wall inside, I think. And I know what you mean about sharing-- some things just don't lend themselves well to sharing.
Scott, if I go into a double decker outhouse, I'm going in on the upper level.
We live life at a fairly slow pace here in the middle of nowhere.
Around where I grew up the high faluten folks had double decker outhouses! :) Seriously though, my grandparents had a hand pump for water on the enclosed back porch and an outhouse until 1975. I miss simpler times alot even though to most folks they seem like a huge inconvinience.
Scott
Thanks, friends.
Good thing I was born to pull weeds! 
Nope, Sam, it's a single. Mark likes his privacy.
lol
Lovely. :)
Two holer?
Lovin' the outhouse lol! The gardens are looking good too!
Here's how it looks this morning:
Robin, I just saw this photo again- the sun is so pretty slanting across the green and the bare earth.
i wonder...how does it look now?
Foggers, 'ave you ever stung yer b.. on stinging nettles while taking your ease in an exterior environment? Could be a relationship with the term "netty"?(Will reply to your message later) JohnH
Foggers,
The first house I lived in in NE England in the early 60s had only just had an indoor bathroom installed and the outside privy was still in the yard, though it did have a proper flush system rather than just a hole! The dialect word in NE England for the loo is the "netty" which SURE is a QUAINT word indeed!!!
folkfan, John Henry didn't fall for my referring to the charm it added. You used "cute" (quotes duly noted
Looks like a great place for all your gardening supplies. Build in some shelves across the top for additional storage. A "cute" looking garden shed.
John Henry,I neither know when it was erected nor when it last saw regular use. "Decades ago," is all I can answer to either question. This was the homeplace of the old woman who lived here before we came by the property. Although there was a commode in the basement, I believe she used a chamber pot and emptied it off the end of the porch.The 'two hole' outhouse used a single slab for the seat. (I should've written to folkfan that "it's broken"-- meaning the slab-- instead of "they're broken".)I took a few more photos to give you a better look.
Robin, going back to the outhouse again (yes I know, but I am pushing 80 !) do you know when it was errected, and when last in regular use? Just idle curiosity really, coupled with the fact that in my childhood I used a similar 'two hole' outhouse when visiting my maternal grandad's home. It had a slab of sycamore pierced by one 'big' and one 'small' hole, and the door had hearts cut into it at high level to provide the only light.JohnH
John Henry,
Charm!!! and you have to stand up! Huh!JohnH
Actually, the exterior of the house was re-done last year yet we didn't touch the outhouse, staying with the charm the outhouse lent to the place.
ff,We could fix it up but then we'd have to re-do the yard and have the house completely remodeled in order to match.