Out Houses

Author: YeOldFurt
YeOldFurt.blogspot.com (Old Lightning)

I remember the old out houses. Drafty affairs that smelled bad in summer and froze you in the winter. Full of spiders and webs and various other insects.
However, I have seen a couple that were imaginative. One person took an old Port-A-Potty and cut the floor out in the strategic spot and stuck it over the hole in the ground. (You should remember to tie the outhouse down so it don't "fall" over). He then installed a hibachi for heat and a manual crank fan on the side.
Don't forget to dig the hole DEEEEEP and leave a couple of feet for fill dirt at the last. Some lime or crushed limestone thrown in every time is a good thing too.
Trouble with outhouses are you have to move them from time to time and remember where you've already been. There was this one time, when we were out doing Living History reenactment at a place we'd been before and one of the fellers found a nice soft spot to dig the hole......You know the rest of the story.as Paul Harvey would say.
Also I should say, put it down hill from the house!!

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