[festus]

Don't fergit about the corncobs...............

Who hasn't had to use the outhouse growing up at home ?

Oh yah all you young whippernsnapers.

[Integrityrocks]

"..the two-holer, is a thing of the past in most places."

Maybe so, but the one-holer is still in good use in our corner of the world. That would be Alaska.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this outdoors list, largely rural midwestern issues, please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.

Leaving out the hole in the ground stuff, the outhouse is alive and well today. As are the spiders, snakes, et al

[girlangler]

Thanks for that ping SJackson.

It was a good place to encounter a snake, or so we believed. And wasp nests, they were a real problem, for some reason wasps liked to build their nests in outhouses, and I have been run out of an outhouse by wasps.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"You could try to brace yourself with your hands and sort of hover over the hole like a helicopter without touching down..."

ROFLMAO! My Mother-in-law has perfected "the hover." She and I have traveled together many times, and she's taught me how to basically pee standing up, her fear of sitting on anyone's toilet seat but her own is that great.

Thanks for the laugh. I can't wait to send this to her!!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward were the catalogs I remember.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Thank God I was born in 1972.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Have you ever ready any of Pearl Swiggum's missives from 'Stump Ridge Farm?' She's a hoot!

I'm sure you could get her books from the Library. I think she has two collections of her columns, one was called 'The Barn Came First.' :)

[leda]

some funny potty humour for ya sweetie! :)

[PistolPaknMama]

Oh my gosh! This brought back so many memories! My grandparents had a humble one-holer up until their carpenter-builder yunguns decides Grandma and Grandaddy needed indoor plumbing. I was reeeally small but I remember the Sears catalog, or reasonable facsimle. Could have been The State paper, although The State didn't turn communist/socialist for decades.

My parents bought some property on lake Wateree (South Carolina) and they and two other couples set up crude cabins along with a luxury fish cleaning/frying station. The other less-than-luxury "facility" was what they dubbed the Half Moon Hotel. I'll leave that as self-explanatory.

Of course you have to consider the changes from then till now. Who do you know could by lake front property, construct a crude cabin (without obtaining permits) with no running water or paved road, and even construct an out house (still no permits). Construct an out house in your own back yard and see how far you get with the homeowner's association or town council.

That begs the question: are we evolving or devolving. There was a time we could take care of our most necessary functions without permission from the government. Now somebody from the government has to inspect it first.

[Eaker]

Poopin' with spiders ping!

Of course what happens at Deer Camp stays at Deer Camp so I can say no more.

[spunkets]

Look first. Make sure there's no snapping turtles down there on the lookout for worms.

[labette]

Thanks for the memories, everyone! -- {I think}

[Titan Magroyne]

My Mom tells the tale of playing hide-and-seek with her sister. Mom-to-be hid in the outhouse, only to discover she had comp'ny in there. Too late, Sissy locked her in and didn't believe her panicked cries about Br'er Snake. If'n she could have, she would have left a cartoonish little girl-shaped hole in that door!

[Diego1618]

How about the guy who owned a gas station down in the Ozarks who had a two holer out back. He had a speaker wired on the side of the pit connected to an amplifier and microphone inside the station. He got his kicks when ever a good lookin' women went back to use it. He would wait just long enough until he figured they were sittin' down....and then would say.....

Hey lady! Would you mind usin' the other hole? We're workin' down here!

He said he never got tired of seeing the looks on their faces as they came back down the path, got in their cars and sped away.

[elkfersupper]

Thanks to the environ-mentalists, they're making a comeback.

Only this time they're INSIDE the house.

Composting toilet

[neb52]

Well growing up in DFW I never used an Outhouse. But in scouts, our camps still use latrines which is essentially a full bathroom outhouse. But most of those are going to the wayside since most of the kids now days refused to use them. The flushing toilets up by the pool are heavily used and thus heavily stopped up. The future holds for more flush toilets because of the liberal TRNC guy in the county. Evidently latrines are hazardous to the environment. This guy has put us through the ringer on the new dining hall. The general contractor left off or forgot to research about a new septic system. The rest of the camp (except for the pool) was built in 1929 and use dry tanks with the liquids running out on the ground type septic system. This county guy comes in and tells us that we can do that with the new dining hall. So we spend another $120,000 for a three pool lagoon system. AND NOW! AND NOW! the prick is trying to pressure us to tie the rest of the old buildings and shower facilities into the new septic system. Instead of being a rustic scout camp, its turning into a resort.