To: metesky
“As I write, the wife is in the dooryard...”
You must be in Maine. I live in Downeast and that is the only place I have ever heard “dooryard”. I asked a guy what it meant and he said that you open the door and there is the yard. Dooryard.
33 posted on
06/16/2007 9:46:35 AM PDT by
mirkwood
("May noise never excite us to battle, or confusions reduce us to defeat.")
To: mirkwood
I asked a guy what it meant and he said that you open the door and there is the yard. Dooryard.Simple enough so that even a guy "from away" can understand it.
;O)
39 posted on
06/16/2007 10:36:20 AM PDT by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: mirkwood
"You must be in Maine. I live in Downeast and that is the only place I have ever heard “dooryard”. I asked a guy what it meant and he said that you open the door and there is the yard. Dooryard."when we lived in MN, we had geese. If you've ever heard the term "loose as a goose," you'll know what I'm talking about. They LOVED to poop on the doorstep. So we fenced in the dooryard and gave the rest of the farm to the geese. Dooryard. :oD
44 posted on
06/16/2007 10:50:19 AM PDT by
redhead
("Ah works dirty, but Ah does a clean job..." --Nightmare Alice in Li'l Abner)
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