The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

The current bath in my one bath house has been remodeled. But when I moved in the only thing that was keeping me from falling through the floor was the linoleum.

First guy I hired to rehab and remodel went through the DTs while he was working. But between bouts of him disappearing and real work he did a great job the bathroom had to be ripped out down to the floor joists.

Thank goodness I had an outhouse.

Though I did step over a rattle snake on the way one evening.....

deb

 

[ronott1]

I remember about 8 years ago, DH and I were remodeling our bathroom in our second house. We tore everything out, put down ceramic tile, new jacuzzi bath tub, new sink. It was about 9 pm and the last thing we had to do was put in the new toilet. DH asked me to hand him the flange bolts, I passed them over to him and managed to drop one down the drain. We both set there on the floor and stared at that dark hole. I invented a few new curse words and asked him if he had any spare flange bolts. Of course, he didn't which meant no toilet in a one bath house until the next morning when we could run into town and buy new ones.

When I commented that 'I need to GO! NOW! DH handed me a roll of TP and a shovel.

Add remodeling to my hate list.

Yes! The shovel and the roll of TP! We had to do that when I was growing up. The Septic tank needed pumping and a new leach line added.

The current bath in my one bath house has been remodeled. But when I moved in the only thing that was keeping me from falling through the floor was the linoleum.

First guy I hired to rehab and remodel went through the DTs while he was working. But between bouts of him disappearing and real work he did a great job the bathroom had to be ripped out down to the floor joists.

Thank goodness I had an outhouse.

Though I did step over a rattle snake on the way one evening.....

deb

I bet the rattle snake was scared too!

 

[NotAFarm]

Remodeling... and then

Outhouses...
One summer (I was kindergarten age) we were staying at my grandparent's farm during the week and it had no indoor plumbing (this was the farm house my mom and her siblings were raised in. My grandparents also had a house in town that the older siblings lived in to attend high school since there wasn't one nearby in the country). My sister, two years older than me, would wake me up at night and tell me I needed to go to the bathroom. No, I would say, I don't need to go! Yes, you do! she would say. She just didn't want to go out to the outhouse at night by herself. Good thing there were so many children in my mom's family so outhouse was a two seater.

 

[chickisoup]

The water heater is lit!

Now on to getting the refrigerator moved and hooked up to water!

 

[chickisoup]

I remember about 8 years ago, DH and I were remodeling our bathroom in our second house. We tore everything out, put down ceramic tile, new jacuzzi bath tub, new sink. It was about 9 pm and the last thing we had to do was put in the new toilet. DH asked me to hand him the flange bolts, I passed them over to him and managed to drop one down the drain. We both set there on the floor and stared at that dark hole. I invented a few new curse words and asked him if he had any spare flange bolts. Of course, he didn't which meant no toilet in a one bath house until the next morning when we could run into town and buy new ones.

When I commented that 'I need to GO! NOW! DH handed me a roll of TP and a shovel.

Add remodeling to my hate list.

I'm so sorry BUT

 

[pennyJo1960]

I think most of us have memories of an outhouse some where ... at my cousins even after the plumbing went into the house my uncle used the outhouse ever night we even put m-80's under it one year sure glad we could run back then

 

[chickisoup]

WOW!!! 90o F and 30 mph sustained winds for hours. That is NOT normal weather for us up northers for sure. The first coat of paint and some serious caulking done while DH got most of the insulation in the walls and and a couple sheets of stranboard up when we discovered we were short on insulation and other stuff so we surrendered to the heat, jumped into the air conditioned automobile and headed to town. We were bucking a serious headwind in the potato flats and fortunately we still had power in the house when we came home. Not so much for a lot of other folks. The winds apparently took down a lot of trees etc. Storms are potentially to be a bit wild tomorrow but we're ready for that so no worries there we and should still be able to get a lot of work done inside.
No wild weather is going to stop us from being ready for the new arrivals!

 

[chickisoup]

I think most of us have memories of an outhouse some where ... at my cousins even after the plumbing went into the house my uncle used the outhouse ever night we even put m-80's under it one year sure glad we could run back then

Yep. We pulled an outhouse "adventure" or two when I would spend summers in the Pine mountains of Kentucky helping out on my great uncle Champ's little tobacco farm.

 

[Alaskan]

Storms are potentially to be a bit wild tomorrow but we're ready for that so no worries there we and should still be able to get a lot of work done inside.

Yep, no blowing away!

 

[microchick]

What made having to trudge down the hill with the shovel and the TP extra distasteful was that it was January or February. Nothing worse than having to drop trou and bare all to a brisk north wind when it's in the 20s outside.

I went out tonight to feed and water and discovered my little Speckeld Sussex hen is broody. What is so chuckleatious about that is that she has always been the Alpha hen and rules the coop with a stern wing. The standard sized alpha rooster always followed her around like her personal entourage and while she has always been a sweet little hen with me, the others fear the sound of her clawprints. Yesterday, after I pulled the standard roosters from the hens and put 4 bantam cockerels in with them I saw the alpha OEGB cockerel following her around the run giving her a piece of his mind. She was managing to stay ahead of him but you could tell she was POed as her hackle feathers were standing on end. It was like he was saying to her, 'don't go getting all high and mighty with me, lady, I'm in charge now and when I say squat I mean SQUAT!'

I told my husband that Speckles had her revenge on me for making her swap out alpha roosters. She showed me who was in charge. She went broody. First time in over two years.

And me with only one fertile bantam egg on hand.