Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:58 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > Up here, in Wisconsin, during my 63 years > "outhouse" has always referred to an enclosed pit toilet; > while "outbuildings" have referred any other rural buildings beyond the > house; > with the possible exception of "barn," "stable" (generally referring to a > more significant piece of rural architecture) > and "silo" (almost always a cylindrical storage structure). > I suppose it is a matter of how you think of it. In rural Louisiana, we certainly would not think of the smoke house as the smoke building, the well house as the well building, or the car house as the car building. These were structures on my family farm adjacent to the house. Nearby, was THE outhouse. Other structures were the corn crib which also housed the wagon and sheltered the two mules, the barn that sheltered the cows and the cotton house that kept the picked crop until it was transported to the gin. These were all across the road. -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA