Yes, this was an official federal government
outhouse - two doors, two stalls, male and female - we removed the
informational signs.
I remember when Glenn and I went to
remove the obsolete structures (we got two) from the government facility - a
campground. Once loaded on our flatbed,
we slowly drove the 20 miles homes, stopping for lunch at a small, country
store/gas station.
We got plenty of looks.
We used one of the buildings for years
for our cattle feed storage. Three years
ago, we changed our management to grass-fed only…no supplemental grain. The building stands idle at the corner of our
yard, looking like an outhouse.
Recently, Becky added pigs to her
farm. She needed a place to store grain
for her pigs. The transfer between the
farms was obvious. Glenn and Becky
loaded one of the ‘outhouses’ (the one hidden in a corner of the pasture, of
course) on the flatbed and trucked it to the ’55 farm’. Again, the sight caught the attention of many.
(See blog Oct. 13, 2013 -A Most Unusual Haul)
Becky placed the storage structure as
close to her pig feeder as possible to make the filling of her feeder easy and yet
accessible for a large truck which would supply and fill the structure with bulk
feed. Nestled between the barn and the
silo was the most desirable location.
Then, Becky did something we had not
for all those years the building was in our possession. She repaired it and, most importantly, she painted
it. Doesn’t’ it look good?
And now, the structure is undeniably a
farm outbuilding, not a recycled government outhouse.
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