We need to find meaning. We need to be useful. We need to know that who we are matters. I give, you give, we all give.
Cindi says: A portal to amazing and fantastical worlds… Or… inspiration for the invention of the chamber pot. 🙂
Barbara Criss says: Wonder which came first–the outhouse or the chamber pot?
Winnie Nielsen says: Hmmm, where is my snow shovel? How beautiful this little rest stop looks all quiet with a winter blanket.
Barbara Criss says: We have an outhouse at our quaint little hillbilly cabin—built by hand out of an old torn down house. I Thought it strange to put a window in ours, but I guess other people do this too. The ones I have visited never had a window. I can say that I have never thought one looked beautiful as I trudged to it in snow and cold. A lot of us Appalachian children of the 60’s did grow up with outhouses. Two of my good friends did not have indoor bath rooms until we were seniors in high school. I don’t think any of us miss them. But I can see the rustic beauty of them—just don’t give me wallpaper,shower curtains,etc. with them on it. UGH!
Cindi says: Wow! That’s a way better story to tell your kids than how far we walked to school every day. 🙂
Lisa Arthur says: Quaint shed or tiny outhouse? Hmmnn either one works fine 🙂
Cute window!
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Perfect old glazed window on an aged barn. I love old windows and real wood.
Winter is still very much in force out your way. This frost creates an etched glass effect which is beautiful.
How I do love old windows like this. Someone gave us some old windows from an old church built in the 1800’s and we put them in our cabin. I love to look out from them and imagine myself back in time in that old country church.
I deliver Meals on Wheels once a week on Friday but I visit these people during the week and do shopping for them make sure they have everything they need if there’s a storm coming up I bring my house rabbits to visit them every other week I bring flowers to them during the summer out of my Gardens in fresh vegetables I send them cards for the birthdays and just do simple things like giving them a call to make sure they’re okay you’d be surprised it’s the simple things in life to bring the biggest forms of happiness and the biggest gratitude into your own lives
Wow! That is so inspirational. Our Ladies Circle (at Shepherd of the Sea Lutheran in Atlantice Beach, NC) started meeting once a month to make homemade cards for our shut-ins. They love the cards. You’ve inspired me to do more! Thank you for your post.