New MacKay farm house

Nova Scotians flocked to the Boston States as the old timers called it, in both the depressions of the 1890s and again in the 1930s. They found all nature of living refinements in Boston. I remember a yarn about one old timer, came back home from Boston. He declared they were a backward society, they eat out in the back yard, in an area they call the patio, and the relieve themselves indoors, a room called the bathroom. Absolutely unsanitary he declared, food full of houseflies and mosquitos, plus an indoor outhouse.

I never had the pleasure of using an outhouse on a regular basis. My grandfather was in Boston back in the 1920s, saw flush toilets and decided he was going to have one back home on the farm. He installed it in 1932, 2 years before he had electricity. He pumped water by hand to a tank on the third floor, which graviety fed back to toilet. The septic tank was 12' deep and 12' across and his weeping bed took in most of a 5 acre pasture. Over the years that system never had to be opened, not once. The house burnt around 97, and the county wouldn't allow the new owner to hook onto that system with his new house.

Where abouts in Canada are you?

Nice looking house.(:~})

Gary

Bob

We have been on the southern fringe of Mike Soldan's snow belt, the one that Al gets going up there in WI, then Mike sends it along to you folks in upstate NY. Being 7 miles south and the new tree protection, we'll pretty much be able to ignor the snow belt.

Then we traded houses with my dad on the farm. Dad thought he was going to make things easy and proposed a trade with Marg on pianos and deep freeze's. She went along with him on the deep freeze, his 23 cubic ft, ours 17 cubic ft but new. There was no dice on piano, he soon found out why, we figured Marg's Gerhard Heintzman weighed twice as much as my mothers piano. That was the only time we ever picked that piano straight up, since that it's been a ramp. Dad didn't make a good deal that time, he had to replace the newer deep freeze within 5 years. We got roughly 30 years out of his oldie.

I guess she figured we had beeen procrastinating too long thinking we'd find every feature perfect.