#4 - Countdown to Thanksgiving

#4 Thankful thing.
I am thankful for indoor plumbing. Yep for an INSIDE bathroom. I remember the house we had in Missouri, it did not have a bathroom. We had a sink in the kitchen but that was it. The outhouse was about 50 yards behind the house and we had to take baths in a 5 gallon metal washtub that had a Pabst Blue Ribbon sticker on the side. This was not in the 1930's, or the 40's or the 50's, or the 60's but in the 1970's. Yeah we bought the house that time forgot. Nothing like having to get up in the middle of the night to make the long flashlight illuminated walk to the outhouse because nature called. And while you are there nature starts calling out all around you. Like the time a snake decided he had to go while I was in there and he decided not to wait and wiggled in through the crack in the door. Or the time when one of the cows decided to try to push the outhouse over while I was inside of it.
When we got our own bathroom in that house, that had a sink, a commode and a shower bathtub unit, we all did a little jig of celebration, none more thankful than me and the snake who now had his very own bathroom.