I was US Navy for four years during that Viet Nam thingy. U.S.M.C.= United States Mommy's Crybabies

"2 1/2 holer", huh? Are you sure that's the hole truth? Just what is a half of a hole - does one cut only half way through the board? Perhaps we should sit down to contemplate this. Yes, I've used 'em - away from home, though my first experience of a bathrooom with running water was when at 18 I went to the University of Saskatchewan - in 1947. Not that I (and the whole fam damily) had saved up through those years! In summer we'd go from kitchen/dining room through summer kitchen, into a narrow porch/lean-to with a door at the far end leading to 2-holer, over 2 large buckets that Dad or hired man hauled occasionally to add the the pile of manure by the 5 - 6 horse barn. Would one call that "half way to an 'outhouse' "? In winter there was a metal can with a holey seat and lid in one of the six bedrooms upstairs, with a vent to one of the five chimnies, most of which unused after furnace installed a number of years earlier, 4 of which chimnies Dad had removed a few years later, before bricks fell off to break some slates on the roof. Cistern in basement with pump on sink in pantry offered soft water for washing and well in back yard offered water in a bucket via a hand-operated pump for drinking and cooking. The well needed cleaning, but Dad feared to go down to clean lest rocks and bricks in the wall fall on his head. In the midst of the Dirty Thirties, Depression, Dad had a well drilled by the house and a cold water tap installed on the other end of the sink. Also water lines to three barns to serve the horses, cows (and bull), pigs and chickens. Sorry, I lied. Soon after the end of World War II we moved from our farm in Ontario to a rented one in Saskatchewan and we used an outhouse there. In summer - but it gets down to 40 below (same in both Fahrenheit and Centigrade) in winter - so there was an alternative in the basement (only two bedrooms in second storey). At 17 when we moved, I spent only a couple years on that farm. After only a few years, Dad bought one. ole joyful

Apparently Tommy Hilfiger finds the magnetic buttons marketable. https://usa.tommy.com/en/tommy-adaptive and Duluth Trading https://www.duluthtrading.com/mens-magnet-wrinklefighter-relaxed-fit-long-sleeve-shirt-74266.html and Walmart https://www.duluthtrading.com/mens-magnet-wrinklefighter-relaxed-fit-long-sleeve-shirt-74266.html There were others too. I smiled when I saw Eld's post. My niece has CP and struggles with buttons, snaps and zippers - my sister-in-law added magnetic closures to some of her outfits. She found the magnetic snaps on Amazon and sewing supply sites. Maire

I took my cat to the beach. . . . (Not really, I don't have a cat.) Rusty