Dear Listers, Contrary to appearances, I have not been drinking or taking pain pills left over from my recent surgery. I will admit to working with three of four lists at one time while writing an article which required my going through an inch of old "Courier-Journal" articles mixed with Frankfort "Yeoman" articles from 1874. So my latest repetitions and confusion about who sent what comments about outhouses and such is due to old age and quantities of paperwork that probably should belong in outhouses. The episode reminds me of an attempt a newspaper person tried to make: "Yesterday we said that Mr. Johnson was a lieutenant in the police force. We meant to say he was a captain in the police farce." Outhouses have special significance for me because I want to dig in one on a farm near Georgetown, KY. I am trying to convince my cousin that his farm is the one set up in 1786 by our common ancestor, a Rev War soldier in VA and Indian fighter under D. Boone and G. R. Clark in the Lexington area. If I can locate the old pits and dig them up, I might find evidence of their existence. Deeds and such burned in 1830. Tom the bewildered