Outhouse door

Today it was raining so the kids and I decided to continue working on the outhouse we are building for our land. We found some Western Red Cedar to work with for the door and finished it off with both a star and moon at the top. From the "The Vanishing American Outhouse" by Ronald S. Barlow: ...."Vents often doubled as symbols for gender identification. Luna, the ancient crescent shaped figure, was a universal symbol for womankind. A moon, sawed into a privy door, served as the "Ladies Room" sign of early innkeeping days. Sol, a sunburst pattern, was cut into the men's room side of the outhouse. These symbols were necessary because in Colonial times only a fraction of our population could read or write. ...As time passed by and frontiers were pushed further westward, the gentleman's restrooms fell into disrepair and eventually were abandoned altogether. Accommodations for ladies were better maintained and this is why the moon symbol remains on many outhouse doors today. Its original meaning, however, was lost to the general population sometime in the mid 1800's." I love the grain of the Cedar wood in this door with all the knots . I have also used Western red cedar foilage to make a really nice aromatic soap in the past. This outhouse will be a composting type based on the principles in The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins.
(http://weblife.org/humanure/default.html) I can get plenty of free coffee grounds and sawdust for the compost buckets.This humanure will provide compost for our fruit trees and save us the time of pulling our travel trailer up to the rv dump station so often.