If you do not know it already, you may enjoy looking up an old book called, "The Specialist" by Charles Sale. Great fun, all about a carpenter who specialized in building outhouses, and full of wisdoms like, putting the path to it past the wood pile, so that people going to and fro from the house can fill the wood box at the same time.

Quote. "take a timid woman, if she sees any men folks around, she's too bashful to go direct out, so she'll go to the wood pile, pick up the wood, go back to the house and watch her chance. The average timid woman - especially a new hired girl - I've knowed to make as many as ten trips to the wood pile before she goes in, regardless. On a good day you will have your wood box filled by noon, "