Six Sentence Stories - Useful

Girlie on the Edges Blog is the link up page for this blog hop, Six Sentence Stories - Useful. Denise who is the host has quite a group of followers and participants, but there is always room for more, so just write a story comprising of only six sentences with the prompt word somewhere submerged in your story and link up. While you are there, check out the other stories.

Among the tall weeds sat a stained and partially rusted old bathtub now mostly hidden from view except for when someone chose to venture into that area of the rural property.

It had been acquired from a neighboring family who may have replaced it with a shower and then used their tub for a while as a watering trough for the milk cow.

Once they sold their cow, perhaps it had seemed an eyesore to them and having it placed on their new neighbor’s property out of sight may have felt like the neighborly thing to do, based on a recent conversation with them.

A place to give a large rambunctious dog a bath, or to soak or clean off tools, or in the hot summers to fill with with water for thirsty deer passing through the area were selling points, except no money would pass hands.

With the passage of time and as the rural areas were being encroached upon by those with more suburban ideas, a three-quarter of a century old bathtub used and abused by various creatures would most likely only attract a certain kind of picker.

It had been useful and could still be for a creative thinker, artist, or handyman.