Tub and Two Barrels

Oil on Canvas
12 ” x 9 ”
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Beckman Ranch
The tub is beautiful, a true antique, but there it sits in the front yard beside two bullet-ventilated barrels.  When Frank and Susan moved into the Beckman house, she wanted a pond for ducks and birds in the yard.  Frank, to accommodate his wife, took an old footed bathtub and buried it in the ground.  Everyone, including the ducks, was happy.  When Frank built the family a new house on a different section of land, the hired help lived in the old Beckman house.  These gents had to mix some chemicals and didn’t much like bending over to do it.  Shrewdly they dug up the tub and used it as their mixing bowl.