By Golly we had a swimming pool when I was a kid. Yep! We were up that jiving with the best of them. Yep!!
On hot days Mama would draw water from the well and fill a big wash tub.
Some people had fancy ones for their baths like this one but we only had the tubs Mama used for washing clothes.
We could play in or out of the water. Splashing around like ducks. Speaking of ducks we had two white ones. They loved our swimming pool too if they ever got a chance to get in it
Those old wash tubs were used for so many different things. On special occasions they were filled with crushed ice from the ice house and cokes were placed in the ice. Wow! Those were the coldest cokes I ever drank. Yummy!!
Any time Mama got a new one the old one was put to use also. Water was put in them to water the cow and horse. Sometimes the top was cut out for a shallow one to feed and water the chickens in. One with leaks was used to sew tomato seeds in the spring. Water was added to keep the dirt moist while they grew. Chicken manure was mixed in the garden dirt and placed in the tub. No potting soil and Miracle grow then. Around the first of June the tomato plants were planted in the black dirt Daddy had plowed up in the garden. Later tender plants were covered with the tubs in the garden if a late freeze was expected.
Occasionally some women would use a leaky one to plant flowers in but that didn't happen a lot. Those tubs were too useful for them to get rusted out for just a flower pot. At least that's what my Daddy said and Mama agreed with him.
We made use of everything in as many ways as we could. I have an old wash tub hanging on a nail out on the smoke house. People have tried to buy it from me to plant flowers in. NO WAY! That tub is going to hang right there as long as I have anything to do with it. YEP!!!!
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