Words for Wednesday - The Barn Find

I'm trying something new for me today, I'm linking up with Delores over at Mumblings for her weekly Words for Wednesday.

She offers a list of words to use in a post; here are this week's prompts.

hornet, hairnet, hover, proximity, clothesline, scent
and/or
chilling, drench, dance, damaged, horrifying, chemical
or you could use this phrase,
DEPLOYED DESTRUCTION

And here is my offering for this week. I used all twelve words.

The Barn Find

He knew there were a lot of abandoned items in the old building out back, they were all there for the taking so to say, left behind by people who had lived in the big house before. The landlord had said on many occasions "I wish all that old stuff would just disappear."

Around the back of the big house and down the hill towards the woods, he was telling Ed, just follow the path past the old clothesline, and you will barely see the front of the building sticking out of the kudzu, over in proximity to where Old man Johnson left that damaged car.

Jake said, I'll meet you there right after daylight, if you don't see my car just go on back there and see if you can pry the doors open.

It was a chilling morning and the rain had just begun to drench the ground, Ed waited a little while for the rain to stop and for Jake to show up, Jake was always late for these hair brained schemes that he came up with, but Jake was his brother in law and always meant well with these money making ideas.

Jake was saying to Ed, "We clean out that building, and sell the stuff that's good, haul the junk off and then I bet the old guy will pay us for doing it"

The door was stuck tight, swollen from the moisture in the air, but finally popped open with a loud crashing noise that echoed through the woods, almost like a gunshot, the scent that rolled out of the building was strong, a kind of rotten wet dog/chemical smell, no wonder nobody ever went in there anymore.

Jake and Ed picked through the ruined furniture and broken tools, boxes of toys, old clothes, hairnets, and curlers there was absolutely nothing worth taking, and just as they were getting ready to leave Jake noticed something in the back corner, it was covered in plastic.

Jake did a little dance right there, when underneath the plastic they found two old barbershop chairs, they were in perfect condition and would fetch good money from the right buyer, now the trick was getting them out of the building and up the hill to the cars.

Ed cleared a path through the junk, and Jake moved his car as close as possible without getting it stuck in the mud. They were ready to move the first chair. It was almost like the chair was glued to the floor, man this thing is heavy Ed was saying just as the chair tipped.

Jake eased the back of the barber chair towards the floor to get a better grip, Ed grabbed the base and lifted. They had only taken about three steps when Ed let out a horrifying scream, he dropped the base of the chair and fell backwards then began scrambling for the door.

Jake had already abandoned the chair and was running for the door, the pain hitting the back of his head like rocks being thrown at him, as he ran up the hill towards his car, Ed was running in circles swatting the air and slapping his own face and neck.

As they abandoned Jake's latest scheme, the swarm of hornets hovering above them turned and made their way back into the building to the base of the barber chair where their nest waited.