Last night marked my first dip into the swimming pool for the upcoming Sunmer season. Judging by the weather, I could have made it a go today as well but opted to go to the gym and do some cardio. Unlike the previous summers we’ve had this pool, I plan to make a go of it in 2024. This is just the start of me bettering myself in my fitness journey.
We got this pool in the summer of 2015, so this marks our tenth summer having it. In fact, I believe it was the day after my birthday when we opened the pool. We had one before and it lasted for nearly two decades. My first memory of that swimming pool was jumping in on a warm summer morning in 1989. My parents were both working during the day and my Gramma came up to watch me that day. That was the first of many swims in the upcoming 90s and the subsequent decade to follow.
The best memory I had of our old pool was all the picnics we had during the summer. My cousins were all around my age and so it was fun having someone to swim with. Some of my cousins were a bit rough in the pool and that made me a little crazy. Alas, my childhood growing up was a little too emotional at times. It was a great time to be a kid in the greatest decade of the 20th century.
My parents took great care of the pool and we never had to replace anything on it. A few years in, my dad put in a deck and that stayed until we took the pool down following the summer of 2008. The 90s had many memorable commercials. One of them was for Nestea brand iced tea and their slogan was “worth taking a dive into”. That’s exactly what I did, falling backwards off the ladder into the pool.
We got our second pool in the summer of 2015 and we only put it in because my parents knew that Annabelle would enjoy it. She was two at the time and school was a few years away. Due to my busy schedule and always being too tired from work (back in the WIS days more so than Giant Eagle), I haven’t used it much. Annabelle gets in every day when she’s at the house and the weather is nice. With my focus switching to getting out more, I will make more time this summer than I have before.
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