Summer really is over....

I am draining my pool. :-(
You all know how much I like swimming. I think I was born in a pool! Well, last night I decided it was time to take the thing down, so I started the draining process. I actually hadn't been in it in about a month. But, it's still sad to know it will be another 8 months or so until I get to put it back up.

Here is a picture if you haven't been lucky enough to see it in person. :-)



That is Chelsea sunning herself in our awesome pool!!!


BUT --- all is not lost!!! It's swim season at SBA! We have had preseason conditioning for about 2 weeks now. Our regular season starts on Oct 8 - that's the day after our last 9th grade volleyball game. One of the best things about this swim team is the facility where we practice. It is a fitness center about a mile from our school. They have an outdoor pool which is heated. So for about 3 weeks we get to swim outdoors!!! It's great fun except when it is raining. I walk up and down the side of the pool with my umbrella and my feet get soaked! Sometime around the end of October they put the 'bubble' up over the pool and it becomes an indoor pool! This is really interesting to me. Swimming in a bubble. I'm sure my sister Debi could find some kind of psychological meaning to this...
Anyway, the water is warm and I walk up and down the side of the pool, still getting my feet soaked - this time from the splashed water. And when it is cold outside, the condensation that forms on the inside of the bubble makes it 'rain' inside! The kids love to bang on the sides of the bubble and watch the water fall from the top into the pool. Cheap thrills! Then when it gets REALLY cold, we get FOG inside. So much fog that it is hard to see the end of the pool - 25 yards away. That's when I really have to walk up and down the side of the pool. I have to be able to see the swimmers!!
The last interesting thing about this facility is the lack of lights. In December and January, it starts to get dark about 4:30pm around here. Well, we practice until 5:00. There are three small lights inside this bubble making it very difficult for my 52 year old eyes to see everything. I'm hoping this year they will add a few more lights to the area. I'm not holding my breath on that one.....
I don't have any pictures yet, but when I do I will share them.

Ahhh, swimming...... you gotta love it!