THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, March 18, 2010
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to the gulf stream waters by Lorrie Baird
jim-lorrie@earthlink.net
Do W n Fo r th e co u n t
of the same guy who, in a year. This takes another require supervision all suit “cover up” which is
previous life designed tor- ten minutes. By the time over again. That’s why we actually a full length skirt
ture racks for the Spanish we finally settle in the sun rarely go into a pool with- because I’ve long learned
by lorrie Baird
Inquisition. has either gone over the out our noodles. Noodles that to keep America
To get comfortable on yardarm or shadows from are to retirees what water beautiful, we keep Lorrie’s
I seem to create a splash plastic poolside furni- large objects such as palm wings are to toddlers… aging legs covered.
everywhere I go. I’ve de- ture means trying out at trees are casting shade in they give us a sense of Naturally, Jim teased me
veloped a talent for it in least four back rest po- all the wrong places, or security, even though we unmercifully. He called
my, uh, “mature years.” sitions before the sweet somebody shows up and know it’s a false one. me “Grace.” He asked
We have just come from spot is found: the one that me if I had a good “trip”
the swimming pool. It’s wrenches the neck within
To get comfortable on plastic
and announced to every-
a heated one, which is a a tolerable level of pain.
very good thing because Next, the beach towel that
poolside furniture means trying
one that I should try that
stunt again next “fall.”
the temperature has been was originally brought
out at least four back rest
Ha. Ha. So that’s when
habitually diving down to for drying purposes is re-
positions before the sweet spot is
I announced to the pool
the freezing mark making purposed as a less than found. crowd that Jim reported
unheated pools unsuit- adequate padding device his bike stolen yesterday
able for swimming until, to stave off numbness of only to realize that he
maybe, the end of May if the extremity known as decides to chat leaving So I decided it’s time to had ridden it down to the
El Nino doesn’t migrate gluteus maximus for as us wincing in discomfort test the pool’s waters. I clubhouse, racked it, and
back to where it came long as possible before because by this time we planned to stick my foot forgot to ride it back to
from. rigor mortis sets in and have to take a wee, but down on to what I thought our RV site.
But this afternoon it was that part of your body is we’re too polite to say so. was a shallow ledge. The They say that “revenge”
80 degrees. The pool ther- so sound asleep that you By the time we finally “ledge” was about three is sweet. Justice is even
mometer read “84.” Yip- need to dive into cold wa- decide to get wet it’s usu- feet down. This caused sweeter.
pee! Finally a pool day! We ter in order to wake it up ally late afternoon. That’s me to topple over and
grabbed our sunscreen, again. a good thing because by launch sideways, arms
reading material for the Next, it’s time to slather this time we have plenty flailing, paperback book
day and pool towels and every part of our exposed of company. Company flying, sun hat flipping off
proceeded to stake out bodies with sunscreen: is a good thing in retire- sunglasses going askew
our poolside claim. everything from number ment community swim- and down with the count
The first rule of thumb 15 to 50, depending on ming pools because the right along with my swim-
for hanging out poolside the intensity of the sun or older we get, the more we
is to get comfortable. This how white our skin has realize it’s dangerous for
is easier said than done bleached because El Nino retirees to swim alone. It’s
because all plastic pool has crashed Florida’s per- like we’ve regressed into
furniture is the product petual Beach Party this our second childhood and
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