I was thinking the other day about our pool. We bought the pool not long after we moved into our home back in 1996. Our boys learned to swim in the pool and it has been the source of a lot of fun with our friends and family over the years. Looking back...I'm glad we spent the money. The memories have been well worth the investment.
Growing up, we didn't have a pool in the backyard. All we had in the yard was a big old maple tree that my cousins and I built a tree fort in. If I wanted to go to a pool, I went to Constitution Park where they had a big community pool. I learned how to swim in that pool and they even had a high diving board where I could practice my cannonballs and can openers.
For fifty-cents, I could spend the day with my friends cooling off and playing in the water. We played a myriad of games and other sports with nerf balls and one year they even installed a basketball backboard and rim in the shallow end which led to hours upon hours of three-on-three.
The memories I have of the summers spent in that pool could become a best seller. In high school, that is where all my friends hung out. I learned a lot about life in that pool, even though I didn't realize it at the time.
Fifty-cents a day...pretty cheap investment for a lifetime of memories.
Be Well.
Bill
