Well, maybe not all. In fact, maybe not much. I sometimes marvel at where I get my ideas for these blogs. In fact, I don’t even remember where I got this one.
Did you know swimming pools have been around for more than 6,000 years? Neither did I. Until now, however, I didn’t really care. So when this floating (pardon the pun) idea came to mind I Googled swimming pools.
OK, I know this makes the blog hard to read, but there’s another one of those made up words. Googled? What is that? There used to be a song about Barney Google with the goo, goo, googly eyes. Why would anyone use something as dumb as that song to name a website. Oh, well, I digress.
As I was saying, I googled swimming pools. To make a long story short I found that drawings of swimming pools, estimated to be about 6,000 years old, were found in the Kebir desert. Now, I don’t know where that is but if it was a desert, I wonder where they got the water to fill it.
I have to ask a question. Why? Why do we have swimming pools. Is it some sort of return to the womb thing? One of the first things we did when we moved into this house was to install two pools. That’s right, the swimming pool and the hot pool, as my granddaughters call the hot tub. The hot tub feels much more womby than the swimming pool (that was my own made up word.) It also takes away soreness and has other fun uses.
But the swimming pool? I don’t know. There is a lot of water in my back yard (mostly in the pools) and I don’t know why. I was the first to get in the pool this year. That is a first. The water was an ugly color and really, really cold. I got in it one step at a time and there were certain parts that were very unhappy when the cold water rose up. Maybe I should have worn a survival suit like they do on Deadliest Catch. I’ve already blogged about how dangerous a pool can be. Who knew what else was concealed by that ugly green color.
But, Earnestine dropped a pair of scissors and someone needed to find them. Guess who was elected. Thanks to some relatively prehensile toes I was able to find the scissors without having to duck my head in that cold, green water. It finally took enough chlorine to purify the drinking water for the city of Dallas to get rid of that ugly color.
I’ve actually been in the pool more this year than almost all years put together. Did you know if you have enough funnoodles (I’ll leave that alone) you can float with only your nose and mouth above water? It’s true. Maybe if it was warmer it would feel more like a womb in that position.
I still don’t know why we have swimming pools. Don’t even get me started on water parks.