This afternoon we attended the annual closing day of our pool which is always celebrated by a doggie dip. It's the one day a year when dogs are allowed at the pool, and Lucy and all her canine buddies from the neighborhood took over from 2-4 when the gate was opened and locked for the last time this season. There was a definite chill in the air as we watched them race and dive and shake and splash round and round the deck.
Our lifeguard this year was the nicest kid, a rising senior in a local high school, who all summer long delighted the kids with cannon balls on the safety break and calling out a score from the chair when they did the same. Today he seemed pretty entertained himself, all bundled up in sweats and a hoodie.
"I almost came for a swim this morning," I told him, "but 46 was a little too cold!"
"You would have been the only one," he laughed. "There was no one here until the place went to the dogs!"
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