I was starting to write about the draining and dismantling of the pool this last weekend, and I was attempting to use it as a symbol of the end of summer and go on and on about the meaning of the changing of the seasons...but you know, it really doesn't matter.
We took the pool down because it's just too cool for swimming and the time and effort to keep it up just in case we have one or two more "hot" days just isn't worth it. The process of draining the water and watching all the nightcrawlers escaping their flooded homes and saving them from the birds was just as fun as swimming. We all splashed around the half -filled pool, the water logged grass and we all got wet to some degree. When it was over, the kids got all their sand toys out and picked up right where they left off in June: digging holes and filling buckets. No sad eyes, just excitement about the sand pile.
There really isn't any big deal in the changing of the seasons. I like the cool of the fall, the leaves changing color, the fishing improving (mostly due to less fishermen), but it is no different today then yesterday. It's just the progression that makes up life.
Is there something to take from all this? Sure. Enjoy today, know tomorrow will be right along and even if there are things that are different, it's really just more of the same.
And that's a good thing.
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