tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post4112551012363893008..comments2024-02-26T00:38:41.733-05:00Comments on Jollett Etc.: A to Z April Challenge: S is for SwimmingWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-30713031812740829552016-04-24T21:00:39.196-04:002016-04-24T21:00:39.196-04:00Most pools at gyms, hotels and resorts ask you to ...Most pools at gyms, hotels and resorts ask you to rinse off before going in. I'm not sure what that accomplishes.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-71660887656852905392016-04-24T20:56:04.985-04:002016-04-24T20:56:04.985-04:00I'm more at home on a lounge chair or hammock ...I'm more at home on a lounge chair or hammock than in water.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-83442197344373167352016-04-24T20:52:04.453-04:002016-04-24T20:52:04.453-04:00No pools in our public schools where I grew up. In...No pools in our public schools where I grew up. In fact, very few communities had pools. Maybe that's because we had the beach so close by. Now community pools are more common.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-24980384100870277772016-04-24T20:49:20.125-04:002016-04-24T20:49:20.125-04:00Sprinklers will always be the icon of summer.Sprinklers will always be the icon of summer.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-79701107312533762172016-04-24T20:40:12.889-04:002016-04-24T20:40:12.889-04:00That chlorine can be strong especially when it'...That chlorine can be strong especially when it's just been applied or applied incorrectly. No wonder you didn't like it, especially after having a lake practically to yourself.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-51003193232095757642016-04-24T20:31:48.268-04:002016-04-24T20:31:48.268-04:00It sounds like your mom and mine thought alike. Mo...It sounds like your mom and mine thought alike. Momma did not like rough playing at the pool either.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-30030533334835151422016-04-24T20:29:12.505-04:002016-04-24T20:29:12.505-04:00I doubt the Dinky Pool had chlorine but don't ...I doubt the Dinky Pool had chlorine but don't hold me to it. Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-45166611693936077212016-04-24T20:25:49.222-04:002016-04-24T20:25:49.222-04:00My girls are already telling stories on me. Sheesh...My girls are already telling stories on me. Sheesh -- they remember all the bad stuff and not how fantastic I was.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-24212618392526123422016-04-24T20:23:53.435-04:002016-04-24T20:23:53.435-04:00I did not live in an area that had pools in the pu...I did not live in an area that had pools in the public school. I didn't learn to swim until I went to college and it was a required course. Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-42075148616395697482016-04-24T20:22:08.646-04:002016-04-24T20:22:08.646-04:00Oh that's not good either. Considering how pol...Oh that's not good either. Considering how polio was spread, Momma probably was right. Who knows what kind of cleaning they did at the pool. It wasn't a very modern pool.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-46956756288379605892016-04-24T20:19:36.878-04:002016-04-24T20:19:36.878-04:00I've had my share of pool scares too. One time...I've had my share of pool scares too. One time some silly boy pushed me in and I didn't see it coming. I didn't know which way was up. I finally surfaced sputtering and coughing. That ruined my day!Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-44575351165552630372016-04-24T09:09:34.774-04:002016-04-24T09:09:34.774-04:00Apart from that detour, like Alex, we are a nation...Apart from that detour, like Alex, we are a nation of water-babies whether we're good swimmers or not. BEach, surf, lake, pool anything will do, including the sprinklers. And always swimmers and flip flops, or as we call them, thongs (but not the underwear variety!)Cassmob (Pauleen)https://www.blogger.com/profile/18397134336319778519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-45924510185095615022016-04-24T09:07:05.608-04:002016-04-24T09:07:05.608-04:00You've just given me a lightbulb moment. Maybe...You've just given me a lightbulb moment. Maybe it was the fear of polio that caused us to have to walk through a chemically treated foot pool en route to the oLympic pool. I've always thought in adulthood that it was to do with fungal infections but you never see those dips any more. Interesting.Cassmob (Pauleen)https://www.blogger.com/profile/18397134336319778519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-24257861683577152282016-04-23T20:56:20.411-04:002016-04-23T20:56:20.411-04:00I didn't know about people's fears regardi...I didn't know about people's fears regarding swimming pools and a possible link to polio. I had the sugar cube too. I swam in lots of pools, lakes, the ocean...we seem to be a nation of swimmers in Australia. I hasten to add that I am not a fabulous swimmer - I just plod along.Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-45056533561160910052016-04-23T14:56:48.655-04:002016-04-23T14:56:48.655-04:00In Blackpool where I lived there was an internatio...In Blackpool where I lived there was an international size swimming pool (the Derby Baths) where I learned to swim - we were bussed there from primary school for swimming lessons and we had our school swimming gala there. But lessons all stopped for a time In the early 1950's because of the polio scare. Two girls from my class fell to the illness, though fortunately not to the worst aspects of the disease. I remember some years later getting the sugar cube vaccine. ScotSuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412874349376253984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-261063473220620872016-04-23T10:46:51.667-04:002016-04-23T10:46:51.667-04:00Oh the memories at the beach :) Those were fine ti...Oh the memories at the beach :) Those were fine times indeed!<br /><br />I can see your mom's concern about the Dinky Pool. Why take any chances. I'm sure my mom would have been the same. <br /><br />Yep, many a time through the sprinklers on hot summer days.<br /><br />bettybettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06323135450742337670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-21624474867153988632016-04-23T01:03:28.806-04:002016-04-23T01:03:28.806-04:00Kids got polio in our small town too and they clos...Kids got polio in our small town too and they closed the beach. That when Dad decided to build a cottage on a lake. The land was cheap through his eork. The lake was pristine. We spent the whole summer there. In swimsuits and flip-flops. One time my grampa thought he was being nice and took my brother and I to the Natatorium, but I hated it.... couldn't stand the chlorine smell nor all the crowds of kids. Dianne Nolinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03797088253825763863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-92168897012830198032016-04-22T23:39:40.696-04:002016-04-22T23:39:40.696-04:00I never had the cube, just remember when the shots...I never had the cube, just remember when the shots. I remember my paternal grandmother warning us not to play too hard in the summer so that we wouldn't get polio. That was before the shots. <br /><br />We didn't have a public pool in the neighborhood but they used to have open swimming at the junior high school. I went once with my best friend, but my mother came along and decided it was too rough and I had to wait to be able to take swimming during school hours in junior high to get in any swimming.<br /><br />There were stories about things floating in the lake at Metropolitan Beach, which we never went to.<br /><br />In the summer now I watch the local young people walking past my house going to the local community pool around the corner.Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06413795611563683135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-33370989003132180602016-04-22T21:59:01.535-04:002016-04-22T21:59:01.535-04:00As you know from last years 'Bathing Beauty Bo...As you know from last years 'Bathing Beauty Bombs', I was not only a drowned rat, but also a survivor of lake swimming. It also so happens I spent lots of time at our small town public pool with so much chlorine poured in there was no way any germs/diseases could be contracted...unless you count the 'red eye'. I don't remember sugar cube polio vaccine...just the shots and boosters. Good story and pictures.<br />Sue at <a href="http://collectintexasgal.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">CollectInTexas Gal</a> Sue McPeakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04927975578544675345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-29284848020554405432016-04-22T14:04:40.495-04:002016-04-22T14:04:40.495-04:00As I read this I couldn't help but wonder what...As I read this I couldn't help but wonder what stories my kids will tell on me someday about my irrational mother fears. It seems to come with the territory. I too remember the sugar cube Polio vaccine. Michelle Ganus Taggarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18238452675846882700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-39219846842811317352016-04-22T06:59:29.856-04:002016-04-22T06:59:29.856-04:00In Australia public swimming pools were where we a...In Australia public swimming pools were where we all learned to swim. We would be taken there in a bus from school for lessons and there were also lessons in the school holidays. And on a different note, I loved the sugar cube Polio vaccine - so much better than a needle! Leanne @ <a href="http://www.crestingthehill.com.au" rel="nofollow">cresting the hill</a>Leannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623420015695351280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-12475354678317416242016-04-22T05:13:42.785-04:002016-04-22T05:13:42.785-04:00When we were kids, my sister caught hepatitis from...When we were kids, my sister caught hepatitis from swimming in an estuary near where we lived. Maybe your mother was right to be worried, Wendy.Dara https://www.blogger.com/profile/16643201998217385573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429612700924625855.post-28540308286577368612016-04-22T02:45:26.707-04:002016-04-22T02:45:26.707-04:00I agree with you about the medicine. I think that ...I agree with you about the medicine. I think that all of it should come in sugar cubes...or marshmallows. Or, maybe even chocolate chip cookies. haha <br /><br />I remember going to a public swimming pool when I was a kid, but I do not remember going into the water. When my 4th grade class got to take swimming lessons, I was sick and had to stay on the sidelines watching everyone else have fun in the water. When I was about 13 years old, I was playing in my aunt's swimming pool. Though I still didn't know how to swim properly, I could swim underwater, just not regular swimming. I slid down the slide into the deep end and hit the water too hard and inhaled a lot of water. I almost drowned. I'm still scared of swimming pools.<br /><br />I went to Virginia Beach as a child, too. It was in the early to mid-1970s. One of my other aunts lived in Norfolk and we took her back home from her visit with us. While there, we went to Virginia Beach. My most vivid memory of that trip, aside from the broken big toe, is of my daddy carrying me into the water so that I wouldn't miss out on the fun that the others were having. :)<br /><br />Have a blessed day!Suzanne McClendonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15563562309945754772noreply@blogger.com