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IN HOT WATER

I got John a go-to-the-spa white terry robe--thick turkish cotton--for his birthday the other day and so we went the hundred yards to the spa to try it out.

The spa was cold.

Bummer!

A first.

I am sure that it will be fixed as it gets a lot of traffic from the old and young folks over here. One neighbor calls it the "therapy pool". That takes it into a whole different class of activity. Not for pleasure but for near medical reasons.

John and I are not obtuse about it. We go to the spa because it feels good and it is a good unwind at the end of the day. Stars, heat, mountains. Palms. Gorgeous.

The big pool still works fine so that means they are not on the same heater. Good.

I did not meet my goal to take a swim on christmas, it was too hazy cloudy for good sun. But I did go the day before and it was glorious.

We have never had a heated pool for winter swimming.

I am all for it.

The water temps are more than the air. But if I stay in the sun when I get out after my laps, I warm up in minutes. The air can be in the 60s but the radiation of the sun feels like 90.

If there is any cloud cover, though, I am screwed and I get cold like everyone else.

The pool here is largely unused. I use it more than anyone as far as I can tell. There is another woman who comes down to our side of the complex to use our pool. She is almost always there when I am.

Otherwise, it is usually people who are leasing the income units. And not all of them by any means.

I will be in the pool any day that it is sunny enough.

This next week will be in the high 50s and "mostly sunny" or "partly cloudy". Not a good combination for pool time but I will be there if the window opens.

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