9-1 Swimming Pools

Swimming Pools Why do we have them?

I have had a large outside swimming pool for a number of years now. I always wanted a swimming pool when I was a kid and when I became an adult and bought my own place it was not long after that I purchased a swimming pool. Growing up in central Illinois we have only ¼-1/3 of the year that we could go swimming outside. I grew up at the YMCA swimming and going to the river and swimming, we have had a public pool as well growing up. When I was a kid in the 1980; s there was not a lot of people with pools. When a person had a pool back then, it always seemed like a good time and a party, fun, swimming and just an all out good time for all. The backyard pool was where it was at. After I purchased by own home, I knew I had plenty of room for a pool, the price was right so I bought a pool. Having a swimming pool is fantastic I have children and they have grown up with the pool in their backyard. In my case it would not be hard for the kids to beg for a pool as I’m the one who wanted a pool more than them. Having a pool is like having that little amusement in your own back yard. Not to mention the relaxing part of owning a pool. It is so nice to come home after a long day at work and just getting into that pool and just floating, it is so refreshing. To have company over on a summer day, and keep them all outside a swimming pool is the key to get people having a good time and swimming. The young and old love swimming and it is great for the memories. The long hot summer nights and a glass of lemonade next to the swimming pool, lighted by tiki torches, it feels like paradise in your own backyard. Probable the main reason to have a pool when you are a parent is for the kids. Our local swimming pool never re-opened and I feel for those kids who loved that hole and now have nowhere else to go. The swimming pool kids the kids out of trouble, they are home and safe. But with all the glee of the kids swimming it brings their friends, I will see kids over at 7 in the morning all ready to swim, waking my kids up. The neighborhood swimming pool or any swimming pool a kid grew up at will remember these memories forever.