I actually thought we might miss the Sahara showing up with it's luggage this Summer. We had days and nights of no air conditioning. Mornings when you picked up your newspaper and stopped to smelled the chill in the air. You could actually walk across the patio in bare feet to drag your children off the swings for dinner. Well those days are gone and true Pleasanton summer is here. This is the only part about Pleasanton I don't like. In the summer it's hot, it's a dry heat, it doesn't matter, I hate it.So out comes the pool from last year and, hey, it's got no holes! "Pip" and "Pop" are thrilled except that Dad threw away all the cool pool toys. Sooo we all hop into the van in search of pool toys at the end of the pool season. We found a couple at ToysRUs and then mom has a great idea The Dollar Store! We find all kinds of toys at The Dollar Store and, guess what? they're a dollar! Back home "Click" and "Clack" play and play until bedtime. Dad wants to clean the pool, so he drains it but doesn't put it away. The next morning "Remus" gets out the patio door (scary enough, we've already fixed that) and thinks it's fun to drag the pool all around the yard and the patio. Now it's full of holes and tears. This late in the season, we can't find the right size patches, so now we have a bunch of pool toys and no pool. Back out to ToysRUs for a pool.
If it's the end of the season and School Supplies are crowding the aisles, why are pool supplies so expensive?? It doesn't matter. When you hear "Monkey See" and "Monkey Do" giggle until they can't stop, who cares? When you see the shocked look on "Romulus'" face when he accidentally falls in face first and then the big grin that follows. It just doesn't occur to you to ask your spouse, "well, gee, honey, what do you think? Should we get it?" You just do it without batting an eye like letting the Sahara stay in your guest room for the Summer.
til later...
