Congratulations! In three days, we will celebrate the beginning of winter! Oops, my mistake … the beginning of spring! Normally, we have a seasonal period of intense cold that kills mosquitoes, wood roaches, and other creepy crawlies who would make your upcoming bright summer days regrettable. However, no Arctic-type weather this season it seems.
Somehow, I missed our wintery interval. The last thing I remembered was a flurry of dead leaves, a frosty morning or two, and one 10° day that would make those annoying summertime bugs say, "Ooh, that's a might chilly! Hope it doesn’t last too long and kill me!" The next thing I know - here we are, basking in 80° days with trees a-bloomin' and pollen a-ttackin'.
The good thing about this lack of winter has been the impact on one of our more snobby neighbors. Not only do they have a large pool, but they have a pool heater so they can show off their status by comfortably swimming during those freezing days of January and February. "Those freezing days" being the key phrase.
I admit it. Nothing can thrill the human spirit more than watching some fool make that invigorating jump from warm, soothing waters of a heated pool into the chilly airs of winter. The Swedes made this pastime famous with their X-rated romps from boiling saunas into shrinkage-inducing snows. So normally, our neighborhood would secretly covet that envious fog as it rolled off the artificially warmed waters of our evil neighbor’s pool.
This year, however, the obscenely mild wintertime cooled our neighborly jealousy. And this is a good thing. The more petty among us were about to sabotage a couple of our smug neighbor's pentair pool heater parts and blame it on the rage of mother nature and karma for not having pool parties for us all.
I don't know what summer will bring, but I don't think our saboteurs will be forgiving. I have a feeling that, during August, someone's pool water will mysteriously approach the boiling point. Might be due to that global warming thing, but who can say for certain.
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