Pool in the Morning Before we Leave Town
Aug. 17th, 2025 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerYesterday it was overcast until about 3pm, spoiling our plans to hang out a the pool with a friend from San Francisco. It's like he brought the crummy summer weather down her with him! Instead we spent the afternoon chatting on the patio. The patio was more enjoyable to use thanks to a quick cleanup Hawk and I did after we came home from lunch.
Hawk swept the patio, then I swept it three more times, each time getting another layer of crud off it. It's amazing how many leaves were on our patio given small number of leafy trees immediately around our townhouse. Of course, some of the mess was from the blasted landscapers who use their leafblowers to blow leaves off the walkway behind our unit and onto our patio. We've spoken to the landscaping supervisor about that...
Anyway, it was nice to relax on a patio that suddenly felt suitable for sitting on. When it was covered in leaf crud it always felt like... "Eww..." plus, "Ugh, I don't have time or energy to clean this today, maybe next weekend." Well, "next weekend" finally came, and now that I've done it I'm glad I did it.
After we didn't get to the pool yesterday I suggested to Hawk that we do it this moring. The clouds that held over us until 3pm yesterday? They were gone after sunrise this morning. There's an old saying, "Make hay while the sun is shining." My modern analogue is Hang out at the pool while the sun is shining! So that's what we did this morning.
Other days we might wait until mid-afternoon when the air is warmer to really enjoy the pool. Today, though, we're leaving town after lunch. I'm headed out to Phoenix for a work meeting that's tomorrow morning. We decided Hawk would come with me to spend half a day at the hotel and rock-hounding while I'm working. I'm glad we found this rare opportunity when combining work travel and leisure actually works. I'll write more about that later today.
Hawk swept the patio, then I swept it three more times, each time getting another layer of crud off it. It's amazing how many leaves were on our patio given small number of leafy trees immediately around our townhouse. Of course, some of the mess was from the blasted landscapers who use their leafblowers to blow leaves off the walkway behind our unit and onto our patio. We've spoken to the landscaping supervisor about that...
Anyway, it was nice to relax on a patio that suddenly felt suitable for sitting on. When it was covered in leaf crud it always felt like... "Eww..." plus, "Ugh, I don't have time or energy to clean this today, maybe next weekend." Well, "next weekend" finally came, and now that I've done it I'm glad I did it.
After we didn't get to the pool yesterday I suggested to Hawk that we do it this moring. The clouds that held over us until 3pm yesterday? They were gone after sunrise this morning. There's an old saying, "Make hay while the sun is shining." My modern analogue is Hang out at the pool while the sun is shining! So that's what we did this morning.
Other days we might wait until mid-afternoon when the air is warmer to really enjoy the pool. Today, though, we're leaving town after lunch. I'm headed out to Phoenix for a work meeting that's tomorrow morning. We decided Hawk would come with me to spend half a day at the hotel and rock-hounding while I'm working. I'm glad we found this rare opportunity when combining work travel and leisure actually works. I'll write more about that later today.
