Saturday, May 1, 2010

Our swimming pool called to me today and I answered!

It’s a wee bit later than last year for my first dip into our pool, but blame it on this crazy weather that we had over our too long cold spell, not me!

Luxury was the name of the game once the pool was hovering around eighty-three then a short trip to eighty-four degrees and finally it eventually succumbed to the eighty-five that I needed for me to feel comfortable!
And so by around one P.M., I was dipping my tootsies into the cool calm waters on my way to the entrée into the realm of pleasant divine exercise without harm to life or limb.

Pool exercise or water aerobics, Acquacize is truly the only safe way to move those limbs of mine without creating more damage and halleluiah I am in that mode for the next few months, maybe even until November like last year; now wouldn’t that be great?

Most people in my age range or I should say in the Baby Boomer sect, should exercise daily for at least a half an hour. The best and most inexpensive forms are walking, bicycling, and swimming, if you have your own swimming pool available or sometimes a Y or public one!

The next few days we have been told we will be hitting some truly high numbers on the temperature gage, the nineties! And so even though our solar panels are toast, the solar blanket did its job for today, and I am pretty darn sure that the weather or Mother Nature will do it from now on or at least till the fall that is keep the temperature I need for comfort in the pool. It is not an obscure number; you see it is the recommended temperature for when I taught Acquacize as a certified instructor for the Arthritis Foundation, but oddly enough the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has the same recommendation for comfort, too hot or too cold can cause many significant problems from heart attacks, strokes etcetera from too hot, and too cold or too hot causes muscular spasms for MS, and too cold for arthritis is very hard and harmful on the joints.

Sounds silly to some I am sure.
I can think of all those extremely hardy people in their Polar Bear Clubs going into that frosty icy water, hopefully they don’t have any underlying medical conditions!
What about hot tubs and hot springs?
I suppose for most with arthritis it is beneficial, but not if you have a bad heart or high blood pressure, and with MS too hot causes those nasty spasms, and don’t forget that bacteria is notorious in hot water, which means in a hot tub more chemicals… we know that more chemicals means…well, you know what it means.
Sorry to be Debbie Downer on all that, but those are the facts.

Tonight is the Kentucky Derby, are you going to watch?
It has become a tradition in our home and this year we even bought the fixings for Mint Juleps, how about that? For a whole two minute race!
Update: Calvin Borel wins again this time on Super Saver! He won last year on Mine that Bird.

After all that revelry it will be movie night once again in our abode, and the choices tonight are, ‘It’s Complicated’ and ‘The Twilight Saga, New Moon’.

What an exciting interesting day. LOL Bet you wish you were us…LOL

On that enormously silly note we will bid you all a very pleasant good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!
And pray for those powers that be to figure out how to stop that gusher of oil to stop pumping in the gulf!

PS Today we proclaimed it to be International Sons Day!
And sent our sons cards in honor of this day; now we wait to hear their reactions...

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