Charli Mills challenges us to get all wet this week with a topic taking us across the water. I smiled immediately for it brought back the memories of the family swimming pool. If you enjoy being prompted to write AND to smile, then you must FOLLOW the Carrot Ranch and give it a go!
It was the summer of 1968. The year the Detroit Tigers won the pennant and the year our family bought a pool for our backyard!
The pool store threw in a variety of pool toys as a bonus, one of which was a six-foot Styrofoam surfboard. Temptation got the better of us and as long as our parents were at work…
We used the deck to hold it in place and with a running start, we’d jump onto the board. The force sent us sailing into the opposite pool wall. Oh yeah, we were never bored on that board!
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Annette Rochelle Aben 
I can just feel the joy! It must have been so much fun!
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We were so lucky that when the board hit the pool wall, we fell to the side and into the water instead of shooting over the front of the board and landing in the alley.
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Sounds grea,t Annette. I too grew up in Detroit but didn’t have a pool.
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I still love Detroit John. When I got my first apartment, I moved from suburbia, where the family moved in 1972 and headed right down to a place a mere 6 blocks from the Ambassador Bridge (which is where I worked).
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Wow. I left when I got my first job and only visited since.
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Sweet memories without the observation by the parents. 😉 Like the story about the mice and the cat, out of the house. Lol xx Michael
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Absolutely! Besides, we had to enjoy it while we could, since when they were home, we were not allowed in the pool with them! Guess we were too rowdy.
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I would have rather the Twins had won the pennant but you can’t have everything! The pool and the surfboard sound like a perfect way to enjoy a summer!
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We thought we were so cool in that pool!
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