Growing up our families were so intertwined it seemed Mandy was my sister. We spent summers playing in the sand box, creating forts, riding bikes, and swimming in the irrigation canals. Hey, living in the country, you’ll swim almost anywhere. Even irrigation canals.
One time Mandy’s older sisters dug this huge hole in their back yard – by hand with shovels – lined it with a tarp and filled it with the garden hose. And yes, we swam in that ‘pool’ too. Before long it resembled more of a mud hole rather than a pool though so the appeal to swim in the homemade pool wasn’t as enticing as it once was.
Mandy’s parents must have felt sorry for us because they eventually bought one of those above ground pools for us to swim in. In hindsight, perhaps they were trying to save their backyard from another attack from the shovel. We turned into proverbial fish that summer and often would swim well into the dark of the night before our parents forced our wrinkly waterlogged bodies out of the water.
Mandy is married to Brian now and as happy as can be. We may not jump ditches with Ryan any more nor swim until the moon is the only source of light, but we still have a great time when we get together these days.
Until next time,
~Shay
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