Totebag winner
Feb. 6th, 2008 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rootbeer1Been a pretty busy week. Last weekend we went to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
keanubear's birthday party, where we received the grand prize, the official John Ashfield Totebag, after Neil, the original winner, left it behind:
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As another way to rememberpoohbearhjim, I've created a web page for some of his family's recipes, and it can be found here.
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I went to the gym yesterday and met a friend who, surprisingly to me, can't swim. I had time, so I helped him try to do some rudimentary dog-paddling. It just sort of amazes me when I find friends who can't swim, especially since my family's vacations, when I was growing up, seemed to center around water -- swimming in the ocean, pools or lakes. In high school I opted out of the regular PE requirement in order to swim all year, and at the end was certified as a lifeguard. And even now, although the ocean is too cold to swim in here, I look forward every summer to the various pool parties around the bay area, and not just because they are filled with hairy bearded men in Speedos.
But I think there are more people than expected who don't swim, or never learned how. So ... poll-time!
[Poll #1134139]
keanubear's birthday party, where we received the grand prize, the official John Ashfield Totebag, after Neil, the original winner, left it behind:* * *
As another way to remember
poohbearhjim, I've created a web page for some of his family's recipes, and it can be found here.* * *
I went to the gym yesterday and met a friend who, surprisingly to me, can't swim. I had time, so I helped him try to do some rudimentary dog-paddling. It just sort of amazes me when I find friends who can't swim, especially since my family's vacations, when I was growing up, seemed to center around water -- swimming in the ocean, pools or lakes. In high school I opted out of the regular PE requirement in order to swim all year, and at the end was certified as a lifeguard. And even now, although the ocean is too cold to swim in here, I look forward every summer to the various pool parties around the bay area, and not just because they are filled with hairy bearded men in Speedos.
But I think there are more people than expected who don't swim, or never learned how. So ... poll-time!
[Poll #1134139]
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Date: 2008-02-07 06:57 am (UTC)Fearing that I'd have to take California's "mandatory" swim test in order to graduate from high school, I tried again when I was 14, but to no avail. I took that set of classes at the YMCA. Enrollment dwindled so much that by the end, I was the only student in the class. Even with the dedicated attention, I was unable to swim. (I never had to take the swim test, either ... Whew!)
I feel that now, as an adult, I have a much better awareness of my body and that I'd be successful. I'd like to think that learning to float on my back or tread water won't be nearly as daunting now.
I can float and make it from one end of a pool to the other but it's not pretty. :)