{"id":5088,"date":"2017-10-11T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2017-10-12T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:23:39","slug":"we-swam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/we-swam\/","title":{"rendered":"We Swam!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the day. First up a couple of hours of cutting, moving and chipping branches in preparation for Phil the Fencer to slug out the next wave of fencing. Then Deborah and I hit the pool.
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\"swim<\/a>

It’s swim season.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bather<\/a>

Deborah doing a credible impression of the\u00a0Botticelli Venus<\/a>, only with a little more modesty.<\/p><\/div>\n

It wasn’t actually my very first swim of this spring. That happened about two weeks ago — but I’m counting it as my first official swim because last time I was in and out faster than a small fat pony looking for a carrot. Today I swam a respectable ten laps. It was, as AntiGene likes to say, ‘refreshing’, but this time in a fairly pleasant rather than mostly painful sort of a way.<\/p>\n

While Deborah and I were drying off Mama re-established herself as ‘Most Athletic 85 year-old on the Property’, in this revival of her 2016 pool bombing performance. I didn’t happen to have the camera on video setting so you’ll just have to look back here<\/a> to view last years’s full heart-stopping experience.<\/p>\n

\"Grandmother<\/a>

Mama’s on the edge.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Grandma<\/a>

And she’s in.<\/p><\/div>\n

Us ‘young ones’ upstaged by Mama as usual. ‘Oi ‘ka fefe!*<\/p>\n

* translation: ‘Oh my goodness!’<\/p>\n

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