When I took one week of vacation time back in July, I spent the first part of that week out at the cottage with Hailey. At the end of the week Margarit, Helena and I headed down to East Coulee for a few days. Our friends Chris and Connie from Calgary met us down there. My brother-in-law Shawn and his girlfriend Donna also joined us. For one day we headed over to a nearby farm. There were some old buildings and machinery like many other farm yards. This one was different in that it also had an old abandoned swimming pool. We visited with the lady that lived there and she told us the story of how it all came about. All the neighbors for miles around got together, back in the day, and built the pool and the change rooms. It was the center of activity for all the kids from miles around. I can just imagine those hot prairie summer days and the pool filled with kids, splashing and shrieking. It is very quiet and almost eerie now as it sits abandoned, partly overgrown by carraganas, out on the prairie.
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