When I was young, I had a neighbor with a Midwest, above ground pool. It was amazing, not one like it to be found, and huge, “very bigley,” as our oppressor says. Perhaps I was small, and the world and everything in it felt large. I don’t know. What I do know, though, is that there was a big deck built around it to encompass it. I thought that that was cool, it gave me my idea for my own pool when I went to Indiana. The summer heat was frequent there then.
