My Pool

This morning is a good morning.  A break away from the …wake up and go to work… type morning. See, I found me a pool about 10 doors down from my new house. The find was sweet! I crept down the back alley of my neighborhood to scope out a couple houses with for sale signs, including a swimming pool. No Luck, dammit. Then, after giving up on the two prospects and heading home, there appears a pool a few more houses down. It was visible through a short chain link fence. I rushed to the fence to look over and low and behold, A Gem!

It was about 1 week later when a good friend came through to spend the night. I gave him a look at it and we decided to get busy under the cover of darkness. There was about three feet of really mucky muck that a few frogs were calling home. We bailed it for about an hour with two buckets. Yes we got a little grimy, but we knew the reward was gonna pay off. The next day was gonna be special.

I was eager to wake up this morning. I wasn’t going in to work on time. I was gonna be late for a damn good reason. I woke up Ben and we got ourselves together. We dragged out a broom, bucket, and dustpan to sweep away the remnants of the garbage we bailed the night before. The sun was shinning nicely and it was time to throw down the first carves.

This pool wasn’t made for wimps. Only big carves would rule this pool. There were two loveseats at 11 o’clock and 1 o’clock. A pool light was at low noon (Straight away). Hitting the sidewalls was the only thing I had the guts to try first day. Ben had other plans. He took to frontside carving over the loveseats that then lead to frontside grinds. We were having a real hard time controlling our noise levels. There are 2 houses occupied on either side of this pool so we were sketchy and ready to get lost in a hurry. (Did I mention the house was vacant?) I pulled some tile carves then decided to grab the video camera to catch a few of Ben’s gnarly grinds. Then he decided to pull out a stand up frontside pivot straight through the heart of the deep end.  SICK!

After thirty minutes we bailed. We had long passed the standard 15 minute rule. We had some good stories to share about it. I have since visited the pool several more times with a few close friends. I have gotten grinds a plenty and hope to get more. One day, all the garbage was cleaned up! Uh Oh! Now the owners are probably going to try and rent it or sell it. Any one interested in moving to the San Fernando Valley? I gotta a cheap place to live around the corner with a skateable pool. It probably wont last long but if your interested drop me an e-mail and I’ll call ‘em up and get the low down.

For now, I got my own backyard pool a few houses away. It sucks to be new in town and have something you’d like to share more of with some locals. I guess I’ll just have to live with it! Damn if I wasn’t an hour late to work!

– Jeff Greenwood