Category: Lake

Today at the lake it was miserable. Cold, grey, and wet. I thought it was drizzling, but when I left my house I realized it was actually raining. I didn’t care. First I stopped by the closest beach, just down the road. There was nobody in the water, and two guys just hanging around. I READ MORE

Today at the lake…I didn’t go! Kinda sick, but I had pt instead. I was trying to explain why I swim to my pt. ‘Cause I’m a runner who can’t run. Also, sunbeams, weightlessness, magic. But the runner part of my brain is what gets me to enter the lake when it’s cold. The runner READ MORE

Today at the lake it was dark and a bit ominous. I ran into two women from the swim club on their way out of the lake; they couldn’t have had less interested in talking to me. M thinks they were just preoccupied, but I feel like at least one of them just doesn’t want READ MORE

Today at the lake, the sun was shining, Mt. Rainier was peaking out of the clouds (pun), and the water was mostly flat. I had planned to meet a few of the women in the “plunger” group, which required waking up three hours earlier than normal. It was brutal, and no time for tea, but READ MORE

Today at the lake it was grey and cold. And windy, so the mini waves made it harder to swim. The water was the coldest it’s every been for me. I usually walk quite casually out to waist- or tit-deep water, then start my swim. Today I had to dive in a thigh-level. It wasn’t READ MORE

Today at the lake….well, F. I haven’t been to the lake in days, like maybe 5 days. Feeling very funky, detached, depressed, and wondering what the point of all this bs is. Trying to fix the code on a website I should have finished a YEAR ago. But before I totally gave up, I made READ MORE

Today in the lake, it was cold when I got to tit-level, but I dove in and started swimming anyway. “Cause that’s the kind of woman I am.” I warmed up very quickly.  I saw a couple small schools of fish….about 6″ long. Are they the 4-5″ fish from a couple weeks ago? If they READ MORE

So much to report. I have solved the fish mystery. I saw two of them together today. So even if one of them is my guy, he has a friend or sibling or whatever. I also saw a HUGE fish that scared the crap out of me. thick, tall, maybe 18″ long. And, I found READ MORE

It’s driving me a little nuts. I can’t tell if the fish I see every day in the lake (about 4″ long) is the same fish and we’re …like…friends. or if there are several of him/her. I see little inch-long fish, too, but I don’t really care so much about them. Is it weird that READ MORE