I'm Cold and Crabby, But It's a Swimming Day, So That's One Good Thing

I'm still crabby, but nothing to be done about that. At least today is a swimming day, so that's one positive thing. My friend and fellow swimmer Rosemary is up in Ely with her extended family, celebrating the holidays with her three sons and their wives and children. It's an annual thing for the family. They fly in from all over and gather in the Icebox of the Nation for a week. It's a massive group of people sharing a large lodge, enjoying catching up with each other for another year. 

Rosemary's family rents a cabin similar to this one for 
their annual week's Christmas gathering. Rosemary 
brings up lots of food, and everyone else flies in from 
all over the nation. I know one son lives in Florida and one 
in Pennsylvania. I forget where the third son lives. Each 
of them are married with children, so it ends up being 
quite a lot of people. A week of merriment and catching 
up, and everyone's happy to return home afterward. 

That means Rosemary won't be at the pool this week - she'n normally a Monday through Friday swimmer. Lane 5 will be unoccupied, so I might shift over for my three days this week. People generally don't like to share that lane because the other side is a wall side. I know I don't like to swim on the wall side of a lane. I end up with too many bruises on my arms and hands from hitting the wall. Gail is the swimmer who usually will grab that side, but she's recovering from a hip replacement three weeks ago and won't be swimming until after the New Year. 

I hit my hands on the lane dividers often enough. They at 
least give a little. Hitting the concrete wall, however, isn't 
comfortable at all. I've swam in the wall lane before, but 
it's not my preference. 

I'll be finalizing my email announcement of our "After Christmas Sale" flyer today. I would have worked on it yesterday except DH forgot to bring it to the shop for me. And I was relatively busy, yesterday. Not super busy, but I did have customers and they were fun ones - lots of interesting projects they were buying for. 

Next week, Tuesday through Friday, will be our 4-Day 
After Christmas Sale. This week, I'll need to change the 
delivery date on one Amazon order that should be 
delivered on Saturday because I'm closed this Saturday
(and next Saturday as well). 

So I'm going to plug in some pictures for today and head out into my 5 F temperatures. At least it's not sub-zero, but I'll still have to bundle up. It's cold. But it's the Frozen Northlands, and cold is part of what we are up here. Have an excellent Tuesday and Slava Ukraini.