Yellow River #3

The old swimming hole.Yellow River is a quiet shallow slow moving river with sandy and grave bottom on the sandbars.She can also be ugly after a big rain, then she’s brown and dirty, fast moving, not safe for swimming then.When we went to the river the older one looked after the younger one, plus we looked after one another. How refreshing was she on those hot, dog days of July and August.May 30th school was over for the summer, shoes came off and kids went barefooted,There was always someone who tried to be the first one in the water for the summer and someone to be the last swimmer of summer.Skinny dipping, oh yes but never in mixed company, many a time we would take a bar of soap along and have a bath. I remember one summer a friend John Paul Thompson a I played softball in a night league, we both worked on the farm so we would need to clean up before we went, he would pick me up and to the river we would go. Quick bath, we both jump into the car one driving while the other got dressed, switch drivers and the other would just be finished dressings as we got to the ball park.

The old swimming hole.Yellow River is a quiet shallow slow moving river with sandy and grave bottom on the sandbars.She can also be ugly after a big rain, then she’s brown and dirty, fast moving, not safe for swimming then.When we went to the river the older one looked after the younger one, plus we looked after one another. How refreshing was she on those hot, dog days of July and August.May 30th school was over for the summer, shoes came off and kids went barefooted,There was always someone who tried to be the first one in the water for the summer and someone to be the last swimmer of summer.Skinny dipping, oh yes but never in mixed company, many a time we would take a bar of soap along and have a bath. I remember one summer a friend John Paul Thompson a I played softball in a night league, we both worked on the farm so we would need to clean up before we went, he would pick me up and to the river we would go. Quick bath, we both jump into the car one driving while the other got dressed, switch drivers and the other would just be finished dressings as we got to the ball park.