I Just Don't Get It

I went for a walk this morning (please, applaud, it's true, I exercised!) in my neighborhood which is the golf course part of "town." It's a nice quiet place to walk -- usually a few bicycles or golf carts, but not much activity during the summer and no road noise. I started early since the FL heat has been miserable and walked toward one of the newer golf courses which has a health club with a pool that I've been considering joining. As I turn down the road leading to the health club, I notice a barrier. On the barrier is a typed sign stating: THE POOL AND HEALTH CLUB WILL BE CLOSED FROM JUNE 15 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1. Now, I can understand closing down the golf course -- the FL heat is really unbearable and very few golfers are devoted enough to play past 8 AM. But the pool . . . .????? I just don't get it. Here's their chance to make TONS of money on the school kids off for the summer and looking for something/anything to do and they CLOSE the pool? But that's the way things work around here. Everything closes sometime between April and June and everything reopens between September and November. Sure, we have a ton of winter visitors who come for the fall/winter season to escape the freezing temperatures up north, but what about the rest of us who live here year round? Why do we get penalized? The produce stands shut down in the middle of fruit season? The pools close? Even the pizza restaurant takes a month or two off during the "slow" season? It is SO counter-intuitive to me, yet developers wonder why more families aren't buying up the new houses popping up around here. Hmmm . . . I wonder . . .

Well, that's the news from Arbuckle Creek where the women drive golf carts (with their dog on the seat next to them), the men are blatant carnivores (EAT MORE BEEF!) and the children watch for alligators in their backyards.