Last week, a fair number of you got a kick out of my accidental plunge into the pool.  Several of you said the visual that my story brought to mind either put a smile on your face or made you laugh.  So, today I’m going to tell you my all time favorite Ross Reck pool story.  Last May, on a fairly warm day, I was doing yard work.  After I’d finished, I decided to reward myself with a refreshing dive into the pool.  Normally, when I make those quick dives, I don’t bother putting on a swim suit because I’m only going to be in the water for less than a minute and there’s a five foot high block fence around my yard so that no one can see.  After I came up for air, I spent a few seconds looking at the flowers around the edge pool and then I looked up at my neighbor’s roof across the alley.  Low and behold, my neighbor was on his roof servicing his evaporative cooler.  I called to my wife and asked her to toss my bath robe to me.  While she was laughing hysterically at the situation, evidently she had grown weary of my practice of take short nude swims.  Her response was, “You’re on your own, buddy!”  Then she not only closed the back door to the house; she locked it!  After a few minutes, the nicer side of her took over and she tossed my robe onto a chair by the door.  Eventually, I worked up the nerve to holler up at my neighbor and told him to look the other way unless he wanted to be grossed out.  His comment was, “Don’t worry; I do the same thing myself all the time.”  Now, I’ve never been a big fan of looking before you leap because I think it’s more important that you leap.  Leaping is one of the things that makes life really exciting.  However, I’ve since become a big proponent of looking up before you leap – especially if it’s leaping into a swimming pool with no swim suit on.