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Knoxville Polar Bear Club

I have now been outside, in a bathing suit, playing in cold water for the second time in January 2009. I returned home from Knoxville’s first Geek Breakfast to find the dogs outside frolicking in the mud. Dharma looked like she was doing an impersonation of a happy pig on a hot sunny day. So I stripped down and changed into only a swimsuit and my Teva Mush flipflops. Now, Molly, a 110 pound German Shepherd, is rather obedient but still doesn’t like being soaked in cold water so I get a little bit of a back exercise from her. On top of the existing pain from my trench war, I’m left unsure that I can do anything with Dharma but when I call her she approaches obediently. I’m impressed and hopeful. I hit her with the water and it turns bad quickly. Dharma howls like a werewolf in pain. She fights and twists. Holding her by the collar just won’t work. I grab her firmly by the scruff of the neck. She howls louder and tries to wrestle free. I fear that if I let go she’ll run from the yard and disappear. The blister on my thumb from the trench wars peels off leaving painful raw skin. Dharma jumps up on the lawn chairs and I worry that she’ll break a nail or hurt a leg. I wrestle her away form the chair and she knocks it over giving her access to the glass top table on the porch. She gets two paws on it and I expect to go crashing through but manage to pull her back and regain control. She sits but howls as the postman drives up to the mailbox. He waves but I know he secretly wanted to film the hilarity. "See anything interesting on your route today Bob?" "You wouldn’t believe me if I told you." Thank goodness that snow never came!

4 thoughts on “Knoxville Polar Bear Club

  1. It is far too cold out side for anyone to swim in I’m sorry.

  2. I agree!

  3. Compete.com claims you get about 1,882 visitors a month to this site, is that close or far off what your stats say?

  4. I don’t really trust the accuracy of stats without using something to analyze the raw web logs. Since I never do that I have to rely on the inaccuracies of stat collectors like google.com/analytics

    wp-stats which is wordpress.com’s stat collector measures in “views” not visitors so the numbers are significantly higher than what compete.com reports.

    Analytics shows 4620 visits from Dec 12-Jan 11 and 6334 pageviews.

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