swimming pool

Summer in Texas means you better have a pool (or lake) nearby or you just might not survive the brutal heat we're accustomed to.

If you're going to buy a new home, get one with a pool to keep you cool on these hot summer days.

Abilene has some pretty awesome and scenic pools where one can go swimming. furthermore, Abilene has multiple places to get public or private swim lessons.

This Saturday, September 11th will be the last day Abilene's Adventure Cove will be open. Dogs will be allowed to swim in the pool beginning at 10 AM.

With summer quickly coming to a close, find out when these Abilene pools are closing up shop for the summer.

The City of Abilene has opened our five splash pads and in time for the Memorial Day weekend. The five splash pads are open from dawn to dusk.

My daughter has been asking me to take her swimming. When I didn't move fast enough, she turned two laundry baskets into her own "personal swimming pool."

Every video nominated for the funniest video of the year award was humorous in it's own special way but this guy doing a cannonball onto a frozen swimming pool was a favorite among fans, readers and Darwin award voters. How will this guy top his 2012 performance...

If you think your local watering hole gets a little rough at times, imagine a bar so out of control that management has to enforce a maximum drink capacity as a means for cutting down on hair pulling, biting and other perils of the drunken idiot.

There's a new climbing wall in Abilene and it's owner will not allow you to use any kind of safety ropes, repelling harness' or caribiners to scale the 12-foot inverted wall. No repelling this structure, only a 12 foot drop into the pool gets the climbers down. It's the latest craze in the water aquatics industry and The Lytle Shores Swim Club has one.

How many firefighters does it take to get a moose out of a pool? No punchline here — the answer is nine. After vaulting over a fence and falling through the pool cover on the night of October 7, a full-grown moose found himself stranded in a backyard swimming pool in Manchester, NH. Local firefighters staged an emergency rescue, catching the whole endeavor on camera.

With all that is going on all weekend long I had a real dilemma. What to do this weekend? I've been invited to participate in several activities like, barbecue at the lake with friends, doing the "Movie Hopping" with a couple of my kids, camping at the state park with some of my scouting friends or back yard barbecuing with the in-laws. All of the a fore mentioned are great to be doing b