Pool inflatables: what have you got?
6Spring has sprung and that means for those of us with pools, it’s time to start thinking (just thinking, right now) about cleaning them to be ready for summer. It’s also time to patch the inflatables we left under the deck or in the garage and watching our surplus stores and catalogs for new pool inflatables. Which ones do you already have and which ones do you want to get?
I’m sure @PoolToyWolf will get us started!
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Gosh, where do I start?? To not reply here would seem improper…I’ll share Frisco, since some of you may already be familiar with him from when I was asking what to name him quite a while ago.
Here he is last year, guarding the platform on the Folkston railroad depot.
@PooltoyWolf He’s very cool!
@ItalianScallion Silly me, I forgot to share a pic of him in the pool!
@PooltoyWolf Awesome!
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
@mediocrebot Defintely not mediocre!
And here are a few of ones that turned up in the pool at my place over the years…
The blue chair was my favorite!
@ItalianScallion I actually have one of those giant baseball mitts, was a gift from a friend, heh.
I like the chair style floats. My favorite is the round pink one in the upper left except the two I have are bright apple green, and aqua blue. And you guys who use them know that color really does matter!
I mean, after all, it’s GOT to be color coordinated with your pool attire! 
I used to keep a couple of the kind that has a net center with an air-filled bladder border. I found they last about two seasons before the net breaks down if I use them much but when empty you can fold them up into a small expensesspace. They are pretty comfortable and not too expensive.
araT tells the tale of yore that her sister used to have one when they were kids that was clear on top and had a reflective bottom so she could tan from both sides at the same timer. She and her brothers used to call it her floating fryer. That was in the days of tanning oils that had an SPF something like -20. It was something like this
I’ve got a cooler for my beer that floats if that counts. . .
@Pavlov yes, yes it does
@Pavlov PICS OR BAN!!!
Unfortunately no pics, but a fun story:
My wife’s family tradition for 4th of July every year was to travel to Connecticut from PA to see her uncle and his family, but mostly to swim in their pool. Since I’ve known said uncle, we’ve had a fun relationship, playing pranks and jokes on each other, always in an escalating fashion.
Despite having a pool, he does not love pool floats, so of course I had to capitalize on this! One year I decided to get one of those obscenely large swan floats, something like eight feet in diameter that holds four adults. We drove up from PA and stopped about a half mile from his house to inflate the swan and strap it to the top of our car. We arrived at his house a short while later, with the giant bird gently flapping in the breeze on top of our car.
The whole extended family poured out of the house to come see the swan, with my wife’s uncle glaring at me (but with a smile on his face). I’ve since lost track of the swan, but it was totally worth it!
So technically she’s not made for the pool, but…you know what, never mind.
Don’t have any, looking to buy some though.