<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Swinging on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/tags/swinging/</link><description>Recent content in Swinging on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/swinging/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Puller Bares</title><link>/stories/2009/01/03/puller-bares/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2009/01/03/puller-bares/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a New Years day ritual that you won’t see on TV.  It is like the polar bear ritual where people gather near dawn and swim out around a buoy in cold ocean water.  The Petersons shut down the heat on their pool the day after Christmas so the water will be very cold on New Years day.  It’s Southern California so the cold is not too unbearable.  There are a dozen couples now that do this traditional dip in the cold water each year.  Ours is a little different than others as we are bound hand and foot naked.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>