I hope I don't have to say this more than once....

[alfreda89]

...don't EVER think that a pool is more pleasure than work. A pool, after the surface passes, say, five years, is a bY^&%$ to keep balanced, and will turn on you when you least expect it. I think that I look forward to re-doing the surface of this one. Then I can be a fanatic about pool care and keep the thing from going downhill immediately.

I'm just sayin'.

Yes, it is nearly 2:00 am, and I just finished tossing 9 pounds of ClearOutPlus into my 25,000 gallon pool (following a gallon of liquid SHOCK at noon.). I have considerably more sympathy for why W preferred to take a sample in and let them tell him its status.

^%&$ pucks fell out of the floater and needed retrieving.... *Sigh.*

Very ADD today. No new writing. I'm now wide awake, but I refuse to get back on that treadmill. So, in search of bed --

Comments

[incandragon.livejournal.com]

At least you *use* yours. You're getting the benefit for all the work you put into it. That's a help.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

W loves to swim, though he didn't use it as much this year as the year before. I love the hot tub, but ironically, I haven't used it much because a) I realize this very late in the evening b) if I want to use it in the am, I have to work fast because c) ten-to-one the lawn service will show up while I'm skinny-dipping.

wow,

[sheilagh.livejournal.com]

sounds like my parents' back yard .. they have a flat bit of land that adjoins a slope, so the pool on the flat land ended up sloping down a bit, very tiny bit, but over the years .. irreparable. sorrow when they filled it in, but also joy that the tedious labor was done.

Re: wow,

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the pool guy who fixed something minor on the filter. He told us that he'd been awakened the week before by a woman who said her pool had slid off the side of a hill. Well, he's gotten these calls before, and reassured her and went back to sleep. When he showed up bright and early at her house, he discovered that half the pool had fallen over the cliff and landed in the neighbors' back yard.

As she pointed out, she HAD said the pool had fallen off the hill.

At least we're on solid rock. It's not called Rock Hill for nothing.

[moon-happy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the pool's a time sink! We find a health club membership much cheaper in terms of actual $$ and in terms of time. But, if your own pool figures heavily in your social life, that's important, too. Good luck making everything balance (including the PH! Ha!)

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Good luck making everything balance (including the PH! Ha!)

Oddly enough, I'm very good with Ph. It's algae sneaking up on me that's a problem. I've gone to preventative treatments. This will (I hope) take care of the problem!