The pool, that is. Yes Red, the ass, Little Miss and the hellion worked for… oh… 5 hours and called it clean. I went to look at it and it is still nasty in my opinion. But they are filling it up. The bottom still has huge spots of green filth and the sides, well, let’s just say a few more hours of scrubbing would take care of it.
According to mammaw Little Miss can get in it anytime she wants to because she really worked. The hellion, not so much. Once the tadpoles were gone, he lost interest. Yes, tadpoles, millions of them! Little Miss was able to save hundreds of them by putting them in the ditch, where water is standing and those little suckers were almost frogs so I believe they will survive.
The story of the pool is a rather touchy story around here. The Boy got screwed and still hasn’t gotten over the fact that his aunt would do that to him.
When The Boy was about 7, he was so shy he wouldn’t speak in front of people. We had some friends that had a pool and we spent a lot of time over there, OK, I admit it, the kids swam, we got drunk and played pool volleyball. The pool was only like 4 foot deep and one of the “kids” that stayed there was 16 and she babysat for us.
Well, The Boy wanted a pool at home. Another friend had a pool that was a few years old and they were getting another one and giving the old one away. The deal was if the bashful boy would ask for it, he could have it. It took him 2 weeks to build up the courage but he finally asked and the pool was given to him. He walked on air for about 2 days, then it was time to get the land ready for it. That was work and he agreed to share the pool if we would do the work. heh! We, me and hubby, worked our asses off! Getting rid of vines, stumps, sticks, rocks and leveling up the ground. We brought in the sand, bought a couple of cases of beer and daiquiri mix and invited over a few friends and had a pool raising.
I made an agreement with the kids, I would tend to it but I would have an hour on Friday morning and 30 minutes a day in it by myself. I skimmed it daily and vacuumed it on Friday. I lounged in it during whatever time I had left. If we had a busy weekend and it needed it I would get an hour on Monday to vacuum it as well. We used non-chlorine chemicals and I loved it, the boys loved it and even hubby loved it. We would play volleyball and horseplay for hours on the weekends. We would have parties with our friends and the kids had friends over. We used the hell out of it. It wasn’t that much work, because I kept it up. It was always clear and leaf free and it never smelled! We covered it in the winter and all we had to do was add some water and chemicals and the pool was ready to go. Then Hubby went down in his back and I was pregnant for opening one year, the in-laws uncovered it. They didn’t drain the water out of the cover, nor did they scoop the leaves out of the cover. They let all of the fall and winter water and leaves fall in the pool, then they left.
At 7 months pregnant and as I said yesterday, swelled like a pissed off blow fish, I climbed in and scooped tons of leaves out and vacuumed, it was no use, I had to nearly drain the pool, scrub the sides and in general work myself to death, but I got it spotless. No green filth left over, no nastiness on the sides. And we went on to enjoy the pool for the rest of the summer. The boys took over when Little Miss was born and the in-laws were suppose to cover it since Little Miss was in the midst of colic, but they didn’t. Thus was the first year it went uncovered all winter. We moved during the winter and Red and her first husband moved into close to the pool.
The summer came around and they came up with a free pool. Red asked The Boy if they could trade with him, even, a pool for a pool. He couldn’t see how he could lose. Well, he did. They took parts from the pool they got and put them on the old pool. Nicer covers, a nicer top rail. They managed to destroy what they took off. The liner they gave him had been in the pool for 4 years and never cleaned, the filter had always been used with a chlorine pool and the sand was never changed. You could smell the chlorine at 50 paces away. And the algae, oh, don’t get me started on that awful smell. The outside shell was bent to the point it could not be used. So they got a pool and he got a pile of shit. We carried it off to the dump and he was allowed to cuss at the top of his lungs about how he was screwed.
Red decided to go with chlorine. Somehow, I ended up responsible for it. I mean she was pregnant and couldn’t actually clean the thing. I never could get the chlorine levels right. It either showed NO chlorine or dangerously high chlorine levels. My kids didn’t get it in once that summer. I gave it to Red and husband, I told them I couldn’t adjust the levels and they could take it over.
The next summer, who do you think spent 5 days cleaning the pool? Well, yes it would be me. The boys wanted to use it and Little Miss was old enough to get a bit of use from it and it had became the family pool. After the initial cleaning I handed it to them, I could not do the chlorine. MIL wouldn’t let the pump run but like 15 minutes a day, though she claimed it ran no less than 12 hours a day. It stayed green all the time. Red would pour in more chlorine and chemicals, but it stayed green. MIL would pour in Clorox by the gallons and baking soda. They used the shock treatment from Hel-Mart. Bags a day! You couldn’t get close to the pool, let alone actually get in it.
Two years ago, the other SIL decided that we should go back to non-chlorine chemicals again, because I was able to keep it up with them and besides Bugs feet didn’t peel when we were using it. So the pool again became my responsibility. I was to keep up the chemicals. MIL was to keep it skimmed *ha*, Red and SIL would do the vacuuming *ha* and the pump would be run no less than 12 hours a day *AH HAHAHAHAHA* and we would all help with the electric bill. The electric bill was the reason the pump never ran. According to MIL it ran her bill up about 75 bucks a month. It never ran ours up like that, maybe $20 a month.
Well, MIL would skim the pool a couple of times a week and the SILs would vacuum about once a month. And go figure, the pump still only ran a couple of hours every other day. But according to MIL it ran all the time! It was not green but it was cloudy all the time. I couldn’t keep the chemicals level without the other stuff. I got in a couple of times and every time I got in , MIL would come out and get in. Once she was in, no splashing, her hair would get wet and no horse play because her hair would get wet and somebody would end up hurt. No fun=No get in!
Last year it was the same shit as the year before and I got in once! MIL was off on vacation with Red and the ass so I took the opportunity to clean it good and enjoy it for a little while. Looks like this year will be a repeat of the last few years.
The hellions like to jump in from the deck, it’s a 4 foot pool, you can’t jump in straight legged! I see broken bones before the summer is over. Little Miss wants to jump, but she knows to keep her legs up and once the deck is wet, no jumping and to jump OUT in to the pool not straight down. One of the hellions got one hell of a deck scratch down his back, he didn’t jump out, he jumped straight down and the deck, well it kept a good bit of skin!
On to other gripes!!! Last night Little Miss stayed again with mammaw, seems both of the hellions were spending the night too. Hubby decided he was ready for bed, I went to lay with him, I wasn’t too sleepy and wanted to watch a few minutes of TV in peace. I gave him his thrill and got back up. I stayed up for….oh….. an hour. During which I managed a shower. When I went to bed, Hubby was pissed I had stayed up and made snotty remarks about how I could have gotten to bed an hour earlier but NNNNOOOO. ASS! What did it matter? He got his thrill, I got a few minutes to myself. Why try to start a fight at midnight? I will never figure men out.
He bitches that since I have took to sleeping with a pillow under my side I am taking up 3/4 of the bed. I. AM. NOT!!!! I still take up less space than my pillow that is under my head! My head is on the far side of the pillow and my body is almost straight down from it, I only curl a little bit. And I am laying on my side and the last time I looked I wasn’t as wide as over half of the bed! I bend my knee, my foot is almost straight down from my ass. So I am not flinging my legs across the bed. My arms are bent next to my chest, so no arms flinging around. Hell I am 5 feet tall and I am for sure not 5 feet wide!!!!! Now Daisy may be taking up over half of the bed, but not me!
Speaking of Daisy, I stepped in a pile of shit yesterday! I was trying to avoid breaking my neck tripping over the pile of clothes, sleeping bag, box and misc. toys laying in front of the closet in Little Miss’ room and managed to forget to check the closet floor for a “present” from Daisy! This morning I woke up to an awful stench of puppy shit!!!! I found a pile in Little Miss’ closet, old, from some time in the night my guess. But the smell was overpowering! I went down the hall, The Boy’s room, that is where I found it! Three piles and a few odd bits of poo!!!!! Fresh!!!! Almost diarrhea!!!! I gagged and choked and gagged some more, I got it cleaned up and it still ain’t smelling really good back there!!!! I looked at Daisy and asked her if she did that. She got that guilty look in her eyes and looked away. I think she was trying to blame Misty. She can’t lie, the guilt in her eyes gives it away every time!
Well, Little Miss is keeping an eye on the pool water and MIL and Red have gone to get chemicals, filter sand and a new skimmer basket and pump lid. So they have the hellions, WOOT!!! I wonder just how long they will try to keep this pool up this year. My guess would be through today! They want it but they don’t want to tend to it. They claim it takes 3 people to vacuum the pool, I used to do it all by my lonesome! Even with the screwed up power and all. I could do it all by myself, but really why. I may be more help this year, depends how much bitching they do.
I guess I should go and straighten up the house and accomplish something today.so until next time….
HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!
