pool boys

We have been having problems with our pool for weeks.

First

I was suspicious about our test strips;

the readings didn't seem accurate to me.

I was putting chemicals in

but they weren't showing up when I tested.

the water looked fine

but the test strips told me things were way off.

So I bought a new box

even though I still had 42 left in the old one.

The results from those weren't impressive either.

Things went downhill from there.

Once upon a time

I would've trusted my instincts

but here lately

my brain has been soo foggy

that it's easy to assume I was somehow mistaken.

So I would re-calculate

switch filters

add more chemicals

yada yada yada

but the pool started looking really cloudy.

Long story short

my new test strips were faulty;

I wasn't mistaken in my calculations.

I'd ended up adding about 4x the chemicals that I should have.

And pool chemicals aren't cheap.

I tried draining off part of the water and adding fresh

to try to balance things out.

Better

but still not quite right

so I messed some more

but I never could get the pool looking real sparkly again.

Then vacation

and lots of rain

and by Sunday

the thing was green.

I figured it'd cost less money to drain the whole darn thing

and start from scratch

than it would to correct with still more chemicals.

plus

there was all that green..... ugh!

So

yesterday we drained the pool

again.

Completely

this time.

Brandon & Jeremiah

spent about 1 1/2 hours out there scrubbing it this morning

so we could have a fresh start.

I was so proud of how they stuck with a hard job;

I didn't have to get after them 1 time to get back to work!

Shoot

I hadn't even really gotten them started on it;

I just told them to get a few rags

a scrub brush and a bottle of fabulouso...

Jeremiah told me later that he was tired

and he wanted to come inside

but then he remembered that we always tell him,

"L...'s never quit!"

so he figured he had to just keep working till the job was done.

~

thanks, Pool Boys!

I think this time

I'll go with my gut