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After staying up 'til 8am, and calling in sick (and feeling at least a little guilty about it) I crashed and slept until about 2pm. Hub was let out of his job early, but seemed sad and crabby and I could never get out of him where his head was. So I worked on the pool and left him alone, and he crashed and took about an hour nap, and then seemed perfectly fine. Is there anything naps can't do?
We puttered around and I showed him the wonder that is the pool. In addition to it's nice new liner, it also has a new batch of water in it, and a new set of pool chemicals for which I got clear directions this time. It looks beautiful. Now it just needs to warm up to the point where we can swim in it. There is some special goo you can get that you dump in, about a cup a month, and somehow it traps UV rays and makes your pool heat up and stay warmer longer... when it gets closer to summer we may invest in that goo. Hub isn't all that fond of the pool because it's under trees and stays pretty cold year-round, and it's not often that he wants to jump into a really cold pool. Perhaps the goo will help. But I will try to make a point of staying on top of the pool so that it continues to look gorgeous and be swimmable.
There's something kind of relaxing in working with it and maintaining it and keeping it nice, which is not the same as fixing it after the chemicals get wonky and you're looking at a cess-pit of algae and crap. That's no fun at all. But now that the new liner's in and we're starting fresh, I can just check it and keep it nice. And I also mowed the front yard and did some sweeping and raking. I'm all home-ownery! Woo-hoo!
We puttered around and I showed him the wonder that is the pool. In addition to it's nice new liner, it also has a new batch of water in it, and a new set of pool chemicals for which I got clear directions this time. It looks beautiful. Now it just needs to warm up to the point where we can swim in it. There is some special goo you can get that you dump in, about a cup a month, and somehow it traps UV rays and makes your pool heat up and stay warmer longer... when it gets closer to summer we may invest in that goo. Hub isn't all that fond of the pool because it's under trees and stays pretty cold year-round, and it's not often that he wants to jump into a really cold pool. Perhaps the goo will help. But I will try to make a point of staying on top of the pool so that it continues to look gorgeous and be swimmable.
There's something kind of relaxing in working with it and maintaining it and keeping it nice, which is not the same as fixing it after the chemicals get wonky and you're looking at a cess-pit of algae and crap. That's no fun at all. But now that the new liner's in and we're starting fresh, I can just check it and keep it nice. And I also mowed the front yard and did some sweeping and raking. I'm all home-ownery! Woo-hoo!
