Piney Pool Mess

I sure am glad I put the thermal blanket on the pool last weekend before we left. Between the storms and wind, all the little pine buds blew of the big tree – and right into the pool. You can’t make this stuff up. After all that work opening the pool last week, here I was looking at an effort of similar scale.

With the blanket on, I figured I could keep about half of the crap out of the water if I was careful – that was a success. But, there were still 20 pounds of that stuff in the pool – too much for Dude to take care of all by himself. So I got some of the other pool cleaning tools out and set to work.

I also moved the hummingbird feeder around to the little planter by the pool. I’ve seen the birds around the yard, but they hadn’t seemed to find the feeder yet. Almost as soon as I moved it, I saw one at the feeder…so this is a good place for it.Back to the pool cleaning: between Dude and me, we got ‘r done in about two hours – four or five big nets worth of the piney buds and a bunch of needles.

But the good news is the second batch of chlorine shock has really cleared the water. It wasn’t quite warm enough for a swim, but the pool’s ready.