You know when you watch TV and the show ends and it switches to another network?
Well, a commercial had just started and the announcer starts saying “when a deadly mistake rocks the hospital” it cuts to the very end of a vaccine infomercial which says… “be informed of your child’s vaccines” with a link to a website…
We had a great weekend… It was a holiday here so Friday Simon didn’t have work…
Friday we lounged around in the morning and then we went to Zellers for some pics and walked around in the mall a bit… I found some shoes that I need for a few weddings that I am going to this summer and they were on special so that was a definate plus…
Saturday was another leisurely day… I talked Simon out of house work and we sat down by the pool, and went swimming with the kids and just had a lot of fun… Our friend Yan came over in the late afternoon and koined us in the pool and then I made a really nice supper… An entree of Mussles and then Steaks on the BBQ with twice baked potatoes… and then we had cheesecake and a fire with roasted marshmallows….
The kids went in the bath and I took advantage of the last bits of sun light to read abook in the Hammock beside the Fire…
On Sunday I enticed Simon out of house work again and we had another fun day with the kids in the back yard….
One of the coolest things was that both boys love the water and Xavier started swimming by himself… At the end of last summer he was starting to swim and now he is pretty much at the same level and probably even a bit better then last summer…
I love weekends like this, weekends that are spent at home, with the family… getting to know the boys even more then I do already… sitting with Simon just enjoying each others company…
Here are a few pics of the boys in the pool…
and of course… so tuckered out after swimming and playing outside… Colin fell asleep while eating his snack….
I have a few videos of the boys swimming that I will get up soon… Gotta show them off of course 😉
Should have blogged the pool problems sooner!
Right after writing the last message, the sun was coming out and I decided to go look for the hole again… I took the vaccum head that has a little brush on it and started on little dark spots on the bottom of the pool scrubbing away the dirt to see if it was an illusion or really little spots of dirt… went to push a little branch out of the way and realixed that it wasn’t moving and it wasn’t a branch…. scrubbed a bit… it wasn’t dirt either… Ran in the house, got my bathing suit on and jumped in the pool… it was a slit in the liner, near the stairs and it was about 2 1/2-3 inches long… no wonder the water was going down so fast… I went to get the patch that I had bought on Sunday, got it ready and dove underwater and patched the hole…
I am pretty certain that there are no others… Simon had noticed that the dirt under the deck was a bit wet over the weekend and I had concentrated my search on that area but hadn’t looked much on the bottom since the water seemed to alway stop going down at about the same area so I had looked more around the sides… however, I think that we just hadn’t waited long enough to see the water go down more…
The boys and I played in the pool for a few minutes while I started the hose again… the sun was shinging and we had about 1/2 an hour in the sun… then I turned around and saw a storm coming in… we got everything together, and went in the house quickly and the storm hit a few minutes later and now there is a great breeze in the house…
ughh… I am getting really tired of this…
One of the things that I loved about this house was the pool.. I never had a pool before and always wanted one…. (well a lake or river would be better of course) anyways… Last week the pool started losing water… I had just passed the vaccum and had to leave the pool quickly because the kids needed me, while doing the vaccum I saw that the water level was high… So I stopped the motor and and unhooked the vaccum quickly and rested it on the side of the pool… when I came back poolside a little while later I noticed that the pool had lost quite a bit of water (a few inches)… I also noticed a hole made in the ground from water… so thought that the vaccum was unplugged to quickly and acted like a syphon taking water out.. so we filled the pool back up… but in the morning the water was back down… so there was something else wrong…
the water return was leaking a bit so I took more water out, changed the water return and filled it back up…. it lost water again…
I though maybe it was a hole in the liner… I got in the pool and went around it looking for the how with a bottle of phenol red (what we use to check the PH of the water)… no holes to be found…
I asked around and got the same suggestion over and over again about the skimmer…. I emptied a bit more water, changed the skimmer gaskets and filled the water back up again…
The water went down again… Now I am at a loss… I think I will have to check for a how again… somthing that is a pretty hard task but somthing that I will have to do… I asked around to see how much a new liner would be and the price plus instalation is in the 600$ range… If it is a hole Having a rapair man come is not worth it as they will not get into the pool to search for a hole… Finding a repairing the hole will set us back about 10$… I better get those goggles on!
At the moment I hate the Pool!
