I had to blog it to find it….
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…
Pool problems…
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!
Ahh…. that felt nice…
My nextdoor neighbor got a hot tub recently and invited me to come over with the boys this afternoon…. I know that hot tubs are not too good when pregnant because of high temps, especially temps over 100 so I asked her before at what temp she maintains it… 92-94!! So perfectly fine for me to stay as long as I want….
So me and the boys headed over and soaked in the hot tub for about 20 min… Once Colin got a bit less shy and started liking the water and bubbles he would “swim” between my neighbor and I and when she had him I was able to relax and get some jets on my back….she was also having tons of fun with Xavier showing him all the buttons and Colin with him calling her “mamie” (grandma)…
I am very happy to have a neighbor like her… she has 2 grown children, she works as a teacher at an adult-ed school a few minutes away so is home often… We share recipies and cooking tricks, I bring her treats, bread and other things that I make and she lends me garden tools and other things….
We are having trouble with our pool losing water and I went to get a replacement piece and was having trouble getting the other off and she brought me a tool and helping hands and then offered her garden hose to help fill the pool back up (since I had to take a bit of water out to change the piece….
Anyways… she told me that I can make a “reservation” in the hot tub at any time, especially just before going to bed after the kids have gone to sleep… I think as the pregnancy progresses I won’t hesitate to take her up on that offer…
A true journey…
Well, the 20 week mark is fast approaching and it is the time that I will be able to call the birthing center in Nicolet and see if I am able to see a midwife… however, over the last few months I have grown not only to accept that I might be going unassisted, but I it has become a goal and what I want the most.
I am still debating if I will call the birthing center, I no longer beleive that it is what is best for me. I no longer want any kind of intervention. I don’t need that support especially now that I know that the midwifes here in Quebec are truly “Medwifes”… If I do call, I would go into the first appointment and address at that moment that I will be having a homebirth and there is no way that I would go to the birthing center to give birth. Since they are too far for a homebirth to be concidered, that would leave me in the position to have a UC anyways… If they decide to make an exception and come here, then I would have them understand that I want an unhindered birth and they would not be allowed to do any kind of monitoring and will not be present for the actual birth… However, just the presence is enough to turn me off and make me uncomfortable… I WANT to be alone…
I know that this conversation would not go over well with a medwife… I don’t want to deal with anyone talking down to me because they don’t agree with/don’t understand what I need… I am feeling more and more that I don’t want to even try to see a midwife….
A part of me wants to go for a few prenatal appointments however so this is the factor that is making this decision a bit hard…
My journey started out with a choice being made for me because a sOB is never a choice IMO…. however, now not only do I feel comfortable wth my decision it has become my ultimate goal…
I need to have an unhindered and unassisted birth. I need to bring this child into the world into the safest and more comfortable atmosphere which is our own home…