It’s raining outside as I
write this Rant.
All that rain is just adding to my pool of despair, as our backyard pool continues to be the ruination of my existence.
No matter what I do to it, what I add to it, what procedures I take to make it right, it just won’t get there.
I am bringing in another water sample today to the pool store, and I wonder what they will tell me now?
They told me the other day that everyone’s pool opening is a mess, simply because the past winter we had was so warm, at least by normal standards.
A warm winter creates algae, and that is what we had/have in the pool.
So right now, it’s not “everyone in the pool,” it’s ‘everyone stay out of the pool,” and that makes me sad, upset, and frustrated.
But I will keep on doing what I have to do to make this thing right … to a certain point.
If it gets to the point where whatever I do simply isn’t doing a thing, I just might backwash the entire pool—meaning remove all the water from the pool—clean the pool as best I can, and literally start from scratch.
It is very frustrating, but the reason I brought up today’s rain to begin with is that this week is not supposed to be a swimming week, with temperatures in the 70s and a bit of rain, so even though we are in the summer now, I have another week to play with this and try to get it right.
But it is frustrating as all heck, and once I get it right, I will not say, “The road to getting it right was all worth the pain I have gone through to get it into swimming condition.”
Nope, you won’t hear that from my mouth … and no, my teeth pretty much don’t hurt anymore from my bad allergies—
But my pocketbook is starting to hurt from all of the money I am throwing into this big bathtub we have in the backyard, and I really need to see some good results, and see them soon.
Look, there are worse things going on now in the world, all of them making my pool troubles into less than a grain of sand.
All that rain is just adding to my pool of despair, as our backyard pool continues to be the ruination of my existence.
No matter what I do to it, what I add to it, what procedures I take to make it right, it just won’t get there.
I am bringing in another water sample today to the pool store, and I wonder what they will tell me now?
They told me the other day that everyone’s pool opening is a mess, simply because the past winter we had was so warm, at least by normal standards.
A warm winter creates algae, and that is what we had/have in the pool.
So right now, it’s not “everyone in the pool,” it’s ‘everyone stay out of the pool,” and that makes me sad, upset, and frustrated.
But I will keep on doing what I have to do to make this thing right … to a certain point.
If it gets to the point where whatever I do simply isn’t doing a thing, I just might backwash the entire pool—meaning remove all the water from the pool—clean the pool as best I can, and literally start from scratch.
It is very frustrating, but the reason I brought up today’s rain to begin with is that this week is not supposed to be a swimming week, with temperatures in the 70s and a bit of rain, so even though we are in the summer now, I have another week to play with this and try to get it right.
But it is frustrating as all heck, and once I get it right, I will not say, “The road to getting it right was all worth the pain I have gone through to get it into swimming condition.”
Nope, you won’t hear that from my mouth … and no, my teeth pretty much don’t hurt anymore from my bad allergies—
But my pocketbook is starting to hurt from all of the money I am throwing into this big bathtub we have in the backyard, and I really need to see some good results, and see them soon.
Look, there are worse things going on now in the world, all of them making my pool troubles into less than a grain of sand.
The horrible revelations we are hearing daily about what happened during the school shooting in Texas … every day, new things come out, and they are disturbing, to say the least.
Those kids could have been saved, but this appeared to be a sub-Mayberry police department run by not even a sub-Andy Taylor, but a sub-Barney Fife.
They had the wherewithal to go into the school and catch the gunman within minutes of him simply entering the building, but complete ineptitude prevailed, not common sense and a sense of duty by the so-called police there.
It sends chills up my spine to think that these kids, and their teachers, could have been saved with smart police work and smart police procedure, and you just know that a better trained and better led police department would have done all they could from the get go to stave off such a situation.
God forbid something like this happened in my neck of the woods, and you would not be burying dead body after dead body like they are in Uvalde.
So yes, my crabbing about the state of my backyard pool is really unsubstantial, in particular when you compare it to the pain that Uvalde is facing now and forever.
There is simply no comparison, and yes, I do think about why I am getting so wound up about my personal plight when there are real problems in this world that need to be faced.
But we are human beings, and we all have to live our lives to the best of our ability.
If something is gnawing at me, no matter how inconsequential it may be, I have to hit it head on, and I think my pool problems fall into that ball of wax.
I guess my problem does not breed pain, but it does create a lot of frustration for me … but then I open up the newspaper, watch the news reports, and it kind of tempers me, brings me down a bit, and demonstrates to me that what I am going through is nothing compared to what is happening in the real world.
A pool?
Just a convenience, nothing more, no matter how much I hem and haw about it.
The real world … things are not right in the real world, and adding some shock and other pool supplies is not going to fix it.
No way.
No how.
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