Splish Splash!

Being away from my blog for four months has resulted in me relearning how to get around my site again.  Blogger has made some changes recently to their program that I feel like I'm trying to work with a rubic cube, just to do the basic of things.  I suppose I'm exercising my brain a little, which is suppose to be good at this age.  I'm just smelling smoke at times as I spend hours trying to do one small trivial task.

Today it reached 109 degrees here.  You step outside and you feel like your breath is being sucked right out of your lungs.  At one point I went out front to hose down my Miata after a family of robins decided to perch themselves on a branch above it.  Glenn remarked that my face was bright red when I walked inside.  I wasn't out there for very long but that's just an idea of the oppressive heat we have been having.

Once I came inside, I looked out back at the pool and questioned why I was inside when I could be in the water.  That first plunge into the water made me extremely grateful this was in my backyard.  Instant relief!

Chloe and Hailey probably didn't like what I did to them next.  They looked so hot and miserable that I decided they would feel better if I brought them into the water with me.  I only took them in the first three steps...just enough to watch their natural instinct kick in to doggy paddle.  Chloe looked at me like I had lost my mind and trotted away as quickly as she could.  But Hailey was so cute.  It was like the puppy in her came bursting out and she was running all over the place.  It was fun torturing them!

Being I am on the subject of our pool, you'll never believe this next story.  A couple of weeks ago, we had to have the pool installers back out to our home because our pool was leaking water and killing two of our Crepe Myrtle trees.  Well it turns out that our super duper water vaccum robot has torn 32 holes into the bottom of our 1 year old liner.  The repairman had to snorkel down and patch up all of those holes.  The bill for that came to $300+ . 

Besides looking horrible with all of these patches on the bottom of our pool and being a little annoyed that the robot they sold to us had down this, we just couldn't let this go by without saying something.  Thankfully, we'll be receiving a brand new liner in a week or less, and they will also waive the fee of the repair job.  We asked them to also recheck the cement sides to see if the installation was incorrect, for the robot to be tearing things up.  No sense getting a new liner only to have the robot tear it up again! 

"R2D2" needs to behave so that Glenn nor I, will have to put muscle power behind the daily maintenance!  We may not be praising the joy we're getting from the pool so much then!