Here it is!! I took the cover off today! A few things to point out here:
1. We had a huge storm this week and there was a ton of debris on the cover itself. I tried to keep the debris out of the pool, but it's so windy today that while draining the water off the cover that accumulated this week and trying to carefully remove it, the wind blew it and caused a ton of dirt/debris to fall into the pool... it was near perfect before I removed it (minus some dead bugs)
2. You can see how much water was lost due to the bad patch repair from the nut sedge that I had last year. I attached a photo of the patch I attempted so I need to do a better job of patching it
. I'm currently in the process of filling it back up, and I have the pool filter soaking and cleaning so that later today I can reinstall it. I've removed the upper plug for the skimmer, but didn't remove the return line yet since I have the filter disassembled (and I have the inlet shut off at the pump to keep water out).
3. I'm also terrible with using pool pillows.. they always "pop" halfway through the winter....
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