If it were my mom, I would just figure out a way to make it work. I would probably buy some camp soap (Link: http://www.rei.com/product/869386/?...482256000&msid=Cjh52tWO_dc|pcrid|28464597400| ) It is biodegradable an doesn't have perfumes and such in it. If any of us think too much about what goes on in our pools, we would never go in them. Of course, I have 2 kids and I have come to realize no matter how many catalogs they send to me with adorable little kid photos, kids are skeevy. Your mom can't be as skeevy as the kids that swim in my pool.
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Time to SLAM the pool! :lol:
Seriously! I have a great high school kid that does my lawn work. Part of his "payment" is a dip in the pool when he is done. I am sure that he is way harder on the chlorine than anyone's aged mom. And I have 2 tween/teen girls. With tween/teen girl friends. Many of them. Any idea how much "stuff" those girls have in their hair??? And we use a lot of sunscreen. I float a tennis ball in the return to help absorb the oils and somehow I have never noticed a "slick", but I know more stuff gets into my pool than the average. Oh, and then there is the overhanging tree... and the snakes that I pull out all the time... and the time I pulled out a dead mole. Seriously, his mom should just come to my house. She would be the least of my problems!!!
Thanks glitter...I too am known for just diving in clothes and all after working on 100 degree weather. I figure hey, I'm the one that takes care of this dragon, I'm entitled! Hubs showers first. I'm a little OCD about the pool and expect it to be crystal clear 100% of the time even with a gazillion trees and all. My 85 year old pool man who worked on our pump and has been in bus. For over 60 yrs actually told me, the best thing you can do for that pool is to use the dang thing and get a little dirt in there. He knows I use BBB and never tries to sell me a thing. Half the time he doesn't even charge me when I call. As far as Mom goes, I'll just wait and see how this summer goes. When she goes shopping she does come home each time with 4 gals of bleach. Lol
funny stuff. I often jump in the pool too after yard work, but I hose off and put on my bathing suit first. i am pretty OCD about my pool as well. One bug in it, and out comes the skimmer net for a quick skim of the whole thing.... no way could I deal with someone bathing in my pool... but thats just me. im totally with Casey on this one.... time to get mom out of the pool and SLAM. 
I should have elaborated a bit on my first post....everyone sweats in the pool. There's body waste that's going to end up in the pool no matter what. I, too, am a finish yardwork/workout and jump in the pool. My concern is the work the filter and chlorine have to do on the soap.
We have extremely light swimmer load and try to keep our bods clean before jumping in. No grungy sweaty boys or suntan slathered gals...only an occasional 5 yr old and mom with her shampoo. The shampoo and soap is my concern. I keep my water balanced and have only had to SLAM once after a season of using tags.
And here my biggest worry is putting my new (used) ladder in the pool and does it have anything creepy inside of it that I can't see...
Well, I guess I could tell you a story that I "heard" once about some people that I "knew" once... a long time ago...Back when I "knew" people that were a lot more fun. It seems that some college sorority girls got the keys to one of the parents nice houses while they were on vacation and decided to have a little party. The pool had a spa set in the ground next to the pool that didn't run over into the pool, but used the same filter equipment. Someone decided that it would be wonderful if the spa turned into a foaming spa. A combination of scented bath bubbles and dish soap REALLY accomplished this - I mean really. So I heard. It accomplished it so well that not only were people jumping into the pool covered in bubbles, but waves of bubbles were coming out of the spa and blowing into the pool. At some point I think people poured much dish soap into the pool. There was a lot of foam. So I heard. So the young ladies had a lovely party and the next day it became apparent that perhaps a good decision had not been with the bubble thing. As it turned out, the owner of the pool was probably not going to be thrilled that his pool was all foamy because his daughter's sorority decided that it would be fun to be covered with bubbles around a bunch of guys. Sooooooo we called the pool guy that normally took care of the pool. Turns out (so I heard) if you are young enough you can pay the pool guy in cash to come fix your problem so that the parents don't realize what a group of idiots they are involved in raising.
Pool guy said it wasn't a huge deal, it happens more often than you would realize. He threw table salt all over the bubbles to break them (something I have used myself if someone puts too much soap in our dishwasher - see? College is educational). It took quite a bit of salt to get rid of all the bubbles. He ran the filter for a bit, then he back washed, cleaned off the filter, put in more filter medium. I am sure he raised the chlorine level to a really high level, too. He said he would come back in a couple of more days and clean the filter again. And probably finish up with a 3rd cleaning. I think he may have put some commercial defoamer in there, but I wasn't paying too much attention. There was also a lot of spraying of the deck around the pool and I seem to recall the grass being foamy. Of course that got salted, too. Not sure if the landscaping lived through the party.
My point is that this guy acted like it was a pain, but not deadly to the pool and I am telling you, there was more bubbles than your mom could put into a pool in 5 years with a normal bath.
I found a picture of the kind of problem I am talking about - this is not the actual party because THANK GOODNESS NO CELL PHONE CAMERAS back in the day. But this is a pretty fair representation. Just imagine instead of all the candles there were college kids and beer cans. lol!
Pool guy said it wasn't a huge deal, it happens more often than you would realize. He threw table salt all over the bubbles to break them (something I have used myself if someone puts too much soap in our dishwasher - see? College is educational). It took quite a bit of salt to get rid of all the bubbles. He ran the filter for a bit, then he back washed, cleaned off the filter, put in more filter medium. I am sure he raised the chlorine level to a really high level, too. He said he would come back in a couple of more days and clean the filter again. And probably finish up with a 3rd cleaning. I think he may have put some commercial defoamer in there, but I wasn't paying too much attention. There was also a lot of spraying of the deck around the pool and I seem to recall the grass being foamy. Of course that got salted, too. Not sure if the landscaping lived through the party.
My point is that this guy acted like it was a pain, but not deadly to the pool and I am telling you, there was more bubbles than your mom could put into a pool in 5 years with a normal bath.
I found a picture of the kind of problem I am talking about - this is not the actual party because THANK GOODNESS NO CELL PHONE CAMERAS back in the day. But this is a pretty fair representation. Just imagine instead of all the candles there were college kids and beer cans. lol!
Hilarious! .. In my town, "I heard" there were a bunch of kids that went downtown where there is a giant fountain and decided to put a box of tide in it. It would have suds all week, clear up by Fri and by Sat morn they magically appeared again. City finally had to post a guard there and spoiled all the fun. I also "heard" there was a little girl that loved to fish and thought it would be so fun to put a bunch of fish she had caught along with a snapping turtle, in the family's pool so she could fish some more, her Dad was not too pleased. Moms little soap is looking better!
Did I mention that I've had to vacuum smoked salmon and cigar butts off the bottom of my hot tub twice now ?
no... no used ladders. no way, no how..... you just dont know where they have been....
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thats...... disturbing.
I remember at college on of the apartment complexes (not mine) ended up with hundreds of those rubbery fishing lure worms in the spa. Seems that some folks kept having loud company in the spa at late hours and someone who wanted sleep must have had access to lots of fishing lures.
As an orthopeadic nurse, I would not recommend bathing in a pool post-op. Just think of the high infection risk she is taking; the last thing she needs is to get her "new knee(s)" infected from bacteria in the pool and then become septic... Check with her surgeon, he/she probably doesn't want to have to take her back to the OR to wash out her new knee! Common sense???
Or maybe I'm reading it wrong, and it's been a while since her surgery. Either way, (IMO) it's more hygienic to wash in the tub or shower.
Or maybe I'm reading it wrong, and it's been a while since her surgery. Either way, (IMO) it's more hygienic to wash in the tub or shower.