What did you do to your pool today?

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My ph was rising all last summer with the old swg. Had to add 20oz of acid every 7-10 days. This year with the new swg ph has only gone from 7.3-just slightly above 7.4 in 3-4 weeks. TA is 70.


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Today was Diamond Day -- meaning we sprinkled 120 pounds of salt in the bottom of the pool and the kids swam around collecting it, swimming through it, and creating imagination games starring the sparkling diamonds all around them. I will miss this when the kids get a bit older.
 
Anybody ever found a green lacewing larva while testing their water? I just did. I had no idea what it was til I looked it up. Looks like a rolly polly with moss on its back. Pretty cool.
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The big weird eyeball he's on is a broken sea horse pool noodle.

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All the cool wildlife is hangin out at your pool. All I've got is plain old frogs, snakes, dragonflies and damselflies. Which are also cool. But they are not polka dotted salamanders with striped tails!
 
Held a chemistry and Algebra lesson with my 12 year-old. I had not pushed doing it but now that summer is here, he expressed an interest and we had a really nice time doing it. We manually calculated how much bleach would have to be added to get the 6 PPM of FC that we had just measured. Then checked it with Pool Math. I had a moment of hesitation in the calculation when our formula showed about .16 gallons of chlorine were needed. Then I realized that was the 100% concentrated amount. After dividing by 12.5% then all was good. Agreed exactly to the Pool Math numbers. Fun stuff!
 
Swam and didn't brush. My little algae escapade seems to be over. Brushing once or twice per day for a week is going to change my answer to people asking if there is such a thing as too big of a pool! The answer is yes if you plan on getting some algae every now and then you should get a smaller pool!
 

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Speaking about finding weird things in your pool....the last week or so I've had some sort of dark round balls in my pool with dead small caterpillars floating in top of the water.....I googled all of this and I believe it is caterpillar poop. Nice eh. Twice a day I'm cleaning out my pool. What a pain! I just want to relax and swim after work, not clean the pool for an hour daily.

Never had caterpillars before from this tree....to make it worse, it's my neighbours tree which overhangs on my side. Ugh! It's one massive, gigantic oak tree.
 
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Speaking about finding weird things in your pool....the last week or so I've had some sort of dark round balls in my pool with dead small caterpillars floating in top of the water.....I googled all of this and I believe it is caterpillar poop. Nice eh. Twice a day I'm cleaning out my pool. What a pain! I just want to relax and swim after work, not clean the pool for an hour daily.

Never had caterpillars before from this tree....to make it worse, it's my neighbours tree which overhangs on my side. Ugh! It's one massive, gigantic oak tree.
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I guess that's what's all over my chair every time I go out to test. Weird


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Closed the autocover for the first time in a few weeks because of unusually cool weather the next two days. Just set a record for rainiest June at BWI, 10" and probably a few more inches tomorrow. Though in general it's been pretty nice swimming in between (and last night during) the raindrops.
 
Also watched bubbles coming out of the return indicating chlorine generation. It's tough work but someone's gotta do it.
 
I'm going to go out and at least look at it if nothing else! :mrgreen:
 
Got another 2.5 inches of rain this morning. ugh.
had to scoop out a few leaves that the rain brought in with it and brush off the steps. BTW, I did that while I was IN the pool!
Had to drain out those couple inches extra water out of it too - again.

On the bright side though, its dang near July, and I have yet to have to turn on my lawn irrigation system this year! My water bill is loving that part of the once in a century monsoon season we have in Texas this year.
 

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