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Interesting. It's been different in the Pacific NW the past few weeks. Normal first swimming day is memorial weekend. This year it was 2nd weekend in May. Been swimming almost daily since, except for a few rainy days. So about 2 weeks ahead of the usual here.

I've got a Rennai that was here when I moved in. It's been a great unit. I'll never go back to a regular water heater. Mine is mounted in the garage wall. The other side of it, is outside...it has an internal fan that blows the exhaust out it's side vent to the outside.

Condition Looks exactly like the pool at a beach hotel I went to with my friend's family in the late 80's. It Reeked of cc smell.

I cut Comcast when I moved in 2015. Then did sling TV blue with the Amazon firetv box and Amazon prime video. also have an airtv for over the air channels, similar to the homerun tuner/dvr. Last year I realized pluto.tv which is free and is very much like sling, only real difference is Pluto...

2 things I almost did and would have regretted: 1. Almost put food grade d.e. in my sand filter. 2. Almost dumped a bottle of yellow out in. This stuff would have added bromine, requiring a complete water change. Close calls!

I was mowing the backyard yesterday, ran over something, then saw what looked like a small dog bone, then it started wiggling. Ran over a BIG garter snake! I felt bad but left it there and ended up being a blue Jay's dinner.

My cousin made a fire pit, the main fire bowl was the big cylinder w holes from a cloths washer. It worked so well.

Here in the Pacific Northwest, pools without heating top out around 75 degrees at most.

Ya read that. It sounds like it's actually dry chlorine products only. A plant in Louisiana had a fire and shut down last August? Shouldn't affect bleach products...just tabs & powdered shock as far as I can tell.

In 3rd grade I attended a pool birthday party. They had that setup. As a child I was amazed swimming in January during winter.

Got all my supplies for an ascorbic acid treatment. Looking forward to no stains on the liner this summer.

I've never had any difficulty buying cheap baking soda at any nearby store.

Lol what is that like 5 huge barrels full?

I've seen photos of parties with the water red. Not something I would ever consider.

Wow! That reminded me, my first house with a pool was separated from the road only from a cedar fence. I had thoughts from time to time, what if a car ever crashes through here? My home now with a pool, They would have to drive through my house to get it in the pool. much betta lol

no way jose

Vinegar is a great cheap / better for environment weed killer and I use about 2-3 gallons a year. Never heard of adding salt. The acidity alone will kill whatever is sprayed. But ya do be careful and do a small un noticed test area first where stone is a consideration.

whoa! nice! Kinda reminds me of that faux brick they sold in the 70's each "brick" was the width and height of a standard brick only they were super light and only about 1/4" thick if I recall. It also came with some black stuff you mixed together then applied to the wall as the adhesive.

Seems like the rest of you are having an Indian summer while we got an early fall. Took the water temp yesterday: 56 degrees :( normally it doesn't get that far down until Halloween. This has been the shortest swimming season yet.

Got a bunch of cold rain this weekend. water temp 78. Looking like last monday might have been the last swim day of the season. Usually by the 3rd week of sept it's just not economical to keep heating it. We didn't experience any heat waves this year like the rest of the country. I had less...

wow, it looks kinda dangerous the kid cutting it w a knife from inside. These are pretty funny though. I know I wouldn't be happy if all the pool water was heading down to the house foundation....eesh!

My sister in-law once "invited herself" and a friend over, but she at least asked me before coming over. If I was gone the answer would have been no. But I was home that day so I allowed it. Nobody swims in my pool if I'm not home, PERIOD.

Awesome. Kinda wish my backyard neighbor's red pine would fall....(safely on his side). He did pay for a MAJOR branch trimming last fall though. Very grateful for that. The amount of pine needles to deal with has been reduced to about 2/3 of what it used to be.

Pool water was 58 degrees, so with Summery 75 degree weather this past weekend I heated the pool up to 85 for swimming. First swim of the year was great!

I use vinegar from the dollar store. Put it in a sprayer bottle. great for non-toxic weed killing too. Makes your yard smell like pickles.

Is it salt-water? I've heard those are much tougher to deal with, but maybe they didn't use tfp lol. fun fact: we advocate buying an ammonia test kit for fish tanks if it is suspected ammonia is in the pool. to confirm.

Portland, OR

2 weeks ago it snowed and I came into work late. This monday it will be 70 degrees. Crazy stuff! Freezing temps are over though, looking forward to opening the pool this weekend.

40 degrees. a few too cold to use the Dolphin. I was going to open this weekend but it's colder than usual. And this morning it was a thin sheet of ice acrossed.

48 degrees yesterday. draining the equipment for the winter in 30 days.