Happy Friday! We won’t think about how today is supposed to be an unlucky day. I don’t believe in that stuff anyway. But. Did I tell you what happened on Tuesday? It’s my little mini-drama. Our Friday the 13th was actually Tuesday, the 10th.

After Mark’s surgery, we came home and it was turning into a beautiful warm, sunny day. I decided it would be good to go pick up that new pool I got for Mother’s day, so off I went. It’s not a huge inground pool that comes with a pool-boy or anything (that I really wanted), I always get the scaled back version of what I see after I close my eyes at night. Harumpf.

I spent about 3 hours assembling the pool. For the last three years, we had what I referred to as the “upside-down mushroom cloud” pool. You know, the one they say is “10 feet” but in all reality, when the usable portion of the pool is measured, it’s about 6 feet across. Yipee! Fun to dunk in, but you really can’t swim let alone put a decent floatie in there. Well, you could, but the kids have to stand perfectly still in one spot while you float, and listening to them tell you that “you’re hogging up the whole pool mom!” is not what I call relaxing. But I digress.

The new pool is 15″ across, and it actually is 15 feet. Much better! Yahoo! I was so excited to have the pool set up by the time Caitibug got home from school!

When she arrived, I was just putting the hose into the pool to begin the 3,000 gallon 2-day fill fest. Not ten minutes later, both girls were asking “is it done yet?”, “can we get in?”. Heh.

An hour into it, I checked to see how things were going. Not so good. I’m calling it a “defect in workmanship”, because it seemed that the entire seam that is supposed to seal the bottom to the sides, didn’t. Next step, actually read the directions and watch the video to be sure I set up the pool correctly. It’s not brain surgery, you know. And yes, I did everything right.

So of course, I begin cussing the pool. I bought the last one, and they’re not sold anywhere else around here that I know of, so it’s not like I could (or really wanted to) disassemble the whole dang thing and try to stuff it back in the box. No thank you. I called the manufacturer, who confirmed “this is not normal”. No kidding! Darnit, I was hoping that after it was completely full, the leak would just disappear. Crud.

Do you know what comes next? heh! My box cutter! That’s right. I grabbed my box cutter and began cutting huge sections out of the pool liner to return to the manufacturer. Apparently they need the crucial pieces of their pool back to ensure that I’m not just pretending that my whole day was wasted, that I’m in so much pain from assembling that my fingernail beds are sore, and that what I really wanted to do was set up another pool.

Well since I was mildly annoyed anyway, I took my cutting spree a step further. I decided that instead of disassembling the pool, that I would just shred the liner to bits (FYI that really helps with draining the pool!) and peel it off the frame.

Now the frame sits, assembled, in my backyard. On top of the pool ground cover. In three inches of water. It’s been raining here since Tuesday night! LOL

The good news, all of the flower seeds we planted last weekend are sprouting up. YAY!

The bad news, after I shredded the pool I decided it would be a good time to lay more grass seed in a part of the yard we’ve been landscaping for the past few weeks.

The good news, I bought enough stuff to lay the seed and I did it all myself!

The bad news, the rain washed all of the seed into little puddles, so we’ll have patches of new grass when and if it does grow.

The good news, I haven’t had to water it in 4 days!!!

So how was your week???

😆