Pool Harbor - Week One

I wrote about my Father's Day surprise (or sentence depending on how you look at it) yesterday. After a week of battling I've gotten it from this:

To This:

And all it's taken is the replacement of a defective pool filter, Lots of playing with interesting chemical substances (did you know muriatic acid fumes on exposure to air?), enough of those interesting chemicals to put a severe dent in the local supplies, approximately 2,000 gallons of sweat and quite a few interesting new linguistic constructs expressing my joy and good cheer at my Father's Day gift.

For those of you who don't have a pool or who are fortunate enough to be able to pay someone to do all the work, pools are a lot of work, especially at first. (And this is all tongue in cheek, by the way. My family will get a lot of enjoyment out of the pool. Even if it kills me.)

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