Pool Drain and Refil, Again

Here we go again. This pool is so much work. As soon as I drained it the last time, it started leaking. I tried all different things to troubleshoot the leak. I couldn't find it or stop it. Something was leaking and stopped just below the first step to the pool. Thankfully, it wasn't a crack in the pool but in the mean time, the pool turned green and lots of frogs laid eggs in it.

 

I actually drained it in August so I'm a little behind on blogging. Anyway here is the sad state of the pool. I actually had to fill it before I could drain it. The reason being, all of the green algae had to be wet in order for it to come off easily.

 

I went through the same process as before. I rented a pump from Home Depot and drained it. This time I got to do everything in the rain. I was completely soaked when I finally finished.

 

Here it is drained with the chlorine bath. I didn't use a pressure washer this time, just chlorine, the pool brush and a hose.

 

There I am cleaning out the spa.

 

It is almost done at this point.

 

Now it is getting filled up. It looks a lot nicer now.

 

I wish that I could keep it like this but it is so hard to maintain. I still had the leak at this point. I called the pool repair guy to come find and fix the leak. I was afraid that it was going to cost over a thousand dollars to repair. After an exhaustive search, he found the leak where the skimmer meets the pool. There was a crack where no one cold see it. He needed an inspection mirror to find it and tested everywhere else in the pool. He was able to patch it up and I'd say it's about 90% fixed which is well within tolerance for me. Based on the wear and tear on the pool and some of the other problems he found, I'll have to plan on remodeling the pool within the next 3-5 years. That should cost $5000-7000. =0 :(

New Refrigerator

It has been a while since my last post, I'm sorry. Rather than make excuses, let's just get to a simple post.

Our old refrigerator came with the house. If I haven't mentioned it here yet, we bought the house from flippers. They bought the house from the bank after the previous owners were foreclosed on. They then fixed it up as cheaply as possible which included the cheapest refrigerator they could buy.

Here is the old refrigerator. Some of the plastic drawers were already cracking. It was just too small for people who cook. We had to get very creative after Thanksgiving dinner.

We had been talking about it for a few years but finally got a new refrigerator. It is an LG and is 31 cubic feet compared to the old one which had 23 cubic feet. The only feature we miss is the water dispenser. There is an ice maker in the freezer. I actually prefer grabbing the ice rather than a noisy ice dispenser.

Look at this. There is lots more room. We have plenty of room on the doors for all of our water bottles, milk, juice, and condiments. That leaves space on the shelves for cooked food. OK so there isn't much cooked food inside when I took the photo because we were cooking that night.

I was a little worried about the size o the refrigerator. It is noticeably bigger than the older model but once the refrigerator was installed in the kitchen, I didn't notice any difference. It has not been in the way or a problem.