Don't let the title fool you. POOLIO is not yet fixed! The water is mostly clear now, and free of dead squirrels, with only a couple leaves on top. Hick goes out every night to fiddle about with POOLIO. The current problem is the filter. Hick tired of tinkering with it, and went back to the pool store.
"Are you going to be able to swim in the pool before it's time to close it for the winter?"
"I hope so! I can't get the filter to work. It won't stay running. The guy at the pool store said it sounds like it needs a gasket. So I bought one. I've got to put it on."
The weather calls for a week of temperatures in the upper 90s, heat index over 100. That does not bode well for poor Pony on the job, but would be ideal for Hick to slosh around in POOLIO in the evenings, after a hard day of working four hours on the Beauty Shop half of the Double Hovel flip house, or ten hours of sitting in his SUS2 (Storage Unit Store 2) on the weekend.
The current total for getting POOLIO ready for swimming is $228.52. This is July 12th. How much will each dip cost Hick, by the time he has POOLIO perfected for his swimming needs?
Is there a thick layer of sludge on the bottom of the pool? Time's a wasting for swimming this year.
ReplyDeleteNo, the bottom actually looks decent. There's a thingy like a Roomba that goes along the bottom and cleans it up.
DeleteIt's not the money. It's the pleasure.
ReplyDeleteApparently. Hick DOES love his POOLIO.
DeleteI'm feeling sorry for the poor filter, having to run the same yucky, over-chemicalled water year after year, never getting a fully fresh load....
ReplyDeleteMaybe that filter is protesting!
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