NEVER fool with a FREE POOL....

bballard

bballard

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I thought I had recieved mana from heaven. The youngest of my two brother in-laws called the other day and offered us a FREE soft sided swimmimg pool of aprox. 6,000 gallons.

My first thought, WOOPEE, a decoy testing tank!, and its' free.

OK that was four days ago. Since then, I have discoverd that it was not my brother in-laws pool that I thought had been stored and well taken care of. It was his 40 something batchelor buddy's who is know as Rick the _ _ _ _, to those who have met him.

So the patching has begun, so far I am four air support ring and three pool side patches into the restoration. Along with chemical, and support items, my decoy tank/ swimming pool has begun to add up.

I have however set a new high standard in water quality for my area of the country. Just a word to the wise, ALWAYS READ YOUR CHEMICAL BOTTLES.

MY wife says SHOCK THE POOL, so I SHOCKED IT. She says she mentioned "with one cup of shock", but I don't recall such a directive. Any way, If any of you would like to tie any flies with bright white birds feathers I've got a few of them laying around the yard, along with the bright white carcasses, the bright white semi lucid night crawlers (remember the leaks) could make bait fishing fun. Oh and as an aside some of you may have seen my chocolat Lab.... bet I'm the only guy around white a Indian Pinto Pony colored one now.

"Anything you can get for free is worth paying for" Great Grand Pa Sody.

Regards, Ballard

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My Dad took a pop-up camper under similiar circumstances. My son referes to it as "the insect camper", a well earned name (think arachnaphobia!).

Your right, anything free is worth paying for!

Gene
 
Brian

About 8 years ago I was on the giving end of a free pool...I had to search long and hard for a sucker...er...um...lucky fella like you.

Good luck with the pool,

Chuck
 
We have a 18' above ground pool that I have been wanting to get rid of. My son and his wife live in the basement apartment decided they wanted to keep it and do all the maintenance on it. I spent a whole day last week pumping it out because it had about 2" of algae on the bottom of it. It took 2 more days to scrub the liner and get it clean enough to fill again. Next year out it goes! Atleast it will be ready for the "Tiki" party this weekend. Hope all the girls have there grass skirts! LOL Dont worry the chlorine smell from the shock will eventually disapate. Good luck!
 
FYI...if you get a tube of AquaSeal I have found that you can put a nice dollup of that on a piece of patch or any rubber for that matter and then actually push it on under water. I've done it twice and both times it sealed a hole from the inside and the pressure pushes the patch into place until it sets. Works great. Just rub off the "schmeg" and push it on! For the record I shock the piss out of mine and it always seems to turn out fine.
 
All too funny. We had the oppisite effect. two weeks ago my father in law has an above ground pool installed, The crew puts it up and tells my father in law, go ahead and fill it up. Once full add the shocker and a few more chemicals left behind. Well we head down for the grand opening of Grandpas pool. when we get there my father in law is in shock, shows me the pool which is filled to the top with the brownest water ever seen. I figured Hershey is making chocolate. He said I added the chemicals and boom within 30 seconds this happend. The pool company sends a rep and asks did you use well water? Of course, the chemicals activated the iron deposits and we have a pool full of rust. Anyway with the right chemicals all is well. Grandpa put off the grand opening but now we're having fun.
 
JW,

Thats is what is refered to as a Mosaic lab. You can get the same type of light on dark with chocolates also. You can even sometimes find a throw back black and tan coat. Back in the days of my youth (20'ish) I was a Chessie man. every oncve in a blue moon I'd get a throw back pup. I even had a brindle pure-bred chessie once.

Ballard
 
20 ish....is that 1920 ish? A Brindle Chessy would be cool...I like that spotted lab too..he looks like a "Bob".
 
Dalbador?

Hey Ballard thought of you last night...the niece is here so Animal Planet is the "TV du jour" and last night there was one of those "When Animals Attack" things with the main part of the episode being the Australian Keeper that got mauled by a couple of Lions.....I mean these bad boys worked him over for a good 3 or 4 minutes camera's rolling the entire time.....and as bad as it was I couldn't help but think that compared to the nipple twisting that you endured at the beak of the rogue Flamingo that he was getting the easier of the two maulings......

Just thought you'd appreciate that....

Steve
 
Lions and flamigos would both eliminate one another. All though I do owe the lion I got in a fight with a debt of gratitude. Some of his bite marks did cover up some of the flamingo scar, and makes for a much more manly story.

Ballard
 
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