10th July 2020
We had heavy rain during the night, that filled the pool close to overflowing.
I needed to remove some of the water using the one bucket at a time method.
Kelli emerges and suggested that we move the pool to a slightly more level spot. This would give us an opportunity to clean it, but it meant draining it again.
Now that I had the pump. It was not the task it was with just buckets.
I connected the hose and lowered the pump into the water, I put the end of the hose into the dog bog.
After I filled that up, I pulled the hose to the side of the road to empty the rest.
Whilst all that was happening, I got on with thicknessing timber for my next projects.
It took about half an hour to empty the pool, there was a large puddle at the side of the road, but in this heat it didn’t take long to dry.
Then it was back to moving the pool. We tried it this way and that, trying to find a more level spot. Each position had its positives and negatives points, but we ended up putting it back in a similar position to where we had it before, we placed the sand bags along the long edge, having inflating the lower section first. It certainly was easier without the water in it.
As we were impressed with our sandbagging, we thought we would use the same method at one end that was a little lower than the other.
Back to Menards we drove for more sand.
“We need a new tarpaulin” we said in unison.
This has been a saga in itself, the original was too small, the fitted on didn’t fit, so we got one that could cover most of downtown.
Another Lifetime to go 