"Simmingal;c-18160713" wrote:
"GalacticGal;c-18160709" wrote:
"Simmingal;c-18160659" wrote:
You have reminded me of the fact that I don't have much pools at all :lol: I shall go dig for them (pun unintended)
I grew up with pools. I was just six years old when my parent had our first pool put in. It was kidney shaped. I had to take swimming lessons up at Foster Beg Junior High. We moved to another city when I was ten. Dad hesitated to put another pool in. Mom campaigned for about one year before the second pool went in. It was also a free-form type style. I suppose that's what influenced me.
Never had pool of our own but some of my neighbors had a pools and I remember this one time when i was just small bean they had yet to clean it and there was lots of bugs in it and i fell in and it was horrible so yes I never campaigned for one :lol: and my dad wouldn't have been into the amounts of water those things take anyway
My hubby and I finally bought a house with a pool. I knew all about what it took regarding care and feeding of a pool, ;), so until we moved to the Inland Empire, which gets really hot, after we lived in our first house for ten years and decided we needed a bigger place, I did campaign for said pool. If you sweep, or better still have a vacuum that can run on it's own, and keep the chemicals up — and balanced, your pool is nice and sparkling blue, no bugs. Plus, you don't normally empty the pool, so that initial fill is normally all you have to do. Once in awhile, you'll have to add a tad more water to keep it to the proper level, but it's not that much.