Short Grass, Tall Pool

Between Angie and I, we managed to get the entire lawn mowed and weed-trimmed on Saturday. Friday after I got home from work, we ate and then took the boys over to Sam's Club to pick up the new pool. This one is HUGE compared to our other one. It's 16 feet by 48 inches deep. According to the front of the box, it should have been "ready for water in 45 minutes!"...yeah, right! How about 2 hours or so! It's got metal poles that connect together to form the perimeter and legs that attach. After finally getting that all assembled, we had to put the ladder together so I could get in and flatten the bottom out. Finally got the water going at about 8. It took about 12 hours to fill the thing up (it holds about 5000 gallons of water). We've been running the filter non-stop to try to get the iron out of the water. After running the filter for two days and cleaning it out twice a day or so, you can still only see about 4 inches down into the water. (our water has a LOT of iron in it).

It is definitely going to be fun once the water gets cleaned up and warmed up. Then we'll just need some warmer weather.

The Weekend is Starting

I've been fairly tired over the past few days. Angie took the boys to the doctor yesterday, because they have been seeming tired, too. The dr. suggested that they could have allergies. So we're getting prescriptions for nasal spray (the same stuff I normally take in the fall). I hope this makes a difference for them. Alec has been having minor nosebleeds at night, too, which could be related.

I've been waking up early the last couple of days. It's interesting...I really like getting up early - not that it's easy, I usually hit snooze at least once on my alarm. But the last couple of days, I've actually waken up before my alarm. I'm trying to get on more of a schedule, and I've been reading through the N.T. and am following a reading track to get me through the entire Bible by next June. I'm looking forward to being able to say I've actually read through the entire Bible. In the past I've listened through the entire N.T. probably three times using the tapes I have. But the challenge for me has been getting through some of the O.T. books. I have a while before I get there because the reading track I'm doing is N.T first, then O.T. So I think maybe I will have more success because I'll have been sticking to the reading for quite some time before I get to some of the more laborious volumes :0)

I'm definitely looking forward to the weekend (as always). The lawn needs to be mowed, very badly, and I think we're going to go out and buy a new pool, since our old one is full of mouse holes from being left out in the shed...

Sunset Point

Skipping along the water,
Skimming the surface,
The woosh of air streaming past my ears,
The faint sound of music
In my head.
The hum of the motor,
The thump of aluminum,
The chill of late summer morning,
Mist on the lake.
This is the glad memory
Of days gone by
Being with loved ones
Passing the time
Forgetting worries.