Sunday =early start [Middle East time ]

Good Morning (it is Saturday evening here though)

We went on an adventure over the last couple of days to Mt St. Helens with a group of people. First Friday evening we heard a volcanologist describe the recent changes to the mountain. This morning we road in buses up to the mountain seeing both the privately owned area which has been reforested and the national monument which has been left to recover naturally. The mountain rewarded the effort with a small steam plume and a little bit of ash.

There has been a lot of change since I was last there about ten years ago. This year in the 25th anniversary of its major eruption.

Hello, Mirjam! It is ALMOST Sunday here in central time zone, USA, about thirty minutes away! Hugs, Noreen

Good Morning Mirjam.

It's now 1:12 am here in Toronto and I am just heading off to bed.

Darlene in Toronto

I'm up and off to a meeting about 3 hours away from here. This is where I get my instructions for the next year as DDGM. Everyone have a great day! ;-)

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Good morning! After my midsummer "celebration" as I told you of, I have had lots to think of and arrange before I leave! I'll be alone in the summerhouse for a week, (then DH arrives) and it is a clear disadvantage to stay there without a telephone:-))

But just now I will go out in the garden, the rain has stopped, and I have something I want to finish.

Tomorrow I have to go to school for a couple of hours, and then I am ready!

AUD ;-)

Good Sunday Morning to all. The sun is shining here, although it looks a

*little* hazy depending where you look.... they did call for a pollution warning in the nearby city for this entire weekend. I will be getting some laundry done today (in about an hour or so, at the laundromat) while Matthew mows the weeds (the grass isn't growing a lot, but the weeds are standing up straight and tall, so are very noticable), and I will hang it on the clothesline when I get home... should be dry in no time with this heat. :o)

Then Matthew will be taking the pool pump off after mowing the lawn so I can take it to the pool place in the nearby city for them to look at. I stopped in to see them the other day to ask about a pool cover to tent in the middle (as per the suggestion of the Health Inspector), and I was told that if I just covered it we will end up with more problems than we have now. The guy said, "You will have to lift the cover often to put in more chemicals... otherwise it will just stagnate and that will cause mosquitoes to gather there to breed. And if you tent it in the middle, after a while the weight of the cover on top of the pole will put a hole in either the cover, the bottom of the liner, or both." I told him the other suggestion of the Health Inspector... that we put larvacide in the pool.... you should have seen his eyes! He said "That stuff is toxic. You'll ruin your pool. And even if you drain it out to wash it well before using it again, you may still have some left in there... and God knows what it will do to your lawn when you drain it out onto it... not to mention any pets." So he offered to sell me the parts needed "at cost", which should run about $90 altogether... plus tax. Still expensive, but better in the long run I guess.

Anyway, while I'm in the city about the pool pump parts... I'll be picking up Matthew's best friend Kyle to come back to the house for a visit. They haven't had any time to get together for a long time... both have different days off from work (Kyle is working today and I am picking him up *after* work). The last time they got together they were on a double-date and therefore didn't have any "guy time". So tonight there is a Wrestling pay-per-view on, and we'll be making stir-fry for supper... so we'll have some much needed fun. I'm sure there will be a couple of hours before the pay-per-view, so they can have their "guy time" then, horsing around. ;o) After the pay-per-view we'll take Kyle home... that ride is usually fun too... and the night-time ride chatter always seems to end up on UFOs and other odd topics. LOL

Put a little chlorine bleach in the water. Algae/bugs won't grow. Won't poison you in a small amount, hikers purify drinking water with a few drops of bleach and city water systems routinely add it. I always put some in my grandchildren's big above ground pool. I learned by going through a period of washing it with Simple Green... and watching the algae grow thick and fast.

JaneB

That sounds like a really interesting trip. I've been on a volcano in Iceland, and it was really interesting to see how people in the area adapted to it.

I went to church this morning, and this afternoon I am altering a dress: it is silk, and I got it for a greatly reduced price, but I needed to shorten it at the shoulders. If I'd realised how difficult it would be, I think I wouldn't have bought it in the first place, but it will look beautiful when I'm done.

Thank you for your input, Jane! :o) I do put chlorine bleach in the water... if not daily, then every other day. It goes in after I have skimmed the leaves off the top of the water... then I use the skimmer to swirl the chlorine around in the water to mix it in.

What really ticks me off is that I told the Health Inspector that I do this, but he insists that it isn't good enough and that we either have to have the pump working so the water is moving ALL the time... cover it (and didn't mention putting anything in the water)... or put larvacide in the water which would have to be drained and the pool scrubbed thoroughly before we can use the pool again because it is so toxic. By the way, our friend who has had a pool for years told us that he doesn't leave his pump on ALL the time... just for a couple of hours a day to move it around a bit. When I mentioned this to the Health Inspector (not mentioning our friend's name) he said "That isn't enough... it should be on and the water moving ALL the time."

It sounds like a power trip... and obviously he doesn't know much about pools being that the pool guy told me that we would ruin the pool if we put larvacide in it, and that it wouldn't work by trying to tent the cover either... aside from having to lift the cover to put chemicals in the water every so often (which the Health Inspector didn't mention at all).

Ah well... I'm just hoping we get it all taken care of soon to have it all behind us once and for all.

Gemini

Hi Everyone,

Good hot late afternoon from upstate NY. Yes, it's only 98F right now, but there is a little breeze.

Judy, how great to see Mt. Saint Helens that close. I read the newsgroup on earthquakes and they have been talking about MSH this week, very interesting.

Gem, I really don't think you need the pump on that often either. Our neighbors in back just got an above ground pool with a pump and they put it on when the remove the cover before the kids go in it, they also put chlorine in it, a powder form and that's it.

Hugs,

Nora

Have a pleasant and relaxing summer hoiday, Aud. Don't forget to take some yarn and needles with you.