Last night the wind blew briskly enough to pick up several sections of the newspaper that I’d left on the table under the patio cover. It pulled each section apart and scattered newspaper pages all over the yard. One double-truck spread even landed in the pool.
Took all of about ten seconds to walk around and pick these up. The result, after this heavy labor:
Lookee there! Ten feet down, not ONE devil pod or devil leaf. Floating atop the surface, not ONE blob of devil-tree pollen.
That is one litter-free pool!
Mwa ha ha! I am going to be so happy to burn the logs from the accursed devil-pod tree in the fireplace next winter!
Because the nights have been unusually warm, the water’s not even very cold. And today was lovely, warm and sunny. If I weren’t pounding on Death’s door with some lunger epizootic, I’d consider taking a plunge.
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Sorry to hear you are still under the weather with that awful illness but great news on the pool. It will be great when the colder weather comes in to see those logs from that dreadful tree go up in flames!!
Our pool is 50 degrees. Water that I trained in when I was in the NAVY but I would never stick a toe in it now.
As my dad always said when someone had an ailment, ‘You need to change yer brand of liquor’.
Dad lived to be 98