A few weeks ago I purchased a little blow-up wading pool for Hadleigh. We have had a bit of a time trying to figure out the best place to put the pool, because we have no hose spicket on the outside of the house. We decided to run a hose from the washer in the basement out the door and to the pool. The other problem is that the back of the house is no place for a baby pool, and our side yard is a bit slopped. But we finally found a decent place and everytime we want to use the pool we unhook the washer and hook up the hose and drag everything to the side yard.
I had kind of been thinking it was all a little bit inconvenient. So, my friend, Sar, suggested that I just leave the pool filled up in the side yard, instead of dumping it out everday after Hadleigh had used it. I thought that might be a might messy because of all the trees and bushes in our yard would drop stuff into the pool, so she suggested putting a tarp over the pool. Great idea!
We tried it for the first time last week. Bad news. A swarm of mosquitos decided to use the pool to breed. But in spite of the new family of mosquitos living in the yard, we decided to try again. The second time we left the tarp on, we noticed that someone had trampled through our yard, ripped the tarp off and trampled in the pool. We thought...well, maybe it was an animal, so we tried one more night. Monday morning Dave went out to find the tarp off, evidence that indeed someone had trampled through the pool and popped a hole in the bottom of the pool. I mean, really!
The whole thing is a bit creepy too. The pool is not in our front yard, and it is behind Dave's car, so not necessarily visible from the road. Someone had to be stomping through our yard to find the pool. Who does that?
4 comments:
Ew, that is creepy. Maybe they got really hot..in the middle of the night...does this mean that swimming is out for playgroup tomorrow?
This really is creepy. Maybe put a sign out that says something about the 'ol swimmin' hole is not public property.
Sorry that my ideas were so unhelpful. I was thinking that the mosquitoes were the initial problem with leaving the pool out, and I guess they were!
And, that's very weird about the person in your pool.
Ew. Ew ew ew. Ew.
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