In water up to my neck

We have new pool regulations that required us to replace the covers of the drains with a cover that little kids cannot get their fingers in or get caught. We tried to replace the old covers by diving down and removing the old covers and then putting the new ones in their place. Except for the diving part this sounded do-able. In fact it turned out not to be easy to do even the first part. We succeeded, we thought, but when some kid was playing Frisbee with a pool cover, we realized that we had not gotten them on tightly enough. It turned out that we had to drain the pool, and then we could do a good job on replacing the covers. Of course, it cost us over $1000 to refill the pool with new city water.

The first pool was completed by Ken, Clayton and Bob. It fell to Roy and me to do the next pool. Roy and I thought we might be able to do this by hooking a screw driver to a long pole and not have to empty the pool. So this morning Roy and I went to work. We created the long screw driver and started to work. It is hard to hit a screw down under 5 1/2 feet of water. We tried for several hours and finally gave up and began the process of draining the second pool. By 3pm the pool was empty enough, and we were able to fix the covers in about ten minutes. So we spent a second $1000 to refill the pool and had quite a day trying to save this expense. On a hot day it was a cool job. Happy travels.