It looks like the new overflow drain is completed and seems to be working.
We are celebrating GREEN here, we have a green pool and a green pond and a new green shoot on the bamboo. I’m happy about the last one, the others are being worked on.
Green pool
Green pond
New bamboo shoot
We took the whole batch of critters to the vet today for updates on their shots, health checkups and all their travel docs.
Passports
That was one of our vets, Nelson, in the previous post that I tried sending from my iPhone. It sort of worked, not great. I need to refine this a bit but I’m hoping I can use it to send updates from the road. Tita was actually pretty good, she seems to behave a lot better when she has her pack of dogs around her.
We still have several more things to get done before we leave, it’s now looking like maybe Saturday, more likely Monday.
You’re comein’ in Loud & Clear on your iPhone. Nice Pic of Tita & Nelson. Good to know you will be able to post from the road.
….and to think, I was over 30 when I first got a passport. You’re raising some very international kids there
Love the passports for the kids!
In our pack, we have 2 veteran travelers and 2 that have never left the Yucatan peninsula. Hombre and Chica have been in 5 countries and can tell you that in “paw talk” if you ask and have a treat in the other hand. This will be Cuba and Tita’s first visit to mainland Mexico and the US. I love these new health certificates with their pictures on them. We got Hombre and Chica new ones so they would all be the same although we still will carry their originals as well.
Jonna, you mentioned on Debi’s site that you were considering grass somewhere eventually. I can’t see where you have the room for a grassed area??? – everything looks so beautiful as it is. Is it possible you are planning on annexing the lot behind you and expanding??? That would be GRAND!!! Would your contractor have any ability to negotiate such a deal for you??
ah no, it would be grand wouldn’t it? What we are planning is to remove all the rock pavers, they just don’t work for us. I like the look but they aren’t practical, I think they would be better for snowbirds who were most interested in low maintenance. What I want is a jungle, and what Mimi wants is some grass and what we both want is a place that allows easier cleanup from the dogs and is level enough to put a lounge chair or a couple sitting chairs. It’s a project we are planning in our heads and will sit down with Henry when we get back and figure it out on paper. I see raised beds using the rocks, a meandering path to the back and the pond and pool and perhaps the path and a small open area in grass.
Jonna – Love the dogs backstage passes and the vet pix. So what happened? Did Tita let him have it? Good to hear that you’ll be blogging along the way up North. Wow, the new green shoot of bamboo is exciting. Take care – Sherry
Those passports and their ID photos are awesome! And yes, we need to know, did the vet continue smiling or did Tita have a go at him?
Tita was better than usual and didn’t actually get Nelson although she did try. For the exam, he had me hold the stethoscope and move it around on her while he listened. I pulled her lips back so he could see her gums and opened her ears. She tolerated all that from me. The problems started when they had to give her 2 shots and weigh her. For that he just grabbed the back of her neck and I held her front paws and the other vet tried to hold her back paws. I tried to cover her mouth (and teeth) with a wet towel but she outmaneuvered me. Everyone got it a little but they got the shots done and got her weighed. After that she was not very happy but she got under the bench behind the dogs and pouted. Mimi had to crawl under the bench to get the picture for her passport. Before it was her turn, she just laid on the table quite happily while the dogs were examined. She’s a tough one, and the real problem is that she is really scared. When workers are here she freaks until we let her in the room the dogs are in, then she calms down and goes to sleep. She was really tired last night, all that excitement and the shots wiped her out. Her next shots are in October, no one is looking forward to it.
I was away for a month and came back not to green pool; black pool. It was a mess. Now it is chlorinated and this morning I put in some clarifier. If that is a word. Apparently not, ‘cuz it’s underlined. And this after hiring an actual pool company to take care of the pool in my absence (I usually do this all myself, thank you very much). Actually, this might make a post. I could ramble on about this for a while. I am rambling!
Bye, Jonna
It was the clarifier that made the pool look like that. Mimi decided to give up and the pool guy first put something in that caused that scum to form on the surface. He said leave it for 24 hours. Then he came back yesterday and put something else in, floculant?, that cleared the water but made the bottom look like a moon scape. We await his arrival today for the final, maybe, treatment. Meanwhile it is hot and no pool. I wish the pond guy had been as successful though, I still can’t see an inch into the pond.
I think everybody’s suffering from “green pool” (or black!) syndrome…Sigh. Chalk it up to the rain (for which I am very grateful).
After ten years with no problems (more or less), a couple of years ago we started having murky pool water a couple of times a year. The clarifier (I used the brand Clarit-plus) works great — the key is let it sit for 24 hours (the directions say 12 hours), then VERY CAREFULLY vacuum the bottom of the pool, where the gunk has settled. I always have to vacuum twice — once after 24 hours, then again the next day. It does seem to work, though some stuff continues to float on top (we don’t have a filter, perhaps with one, that would be sucked out?).
It’s important to make sure that the cloro/acid levels are ok, before putting in the clarifier, or you do get a lock of floaters…