posted on April 29, 2001 06:14:23 PM
Where I am, it's nearly Monday lunchtime, but I guess for most of you, it's late Sunday afternnon or evening.
Are there things in your life that you always do, or maybe never do, on Sundays?
posted on April 29, 2001 06:51:44 PM
Actually, I've started a new 'thing'. I watch Lifetime TV and do all the 'girly' things that I don't have time (or the desire) to do durring the week: wax things, polish things, dye things, files things, ect.
I also make sure my (home) desk is totally 'de-trashed' and ready to go for Monday.
posted on April 29, 2001 07:02:46 PM
Hi Bob, my Sundays were always the same until just recently. I used to get up early and go to the markets, then I would come home and gloat over my purchases, then I would go out and clean the pool. I should not have had to do the pool job, because that is what teenagers are for, but they always skipped on that job. After the pool cleaning exercise I would clean my kitchen.
I have to add that sunday was the only day of the week that my kitchen was ever clean. LOL
These days I seem to have a never ending stream of paperwork that has to be done, a big thank you to John Howard for that one.
lotsafuzz That is a wonderful idea about de-trashing the desk, I might have to make that a Sunday night job after all the paper work, I usually have gum wrappers or the odd tim tam packet, plus a glass and a cup and sometimes you will even find a plate or two as well. I need to keep my strength up for the revolting bookwork.
posted on April 29, 2001 07:07:19 PM
nettak: My folks had a standing rule with the pool: First in vaccumed and skimmed the bugs off the top.
One year my little brother and I 'got smart' and decided we'd wait until my dad got into the pool before we would go in. Worked for about two days. Then we had a little family stand off.
NO ONE went in the pool for a week (and this was the middle of summer in New Mexico.....temps easily over 100 degrees each day). Talk about horrible! The worst thing was the first person to break (me) had a ton of cleaning up to do once I gave in.
posted on April 29, 2001 08:15:16 PMlotsafuzz my kids' and there lovely friends' would get in the pool while it was dirty. There idea of cleaning is to take the scoop and dip it in the pool, if they got a couple of leaves out, they thought it was clean. They wouldn't care less if it was cleaned or not. I can't stand it and I won't get in it while it is dirty.
We have huge big gum trees and a silky oak tree that seem to lose a lot of leaves ect., and they make so much mess, at times I wish we did not have the pool.
posted on April 29, 2001 09:11:21 PM
nettak: You'll cringe at this: You know that green slime that is at the bottom of the pool at the start of every season? Ain't nothing you can do except vaccum it up.....the pump can't scrape it off the bottom.
Well, I've always hated that job.....so we developed a new plan. If the gunk on the bottom is stirred up enough, the pump will catch it. So, how do you stir it up?
You get two kids (my brother and I) to have races across the gunk. You'd get about 7 good steps in and then go slidding along the bottom (of course, you have to have water in the pool or you break your butt). We had the *best* time!! By the end the water was GREEN, but the pump did get rid of 99% of the gunk!
posted on April 29, 2001 10:22:37 PM
Oh yes the green gunk. Eeewwwwww
My pool is an inground concrete type and is about 8 feet deep at one end, I will admit that one of my son's mates has this thing about getting in and stirring the murky water. He slips and slids along, and then he will get the broom on the long handle and stir a bit more, but not one of them will ever vaccum the thing, hell we even have an automatic cleaner for after all the top leaves ect have been removed.
One quick lesson on how to turn green water clear again. Pour gallons and gallons of chlorine into the water turn your filter pump on and wait a little while. Hey presto no more green water. Now is there a quick and easy solution to get rid of the leaves, one that does not involve work. LOL
posted on April 29, 2001 10:33:17 PM
nettak: My dad has turned getting the pool ready into an art form (he uses cheap bleach instead of the 'official pool type chlorine' ).
We've got an above ground and we are going to have to redo the lining this year......it is a horrible job, but the old lining didn't survive the (two weeks? LOL) of winter.
Another 'trick' for cleaning the bubbles that we actually enjoy (instead of hauling them off of the pool, spraying them down, scrubbing them, keeping the dogs off them, ect) is to roll them and then try to actually get on them in the pool. Those log walking guys have ZERO on us! It isn't all that hard with one or two people.....but trying to get 6 or 7 of us on there is damn near impossible!
posted on April 30, 2001 03:56:21 AM
Oh, roll on Sunday!!! That's my Bacon and Eggs breakfast morning, with the Sunday Newspaper - a real relaxing day. I skip the Sunday paper though, when we go camping (every second weekend). I usually get all those unwanted phonecalls from the in-laws on Sundays, kinda spoils the day!!
posted on April 30, 2001 04:09:09 AMKaz that is heart attack material.
lotsafuzz I am not sure what you mean by bubbles, but it sounds like something that you sit on in the pool. Now they are the kids' problem, if they are left out in the pool or in the pool yard or just out in the sun, my husband throws them out. I am not kidding, so that is one thing that the kids' learnt very early on, if the want to keep the pool toys ect., they must put them away in the shed after each use. LOL Sometimes you will see them jumping in the back of hubbies truck to rescue something before he takes it to the dump.
At least that is one thing I do not have to clean. haha
