Florida Pool in Summer: Oh, the Humanity.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that I had to suffer the indignity of my Mother in Law seeing our home (and our pool) for the first time with the swimmer in such a greenish state, and that it never REALLY turned back to blue before her 10 day stay…
but we have friends coming to visit again this weekend, and the pool is uh, almost ready to get up and walk away on its own.
The rains this time of year where we live, Southwest Florida, are horrendous. Daily downpours, complete with impressive lightning shows, occur with clockwork precision. This brings all the pollen and such in the air right into our pool, turning it a brilliant, then dull forest green. Lovely.
So, with the time crunch before tonight’s guests arrive, I dumped 2.5 gallons of liquid chlorine, and 2lbs of Stop-Green. I also cleaned the cartridge filter (also green) and swept the sides and bottom of the pool. At the moment, 4 hours later, it’s still incredibly ugly with algae. My HOPE is that it’ll be blue (or at least bluish) in the morning when we wake up, as thankfully our guests don’t arrive until after dark.