Yikes, Cat! Good luck.

Yay for ideas, boo for not feeling well….I hope you feel better soon!

Honestly, I feel that Cocoa should be more impressed with my hard work instead of bird-watching.

After much brushing, backwashing, and vacuuming for a week or so, the pool returned.

Eventually I did all the “opening procedures” and got the sand filter running — all on my own, for the first time (since pool guy ghosted me, can’t say I blame him) so honestly I was very proud of myself. This is only our second year with a pool.

Thus OPERATION TADPOLE RELOCATION began and lasted several days.

(They were fast…and I will begrudgingly admit, very cute.)

Every once in a while parents would croak a complaint from within the pool frame.