Re: Ravenloft - OOC Chat #1
Apologies for my absence (and to those who've already read this saga in my other games) - been fighting strenuously with our pool for the last three or four weeks ...
I already knew the chlorinator had given up (for those not in the know, that's the thing that converts salt to chlorine to keep the pool sanitised), but figured I could deal with the algae build up when I replaced it ... then the pool cover (which you need to stop water evaporating) reached its use by date as I noticed it was so brittle a part of it had broken off leaving a small opening. THEN the pool started to smell. Bad. Soooo ...
We carefully pulled the old cover off, bundled it up and threw it over by the trailer to go to the tip ... to reveal the month-old corpse of a kangaroo. THAT took some fishing out and after a month in the water was about as pleasant as you can imagine (rubber gloves and face masks were the order of the day), but we managed it eventually.
Then came the juggling act of trying to thoroughly clean the pool and get the chemicals back in balance. Part way through THAT process the pool pump decided it had had enough too. So that's a new chlorinator, pool pump and cover, plus an awful lot of chemicals ...
A lot of time and money later, and the pool is still a bit green, but today for the first time I'm actually registering chlorine in the water, which bodes well - I'll keep throwing the 'shock' quantities of chlorine in there by hand until it gets back into kilter, then I can hook the new chlorinator up and let it take over the job. So we're finally in danger of getting there ! :>
The moral of the tale is ... next time we move we definitely don't want a pool ! <grins>
Now where were we ...